b***y
发帖数: 14281 | 1 就是要养活那么多生产垃圾食品和糖果的公司。同样的，万圣节也是。没有学校和社团
帮着拉学生去骗捐的话，这些公司早都破产了。
类似的还有美国学校隔三差五的搞的book sale，美其名曰叫做鼓励学生提高阅读量，
其实就是需要养活一大群mediocre talent-less kids' book writers。这些人在美国
也是一个巨大的产业链，没有学校帮着骗小孩子的钱早就饿死了。
无论是垃圾糖果公司，还是垃圾儿童读物作者，其实对社会的贡献都微乎其微，只不过
是一群富余人口需要养活而已。当一个社会的经济体系发达到了一定程度后总会出现一
些这种人和一套养活他们的机制，倒也不是什么很大的问题，但也没有他们自吹自擂的
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发帖数: 6723 | 2 【 以下文字转载自 Mod_CHN_Hist 讨论区 】
发信人: Mayingba (吳鐘學), 信区: Mod_CHN_Hist
标 题: 奉天兵工厂
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Jan 28 20:29:57 2018, 美东)
https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2017/04/03/mukden-arsenal-after-wwii/
Mukden Arsenal after WWII
April 3, 2017 jwh19752 Comments
(Zhang's Gate, the old entrance to Mukden Arsenal)
For people interested in Japanese firearms of WWII, the name Mukden Arsenal
is familiar. The history of the facility after Japan's defeat is less well
known. Under various names, it did surv... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 552 | 3 任何歷史猛人，其位後代都極不可能繼續威猛
按照francis galton的理論，叫做regression towards mediocrity
: 了不起的人物，不过我比他更神机妙算，21世纪的姜太公。
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发帖数: 1 | 4 Google的北京office确实是差不多这样的。
但是硅谷的Google，说实话，西南交大算是mediocre了，见过很多本科是纯文科院系的
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发帖数: 1 | 5 国内文科学校傻妞一堆在google facebook
就一年半硕士
: Google的北京office确实是差不多这样的。
: 但是硅谷的Google，说实话，西南交大算是mediocre了，见过很多本科是纯文科
院系的
: 文科专业的。。
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发帖数: 1 | 6 哈哈哈哈。
有一天我删了400多人，包括你啊。。。
mediocre... |
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发帖数: 5309 | 7 华盛顿邮报这篇评论文章颇有意思。
足球不适合举国体制。比如当年东德的奥运金牌数一数二，但足球比西德可以忽略不计。
足球运动完全没有正确的踢法，也没有可以遵循的成功路线。 足球需要运动员能够在
场上随机应变。
严格训练虽然能提高球员的技能和体力，但足球艺术不是练出来的。
球队成功很大程度靠球星。为什么最伟大的球星都是小矮个没人能理解。
球星不是刻苦训练能产生的，而是需要能自由发挥的成长环境。
巴西，阿根廷，西班牙，葡萄牙这种推崇激情鄙视纪律的国家最适合踢球。
美帝虽然是自由国家，但体育却是强调纪律训练的专制体制，所以美帝足球也很烂。
Why China doesn’t dominate soccer
By Stefan Szymanski
June 18 at 3:18 PM
The most populous nation on Earth is not playing in the 2018 World Cup.
Soccer is China’s most popular sport, but its current FIFA world ranking is
No. 75. Wh... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17722 | 9
The fledgling world of AI hedge funds is claiming one of its first
casualties.
Sentient Investment Management is notifying investors of plans to liquidate
the hedge fund it started in late 2016, according to people with knowledge
of the situation. The fund managed less than $100 million and hasn’t made
money this year after gaining 4 percent in 2017, one of the people said.
Sentient, based in San Francisco, used artificial intelligence techniques,
including machine learning and so-called evolut... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 10 就算有也是mediocre 你还是找找美国top10里面有多少中国回民考题 注意 限定中国回
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发帖数: 4339 | 11 我三年经看清楚了这点，所以才不想跟他们同流合污，想整个牛逼的技术，跳出学术界
的火坑，到工业界做一点有实在用处的工作。可惜自己的实力不够。
我相信 我也不是完全不行，不然现在博后两个教授也不会支持我。我上个星期跟他们
提出要quit，止损。他们都不同意，有一个说：除了彗星撞地球，我们也会想办法搞钱
，支持你的研究的。
我心里的确很感动。
当然从他的角度，他几乎不可能找到比我更努力的学生/博后来做一个high risk,high
payoff的工作。反正对他来说，他花这个钱找别人，做mediocre的工作，出灌水文章，
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发帖数: 3662 | 12 church is a mediocre scientist |
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发帖数: 6504 | 13 历史经常都是小人物推动。
说回来，哈佛教授咋又成了mediocre了？
讲伦理的里面有哪位超级大牛，举例说炸药奖的？
如果炸药奖的不谴责，说不好贺教授以后还有机会。 |
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发帖数: 1 | 14 Despite receiving advanced degrees even from reputed institutions in the USA
, he failed to improve his social status. To add insult to injury, his wife,
who was merely a language graduate when he met her, had elevated her status
to that of future doctor, with earning potential greater than him.
According to her grandmother, she teased Mainak, and he didn’t take it well.
The oft-described loner, Sarkar, was already ill at ease, socially, and
neither took well to criticism or teasing. For an IIT ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 632 | 15 McKinley Conway, 1920-2011:
Last Flight Home in a Landmark Life
ONLINE INSIDER
McKinley Conway
by JACK LYNE
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his Mac Conway fellow, you might be wondering, now just who was he again?
Yeah, he's the guy who started Site Selection 'n all, but did he ever do
anything else? I'm kinda in a hurry here, pal. So just tell me who this dude
was like.
Oh, hell, Mac Conway wasn't like anybody. He never followed anyone's
footsteps; he couldn't really. He was too restless a spirit, too hell-bent
on slashing ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9616 | 17 Not BA. BA had a very mediocre season this year. It's the other pair. |
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发帖数: 930 | 18 lol. Since when does mediocre equate perfect? |
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发帖数: 2153 | 19 So, you’ve been eyeing that smart, attractive scientist you’re lucky
enough to know personally. You’re intrigued. Your scientist is smart, funny
, confident. Visions of Louis de Broglie or Rosalind Franklin putting on
their safety glasses and lab coats to come to do experiments with you runs
through your head..
Who can blame you? Science is a sexy occupation.
But scientists aren’t like the bimbos you usually pick up at the bar. Nor
are they the assholes you ladies continually fall for. No, scien... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 100 | 20 let me do something for you, even awkwardly,
like find a mediocre job to support family,
so that I could be a little bit worthy in your eye.
I intend to go to Canada. so far, I don't plan to
go back to China or stay in US. For other things,
I will see what I could do.
Also, I still don't know who you are, and how to reach you.
Maybe you will let me know. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 政府膨胀：1960年，1,500万美国人在制造业工作，870万在政府部门工作；2011年，2,
250在政府部门工作，1,150万在制造业工作
By STEPHEN MOORE
If you want to understand better why so many states—from New York to
Wisconsin to California—are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, consider
this depressing statistic: Today in America there are nearly twice as many
people working for the government (22.5 million) than in all of
manufacturing (11.5 million). This is an almost exact reversal of the
situation in 1960, when there were 15 million workers in m... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 Adam Carolla on the Politics of Envy and the Shame-Driven Angst of the
Occupiers
by The Political Palaver
The problem reasonable Americans have had in addressing the Occupy Wall
Street crowd has stemmed from our propensity to be just that: reasonable.
How do you have a rational conversation with someone who is decrying the
evils of capitalism while copiously taking in its fruits in the form of
iPhones and double-tall Starbucks lattes? What do you say to a a girl that
wonders why her $96K degree ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 Heather Knight
Friday, March 9, 2012
Last year, a family of three earning $111,000 a year could afford just 23
percent of homes for sale in San Francisco - mostly in southern
neighborhoods, including Bayview-Hunters Point.
The median price of a house in the city in 2010 was $668,000. Just 2 percent
of new housing units built in the city since 2001 are single-family,
detached homes.
These were just a few of the scores of statistics presented at a special
Board of Supervisors hearing Thursday to h... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 Mia Love spoke at the RNC last week.
Before she was 30 years old, she graduated from college with honors, worked
at three companies including an airline, married/three children, served for
6 years on the City Council of Saratoga Springs, Utah, and later elected
City Mayor.
Restructuring its finances, Mayor Love leaves the municipality with the
highest bond rating possible AA+ and is now running for Congress from Utah’
s 4th District.
Sandra Fluke is a 30 year old Georgetown student, still in col... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 Barack Obama's Columbia GPA Ferreted Out By The Daily Caller Via Random Guy
From The Interwebs
Go ahead and give Mitt Romney all of your unskewed Electoral College votes,
folks, because The Daily Caller has done changed the game with their recent
report that President Barack Obama earned a mediocre grade point average at
Columbia University, according to some random anonymous guy that they met on
Chatroulette, or something.
According to the Daily Caller's source, who we are assured is a "wealthy... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 26 Is Obama Stupid and Lazy?
Although that’s quite a provocative question, evidence is mounting that
Obama may not be as intelligent as his supporters and cheerleaders in the
media constantly assure us. The reality may be that Obama is mostly a
creation of the liberal media. Indeed, the more we dig into his past, the
more we find very little substance and discover how a network of liberal
professors, law firms, and others, gave him a pass on performance while he
pursued his political agenda.
Educat... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5732 | 27 还是不够聪明， 这些学校收的要么巨有钱，要么据聪明， 另方面都mediocre就麻烦 |
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发帖数: 3299 | 28 I read what you write several times and agree most of your points. I
understand and share your frustration as a person from Asia. But to overcome
these hurdles, we Chinese should first understand our conditions in this
country.
First of all, it is well known to other racial groups, Asian, particularly
Chinese, allow practice racism towards blacks openly, without shame,
meanwhile their women worship white dicks. Asian women are known trying hard
sleeping around to get married to a white. This is ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3299 | 29 You are too full of yourselves to believe that Asians have achieved
anything beyond other races. It is the opposite that defines the Asian race,
this is, the mediocrity. Name a successful Asian who is remotely comparable
to Mike Jordon. Whites and blacks, on the other hand, have deep influence
on and shape this country, culturally or politically. I don't have to tell
you that the president of USA is a black man. In the meanwhile, most Asians
work in the technical fields with low ranks, with lead... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3299 | 30 You call those people not a racist. So the following is justifiable as well.
I understand the difference of scores in the IQ test among races. You are
eager to mention the fact that average IQ of Asians is higher than whites
and blacks. But you fail to mention that Asians are a race of mediocrity,
with no wisdom. It is a group lacking the people who are truly a genius.
Other races have leaders with great wisdom, like a group of sheep leading by
a lion. Meanwhile, "smart" ass Chinese are stilled ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8800 | 31 [Benjamin Solomon "Ben" Carson, Sr. (September 18, 1951)] Source: LYBIO.net
Thank you so much. Mr. President, Mr. Vice President, Mrs. Obama,
distinguished guests – which included everybody. Thank you so much for this
wonderful honor to be at this stage again. I was here 16 years ago, and the
fact that they invited me back means that I didn’t offend too many people,
so that was great. [LAUGHTER]
I want to start by reading four texts which will put into I want to start by
reading four texts which... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5417 | 32 Here's the transcript of his speech on national breakfast.
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[Benjamin Solomon "Ben" Carson, Sr. (September 18, 1951)] Source: LYBIO.net
Thank you so much. Mr. President, Mr. Vice President, Mrs. Obama,
distinguished guests – which included everybody. Thank you so much for this
wonderful honor to be at this stage again. I was here 16 years ago, and the
fact that they invited me back means that I didn’t offend too many people,
so that was ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 The Death of the Family
By Mark Steyn
March 29, 2013 3:00 P.M.
Gay marriage? It came up at dinner Down Under this time last year, and the
prominent Aussie politician on my right said matter-of-factly, “It’s not
about expanding marriage, it’s about destroying marriage.”
That would be the most obvious explanation as to why the same societal
groups who assured us in the Seventies that marriage was either (a) a “
meaningless piece of paper” or (b) institutionalized rape are now insisting
it’s a univ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3656 | 34 it s simple, the unions fucked manufacturing. The cost is prohibiting that
the companies took the jobs else where as soon as they got a chance. It was
just so happened that the cold war ended and there came immediately
globalization. Once those jobs are gone, it is very hard for them to come
back. Good thing that when the hosts dies, the parasites die with them.
And the unions fucked education. No accountability in teachers means no
accountabilty in students. Schools play feel good education and... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3249 | 35 【 以下文字转载自 LosAngeles 讨论区 】
发信人: rowena (最忆是江南), 信区: LosAngeles
标 题: response to 'income inequality' speech
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Feb 28 11:24:29 2014, 美东)
January 2014 - Bob Lonsberry, Rochester talk radio personality responds to
Obama's 'income inequality speech':
Two Americas, the America that works and the America that doesn't. The
America that contributes and the America that doesn't. It's not the haves
and the have not's, it's the dos and the don'ts. Some people do their duty
as Ameri... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 May 8, 2014 - 6:36 PM
By BOB MOEN, Associated Press
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming, the nation's top coal-producing state, is
the first to reject new K-12 science standards proposed by national
education groups mainly because of global warming components.
The Wyoming Board of Education decided recently that the Next Generation
Science Standards need more review after questions were raised about the
treatment of man-made global warming.
Board President Ron Micheli said the review will look into wh... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 Obamacare: State Dems’ Worst Nightmare
Troubles with liberal states’ exchanges are dragging down their Democratic
governors.
By Michael Tanner
As the bad news about Obamacare’s federal operations keeps on coming, it’s
worth keeping in mind that the law is a mess at the state level as well.
The big question will be whether the failures will hurt Democratic state
politicians as much as Obamacare appears likely to drag down national
Democrats. Most of the 17 states that chose to set up and operate ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 38 Brandon Rottinghaus and Justin S. Vaughn | February 13, 2015 11:30am
Measuring Obama against the great presidents
As Presidents Day approaches, so too does our annual reflection about our
greatest presidents and how our current chief executive stacks up against
them. Although much of this commentary is of the arm-chair analyst variety,
a recent cottage industry of systematic investigations has emerged. Famed
Harvard historian Arthur Schlesinger Sr. deserves most of the credit for the
advance of ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8291 | 39 这里大概小娃的父母多，对上好大学的严峻情况不是非常了解。在这里 mysc1234给大
家看个今年的真实案例，从http://www.collegeconfidential.com 上找下来的，是个小中男。大家认真想想，若干年后，你们的孩子能有这个小中男这样优秀的成绩吗？相信对大部分的孩子来说是绝不可能的！但即使取得他这样优异的成绩，又能怎样？？！！看看血淋淋的事实吧，听听他无助的呐喊，再想想该如何教育，引导你自己的孩子。
简介：
SAT 2400, 满分
不算AP课的GPA 3.96 (满分是4.00）
学校成绩排名 top 5%
已修完AP课程 10 门，都是 5分 （满分），正在修另外 6门 AP 课程。
主要奖励： 西门子半决赛，ISTS半决赛， 以及其他数学和科学竞赛入围
课外活动：
马拉松队长，击剑队队长，数学协会主席，物理奥赛主席，还有另外五个协会的主席或
副主席， 多年暑假在大学做研究intern.
服务社区： 创立免费家教组织，还每周在敬老院做义工。
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发帖数: 3656 | 40 if hard work is not rewarded, there will eventually be no hard work nor hard
working people.
if merit is not rewarded, there will be eventually only mediocrity.
this is what happened in China when we were young. it is sad to see the US
going that way too. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 Here’s what womens’ sports is going to look like in the very near future.
Or should we say “womyns’ sports?” This just happens to be MMA, but
reruns will be coming in every sport.
First, some generalities about women. They do not have the upper body
strength or overall size of men. There is no sport out there where, at the
highest competitive levels, women can compete against men and win.
The winner, in 2:17 of the first round, of the above bout was Fallon Fox.
She’s got five straight MMA wins b... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 52743 | 42 也许不选上的作用更大，选上会变成一个mediocre政客。历史上所有总统从竞选到执政
都是判若两人。
尝胆
人说
侯赛
基本
点好
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发帖数: 1554 | 43 现在6%的亚裔已经占了20%的名校入学名额，这方面的斗争成果已经很不错了，没必要
再纠缠下去；真正对亚裔不利的是工作场所的竞争，比如硅谷1/3是亚裔，但只有6%的
董事会成员是亚裔，这才是需要AA的。
再说一遍：我不讨论AA是对还是错，按种族配额是种族主义也好、不公平不正义也好，
我不在乎；我只在乎提高亚裔在公司管理层的比例，如果按种族配额可以提高，我就支
持AA。显然，现在1/3的人口不按AA只有6%，如果按AA有可能提高到30%，10%也好啦。
And yet the numbers tell a different story. According to a recent study,
Asian-Americans represent roughly 5 percent of the population but only
0.3 percent of corporate officers, less than 1 percent of corporate board
members, and around 2 percent of college presiden... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 473 | 44 听过全集。但是你有知道Trump declared几次破产。他是奸商，路人皆知。你应该不会
因为他说了句Asian你就以为说你吧？Trump说话从来都是可以反覆的。而且top 1%的优
秀生是不在乎留在美国的。而大部分中国来的留学生只是mediocre,夺取的是美国本地
大学毕业的孩子的工作。
我可以告诉你一个我工作中的感受。亚洲来的学生和有经验的工作者，面试的技能很好
，但工作后的能力不一定比本地的强多少，就是很努力。但沟通上不行，也没有团队精
神。我知道很多本地孩子毕业后找不到工作，但身边的公司还是大批地招外国人。 |
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发帖数: 473 | 45 听过全集。但是你有知道Trump declared几次破产。他是奸商，路人皆知。你应该不会
因为他说了句Asian你就以为说你吧？Trump说话从来都是可以反覆的。而且top 1%的优
秀生是不在乎留在美国的。而大部分中国来的留学生只是mediocre,夺取的是美国本地
大学毕业的孩子的工作。
我可以告诉你一个我工作中的感受。亚洲来的学生和有经验的工作者，面试的技能很好
，但工作后的能力不一定比本地的强多少，就是很努力。但沟通上不行，也没有团队精
神。我知道很多本地孩子毕业后找不到工作，但身边的公司还是大批地招外国人。 |
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发帖数: 1554 | 46 你得给一个统计，比如在硅谷亚裔员工多少，高管比例多少，还要上linkedin查，这些
都是小样本，没意义。
算了，我给你比例吧：
And yet the numbers tell a different story. According to a recent study,
Asian-Americans represent roughly 5 percent of the population but only
0.3 percent of corporate officers, less than 1 percent of corporate board
members, and around 2 percent of college presidents. There are nine Asian-
American CEOs in the Fortune 500. In specific fields where Asian-Americans
are heavily represented, there is a similar asymmetry. A thir... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1453 | 47 对啊，这个老头就是像很多人说的是一个local candidate，他不了解美国以外的情况
。只要看看世界上的其它国家，集权社会主义国家，比方说中国，民主社会主义国家，
比如说法国，都证明了社会主义只会培养mediocrity. |
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发帖数: 2239 | 48 Rand Paul being Rand Paul, he is an odd-ball in politics.
It's hard to find candidate having all things we like. Even for Trump, I
find his speech is mediocre. I still dont know how he can build that wall
and beat China/Japan in trade war. But hey, we are voting with our middle
finger anyway. |
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发帖数: 10729 | 49 Political correctness is destroying America, and Western civilization.
This year America celebrates her 240th birthday. If she is to make her tri-
centennial in 2076, a feat few great nations in history have achieved, it
will need to crush this totalitarian ideology that is currently strangling
it.
Every problem in America today is linked to political correctness. Declining
educational standards, increasing secularism, the police not being allowed
to do their job, an inability to secure her bord... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8358 | 50 这都是拿他老爸的钱做投资的。而且没赚多少钱。你真是朽木不可雕。
下面是对他能力的评价。
An analysis of his business career byThe Economistconcludes that his
"...performance has been mediocre compared with the stockmarket and
property in New York. |
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