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You ever been in a meeting where you have like 6 managers, all equal in terms of hierarchy, all agreeing that something needs to be done, and everyone nods right. Then you move to the next step about responsibility, and they fall over themselves explaining how they and their team either doesn’t have the capacity or it’s not really their job? Suddenly a director shows up and the excuses stop and a plan is formed?

Being a leader doesn’t mean you have to do everything yourself. Sometimes it’s just your presence that matters.

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Sure, but I don’t think that analogy really works here. In a company, for one thing, those people in the meeting have already agreed that they’re a part of a greater whole, and must work together toward a shared purpose. Not that there won’t be infighting or disagreements, but they are already along the path to working together.

With countries there certainly need to be alliances, but each member is going to start from a different baseline to even get to the point of working together. NATO is a good example - there needs to be agreement, but not necessarily a boss.

You might say I’m splitting hairs. Maybe I am. But I don’t think that a world where the USA is calling the shots is necessarily the best case. A world with Russia calling the shots isn’t good either, but that’s my point - the world is bigger than any one nation’s interests. The days when Britannia ruled the seas might be looked upon nostalgically by the English, but probably not many others.

3238

Well no one forces these countries to a part of the UN and other organizations that try to get countries to together to work together, so being a part of it… means something, as in the general idea is to play nice. I have little faith that anything would get done or even matter if the larger countries don’t participate or are not seen as being really meaningful anymore.

3239

I’m part of the Oregon Trail generation and all I want in life is to not die from dysentery or snake bite. Unfortunately, you fuckin’ boomers shit in the creek and busted my wagon axle. Assholes.

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3241

Shut down QT3, last two posts are the peak that we’ll never reach again.

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This. A million times this. It’s basically a propaganda wing of Home Land Security whose express mission is to vilify undocumented migrants (who, of course, commit crimes at a significantly lower rate than US citizens). Fascists targeting government sponsored propaganda against a specific set of people never leads anywhere good.

There was also dog whistle stuff in there about only letting the productive immigrants in, which almost certainly doesn’t include hard working Mexicans. He’s talking about white people and people to work in the tech industry because our public education is going to be gutted so we need to import brains to stay competitive.

3244

Basically, Trump’s staff watched V for Vendetta and thought: “yeah, that looks like the kind of government we want.”

3245

Ministry of Propaganda.

hashtagdailygodwin

3246

Perhaps V.O.I.C.E. will have a good social networking game, so I can just follow their tweets and know which minorities I need to be hating on from day to day.

3247

Fuck this low bar.


Hold Cheeto Hitler to a higher standard.

3248

It’s right there in Rule#2 of surviving the autocratic governments.
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/
Rule #2 Do not be taken in by small signs of normalcy.

3249

Remember when being presidential amounted to more than well at least he stayed on message and didn’t freak the hell out ?

3250

This is actually accurate.

3251

Bors can be a little on the nose, but that’s one of his better ones. Hehe.

3252

This is a huge win for the anti-gerrymandering folks. Part of me thinks 5 votes are there now that are worried about Trumpism. It might have even been more than a 5-3 decision, it looks like Alito of all people agreed with part of it.

This was a 7-1 decision, though it sounds like Alito and Thomas did their own reasoning.

3253

All of the judges on the SCOTUS are, ultimately, judges who act mainly without partisanship. That’s why most rulings are unanimous, or 7-1. It’s very rare you see an ideological divide.

3254

Is it? They’re real whoppers when it does split that way, I guess that’s why I find that surprising.

3255

More than half are unanimous and that doesn’t include all the things they agree to just stand. Also, the system encourages 5-4 votes because it takes 4 justices to agree to hear it. So anything 6-3 or more to uphold is less likely to be heard absent a need to clarify lower court things.