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President Trump: Part II

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Eon said:
I would like to know what you think of this artist, and his views on the society that elected Donald Trump.

https://alineisaterritory.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/10-preliminary-theses-on-trump/
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Unvarnished gobbledygook.

Exhibit A: "He is the bleeding edge, the frothing crest of a wave of deterritorialization, the spray-tanned frontier of global capital."

Exhibit B: "Images will accelerate and proliferate at rates unimagined as possible before."

Exhibit C: "As a life becomes less possible, it will increasingly have to resort to what it can become instead."

Reads like a Colorado high school senior project written while exploring all the newly available brands of weed.

ETA: dudalb and SezMe, the Siskel & Ebert of the ISF!
 
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newyorkguy said:
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According to PBS News last night, yesterday Trump signed a government regulations EO. It called for, among other things, every new regulation passed being accompanied by two existing ones being removed. Also, new regulations must have zero cost for the businesses being regulated. Sounds amateurish.
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Have any Repubs given a clear explanation of what regulations they see as so onerous? Most regulations result from a failure or injury of some kind that resulted from negligence or fraud, going back to tainted food and poisoned drugs and factories where workers trapped in fires burned to death and collapsing coal mines and cars exploded in minor accidents. Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats made a wrong turn by allowing Repubs to disparage regulations. He said they are "protections," and we should be saying that the Repubs want to take away working Americans' protections -- as they are.
 
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Spindrift said:
Except I can see Trump refusing to resign and if impeached, refusing to be removed from office.
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I'd love to see the D.C. government send a couple U.S. marshals to serve an eviction order on Trump, like some shyster who stopped paying rent.
 
Eon said:
I would like to know what you think of this artist, and his views on the society that elected Donald Trump.

https://alineisaterritory.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/10-preliminary-theses-on-trump/
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It does seem a little like the writer is caught up in his own art. It's more of a dramatic word picture than a serious analysis. I started reading the second one:
https://alineisaterritory.wordpress.com/2017/01/31/10-preliminary-theses-on-resistance/
but that soon fell into the same pattern as the first.
 
Bob001 said:
I'd love to see the D.C. government send a couple U.S. marshals to serve an eviction order on Trump, like some shyster who stopped paying rent.
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Maybe Trump sees an impeachment coming, which is why he has private security instead of Secret Service.
 
How long until Trump has the United Corporations of America host a coast to coast race across America?
 
Argumemnon said:
Pro-Trump trolls who police Facebook and Twitter? Does this guy live in bizarro world?
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They have managed to get many people to quit social media. I don't know what you are finding difficult to believe about what the article described. Sure, "police" is used in a metaphorical way.
 
uke2se said:
They have managed to get many people to quit social media. I don't know what you are finding difficult to believe about what the article described. Sure, "police" is used in a metaphorical way.
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Yep, they were there prior to the election. Now that Trump has been crowned their king, they are more emboldened and bully critics even more.
 
uke2se said:
They have managed to get many people to quit social media. I don't know what you are finding difficult to believe about what the article described. Sure, "police" is used in a metaphorical way.
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I took it more literally, since Twitter has a board of SJW harrassment-checkers. But if it's meant metaphorically, sure, they could bully their way in there.
 
Bob001 said:
Have any Repubs given a clear explanation of what regulations they see as so onerous? Most regulations result from a failure or injury of some kind that resulted from negligence or fraud, going back to tainted food and poisoned drugs and factories where workers trapped in fires burned to death and collapsing coal mines and cars exploded in minor accidents. Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats made a wrong turn by allowing Repubs to disparage regulations. He said they are "protections," and we should be saying that the Repubs want to take away working Americans' protections -- as they are.
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The argument that I often see is along the lines of "We don't need the FDA any more. Our food is safe now." or "Workers used to need protection from their employers, but things aren't like that these days."
The assumption is that conditions will continue as they are now all by themselves, without the regulations and agencies that created those conditions in the first place. Then you throw in a dash of the Invisible Hand; companies that sell toxic products will either improve or go out of business when people stop buying their products. That doesn't really help the people killed by their products though.
 
uke2se said:
They have managed to get many people to quit social media. I don't know what you are finding difficult to believe about what the article described. Sure, "police" is used in a metaphorical way.
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It's getting crazy. I read a recent piece in The New Yorker magazine by a writer named Amy Nussbaum. She wrote that, like many Jewish journalists, she's had images posted on her Facebook page of her face photoshopped onto someone in a concentration camp.

Now in a thread here about Trump's SCOTUS nominee they're discussing whether slavery should have been Constitutionally protected. :(
 
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