Originally Posted by
Mario F.
And we goodwined the t-shirt!
Google turns up a funeral home in Illinois named goodwine, by which I mean the wordplay flew over my head for a few minutes lol.
Code:
while (internet)
this.conversation.vector += (nazi.vector - this.conversation.vector) / commonSense;
I've heard this idea that the US's political spectrum has veered in an authoritarian direction before. The idea that it was the red scare etc that caused it is new to me though. I seem to remember that the political spectrum has it's roots in the French revolution, where the right wing was supporters of the king, and the left of the revolution (maybe Napoleon?).
The meaning of the terms right and left seem to be different altogether now. For instance the left is said to be liberal, which means (AFAIK) believing in a liberal application of governmental powers, conservative meaning the opposite. So it seems the terms have changed places. Or maybe the type of government factors in.
The US parties of Republican and Democrat emerged somewhere in the mid 19th century, but (again AFAIK) the Democratic party has always been mostly liberal, although not necessarily in a social sense. It's hard to say if the spectrum the parties support has really shifted by comparing them to similar ones in Europe, as it's just a relative measurement. You would have to compare them to the original versions of their selves, or the French ones maybe, to get accurate information on the shift.
@ MJ - I hope Bernie Sanders gets a fair shot in the Democratic primaries, and in the media. Often times candidates running in the major parties supporting 3rd party can't get traction for stupid reasons. CGP Grey did a good video on one of the reasons why. I don't support the guy because my views are different, but it's disheartening to see how only two viewpoints are allowed.
Honestly I can't stand how the political election process is represented in the media. Candidates are expected to use TwitterSpeak (sound-bytes) to express their views, which need to fit neatly into a small selection of categories in the first place so that grandma doesn't get confused. They spend their time getting training in body language and other nonsense, and people judge them based on how attractive they are in suits and make-up. To top it off all the different teams are skilled in social engineering tactics and other such manipulative nonsense. It's almost as if the entire circus was created as a way to extract sociopaths from the population.
PS
Code:
// Godwin implementation file
Vector2D& Vector2D::operator += (const Vector2D& v2) {
x += v2.x;
y += v2.y;
return *this;
}
Vector2D Vector2D::operator - (const Vector2D& v2) const {
return Vector2D(x - v2.x, y - v2.y);
}
// Common sense is some primitive constant
Vector2D Vector2D::operator / (const float& n) const {
return Vector2D(x / n, y / n);
}
// Something like that...
