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Actually it does. For a start books are frequently banned from being taught at universities.


It is under attack. I think we can universities mostly suck, but though they try. It still doesn't take away from the overall ability to speak freely.

You don't try to change yourself on purpose but nevertheless over-exposure will make you have an aversion to certain things.


I wouldn't consider what I went through to be over-exposure or a bad thing. But yes, you can get bad impressions from just about anything depending what you've experienced in life. But all that does if give you a surface level to go off on, unless you actually try to submerge yourself in other cultures. If you never even try, you'll never know. So to speak.

Well with context you don't seem creepy.


I'm glad. Certainly try my best to not do that. :P
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Hillary is no one's first choice, but at least she has experience and, even if you might think she's the anti-christ, she has people who she wishes to please, and good candidates that vouche for her like Obama, Sanders, and her Husband (though that's a given).


This comes extremely late and should be no surprise to anyone, but "experience" in the field of politics is not always a positive. A major selling point the public adored, close to if not at least half of all voters, was that the Trump administration was a complete outsider to the arena and had no alliegences to anyone or anything. It said and did whatever it wanted, no less in character with a man who was constantly on record for saying whatever struck the chord of urge. The promise of same-old, same-old had lost most its momentum; a notable number of Americans stopped believing in that "hope and chamge" so to speak.

The Sanders' thrust lost its point and credibility when it was not only cheated out by its own party, but also pushed a strong socialist agenda. It helped none that it did not bite back against the Hillary campaign and took a beating laying down instead.
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no alliegences to anyone or anything.


Pretty much.
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Also I think Bill Clinton was responsible for the housing market crash. (or at least was the one who started the fire.)

I'm honestly expecting for the left side and right side to make the exact same arguments against Trump, and I mean the EXACT same ones during the 2020 election. (Which will make that year possibly just as unbearable.) Because politicians don't seem to learn from history. If Trump isn't called racist or sexist even once during the 2020 campaign by people running against him, I'll *insert absurd thing here*. <.<

Hell, oddly enough I think Kayne if he ran for the left/third party, may get him a stupidly high chunk of the minority vote...(if he could manage to even take the campaign remotely seriously.)


I think every President since Reagan has helped with our economic woes, but the most typical economic explanation of the 2008 crash comes down to deregulation of the housing market by Clinton and Bush. This is the main reason I don't considered myself a Democrat... ever since Clinton, they basically do the same shit, just not as extremely. It's like good cop bad cop, but they both fuck shit up. We are in a Neo-Liberal political era, that's the reality of it, and there isn't much help for it until we deregulate and tear apart the safety net just enough for a recession to actually become a long-term depression again. We almost did that in 2008, but Bush woke up and abandoned right wing principles just enough to put the breaks on the crash. Since Obama failed to go after the problem in any more than a band-aid way, and Trump is pushing for further deregulation, we're certain to have another go at economic catastrophe. If this happens in the next four years, 2020 will be verrrry interesting. And if not, yeh, 2020 will probably be a replay of 2016 but this time without Hillary.

I think you and most people into the climate change sphere are being alarmists. And unnecessarily so. They never want to actually give us an answer how we can “solve” this problem, it's another problem that “has no solution or clear ending point.” which sure is politically convenient...


Eh, alarmism in Global Warming is justified IMHO. Scientists come up with a number of potential trajectories suggested by the data, and it shows that the alarmist answers we hear are a meaningful possibility. The end of the world scenarios are not certain, but the idea that we should do nothing when there is a meaningful possibility of severe desertification/rising seas/whatever is irresponsible.

As I've seen it the argument breaks down to scientific preparedness vs purity of the market, and since I believe that the whole Purity of the free market thing is essentially a theological argument, I have no problem sullying it to hedge our bets. Shit, even if global warming turns out to be very small potatoes, we'll get technological advancement out of the deal.

The Sanders' thrust lost its point and credibility when it was not only cheated out by its own party, but also pushed a strong socialist agenda. It helped none that it did not bite back against the Hillary campaign and took a beating laying down instead.


IMHO I found a lot of that rather enduring. That you have to be a rich person who attacks people to become President is too bad, but it does seem to be the case.
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Eh, alarmism in Global Warming is justified IMHO. Scientists come up with a number of potential trajectories suggested by the data, and it shows that the alarmist answers we hear are a meaningful possibility. The end of the world scenarios are not certain, but the idea that we should do nothing when there is a meaningful possibility of severe desertification/rising seas/whatever is irresponsible.

As I've seen it the argument breaks down to scientific preparedness vs purity of the market, and since I believe that the whole Purity of the free market thing is essentially a theological argument, I have no problem sullying it to hedge our bets. Shit, even if global warming turns out to be very small potatoes, we'll get technological advancement out of the deal.


I dunno, when everyone's favorite engineer plays environmental expert, Bill Nye, awful show on nexflix guy. Says we should be jailing the opposition, I think the hysteria that has almost no agreeable evidence. It's a bit much.

I don't think anyone -worth talking about- is actually debating, the earth is very, very gradually changing in temperature. It's soon going down half a degree for 50 plus years, no matter how many Prius's will be bought the following year. Or arguing that pollution is bad. But how much does this "climate change" caused mostly by humans? (If cow farts cause more damage than most things?) And how dangerous really is it? And should the people running the post office...actually be in charge of something so 'serious'? (the reason people stopped using the other so much of the global warming predictions were completely wrong and were proven to be 'small potatoes') So they switched labels...

I also think if it's a waste of time, all the money we wasted on this technology to provide less effective means of energy, would have been a pretty shit deal all around.

washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/26/…

When so many times, this "new green tech" is not being paid for by companies wanting to take a risk, but gets subsidized (by force.) and is shit coming from people like this, getting millions of taxpayer money for nothing...

IMHO I found a lot of that rather enduring. That you have to be a rich person who attacks people to become President is too bad, but it does seem to be the case.


Bernie was just a coward during his election, he "endured" nothing. (less you meant endearing) But I think the days, of bernie sanders "nice guy whose looking out for you" has been over for quite some time now.

Also Trump proved you don't need more money to win the presidency. (and that politics really is an american idol contest. Personality wins -at least- three entire presidencies in a row.)

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Lynn, Vanhanen, Kanazawa with books like the Ten Thousand year explosion. It's also pretty evident when you just look at who emerged with farming and nomadic rather than hunter-gatherer societies first.


Scientists have rejected the idea of biologically distinct human categories. There are some genetic population clusters, but human genetics is a spectrum. Western europe and eastern asia are two highly populated places on earth, but Kazakhstan, Xinjiang and western China, Kyrgyzstan, western Mongolia, parts of Russia, have high allele frequenceis of all the traits found both Europe and Asia. Google images of 新疆人 an‘d 新疆人哈萨克族。 You might see see asians, white people, mixed people, and even asians with blonde hair and blue eyes. But these people dont perceive it that way. They all come from the same families and traits are evenly distributed thoughout the population. China and India are another two major population centers but Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Bhutan, Nepal, southern Xizang, and western Yunnan have high frequencies of the alleles common in Mumbai and Shanghai. There are tonnes of other examples across the world. Genetics is a spectrum and everything merges together somewhere. Now lets look at america for example. American population is made up of Black People, White People, Asians, Hispanic People, Middle Eastern People, Native Americans, and Native Hawaiians. This may not represent genetic catergories perfectly, but american society is based off of them, and american population is made up of them, so that makes it "real" in a way.
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Scientists have rejected the idea of biologically distinct human categories

No they haven't, only the ones supporting your side have, the fact that your side finds it necessary to ban various books on the matter goes to show how wrong it is, when you have to go to such levels of damage control.

There are some genetic population clusters, but human genetics is a spectrum

Okay.

Western europe and eastern asia are two highly populated places on earth, but Kazakhstan, Xinjiang and western China, Kyrgyzstan, western Mongolia, parts of Russia, have high allele frequenceis of all the traits found both Europe and Asia.

That's not surprising considering the actions of the Tatar-Mongols and the fact that Europoids and Mongoloids split off relatively recently. That still does not disprove anything I said.

They all come from the same families and traits are evenly distributed thoughout the population.

No they're not. Various sub-groups of them have different appearances and traits based on how much of a specific group they have within their genetics.

China and India are another two major population centers but Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Bhutan, Nepal, southern Xizang, and western Yunnan have high frequencies of the alleles common in Mumbai and Shanghai.

So?

There are tonnes of other examples across the world. Genetics is a spectrum and everything merges together somewhere

So? Obviously some peoples mixed together for one reason or another or through time spent in another environment changed heavily i.e. Finns, Hungarians, Estonians and Bulgars. They nevertheless have Europoid traits and primarily Europoid genes.

There are tonnes of other examples across the world. Genetics is a spectrum and everything merges together somewhere

Point?

I also don't know what those East Asian characters are so they don't really mean anything to me or do anything for the point that doesn't really exist in your paragraph.

Also looking at the punctuation/grammar, the Asian characters and the overall style of the post I can't help but feel that you copy pasted it from somewhere.

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You almost seem to say that as if it were a bad thing. I would much rather an administration that does as it wants and as it should by and large in accordance to its voters than one that attempts to appease everyone in the system itself or pander to minority sectors. One has the power to undo itself and all its work in a few poor choices, the other is a machine that will keep running no matter how corrupt or out of touch it might be.

I am far more partial to letting the Trump administration succeed or fail, to which we will see in time, than I am allowing more of the same we already endured for eight years. Either he will continue to hit the notes a large number of Americans desire or he will miss his mark and go out with the next election. Almost as though it were designed that way in part.

As for the Sanders comment, I see no reasonable way one can view his reaction and those of his party, with regards to being cheated, as reflecting anyone who should be put into a place of leadership or command. I had respect for Sanders before, because he was so adamant about his message wrong as I think it might be, but he lost any shred of respect other than station to me when he surrendered without reprisal or retribution.
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I dunno, when everyone's favorite engineer plays environmental expert, Bill Nye, awful show on nexflix guy. Says we should be jailing the opposition, I think the hysteria that has almost no agreeable evidence. It's a bit much.


Sure, that's inappropriate, I'm not talking about jailing people.

I don't think anyone -worth talking about- is actually debating, the earth is very, very gradually changing in temperature. It's soon going down half a degree for 50 plus years, no matter how many Prius's will be bought the following year. Or arguing that pollution is bad. But how much does this "climate change" caused mostly by humans? (If cow farts cause more damage than most things?) And how dangerous really is it? And should the people running the post office...actually be in charge of something so 'serious'? (the reason people stopped using the other so much of the global warming predictions were completely wrong and were proven to be 'small potatoes') So they switched labels...


Ehh... We are having an effect.



How dangerous is it is up in the air. Like I said, there are a lot of models out there...



...which makes it desirable to hedge our bets and assume that a bad scenario might occur, since if we attempt to avoid it and it doesn't occur all we've done is advanced our technology, whereas if it does occur and we did nothing than our shit is fucked.

I also think if it's a waste of time, all the money we wasted on this technology to provide less effective means of energy, would have been a pretty shit deal all around.


Inefficient now. The purpose of subsidizing long term research now is to bring the tech to a point where it is efficient enough for the more short-term nature of the market to take over later. Right now the market can't drive it because the market deals in short-term investment. Eventually, like with computer technology before, an event horizon will be crossed where market forces can start turning a profit with the tech. This assuming you aren't arguing that green tech can never be made efficient, which would be a weird place to decide human advancement must stop.

Bernie was just a coward during his election, he "endured" nothing. (less you meant endearing) But I think the days, of bernie sanders "nice guy whose looking out for you" has been over for quite some time now.


Yup, meant endeared. I disagree with the coward description and find it sort of sad that you want your politicians to be bloodthirsty too. But I suppose this particular character assassination shows that even libertarians can be Machiavellian in their approach to politics =p

Also Trump proved you don't need more money to win the presidency. (and that politics really is an american idol contest. Personality wins -at least- three entire presidencies in a row.)


Nope. He didn't use as much money during the campaign because CNN covered that for him by just repeating all his speeches and campaign promises over and over and over again. But he needed to be rich to have the access that he had, to spend so much time building his political brand and campaigning without real hurt to himself, and of course to have ever been enough of a public figure to make waves in the first place. If next campaign season you or I managed to pull off the same thing, well, that would be proof you don't need money. At this point though, the wealthiest candidate won.

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I had respect for Sanders before, because he was so adamant about his message wrong as I think it might be, but he lost any shred of respect other than station to me when he surrendered without reprisal or retribution.


This imagines the politician as the power hungry individual by necessity, and that by not fighting for personal power above all else he showed himself a bad leader. Personally I respected his decision because he seemed more the policy-centered statesman, who backed down because he saw Republican destruction of policy he supports as more dangerous than Centrist Democrat wheel spinning. The reverse version of this idea would be why Ted Cruz ended up phone banking for Trump.
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However, the evidence suggests human greenhouse-gas emission are having a limited impact on global climate, with virtually all the alarmists’ model predictions routinely failing to match reality. Anthropogenic warming theorists’ climate models assume temperatures should climb alongside rising carbon-dioxide levels, yet temperatures fell from the 1940s through the 1970s, even while emissions were rising dramatically. For the past two decades, carbon-dioxide levels have continued to increase, but global satellites have recorded no significant temperature increase for 18 years.

According to the average of all climate models, Earth’s temperature should be one degree F warmer now than what is currently being measured. The gap between measured temperatures and predictions is most likely due to the fact Earth is less sensitive to additional molecules of greenhouse gases than calculated by most climate models.

Climate models have assumptions built into their design concerning the secondary effects of carbon dioxide on Earth’s atmosphere, which they assume will enhance or amplify Earth’s warming. Simpler models that don’t build in these secondary effects track actual temperatures much more closely than the complex models do, and it’s the complex models upon which climate disaster projections are built.


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Again, I don't think the science is consistent and I don't know how much is actually human impact. And the like I said, the heat will go down half a degree for 50 years at least...supposedly. How the hell does that work if humans are the primary cause?

Will/can we argue, we aren't the biggest problem, but we are a PART of it? (and the 90 percent agree thing is total falsehood.) I mean I guess that would at least maybe stop a bit of the crazy hyper rich humans are killing the planet thing. (when third world countries are bound to be doing worse...but I think asking them to rid of their gas, when they have no electricity, is a bit pushy.) when our own air, water is cleaner than ever and we have more tree's than when we first settled in America...So I think we already are doing a pretty good job ourselves, like I said, our emissions are already going down. Yet Europe's is going up and they seem to be implementing a lot more environmental restrictions. Doesn't add up does it?

Inefficient now. The purpose of subsidizing long term research now is to bring the tech to a point where it is efficient enough for the more short-term nature of the market to take over later. Right now the market can't drive it because the market deals in short-term investment. Eventually, like with computer technology before, an event horizon will be crossed where market forces can start turning a profit with the tech. This assuming you aren't arguing that green tech can never be made efficient, which would be a weird place to decide human advancement must stop.


I understand that's what they're trying to do, but it's proven so far to be a giant expensive sinkhole. I'm not saying solar panels couldn't help assist, but I doubt it will ever fully replace anything. But I also highly disagree with all subsides, of government picking winners and losers for companies. It makes the free market, much less free...this could go into many different directions, but I just think it would be more even competition without subsiding either side. And see who comes out on top, for providing energy, effective and cheap energy. (The answer isn't giant windmills. ;P)

Yup, meant endeared. I disagree with the coward description and find it sort of sad that you want your politicians to be bloodthirsty too. But I suppose this particular character assassination shows that even libertarians can be Machiavellian in their approach to politics =p


That's not what I'm not saying at all. That doesn't represent what I think. I don't enjoy that most of politics is to try to make the other side look as evil as possible. Without proving your worth and merit on your own issues and where you stand. But almost everyone does seem to want bloodsport. Or use ad-hominems like they're going out of style.

I meant he showed that he had no backbone. I don't want a president without a backbone. With things that needed a man who could say, NO. One moment was when he let two BLM protestors take over his speech, call his racist (when the dude walked in the civil rights movement.) backing down so quickly to something clearly hostile/shallow like that. I can't imagine how that would go in a more serious way. Dealing with terrorism or other nations for example. But it wasn't just that, nearly every move he made in his campaign was way too passive. That won't win elections. That's a fact. And it wasn't only to be civil either, because he bashed plenty of people, just not the people he needed to.

Nope. He didn't use as much money during the campaign because CNN covered that for him by just repeating all his speeches and campaign promises over and over and over again. But he needed to be rich to have the access that he had, to spend so much time building his political brand and campaigning without real hurt to himself, and of course to have ever been enough of a public figure to make waves in the first place. If next campaign season you or I managed to pull off the same thing, well, that would be proof you don't need money. At this point though, the wealthiest candidate won.


Yes, the media giving him show much screen time and everyone being so damn desperate to stop him, probably did help. But I think it was everyone's/media's behavior with the people in general that got him elected. But no, The Clinton's had way more money than he did. Donations and everything. And if I ran, it be third party. So I'd have no chance. (I'd assume same for you?) -.-

But like I said, Bush one 'because you could have a beer with em' Obama won because black and pot. And Trump won because the left pulled a Microsoft...during their Xbone 1 reveal. Telling everyone, including their fans to fuck right off and deal with it. And Ps4 Trump won by doing basically nothing. "Hello, America. I don't hate all of you. Vote me."

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Scientists have rejected the idea of biologically distinct human categories. There are some genetic population clusters, but human genetics is a spectrum. Western europe and eastern asia are two highly populated places on earth, but Kazakhstan, Xinjiang and western China, Kyrgyzstan, western Mongolia, parts of Russia, have high allele frequenceis of all the traits found both Europe and Asia. Google images of 新疆人 an‘d 新疆人哈萨克族。 You might see see asians, white people, mixed people, and even asians with blonde hair and blue eyes. But these people dont perceive it that way. They all come from the same families and traits are evenly distributed thoughout the population. China and India are another two major population centers but Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Bhutan, Nepal, southern Xizang, and western Yunnan have high frequencies of the alleles common in Mumbai and Shanghai. There are tonnes of other examples across the world. Genetics is a spectrum and everything merges together somewhere. Now lets look at america for example. American population is made up of Black People, White People, Asians, Hispanic People, Middle Eastern People, Native Americans, and Native Hawaiians. This may not represent genetic catergories perfectly, but american society is based off of them, and american population is made up of them, so that makes it "real" in a way.


No they haven't, only the ones supporting your side have, the fact that your side finds it necessary to ban various books on the matter goes to show how wrong it is, when you have to go to such levels of damage control.


Again Im going to go ahead and side with the overwhelming preponderance of anthropologists on this one. The happen to agree with @Dynamo Frokane
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You almost seem to say that as if it were a bad thing.


You will forgive me if I maintain a healthy skepticism of a man whose only apparent concern is his own egocentric self-aggrandizement leading a country I have the mixed fortune to live in.
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Again Im going to go ahead and side with the overwhelming preponderance of anthropologists on this one. The happen to agree with @Dynamo Frokane

Once again, that's wrong it is simply that those with evidence to the contrary can't even get it published. But if denial is needed to live on then meh, what am I to do.
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Once again, that's wrong it is simply that those with evidence to the contrary can't even get it published. But if denial is needed to live on then meh, what am I to do.


#AnthropologyConspiracy

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Nope. He didn't use as much money during the campaign because CNN covered that for him by just repeating all his speeches and campaign promises over and over and over again. But he needed to be rich to have the access that he had, to spend so much time building his political brand and campaigning without real hurt to himself, and of course to have ever been enough of a public figure to make waves in the first place. If next campaign season you or I managed to pull off the same thing, well, that would be proof you don't need money. At this point though, the wealthiest candidate won.


I'm betting that you're not arguing CNN was an arm of the Trump campaign. Think of every second of CNN's Trump coverage as a poorly-invested thousand dollar bill from the Clintons.
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