tbwriting

Nah, he did. Matter of public record.

No. It’s that each side lets these things slide.

Many countries let a little socialism slide, with great results.

A little racism should never be allowed to slide. Racism is disgusting.

So they rejected someone with a plan to control the virus and address climate change? Cool.

His inaction and obfuscation caused thousands and thousands of people to die from COVID.

He publicly condoned shooting unarmed protesters, and let his DOJ kidnap people in unmarked vans.

He left the Paris climate accords.

These are catastrophic.

The guy had armies of white supremacist supporters and advisers. He told right-wing extremists to “stand by” on national TV.

Every time you gloss over this, you give a pass to it and to those who knew about it and supported him anyway.

My mind is boggled by the tone of these comments.

“Science can be wrong! This would be a disaster!”

What?

Of course scientists can be wrong, but letting politicians ignore science, as we currently do, is clearly a disaster.

This is supposed to be a site for technical people and I see much more trashing of this post than discussion of how to actually address the issue it’s raising. Can someone tell me what’s going on there??

I like where you were going, but sorry - it’s really not a meaningless question at all.

Programming is a skill, and produces tools - tools that help people communicate, inform, solve problems, and more.

(Also, no global community of programmers? Maybe not a single overarching one, but there definitely is one.)