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Grand Unified Election Thread 2: What is the difference between Biden and Dump?

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Handyman said:
Sorry I am too busy laughing at the fact that Trump team is trying to reach double digit losses in cases. they are trying to petition to get heard by the GA Supreme Court and the Wisconsin Supreme Court. I mean it is just getting sad now.

edit: Milo the Pervert is having a meltdown on Parler!

https://twitter.com/classiclib3ral/status/1337596346124132353
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"Will dedicate his life toward the destruction of the Republican party"

Too late, Donnie beat you to it.
 
Handyman said:
Since the Texas GOP now thinks the Red States should secede...

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I don't know what to say, but how people are so misled that they are willing to part with the most powerful country in the world because some child is so separate from reality.

Why anyone would want a delusional dictator child is beyond me. Just look at his policies- the government will have no money to do anything- including trying to fight the very country you just left. There will be no workers, as none will be allowed in the country. There will be a lot of talk for tax cuts, because the billionaires need more money than you need food on your table. There will be hospitals for the rich only.

Other than a lot of bravado and one tax cut, this guy has done nothing. Yet they worship him.

edit- forgot the blatant racism.
 
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There was a headline in The Onion about how Facebook is implementing a plan to break up the US government before it becomes too powerful, and I thought well... that seems accurate. I thought The Onion used to be satirical.
 
This is from the WSJ:

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No wonder Sicatoka Collins hasn't been posting much he now writes for the Journal!

This guy is being destroyed on Twitter for this.
 
Handyman said:
This is from the WSJ:

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No wonder Sicatoka Collins hasn't been posting much he now writes for the Journal!

This guy is being destroyed on Twitter for this.
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I wonder what a heart surgeon who has never delivered a child thinks about said "wise man"?

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Mr. Joseph Epstein, BA, seems to have an inferiority complex.
 
It actually is a truism, though, that unless your degree is an MD you should not refer to yourself as "doctor." PhDs who insist on being addressed as "Dr." are the laughingstocks of academia. Dr. Mrs. (that's the joke) has a great story about an emeritus professor walking into the office she shared with another tenure track professor who had his newly-minted PhD on the wall. He looked at it and said, "well, I assumed."
 
Kepler said:
It actually is a truism, though, that unless your degree is an MD you should not refer to yourself as "doctor." PhDs who insist on being addressed as "Dr." are the laughingstocks of academia. Dr. Mrs. (that's the joke) has a great story about an emeritus professor walking into the office she shared with another tenure track professor who had his newly-minted PhD on the wall. He looked at it and said, "well, I assumed."
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That is stupid as hell. The PHD doctor predates the medical doctor by quite a bit of time.
 
Kepler said:
It actually is a truism, though, that unless your degree is an MD you should not refer to yourself as "doctor." PhDs who insist on being addressed as "Dr." are the laughingstocks of academia. Dr. Mrs. (that's the joke) has a great story about an emeritus professor walking into the office she shared with another tenure track professor who had his newly-minted PhD on the wall. He looked at it and said, "well, I assumed."
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Or a lawyer referring to them-self as "esquire".

I can understand the WSJ's stance on not using doctor unless MD, though that will always be a heated debate. I don't need their analysis of her dissertation title though.
 
French Rage said:
Or a lawyer referring to them-self as "esquire".

I can understand the WSJ's stance on not using doctor unless MD, though that will always be a heated debate. I don't need their analysis of her dissertation title though.
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It's not WSJ, it's some dink in an OpEd. But they published it.
 
Handyman said:
That is stupid as hell. The PHD doctor predates the medical doctor by quite a bit of time.
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Nobody debates that a PhD has the right to call herself a "doctor." But not doing so, consciously, goes back to the way professors are thought of by graduate students in America as opposed to say Germany.

In the European system the professor transmits the Word of Intellectual Authority, often (as in Germany in the 19th century) backed by the state, to the graduate students, who imbibe it. Only when they become professors and have the credential to teach are they expected (allowed) to go off on their own and create new knowledge. It is top down. Therefore, titles and the professor/student distinction are everything there. You always refer to a professor as Herr Doktor. To not do so would be a huge breach of social and professional etiquette.

In America, academia is thought of as a mutual pursuit of the truth. The professor is a guide and a helper, but the graduate students are partners. The professor is "Primus inter pares." The title is the qualification that allows her to have her job but beyond that it is played down as a barrier to discourse.

It's just a very, very different way of looking at education and research. But it's not stupid -- it has a meaning that is tied up with an American perspective which honestly I think is a good thing.
 
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