Apple CEO Tim Cook Tackles Truth in the Digital Age (cnbc.com) 214
Apple CEO Tim Cook visited the University of Glasgow yesterday to be awarded an honorary doctorate. During the Q&A session, one audience member asked Cook to tell what the future looks like. Following is Cook's response: "The world is going through an enormous change. We used to watch three or four people tell us the news, and generally speaking most of us trusted that ... now you are growing up in an environment where everyone is telling you the news and everyone is trying to influence your opinion on something," Cook said. "Generally society hasn't moved as fast as technology has ... so all of us have been put in a position to make sure that when we hear something we automatically take it as our opinion that we think through the different views on it and unfortunately make sure it is accurate as well."
Most people are easily influenced anyhow (Score:4, Insightful)
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And Apple has been a great influencer itself.
Which is good, because there can't be any heretical truefacts about Apple. To believe so is a thoughtcrime and criminally unsocial.
Any facts about Apple which are in unpraiseful of Apple cannot be truefacts and must be properly edited as they are doubleplus ungood.
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I take Gospel exclusively from Saint Jobs (Score:2, Funny)
Steve appears to me every night, surrounded by a bluish glow and tells me The Truth.
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Umm...does anyone else think he's really not focused on running Apple like Steve did?
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Umm...does anyone else think he's really not focused on running Apple like Steve did?
You mean as opposed to the guy who ran Pixar on the side? The guy who designed glass stairs for the Apple Stores? That totally focused on running Apple guy?
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Umm...does anyone else think he's really not focused on running Apple like Steve did?
Lacking a driven, hard-driving, asshole visionary like Jobs, Apple is, quite predictably, following in Microsoft's footsteps. After all, visionaries who have the stuff to go all the way are pretty rare. Besides, Apple is old and fat enough that it was their time to settle into complacency anyway - and I challenge you to name any major tech company that hasn't followed that path. It seems pretty much inevitable, as though it's a universal law or something.
At least what Tim Cook says is sensible and has some
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Jobs died at the right time, at the height of Apple's glory. I doubt Jobs had any more groundbreaking innovations up his sleeve. He probably would have done the smart watch while iterating on Apple's existing products, just like Cook is doing.
Instead of that, Jobs gets to be remain a legend in perpetuity, while Cook has to forever live in his shadow and listen to comments how much Apple would be innovating if Jobs was still alive.
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Nor should he be - he's not Steve Jobs.
I mean don't get me wrong - Steve had a lot of great ideas, but a lot of terrible ones that have left his company way behind in some respects - like Steve's aversion to touch screens on laptops/desktops.
Society certainly hasn't evolved past greed (Score:5, Insightful)
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Some of us are still engaged in practices like keeping corporate cash holdings in off shore tax shelters
Some of us understand how international tax policies work. The cash that you talk about will cost 30% should Apple decide to repatriate it. Since the money was generated overseas through overseas sales, the most financially sound idea is to keep it overseas.
claiming that there is a tech worker shortage when in reality it's just greed driving corporate profits in the form of hiring cheaper H-1B visas that are willing to put up with unreasonable working conditions so they can make more money. Some things never change.
For 2016 Apple has applied [myvisajobs.com] for 4639 H1B and 2096 green cards for a total of roughly 6700 workers in the use. Apple employs roughly 66,000 workers in the US. So 10% of their workforce. The average salary of H1B is $140K and green cards is $150K. So I don'
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You have data for "cheaper" but if worker A works 40 hours for $140k and worker B works 80 hours a week for $140k, worker B is making a significantly lower than average hourly wage.
All of which is hypothetical based only on your ideas. I assert this is not reality.
You also didn't address the issue where there are Americans lined up with similar credentials to do the same job yet the jobs go to the H-1B visa.
Please post some numbers and source for your assertion. Again your perception not reality.
The H-1B visa program was enacted in 1990 due to a tech worker shortage that no longer exists (and may have never existed). It should be repealed. When the current H-1B visas expire in 3 years or less, hire Americans.
Oh really [networkworld.com]? Number of open jobs requiring Computer Science degrees: 500,000. Number of yearly CS graduates: 50,000. That's a factor of 10:1 in one industry. There is debate about whether a shortage exists; however, unless you work inside Apple you can't say for sure they are abusing the H1B program. I doubt they are as the trouble and c
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Oh really [networkworld.com]? Number of open jobs requiring Computer Science degrees: 500,000. Number of yearly CS graduates: 50,000. That's a factor of 10:1 in one industry.
A degree doesn't expire every year, you know. There are people who got a degree over the last few years still looking for jobs. There are people who have been "aged out" still looking. All your number says is that we can't cover the current set of openings with just new graduates from this single year.
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Wrong. I have direct experience in the field and this is a systemic issue in this field. Do you work in this field? In fact, there is evidence:
You have anecdotal evidence based on a sample size of 2 one of which is a consultancy specializing in H1B work. How does this apply to Apple? Do you know that Apple is doing this? At a salary of $140K and $150K, it is most likely that Apple is hiring H1Bs when they have needs.
Do your own research jack-ass if you want to know what reality is composed of. Or live in your little liberal fantasy world. I don't really care. You people are up to your eyeballs in debt and couldn't get yourself off of the tax teat and take care of yourself if your life depended on it. You're weak. Prove that wrong. That's what I thought.
So the question to provide any research on your claims is that you will not present research. Sounds like a logical fallacy to me.
You snowflakes are all about being offended by everyone but then you turn and bully everyone else with your shit.
You are railing against Apple for using their best business practices. Sounds like you are both anti-bus
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And by the way liberals, how is this for a dose of reality?
You assume I'm a liberal because . . . I have numbers to back up what I say
Neil Gorsuch has been nominated Supreme Court Justice. Obama's pick got blocked.
How is this relevant to your incorrect views on H1B visas again?
There will be a 5-4 majority in the Supreme Court. I anticipate a new lake to appear full of all your tears from all you're whining and crying. There's reality for you. Enjoy that burn.
Red Herring: Bringing up something completely unrelated shows that you're not interested in facts. You sound like a special snowflake.
the distilled version. (Score:2)
Right now the world has a lot of very loud assholes. this encourages others to be assholes.
Stay away from anyone acting extreme right and left, just shut them completely out of your life as they are the scummiest of people.
If they cant have a civilized and calm discussion, eject them from your life rapidly. yes even family.
My problem is these people are infecting everything, A discussion about antenna theory and basics turns into a shitshow of aggressive posturing when you mention something like "you shou
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Optimistic (Score:4, Insightful)
Cook is way too optimistic. If all of us stopped for a minute to think things through, we wouldn't have been in the mess we are in. Can't blame him though. A large part of the man's job is to think, so he thinks (pun intended) it comes natural for everyone. It's the reverse Dunning–Kruger effect.
Someone told Democrat presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson in the 1950s, “You are doing great. All thinking men are with you.” “No,” Stevenson replied. “I need a majority.”
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Cook is way too optimistic. If all of us stopped for a minute to think things through, we wouldn't have been in the mess we are in. Can't blame him though. A large part of the man's job is to think, so he thinks (pun intended) it comes natural for everyone. It's the reverse Dunning–Kruger effect.
Someone told Democrat presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson in the 1950s, “You are doing great. All thinking men are with you.” “No,” Stevenson replied. “I need a majority.”
As long as "think things through" is equal parts intelligence and pragmatic leadership. If you're not careful you get another Woodrow Wilson.
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Good point.. But it does say "honorary" before the "doctorate".
Meh, Postmodernism (Score:2)
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Missing the point ... (Score:2)
... in the comment section.
The fucking "press," died a few years ago. Journalists have all but disappeared.
"Reporters," are actually actors who go from the makeup chair to the anchor desk on visual media to read the teleprompter.
MSM is tapping into external content like YouTube as filler. I tell my wife, while watching David Muir talking up a cute kid tublet, "That video snippet was viral two days ago in the intertoobs.
"News," has been monetized and is actually, "entertainment."
Know who's fault all that shi
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I don't see how this is a defense of Trump.
Even though Trump labels everything criticising him as "fake news", that doesn't mean that there _aren't_ a lot of media outlets slinging opinionated lies at us.
The most influential advisor of Trump used to run one of the most prolific such website and for every contradictory news report, you can be sure atleast one is untrue.
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The problem is it's impossible to defend CNN when they do shit like this. [youtube.com] When Trump calls CNN "fake news," he's not wrong.
Re:Cook will have to apologize soon (Score:5, Insightful)
Fortunately the alt-right has shown up the solution. A relatively small number of people working to spread disinformation worked very effectively. To counter that, we need a similar number of people willing to use subversion tactics to promote the truth.
30 years of the media in the US alone being partisan towards democrats, but it's suddenly a small number of "alt-right" spreading disinformation. Okie there. I'm sure that the mainstream media pumping out a bunch of articles [thefederalist.com] in the last few months that were fake wasn't anything. Or how many times has it been now that sites like WAPO have had to publicly retract stories because of that fake news? Hate to tell you this, but the media tried to pull the fake news crap, and got their face rolled into it. It's the same reason why for over a decade that the trust in the media in the US is under 20% and even here in Canada it's under 25%
But let's look at some disinformation. Would that be like the migrant that was arrested in Edmonton, Alberta the other day. And the CBC uses the word "touched" when the person in question aggressively committed sexual assaulted a 14 year old? Under the definition of the law as sexual assault level 3, because they threatened and caused physical injury. Or is that simply massaging the truth because it paints them in a bad light. Or would that be like the underage refugees in NFLD, who physically assaulted a 15 year old girl, and the response from the media was bending over backwards to claim "cultural issues" and the two people "not knowing that assault was wrong." We don't even have to start from there, we can just look over the media like the letter networks and see how much garbage they've been pumping out over the last 15 years.
I know that the "alt-right" is some great invisible bogeyman for you. But you guys over in Europe have far more to worry about with the government engaging in active censorship, and trying to hide information from the public in order to ensure their political power remains intact.
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Reality has a well known left-wing bias.
This is because conservatism is the politics of nostalgia and ignoring things that only affect other people. Trump wants things to be like the 1950s again. It's even in his campaign slogan: Make American Great Again, as in it used to be great and should go back to that state.
The alt-right like this, because after all it is a movement that started with white supremacists. In the 1950s, white people had more rights and power than others. Of course it sucked if you were
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You mean that "left-wing bias" which gives rise to things like 20 years of screaming "the nazis/white supremacists are coming." Or "it's okay to punch nazis/etc" or "everyone is a racist/sexist/homophobes if you don't agree with us" type of bias? Or "pepe is a racist hate symbol" type of left-wing bias. We can keep going down this form of reality you're pushing, but that doesn't make it true. And if anything, it simply paints the left very unhinged. How about the "kkk are on the rise again" type of bi
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No, I mean the left wing bias that infuriates people and causes them to say things like "I'm not racist, but..." or scream "stop calling me a Nazi all the time just because I like Hitler and ethnic cleansing".
Seriously, that Richard Spencer guy is actually annoyed that people point out that "peaceful ethnic cleansing" and an admiration for Hitler and a tendency to associate with neo Nazis is getting him labelled unfairly. And Steve Bannon, poor guy, all he does is repeatedly say the things that a white supr
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The "I'm not racist but" prefix is to stave off the irrational stampedes that occur when one of your precious 'oppressed class' is criticized by one in one in your 'oppressor classes'. The irrationality is rooted in your ideology, not in individual people expressing their opinions and/or making arguments. The latter example is just an ad hominem as well as a non-sequitur. Every large political position has its loons.. For every neo-nazi you can find, there are likely many times the number of feminists su
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Feminists supporting mandatory castration... What the hell are you smoking? Feminism is all about control over your body, e.g. regarding abortion rights, and that includes objecting to ritual genital mutilation.
This is the most batshit thing you have said for quite some time. New supplier?
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Better realize that the only thing that modern feminism supports is their own supremacist ideology. Because feminists supporting castration? [vice.com] Yeah that exists. Then there's the ones that support killing large segments of the male population because "reasons." And then there's the ones that support infanticide of male babies, and the other ones that are in support of using abortion directly against male babies. Then there's the feminists who are openly in support of FGM because you can't speak out against
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I mean, that alone indicates you're either woefully stupid, or highly manipulative.
The part you don't realize, is in doing this, you put someone making the argument that all Trump supports are racist coneheads on equal moral and intellectual honesty footing as you... Which limits our choices for your description to either woefully stupid, or woefully stupid and shitty at manipulation.
Come on,
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Not to back-up whomever you're responding to, but Germaine Greer has proposed mandatory sterilization for all men. Of course, that's not quite the same thing as castration. And, well, it's Germaine Greer, knowwhatimean? But I wonder if the GP heard that Greer proposed that filtered through a game of telephone.
There's quite a few feminists hold extremist view points. It's actually become bad enough that the less radical feminists call them out for it, and are attacked for their trouble. Whether said attack is via social media, peer pressure, doxing or threats. It much like the broader scope of social justice is so far down the marxist rabbit hole, that anything right of Lenin is considered extremism in their eyes.
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And Steve Bannon, poor guy, all he does is repeatedly say the things that a white supremacist would say and people start accusing him of actually being one! As if the things he says somehow indicate what his beliefs are!
Let's be fair, now--he's only spouting such things when he's not busy rooting for a war with China.
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No, I mean the left wing bias that infuriates people and causes them to say things like "I'm not racist, but..." or scream "stop calling me a Nazi all the time just because I like Hitler and ethnic cleansing".
You know the whole "I'm not racist, but..." bit is mainly prevalent in left-wing politics don't you? Most people on the right rejected identity politics for a reason, and the left decided to eat, breath, and shit it out for breakfast. That is if they're not engaging in overt racism in and of itself, or trying to claim that "diversity quotas" and "preferential hiring" instead of hiring based on race instead of merit isn't actually racism or sexism.
Yeah, I can't find anything that Bannon says outside of far
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You mean that "left-wing bias" which gives rise to things like 20 years of screaming "the nazis/white supremacists are coming."
I'd hardly say they were wrong, as of today.
Not that I think Trump is either of those things, really, but it really is undeniable that a lot of his political power comes from people with fascist and white supremacist leanings. To ignore that is to try to alter reality.
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Reality has a well known left-wing bias.
People unironically believe this.
No, reality doesn't conform to anyone's politics. Reality has a fascist bias. Your ideology doesn't mean shit when Achmed is sawing your head off.
That said, a political ideology that at least tries to take reality and human nature into account is going to do better than one that tries to force its preferences onto reality. There are not 47 genders, men and women are different, human evolution is real and did not magically stop in everything but skin color when man stepped ou
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You have some strange ideas about the political left.
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Their ideas aren't "strange" about the political left. Those are the ideas that the left espouse on a regular basis. Pick your favorite search engine, and you'll find that those aren't minority opinions among the left. They're majority opinions, and it's also the reason why the left is losing their foothold in nearly every western country. You're living in a political bubble, go read a years back opinions on a site like samizdat [samizdata.net] and get back to everyone.
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men and women are different
About 99% of the time when people say that, they mean "me and women are different in a way exactly given by the social norms in the country I identify with in the 1950s golden age which never actually existed as I think it did". Of those, about another 99% are using it as an excuse to make a judgment call on someone purely on the basis of their genitals.
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Ever think maybe the norms of society grew out of the ways in which men and women are biologically different?
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It is difficult for people with a political bias that requires they conform to a narrative to put that aside and examine the world though a scientific lens, like evolutionary biology or some such. They cannot be unfaithful to their party even if the facts directly contradict what they have been told by their leaders and cohorts. This is merely one example of why I consider people who label themselves according to other people's terms, especially political labels, as mentally compromised.
They will sell out
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This behavior is completely illogical, self destructive, and fundamentally divisive and I cannot begin to fathom why someone would do this.
Indoctrination and social conditioning. And the human brain didn't evolve to be logical. It evolved to survive. If your social and political survival are dependent on looking at Australian aborigines and the Japanese and repeating "I DO NOT SEE ANY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THESE PEOPLE THEY ARE BIOLOGICALLY EQUIVALENT" then you'll do it, damn your lying eyes.
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Ever think maybe the norms of society grew out of the ways in which men and women are biologically different?
Having looked a bit at history and other cultures, I'd say: no.
1950s America is not the definition of Humanity. Deal with it.
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Having looked a bit at history and other cultures, I'd say: no.
1950s America is not the definition of Humanity. Deal with it.
Haven't looked very hard then. I suggest looking at the existing matriarchies in the world. When you do, you'll figure out that western society did in deed grow out of the norms. Most other societies have not, which is why women aren't allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia. And in islamic countries, they're considered not only inferior, but worth less then children in the eyes of the law.
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Can you point me to a successful civilization with significantly different gender norms to our own? And some jungle tribe doesn't count, I mean some place that invented the wheel at least.
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I'm not saying that argument is better than yours, but I think you may have fired off yours as if it somehow held more weight than conflicting viewpoints.
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Only if you assume that Obama was the perfect embodiment of left wing bias.
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That's the new cliche of you people - that 'reality has a Left Wing bias'.
Yeah. New. As in "from 2004". Thanks for proving that "new cliche" utterly true and in fact a fact. http://www.slapnose.com/archiv... [slapnose.com]
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Your "fact" is a reference to a blog about a blurb from The Daily Show? Thanks for proving just how smug and asinine that cliche is.
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Your "fact" is a reference to a blog about a blurb from The Daily Show? Thanks for proving just how smug and asinine that cliche is.
It proves the "new cliche of you people" is over a decade old. Thanks for being fact free since 2004.
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I know it isn't new, but that's hardly a basis to claim the cliche is "utterly true and in fact a fact" just because a poster wasn't familiar with it's earlier use.
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I know it isn't new, but that's hardly a basis to claim the cliche is "utterly true and in fact a fact" just because a poster wasn't familiar with it's earlier use.
The fact that you complain after shifting the goal post proves it is a fact. Because else you wouldn't complain about how facts get in the way of your "reality".
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I'm not shifting the goal post. I was not the original poster that you replied to, and it was you who claimed the cliche was "utterly true and in fact a fact" while linking to a blog about a blurb from The Daily Show. If you want to make grandiose claims, try linking to something substantial.
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The fact that you complain after shifting the goal post proves it is a fact.
No, it does not. It just proves that he's willing to be deceitful in his argument, as are you. It does however prove that you have no fucking idea what the word fact means.
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Horseshit. You wouldn't know actual left-of-centre if it came up and bit your arse.
And US companies were not searching for *talent* abroad, they were searching for *cheap labour*.
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Oh yeah, the 21st century version of 'The Soviets were not true Communists'. That famous 'No true Scotsman' argument
I think you're not a dim-witted person, so I'll respond to this with the assumption that you're just making a disingenuous argument against someone you yourself consider to be dim-witted.
Claiming that the Soviets weren't true Communists is an arguable point from many angles, starting with Marx, and ending with Trotsky.
Also, Claiming that they were is equally valid.
Of course if someone is interested in the real facts of the case and wants to find out where they really went so wrong, you'd arrive at the
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Facts are no longer important do to a misinformation/confusion primarily campaign attempting to remove the validity of rational, evidence based thinking.
The fact that the parent has been modded down as "Overrated"--when in fact it's spot-on--is a symptom of this.
alt right (Score:3)
Actually, the 'alt-right' is real, but not in the way that Leftist clowns like to depict it. It's a genuine fissure on the Right
Traditional Conservatism - of the type that the Bushes and the GOP establishment loved - was the international, free trade, open borders & immigration, service Wall Street policies across the board. Also, they were stuck in the Cold War era, and Russia simply succeeded the Soviet Union as the #1 enemy. For those who think it's a personality issue w/ Putin, they were not s
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There are more immediate and long term threats than a bunch of assholes in the desert. For example we shoot ourselves and each other by accident and on purpose about 3,000 ti
islam as a threat (Score:2)
Throughout the 90s, nobody even thought about Islam: everybody assumed that since the Cold War was over, we would live happily ever after. That despite things like the First WTC bombing, the Khobar Towers bombing, the Embassy bombings in Kenya & Tanzanya, the USS Cole and finally 9/11.
And since 9/11, there have been more that 30,000 deadly Jihad attacks worldwide [thereligionofpeace.com], this before there were any US troops in Afghanistan or Iraq. Yeah, there were US troops in KSA, but that was at the behest of th
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I see nothing in this comment that constitutes a threat. Let a
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What do any of those people have to do with hating Jews?
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Even Cronkite read some fake, and lots of slanted, news. This is nothing new, yellow journalism launched the Spanish-American war. The golden age of television tried to bring the appearance of integrity to its news, but that was just to make the crowd control more effective when it was deemed necessary.
Now we've got crowdsourced news, and it's totally out of control - the major outlets have more or less abandoned "equal time" and "neutrality" and just feed their audience what they want to hear. People ar
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The news about the right wing wingnut in Canada shooting up a mosque is equally ignored compared to the stories you say are suppressed. The right has no right to demand that their own hateful propaganda is supreme over the factual news which is what you people are arguing for. The problem is not that there are bad people in any community you care to mention. The problem is that there are fucking racists like you cunts who want to pick a fight with someone who is not white and Christian because you are hidin
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This is what he means by a few alt-right spewing lies.
Don't let reality hurt you. [washingtonpost.com] It's a very harsh mistress. [washingtontimes.com] When you decide to look, you can also note how the tone of media has changed as it's been consolidated into particular hands. I recommend the washington post as a starting point, then move onto NBC.
Yeah, we're trying to prevent that BEFORE it happens, not after.
Too bad it's already happening isn't it? That it's been going on for years. That you can look at Germany and see the government leaning on media and police not to report statistics. That one can look at Sweden where police officers are threatened wit
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Maybe it's because today's republicans are fucking nuts?
People who are ok with much higher death rates of mothers because of Planned Parenthood.
People who are ok with companies being allowed to poison the water & air for tax breaks
People who are ok with destroying American education because it's not perfect today
People who are ok with bribery for tax breaks
People who are ok with racists being in charge of just about everything
People who are ok with fucking over the less well off for tax breaks
Fuck off w
Re:Cook will have to apologize soon (Score:5, Insightful)
Let's skip the crazy and go right to the insane.
The press tone hasn't changed, it's just that the republicans have moved from conservative to fascist.
Uh-huh. [i.redd.it] Republicans are fascist. [heatst.com] Oh boy! Look at all those progressives and so on [leftvoice.org] openly supporting actual fascism. What shall the world ever do in the face of such hypocrisy and failing self-realization that they're everything that they claim the opposition is.
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Fuck off with your pretentious idiocy. The press tone hasn't changed, it's just that the republicans have moved from conservative to fascist.
How do you know it's not the left that's changed from being "liberal" to basically Stalinist? My politics haven't really changed since the mid 90s and nobody ever called me a racist or a fascist until about two years ago.
Re: Cook will have to apologize soon (Score:5, Insightful)
Or maybe it's because the left changed the definitions of racism and fascism to suit themselves? When I was a kid I was taught to judge a man by the content of his character and not the color of skin. So, when a black man is shot by a white cop, I observe that in this instance the black man happened to be a violent criminal who was attacking the officer and the officer was defending himself, so I judge the content of this particular black guy's character as "dirtbag" and so I don't care about the shooting. Good for the officer. The left insists that no, I must judge the white cop by the color of his skin as white (and therefore bad and in the wrong) and the dirtbag by the color of skin as black (and therefore good and oppressed) and demand the head of the cop.
This isn't what racism used to be. You fuckers on the left changed the definition so you can call your political opponents racist. Doesn't make it so. The right didn't go insane. The left went off the goddamn deep end with their 47 genders and race riots for thugs and white privilege bullshit.
Re: Cook will have to apologize soon (Score:2)
So you're saying a white kid playing with a toy gun is just as likely to get shot by a police officer as a black kid?
Because no, that insanity doesn't happen. If there was no problem with police violence and racism, then people would judge them by the color of their skin. You have cause and effect reversed.
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hate speech
Eat twelve hundred dicks and die.
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Actually no a white man confronted by cops is more likely to get shot than a black man confronted by cops, because you can kill the white guy and an angry mob isn't going to burn down your city, assassinate your character and ruin your career.
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Do you have actual statistics on that?
I don't have statistics, but I've observed that a police officer can shoot an unarmed black child with no warning and no time taken to evaluate the situation and get away with nothing more than paid administrative leave. Last I heard, those police haven't had their cities burned down, their character committed suicide before it could be assassinated, and they're doing just fine.
Your facts would appear to be alternative.
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The terms 'racist', 'bigot', and 'fascist' are so abused by the left nowadays they hardly mean anything at all.. Basically they hurl those epithets whenever someone disagrees with their platform and has the temerity to point out why.
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Not my observation. My observation is that there's a lot of racism and bigotry in the country that people don't want to admit to, and that some Republicans are working on the sort of state-corporation alliance that characterizes fascism. Trump, in particular, seems to want to be Fuehrer rather than President.
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Economically, perhaps, but culturally it's off the charts.
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The press tone hasn't changed, it's just that the republicans have moved from conservative to fascist.
Nope. It's that democrats and academia have gone so radically left, defending traditional liberal arguments has become a conservative position.
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The Alt-Right is just a faction on the Right that has differences w/ other conservatives. Breitbart hardly equals all, or even most of the portion of the media that is conservative
Point Cook made was that in the past, only 3 or 4 people told us the news, and all of them were, for want of a better term, Left-of-Center. This had been borne out election after election, where 90+% of journalists would reveal that they voted for the Democrats. In no walk of life do you get such homogeneous opinions, so
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for want of a better term, Left-of-Center
I call them "corporate left" in the same way Fox News is "corporate right." Just like the DNC and the GOP establishment, they'll "fight" for years and years over tranny bathrooms or gay marriage, but gosh the Republicans and Democrats have absolutely no problem getting together to pass expanded surveillance powers or TPP fast track with no opposition. It's all distraction. The six corporate conglomerates that own all the media in the country basically agree on everything and just use the media to propagandi
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Back in the "old days" news was more-neutral. Walter Cronkite for example had a degree of credibility. Now "news" is entertainment and profitable for the sources. The quality of "journalism" (if you want to call it that) has severely declined. Newscasters are now pretty faces and personalities vs. journalists.
Networks and newspapers used to be the primary news sources. Now everyone is a news source with blogs, smartphone cameras posting on youtube, etc. With "news" coming from so many sources, many wi
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I don't want to be rude or troll, I sincerely believe what I will reply to your comment
There is a huge fraction of the population (at least in my country, .mx) that do not want to be told what to think, but people are pragmatic, since it looks terribly complicated or even likely that the things will change for good, the simply let the world/humanity go on, that does not mean people are happy, or that they will accept much more crapy things from gobernment/media/etc
Let's go with something "new" as example: t
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Unless Donald Trump is trying to bring about the Fourth Reich, etc then he's probably not a Nazi.
The simplest explanation is usually the correct one, and that is Trump is just a regular old sack of human waste stuffed into a suit.
Human Waste for President 2020! -- They say I'm inhuman. But I'm at least half human. More. Maybe the most human ever.
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If you young adults can't learn to think for themselves at a University then there is no hope for any of us.
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Psst.. I'll tell you a secret.
According to the article (you read that.. right?) Mr Cook didn't use the word "truth"
Given the content of what he actually *did* say, the irony in your post is palpable.
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We used to watch three or four people tell us the news, and generally speaking most of us trusted that ... now you are growing up in an environment where everyone is telling you the news and everyone is trying to influence your opinion on something
What he did way is that you should trust the mainstream media ('three or four people"), and he implies that, in the past, those people weren't "trying to influence your opinion". If you believe that I have a bridge in New York you might be interested in buying.
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He most certainly did *not* say that you should trust the mainstream media.
He said that's what happened in the past and that's what we trusted. There's no "should" or "this was correct" about it.
He's merely saying that there are many more people (hyperbolically "everyone") that are trying to influence your opinion. ie. it's coming at you from all sides. So take extra care and try to learn the accuracy of what you're being told.
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There's no "should" or "this was correct" about it.
Pay close attention to what he said: ... now you are growing up in an environment where everyone is telling you the news ... So take extra care and try to learn the accuracy"
"We used to watch three or four people tell us the news
He's contrasting what "used" to be with "now" - which I interpret to mean that now is different from what used to be. Then he points out the difference - that now you can't trust what people tell you.
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