Calling for the assassination of the POTUS in 2017, while you spent the last eight years proclaiming the divinity of King Obama, who was the man that gave the office of the President such sweeping powers.
You reap what you sow. Create turn-key totalitarianism, and one day someone will come along and turn the key.
I enjoy that you had the courage to bring "factually incorrect" into this conversation.
If someone, anyone, goes looking for the facts, there is only one destination in which they will end up. The facts aren't hard to find. They are all in boring science textbooks. But nobody reads those anymore.
The current culture war is waged by those who profit off ignorance against those who crusade for truth. You may think this is a black and white view of it, but it isn't. One side wishes to obliterate facts, the other wishes to incinerate pretty lies at the expense of hurt feelings.
So yes, there are a great many positions that are factually incorrect. All of them, to be exact, except the factually correct ones.
The problem of course is that facts can be inconvenient to those who seek power.
Tell me, friend, how does a group of people enforce their rights within a country against those who wish to deny those rights?
ISIS wants a global Islamic caliphate, along with a Caliph at its head and Sharia law. They want this in the US, Europe, and every other country on the planet. They do not negotiate, because they believe they carry out the will of an omnipotent deity. And most importantly, they will brutally slaughter anyone who stands in their way.
So, how do we defend our rights to a different way of life, against those who would kill us for it?
Oh, and a cursory glance at history would be educational. Pacifism is a great idea, until it isn't.
It's funny how obvious the holes are when a little light is shined upon the patchwork that is the elite's master plan.
The establishment parties are pure self serving propagandists, nothing more. They use marketing techniques to convince people that smoking is good for them, because they need to sell cigarettes. Nothing has changed.
Usurious leaders who savagely exploit the majority of the population to the benefit of their oligarch friends are the single most dangerous threat to peace.
I wonder why people have such a hard time understanding this? The unholy alliance of elite finance, elite academia, and elite multinationals have ground the average citizen into nothingness. Nationalists, protectionists and populists are a very predictable and rational response.
I understand that HN's population skews heavily elite, but I am constantly perplexed by the confusion of the commenters regarding basic causality. Massive institutional collusion leads to populist uprisings. The sun also rises in the east.
Perhaps the elites truly believed their own propaganda about how they are the job creators, the messiahs, the shepherds of the lowlife scum that clean their sewers and take out their garbage? It is indeed the case that the best liars are the best at lying to themselves.
The elites needed a wake up call. Trump was the first, but he will not be the last. If he doesn't reverse the fate of the downtrodden electorate, he will be tarred and feathered along with the rest of his oligarch friends.
Piketty and countless others have written ad nauseam about this very issue, but few of the elite are willing to part with their precious billions. So we get what we have today.
What gets forgotten here, and something that I keep bringing up, is the lack of a Martian magnetosphere. This means long term human settlements have to be artificially shielded.
This means living underground, which defeats the point of going to Mars in my opinion. Elon mentioned using a local magnetosphere generator, which is one of those ideas that is theoretically possible but whose practicality seems questionable. How powerful a magnetosphere generator is required to deflect ionizing radiation? How much power generation capacity will a Martian colony have to spare? Will this require a Fusion reactor?
The only hope I have for Martian settlement is that Musk and his engineers are some of the most audacious and brilliant people on the planet. I will never bet against their success, and I wish them the best of luck.
I have been a space exploration fan since as long as I can remember, I just worry that humans have a tendency to focus on the wrong goals when ideals and emotion cloud our judgement (e.g. the Space Shuttle).
Understood. My post was a retaliation to a blatant ad hominem.
I do not enjoy getting into the mud, but sometimes it is necessary. As you can see from my parent post, I was engaging in discussion whereas EdHominem lived up his name almost immediately.
You are the crystallized definition of the word "projection".
Your pathetic internet posturing means nothing. Continue to cower in fear of your betters in the flesh while venting your cowardice online.
In truth, I would very much prefer a civil war. A cleansing fire is long overdue to purge the weak. And it will be far less insufferable than reading your cuckold mewling.
Perhaps you should work on your comprehension of English, because you appear to be struggling to make a coherent point.
You're German. You have zero say or input into American politics. But if you believe civil war is preferable to a Trump presidency, please, go ahead and support one of the many groups attempting to incite war. If you succeed, we will meet on the battlefield.
The tolerance of the radical left is reaching record highs with this past election. The Holy War of Tolerance is nigh.
> Had the Germans fought a civil war in the 1930s instead of accepting their populist leader they and the rest of the world would have been better off.
Oh, was there another populist leader the Germans should have rejected in the 1930s? Do enlighten me.
>Wow you've got a Hitler fixation. I wasn't really talking about him [...]
Projection at its finest. See above.
"LITERALLY HITLER!!!!!!!" is the totality of your argument. Perhaps you should broaden your critical thinking landscape.
What you energetic Godwinians forget, is that Hitler was a socialist and abused the executive powers of a massively oversized state to obtain his dictatorial powers.
Powers that the outgoing President of the USA pushed to new horizons in a government bureaucracy larger than has ever existed.
Perhaps if the Godwin-kin stopped creating turn-key totalitarian states, we wouldn't have to suffer from an endless list of genocidal dictators.
You reap what you sow. Create turn-key totalitarianism, and one day someone will come along and turn the key.