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On the other hand you could help society work toward solving its many problems, without destroying it. Baby vs. bathwater kinda thing.

I knew you didn't mean Trump. TDS is a syndrome that abounds. It's very contagious. Victims are afflicted by rancid bubos upon the head, face and neck...

Your post was off-topic. The question was quite clear, but you did not discuss it, you discussed the poster. Personal advice was not being solicited, nor was details of your sordid past.

It's ok for you to do it, but not others?

You cannot change the world, but you can change your small corner of it. Try crowdfunding.

Someone on the left needs to start talking sense. If we use this forum as a metaphor for what's happened, the left needs to return to the fold and re-engage in useful dialogue, recognizing it cannot always get what it wants, at least not right away and that others have the right to express themselves, even if repugnant. The real world is imperfect, and sometimes its better to allow minor "ugliness" to exist, to express itself and to vent, than to use force or prohibition. Both sides have a responsibility to de-escalate. Moderate voices need to be heard, not extremists. On local scale, you and I should stop buying into and feeding the extremist narrative.

Huh?

You epitomize the very problem. The left ran away. They broke off the dialogue and marched out, burning bridges behind them all the way. They made themselves a safe space, from which they give each other high-fives, and make little plans, and send you here.

Not at all, I meant to show how people completely ignore Donald Trump. You have demonstrated this in sublime fashion.

"We're closely following the terrible events unfolding in Charlottesville, Virginia," Mr. Trump said. "We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides." Underscore is mine. Condemning violence... that's not unlike calling for restraint.

Ok

CNN has shut themselves down. And you said nothing after I provided you some links, at your request. Prattle on...

I yam what I yam.

This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper

Some are now millionaires.

I'm not talking about ads, I mean actual content. There are countless examples, I'm sure. The idea of paying the media to push/ promote an agenda is certainly nothing new. Why do you doubt it? Here are some examples, a google search on "news media paid for agenda". Foundations plan to pay news media to cover radical UN agenda The United Nations Foundation created by billionaire Ted Turner, along with a branch of media giant Thomson Reuters, is starting to train a squadron of journalists and subsidize media content in 33 countries—including the U.S. and Britain--in a planned $6 million effort to popularize the bulky and sweeping U.N.-sponsored Sustainable Development Goals, prior to a global U.N. summit this September, where U.N. organizers hope they will be endorsed by world leaders. The subsidy approach, U.N. Foundation's Sherinian said, was “not dissimilar” to the funding that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has provided for sveral years to the left-wing British newspaper The Guardian, to publish what amounts to sponsored news about economic development issues, including the Foundation's campaign to extirpate AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Pundit paid to push administration agenda Government watchdogs, media groups and lawmakers are raising new questions about White House efforts to shape news coverage after revelations Friday that the administration paid syndicated pundit Armstrong Williams $240,000 to promote the No Child Left Behind Act. The story comes on the heels of an internal government report blasting the Office of National Drug Control Policy for distributing commercials that were broadcast as news reports. The Department of Education also paid a public relations firm to produce commercials last year that were aired by stations across the country as news items. Agenda-setting theory Agenda-setting theory describes the "ability [of the news media] to influence the salience of topics on the public agenda." With agenda setting being a social science theory, it also attempts to make predictions. That is, if a news item is covered frequently and prominently, the audience will regard the issue as more important. Agenda-setting theory was formally developed by Max McCombs and Donald Shaw in a study on the 1968 American presidential election. In the 1968 "Chapel Hill study", McCombs and Shaw demonstrated a strong correlation coefficient (r > .9) between what 100 residents of Chapel Hill, North Carolina thought was the most important election issue and what the local and national news media reported was the most important issue. Link Public Opinion, the Press, and Public Policy

The media is big business, and as such media air time can be purchased by the highest bidder. You got enough money, you can get Wolf Blitzer et al to cover a story practically any way you want. Today the media is not about reporting news objectively without bias. It's a paid-for platform to catapult the propaganda.

The Canadian flag must be removed from display... that white and red symbol of oppression. All national flags are, really... all nations...

I guess the poor who are born in Canada shall continue to get nothing. Let them eat cake. Canada ranks poorly among wealthy nations for children’s well-being: UNICEF Canada ranks 37th on a list of 41 rich countries for children having access to enough nutritious food, and higher-than-average rates of child homicide and teen suicide also point to a need for action, a UNICEF report says. Over 22 per cent of Canadian children live in poverty and most issues related to kids showed no improvement or worsened during the last decade, said the 14th report from UNICEF on children’s well-being amongst wealthy countries.

You mean like they do at the US/ Mexico border? It's like they know something we don't know.

A difference between "says" vs. "does".

Only the tabloid knows.

It's a shame that there was no serious attempt to reunify Korea. It should have been implemented decades go, in the style of East/West German reunification. That move was precluded by the fall of the USSR of course. No such luck for Korea, used as a pawn between superpowers USA and China.