Free Press/Fake Press

[Notorious]

well its been here for 20-30 years at this point, and its not going away. Its just a matter of time till we go to universal income

What's even the point of that? There is a point where progress isn't progress anymore.

 

[Notorious]

Nope, I'm done... Not going to get the thread closed...

You've managed to get all the other ones closed with this exact same bullshit. Stick to basketball.

 

[CleveRocks]

@David and@Gour.. Check yourselves.. you will both get banned..

Condescension and disrespect are for trolls. In here you leave it at the door.

In regard to automation..

I can make an argument that the more automated a process the less likely you are to send it to a low cost labor market..

Perhaps the best economic decision we could make would be to make automation a tax credit. Yes you replace low skill jobs, but you also create high skill jobs to make the automation. It is not 1 to 1, so businesses have to grow to compensate..

Germany imposes no tax on exported automation.. it works for them pretty well.

 

[Notorious]

Sooo... let's get back on topic with some fake news.

It looks like Bill O'Reilly came out last night and admitted that he wrongly positioned Nils Bildt as a Swedish defense and national security adviser. Normally I'd blast O'Reilly but I think the president may have lowered the bar to the point where I can truly appreciate someone saying "I fucked up" and not doubling down on their lie

Bill O'Reilly says criticism over Swedish 'national security adviser' is valid

Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly has acknowledged that his show erred in seeking expert advice from a man who falsely identified himself as a Swedish national security adviser.

O'Reilly last week interviewed a man calling himself Nils Bildt during a segment on refugees in Sweden. Bildt, who was billed as a "Swedish defense and national security adviser," largely backed a narrative promoted by President Trump that portrays asylum seekers as being responsible for an increase in violent crimes in the country.

"We are unable in Sweden to socially integrate these people," Bildt said of refugees. "These things are not being openly and honestly discussed."

Just one problem: Nobody in the Swedish government has ever heard of Bildt.

"This is not a person who is known to [the government]," said Catarina Axelsson, a press officer at Sweden's foreign ministry.

Marinette Nyh Radebo, a spokeswoman for Sweden's defense ministry, said Bildt has never worked for the Swedish government or the country's armed forces.

Johan Wiktorin, the CEO of a strategic intelligence company in Sweden, tweeted that he's "never heard of [Bildt] before... he's not known in our circles as an expert."

In a statement on his program Monday, O'Reilly said criticism of his decision to book Blidt was "valid."

"[W]e looked into the situation and the criticism is valid. It's valid," O'Reilly told viewers. "Mr. Bildt does consulting work on terrorism, that's true -- but we should have clarified that he had no direct role with the Swedish government. To be fair, the information we gave you in the segment was accurate but in hindsight a more relevant guest should have been used on the anti-immigrant side. You should also know that before the segment was booked we asked the Swedish Ambassador to appear, he declined. That invitation stands."

Fox News earlier defended its decision to book Bildt.

"Our booker made numerous inquiries and spoke to people who recommended Nils Bildt and after pre-interviewing him and reviewing his bio, we agreed that he would make a good guest for the topic that evening," David Tabacoff, the executive producer of The O'Reilly Factor, said in a statement.

The LinkedIn profile of a person named Nils Bildt had been deleted by Monday. But a screen grab circulated online shows that the account described Bildt as a "Swedish Defense and National Adviser" who has previously worked for the Swedish Armed Forces.

CNNMoney was not able to independently verify the LinkedIn profile, or contact a person named Nils Bildt.

Swedish media outlets have reported that Bildt, who was born Nils Tolling, left Sweden in 1994 and emigrated to the U.S. He later changed his surname to Bildt.

On Sunday, the newspaper Aftonbladet reported that Bildt had expressed interest in 2013 in running for office in Sweden with the nationalist right-wing party Sweden Democrats. His bid was not successful.

The controversy over Sweden erupted when Trump made a reference to "what's happening last night in Sweden" during an early February rally in Florida.

"They took in large numbers," Trump said. "They're having problems like they never thought possible."

The comments appeared to refer to recent terror attacks in Germany and elsewhere, but no such attack has occurred in Sweden. Carl Bildt, the former Swedish prime minister, questioned the president's statement.

"Sweden? Terror attack? What has he been smoking?" Bildt tweeted. "Questions abound."

Trump later said the statement was made in reference to Swedish immigration politics. He then tweeted on the topic, saying: "The FAKE NEWS media is trying to say that large scale immigration in Sweden is working out just beautifully. NOT!"

The Swedish embassy in the U.S. said it was looking forward to "informing the U.S. administration about Swedish immigration and integration policies."

See how media is supposed to handle screwups? They're supposed to admit to the mistake and then retract it. Hopefully the main pushers of fake news learn something. Not holding my breath.

 

[Jack Brickman]

In regard to automation..

I can make an argument that the more automated a process the less likely you are to send it to a low cost labor market..

Perhaps the best economic decision we could make would be to make automation a tax credit. Yes you replace low skill jobs, but you also create high skill jobs to make the automation. It is not 1 to 1, so businesses have to grow to compensate..

Germany imposes no tax on exported automation.. it works for them pretty well.

You also need people to monitor the automation. As a DBA, one of my main tasks is figuring out why automated jobs failed.

 

[Notorious]

You're 23? So you started posting on this site when you were what, 17/18 years old? Is that what you tell those teenage girls on Tinder? Is that what keeps you from breaking down crying while sitting with teenagers in class who all do better than you at their school work?

Fuck outta here, bro, who are you kidding.. You're at least 27-28 if you're a day..

Oh and "Push" .. Google it.. dumbass..
push:
Slang for drive.

That was easy, no?

And you have, as in you have graduated with, an accounting degree? As in a bachelor's degree in accounting? ..and how's that working out for you while you push that fucking Uber around town?





First time I've heard that in my life; and I'm not joking.



What logic?



Who is the arbiter of this? You? DaveK?

Dave, do you think you're intelligent? I mean that seriously. That is to say, in your life, as you've.. gone through it, you've generally considered yourself as having a high intellect?



We're not going to play the game of Dave whining and begging for help from other posters...

I'm speaking about you, to you; not about anyone else.



Dave, you are a racist. I don't know how long you've been a racist, but I suspect since the time you started posting on this site.

You post racially charged commentary on this site regularly; then when it gets brought up, or you get called out on it, the mods ask posters, politely, not to call you out on it.

Having now been personally called a bigot and now a "race baiter," I guess we can drop the pretense...

Yes, Dave you are a racist; and the sooner you realize this the better.



Yes, dumbass.

I worked for the Democratic Party; I obviously had an agenda when I first starting posting - I never hid that fact.

Since I quit the party, I no longer have an "agenda," but I do have an ideology that I don't hide from or lie about. I am a progressive. You are just learning what that means and entails... It means believing in science, reason, social democracy and social justice; oh and of course, punching Nazi fucks in the face.





Let me ask you something...

How's life working out now that Trump is President? Something tells me your shit still sucks... Did a rainbow show up outside your shit-hole apartment the day after the election when you felt just a little bit more comfortable in your own skin Something tells me it didn't.

But if it helps you sleep a little better at night, just think about this; I'll get a massive tax break (thanks Mr. President, thanks GOP), while your stupid ass eventually gets culled via natural selection.

Social democracy was designed specifically so idiots like yourself wouldn't die of starvation.

/PublicServiceAnnouncement

Alex, you're being an unimaginable douche, please don't get this thread shutdown like you got the company you worked for in Hawaii shutdown.

Take your little man syndrome somehwere else please.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Alex, you're being an unimaginable douche, please don't get this thread shutdown like you got the company you worked for in Hawaii shutdown.

Take your little man syndrome somehwere else please.

I like how you only single out the guy whose political opinions you disagree with when both guys are at fault here, and you yourself have also derailed countless legitimate political conversations to this point with your rampant shitposting.

 

[Notorious]

I like how you only single out the guy whose political opinions you disagree with when both guys are at fault here, and you yourself have also derailed countless legitimate political conversations to this point with your rampant shitposting.

I didn't see Dave start a massive ad hominem on gour, he even kept it pretty mild on his first rebuttal. So yeah I'm gonna back him. Gour is taking things to a completely uncivil place.

I haven't derailed nothing. You guys just whine and want everyone who disagrees with you silenced. Every thread for 5 years same whiners trying to get the thread closed and throwing personal attacks for pages and then first rebuttal crying to mods.

 

[Jack Brickman]

You guys just whine and want everyone who disagrees with you silenced.

Which is why all liberals are constantly crying for Q-Tip to be banned here.


Oh, right.

 

[camakazee]

See how media is supposed to handle screwups? They're supposed to admit to the mistake and then retract it. Hopefully the main pushers of fake news learn something. Not holding my breath.

Or fake news could stop lying about someone's credentials at the start.

 

[Notorious]

Which is why all liberals are constantly crying for Q-Tip to be banned here.


Oh, right.

Max was cried about!!!! Max!!!! Are you serious? All you whiners liked all the posts whining about Max of all people. Yes people have cried about Q-Tip for years. Someone was just crying about him a few days ago in the transgender thread.

 

[Notorious]

Or fake news could stop lying about someone's credentials at the start.

You'll have to take that up with CNN.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Okay, here's the thread in EAYOR for when/if this gets shut down, or if anyone just wants to be a bit more bare-knucked:

http://realcavsfans.com/community/index.php?threads/the-war-zone.47875/

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

"Oh boy" = invitation for accusations of racism.

Props on linking the text of your post to tylons profile. I don't even know how you did that. Lol.

Fuck -- neither do I. I have no idea how that happened, and it wasn't intentional. Sorry, @Tlyons

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

The funniest thing about all this is that @gourimoko and I are actually having civil discussions.

What the hell is wrong with the rest of you?