Victor Davis Hanson on what drives and motivates Trump:
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"Trump Did It… And Now They’re SCRAMBLING... | Victor Davis Hanson"
"Trump Did It… And Now They’re SCRAMBLING... | Victor Davis Hanson"In this video, Victor Davis Hanson exposes the left’s contradictions in their attacks on D...YouTube
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in reply to anonymiss • • •Passwords for accounts accessed over the Internet should be long random strings of upper and lower-case letters and numerals. E.g.,
m7FDi8cCybOspY5sAVN14jdYj
.Memorizable passwords should only be used if they can't be used remotely. The passwords you use to boot and log into your computer can be memorizable, but they should be difficult to memorize. Ideally, they should contain no words in any language.
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in reply to anonymiss • • •You can remember a process that creates your passwords or PINs.
printf "my easy phrase" | sha256sum | tr "0" "Q" | sha256sum | tr "0" "Q" | sha256sum
You remember the phrase, the
sha256sum
commands, and thetr
commands.Samuel Smith
in reply to anonymiss • • •I like it, but sadly the people talking about password strengths and the people needing stronger password are usually completely different sets of people.
IMHO, the best LCD (lowest common denominator) passwords are phrases like "4ScoreAnd7BeersAgo"
Easy to remember, long enough, and still has three types of characters.
If there's a better mental password system for opsec challenged people, I'd love some suggestions!
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in reply to anonymiss • • •@Samuel Smith go to a+ security style with some special character:
“4:Score&7.5Beers<-Ago!”
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in reply to anonymiss • • •I had a new employee who didn't know how to use the "Shift" key. So we found him a workaround. It was painful to watch. He would press the caps lock, then a letter, then turn caps lock off, then a few more letters or numbers, then the caps lock...
I'm leery of using special characters because sometimes the developer of a site will disallow certain characters, but not filter them on input. So conceivably, you could enter "It'sTooHotInAZ120°" and it would accept it, then you can't log in because the ° symbol isn't allowed.
The LCD isn't always the user... LOL
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in reply to anonymiss • • •The USA was founded by wealthy slaveholders.
Of the first 12 Presidents, only two were not slaveholders: Adams and Adams. Why didn't John Adams and John Quincy Adams own slaves? Because it's obviously immoral.
One of those ten slaveholders was Thomas "All men are created equal" Jefferson, who enslaved more people than any other President. He owned slaves every single day of his adult life. Some slaveholders turned against slavery and became abolitionists. Not Jefferson. Some freed their slaves in their wills. Not Jefferson. (Washington did free his slaves in his will.)
When the Declaration of Independence was signed, slavery was legal in all 13 states.
britannica.com/topic/The-Found…
BTW, read about Jefferson and the six children he fathered with his property, Sally Hemings. Jefferson hated the press so much because they kept telling the truth about him and his very young, enslaved mistress.
The Founding Fathers and Slavery | History, Impact & Legacy | Britannica
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What is with the women?
David
in reply to anonymiss • • •Some women in the USA (e.g., in Wyoming) were voting in elections in 1869, but women didn't get the right all over the USA until 1920.
What about Germany?
I was shocked a few years ago, right here on D*, to discover that women didn't get the vote in Switzerland until 1971!
OK. Just looked it up. Women got the vote in Germany in 1918.
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In Europe, and in former colonies of European countries, wealthy men have ruled for centuries. The USA was founded by wealthy men.
After WWII, the USA had huge advantages over the rest of the industrialized world. Europe and Japan were in ruins, along with all the countries that were part of the empire of Japan before the war.
The wealth of the wealthy wasn't completely gone, but much of it was destroyed by the war.
The US President during the war was Franklin Roosevelt, and his policy was to take power and wealth from the rich and give it to the war effort, and, after the war, to the veterans of the war.
Veterans, almost overnight, became a new, large middle class. They were able to earn university degrees and buy real estate. They joined labor unions. They had real pensions (not retirement accounts from which banks profited). They were able to send their children to universities.
Everyone in this new middle class assumed that the middle class would continue to grow and become more powerful. The wealthy who owned the USA before WWI seemed to be defeated. This was sometimes called "the revolution of rising expectations."
But the old wealthy families were not gone. They fought back. By 1980 they had regained power. It took a few more decades to get wealth and income inequality back to where it was in the 1890s, but the wealthy have won the class war they started.
Now wealth and income inequality in the USA is greater than ever. This country is run, once again, by racist, wealthy, old, white men. To them, what you call "democracy" is radical, extreme socialism.
@Richard
Trump's victories in 2016 and 2024 were not unpredictable or random occurrences. They were, to a large extent, the result of the poor quality of the only party allowed by our election laws to compete with the Republicans. The Democratic Party is a conservative party whose only appeal to voters is "We're not as bad as the Republicans." It's not at all surprising that it has failed to inspire potential voters to vote.
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