That Graham stood up for Kavenaugh was a clue we all missed. I'm not going to make the same mistake twice. If Graham's for it, there's a problem.
Naturally supporting Trump is good, but if an R only started supporting him now (ahem, Graham) their only working the Kavenaugh, ACB sleeper spy move.
The trick to learning to run a site that works is to
- Run a site.
- Find out what isn't working at that scale.
- Fix it.
- As it's fixed, your scale increases so go back to step 2.
Everyone who's done nothing thinks that doing something is easy. None of this is easy. All of it takes time, iteration and effort.
Twitter failed much in it's early days, as did Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon. There is no 'easy' solution to massive exponential growth of the kind that Gab is experiencing. The profit earned from 1,000 users does not pay for servers to support 10,000. Each step requires some time and has physical limits to how fast someone can scale.
Never mind the fact that he's also having most normal sources of revenue, paypal, visa and the like, cut off, nor does he have access to the globalist investment bankers who helped finance the explosive growth phase of the companies that supported their agenda.
Making a career for yourself in country music is always hard. But I grew up in Tennessee in the sixties, my dad lived in Nashville at that time. This red-neck racism story they like to tell in Hollywood is way overblown. Lots of my family and friends were self-avowed red-necks and most of us liked Charlie Pride and were proud of Arthur Ashe, the Chattanooga Tennis star. My grandmother, who was in her 70s at the time, played his album often, particularly liking Green Green Grass of Home and Wings of a Dove. Don't believe everything you see on Hollywood. Tennessee wasn't anywhere near as racist in the 60s as the Democrats are right now.
Alternative simple solution to the student debt crises, make the colleges pay for fraudulent advertising. After all the degree had less value than they claimed it did. Even the art degrees claim to be preparing them for adult life. Clearly false advertising. The colleges owe the money back.
Unfortunately younger Americans have been taught the government will take care of them
Taught by the government's public schools, no less.
We have to do in education what Trump has been doing in the Judiciary. We have to start replacing activists educators with honest educators, people who know and teach history as the reality it was and is. The reality is that civilization is fragile. That what the USA founders accomplished was extraordinary and has to be valued.
I too am an older American and I'm dumbfounded at how little younger people understand about why these constitution worked so well for so long. They are being pied piper'd into throwing it all away. We've got to take education back now. But this we have to do from the ground up, each in our own communities.
I tend to want to vote no on 2 under the general principal that the more complicated the system the easier it is for the people in power to game it.
But if I were to play devil's advocate, in general ranked choice would work to the advantage of people who want to vote 3rd party to show their displeasure with the lesser evil, but who don't want the greater evil to win due to that.
By way of example, the people who would vote for the green party if it didn't mean losing to Trump would now be willing to do so, with their second vote going to Biden, while the ones who would vote Libertarian but for their fear of over-reaching Biden, were now be willing to do so. In terms of finding out what people really think ranked choice makes sense.
I don't fear a ranked choice system. My sense is that the Dems are for it because they think they could rig it for them, but I think it's value is that it lets you have more data on what people really think. I don't think it will do what the Dems hope it will do.
The thing that always gets me is that it was "Their Body, Their Choice when they got pregnant to begin with. So now it's their responsibility to live that choice. But they always want to drop responsibility for their past choices.
I just logged in at 7:07 and this has been the longest 19 minute wait in my life.
My awe goes out to people who've endured watching these Dems all day.
I'm here to see Clarence Thomas, the great one, speak. Chuck is such a loser.
I love hearing him saying "You'll regret this ..." Yep, Chuck, it's on you.
How in the world do people vote for these guys.
Libertarians ideals of free trade fall apart between nations. Trade is not free (between countries) if one country has employee safety regulations that are stricter than the others. Free Trade simply means, 'get around the regulations by shipping jobs off shore.'
And competition is not free between companies if one company is using it's power in one arena to force itself into another. In that case free competition simply means you bring your product up against mine, but mine comes bundled with a gun aimed at your suppliers and customers.
I really hate that libertarian idealogues don't get how the world really works. Free trade requires absolute integrity.
Google likes to hide behind the claim that customers get the service free, but the customers are the advertisers and they, very definitely, do not get the service free.
If I wanted to advertise on the sites that google de-monetizes, I'd have no way to do so. It's ridiculously anti-competitive.
I have to say, I used to hate the idea of pirating intellectual property. But when the people running entertainment are out to get me (conservative white male) it's becoming a self-defense necessity. I have to see how they're programming people so I can be ready for them.
Funny, though, when you divide college degrees by how much their degree is worth, then suddenly Trump's a winner again. It's just the college degree people who aren't even earning enough to pay for their school loans that don't want a president who holds people accountable for their actions.
IQ matters, but it's not everything.
Pre-unification East Germany's culture differed dramatically West Germany's as does current day North Korea's and South Korea's or Hong Kong and China.
Culture isn't in our DNA. We learn it.
SOME Black Lives Matter
Black Innocents killed by Other Blacks - Don't matter Black Workers killed defending their businesses from rioters - Don't Matter Black Police Officers killed while on the job protecting the public - Don't Matter Black Viable Unborn Babies killed by Planned Parenthood - Don't Matter
Only Blacks killed while resisting lawful arrest matter.
That's what I'm seeing.
I agree with what you say about our body having lots of beneficial bacteria and viruses.
But my own concern isn't about any one thing t they are talking about, good or bad. My concern is that they've rigged the game so as to stop honest progress and instead to focus their efforts around bringing the most profitable drugs or treatments to the market.
I think the big problem is that they way medicine has become intertwined with the government has created a situation where progress is at a snails pace. Compare the progress in medicine to the progress with computers, cell phones, cars, or even eyeglasses, things that are far less regulated (and which provide much higher value now than they used to for a given expense) and you can see that something has gone horribly wrong with medicine.
I know exactly what it is, too. It's the link to government oversight that has turned it all into crony capitalism. Capitalism and free enterprise driven by customer wants and desires works great. Crony Capitalism where the government picks winners and losers and rigs the game works horribly. Right now everything in medicine has this convoluted government involvement that makes it nearly impossible, as a consumer, to have any power over what options are available to you. As a result none of the research, nor any of the hospitals are driven by maximizing their value to consumers. So everything has not only not progressed fast. Many things have went backwards, at least when cost is figured into the mix.
I recently read a pre-corona-virus book on the human immune system and the book makes Fauci out to be among the heroes of human immunity theory. It would be easy to initially mistake Fauci for being a good guy. I've been continually surprised at just how deep and wide the swamp runs and how I'm having to re-consider almost all that I've ever known in light of how I now know that it's all been a facade designed and perpetrated to steal freedoms from the US populace.
Don't forget Amazon