Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean in which I babble about non-astronomy stuff, because everyone needs a hobby

Friday 20 July 2018

I don't know how to persuade people that Donald Trump is a bad person.

I don't know how to persuade people that Donald Trump is a bad person. It's like trying to persuade them that fire is hot.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44895384

6 comments:

  1. When a democratic system is capable of allowing a complete bumbling incompetent to represent themselves: every action, every retraction, every failure to comprehend the gravity of situations and of consequences - this all becomes a framework of self-propagating democratic self-disassembly. In terms of information warfare or psychological operations, it does not take a seasoned journalist nor a tenured professor to extrapolate that Trump is not only the worst thing that ever could have happened to US democracy, but he is also potentially the worst thing that ever could have happened to the very idea of democracy. And he just keeps happening. Republican disingenuity notwithstanding, I am flabbergasted that America has let this circus go on for so long. Some problems require more than just the reshuffling of deck chairs, they require the rebuilding of organisational systems at an axiomatic level.

    ReplyDelete
  2. I innocently believed that 'someone' would step in at the beginning, you know, before things went too far. Ha.

    ReplyDelete

Due to a small but consistent influx of spam, comments will now be checked before publishing. Only egregious spam/illegal/racist crap will be disapproved, everything else will be published.

It's okay to like vinyl

Here's a nice if somewhat over-lengthy piece about why people prefer antiquated technologies like vinyl records instead of digital medi...