CURRENT EVENTS - DECEMBER

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sringwal said:
Of course not; that would be absurd. An yet, if one were to follow the claims in the post of yours that I quoted, this would be your syllogism:

  • Liberal leaders are allowing the immigration of violent anti-Semites.
  • Voters are rejecting this by turning to fascist or Nazi-sympathetic alternatives.
  • Therefore, the rise of far-right politics is a response to liberal policies on immigration and anti-Semitism.

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Similar issues in different countries, all resulting in the election of different types of low quality people.

Also anti-semites was primarily a reference to Muslims.
 
No shit. My point is that it isn't the anti-semitism that the far right doesn't like about Muslims. It is, instead, something they share. It is, instead, two groups of fundamentalists jockying for power. And far fewer American Muslims are fundamentalists than right-wing Christians are.
 
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Hunt really did try to improve public education in NC, including raising pay for teachers and funding for public ed overall. In the 90s he got the legislature to approve a four-year plan to raise NC teacher pay above the national average by the time his fourth term ended in 2001.

NC public ed is now in the tender hands of people like Phil Berger, and a recent report showed that NC now ranks dead last among the 50 states in "funding effort" and 49th in per-pupil-spending. What the NC GOP has done to public ed in this state is disgusting and amounts to nothing less than a massive (and increasingly successful) effort to destroy it by financially starving it to death. It's a mockery of what Jim Hunt stood for and was trying to do for public ed in NC.
 
I appreciate many of the things Jim Hunt might have temporarily accomplished in North Carolina.

I kinda laugh at the premise that he was the “Education Governor.” He was, after all, the Governor of North Carolina. Albeit, during his tenures, the North Carolina Governor was a weak office.

My criticism of Jim Hunt is that it was always the “Hunt Machine.” It wasn’t a set of policies or principles (unless a 4-lane, limited access highway within 10 miles of 90% of North Carolinians was a political principle; it sure was a policy goal). It wasn’t “We stand for this.” It was, “I’m a Hunt man.”

I certainly preferred him as Governor over Jim Martin. Or, Pat what’s his name.

That said, I have a hard time looking at Jim Hunt’s SIXTEEN years as governor and identifying accomplishments.

The Hunt Machine was similar to the Bill Clinton Machine and the Obama Campaign. Focused on the top guy.
 
Zoo_View said:
I appreciate many of the things Jim Hunt might have temporarily accomplished in North Carolina.

I kinda laugh at the premise that he was the “Education Governor.” He was, after all, the Governor of North Carolina. Albeit, during his tenures, the North Carolina Governor was a weak office.

My criticism of Jim Hunt is that it was always the “Hunt Machine.” It wasn’t a set of policies or principles (unless a 4-lane, limited access highway within 10 miles of 90% of North Carolinians was a political principle; it sure was a policy goal). It wasn’t “We stand for this.” It was, “I’m a Hunt man.”

I certainly preferred him as Governor over Jim Martin. Or, Pat what’s his name.

That said, I have a hard time looking at Jim Hunt’s SIXTEEN years as governor and identifying accomplishments.

The Hunt Machine was similar to the Bill Clinton Machine and the Obama Campaign. Focused on the top guy.
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Perhaps, but compared to what we have now he did do far more to promote public ed than our current state government, which is actively trying to destroy it. In a contest between the Hunt machine and Phil Berger/Art Pope machine I'll take the former every time. I never said Hunt was perfect or even close, only that compared to who is currently controlling the state government (and it's not Josh Stein for the most part) Hunt looks a helluva lot better.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Perhaps, but compared to what we have now he did do far more to promote public ed than our current state government, which is actively trying to destroy it. In a contest between the Hunt machine and Phil Berger/Art Pope machine I'll take the former every time. I never said Hunt was perfect or even close, only that compared to who is currently controlling the state government (and it's not Josh Stein for
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Mulberry Heel said:
the most part) Hunt looks a helluva lot better.
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My point is that the Hunt Machine was about Jim Hunt and not policy.

When Jim Hunt was done as a political candidate, the Hunt Machine was done.

Jim Hunt built a political organization based on electing Jim Hunt; he didn’t build a political organization or followers dedicated to ideas or policy. Hunt’s not unusual in doing so.
 
Zoo_View said:
I appreciate many of the things Jim Hunt might have temporarily accomplished in North Carolina.

I kinda laugh at the premise that he was the “Education Governor.” He was, after all, the Governor of North Carolina. Albeit, during his tenures, the North Carolina Governor was a weak office.

My criticism of Jim Hunt is that it was always the “Hunt Machine.” It wasn’t a set of policies or principles (unless a 4-lane, limited access highway within 10 miles of 90% of North Carolinians was a political principle; it sure was a policy goal). It wasn’t “We stand for this.” It was, “I’m a Hunt man.”

I certainly preferred him as Governor over Jim Martin. Or, Pat what’s his name.

That said, I have a hard time looking at Jim Hunt’s SIXTEEN years as governor and identifying accomplishments.

The Hunt Machine was similar to the Bill Clinton Machine and the Obama Campaign. Focused on the top guy.
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The State Employees I knew who contributed a decent amount, say 2-3,000, got a little framed picture of Dear Leader to put in their office. Yes it was a personality cult
 
altmin said:
gift article

www.nytimes.com

Trump Media to Merge With TAE Technologies, a Nuclear Fusion Firm, in a $6 Billion Deal

Trump Media & Technology Group, the social media and crypto company part owned by President Trump, said it would help develop a “utility-scale fusion power plant.”
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How Trump Spun a Social Network Into a Nuclear-Fusion Company​

A media company backed by the president’s family, forged after his Twitter ban, now is venturing into electrical plants for artificial intelligence​


🎁 —> https://www.wsj.com/business/trump-...a?st=zqk58o&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

“…
“The primary value of Trump Media is that Trump is the president,” said Peter Schiff, a longtime financial analyst and chief economist of Euro Pacific Asset Management. “It’s a company in search of a business.”

A merger agreement Thursday with TAE Technologies valued at $6 billion marks the first family’s biggest foray yet into mainstream finance and the U.S. economy since President Trump returned to the White House. While the Trump Organization continues to land new real-estate projects, and the president’s sons have launched an array of new initiatives across crypto and more, few ventures rival Thursday’s deal in scale or prominence.…”
 
nycfan said:

How Trump Spun a Social Network Into a Nuclear-Fusion Company​

A media company backed by the president’s family, forged after his Twitter ban, now is venturing into electrical plants for artificial intelligence​


🎁 —> https://www.wsj.com/business/trump-...a?st=zqk58o&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

“…
“The primary value of Trump Media is that Trump is the president,” said Peter Schiff, a longtime financial analyst and chief economist of Euro Pacific Asset Management. “It’s a company in search of a business.”

A merger agreement Thursday with TAE Technologies valued at $6 billion marks the first family’s biggest foray yet into mainstream finance and the U.S. economy since President Trump returned to the White House. While the Trump Organization continues to land new real-estate projects, and the president’s sons have launched an array of new initiatives across crypto and more, few ventures rival Thursday’s deal in scale or prominence.…”
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In a world of strange coincidences, the MIT professor murdered by the Brown/MIT shooter specialized in nuclear fusion.

Nuno Loureiro, professor and director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, dies at 47​

In his 10 years at MIT, Loureiro helped illuminate the physics occurring at the center of fusion vacuum chambers and at the edges of the universe.

news.mit.edu

Nuno Loureiro, professor and director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, dies at 47

Nuno Loureiro, an MIT professor of nuclear science and engineering and of physics, has died at 47. A theoretical physicist and fusion scientist, and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Loureiro studied complex problems at the center of fusion vacuum chambers and at the edges of...
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