I understand HN needs to be a safe space so people don't get triggered. I will try to refrain from posting anymore opinions that might be contradicting the herd's worldview.
Parent comment expresses incredulity at Obama's comment on the topic being discussed in the thread.
I point out said comment is perfectly in line with the policies implemented by Obama and his administration during his two terms and OP's incredulity is unwarranted.
Not sure how that's OT or inappropriate but furry muff, HN works in mysterious ways.
Right, because if some crazy asshole shoots people randomly it's a mass shooting but if he happens to be muslim it's terrorism. Sorry, keep forgetting about that memo.
I know right? It's almost as if the purpose of this whole farce wasn't actually to save lives and to protect our freedoms (for which they hate us). Wow, who'd have guessed...
Disappointing with regards to the rest of his track records? re: Guantanamo, reining in Wall Street, cracking down on whistleblowers, widespread use of drones to perform extra-judicial assassination?
If after 8 years you still think Obama is the Nobel peace prize wielding progressive philanthropist you've been fooled into thinking he is, joke's on you tbh.
"Is this seriously the America that exists today?" Not denying they have taken it up a notch, but FBI has always been some borderline Gestapo institution from it's inception. You heard of Edgar Hoover right?
" a government has a large amount of power to dictate money flows within the country, but very little power to compel terms of trade overseas."
Isn't the petrodollar system precisely the historical exception that allows the USA to have a lot of power when it comes to "compel terms of trade overseas"?
edit: obviously the other side of that ability to "compel terms of trade overseas" being the US formidable military power that allows them to further twist other countries arms when they refuse to play by the petrodollar system rules (see Libya, Iraq, etc)
"They are asking about a job. I am thinking about identity, community, purpose – the things that provide meaning and motivation. I am talking about my life."
Wow, leaving aside the complete "first world problem" approach that makes this relevant for like maybe 1% of the world population at best, this guy didn't just drink the Kool Aid, he's literally douching with it.
So I go to the sauna for a few hours right? Reach abnormal temperature for a statistically insignificant period of time wrt to my expected lifetime, then a few minutes later after I left the sauna my temperature is back within average expectations.
What was your point again?
To clarify: my point is, even only taking into account only the period during which it has been inhabited by mankind, Earth has probably reached hotter and colder averages than what we've experienced over the past half century. Mankind did fine.
"The global surface temperatures across land and ocean in February were 1.35C warmer than the average temperature for the month, from the baseline period of 1951-1980."
Earth having been around for millions of years, how statistically significant is a 29 years period in the grand scheme of things?
"Don't underestimate the role of a crappy jobs and bad bosses" This a 1000 times.
As someone who's done his fair share of shit jobs before working in the relative comfort of the "tech industry", this was a valuable lesson in what is the reality of any work relationship (that is: "I work x hours and you give me x monies", that's really all there is to it...).
Lots of tech companies wouldnt get away with their "We're all a big family so you have to do unpaid overtime because we're all a family" bullshit if their employees went through dishwashing or other menial jobs before.
(Simplifying a lot for emphasis, but you get my drift)
You do realize the American public is probably (a tiny bit) more sheltered from the abuses of NSA/CIA/(insert your favorite alphabet agency) surveillance that non US citizens, right?
Also, the legislative process is just as opaque and undemocratic everywhere else... (TTIP anyone?)