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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:This only applies to people who give money to candidates. A little less than 10% of Americans have ever given to a political campaign. It's usually around 3% of the total population per election cycle. It is entirely possible for IT and Engineering to be mostly libertarians, but the donations lean Democratic. Is there some basis for the theory that Libertarians specifically are less likely to donate to political campaigns than others in the same profession? (bearing in mind that Rand/Ron Paul are Republicans and donations to their campaign would be counted as such) 10% is a pretty great sample size unless there's some reason to assume they're unrepresentative of their profession.
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Samurai Sanders posted:Law enforcement is way closer to 50/50 than I thought. Probation officers are way blue, I guess because their branch of police work is about actually helping people? Probation officers don't come through the police academy. The field also attracts persons with social work degrees, which traditional policing does not.
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Family Values posted:Here's an interesting visualization of the political leanings of various professions (based on campaign contributions): While all the branches of the US military are conservative leanining, I'd also like to point out that the Navy is the most liberal.  (The Air Force, though? Holy gently caress. Really?  I'd expect that from the Marines just based on "OOH RAH!" jingoism, but not the Chair Force.)
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AlternateNu posted:While all the branches of the US military are conservative leanining, I'd also like to point out that the Navy is the most liberal. Isn't the airforce have a huge fundamentalist/evangelical component?
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I read wiki leaks is offering a 100 bounty for the release of tpp. That's got to be illegal, right?
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AlternateNu posted:While all the branches of the US military are conservative leanining, I'd also like to point out that the Navy is the most liberal. Hahah yea the Air Force is hilariously evangelical at the top and libertarian in the enlisted ranks.
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GlyphGryph posted:Isn't the airforce have a huge fundamentalist/evangelical component? Yeah Colorado Springs or where ever is pretty much the Air Force academy surrounded by one big mega church.
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Ron Jeremy posted:I read wiki leaks is offering a 100 bounty for the release of tpp. That's got to be illegal, right? More illegal than leaking classified documents in the first place?
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Internet Webguy posted:More illegal than leaking classified documents in the first place? Yeah it would be more illegal I think? You're not a whistleblower if you're doing it for financial gain, you're just committing espionage at that point.
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https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes I gave $5 to the Red Cross for Katrina thinking it had done some good when I was 17, and found out later it pretty much didn't, and now it appears Haiti donations helped erase a $200 million deficit within the Red Cross, as DWB had ceased accepting donations for Haiti, after it had raised enough money. gently caress companies for only promoting the Red Cross when doing donations for disaster, and crisis relief. I long ago decided to give to Doctors Without Borders, above the Red Cross. Nonsense fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Jun 3, 2015 |
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AlternateNu posted:While all the branches of the US military are conservative leanining, I'd also like to point out that the Navy is the most liberal. The Air Force is significantly more white than the Army. And the Navy. And the Marine Corps.
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Internet Webguy posted:More illegal than leaking classified documents in the first place? Differently illegal, although TPP is probably not classified but instead is just confidential.
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Also the AirForce Academy in Colorado had a huge fundie influence thing going there, so many of the officers are evangelical.
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xrunner posted:Probation officers don't come through the police academy. The field also attracts persons with social work degrees, which traditional policing does not. Here's an idea: burn down the police academy and replace all cops with social workers.
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Family Values posted:Yeah it would be more illegal I think? You're not a whistleblower if you're doing it for financial gain, you're just committing espionage at that point. Is paid international corporate espionage actually illegal? Like has been mentioned, the details of the TPP aren't actually classified to my knowledge.
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xrunner posted:Probation officers don't come through the police academy. The field also attracts persons with social work degrees, which traditional policing does not. Eh. A number of graduates from the program I work in (Criminology) set out to be police officers but ended up being probation officers.
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CNN is on the case. "THE NEW THREAT FROM ISIS: ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATIONS"
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The most Democratic professions are Yoga Instructor, Union Organizer, and Environmentalist. Don't forget Astrophysicist for most Dem!
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GlyphGryph posted:Is paid international corporate espionage actually illegal? Like has been mentioned, the details of the TPP aren't actually classified to my knowledge. Yes, theft of IP is a crime. They take it very seriously because the victims are so likable with brand management strategies and all.
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Eh. A number of graduates from the program I work in (Criminology) set out to be police officers but ended up being probation officers. No doubt. I think criminal justice and social work are the two most common degrees in that field. But contrast that with policing, where you won't find the mix.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The most Democratic professions are Yoga Instructor, Union Organizer, and Environmentalist. I wonder how many of those "Yoga instructors" are basically unemployed or nominally self-employed.
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Family Values posted:Here's an interesting visualization of the political leanings of various professions (based on campaign contributions): The first several pairings (flight attendant v pilot, bartender v beer wholesaler, taxi driver v truck driver) give the impression that people lean dem the more they actually have to deal with other people. It'd be interesting to see a study that compares political leaning to the number of different people one interacts with professionally. Joementum posted:Quote of the day, "Leave the science to the scientists." ~ Rick Santorum, to Pope Francis. Incidentally, the Pope holds a masters degree in Chemistry. From the sidebar: 30 percent of Americans have had an alcohol-use disorder quote:Have you experienced a strong need—or urge—to drink? This loving thread 
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Nonsense posted:https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes The Red Cross is also unable to do anything resembling sound financial planning because people lose their poo poo when their dollar doesn't go to the over-funded cause that inspired them to donate.
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Apparently the FBI has been spying on us from the air using manned, light airplanes disguised as belonging to fictitious companies and carrying cameras and cell-phone spying equipment. For quite a while, in fact. Apparently the crazy conspiracy nuts on reddit and 4chan figured this out a while ago. Check out the lovely job the Feds did in trying to cover their tracks! I haven't seen much buzz on this story today. For some reason I have a feeling people would be in hysterics if we found out they were using unmanned drones rather than Cessnas to do the exact same thing.
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xrunner posted:No doubt. I think criminal justice and social work are the two most common degrees in that field. But contrast that with policing, where you won't find the mix. Well, I'd argue that Criminology and Criminal Justice are different things, but yeah. You're not going to see a lot of social work majors go into policing.
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Family Values posted:Is there some basis for the theory that Libertarians specifically are less likely to donate to political campaigns than others in the same profession? (bearing in mind that Rand/Ron Paul are Republicans and donations to their campaign would be counted as such) It doesn't seem unreasonable to me to suggest that donors might be unrepresentative. For instance, donors would probably tend to have more money than non-donors and are probably more politically active. And as an additional confounder there tend to be more liberal causes and candidates than libertarian causes.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:Apparently the FBI has been spying on us from the air using manned, light airplanes disguised as belonging to fictitious companies and carrying cameras and cell-phone spying equipment. For quite a while, in fact. Apparently the crazy conspiracy nuts on reddit and 4chan figured this out a while ago. The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS is possibly already being used in war zones so it's just a matter of time before it gets to domestic law enforcement. Summary: Law enforcement will have the ability to record very high quality footage 24/7 from the air and rewind it to any point in history. Some of their latest testing gives 1 drone per 140 km^2
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Family Values posted:Is there some basis for the theory that Libertarians specifically are less likely to donate to political campaigns than others in the same profession? (bearing in mind that Rand/Ron Paul are Republicans and donations to their campaign would be counted as such) Either Libertarians weren't included in the data set or I'm missing the row of people who listed Captain of Industry as their profession.
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A time traveling camera?! loving cool!
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Mitt Romney posted:The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS is possibly already being used in war zones so it's just a matter of time before it gets to domestic law enforcement. quote:ARGUS is an advanced camera system that uses hundreds of cellphone cameras in a mosaic to video and auto-track every moving object within a 36 square mile area.[1] So basically this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6cv0KsTTfY Edit: it's already being used domestically quote:ARGUS is only one form of Wide Area Persistent Surveillance. Other WAPS systems are already being used for domestic law enforcement[6] across the USA including Persistent Surveillance[7] in Dayton, Ohio,[8] Vigilant Stare [9] as well as Pixia’s[10] Hiper Stare.[11] While the government has not admitted to deploying ARGUS over the USA, it has shown video in which ARGUS was used within the United States. A variety of privacy advocacy groups including the ACLU[12] and [13] Teame Zazzu[14] have worked to bring the domestic deployments of ARGUS and other WAPS systems into the public debate. Rhesus Pieces fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Jun 3, 2015 |
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That's why I bang with the curtains open.
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Munkeymon posted:The Red Cross is also unable to do anything resembling sound financial planning because people lose their poo poo when their dollar doesn't go to the over-funded cause that inspired them to donate. Didn't congress pass a law in the wake of 9/11 that made charities have to spend donated money on the cause it was donated to if it was specified? Which all it resulted in was situations like this because they'd rather spend the extra money on lesser known issues.
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duz posted:Didn't congress pass a law in the wake of 9/11 that made charities have to spend donated money on the cause it was donated to if it was specified? Which all it resulted in was situations like this because they'd rather spend the extra money on lesser known issues. I know there was an investigation but I'm not sure if it resulted in a law to that effect. They might have just promised to waste money in the future to make people stop whining.
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Evil Fluffy posted:
True fact the prosperity gospel theology is widely considered a heresy...
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Jack2142 posted:True fact the prosperity gospel theology is widely considered a heresy... So is liberation theology, more's the pity.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:So is liberation theology, more's the pity. Although I think it is accepted by the Catholic Church since I learned about in my theology classes at a Catholic University. If the Catholics were willing to improve their stance on gay rights/abortion they probably would be considered fairly left leaning.
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I thought it was the American Catholics who were for the evangelical prosperity gospel bullshit, not Catholics in general.
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Jack2142 posted:Although I think it is accepted by the Catholic Church since I learned about in my theology classes at a Catholic University. If the Catholics were willing to improve their stance on gay rights/abortion they probably would be considered fairly left leaning. It's accepted to the extent that it does not portray Jesus as a Marxist revolutionary.
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Remember the guy who organized the Phoenix draw Muhammed event? Anti-Muslim Activist Who Tried To Raise $10M: 'Hackers Have Ruined My Life!' quote:The anti-Muslim activist in Arizona who apparently tried to raise $10 million this week after organizing a protest outside a Phoenix mosque said on Tuesday that he's been the victim of hackers who "have ruined my life." quote:I've malnutritioned (sic) myself,” Ritzheimer said. “It’s killing me. I hate seeing my family going through this distress. It’s killing them. They just want their normal lives back. You know, this whole thing did blow up in my face — I was ill-prepared. And the media is one, they’re the reasons (sic) for all this. They’ve taken it and they have twisted it and they have put lies. It’s ridiculous.”
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Joementum posted:Quote of the day, "Leave the science to the scientists." ~ Rick Santorum, to Pope Francis. Incidentally, the Pope holds a masters degree in Chemistry. What a snob.
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