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That's a fair point. I looked at his Twitter feed today and most of it was quite positive. He really CAN be an inspirational tweeter when he wants to be. But then there's the 1% of the time that he lets something out that totally clears the room. IMO all the positive stuff doesn't make up for those bombs he drops.I’m not sure if Obama used Twitter (I’m not on Twitter) but let’s presume Trump is the first President to use it prolifically.
Margaret Hoover had John Delaney on Firing Line last week - one of the saner of the Dem candidates IMO. Anyway it came up that at least AOC and Sanders are proponents of an economic philosophy called Modern Monetary Theory. Seems MMTers believe the government cannot become insolvent if it borrows in its own currency, all they need to do is print more of it - so that might explain some of it.
So maybe they won't turn us into Greece after all - maybe more like Venezuela... <yikes>
I was hacking Voting Machines, that aren't even run by a microprocessors, nor connected to the internet so it was a pretty nifty trick.
Seriously, I only took Russian because a language was required to graduate, and I was sick of Spanish. My school actually required a core curriculum that everyone had to have science, math, humanities and a language. Oh, the horror! I quickly forgot the Russian after the final exam.
Population control comes about through education and modernization of society.
If you roam, roam with an AR-15 or at least a .45.
I believe the Black Community in the U.S. is more racist than many, even within their own community. Lighter skinned blacks are prejudiced against darker skin Blacks. Plus many if not most have a chip on their shoulder about "WHITEY". This has been perpetuated by Black community leaders (Community Organizers, wink, wink), and also White Liberal/Progressives in order to use the Black community for their own purposes.
Yes, there are White bigots and racists also, and I have no time for them either.
I think extreme behavior is prevalent among extremists. The particular behaviors Stan mentions are prevalent among leftist extremists, other behaviors are prevalent among ultra-right extremists. Branding of all Muslims as terrorists, all gays as degenerate, physically attacking liberal protestors (think Charlottesville). I'm not saying you or anyone here falls into that group.
I do think some of the crazier behavior might be more prevalent on the left because people tend to be more left-wing when they're young, and the brain centers that inhibit impulsive and violent behavior usually mature after one is legally an adult. Maybe even people who never develop good impulse control tend to be more liberal? I don't really know, that's just a thought.
I certainly don't want to defend liberals, or conservatives in this. I just don't particularly like "they" thinking that stereotypes a whole group, regardless of who does it. Both sides of the political spectrum do this, and it is part of why the country is so strongly polarized.
This is one of those issues where lesbian feminism is 100% allied with scientific reality (and just plain common sense). That it's unfair to allow biological males to compete with biological females in most sports is something pretty much everyone who has given this much thought agrees with - except for the trans community of course, and the Far Left. I would contend, though, that the Far Left really hasn't thought this through and is too focused on the (very real) oppression and ostracism that trans people endure. The trans community, unfortunately, pushes the lie that cross-gender hormones completely undo years of natural masculinization. I will pick one nit with what you said, regarding muscle mass: as the IOC found, a sufficient time on estrogen (something like 2 years) does erase the advantage males have in sheer muscle bulk. What remains, though, an androgenized bone structure that anchors those muscles, can't be erased by hormones and the advantage it gives doesn't go away even after years and even decades.
This is not a new issue btw. Google Michelle Dumaresq for an example of someone who triggered lots of controversy a decade and more ago.
There is also the flip side of this, the question of how much (if any) unfair advantage *natural* androgens confer to biological females with conditions like CAH. Olympian Caster Semenya is someone unfortunately caught at the center of this controversy right now. Sadly we're going to be hearing more and more about this in the next few years.