All that is not profitable is prohibited.
All that is not prohibited is mandatory.
Dec 13, 2016
Curiouser
It's one guy - and it's CNN - but there seems to be an increasing amount of smoke.
Dmitri Alperovitch said that their firm did, in fact, catch 2 groups associated w Russian intelligence agencies in the act#TrumpLeaks pic.twitter.com/jJDyfBwUmM— Khary Penebaker (@kharyp) December 13, 2016
Today's Tweet
You wanted gubmint to run like a bidness - well, here it comes.
So Trumpians, still think Trump has your best interests in mind? DUH! pic.twitter.com/VWTSAQDTTW— philip harris (@pharris830) December 13, 2016
Dec 12, 2016
"Leadership"
Because if we're conditioned to believe made up bullshit to start with, we're a lot easier to manipulate in new and exciting ways.
Dec 11, 2016
Sunday Question
When you say you'll pray for me, does that mean I need to do the thinking for both of us?
Today's Tweet
Funny how Trump supporters love to fly the flags of armies that got their asses kicked by Americans pic.twitter.com/r4bN63AiuF— Parker 🇺🇸🏳️🌈 (@Parker9_) December 9, 2016
Today's Quote
Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.
--Henry David Thoreau
Dec 10, 2016
Nobody Does This Better
driftglass:
I feel compelled to point out that back when Comrade Trump was declaring that his Party would be a Worker's Party, certain internet scoundrel hobos were trying in vain to call Meathead America's attention to the fact that, according to Comrade Trump's own words...
Comrade Trump Sings Songs Of Love
Comrade Trump promises that under his regime he will...
...tell American companies what they can produce and where they can produce it.
...tell American companies who they can hire and how much they will be paid.
...use the power of government to keep American workers working in dying industries despite what the market says.
...conquer inferior countries who have stuff we want.
...weed out the undesirables whoever they may be and wherever they may hide.
...build an axis of strong alliances with other like-minded Strong Menaround the world.
...not be held hostage by the counterrevolutionary forces of bourgeoisie science.
A Trump Biographer
From a piece at RawStory, quoting Mike D'Antonio:
He finished with a disturbing image of Trump as a mindless animal in a behavioral experiment.
“He no longer had to manipulate journalists and wait for them to act. He could tap out a few words and get what he wanted immediately. It reminded me of psychologist B.F. Skinner’s experiments with chickens that learned to push a button with their beaks for the reward of a food pellet. Once they had trained themselves, the birds couldn’t stop pecking even when the pellets no longer came and they injured themselves,” he said.
“Like Skinner’s animal subjects,” he concluded. “Trump has learned to get what he wants. No matter who criticizes him, no matter the consequences, he will keep doing it. Those who ask if he will stop scouring the press for evidence of enemies and using his power in indiscriminate ways should stop thinking of him as a conventional politician and start looking at him as a chicken.”There's no such thing as Proportionality for a Donald Trump, and he's surrounding himself with "birds of a feather", which is more than a bit fucked up when it comes down to a little thing we like to call The Nuclear Arsenal.
And yes, I know, everybody talked about that for a fleeting moment during the Scampaign®, but then it kinda fell off the ol' radar scope - like every-fucking-thing else that shoulda sunk this Powdered Cheese Dusted Asswipe but didn't because keeping him on my Librul TV Box may have been bad for the country, but holy crap, was it ever great for ratings.
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The Professional Left Podcast
A great take-down of the single-thread bullshit about how Hillary was just a rotten candidate and how she missed the mark and blah blah blah.
The Bible Bitch segment at the end is pretty spectacular this week - and if I believed in such things, I'd say God bless you, Blue Gal.
But I don't believe in such things, so I'll just say Keep Doin' Good, you guys.
Dec 9, 2016
Faking It
What are the tools we use to detect lies?
a) the absence of confirming evidence
-or-
b) the presence of conflicting evidence
What are the tools for finding the truth?
a) the presence of confirming evidence
-and-
b) the absence of conflicting evidence
From a piece last month at NPR:
A lot of fake and misleading news stories were shared across social media during the election. One that got a lot of traffic had this headline: "FBI Agent Suspected In Hillary Email Leaks Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide." The story is completely false, but it was shared on Facebook over half a million times.
We wondered who was behind that story and why it was written. It appeared on a site that had the look and feel of a local newspaper. Denverguardian.com even had the local weather. But it had only one news story — the fake one.--and--
He was amazed at how quickly fake news could spread and how easily people believe it. He wrote one fake story for NationalReport.net about how customers in Colorado marijuana shops were using food stamps to buy pot.
"What that turned into was a state representative in the House in Colorado proposing actual legislation to prevent people from using their food stamps to buy marijuana based on something that had just never happened," Coler says.--and--
At any given time, Coler says, he has between 20 and 25 writers. And it was one of them who wrote the story in the "Denver Guardian" that an FBI agent who leaked Clinton emails was killed. Coler says that over 10 days the site got 1.6 million views. He says stories like this work because they fit into existing right-wing conspiracy theories.
"The people wanted to hear this," he says. "So all it took was to write that story. Everything about it was fictional: the town, the people, the sheriff, the FBI guy. And then ... our social media guys kind of go out and do a little dropping it throughout Trump groups and Trump forums and boy it spread like wildfire."As with all disruptive innovations regarding social media (all media is social media, btw), The Intertoobz has become just another vast wasteland.
Paraphrasing The Maestro, as he purportedly quipped to the lady cellist, "Madam, you have between your legs a magnificent instrument capable of bringing great joy and fulfillment to all of humankind - must you sit there and merely scratch at it?"
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