jynxkat
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@Deleted User Both the Left and Right jumped the gun blaming or defending Trump. Mueller confirmed Russia really interfered with elections and hacked the DNC. He couldn't find evidence of any evidence that Trump made any deal with Russia beforehand. Trump really had a team look through the DNC leak after Russia and Wikileaks released it. That itself is not impeachable, but Trump interfered with Mueller's investigation by publicly tampering with witnesses when he intimidated or encouraged witnesses.
Why does it matter who is a gatekeeper. Facts are facts.
Unless you believe there is a massive conspiracy theory where facts are made up?
There are definitely biased interpretations of raw data, but it seems like people don't even want to look at that data to interpret it for themselves.
The US will be at a significant disadvantage compared to other nations if Americans truly insist on crippling the ability for the US to operate at the meta level.
Maybe more transparency is good, but having foreign governments hack one side but not the other creates political asymmetries. All sides have responsibilities to the American people, and weakening one side creates imbalances in the fulfillment of those responsibilities.
Maybe empathy can't scale beyond Dunbar's number, but maybe mindful compassion can.
Trump is definitely a distraction, but there really is stuff going on that shouldn't. I suppose Trump is a chaos generator forcing us to pick our battles?
@Deleted User Maybe Foucault's boomerang is bringing back manipulated regime change. It looks like people outside the Democrat party are trying to support regime change of the Democrat party?
Or maybe it's a new tactic since they can't get any traction in the Republican party?
@Deleted User What makes your conspiracy theories less bullshit?
suspended without pay
Is it just me or is there a double standard between the responsibilities of speech expected of judges and presidents?
Judges are supposed to stay out of politics, but does censorship really prevent them from having biases in their rulings? Was there any proof that his actual rulings were biased, or does the government really expect people to be naive enough to believe a judge is more impartial if they make a good show of censorship?
about judges?
This is a free speech issue.
The government isn't supposed to punish people for their free speech, unless it incites violence.
Then there's some debate over hate speech.
I do agree that judges have an extra clout of authority that they have the responsibility to not abuse though.
So I suppose it depends on the context of how he shared his opinions.
Both the Left and Right are worried about fascism from the other side? Making a judge go without pay for 6 months for non-violent speech is a step closer to fascism.
Judges are supposed to make impartial rulings. They are not supposed to stop being people.
There is nothing wrong with dissent against the president. I saw lots of dissent against Obama that wasted a lot of time too.
How do you expect people to solve real problems if you go into conspiracy theories about how institutions are lying to us?
I recognize that you feel bored, but you should recognize that other people care about this stuff. Why don't you let people that care discuss how to solve problems? Where is everyone else?
Mueller basically said that he's not going to decide whether there is innocence or guilt because his special counsel is not the proper method to decide that. People should be innocent until proven guilty, and there are legal proceedings that can and can't be done with a sitting president, regardless of their innocence or guilt. It would be unfair to the defendant for him to suggest guilt if the defendant can't currently have a trial to determine innocence or guilt.
Mueller's job was to collect evidence. It's up to checks and balances to decide a conclusion.
There seems to be some bipartisan opinion that evidence showed enough probable cause for a full impeachment inquiry. There certainly are biases either for investigating or forgiving Trump. Both sides have their conspiracy theories, and that's why unmuddying the waters with evidence is important.
The problem with the president being accountable to politics is that post-truth affects accountability.
People misinterpret postmodernism from a self-serving lens and it led to this version of post-truth. A more generous interpretation is supposed to recognize the perspective of everyone else. Then from a post-postmodern lens, actual truth can be discovered.
It's like a CSI investigation where there are things and places investigators didn't even think to look for without interviewing witnesses and getting their perspectives, even though witnesses rarely agree with each other 100%.
Post-postmodernism is like how base 10 is a social construct, but the underlying math is true.
I didn't say truth, I said post-truth.
I actually didn't know that, but I didn't expect them to be common.
There are a number of philosophies that make the Left what it is. Also people on the Left are more likely to use their cingulate gyrus more.
What do you care about? In what way do you seek excellence?
That's because you are looking at the dictionary definition of modern, and not looking into the body of philosophical and artistic work called Modernism.
Derrida is probably more post-phenomenologist than post-structuralist.
Anyway I'm referring to this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-truth_politics
"Post-factual politics" affects accountability.
Anyway, Mueller even said in his press conference that it was a necessary investigation. All investigations by law enforcement cost money. It looks like there is enough evidence to impeach for obstruction of justice if there is enough political will to do so. Why is there is so much public opinion that the investigation was a sham?
I personally don't think impeachment is a good idea because it is divisive. I just hope people take this information into account when they vote. Do most people believe that the ends justify the means?
technonomic war
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/trumps-trade-war/
Trump's narcissism is causing the US to make a major mistake by taking on too many trade wars by itself. Mexico now has more incentive to befriend China IMHO.
It seems like Trump is back to his old tricks with his dead cat strategy to distract from the Mueller report.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/john-negroponte-trump-tariff-on-mexico-bad-politically-economically.html
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