OT- Al Jazeera America Shuts down
Al Jazeera America who reported the Peyton Manning HGH allegations is shutting down.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/13/media/al-jazeera-america/index.html
January 14th, 2016 at 5:15 AM ^
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January 13th, 2016 at 5:48 PM ^
If you want to pretend to be up on who discusses what about the "Muslim and/or Arab world" you should probably try to figure out how to correctly characterize the countries where the issues you are worried about are serious problems.
Start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pjxPR36qFU
January 13th, 2016 at 7:47 PM ^
January 14th, 2016 at 4:04 AM ^
The YouTube video is of an academic explaining the difference between nonsensical bluster about Muslims and truths about extremist regimes to CNN anchors. Don't be such an egregious troll.
January 14th, 2016 at 5:06 AM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 4:25 PM ^
exceedingly brutal civil war, and your most pressing concern is the treatment of women and LGBT?
January 13th, 2016 at 4:33 PM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 4:38 PM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 4:55 PM ^
Unlike you, I mourn the deaths and mlstreatement of all involved, not just subgroups.
DO you honestly believe that straight men were also not subjected to persecution before this war? Do you really believe that women and LGBT are the ONLY ones to be subjected to oppression?
Yes, what ISIS is doing to gays and woman is heinous. It's one reason why they need to be crushed. But it's not the only one.
The world is bigger than you and your narrow concerns.
January 13th, 2016 at 8:26 PM ^
Nothing I wrote suggests I don't recognize the injustices heteronormative men face from oppressive regimes or fail to be saddened by the sense death. You choose to take my comments in that disingenuous vein because it obviously discomforts many to be reminded that most societies are built to service the status of a minority.
If I wrote something identical about whites in the U.S. almost no oen but actual racists would really object, but when I do it for women and LGBT people, even supposed supporters of equality and universal human rights, suddenly get upset. That disconnect is exactly what I intend to elucidate, however unpopular my views are.
January 13th, 2016 at 5:24 PM ^
Both set of issues are important, and both sexism/terrible treatment of LGBT community, as well as mass murder of innocent lives, are worthy and valid issues which were, are, and will continue to be pressing concerns in the region.
However...one is worse than the other. Murder is worse than discrimination, beating, false imprisonment, etc. (generally speaking here). You have to, you know, actually be a living human being to experience discrimination, beating, false imprisonment, whereas murder takes your entire existence from you. The other problems you mention w/r/t to the LGBT community and women, while also unspeakably awful, take something less from a person than their very existence. I'd rather lose my dignity/be discriminated against/be treated terribly/be false imprisoned... but keep my life/existence on this earth, personally, if given the choice; I think most human beings would agree. (Obviously, of course, I'm not saying any of these is a good choice, and in fact I'm saying they are all morally repugnant...just that one-- murder-- is worse than the others; our penal code in the U.S. reflects this, as it does in most industrialized nations. That's why murder carries the highest sentence).
January 13th, 2016 at 7:57 PM ^
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January 13th, 2016 at 8:18 PM ^
You got me.
Despite making tens of millions of dollars in my career, it kept me up at night not having that A.B. I cleverly snuck back as a Korean woman (you know to fool the paprazzi) to finally graduate. I even managed to release Ray of Light my senior year.
January 13th, 2016 at 2:51 PM ^
But you're not wrong. The "average" American is pretty damn stupid.
/not you guys, those other fans.
January 13th, 2016 at 3:22 PM ^
Stupidity is the most common trait shared among humans.
January 13th, 2016 at 3:31 PM ^
The Era of Idiocracy is nigh. Prepare thyselves.
January 13th, 2016 at 4:10 PM ^
I like money.
January 13th, 2016 at 5:52 PM ^
January 14th, 2016 at 1:06 AM ^
January 14th, 2016 at 8:41 AM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 3:27 PM ^
As I like to say, the masses are the asses. How else can you explain why more people vote for American Idol than they do the Presidential Election. Or even more mind-blowing, how do you explain why people continue to buy Budweiser products?
January 13th, 2016 at 3:30 PM ^
Because there are more than two choices to vote for on American Idol, unlike the presidential elections. And if you do, your vote is essentially pointless. Not that your one vote is going to decide anything if you do side with either gang.
January 13th, 2016 at 3:31 PM ^
Presidential election would like a word.
January 13th, 2016 at 3:34 PM ^
Wasn't decided by one vote.
Wasn't there a comedy movie about that happening?
January 13th, 2016 at 3:42 PM ^
Jesus, you're right. Kevin Costner was in it I think.
January 13th, 2016 at 3:45 PM ^
now, because you're young and obviously don't know any better. This is a conversation that would likely end with my account getting nuked.
January 13th, 2016 at 3:52 PM ^
amirite
January 13th, 2016 at 5:03 PM ^
Doesn't matter if you vote red or blue, either you look at it you lose.
Come call me when the TV networks cover more than just the blue or red gangs seriously.
Also, it's funny how you dismiss my thoughts even though I have the right to vote just as you do. Don't worry though, it's going to take a completely different electorial system for me to ever vote.
January 13th, 2016 at 5:21 PM ^
of the internet and social media everything you need about and candidate is out there and using a cop out like the TV networks didn't give me a third option is just kind of silly.
I don't think anyone is dismissing your thoughts; but frankly voting takes 15 minutes. Saying your vote doesn't matter or doesn't count is just silly and wrong. The non-voting population could easily decide every election ever if they actually just voted.
If you don't like either of the candidates than write in someone. You won't see any real change until above 50-60% of the population voted. If we had 100% participation and only 60% went with a named candidate you would say a major change in candidates. Or vote against what your area is; if you live in a republican area vote democrat and vice versa; it won't change that election but it will show future candidates where there might be weakness. If we just stopped voting for incumbents and actually voted people and AND out of office it would be a different story all together.
January 14th, 2016 at 9:00 AM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 8:40 PM ^
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January 13th, 2016 at 3:50 PM ^
O the 1824 election.
In 1876 the Democrats LET the Republicans take the White House in exchange for the Republicans letting the South re-impose white supremacy on blacks. One of the many charming tales of American history that is rarely discussed.
January 13th, 2016 at 4:00 PM ^
Yep... Grant was great for blacks in the south and then corrupt ass Rutherford B Hayes got the Presidency and it all went to shit.
January 13th, 2016 at 5:15 PM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 3:58 PM ^
Even in 2000, most individual states weren't seriously in play. That probably discourages turnout. If you're a member of the minority party in your state, you may not feel very motivated to wait in line and vote for a candidate whom you know won't carry the state.
January 13th, 2016 at 3:37 PM ^
it has more to do with general political apathy, a necessary component of inverted totalitarianism. Look it up, it is worth a read, and a thought or two.
January 13th, 2016 at 4:05 PM ^
But I thought better of it.
I don't agree with idea of inverted totaliarianism taking place in the US. That's all I'll say on that.
January 13th, 2016 at 4:20 PM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 4:22 PM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 4:13 PM ^
I'd never heard the term before. And after reading less than a page about it, that's exactly what's happening in this country today.
January 13th, 2016 at 4:50 PM ^
Not when Leftists dominate the media, academia, and the entertainment. Not when universities are indoctrination centers. Not when documentaries are seen as "the truth" rather than the biased and manipulative mediums that they are.. Not when blaming the rich and corporations sells books, documentaries and wins votes.Too much is be gained in power and financially to not to appeal to the prejudices of people.
If you consider the fact that the Left has honed and develop political manipulation techniques and tactics for well over a century it then ought to occur to a person who possess a sovereign mind that this concept is part of the ongoing propaganda campaign.
Not that the Right doesn't do any of this. They do. But the Left is especially capable at this. So much so that the Nazis(who were superb themselves at this) openly borrowed from them.
The lesson, kids, is that politics are one big game of deceit and manipulation. Always has been. Always will be.
January 13th, 2016 at 4:58 PM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 5:04 PM ^
That the country is fundamentally more divided than we wish to admit?
The reality is that human beings are a naturally divided race. We see and understand the world differently. It's an naturally occurring trait of humans that emanates from our different experiences and how we react to them.Because our experiences are different and because we are temperamentally different our intellectual and emotional responses to events differ.
The Left-Right paradigm in American political terms is very real. It's origins-philosophically-speaking--is most often assigned to Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke, two very real and very influential men.
Democracies are forever sweating under the Damocles Sword of disunion because of Man's inclination towards wildly divergent points of view.
January 13th, 2016 at 5:11 PM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 5:17 PM ^
Those damn liberals! I hate them so much!
But seriously, bruh, maybe it's time to stop posting, leave work, and have a big drink.
January 14th, 2016 at 1:44 AM ^
I agree.....with your original impulse to avoid posting this kind of rant.
January 14th, 2016 at 5:28 AM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 3:58 PM ^
all of our fandom is essentially pointless in the outcome of the game - so why bother? Why watch, why cheer, why buy all of the apparalz
January 13th, 2016 at 3:31 PM ^
It can be explained by convenience. You don't have to take time off of work to vote for American Idol. Budweiser is sold in a lot of stores and it's cheap as fuck.