Steven Gaber
Retired field archaeologist and Park Naturalist/Ranger. An amateur astronomer, I do public outreach events.I just sold the 50-year old sailboat I owned for 31 years.Now I am learning to play a guitar.
Location Central Gulf Coast of Florida, USA
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(Continuing another of my rants)
I keep harping on Trump and his Republican comrades, but he and they are responsible for the emasculation of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior and other agencies. Sponsored by his friends in these corporations, Trump rolled back legislation and oversight on oil, mining and chemical... -
Certainly the welfare and cleanliness is a primary concern. However, the producers of dairy, poultry, pork and beef products seek to maximize their profits by giving their animals growth hormones and strong antibiotic drugs. Results of these practices include 9 year old girls having menstrual periods and the prevalence of drug-resistance micro-organisms in...
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Unfortunately, the unending barrage of propaganda emanating from our former orange fuhrer, his minions and certain members of Congress, (financed by a few large corporations and billionaires have already indoctrinated millions of people. This propaganda inspired a violent insurrection in the very heart of our government and deepened the polarization of the...
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I only wish that Americans were "impervious to the flood of official propaganda." Words uttered by the President matter. Belief in Trump's propaganda, dismissing the danger of COVID-19, mocking scientists, the Center for Disease Control and anyone who wore a mask, etc., had disastrous consequences. Because the President said these things, people considered...
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About 15 years ago, my British friend visited us in Florida for a two-week stay. On his first night here, I gave him a large T-bone steak, fresh off the barbecue grille. He thought he was in heaven, claiming he had not been able to get decent beef in the UK for a long time.
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New studies have shown that COVID-19 is becoming mostly a Republican disease. It's much more prevalent with increasing numbers of cases and deaths in areas where Trump's fanatical Republican base followed his directions, refused to get vaccinated, refused to wear masks or practice social distancing. This is what I call a Darwin moment. Left to their own...
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I've seen people with COPD, in wheelchairs, connected to IVs and STILL smoking. Given the choice, they would continue smoking with their oxygen connected if somebody didn't prevent it. So they turned their oxygen off and smoked.
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@williamunderland So do you think China has peaceful intent when she threatens to overtake Taiwan? Or builds artificial islands with airfields equipped with fighters and bombers, in international waters, seen as a threat to all the other Asian nations in the region? Or when Chinese hackers steal military secrets and intellectual property? China is behaving...
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True, government attempts to enforce health regulations could lead to authoritarianism or have unintended consequences. The Chinese regulation of one child per family was an example. In Chinese culture, male children are considered more desirable. This caused millions of parents to kill off unwanted newborn daughters and lead to a shortage of available women a...
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Yes. Big agriculture and food corporations, plus the sugar industry, have enormous influence on governments. In the USA, they pay millions of dollars to lobbyists to influence members of Congress. Those companies have even financed rebellions, overturned governments and deposed presidents in Caribbean and Central American sugar-growing countries. United Fruit...
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The most glaring example of the influence of public opinion and attempts to influence it can be seen in recent times. During the COVID-19 epidemic, countries with strong governmental messages and regulations regarding mask-wearing and social distancing had much lower incidences of viral infection and death than those which did not. Perhaps the United States is...
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Tunney's notion that people are not inclined to act aggressively to others false short of recent history. A bunch of strangers acted violently with malicious intent towards unknown strangers when they stormed the heart of the of the United States, the very seat of government and a symbol of democracy and stability to the world, on January 6. In the past...
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Several comments. Animal researchers (can't recall a reference) have shown that some animals- birds- demonstrate altruism. In a bird family where one
pair has the right to breed, the other members of the family are not in reproductive status, but stay around the nest to help rear and protect the young of th3 breeding pair. The biological explanation is that... -
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In 1972, I was a substitute teacher in the Philadelphia public schools. They wanted male art subs, so they would assign me to inner city, mostly Black schools. I would typically have 39 kids for a double-period art class. Teachers never left me with any assignments for the kids. What was I to do with them for 90 minutes? I tried to engage them in conversation,...
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Steven Gaber replied to [Learner left FutureLearn]
Generally, the major superhighways or expressways of the Interstate Highway System run North-South and East-West. That system was developed by the Eisenhower administration during the 1950s as a defense measure for the delivery of troops and ateriel in the event of war. Military aircraft could take off and land on the highways.This is a HUGE country. It takes...
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People have engaged in graffiti for thousands of years. It is an attempt to place one's brand or identity, a lasting impression on some public place for others to see. In the case of modern "taggers," it can also be a means of rebellion, a secret language, a statement of rejection of societal norms. Tags can also be a means of identifying or delineating gang...
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Wow! What started out as scribblings to establish one's identity and status among one's peer group became an actual and respected public art form, accessible to and intended for, common people. Some of those murals are incredible and carry powerful messages.
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I have worked in local, state and federal government agencies. If you were employed by such an agency, you were considered an agent of government. We used to say, ironically, "We're here from the Government and we're here to help you."
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Political correctness is rampant throughout Western societies.
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With all due respect, I do not share this theoretical bent. In my opinion, the article does not mention significant social and economic reforms that took place during this time. Among them: improved labor conditions, collective bargaining, limits to the work day with regular breaks, sick and unemployment befits, labor and insurance committees elected from...
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I retired from my job after 13 years as a Park Naturalist and Ranger at a 400-acre county park surrounded by the most densely populated county in Florida. We were the education component for the entire county park system. I did environmental education for 6000 kids per year. These were inner city kids who had no connection with nature. School buses would bring...
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In 1889, an earthen dam on the Little Conemaugh River in western Pennsylvania ruptured and destroyed the industrial city of Johnstown, located 14 miles downstream. More than 2200 people died. Local officials had been warned about the dam's deteriorating condition.
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That's a 37-page introduction. How long is the book? I think Americans have different notions of state and society. I think of the state as the institutions, bureaucracies, departments, buildings, facilities and employees that enable modern life and government to take place. Society is the people who are governed and who do the living, along with their mores...
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In 1889, an earthen dam on the Little Conemaugh River in western Pennsylvania ruptured and destroyed the industrial city of Johnstown, located 14 miles downstream. More than 2200 people died. Local officials had been warned about the dam's deteriorating condition.
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Have you ever seen photographs of New York from the air? Walking around Manhattan, you can't even see the sun, which is blocked by tall buildings. Practically the only trees you will find are in Central Park. Or London, like New York, where almost every square meter is covered in concrete. That's what I call hubris. Other examples of hubris and lack of...
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I retired from my job after 13 years as a Park Naturalist and Ranger at a 400-acres park surrounded by the most densely populated county in Florida. We were the education component for the entire county park system. I did environmental education for about 6000 kids per year. These were inner city kids who had no connection with nature. School buses would bring...
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Steven Gaber replied to Louis Tuckman
There's deforestation, development, agriculture and mining. To that, add ivory poaching, hunting and bush meat consumption. Thus it is not hard too see why animals like elephants, rhinos, gorillas, chimpanzees, pangolins, orangutans and other endangered species are disappearing from the world, perhaps forever. We are witnessing -- no- CAUSING the greatest...
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Actually, the U. S NOAA Office of Coast Survey doesn't even print nautical charts anymore. Raster-scaanned charts are free, downloadable as PDF files.
https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/charts/noaa-raster-charts.html#paper-nautical-charts From that web site: "The U. S. Government no longer prints paper copies of its raster nautical charts. However, NOAA provides... -
@JonLee As a graduate of the Charles F. Chapman School of Seamanship, I had to learn the traditional methods of navigation -- compass reading, pilotage, dead reckoning and celestial. I taught sailing, was a U.S. Coast Guard licensed charter and delivery captain. Professional mariners and ships are required to have the relevant navigational charts for the...
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@MargaretDerrick Yes, it was/is the Amish and Mennonites who shun modern technology. They drive their horse-driven carriages on the two-lane roads around Lancaster, PA with fifty cars behind them waiting to pass. They have buttons on their clothes rather than zippers and kerosene lanterns instead of electric lights. But some of them, especially Mennonites, do...
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True. The map of Europe was drawn by the victorious British and French after WWI without regard to geographic or ethnic considerations. That is one of the reasons for today's ethnic strife in the Balkans, Armenia, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, et.
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Polynesian sailors travelled around the vast Pacific ocean for thousands of years without GPS, compasses, maps or any technology. They used their knowledge of the stars currents, winds, wave patterns. even birds to know where they were and how to get to a destination. They had no writing, so they had that knowledge in their heads and passed it on from one...
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@SusanMiddleton True. What happens if the batteries powering your phone or portable GPS are dead? I think years ago, people had a sense of direction that they could use to navigate in many environments. Although many people never travelled more than a few miles from their birthplace. That is no longer true. Today we are more mobile and can go almost anywhere...
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I don't claim to know everything or have lock on the absolute truth. But everything I said in the above comment is documentable from many sources. It is true that journalists report based on their own personal biases. Whose truth is more true? But when many observers view issues from many angles, do honest research and try to consider both sides, a clearer...
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Well, serious journalists back up their claims with research and documentation. Others just lie and make stuff up to bolster a political position or sway public opinion.
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Hi. I'm Steve, a resident of the Central West Coast of Florida. I've had lots of jobs, but retired from County government as an archaeologist and park naturalist. In my job, I did environmental education for about 6000 kids per year, plus parents, teachers and park visitors. I guess I'm a perpetual student. I have a BA in English, an MA in...
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I'm afraid you got it wrong. Not sure where you got this perspective. It is Trump and his Republican sycophants who are trying to ignore the results of the election. It is they and Fox "News" who disseminate more fake news than anybody else. Trump lost the election by at least 6 million votes, but is trying to claim that there was massive fraud, corruption...
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Film was an important tool of Soviet propagandists. One film that portrayed the revolt of the non-commissioned sailor, soldiers and commoners against the their officers, Tsarists and loyalists was "Battleship Potemkin."
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Weather maps are particularly important in a place like Florida and the East Coast of the USA, where hurricanes present dangers to life and property. Weather satellites have given us much more advanced warning of impending danger from hurricanes. Computer models are useful in predicting the probable tracks that hurricanes could take. This is crucial for...
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@JonLee Thanks for that link. I checked it out and listened to an interesting piece about how ants protect their nests from disease. It contrasted ant behavior with human behavior during the COVID epidemic.
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Natural resources are not distributed evenly across the globe. Some maps are drawn to show where natural resources -- water, oil, valuable metals, etc. are located. These areas and their boundaries are hotly contested by neighboring countries, sometimes leading to war.
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Steven Gaber replied to Margaret Derrick
I bought a jigsaw puzzle map of the USA for my grandson, then 5 years old. Turns our he didn't need it. He already knew where all the states were and even their capitols! He's a smart kid. I know adults who couldn't place many of those states on a map, let alone name their state capitols.
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Steven Gaber replied to Elizabeth Wilson
People no longer know how to navigate with maps. They just rely on the GPS in their cars and phones.
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Steven Gaber replied to Ruth C
Another example of distortions in map-making can be seen in the way electoral districts are drawn in the USA. Political parties draw the boundary lines not in any sensible geographical or any other logical way. They draw these boundaries to maximize their political power by making sure they have a majority in important districts. The practice is called...
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Steven Gaber replied to Ruth C
I love maps and can spend hours looking at marine navigational charts and exploring Google Earth. Last night I found my friend's house in St. Albans where we stayed during our visits. I found the railroad station from which we departed and took trains all around England.
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One article in the above links talked about the disposal of Germany's former colonies to the victorious Entente nations. It said "One of the key principles promoted at the conference by the American president Woodrow Wilson was that of ‘self-determination’ for national minorities. This principle allowed minorities the right to claim statehood for themselves,...
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I used to do a lot of sailing and participating in Sailing racing. Never joined a yacht club, but sailed as crew with boat owners who did. Observing gave me a true picture of how racist and elitist yacht clubs are. Most are not the least bit inclusive.
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We Are the Village Green Preservation Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLqv4ljO4TgThe Kinks.
One of my favorite songs. Has the typical Ray Davies quirky, slightly cynical but amusing humor, commenting on life in England."Preserving the old ways from being abused
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There are ways to enhance the experience of visitors to such a historical park. I've worked for several museums that differed markedly in the manner of presentation of exhibits. An example is Gettysburg National Historic Park, the site of the American Civil War's bloodiest battle. It was a turning point in the war. The park has statues and monuments,...
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In the USA there is now a lot of controversy about removing statues and monuments honoring Confederate Civil War generals, heroes and leaders. Many military bases named for Civil War personalities are being renamed. The Confederate flag is now illegal in some areas of the USA. Southerners consider these features part of their cultural history and identity....
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@LouisTuckman Some of the tension is the result of propaganda. Right-wing groups assert that the BLM is identified with anarchists like ANTIFA, which is not true. Trump has fanned these embers by encouraging his more rabid followers to commit violence. A true leader would recognize his duty to defuse these tensions and embrace inclusionism rather than division...
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OOps. I put the example of the Native American people in another chapter.
In essence, I said indigenous people in the Americas were deprived of their ethnic identities and languages by Europeans and Americans to the point where they all but disappeared. Killed off, marginalized and confined to reservations. These are primarily large internment camps with... -
The Chinese government strictly enforces control over cultural identity I think, because they see the example of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the way many of them declared their independence. The Chinese don't want that to happen in China.
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People do intermarry, causing confusion in cultural identity. In the USA, especially in the South, it was illegal for a white person to marry a black person, until fairly recently, Interracial couples were relatively rare. Now, these barriers are going away. You see multi-racial couples in TV ads and programs. It's taken the American public quite a while to...
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@MargaretDerrick Teaching the Welsh language in Wales is one way to ensure that the language and culture to not fade away.It may be cumbersome, unfair and exclusionary to non-Welsh people living there, but if they want to be included, they'll have to learn Welsh. In the USA, there were originally thousands of indigenous tribal groups, until the Spanish,...
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India's solution has worked much better than that of Pakistan. Inclusion of every language and cultural identity was, ostensibly, the solution that Malaysia chose. Except, Not all are quite equal. Ethnic Maylays, Muslims by law, have special preference in many areas. To paraphrase Orwell, all citizens are equal, but some are more equal than others.
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In managing Malaysia's multicultural society what democratic or human rights Professor Ahmad says are sacrificed to maintain social harmony? For example, do Jews have religious and cultural freedom in Malaysia? Is Sharia Law the rule in Malaysia? The country has a very complicated social, legal and political structure.
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Steven Gaber replied to N M
Online communication, world-wide TV news and globalization are blurring the distinctions between national identities. Except, perhaps, among conservative and reactionary groups who want to hang onto their social status and identity. Trump's fan base, for example.
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@JonathanM Biden is, apparently, a hugger. I guess some women don't like being hugged, regarding it as a demeaning or sexist invasion of their privacy.
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Steven Gaber replied to Zachary Cook
@AdrienneHorrocks My wife, who was a Registered Nurse for 45 years, said long ago that I should have gone to nursing school. Instead, I went on to get a BA, MA and an MS. I wanted to go to medical school, but didn't have good enough grades in subjects needed for admission. But I could have gone to nursing school. In a former life, I was an Operating Room...
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Steven Gaber replied to Margaret Derrick
What if the reason you dislike them is because of their gender, color of their skin, their economic status or national origin, without considering the person they actually are? Once we are able to look past those external factors and see the individual, we will have made great progress.
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Pardon my ignorance, but what is "anti-heterosexist feminism?" It seems a very dense term.
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Despite all the propagandist claims about election fraud and improprieties, multiple investigations have found no evidence of fraud. Then Trump fired members of his own administration who reached the same conclusion.
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National symbols. My wife and I are Anglophiles. She thinks she had past lives in England. She has Brit Box and watches all the British detective shows. My favorite books of all time are "Sarum," by John Rutherfurd and "The Once and Future King," by T.H. White. I have a BA in English and had 19 English courses, of which my favorites were the ones about Chaucer...
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The Union Jack has undergone an increase in popularity in the USA. I see it everywhere on T-shirts, on womens' jackets, British cars, in front of English-style pubs and restaurants, hotels catering to UK tourists and even golf courses.
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On certain holidays, you will see American flags everywhere -- Memorial Day (May 30), 4th of July, Independence Day (formerly June 14) Veterans Day (formerly Armistice Day, November 11).People put them in front of their houses, on their cars, etc. I was admonished by a co-worker for lacking patriotism by not showing the American Flag on my Jeep. I responded by...
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The U.S. Interstate Highway system was developed during the Eisenhower era as a resource for national defense. They were to be used to transport materiel during times of war or emergencies in case the railroads were under attack. They could also be used as runways for military aircraft. Currently, the U.S. highways differ from state highways in that the money...
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The best example of myths influencing public opinion, I think, can be seen in the current U.S. presidential election. Trump, and his enablers, the Republicans in the Senate, with the help of Russian interlopers, have tried to discredit our electoral system, create doubt and mistrust in American minds. Free and fair elections are a major principal in...
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One person's (or one nation's, one political system's or one religion's) or one idea of justice is another's idea of tyranny.
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Another example of non-violent protest and demonstrations having huge impact is the youth movement against the Viet Nam War. During the Viet Nam war, the USA was in great turmoil. Young people were burning draft cards, sitting in at universities and chanting against war. In Chicago, during the 1968 Democratic Party Convention prior to the general election,...
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Maybe political protests in Pakistan are futile, but it's not like that everywhere.In the United States, Black people were discriminated against, beaten, segregated and prevented from access to regular facilities, schools and services available to white people. But a number brave social activists, especially people like Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and...
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Are not "fake news" and "alternative facts" propaganda? When Trump calls Biden "Sleepy Joe," That's him trying to manipulate Biden's public image. When people make outrageous claims (calling Biden a pedophile, Harris is a Communist, Say that Biden and the Clintons operate a sex trafficking network out of a pizza shop basement, Liberals kill babies at birth,...
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@TomDussman Japan and Germany were allies throughout WWII. But if the Allies had lost that war, leaving the Axis powers victorious, a final war between former partners Japan and Germany would have been inevitable. They both wanted world domination, lebesraum and access to global resources. To use a phrase from an old TV series, from their perspective, "There...
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@JonathanM The media does not need to conduct a "slagging" of Trump. He does that all by himself. Just listen to him on any given day. Read his Tweets. All the media have to do is use his own words, point out how many times he lies, attacks and defames anyone who disagrees with him. Trump is hos own demon and he has dragged the country down to a new level of...
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@ConnieLantz Did you see trumps speech Thursday evening? He still is trying to destroy our democratic institutions, mainly the electoral system. He is seeking to de-legitimize it and make the public distrust the validity of any election in which he loses. Are you OK with that? You don't think that is a problem for the future of the nation?
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@JonLee I agree that war and injustice the worst aspects of human history. In your view, a state might reveal its illegitimacy by using violence to achieve its own aims, acquire more territory or access to resources. Unfortunately, one state might have to use violence to repel or defend itself from another state that is willing to use violence to get what it...
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@ConnieLantz If you don't think the USA has been dangerously polarized during Trump's administration, you are clearly not paying attention. I have seen it and experienced it myself. I've been cursed at, called names like "Snowflake," "Libtard," "eco-Nazi," and other less pleasant epithets. I can't have a decent conversation with my own brother, who is a...
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@JavierPeiró That's why I sometimes have to continue my comments in another frame.
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If you want to learn about the irrationality, brutality and dehumanization of the exile experience in Russia, read "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch," by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. Another amazing book the Soviet legal system under Stalin is "Child 44," by British writer Tom Rob Smith. It's actually a trilogy about a Russian detective who tenaciously...
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Religion is not a good basis for a fair and rational legal system. ok at the record of history. The Spanish Inquisition. Galileo and the Church. Calvinism. The Salem Witchcraft trials in the USA. Robert Burns' struggles with the Presbytery. Sharia Law is neither fair, nor rational. Religion does have some value in limiting, controlling or repressing the...
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Among of the reasons for the Nuremberg Trials were to document the atrocities and to ensure that such things could never happen again. Well, they HAVE happened again, in several places around the world, although not on such a vast scale. Just like WW! was "the war to end all wars." such notions may be naïve.
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@ConnieLantz i could be wrong, but it seems that you are mostly watching Fox "News," without considering the input other media outlets. All the major news sources -- The NY. Times, Washington Post, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, BBC, all do extensive research and document their claims before making them public. Fox just makes stuff up. That's how Kellyanne Conway...
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@JavierPeiró How do you suggest we overcome inequality and make the system "fairer?"
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I must continue. Trump has made a mockery of the office of the presidency, thumbed his nose at the U.S. Constitution, called the free press "the enemy of the people," borrowing a phrase from Hitler and Stalin. He has threatened to imprison his political opponents, whistle-blowers and journalists who publish well-documented but unflattering articles about him....
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@ConnieLantz If you look closely at the actual "accomplishments," vs. the Trump Administration claimed accomplishments, most are fabrications. Many more jobs were created during the Obama years., even before this epidemic.. George W. passed onto Obama the worst economic depression the US had seen in decades and turned it into the best-perfuming economy in...
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Prof. Laycock says right-wing populism uses "... standard tropes of populist
discourse'" where people are "being cheated by a collusion between political elites and some other group." Apparently, the other group consists on immigrants and those of ethnic origins different from the mainstream of the society. What I want to know is who are the "political elites?" -
@A.C.Mendez "Propaganda that persuades usually builds upon believes we already hold."
Yes. Trump makes full use of the insecurities and racist feelings of large numbers of Americans, especially in rural areas.
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@juliemeredith Only his rabid followers believe what he says. That is less than half the country. He lost the last election by 3 million votes. he only got in through the ruse of that outdated and undemocratic device, the Electoral College.
The scary thing is that it could happen again. Plus, he said if he loses the election, he will declare it invalid and...
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"Uncle Sam Wants YOU!"
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"Uncle Sam Wants YOU!"
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"...class loyalty can outweigh allegiance to the state." Or at least can outweigh allegiance to the traditionalists and the royalist regime. Of course, when the Soviets became the state, the emphasis changed.
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So now, Al Qaida and the Islamic State can add Yeminis to their cause so they can have more bodies to wage war against everybody else.
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In 1984, George Orwell describes as how yesterday's enemy becomes today's friend and today's friend becomes tomorrow's enemy. In 1941, the USSR was Germany's friend and our enemy. By about 1943, the USSR was Germany's enemy and our friend. Then they became our enemy again by 1945, after the war. So although the USSR was a true Fascist dictatorship like...
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I don't know if WW2 could be considered a "just" war, but it seems to me that Great Britain, France and the USA had no choice except to fight back against the aggressions and aims of domination by Germany and Japan. Germany conquered most of Europe and Japan much the Pacific, and would not have stopped until they achieved their goals. That in itself is a...
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Given what Trump and his Republican sycophants intend to do (described above, in part), it boggles my mind why Trump's fanatical fans can vote against their own best interests.
One of the main reasons is his use of the media, especially cable TV and Twitter. Fox "News" is not a news outlet at all, but merely a propaganda machine for Donald Trump. They...
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Yes And to re-enforce his point that these demonstrators are troublemakers, Trump imports outside agitators who are really the ones doing the looting, overturning cards and setting fires. This provides his justification to beat, tear-gas and shoot those horrible people. The rights to peacefully assemble and address the government to express grievances are...
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@ClaireW The song was intended to make you feel uncomfortable. It makes you consider England's impirical past and rigid class structure. European countries -- Great Britain, France, Spain, The Netherlands, Portugal, Italy -- all have a lot to answer for, in view of the way their treatment of the citizens of the countries they colonized and the chaos that...
