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I don't believe that is an accurate characterization of the left, to say they're anti-science or anti-GMO. As far as I can tell, the American left generally wa
by Frondo 10y ago
I don't believe that is an accurate characterization of the left, to say they're anti-science or anti-GMO. As far as I can tell, the American left generally wants GMO ingredients to be labeled, as they are in Europe, so that consumers can make their own choices.
As for Trump being a master of words, no, not if you posit that words have meaning. Here's a quote from a speech he gave in 2015 (source: http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/11/14238274/trumps-speaking-style-press-conference-linguists-explain http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/11/14238274/tr...):
"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, okay, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, okay, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right — who would have thought?), but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us."
That is not a masterful use of words, unless you intend a nonstandard definition of "masterful".
You may consider that there is "emotional crybabying" from the left, but from where I sit, people across a wide swath of mainstream thinking are concerned about a lot of the baggage Trump is bringing to the table.
You're free to disagree, but I'm also free to think that you haven't thought things through very deeply when you say the things you said up there.
- civilian 10y agoYou've got good points, and you're right that I didn't explain "master of words" well. I think that most people are about as bad with listening comprehension as they are in reading comprehension. It's why in ToastMasters you're told to structure your speech in the format of "Tell the audience what you're about to tell them. Tell them it. And then tell them what you just told them." The amount of _time_ he spends on a topic just shows that he's thinking about and that it's important to him. He's conveying that he cares and he takes it seriously. He's not trying to explain tactics or be especially witty. And this is a style that we're not used it! Which is why it took everyone off-guard, and made people who are "classically" good-with-words underestimate him. But who knows, maybe this is just 20/20 hindsight.
- dragonwriter 10y agoTo be fair, most of the American Left is anti-GMO, but then, so is much of the American Right and Center (Republicans are equally split on whether GMOs are safe, independents find them unsafe by a 20-point margin, Democrats by a 26-point margin.) http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=97567&page=1 http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=97567&page=1