What's Trump up to now?

The smallest violin played for the numerous cab companies that had to literally petition city councils to stop Uber from setting up shop in urban centers because they needed time to catch up and adapt their archaic business model.
Slight tangent, but this sentence sounded really, really heartless to me.

Like, yeah Taxi's needed to catch up, but saying "The smallest violin played" is acting like this isn't at all tragic. People are losing there jobs here, it's a tragedy, sarcastically talking about "smallest violins" is completely disregarding the person behind the taxi.

Sure there business models were outdated, but these are people who need money to live there lives. It's tragic that we live in a society where people's livelihoods are destroyed simply because they can't keep up with the times.

And yes, Uber is better, and there's nothing we can do to change that, and I agree it should eventually take over Taxis, but what you said shows a complete lack of sympathy for those who get left behind, and that annoys me to no end.
 
Slight tangent, but this sentence sounded really, really heartless to me.

Like, yeah Taxi's needed to catch up, but saying "The smallest violin played" is acting like this isn't at all tragic. People are losing there jobs here, it's a tragedy, sarcastically talking about "smallest violins" is completely disregarding the person behind the taxi.

Sure there business models were outdated, but these are people who need money to live there lives. It's tragic that we live in a society where people's livelihoods are destroyed simply because they can't keep up with the times.

And yes, Uber is better, and there's nothing we can do to change that, and I agree it should eventually take over Taxis, but what you said shows a complete lack of sympathy for those who get left behind, and that annoys me to no end.

No, the individual taxi driver didn't suffer. They simply switched over to the better business model - the technology was there and for those that couldn't afford a car, Uber had a program of leasing/buying a car for them in order to participate.

The business owner of that specific company certainly felt it, but that's the nature of the market and their failure to meet that adaptation was their own fault.

Even Uber is starting to feel the heat because of competing ride share companies.
 
The business owner of that specific company certainly felt it, but that's the nature of the market and their failure to meet that adaptation was their own fault.
So what if it's their fault?, They still felt it did they not? Don't you find it super tragic that we live in a society where either you adapt or you drown?, What happened to sympathy, and caring about those left behind?
 
In a society that demands some level of personal responsibility, I find it difficult to sympathize with people who remain in the pot while it continues to boil.
 
http://www.businessinsider.de/trump-trade-merkel-germany-eu-2017-4
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I am master negotiator!

Oh well, apparently he got it in the end.
 
Nobody will be left behind when we usher in the glorious age of robotic slave labor. Seriously, I cannot wait.
 
I really regret voting for Trump. I was hoping that his victory would lead to a rebalancing of the left but I am beginning to think that this was naive. Democrats aren't going to change any time soon. I threw away my vote by voting for that bastard. I am really regretting it.
 
I really regret voting for Trump. I was hoping that his victory would lead to a rebalancing of the left but I am beginning to think that this was naive. Democrats aren't going to change any time soon. I threw away my vote by voting for that bastard. I am really regretting it.

It's not like you had great candidates to choose from. I think no matter who you voted for you'd feel some regret.

Just be sure that your regret is for your own reasons and not because of what other people say to you.
 
Stupid shit euroPEONs say (at work):
"Trump only repealed Obamacare before it's named Obamacare. It's because of his ego."
"Our healthcare is great, so repealing Obamacare is stupid."

*sigh* clearly missing the finer points of the matter.
 
Indeed, it's not about repealing Obamacare, it's about sending a message.
Well, that, and tax reductions.
 
You could even go so far and make the argument, that all this growing transgender movements are a sign of societies in their final stage and cultural collapse. See here:


I was partially with you up until this part, this is dumb and you should feel bad.
 
I was partially with you up until this part, this is dumb and you should feel bad.

Crni thinks that because there are a couple of trannies running around, the huns are about to take over western civilisation. The trannies might be the scouts of the modern equivalent of the hun military. Devious ploy.
 
Yes, and beeing critical with anarchism is supressing freedom right? I don't see a problem with criticism towards movements and ideas, be it transgender, BLM or you name it, that doesn't mean that you want to see it abolished or something, or that your criticism or belief is always true to speak so - in that sense I am curious what your arguments are anyway. With saying this, I love how you both create some kind of narrative in your little minds, that was neither said in that video, nor something that I ever said here.

A society though, any society, has certain values, do I like them all? No of course not. Like religion for example. If I had the power, I would abolish it all tomorrow, christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, you name it. Let us get rid of it.

But here is the catch. This is an extreme view. And I am aware of it and that I hold an extreme view on that point. The moment you would make a law against religions, it would become a form of opression not liberation, even though I don't like it, I see the need for religious freedom to make a stable society possible. Just because you have acertain opinions, doesn't have to mean that it is the best thing to society since sliced breed. And this is what happens when certain groups inside the transgender movement demand that their gender pronouns for example fall under hate speech if you refuse to use them. I suggest that you guys go and look for some of Jordan Petersons opinions on that topic.

Expressing your self is one thing, forcing it on others is a whole different story. This has nothing to do with the huns, romans or what ever, but more a problem of postmodernism with the idea of "lets get rid of everything!" or "Everything is opression!" "Nothing is true or right anyway, so let us not even try!".

There are people which 'seriously' belive that transgender is some kind of evolutionary thing or something while it could be for the most part some kind of 'trend', that this movement of sorts is like the future of an open society or what ever. If that is true actually remains to be seen. And this is the issue that I have here, at least with some. See, many homosexuals in the LGBT community fought for decades to be accepted as normal human beeings in society and I would say, they succeeded in many ways. There is still a lot of work to do, but we're geting there. And then you have people that want to be unique, they seperate them self from society and the majority and alinating a large part of people that way. That for it self isn't a problem, but the kind of rhetoric that follows it, what you can hear with the extreme left today and some liberals/progressives. And just to say this, I feel my self relatively close to marxism and leftist, but I am shocked about what I can read and see coming from the left these days as it has nothing to do with rationality or logic but ideas that are close to anarchism in some cases.

Just to make this clear, if a homosexual would come out demanding a law that makes homosexuality 'special' I would also oppose. The idea should be that we're all equal in oportunity, not that we're all special snowflakes which have a right on priviliges simply based on our sexuality or skin of clour or what our feelings are.


Stupid shit euroPEONs say (at work):
"Trump only repealed Obamacare before it's named Obamacare. It's because of his ego."
"Our healthcare is great, so repealing Obamacare is stupid."

*sigh* clearly missing the finer points of the matter.
*Shrugs*
There's something interesting that I have read in an article once, about a survey they did about Obamacare.

They asked people if they support Obama care and I can't remember how many, but a substantial number refused it.
Then they asked the same people, if they would support the affordable care act, and the number of people that opposed it was lower.

Names, do matter. I am not saying that people which hate Obamacare hate it simply because of 'Obama' are racists, fuck I hate Obama as well due to some of his politics, he is a Neoliberal and there have never been as many Dronestrikes like under Obama and some progessives used him as their posterboy which turned out was wrong. He has broken quite a lot of his promises. But one should not base his opinion about the Affordable Health Care Act simply because it is from Obama. As Bernie once said, you want to replace it? Cool. But then come up with something that's better. Obamacare or what ever you want to call it, was at the very least a start.

Besides, the Republican version of Health Care or "Trumpcare" as how it should be called right ;), has now gone trough the congress.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/...loses-in-the-latest-gop-health-care-bill.html

What surprise, elderly, poor and people with pre-existing conditions are the loosers :D.
 
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Yea I just don't know why y'all all up in this LGBT-stuff. I mean, good, I guess. Most people just mostly ignore the subject but you're writing essays and digging the web for further reading and citations and sheet. :grin:
 
I like to read about subjects that I find interesting.

Besides, in Canada they have Bill C-16:

This enactment amends the Canadian Human Rights Act to add gender identity and gender expression to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination.

The enactment also amends the Criminal Code to extend the protection against hate propaganda set out in that Act to any section of the public that is distinguished by gender identity or expression and to clearly set out that evidence that an offence was motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on gender identity or expression constitutes an aggravating circumstance that a court must take into consideration when it imposes a sentence.​

https://openparliament.ca/bills/42-1/C-16/

And in New York there is a law which can lead to a fine of up to 250 000 if for example landowners repeatedly misslabel transgenders or refuse to use their gender pronoun:

Employers and landlords who intentionally and consistently ignore using pronouns such as “ze/hir” to refer to transgender workers and tenants who request them — may be subject to fines as high as $250,000.​

http://nypost.com/2016/05/19/city-issues-new-guidelines-on-transgender-pronouns/

There is also the idea on the table to include pronouns like 'Zhir' or 'Ze' in to the language, teaching it at schools.

Sure, you might say, hey what gives! It doesn't concern me. Gender? Identity? Who gives a flying fuck. Well, the thing is that 99% of the population can be easily categorized in to either male, or female, based on several clues, like apperance, cultural differences, psychology, behaviour, anatomy etc. you get it. What happens when you open it up to every kind of identification? What does this for example mean, for all the places where you do seperate between males and females. And what happens, if someone who's a biological man and looks like pretty much every other male and has a penis, identifies it self as a 'woman' born in a 'males' body and demands entrance into a gym only for females? And if they refuse, is that discriminatory?

The idea that you could get so easily rid of all kinds of 'definitions' can be quite a problem in some instances. Like when transgender females get access to women sports, and whipe the floor with every female contestant, like in Olympic weightlifting.

 
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Yea I think the transgender person who competed in women's wrestling and won the championship was a bit strange, I'll grant you that. And maybe also Semenya (sp?) who won lot's of golds in women's running. So yea, there's some questionable stuff there. Then again with Semenya, she/he was a 'half/half', meaning was born biologically half man half woman, or something. So a kind of a mutant I guess.

And I guess if we consider LGBT-folks to be mutants and NMA stands for "No Mutants Allowed" then I guess I sort of see where you're coming from hating them. :-D
 
I like to read about subjects that I find interesting.

Besides, in Canada they have Bill C-16:

This enactment amends the Canadian Human Rights Act to add gender identity and gender expression to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination.

The enactment also amends the Criminal Code to extend the protection against hate propaganda set out in that Act to any section of the public that is distinguished by gender identity or expression and to clearly set out that evidence that an offence was motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on gender identity or expression constitutes an aggravating circumstance that a court must take into consideration when it imposes a sentence.
I don't see why this bill was so controversial.

It's basically a hate crime law. Most western countries have hate crime laws when it comes to ethnicity, sex and sexuality, I don't see why adding gender identity to that is so controversial.

I agree the New York thing with the fines is really ridiculous and could easily lead to people being fined for simple mistakes, but Bill C-16 was really blown out of proportion.
 
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