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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYesterday, on my way home ... I got so frustrated with an NPR interview ...
I literally, let out a scream in my car.
The segment was an interview with a republican state rep from one of the Valleys that supports Don D. Con (I was so angry that I can't recall who it was; but, it should be so hard to figure out).
The interviewer kept hammering Don D. Con's racist comment about the judge ... and the rep kept dodging and pivoting to "Don D. Con is going to bring back the jobs" ... rinse and repeat.
I screamed "HOW!!!!!!!" ... Ask the guy, "What is Don D. Con's plan, specifically, that leads you to believe he will bring back jobs?!!!!?"
And when he dodges, ask the guy, "Do you know what Don D. Con's plan to bring back jobs is?"
The racism is big ... But getting people to see he is, and those politicos supporting him are, full of shit is bigger!
I think when I get home ... I'll write a quick note to the interviewer, and make the suggestions ... without the scream.
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Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Who hasn't screamed in frustration at an NPR interview?
And that's the *liberal* end of the US programming spectrum.
At least you recognize the jobs ain't coming back and that's a start.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)I've known for years that the jobs aren't "coming back" ... We need to adopt a different plan, I.e., green jobs, non-manufacturing jobs.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)The only way jobs are "coming back" is if we have a massive systemic collapse that sends everyone out in the fields or starve and probably starve anyway.
Otherwise technology will obsolete more and more jobs. Yes technology creates jobs but the net effect is negative and that effect is only going to accelerate as technology becomes more sophisticated.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Screaming at the radio you were disagreeing so much...
If it's inevitable to the point where "HR professionals" are predicting it then it really doesn't matter who is POTUS, Trump will bring the jobs just as well as Clinton.
Interesting that you can't see the built in bias with "HR professionals" predicting they will be more needed in the future. I expect your type of job will be eliminated sooner or later by pattern recognition, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms and other AI developments. Like this Israeli startup I read about recently that can analyze your personality strictly from photographs, can tell a potential troublemaker from a good employee from cues too subtle for human senses.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)It does matter who the President is ... one is talking about what won't happen, i.e., bringing back (well paying) manufacturing jobs ... the other is talking about transitioning the labor market to (well paying) 21st century jobs, i.e., green jobs.
You, clearly, have no idea what Human Resources entails. You are thinking of "personnel departments".
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Haven't seen a "personnel department" in decades.
I see people crying disaster one way who then get all bent out of shape if anyone so much as mentions any other disaster.
If your job involves making decisions then sooner or later a machine will be better at it than you are, that may or may not come before the end of your career but come it will. And the machines will always get cheaper for any given capability, always.
We are now definitely in the Red Queen's Race.. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!".
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Managing people will not, in my lifetime, or that of anyone alive today, be replaced by a machine ... except in Sci-Fi flicks.
riversedge
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TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)I smell the deal of the century in the making.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)and I might as well say Trigger warning....
The truth is, many of the people in America believe that their own white virtue somehow made the nation prosperous, and that the inclusion of brown people ruined it. Granted, they ignore the fact that if Africans did not pick the cotton years ago, or that if Latinos did not pick fruit now, they would be poorer. They do not need to articulate it, they just need to believe it, and sadly both the media and the churches know exactly how to make sure they never think hard enough to dispel the illusion.
It is not an accident that trump is praised by Putin, the same person that is manipulating the Brexit folks, the marine Le Pens, and the Germans, who after all, turned out to be as hateful of brown people as the Yanks they used to look down on. Worldwide, those who want to use Whiteness as a default power setting are losing, and sorry to say, they may very well be willing to start a Third World War and a second Civil War if they think they will either win or just go out in a Blaze of Glory.
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world wide wally
(21,743 posts)Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)"The Blowhard Billionaire is going to bring back jobs." How? He just will.
"Same-sex marriage will harm traditional marriage.' How? It just will.
"Teachers' unions are the cause of all the problems in American schools." How? They just are.
a kennedy
(29,658 posts)DON D. CON. That's the title for him.......now if Hillary can just bring herself to say it....... OMGOSH.....love it. 
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Turn the dial and get on with your life.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)it was a gop state representative ... being interviewed and saying what too many others are saying ... because the interviewer won't ask the questions.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Have a good one.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)to "encourage the media to focus/shine a light on the emptiness that is trump. Don't you?
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)the state representative would have been exposed as the clown he is? No one can answer the "How" question because Don D. Con has no plan to do any of the crap he is promoting.
I, as a Democrat and a member of the Left, think it's high time that Don D. Con, and his supporters, be exposed for the frauds they are.
But apparently ... DU isn't quite ready.
planetc
(7,811 posts)NPR, like the ineffable NYTimes, will go on being maniacally evenhanded in their discussions of everything. Nothing can be said on the air, according to their lights, unless exactly two viewpoints are presented. If a liberal says something about golf, a conservative must be surveyed as well. If an R says something about the balance of trade, a D must give a different opinion. All of this evenhandedness contributes to the underlying propaganda point that the world is ruled by a delicate balance of two opposing viewpoints, which is nonsense, of course. It's ruled by people with money and their linguistically clever employees.
So, your job as a liberal, or sane person, is to view these inevitable incursions from the crumbling Republican Party as a means to know the mind of your enemy. Survey their current "thinking" and make notes as to how their influence can be minimized. I don't think that clinical insanity is necessary for people to identify as Republican, or conservative, or Trump fans. It just takes thinking with your emotions, which most people do. This sounds like insanity, but is much more common: it's wishful thinking. Unfortunately, all these folks fave the vote, so we must think of ways to counter their influence. Luckily enough, this is a great year to watch the Republican Party get hoist by its own petard.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)My job as a Liberal AND a sane person is to expose as many people, sane or (in my estimation) otherwise, on both the right AND the Left, to the emptiness that is trump.
GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)it's the entire media.
Chasing the racism story is big ... But getting people to see he is, and those politicos supporting him are, full of shit is bigger!
