This isn't a partisan issue. Individuals have been "cancelled" for as long as individuals who hold power disagree with individuals who hold less power (collective or individual).
Hoping this sets a new precedent and we begin to see more police officers held accountable for using violent and deadly force and a reform to policing practices. Grateful we have the technology in the form of video recording to bring this accountability to the police as a populace.
Thank you for this comment. I can't believe I have to read someone say Indian food looks like excrement and then have the first response be that the comment about Spain is the most offensive... Indian food is incredible, its delicious and vibrant. I think it is obvious the original commenter has never tried to cook Indian food from scratch and so has never had the opportunity to taste Indian food at each stage of the cooking process and learn how beautifully the flavors play on each other as the taste profile of the dish grows in complexity throughout the cooking process. Nor did they apparently care to read the article which says essentially the same thing. Such a gross elitist comment and blatant racism it is odd how it encapsulates the original shift away from spices. Huh.
I think this is something that has to be pointed to you. I grew up eating Indian food and it never crossed my mind. Came to the US, suddenly Indian food was smelly and looked unappetizing because that was the popular opinion.
We need Elsevier's revenue to decrease enough so that some benevolent billionaire can buy it and make everything open access.
Elsevier's has plenty of ways to reinvent itself make money. Scopus is a good search engine and libraries would be wiling to pay for it unbundled from journal access.
Isn’t this a regulation problem? So much stuff that is funded with government money (partially or fully) ends up pay walled. Can’t governments regulate to stop that?
The US govt already requires publicly funded publications be shared publicly. Some agencies like NIH and DoD have their own archives you need to put the article in. The law allows up to something like a limit of one year paywalling.
I live near a busy road, close to an intersection with a stoplight, and have my desk at a window that faces said road. The constant slowing a revving of traffic around the light is very distracting and I run an air purifier on high throughout the day to stabilize the noise and drown out the shifting traffic noises. I have also shifted my desk so that it does not overlook the road and thus I don't have to watch individuals sitting at the light all day. These two adjustments have made a positive impact on my focus when I'm working.
While I am excited for EVs to become more mainstream, I'm afraid for roads such as mine where the speed limit is 40 and people often drive 50+ that the quiet engine won't make much of a difference given the speed and that the sound of tires on the road and wind rushing around the vehicle are still somewhat loud in their own right. It makes me want to move to a more rural environment where the loudest noise is the refrigerator.
Not sure about the long run development, though. There are people who install mp3-players attached to powerful speakers which are synchronized with the gas paddle. Those are insanely loud and sometimes sound more like perverted space ships. Meaning - for many idiots a loud car or motorcycle never was about enjoying the mechanics to begin with.
Just because he didn't make money because he's a failure at business and his particular ventures were negatively affected by the coronavirus (the explanation given in your article) completely ignores that he funneled a substantial amount of tax payer dollars into his private ventures by spending so much time there with his security detail.
I don't think everyone who voted for trump is aligned with the most seditious followers....at the end of the day there are really only two parties to vote for and a lot of different issues lumped into those two parties...single issue voters (e.g.,those against abortion) are going to vote for the Republicans. It also wasn't half the country, it was less than half of everyone who voted which was ~25% of the country. While it's still a substantial number of people I think saying that its half the country and that they all support the most heinous party leaders is disingenuous.
Yeah, but when someone's "preferred" side (even if they didn't really like them) is being steam-rolled like this many of those people are not going to be okay with it - not the least of which is because of the authoritarian/dystopian precedent being set. This could be a path to a 1-party system. China and Russia are good examples of how well 1 party systems turn out. I think anybody who doesn't want a 1 party system should be concerned about all this.
The general party isn't being steam rolled though? The GOP held more seats than expected in the house and senate.the general party still has robust representation. They are just deplatforming the most extreme members who seem to be the most predisposed to violence.
No, it's not a one-party system, at least not in the case of Russia. It's just that anyone from the "wrong" parties can't use any mass media to get their message out.
If the tech companies want to short-circuit the right's ability to organize from now until the 21st, that's kind of reasonable, given recent events. Past that, though? They need to be very careful about continuing this. If they do, they need rationales and policies that are clearly stated, and clearly seen to be applied in an unbiased manner.
California is a one-party system and has been for 20 years. I don't really like that model, but it seems to have worked at least in the medium term.
Things might be different at national level, though. States have to deal with more nuts-and-bolts practical issues, so that grounds the politicians somewhat. National issues tend to be more idealistic, so one-party rule could become extreme.
California is not a one party system. It has republican representatives both in the state and national legislatures. It has had one-party rule for a long time, and whether it has “worked” is far from clear. On the contrary, the beleaguered opposition has meant that the government is increasingly running with things that have mostly symbolic or political value rather than work together to solve urgent problems such as the deplorable housing situation and fragmented public transit.
I do wonder if we're going to end up with a fractured Republican Party after this, or even a new third party with a base made up of all those most seditious followers. From what I can see happening, it seems pretty likely. I'm not sure what the consequences might be for all of us if that happens.
Personally,I would like to see this happen in both parties. A seperate party for tea party fatalists and a seperate party for leftist-progressives. I think such a change would be helpful for better parsing out where each proportion of the populations values lie outside of the RNC/DNC framework.
Democrats are too diverse to agree internally, and Republicans seem to be co-opted by disruptive movements. More parties could change the discussions toward policy and projects.
If the "most seditious followers" leave to form a third party, then the Republican Party can become a normal, center-right party. That's not a bad outcome.
This also fits with the argument that they're not being de-platformed due to political beliefs, but because of violations of the law and the terms of service.
I know several conservatives who voted for Trump not because they love the guy, but because in the two-party system he's more closely aligned with their personal views on things like immigration, taxes, military, etc. I'd also argue that for the average American, the Trump of 2016 wasn't exactly an extremist hoping to overthrow the government.
The American political climate has polarized both sides. It's really unfortunate that in some circles, someone can't say or express conservative views without being lumped into the radical right-wing Trump Patriots. Similarly, some can't express liberal views without being lumped with radical left-wingers. And as a result of this, de-platforming the right-wing extremist is commented on as "silencing half the country" which just isn't true.
