I bought a gaming PC last year after having not used windows for a long time. It's crazy how much slop has been added. Felt like i had to opt out of 10000 different things to just use my computer without internet/cloud accounts
So you really think the people being told "you can't outrun a bad diet" would be served by knowing if they adopted the lifestyle of an olympian they would lose weight? a narrow fixation on edge cases while ignoring the (correct) larger point is weird
I think part of this can be solved by "hacks" the primary one being throwing olive oil on random stuff you eat. Another one is "drinking your calories". Basically all the things people tell you to do to lose weight, do the opposite
this seems like it's all theater right? these aren't the huge drivers of the federal budget, but they're too scared to go after military or entitlement spending so enormous effort is put into these things that aren't even big fractions of the budget
I don't think it's theater, I think it's ideological napalm. Christopher Rufo said "Yes, we are going to crush the academic Left, abolish DEI, and salt the Earth beneath it", and I think this is an example of that mission.
It's just absolute lunacy.
If that's the stated goal (and it sure looks like it), the 'academic left' is at least partially responsible for a large majority of the prosperity of this country over the last few decades. How can you have a successful, rich country when you're antagonizing your allies and roughly half of your citizens?
These people will burn down their own house and wealth to make sure others don't feel welcome. How hard is it to just learn to live with people that don't agree with you?
A small percentage will, yes. The vast majority won't. Plus there's the issue of the stranglehold Trump seems to have over GOP members (ie. they're pushed, even threatened into compliance, especially GOP congress members). An easy way of vilifying any group is to point out how bad their most extreme members are.
It also doesn't even matter. The Trump situation will end. At that point MAGA people won't be gone, and it'd be a pretty sad outcome if they were or felt repressed, or we'll simply end up right here again. The point is not to win, the point is to make things better.
Also they're demanding universities such as Harvard install a contingent of their hand picked ideologues, party official vetted academics basically, to insure viewpoint diversity & to be able to snitch & propogandize within universities.
The right has plenty of very strong hard right institutions of its own. Very very strong. But they're very rarely academically or scientifically notable, across the whole world (with notable exceptions of the Koch brothers & Federalist Society funded George Mason School of Economics). The right has enormous influence, their own schools & control within schools that they pay for! https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/us/koch-donors-george-mas...
I think we find very few examples going the other way, having such large scale divisional control & top down left control.
Its because of who the right is, what their priorities really are, and how they bias themselves against science, how they let their efforts be steered explicitly by money & funding that they are largely irrelevant: they are not, imo, unfairly denied opportunity or the chance to do their work. There's opportunity abundant, if they want to do genuine & reasonable research, they could do it in real universities. But as comedian & faux-conservative Stephen Colbert polemicizes, the right is sworn to forever fight 'reality's well known liberal bias', in the name of defending winner takes all amassed capitalism & pro monarchy pro feudal ideology, that alas is well represented by loud voices in Silicon Valley.
They need to continue to feed the republican base stories such as "We're fixing SCIENCE which the Dirty Liberal's have been RUINING for DECADES! CHINA!"
What is the competitive advantage here? That refinement exists in the United States and not Canada? That was a political choice made by Canadian politicians.
Do you really believe that most of the people being deported or imprisoned by ICE this year are truly supporters of terrorism? Since no due process is being followed what gives you any confidence that the accusations against these people are true?
> Do you really believe that most of the people being deported or imprisoned by ICE this year are truly supporters of terrorism?
I don't think that's what's at stake here. I would assume the vast, vast majority of deportations are some version of "You're here illegally because you snuck in / overstayed your visa / lied on some form. Here's a ride back to $COUNTRY"
I think what is at stake is the small, small % of deportations that are because of particular speech or actions that aren't transparently crime (e.g., stealing a car is transparently crime).
And to answer your question, I don't know. While it doesn't appear to me that the Americans are reaching the highest possible standards of due process, "no" due process is pretty obviously false. And I don't think it's an issue of the accusations being true or false, either--my impression is the facts aren't in dispute, it's what happens based on the facts that is.
OK, all of that said: my guess is the people being deported for supporting HAMAS aren't HAMAS supporters in some sort of deep, true, essential way. They're kids or young people who are swept up in a fad.
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