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Edwird -> RE: Republicans selling your private browser history to all comers (4/16/2017 8:37:12 PM)
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ORIGINAL: SecondBestBoy
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ORIGINAL: Edwird
Google and Amazon and every browser have been doing this for some years already....
It's plain political science: when Democrats or Republicans vote on a 'deal' where they know their party is going to lose the vote, it's just a wink and a nod to their sponsors if it goes by party lines; no harm/no foul, as they say.
Amazon isn't a browser. I don't know what made you think that.
I don't know what made you so not understanding of basic English enough to get that I was clearly separating Google and Amazon in one function vs, browsers in another function.
In any case, Google and Amazon (cloudflare) flood tons of web pages on any browser with their scripts unless you actively prevent such intrusion.
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I think it's sad that it doesn't bother you that Republicans in Congress just made a bad thing worse for all of our privacy. You sound very content to live in a world where you have zero privacy, and corporations get to buy and sell you at will.
I think it's sad that you keep harping on politics as being either the only problem or the only solution to every of society's problems. We live in an oligarchy, (look it up,) which of course relies somewhat on politics, but if you know nothing about ALEC or the lobbies or 'the not legally required to be listed as a lobby' lobbies, or the so-called 'think tanks' who write whatever laws that ALEC doesn't do already, then don't try to pretend you know how the country and the world works, much less about politics.
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As for your brush off that the parties are in collusion, that's just intellectual laziness.
I never said the parties were in collusion, that's just intellectual incapacity on your part to even think that's what I was proclaiming.
I am just sick and disgusted, but not actually too much because I saw something like our current situation miles and years beforehand. Am I saying I saw Trump as president? No such thing. I'm just saying that with our conglomerate media, I didn't see things going well even if whatever Democrat got elected.
We need something better than what we were offered in the last election. This country and in fact most of the world would appreciate something better.
If we are going to be the biggest badass in the world, we are a hell of a disappointment right now, and I am with those in this country and those elsewhere in the world who say that we need to do better and live up to the task. And YES, they have a right to speak, if speaking with semblance of good manners and thoughtfulness, and trying to give encouragement in rough times, because what is done in the US has more effect on the world, like it or not, than any other. Forget any notion of US isolationism. The ship of international trade and international interdependence has been sailing since long ago. This is where we are now.
Thank goodness the US has Mexico and Canada and China and Germany and others to ship US-made machinery to, just as we import theirs, as we have done in past administrations and will continue to do through any administration.
I'm tired of the all bitching about Trump. As far as I am concerned the US has been going downhill since 1980, sorry if so many of you weren't paying attention until just now.
I don't care when things take a turn for the better, aside sooner rather than later. Not saying I'm an optimist, I'm not that now anymore than I was 4 or 20 years ago, but pessimism will not win the day here, folks.
The media completely suck, not just in the US but everywhere I look. Turn that crap off, or spend no more than two minutes on it, and let's figure out what to do for ourselves, for our society.
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