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Nikki Haley walks back Civil War comments after backlash (www.cbsnews.com)

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is facing backlash after she was asked on Wednesday what caused the Civil War and failed to include slavery in her answer, instead saying the conflict was about state's rights. On Thursday, she attempted to walk back the comments, saying that slavery was an "unquestioned" aspect of...

stolid_agnostic,

Yep. This is all a PR machine like what W had.

stolid_agnostic,

lol first thing I do when getting a computer is wiping the disk and installing Linux.

stolid_agnostic,

I suspect that even they know that this is their own projected insecurities and that they don’t have any real justification. Better question: why do we separate players by sex in chess? Why does that matter? Just make one group and call it done.

stolid_agnostic,

You’re probably right.

stolid_agnostic,

These sorts of moves don’t tend to happen quickly. The board may be a bunch of pearl clutchers but there may also be more to this story.

In any case, reputational damage is fully subjective and they may have to prove that harm occurred or pay out a huge settlement.

stolid_agnostic,

Is it me or does she look like the Slitheen lady from Doctor who?

stolid_agnostic,

And recently India too. There’s a hacking for hire scandal going on beyond just this incident. Worse: it was Indians hacking Indian journalists using Israeli spyware.

stolid_agnostic,

Sorry, but I just don’t trust polls anymore. They never really get a representation of the public as a whole and instead end up talking with the only interested parties: bored conservative old people.

stolid_agnostic,

I got a temp ban on reddit for using “hateful speech” while being attacked for being gay. Those in power want to maintain power and are uninterested in fairness.

Canada's high immigration is driving down per-capita GDP: report (nationalpost.com)

Another attempt by imperialists to shift attention from their wealth hoarding by scapegoating immigrants who are the real value creators: they pay taxes to sustain public services, but also benefit the rich with good value labor. Rest of the population would complain: oh, no! immigrants now are lowering the bar for life quality,...

stolid_agnostic,

This has always surprised me honestly. The global north seems to underestimate just what a huge market that India could be for any product or service based on population size alone.

I was also disappointed in the decision from India to start purchases after the war began, but I suspect that it was more of an economic than a political decision.

stolid_agnostic,

Based on username I presume you are speaking from experience and didn’t like it. In any case it was more the giving of money to a genocidal maniac that bothered me.

stolid_agnostic,

This also bothers me.

stolid_agnostic,

Won’t matter. They’ll take this to SCOTUS who will do away with the last bits of the Voting Rights Act.

stolid_agnostic,

I lived in Argentina for five years. I’ve spent much time since then trying to convince people in the US that you have more rights and freedoms in Argentina. This might be changing now.

stolid_agnostic,

This is the standard political cycle in Argentina, like a giant pendulum. Someone starts screaming about how they will fix everything and gets voted in. Their incompetence makes things worse and the cycle repeats with someone new.

stolid_agnostic,

I didn’t know that this was a thing and a now horrified.

stolid_agnostic,

You just reminded me of an art display that went up in a park in Buenos Aires when I lived there. Basically the park is oriented around a fountain with a large circular area of brick around that, then pathways that go to the corners and sides of the square (ie to the sidewalks).

They put up a series of walls in that outer circle that told the story of the Malvinas conflict. What stood out to me was that they referred to the UK not by any name or country reference, they were just called “The Enemy”.

People remember and they don’t forgive.

stolid_agnostic,

They privatized many of the highways and you have to pass through toll booths every so often as ownership changes. These people provide no service, there are just taking the money. Same with much of the transit—many buses and trains are privately (mafia) owned.

stolid_agnostic,

This was not really clear in your previous comments where you zoned in on a specific product rather than population growth.

stolid_agnostic,

The air in Buenos Aires aside, It’s really a very clean country.

stolid_agnostic,

You can’t be conservative and a decent person at three same time. Also glad you realized you were rude.

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