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Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.

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Re: Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.

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Post by ern »

dibstern wrote: post #147

So the world's most liveable city is Melbourne, Australia, we're very far from Trump, much further than Canada, VC firms and tech startups are more than welcome to come on over and enjoy the best quality of life on offer! Hehe

Australia relies implicitly on US security guarantees. Given Trump's previous pronouncements about allies paying their own way, at best, there is a good chance that Australia is going to have to budget more to protect its vast territory.

At worst, if Trump were to move to a more isolationist stance and upend the world order, there are some very populous countries to the north that might get hungry.

It's going to be very difficult to find a place to escape the consequences of what happened today.

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Post by johnb777 »

Look at the Washington Post with their tail between their legs. The Washington Post's coverage of this election was disgustingly biased towards the left and they should be ashamed not only from a journalistic standpoint but also as Americans. I can almost feel Aaron Blake's scathing hot breath as he sat in his Prius and typed this article on his (made in China) Acer laptop (probably wearing a beret with a Hillary logo).

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Post by buzzybee »

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #103
thewarrior wrote: post #44

It is possible to view this as an isolated event or a trend. Coming on the heels of BREXIT this is a trend. The attempts at building an interconnected globalised world are beginning to fail. A bunch of elites decided to create their own trans-national utopia unchecked by borders and dismissed all criticism as racist or bigoted. The globalisation project has been rejected by a majority of the population. Whether it is…

As a brown Indian dude, it seems to me that the western world is caught in some self-hating loop. It simultaneously trivializes my culture while hating its own culture. I watched Justin Trudeau dance the bhangra and people claim "oh what beautiful Indian culture". I've seen people eat butter chicken to partake in "Indian culture" experiences. That's just wrong. Indian culture - any culture - is far, far more than a d…

I've thought lately that the cosmopolitan outlook, which I do hold and generally enjoy, is also a rootless one. In accepting the ever-present change, respecting the multitude of outlooks, it often denies connecting with traditions in favor of a single "modern, rational, progressive" view that buries its internal contradictions beneath fleeting surface treasures.

At the same time, it supports the imperial concept of misappropriating original traditions as a convenient fancy, a reference to the exotic, or a belittling of the other, which you give a great example of - with the pretext that this is somehow contributing to progress. Appropriation can be "done right" and produce great new works, but it can't be done easily. It's so much easier to simply loot the past without thinking.

One of the books I like that considers similar thoughts at various points is Melzer's Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Philosophy. [0]

[0] http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo186...

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Post by astrodust »

M_Grey wrote: post #37
redial wrote: post #5

Peter Thiel is not looking so foolish right now...

The man who thinks that young blood (literally) is going to keep him alive? That Peter Thiel? Yes he does.

If he's anything like that Countess that bathed in the blood of virgins to extend her life he's picked the right industry to work in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Báthory

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Post by gragas »

shams93 wrote: post #332

I took a look at his economic plan. He seems to want to do everything at the same time, if hid campaign was a startup it would never be funded you can't present 3 bullet points as a pitch deck.

You're delusional if you think economic plans for nations as large as the US are comparable to startup pitch decks.

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Post by jroseattle »

Big data and big polling (Nate Silvers) took a major credibility hit in this election. People will be studying this for years.

Of course, it's not that big data itself was to blame, just the interpretation of it. Nate, not sure what to tell you but that was a significant miss in this election, going all the way back into the primaries.

Re: Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.

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Post by masklinn »

steveeq1 wrote: post #164
ctvo wrote: post #95

Grew up in the US. I'm a minority. I think this is the only time in my life I've ever felt like I didn't belong in America. Tonight a large portion of the country confirmed that the US is for whites. That it's not a melting pot. This demographic has been angry for a generation because they've felt like their culture, their socio-economic status and way of life is slipping away and this election (after 8 years of a bl…

> Tonight a large portion of the country confirmed that the US is for whites. Well, we elected a black man as a president for two terms in a row, so the country may not be as racist as people perceive.

> we elected a black man as a president for two terms in a row

And see how the republican base and party reacted.

> so the country may not be as racist as people perceive.

Or the country didn't feel it could express its racism until Trump gave it a bullhorn and an endorsement.

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Post by tormeh »

Mikeb85 wrote: post #186
thewarrior wrote: post #44

It is possible to view this as an isolated event or a trend. Coming on the heels of BREXIT this is a trend. The attempts at building an interconnected globalised world are beginning to fail. A bunch of elites decided to create their own trans-national utopia unchecked by borders and dismissed all criticism as racist or bigoted. The globalisation project has been rejected by a majority of the population. Whether it is…

You can't sacrifice large swaths of the population for the so called "greater" good. Globalisation, as it stands now, is neo-colonialism. It offshores blue collar jobs and concentrates white collar jobs in rich countries. It disenfranchises blue collar workers in the west, and causes brain drain in the developing world. All it's done is benefit the elite. Read progressive economists like Piketty, and combine it with…

>All it's done is benefit the elite.

It's benefitted everyone except the working class in developed countries. That's a lot of people. The great majority, actually.

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Post by nabla9 »

Trump is not an isolated event. Populism is growing everywhere

- Italy: Silvio Berlusconi era (- 2011)

- Philippines: Rodrigo Duterte

- Hungary: right wing populist party in charge

- Poland: populist Law and Justice party in charge

- Britain: Brexit, Boris Johnson

- Turkey: Erogan

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Post by astrodust »

raverbashing wrote: post #202
michaelvoz wrote: post #9

Been living in the Bay Area for 17 years. Nothing will change.

Bay Area as it currently is is around 40 years old Yes, some things may change

It was nothing but vineyards and hippies before and it might return to that state in the not too distant future.
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