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I don't consider myself a dummy (no matter what they say) but I recognize my needs. After all, I'm the one who didn't know how to reverse the quotation marks when needed. I always go for the manual as soon as I get an update, a new computer, or any new gadget. And I always have the same experience: within minutes I'm asleep.

I thought this would end after a few years, when lots of people became knowledgeable, but so far, no such luck. The condition remains: Technical writers don't know how to write!

If it's in print, sentences are convoluted, filled with jargon we "dummies" don't understand. Who can blame us for not understanding a foreign language?

If it's a video, the presenter wastes time with useless allusions and analogies, then zips over new procedures so fast they don't register. Or else, the action is obscured by the presenters hands or body or the camera angle isn't right. Forgive me, but I can only watch a thing so many times!

So what if I don't have a very long attention span, or my patience runs out, or I'm distracted by real life? I can't be the only human being with these problems. That doesn't make me a dummy! I have a healthy IQ, I can communicate with others, and I usually can make sense of what I'm told.

IT'S NOT US; IT'S THEM!

JP

So I come on to the site and...

No word from Hamler
No word from Vern
Nothing decent to read

I'm like --- wtf??

vern wrote:

Charles_F_Bell wrote:

It's not that Trump has always been right; it's that his political opposition of any Party has always been wrong.

A couple neglects to latch the bedroom door before engaging in vertical exercise, and their child walks in and sees everything.

GOP/DEM/LIB/GREEN/VERN : What an abuse of children! Why, we would never!

Trump: It's embarrassing, and one is regretful; mind your own effing business!

"A COUNTRY WITH NO BORDERS ISN'T A COUNTRY." 

That alone, spoken by no politician in the U.S. for generations, deserves him the Presidency.

You call that an argument/rebuttal? Geez. The blue stuff doesn't even make sense within any context of this discussion or possibly otherwise. And a country by definition has borders even if The Donald doesn't/can't see them.

This is exactly why Trump's opposition within any Party is always wrong. You're like drug addicts or psychopaths: whatever it is, deny, deny, deny. There are borders only if the administrative government forbids passage of every unauthorized person, so a statement that "The Donald doesn't see them" is some delusional allegation of an irrelevant charge.

vern wrote:

Building a wall around a country which serves no useful purpose is more of a prison than a natural border.

Whether by Rome or by China, walls worked for the purpose of establishing and maintaining borders so long as the concept that no unauthorized person may enter. Walls, and by "walls" it is meant any personal, physical, or electronic prevention, can only work if the concept of unauthorized person remains corresponding to reality, and only Trump as Presidential candidate is smart and sober enough to know that. The concept of open borders, that effectively there is or ought to be no unauthorized person to enter and reside in a sovereign nation, is to destroy that sovereign nation. International socialism either of the coercive kind (communism, anarcho-libertarianism) or the insidious kind (George Soros' Open Society and other sorts of collectivist anarchism), Islamic expansionist jihadism, in establishing caliphates regardless of nationality, or merely utilitarian expansion of a slave class has a vested interest in diminishing or destroying U.S. national sovereignty. And then there are the drug addicts, psychopaths, and the stupid like you who are delusional.

What would your wife or 19-year-old daughter say if you 'forbade' her to interview with Trump, or Clinton, or a charismatic governor or mayor?  Isn't the freedom to make choices (and thus mistakes) central to feminism?

I would hope my wife/daughter/sister were self-aware enough to avoid fascination with wealth and power, and to control the messages they put out in response to it,