No, no bets, thank you. I thought this was a shining example of why Trump being president should bother people. He really is stupid and obnoxious and uneducated to that level.

I have a vague memory of 2016 Trump boasting that he could be very "presidential", was very clever, and had "the best words". What has that come to? This video basically.

Frankly at that time I was still convinced Obama was a puppet - a black intellectual fullfilling the role that a party needed fulfilled, a token black president. Retrospectively he was (is) a very intelligent, eloquent person excercising extreme self-control in the face of trolls like Bob. He was constantly walking a tightrope of trying to rebuff idiots without insulting them. And tried to promote some reasonable policies.

Trump could not summon the effort to self control, but mainly he does not understand why he should restrain himself. He is like a travesty show performer, as long as he is billed in this performance as "president" he can do anything, no matter how stupid, and there will be people cheering.

What intrigues me is that in the US tradition past presidents are given a "respected" status for life. Should be fun.

Skywalker is really just a tightrope walker without the rope.

Here are three amazing(imo) music videos that were referenced (*related) in this video.
- Many Moons https://videosift.com/video/Janelle-Monae-Many-Moons
- Queen https://videosift.com/video/Janelle-Monae-Q-U-E-E-N-feat-Erykah-Badu
- Tightrope https://videosift.com/video/Janelle-Monae-Tightrope

(edit) oops, seems siftbot is not cool with a *killed video. My bad.

Guys, this ain't so hard...
You're a racist when you assign more or less value as a human being to people of a certain race (ethnical group) than you assign to yourself because of their ethnicity. There's a difference between saying "Stalin is less worth than M.L. King" (personal opinion) and "white people are worth less than blacks". The latter would be racism.
Prejudice is when you have opinions about people before knowing the facts about them.
Walking up to Mike Tyson and saying "You must have a giant cock because all black men are giants" is a prejudice that may be racist but it assigns positive values. Sure, it's offensive, like telling asian people they must be great at math, but somewhat forgivable. You're an ignorant cunt, yeah, but at least you said something flattering. You racist.
Walking up to Mike and telling him "All black men are criminals" is not only prejudice but also racist. Why? Because calling somebody a criminal is a negative judgement. A generalized negative prejudice towards an ethnic group is a racist way of thinking. Mike was convicted for raping his girlfriend. He is a criminal. Not all black men are Tyson. And if they were, I'd prefer the science variant. You're plain wrong.
Now saying "I bet all black people like listening to R'nB music" is just prejudice. There's no judgement here. Right? Unless you consider "he listens to R'n'B" an insult. How about "all polish people love ice cream"? Did you just imply polish people are all fat?
The difference between prejudice and racist prejudice lies entirely in subtext and context. It's not what you say, it's what you mean.
Prejudice is a tightrope made of blurry lines spanning over a pit of outrage. That's why politicians should not walk that way.
Being aware of differences between race, ethnic groups and talking about is simply being hones and probably not giving a shit about political correctness. We ARE different. That's the interesting part.
What we sadly forget is this: to focus on what we have in common. But somebody already said that way more eloquent than I ever could:
"Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer
as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us,
do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.

Here's another one - referenced in the article, where a woman tightrope walks between two volvo trucks, pretty epic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zXwOoeGzys

Tags for this video have been changed from 'raccoon, cross the street, tightrope, wire, telephone, cable' to 'raccoon, acrobat, cross the street, tightrope, wire, telephone, cable, walking, upright' - edited by kulpims

It'd be refreshing if people would want public policy to be about the public good and not about animosity for the other tribe. It'd also be nice if people on the right had even the slightest grasp on reality.

The whole thing about Romney and healthcare is indeed a perfect example -- Romney should be proud of Romneycare, and should be trying to take credit for Obamacare because people on the right and left should consider that a reason to vote for him. The left because it's a massively empowering system for the average man, and the right because it takes us a long way towards getting a properly functioning market in the healthcare sector, rather than one rife with perverse incentives and government subsidies of big business.

But instead the people who like to vote Republican think that Obamacare is some scary Soviet-style takeover of American society, and that the Republican nominee will be the shining knight to save the world from this threat. And of course, they think that because the Republican party has told them that, and told them that anyone who says different is "liberal" and therefore the enemy of freedom.

I'm pretty tribal myself these days, but my tribe is "sanity", and I'm a partisan against insanity.

And Ron Paul...Paul clearly plays for the other side in that fight.

>> ^jmzero:

In general, it baffles me that the Republicans can't find better candidates; but then again look at the hoops you have to jump through. Romney is a perfect example; as NetRunner says above, it's clear he supports a health plan substantively the same as Obama's - but he HAS TO say he hates it to have any hope. They have to walk a tightrope on social issues and toe a very narrow line on economics. Pander, pander, pander, never be candid, never just say what you think.
...
How refreshing it would be for people to be picking the candidate who actually agreed with them, rather than whoever pretends the best.

I think you have to really already not like Mitt in order to get too worked up about this. Even out of context it's not that offensive or entertaining, and I think "government firing people" is actually what a lot of the Republican base wants anyways.

In general, it baffles me that the Republicans can't find better candidates; but then again look at the hoops you have to jump through. Romney is a perfect example; as NetRunner says above, it's clear he supports a health plan substantively the same as Obama's - but he HAS TO say he hates it to have any hope. They have to walk a tightrope on social issues and toe a very narrow line on economics. Pander, pander, pander, never be candid, never just say what you think.

Well, except Ron Paul. That guy doesn't pander. He just is. Unfortunately for him, I don't think what he is is what quite enough people want for him to actually be elected. I wish there was Ron Paul equivalents at a few different places on the political spectrum. How refreshing it would be for people to be picking the candidate who actually agreed with them, rather than whoever pretends the best (or presents themselves the best, like this is bloody American Idol).

Your video, Cat Walking A Tightrope, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

>> ^bareboards2:

go to 8:15 on the vid

>> ^harpom:
The second song is great. Any one know who it is?



Thanks. I found them and have two of their albums now. I am very impressed with this band. Both albums are great. I've listened to them all day.

Hi- I think this meets criteria for brain... http://www.videosift.com/video/Mihaly-Csikszentmihalyi-Creativity-fulfillment-and-flow

It's one of those videos which is (IMO) very enlightening and useful to all, yet has no obvious fit in any particular category.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
Thanks! I noticed you went through your vids to add some to the channel, but you can't use the invocation on your own vids - you have to use the 'modify video details' page to do it. I went back and added a few myself. Some (not all) of the others, though, I'm not so sure about. Basically, any video in the channel should provide some knowledge about how the brain or mind works to produce some particular behavior, as opposed to just demonstrating that behavior. I'm also avoiding social psychology for that reason as well. It's a bit of a tightrope walk - I want the channel to be well focused, but I don't want it to be too narrow.

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Brain channel, cool!

Thanks! I noticed you went through your vids to add some to the channel, but you can't use the invocation on your own vids - you have to use the 'modify video details' page to do it. I went back and added a few myself. Some (not all) of the others, though, I'm not so sure about. Basically, any video in the channel should provide some knowledge about how the brain or mind works to produce some particular behavior, as opposed to just demonstrating that behavior. I'm also avoiding social psychology for that reason as well. It's a bit of a tightrope walk - I want the channel to be well focused, but I don't want it to be too narrow.

In reply to this comment by winkler1:
Brain channel, cool!

Maatc, this video is dead: http://www.videosift.com/video/Man-on-a-wire-WTC-tightrope-walk-by-Philippe-Petit

If it's the trailer, you can find a new embed here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIawNRm9NWM&feature=related

That works in theory, but not in use. YouTube went through a meltdown because of some infantile behavior. People were flagging material that was not in violation, just to be dicks. So that system got pulled.

The DMCA has very little about digital streaming, and section 405 is the only amendment that attempts to deal with this. It's so poorly constructed with this respect that video share sites would probably win in a battle. But no one wants to battle over some 15-year-old's right to upload and stream Family Guy clips from their storage site.

So, they placate. Most people know what happened with the IDSA and abandonware games, so this tightrope is being walked veeery carefully.