Although I'm not sure "we don't like having a horribly incompetent corrupt nepotistic proto-fascist treasonous misogynistic racist as a president" really qualifies as ideology.
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OH dash_pinched, you were so close to the correct response. (skip to the 1 minute mark)
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Jerk of the week award winner this week........Kelli Ward, A Republican and Trump ally from Arizona for her not-so-sensitive remarks of John McCain's health.
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A top political rival to John McCain has called upon the US senator to resign following his diagnosis with an aggressive form of brain cancer.
Republican Kelli Ward, a medical doctor who ran a primary campaign against McCain in the 2016 election, said in a Friday statement that 'the medical reality of his diagnosis is grim.'
'As a doctor, I’ve counseled people in similar situations and these end-of-life choices are never easy,' Ward said.
'I usually advise terminal patients to reduce stress, relax, and spend time laughing with loved ones.'
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'When the time comes that Senator McCain can no longer perform his duties in the Senate at full capacity, he owes it to the people of Arizona to step aside,' Ward's statement said.
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Ward in her statement said that her prayers were with McCain's family, adding: 'I hope and pray that Senator McCain will be comfortable as he battles this terrible disease.'
Trumps online supporters are all in a tizzy about the "prophecy of July 27" which apparently has come from a 4chan poster dubbed "WHAnon" for White House Anonymous. Apparently this poster has been correct in the past and has claimed that the news will seem bad to Trump supporters this week, but it's all to set up something "big" which is to happen on or shortly after July 27.
Current theory is some kind of investigation or indictment of various Obama-era democrats.
That's the day Grassley cancelled the Don Jr hearing and has instead scheduled a hearing with the owner of Fusion GPS - the firm responsible for the infamous "dossier". It's romoured they're going to try to deflect the Russiagate probe by pinning it on the Democrats.
Pro-Trump outlets have been hinting on a secret Obama/Hillary conspiracy responsible for - you guessed it - all of the Russia stuff. Expect to be led to believe that Hillary and Obama worked together to get Russia tired to Trump including the infamous June '16 meeting as a set up to get Trump
The fact that Grassley is agreeing to this is stomach turning
Trump Jr and Manafort strike a deal with the House Judiciary committee to keep their hearing with the committee close door. I wonder what kind of deal is being cut for this to happen?
Democrats' rumored message for the 2018 midterms: "A Better Deal: Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Wages."
What. The. Actual. ####.
Supposedly the result of months of polling and internal deliberations among the House Democratic caucus, which would make sense. None of us is as dumb as all of us.
The democrats have the support of Hollywood. SOMEONE must be able to tell Democrats their messaging stinks, they're squandering a useless president and an ineffective house and senate, Republicans would have their boot on Dem's throat right now if the situations were reversed.
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Democrats' rumored message for the 2018 midterms: "A Better Deal: Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Wages."
What. The. Actual. ####.
Supposedly the result of months of polling and internal deliberations among the House Democratic caucus, which would make sense. None of us is as dumb as all of us.
The democrats have the support of Hollywood. SOMEONE must be able to tell Democrats their messaging stinks, they're squandering a useless president and an ineffective house and senate, Republicans would have their boot on Dem's throat right now if the situations were reversed.
It would be interesting to run the entire campaign on that the grounds for impeachment have been reached and obstruction by the US House led by Ryan is all that is stopping it.
hmmm hard to trust the article when its main premise is that right-wing populism is a deeply anti-intellectual movement to begin with while the left are intellects.
what does that make us in Alberta? hicks?
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hmmm hard to trust the article when its main premise is that right-wing populism is a deeply anti-intellectual movement to begin with while the left are intellects.
what does that make us in Alberta? hicks?
If that's your response to the article, then yes.
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Why does the article need to make a jab that right-wing movements are generally not intellectual? Yes Trump's cabinet is unqualified but there is no correlation.
Notley's cabinet is unqualified too but nobody says the left is dumb.
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Why does the article need to make a jab that right-wing movements are generally not intellectual? Yes Trump's cabinet is unqualified but there is no correlation.
Notley's cabinet is unqualified too but nobody says the left is dumb.
YEs we do, they a bunch of unqualified arts majors who lived off their parents credit and never had to make a real choice in their lives. We spent 3 months on one MLA being stupid and unqualified. I think in general people think the left is a bunch of hippies with no common sense.
It's a false equivalency to say that left wing populists are just as dumb as right wing populists.
hmmm hard to trust the article when its main premise is that right-wing populism is a deeply anti-intellectual movement to begin with while the left are intellects.
what does that make us in Alberta? hicks?
Right wing populism is about taking for ready answers to complex problems. I'm not sure there's another a way to frame it that sounds better. That's exactly what populism is...
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Right wing populism is about taking for ready answers to complex problems. I'm not sure there's another a way to frame it that sounds better. That's exactly what populism is...
Yes. Left or right thats what populism is. Why single either side out? To GGGs point above. How is it a false equivalency?
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Yes. Left or right thats what populism is. Why single either side out? To GGGs point above. How is it a false equivalency?
The problem is you believe that Alberta and Albertans are "right wing" in regards to the political sphere, especially the American political sphere. That statement basically supports that you are accepting of an unfounded belief. Just because you call yourself conservative does not make it so. Just because you call yourself liberal does not make it so. Your beliefs and your attitudes betray you. In the context of American politics, almost all Canadians are liberals. Accept it, because unless you embrace some really nutty positions on religion and guns, you have nothing in common with American conservatives.
The major difference I see with conservatives and liberals is the ability to challenge what they think they already know. Conservatives are willing to accept information, whole cloth, from any source they consider credible so long as it conforms with their worldview. This past election was proof of that, where some really crazy stuff was forwarded through the conservative media and accepted as true when it had no basis in reality or made much sense. Liberals OTOH have a natural curiosity and a desire to verify or challenge information they are told. You can tell a libtard that 2+2=4, and they will still try to find evidence to support the claim. This spills over into their daily lives as well. I can tell a student's political identification just by looking at their reference section of their papers. In a five page paper a conservative student will have three to five references, and usually from bad sources of information, but ones they trust. The liberal will have 10-15, and from sources which are relevant and have expertise on the subject matter. It is consistent and quite bizarre.
A lot of these differences between liberals and conservatives is genetic by the way. Conservatives and liberals brains are wired differently. Our brains are constructed to in ways where there is a departure in the information processing centers, or more importantly, those areas where the majority of our filtering takes place. Conservatives rely heavily on the amygdala for information processing. This lower brain function is the fear center of our brain and where much of our emotional responses come from. Liberals rely on the anterior cingulate cortex for information processing. This higher brain function is where our error handling and conflict monitoring takes place. When you hear the term social justice warrior, there is a lot of truth to that statement, as the ACC is responsible for our judgement of social issues. We behave the way we are wired.
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hmmm hard to trust the article when its main premise is that right-wing populism is a deeply anti-intellectual movement to begin with while the left are intellects.
A brief skim makes me wonder where you think it makes the latter point. I mean, it's pretty clear to me that the Trump administration is heavily fueled by anti-intellectualism. The statement "global warming is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese to harm our manufacturing sector" is proof enough of that. Pointing that out doesn't say much of anything about the anti-intellectualism on the left. The author seems to be talking about one specific problem.
Salon is more or less exclusively garbage and that article doesn't strike me as interesting enough to be worth reading in any real detail but I don't think it's saying what you're saying it says. Though its attempt to tie those poll results about colleges having a negative effect on the country in the eyes of Republicans is correlation without causation, I think - that has more to do with people like Tucker Carlson pointing a spotlight at "campus madness" every week, complete with the usual cable news drama.
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