Well, all this is interesting to me, anyway, and that's what matters here. The Internet is a terrible thing for someone like me, who finds almost everything interesting.
Saturday, September 10, 2016
Seth Meyers: national security
A closer look, by comedian Seth Meyers, at Donald Trump's national security comments.
How can anyone be planning to vote for Trump this year? I just don't get it.
PS. And again, Vladimir Putin didn't call Trump "brilliant." He called him "flamboyant." It was translated as "brilliant" at first - brilliant in the sense of shiny or colorful - but that's a misleading translation in English.
It's like how a light bulb can be "bright." You're not saying that the light bulb is intelligent. Yes, Donald Trump is bragging about something that wasn't actually meant as a compliment. That's how clueless he is.
I live in a town with mostly Trump supporters....I am not but keep it to myself. I see it as mostly a hatred of the Clintons, her especially. Also older white people who feel their culture and view of what's moral that has been for generations, is being threatened by change. Military are usually conservative and religious and hate the Benghazi thing. Many supporters are not college educated, especially in liberal arts to where they would have had a more "worldly" view. Some see the news with all the cop killing stories and crime out of control, not to mention the constant threat of terrorism and it causes fear and anger. Many are tired of years of politics as usual and just want something..anything that might shake it up. You're right, they don't care what he says or does, they just don't want her and they want something different. I actually understand their feelings, while I think it would be a mistake to elect him.
Why do you keep it to yourself, Mary? In a democracy, we're allowed to have different opinions. I suspect that there are more people like you than you think, but all too many of you "keep it to yourself."
Now, if you don't like to argue, that's perfectly understandable. But you can stand up for what you believe while refusing to argue about it. Are you worried that you'll face discrimination? Maybe you own a business there?
It's none of my business, of course. I was just wondering. I like to debate some issues, but not others, and usually I do my debating online. When I'm with people I know, I'd rather ignore our differences.
Arguing is unlikely to change a person's mind, anyway - at least, not when he's already made up his mind.
But I do think it's important - critical, even - to stand up and be counted. I live in a very red state, but you'd be surprised at how many positive comments I get when I'm wearing a t-shirt with a political or religious message. (Believe it or not, I've never received a single negative comment.)
And I don't think it's wise to let Trump supporters win by default. I don't necessarily want to argue with people I know, but I want to make it clear where I stand. It's important to stand for something, and I'm certainly not ashamed of my stance on the issues. Just the reverse, in fact.
As I say, it's none of my business. I was just curious. Thanks for commenting!
It's rather simple for me. I dislike confrontation but mostly, I also just moved to this area after the death of my husband three years ago. I have a few friends here but I don't want to jeopardize these budding friendships, as I am quite frankly, lonely. At my older age, it's not worth it. I'll vote my concious at the booth. I will tell you, I truly liked Bernie Sanders and feel the current choice is not good either way. He seemed the most sincere and honest.
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It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong - Richard Feynman
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other. - Sir Francis Bacon
When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science. - Hal Clement
No matter how many times a theory meets its tests successfully, there can be no certainty that it will not be overthrown by the next observation. This, then, is a cornerstone of modern natural philosophy. It makes no claim of attaining ultimate truth. In fact, the phrase "ultimate truth" becomes meaningless, because there is no way in which enough observations can be made to make truth certain and, therefore, "ultimate". - Isaac Asimov
The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion. - Treaty of Tripoli, passed unanimously by the U.S. Senate and signed by President John Adams (1797)
I don't doubt the sincerity of dowsers, but even after we've demonstrated that they can't produce results that are any better than chance they'll still go away believing in their abilities... It is like the mother whose son is caught shoplifting on tape. She wonders why someone would want to frame her child by producing a fake video. - James Randi
During many ages there were witches. The Bible said so. The Bible commanded that they should not be allowed to live. Therefore the Church ... imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One does not know whether to laugh or to cry. - Mark Twain
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. - Bertrand Russell
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzsche
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. - Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.
This is not about proof. Science does not use proof. We favor evidence, and the work consists largely of the slow accumulation of evidence in support of ideas, not magically potent proofs that establish an idea as unassailable. - PZ Myers
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The formula was very simple: build this really flexible, really open economy, tolerate creative destruction so dead capital is quickly redeployed to better ideas and companies, pour into it the most diverse, smart and energetic immigrants from every corner of the world and then stir and repeat, stir and repeat, stir and repeat, stir and repeat. - Shekhar Gupta
We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs. - Carl Sagan
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. - Richard Dawkins
120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. - Sam Harris
To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man. - Michael Servetus, burned at the stake in 1553
Democracy is not about majority rule; it is about minority rights. If there is no culture of not simply tolerating minorities, but actually treating them with equal rights, real democracy can't take root. - Thomas L. Friedman
We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all who came before us and with just as much apparent reason. - Thomas Macauley, 1830
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven into an age of unreason if we dig deep into our history and remember we are not descended from fearful men. - Edward R. Murrow
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. Science is simply common sense at its best - that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. - Thomas Huxley
There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Because religious belief, or non-belief, is such an important part of every person's life, freedom of religion affects every individual. ... Erecting the "wall of separation between church and state," therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society. - President Thomas Jefferson
To be elected in America, no matter from what party, the candidates have no choice but to year after year pledge to lower taxes further and further. We have become the nation of Ken and Barbie, looking good but very poor at the math. - Rack Jite
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I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. - Molly Ivins
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. - H. L. Mencken
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I live in a town with mostly Trump supporters....I am not but keep it to myself. I see it as mostly a hatred of the Clintons, her especially. Also older white people who feel their culture and view of what's moral that has been for generations, is being threatened by change. Military are usually conservative and religious and hate the Benghazi thing. Many supporters are not college educated, especially in liberal arts to where they would have had a more "worldly" view. Some see the news with all the cop killing stories and crime out of control, not to mention the constant threat of terrorism and it causes fear and anger. Many are tired of years of politics as usual and just want something..anything that might shake it up. You're right, they don't care what he says or does, they just don't want her and they want something different. I actually understand their feelings, while I think it would be a mistake to elect him.
Why do you keep it to yourself, Mary? In a democracy, we're allowed to have different opinions. I suspect that there are more people like you than you think, but all too many of you "keep it to yourself."
Now, if you don't like to argue, that's perfectly understandable. But you can stand up for what you believe while refusing to argue about it. Are you worried that you'll face discrimination? Maybe you own a business there?
It's none of my business, of course. I was just wondering. I like to debate some issues, but not others, and usually I do my debating online. When I'm with people I know, I'd rather ignore our differences.
Arguing is unlikely to change a person's mind, anyway - at least, not when he's already made up his mind.
But I do think it's important - critical, even - to stand up and be counted. I live in a very red state, but you'd be surprised at how many positive comments I get when I'm wearing a t-shirt with a political or religious message. (Believe it or not, I've never received a single negative comment.)
And I don't think it's wise to let Trump supporters win by default. I don't necessarily want to argue with people I know, but I want to make it clear where I stand. It's important to stand for something, and I'm certainly not ashamed of my stance on the issues. Just the reverse, in fact.
As I say, it's none of my business. I was just curious. Thanks for commenting!
It's rather simple for me. I dislike confrontation but mostly, I also just moved to this area after the death of my husband three years ago. I have a few friends here but I don't want to jeopardize these budding friendships, as I am quite frankly, lonely. At my older age, it's not worth it. I'll vote my concious at the booth. I will tell you, I truly liked Bernie Sanders and feel the current choice is not good either way. He seemed the most sincere and honest.
That makes sense, Mary. Both reasons make sense. I suspect that there are more liberals around than you think, though. Good luck!
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