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Q: Disable cscope autojump Every time I use cscope, it just auto jumps to the first result even when there are more than one results.
I want to get a list of the matched results, so I can select one from it. I have setting nothing for cscope in .vimrc so far.
How can I achieve this?
$vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled May  4 2012 04:25:35)
Included patches: 1-429
Modified by pkg-vim-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
Compiled by buildd@
Huge version without GUI.  Features included (+) or not (-):
+arabic +autocmd -balloon_eval -browse ++builtin_terms +byte_offset +cindent
-clientserver -clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist +cmdline_info +comments
+conceal +cryptv +cscope +cursorbind +cursorshape +dialog_con +diff +digraphs
-dnd -ebcdic +emacs_tags +eval +ex_extra +extra_search +farsi +file_in_path
+find_in_path +float +folding -footer +fork() +gettext -hangul_input +iconv
+insert_expand +jumplist +keymap +langmap +libcall +linebreak +lispindent
+listcmds +localmap -lua +menu +mksession +modify_fname +mouse -mouseshape
+mouse_dec +mouse_gpm -mouse_jsbterm +mouse_netterm -mouse_sysmouse
+mouse_xterm +mouse_urxvt +multi_byte +multi_lang -mzscheme +netbeans_intg
+path_extra -perl +persistent_undo +postscript +printer +profile +python
-python3 +quickfix +reltime +rightleft -ruby +scrollbind +signs +smartindent
-sniff +startuptime +statusline -sun_workshop +syntax +tag_binary
+tag_old_static -tag_any_white -tcl +terminfo +termresponse +textobjects +title
-toolbar +user_commands +vertsplit +virtualedit +visual +visualextra +viminfo
+vreplace +wildignore +wildmenu +windows +writebackup -X11 -xfontset -xim -xsmp
-xterm_clipboard -xterm_save
system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
  user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
  user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim"
Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H     -g -O2 -fstack-protector       --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security -Werror=format-security   -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1
Linking: gcc   -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed -o vim       -lm -ltinfo -lnsl  -lselinux  -lacl -lattr -lgpm -ldl     -L/usr/lib/python2.7/config -lpython2.7 -lpthread -ldl -lutil -lm -Xlinker -export-dynamic -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions

A: The version information you have included in your question is generally useless: the full output of $ vim --version is where useful information is (patch-level, enabled/disabled features…).
Cscope defaults to showing a list of possible matches so the behavior you want is what should happen if you have no cscope-related options in your ~/.vimrc.
In my current JavaScript file, for example, the command :cs f 0 addClass shows a list of 3 items, the function definition and two calls.
Are you sure you don't have any cscope-related stuff in your ~/.vimrc? Are you sure there are multiple matches for your query? Do you get multiple matches when running the cscope TUI directly?

A: The cause lies in that I use another version of cscope.vim here https://github.com/brookhong/cscope.vim, which changes the functions.

A: I know two solutions of problem:

*

*Use external shell command cscope as it is implemented in kino plugin

*Close automatically opened buffer immediately.

" Run native cscope and close automatically opened buffer
func s:Run_cscopeWithCloseBuffer(query, pattern)

    " Save info about opened buffers
    let bufinfo = getbufinfo({'buflisted':1})

    try

        " run cscope
        exe 'cs find ' . a:query . ' ' . a:pattern

        " If query populates quickfix
        if a:query !=# 'g' && a:query !=# 'f'

            " save opened buffer number
            let opened_bufnr = bufnr('%')

            " open quickfix window, switch to previous buffer
            " and go back to quickfix
            silent! botright copen
            exe 'wincmd p'
            exe "normal \<C-O>"
            exe 'wincmd p'

            " check if atomatically opened buffer was opened before
            let noclose = 0
            for buf_i in bufinfo
                if opened_bufnr == buf_i.bufnr
                    let noclose = 1
                    break
                endif
            endfor

            " Close atomatically opened buffer
            if !noclose
                exe 'bdelete ' . opened_bufnr
            endif

        endif

    " If cscope has not found any matches
    catch /^Vim(cscope):E259:/
        echo 'No matches found for cscope query ' . a:query . ' ' . a:pattern
    catch
        echo v:exception
    endtry

endfunc


1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.d4 cd4 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.cxd4 d6 7.Bc4 dxe5!?
Has Anand killed the Alapin as a viable weapon?
I have started studying Panjwani's excellent book The Hyper Accelerated Dragon, and came upon an interesting disagreement.
Alapin after 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3!?
Is there any known disadvantage for White in playing the c3-Sicilian after 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3 ?
1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Nf6 ?
I think it was in one of the everyman books. Am I right?
Learning c3 against Sicilian. Best book?
Hi I give up. So many variations against the sicilian. I am not a pro player and I do not have enough time to study. Please tell me a good book to learn it well from scratch.
In the Alapin line starting with 1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. Bc4 black can play 5..e6 !?
2.c3 Sicilian - Books, CDs, DVDs?
What are the best books, CDs and DVDs available on the 2.c3 Sicilian?
I play the c3 Sicilian and almost never see the line 2...d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.d4 Nc6 5.Nf3 cxd4 6.cxd4 Bg4.
I played the following game against Houdini 3. Why isn't Black just better after 6...d5!
1.e4 c5 2.c3 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.d4 Nc6 5.Nf3 Bf5!?
1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. Nf3 d6 - how to react here?
"Normal" move is 4..Nc6, but 4..d6 is interesting. How to fight for advantage with white?
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I think I am in a pretty good zone: Hardik Pandya
Cricket | December 7, 2020
Hardik Pandya has been in excellent batting form on this tour of Australia. He registered two scores of 90+ in the ODIs and has now followed it up with a match-winning effort of 42* off just 22 deliveries in the second T20I of the three-match Series against Australia at the SCG. It also helped India to seal the series with one match to go.
Hardik's knock helped India to chase down a target of 195 with six wickets and two deliveries to spare. The Baroda all-rounder was in good form in the recently concluded IPL as well. He scored 281 runs during the season at a mind-boggling strike-rate of 178.98, which was only bettered by Kieron Pollard (191.43) and Jofra Archer (179.37).
"I felt that throughout the IPL I was batting well. It's just that when I feel it is my time to do it and the team wins, that's the happiest [feeling]," Hardik said in the post-match conference after the second T20I.
Hardik was the highest run-getter for India during the ODI series that concluded recently as well. He scored 210 runs at an average of 105 and his innings of 92* in the final ODI in Canberra helped India pull off a win from a tricky situation.
His knock of 42* on Sunday was similar in that respect. Hardik walked out to bat at the fall of the third wicket in the 14th over of the innings, with India still requiring 75 to win with only 38 deliveries remaining. He shared a 29-run stand with Virat Kohli followed by a 46-run partnership for the fifth wicket with Shreyas Iyer to steer India home.
When he was asked whether he is in the best batting phase of his career so far, Hardik said: "It can be, it can not be as well [being in the best batting phase of his career]. It's just that it's now getting highlighted because we're always top-heavy. We've always seen India winning games when the top three score runs and I think this is for the first time we've got the opportunity where we have had to step it up and do it. And I think I am in a pretty good zone."
"I am not getting too overwhelmed with the situation. I am trying to keep it neutral. It's my job which I just did well. Now with time I don't think I am getting too excited about things," he added.

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Q: what should be done on questions where low rep users have answered in question text? I suppose this is an extension to Comments incorrectly submitted as an answer instead: what should we do?
First off, I'm presuming that new users cannot answer their own questions? Is this correct?
So they can self answer, but I've seen quite a few occasions where they don't!
In this example the user, has edited the question to include an answer. I've seen this quite a lot. I've always flagged this as

Unclear what your asking

For me, the user editing the question in this manner invalidates the question. Is this the correct thing to do?
Could/should we make the answer my own question link more obvious?
Did have a quick browse about meta but couldn't see anything specific to this scenario.

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Abandoned 18th-century plans to redesign the Houses of Parliament may have led to the best ever parliament.
That is according to Cambridge art historian Dr Frank Salmon.
Speaking as plans get underway to restore parliament, Dr Salmon said designs drafted by architect William Kent in the 1730s in some respects represent the "mother of all parliaments".
Kent was commissioned in 1733 to design a more spacious and convenient parliament building. But the plans, laid out in 80 drawings, came to nothing.
By 1742 the government's coffers had been drained by war with Spain and British embroilment in the War of Austrian Succession. Meanwhile Kent's political champion, Prime Minister Robert Walpole, had been toppled.
Kent envisaged a new building which, in one set of plans, would have been almost as big as the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. At 444ft long and parallel to the River Thames, its towering columns and dome would have dominated the city.
Kent's Commons would have been amphitheatrical, with space for spectators, and unlike Westminster today, where the labyrinthine corridors of power would stretch to three miles if placed end-to-end, Kent's building would have been relatively easy to negotiate.
Kent imagined Corinthian columns, Venetian windows, white Portland Stone-rusticated ground floors, and imposing first floors that typified 18th-century architecture.
He envisaged communal toilets for male servants, in contrast with comparatively more luxurious accommodation above stairs. And in a later plan, with a huge central tower, the building would have projected far enough into the Thames to require embankment.
"The designs reveal Kent to be a highly professional, competent architect rooted in reality," said Salmon.
"His legacy of 80 drawings might in some respects represent the best Houses of Parliament – the mother of all parliaments.


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Skyline of Lujiazui viewed from across the Huangpu River on the Bund in Shanghai. Photographed by Su-Jan Yeo, 2018.
Shanghai was a vast, sprawling megalopolis on the banks of the Huangpu River, the "Paris of the East," where hyperbole-defying skyscrapers vied for attention with stately early-twentieth-century European façades.
In China Rich Girlfriend—the second volume in the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy which has become a mainstream literary phenomenon—author Kevin Kwan draws on Shanghai as the stage for his storytelling voyeurism into a satirical world of classism, opulence, and high-brow culture. For Kwan and other contemporaries ranging from travel vloggers to digital nomads and start-up entrepreneurs, the spirit of Shanghai that features centrally in their creative pursuits is epitomized more often than not by a parallel universe; here, the historic Bund on the west bank of the Huangpu River faces its futuristic counterpart, the hyper-vertical Lujiazui, on the east bank of the same waterway.
Both precincts no doubt serve as a time-honored photo-op tradition for locals and visitors alike where, from the Huangpu River vantage point, one can feasibly capture Shanghai's past and future in a single sweeping panoramic frame. This cheek-to-jowl juxtaposition of old/new, heritage/modernity, and imperialism/globalism calls to attention Shanghai's transformative urban landscape and, simultaneously, its endurance as a city of paradox.
Tucked away from the pomp and circumstance of "worldly" Shanghai are intricate assemblages of residential alleys or 'lilong' neighbourhoods that march to a different tune. A lilong neighbourhood is a residential area enclosed in an urban block lined by shophouses at the periphery that not only face the public main street but also, and as a result, are often utilized for commercial and business purposes on the ground floor (Figure 1). Along the hustle and bustle of this continuous exterior frontage are occasional punctures that lead into the lilong neighbourhood by way of a gate. On a visit to Shanghai in March 2018, I decidedly detoured off one of the main streets (that is, Huanghe Road) near Xinzha Road Metro and dashed past a nondescript gate into a lilong neighbourhood (Figure 2).
Figure 1. Image from Zhao, 2004, p. 63.
Figure 2. A nondescript gate, sandwiched between two storefronts, serves as an access point off the main thoroughfare (Huanghe Road) for the lilong neighbourhood situated behind these street-facing shophouses. Photographed by Su-Jan Yeo, 2018.
Once inside the lilong neighbourhood, it was apparent by the tight-grained fabric and hushed soundscape of my immediate surrounds that I had entered a markedly different "world"—one that is atypical of glossy media images showcasing Shanghainese cosmopolitanism but, at the same time, typical of Shanghainese local urbanism. Lilong neighbourhoods in Shanghai represent a residential typology with historical roots dating to the mid-1800s and, more interestingly, they illuminate a way of community living that continues to survive in modern urban society (albeit at the threat of extensive demolition for large-scale urban redevelopment).
A lilong neighbourhood is premised on a hierarchical street network structured by the arrangement of 'shikumen'-style dwelling forms. Such dwelling forms are, traditionally, narrow and linear 2- to 3-storey townhouses of brick construction with British and Chinese architectural influences. These townhouses are aligned in parallel formation with spacings that create row upon row of alleyways. Within this labyrinth, there are habitual as well regulatory practices contributing to the making of private/public realms that differentiate the narrower "back" alleys and the wider "front" alleys.
Along the back alleys, a sense of privacy dictates the use of these spaces such that: freshly-washed laundry is hung out to dry on bamboo poles that crisscross above the heads of passersby (Figure 3); greening of an otherwise grey hardscape is afforded by an assortment of container plants potted by the most enthusiastic of gardeners amongst neighbours (Figure 4); and the day's lunch is cleaned, chopped, and consumed outside the dwelling unit on a muggy summer's day (Figure 5). Here, mundane domestic activities are played out and within such close proximity that I can only but appreciate the civility (or, at the very least, high level of tolerance) that must exist for an intimate space of this nature to function as it does.
Figure 3. The back alley is commonly used as an area to hang and dry laundry. Photographed by Su-Jan Yeo, 2018.
Figure 4. Beautification and greening efforts to transform an otherwise grey hardscape by way of container gardens. Photographed by Su-Jan Yeo, 2018.
Figure 5. Cooking preparation in the back alley points to the "openness" of this space for the spillage of domestic activities. Photographed by Su-Jan Yeo, 2018.
In contrast, the wider front alleys present a sense of publicness for they provide direct pedestrian connections to gates that open out to the exterior streets beyond the lilong neighbourhood. Lines painted on the ground demarcate and segregate zones for pedestrian movement and motorcycle parking, creating a means of order and formality (Figure 6). Community development efforts are also outwardly pronounced in the front alleys with: wall murals illustrating play activities that hark back to a bygone era (Figure 7); common recreational corner equipped with exercise apparatus (Figure 8); and banners broadcasting environmental improvement efforts and efficacy (Figure 9).
Figure 6. Lines painted on the ground demarcate separate zones for pedestrians and motorcycles. Photographed by Su-Jan Yeo, 2018.
Figure 7. Wall murals depicting play activities once popular in the past. Photographed by Su-Jan Yeo, 2018.
Figure 8. An exercise corner positioned across from a community board displaying information promoting sociocultural constitutions of civic responsibility and behaviour. Photographed by Su-Jan Yeo, 2018.
Figure 9. The banner translates roughly to: "Efforts are made to promote comprehensive environmental improvement and overall comprehensive reform." Photographed by Su-Jan Yeo, 2018.
Further along the front alley I stumbled on an eye-catching aesthetic treatment to the façade of one particular unit. Perhaps of greater significance worth noting is the transformation of that unit for a laundromat business (Figure 10). While I passed on the opportunity to walk in the laundromat and seek answers to my curiosities about its establishment, it would serve as an interesting exploration to unpack the contemporary economic forces and social re-stratification processes enabling what some observers might label as commercial "gentrification" of the lilongs (as in the case of Tianzifang (Figures 11 to 13)—see also Yu et al (2016)).
Figure 10. A relatively upscale-looking laundromat business, perhaps reliant on additional clientele from outside this particular lilong neighbourhood. Photographed by Su-Jan Yeo, 2018.
Figure 11. A sketched map of the Tianzifang district, mounted near the main (tourist) entrance off Taikang Road. Photographed by Su-Jan Yeo, 2018.
Figure 12. Lilong townhouses converted into commercial businesses catering to a predominantly young and upper-middle class crowd. Photographed by Su-Jan Yeo, 2018.
Figure 13. In place of hanging laundry above a lilong alleyway is, instead, a cacophony of retail paraphernalia ranging from F&B menus to neon signboards and merchandise displays. Photographed by Su-Jan Yeo, 2018.
Indeed, Shanghai is at once grit and glamour. And then, again, perhaps it is this very essence of being that enables Shanghai to continually attract globetrotting creatives from elsewhere coupled with domestic migrants from China's hinterlands—both groups similarly searching for their version of urban liveability in a city of paradox.
Zhao C (2004) From shikumen to new-style: A rereading of lilong housing in modern Shanghai. The Journal of Architecture, 9(1): 49-76.
Yu H, Chen X and Zhong X (2016) Commercial development from below: The resilience of local shops in Shanghai. In: S Zukin, P Kasinitz and X Chen (Eds) Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai. New York; London: Routledge, pp. 59-89.


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I sat quietly for a while, eavesdropping on the two Americans alongside who were complaining about how their grandchildren never want to do anything and savouring the smell of freshly cut grass and the warmth of the sun. I spent as long as possible with the trees, knowing that I wouldn't see them again for a while, turning for one final lingering glance at the gate. If you go there, please give them my regards.
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By Bipin Dani
MUMBAI Buddhist monks blessed Sri Lankan team touring India now. "The blessing ceremony was performed at Sri Lanka Cricket head-quarter in Colombo on Saturday morning just before the players left for Bandaranaike International Airport to board a Sri Lanka Airlines flight (UL 127), which reached Chennai in time", according to Rajit Fernando, the media manager, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC).
"Rev. Dhamma Keerthi blessed the boys", he said over telephone from Colombo.
The captain or players are going to church before any tough tour is a joint practice adopted by the international players in their individual capacity. Even the Pakistani players go on Haj and markka madina yatra but the players collectively assemble and pray for team success before embarking the tour is perhaps seen only in Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka, the monks also offer blessings when the team returns.
"I didn't know when this practice started but even during my time also, this practice remained," Michael Zoysha, who worked with the team as a manager, said from Colombo.
The monks tie white threads on players wrists", he added.
The white colour is a symbol of peace, and that could be the one of the reasons for it.
Sri Lanka is scheduled to play a series of three Twenty20s' commencing in Pune on Tuesday. The second match will be played in Ranchi on Thursday, followed by the last at Vishakhapatnam on 14th February.
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Navy Commissions Attack Boat USS John Warner
By: Sam LaGrone
Sailors man the rails as they bring the ship to life during the commissioning ceremony for the Virginia-class attack submarine USS John Warner (SSN-785) on Aug 1, 2015. US Navy Photo
The Navy commissioned its latest Virginia-class nuclear attack boat in a Saturday ceremony honoring its namesake, former U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Navy John Warner.
The commissioning of USS John Warner (SSN-785) at Naval Station Norfolk, Va. — attended by Warner, director of Naval Reactors and prospective Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. John Richardson and current CNO Adm. Jonathan Greenert — marks the induction of the 12th boat-in-class.
Sailors stand during the commissioning ceremony of the USS John Warner (SSN-785) on Aug. 1, 2015.
"This boat is the latest incarnation of American sea power, and is a strategic asset for this country," Greenert said in keynote remarks at the ceremony.
"This affords us what we refer to as global access, and it is fundamental to any mission that you ask your military to do. Frankly, we are challenged in space, we are challenged in cyber, we are challenged in the air and we are challenged on the surface. We are not currently challenged in the undersea. We own the undersea domain. We must keep that situation as we go into the future."
Warner, 88, who served as an enlisted sailor in World War II and as a Marine officer in the Korean War, stressed how important it was for the U.S. Navy to keep the oceans safe.
"Let them know of your presence and your determination to defend freedom," said Warner during remarks.
"Defend the sea lanes of the world which are the very arteries of international commerce. Manned by our submarines, our surface ships, and naval aircraft, we are carefully working to keep those sea lanes open – not just for us but for all."
The $2.5 billion, 7,800-ton Warner delivered to the service in late June, three months ahead of schedule. It's the second Block III Virginia in the class.
The first Block III boat, USS North Dakota (SSN-784), commissioned late last year amidst a Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) investigation into third party suppliers to prime contractors Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) Newport News Shipbuilding and General Dynamics Electric Boat.
The investigation into the suppliers was a rare misstep in the Virginia program (SSN-774) — widely considered to be the best shipbuilding program in the Navy.
Most of the Block III modifications are in the boat's bow to accommodate a new water-backed Large Aperture Bow (LAB) sonar array and the addition of two Multiple All Up Round Canisters that can each hold six Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAM).
The Navy plans to build eight Block III attack boats and then move to the Block IV with the planned Vermont (SSN-792).
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The 'Azud case' and its possible influence on the vote: How does corruption influence voters?
The hard revelations of the Azud' case that have sown doubts about the financing of the PSPV during the electoral campaigns of 2007 and 2008 have shaken Valencian politics.
The hard revelations of the Azud' case that have sown doubts about the financing of the PSPV during the electoral campaigns of 2007 and 2008 have shaken Valencian politics. The case, which began as another matter of corruption of the Valencian PP, has ended up hitting the credibility of the Valencian socialists. As this newspaper explained, the 377-page report by the central operating unit of the Civil Guard (UCO) detailed a complex network of complicity between businessmen and former leaders of the PSPV while the order of the investigating judge pointed to a alleged illegal financing of a multitude of advertising actions in the aforementioned electoral campaigns.
In fact, the popular Valencians have been stoking the president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, for this issue every Christmas and demanding explanations and investigative commissions to extend the issue until the elections. The PSPV has responded to this tsunami of accusations by wanting to counterattack its main political rival by reminding it that "2023 is once again the year of corruption in the Popular Party with three former presidents sitting on the bench."
All this, while in the ranks of the PP they trust that the latest revelations of piece 7 of the Azud summary could help to wear down the good image of the president of the Generalitat, the main electoral asset of the Valencian socialists. All in all, it is worth asking to what extent political corruption influences the electoral behavior of citizens.
In the field of surveys we find that corruption is not one of the main problems of Valencians. Thus, the opinion barometer of the Generalitat for 2021 (more than 4,000 interviews carried out with a margin of error of -1.5%) establishes that for only 8.8% of those surveyed, corruption is one of the three concerns most important that the Valencian Community has.
From this survey, it also stands out that it is more worrying for the right (12.8% of those who place themselves in this political spectrum place corruption as one of the three great concerns) while for the citizens of the "left" the figure drops to 7.8%.
Some figures that would be explained by the fact that in the Valencian Community the left governs and its voters consider that corruption is not a problem.
Likewise, in the recent 1st Corruption Perception Survey in Spain and the Valencian Community carried out by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, it indicates that, for Valencians, the misuse of public money is in eighth place when analyzing the problems that affect the citizenship. In this work, it is striking that a large part of the population considers that "if the irregular action is carried out for a just cause, it is not corruption" or "if the result of an action is beneficial for the population in general, it is not corruption" .
The survey also asks why corrupt people are voted for. The majority reason given by those surveyed is that "the candidates are from the party you sympathize with", followed at some distance by two other ideas: "Because they have benefited from the candidate's favors and feel gratitude" and "because they consider that all Politicians are corrupt and that's why it doesn't matter who you vote for".
At an academic level, several articles and papers have been written that analyze the influence of corruption on the vote. In one of the most recent, published in 2022, -Do they really care? Social desirability bias in attitudes towards corruption (Do they really care? Social desirability bias in attitudes towards corruption), researchers Sofia Breitenstein, Eva Anduiza and Jordi Muñoz wonder why if citizens say in polls that they would not vote for a corrupt politician, some of them get so good result. Jordi Muñoz, professor of Political Science at the University of Barcelona and director of the Center d'Estudis d'Opinió de Catalunya (CEO), stresses that in surveys people give "socially desirable responses" even though they later act differently.
However, the three researchers do not believe that people find it pleasant to vote for a person accused of corruption and explain that what happens is that many other issues influence the vote, since the act of voting summarizes many in a single decision. priorities and "corruption does not always tip the scales".
In his regular research on the influence of corruption on electoral behavior, this Valencian professor has detected that the perception of corruption is linked to the ideology of each individual. Thus, he explains that a case will look more serious if it affects the political rival than the party for which one feels an electoral preference. "Citizens tend to unconsciously activate apology mechanisms," he says.
Muñoz points out that the credibility of the information is also very important. Not only is it important that the voter has detailed information about the case -if he does not find out, it will be difficult to influence his vote- but it must be considered credible. For this reason, he comments, in a highly polarized media system like the Spanish one, it is not the same for a case of corruption that affects the left to appear in a medium close to the right than in a left-wing newspaper, since it is in the latter where may have a greater electoral impact.
Regarding the influence of corruption, the professor from the University of Barcelona points out that a trend that can be seen looking at historical sequences is that corruption affects more and is considered a greater problem in contexts of economic crisis. The great example is the time of the real estate bubble: corruption did not begin to be perceived as a serious problem until the bubble burst, just when the cases decreased due to economic hardships and the lack of opportunities.
Thus, although they do not stop influencing the vote, it seems that issues related to corruption are not usually decisive for a large majority of voters, since for cases to be decisive they must give rise to a kind of perfect storm that ends up convincing to the voter
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Just a Drop Changemakers: Ben Morison, The Flipflopi Project
By Just a Drop
In celebration of Just a Drop's 20th anniversary, we spoke to four inspirational people who are doing their bit to change the world we live in for the better.
Fiona Jeffery OBE, Founder of Just a Drop; Ben Morison, Founder of the Flipflopi Project; Paras Loomba, Founder of Global Himalayan Expedition; and Holly Budge, Founder of How Many Elephants, shared their experience of turning inspirational ideas into sustainable initiatives which are transforming lives.
Ben Morison founded The Flipflopi Project as a direct response to the alarming degradation of the African coastline by plastics, and flip flops in particular. The FlipFlopi Project's mission is to increase awareness of the scale of the ocean plastics problem.
'In June 2016 we decided to try and build a boat entirely from plastic collected on beaches and roadsides in Kenya to show the potential of 'already-used' plastic. And two years later, using over ten tonnes of plastic waste and thousands of repurposed flipflops – we succeeded. Built on the island of Lamu using traditional dhow builders and techniques, it is the world's very first 100% recycled plastic dhow.
But of course it has never really been about the boat... we simply want to demonstrate that single use plastic doesn't make sense. We hope people around the world are inspired to find their own ways to repurpose 'already-used' plastic.
We focused on ensuring a sustainable impact by a commitment to build the boat using only resources local to Kenya – which took three times as long and costs three times as much! We failed three times before succeeding. But what purpose would there have been to building a boat using external resources, if we are trying to set an example to people in our local environment on the east coast of Africa. These ideas wouldn't have scale.
We achieved scale by being disciplined and keeping things local, not going for the easy option. If we were to set an example about recycling and re-purposing plastic than that was an important aspect for us.
The next step in our journey is to sail our boat to Zanzibar sharing our message along the east African coast, talking to law makers, companies and communities about what can be done to reduce plastic use and to stop plastic ending up in the environment.'


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For the actual internet article, click on the title above ("Green Vitals Press") to read more about our trip accompanying Riley Hoffer up to Alain Locke School in NYC
Sixth Grader Brings Eco-Friendliness Message to a Harlem's Alain L. Locke School
NEW YORK - Spreading the message of eco-friendliness across elementary schools throughout the United States, 12-year-old Riley Hoffer has come to New York this month to visit the Alain L. Locke Elementary School in Harlem.
Young Riley is the spokesperson for CGKidz, the community outreach arm of stainless-steel water bottle maker CynerGreen, Little Rock, Ark.. The Hoffer family-owned company has devoted itself to spreading the word about conservation and environmentally friendly living.
The event opened with a school assembly for the upper grades in which the student listened to a presentation about how they could be more environmentally friendly.
Riley opened the event discussing the three Rs—Reuse, Reduce and Recycle. "I want to talk to you about attitude, the attitude to think green," she said, adding, "Most of the things that you use today, like light bulbs, newspapers and cardboard boxes can be recycled.
You can do things at home to help out your parents, like separate cans, bottles and newspapers for recycling, and you can join your environmental club at school. Just find a way to get involved because every little bit helps."
Riley also showed the students how to decorate for Christmas using things that they had around the house, such as colored paper to make origami candy canes and ornaments using CDs.
She showed the students a Rudolph Junior CD ornament and explained the procedure as follows: "He is made out of just a regular CD that I had, some pipe cleaners, jingle bells, googoly eyes, and colorful pompoms that I put all together. If you add a magnet, he can go on the refrigerator."
Following her demonstration, the students were introduced to teachers from the Gibson Island Country School, Pasadena, Md., which will be providing mentoring and curriculum materials for the Locke school to get it started with its new environmental club. The Gibson school is Maryland's first certified eco-friendly school.
Vicki Dabrowka, a teacher from the Gibson school, spoke to the Locke students saying, "I thought that maybe we should bring a message from our kids because we have been doing a lot to help the environment over the last couple of years.
We do all the plastic, paper, and cardboard recycling, and we are also recycling glue sticks. We even recycle food and that is called composting which can be a messy job, but we get to keep a lot of those things out of the trash. And so the kids from the third, fourth, and fifth grade wrote some letters and helpful hints that we are going to leave with the school."
Danelle Hoffer, co-founder of CynerGreen and Riley's mother, presented the Locke school with an "environmental club in a box," which contained: green pens, pencils, notepads, an environmental guidebook, and a binder full of letters from students from the Gibson school.
After the assembly, the Hoffers went up to one of the classrooms and worked with the students on making more origami candy canes. During this time, speaking with Mrs. Hoffer, she said the guidebook is "a collection of different projects that they could do. We combined them with projects from what Gibson Island does. There are probably 100 different types of projects, tips, and ideas of how kids can get involved in the community."
Also as a gift to the students, CGKidz gave a stainless-steal water bottle to every student in the assembly. "Our gift to these kids is not just that club, but that bottle. There is such a message behind that bottle, that we really want them to think about and use in their everyday lives. We are also hoping that it will rub off on their parents." said Mrs. Hoffer.
All of the bottles were donated to the school by CGKidz. All of the profits that come out of the CGKidz division of CynerGreen, go back into making the bottles that are donated to the schools, according to Mrs. Hoffer.
This school event was brought about in collaboration with PENCIL, New York City-based organization that supports customized relationships between business leaders and principals to inspire innovation and transform public schools, Karasma Media,, a Harlem-based boutique specializing in social media, and Sperling Greene Partners, a Tenafly, NJ-based marketing and public relations company.
CGKidz next stop on its school tour will be Riley's own school, Cabot Middle School North, Cabot, Ark. Subsequently, CGKidz is in talks to present their message in schools in Oregon and Wyoming.
from http://www.greenvitals.net/communitypoliticsnet/2008/12/15/sixth-grader-brings-eco-friendliness-message-to-a-harlems-al.html
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Live from New York....
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Riley Hoffer at Alain L. Locke Elementary
This is a video-must see! New York's local CBS affiliate's news story of Riley's and our visit to Alain L. Locke School....Click the "title" above or go to http://wcbstv.com/video/?id=120818@wcbs.dayport.com!!
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The Son of Cattle Barons
When beloved Welcome "Kucky" Ross was shot by a bushwhacker, no range war rampant, nor enemies of common knowledge, two of Texas' cattle barons met at the boundary of their ranges after interment, to discuss the death of a son, a son-in-law as well.
Both men were heart-broken and neither one tried to hide his feelings, though they had long been on opposite sides of many deals. "He's my son, too," his father-in-law said, the words drawing the two men tighter than they might ever have been.
Welcome Ross, I, had carved out his ranch on the wide grass with years of effort, the ranch known as The Duke's Edge. Father-in-law Jade George, Junior, of the Bull's Head, had inherited his property from his mother, who died only two months after her husband, from a bushwhacker's bullet also, a quickly dispatched posse only finding a horse trail faded into a wind storm that forced the retreat of the posse, their return to home, no guilty party named, no resolution ever determined.
Sadness and loss had brought these ranchers closer.
The latest victim, 24 years old, was born as Welcome Ross, II, on a celebrated day for grandparents owning two of the largest ranches in Texas, to the daughter of one of those ranches, and her husband from the other ranch. There was a huge celebration at his birth, a boy welcomed and so named for his arrival by parents and grandparents. A few folks said he was born laughing, "or at least smiling through the whole ordeal."
It was evident he had a head start on the good life for those times in the wide stretches of Texas.
The burial was put off for days to allow the word to spread, which brought visits from every hand who had once worked for either ranch in Kucky's time.
It quickly became known that two younger siblings had nicknamed Welcome, II, as Kucky, whatever way it might be spelled, from a day when he soiled his pants riding an untamed pony wild as a pig with a poke.
With that nickname, obviously on for the long ride, he developed a remarkable sense of humor, treating the name as if given to him by the Overhead, amusement abounding in him at its use, accepting the taunts and harsh words thrown as taglines to the name. With duty, acceptance, non-interruption, he responded to the name immediately; it set him for all to see, as friendly, affable, but serious of name calling. No other name came in the calling.
Priscilla George, Prissy to one and all, never once addressed Welcome, II, as Kucky; from an early age she had decided he was the man she'd marry one day ... and he'd not be Kucky to her. Her father spoke his negative thoughts until he observed his dead wife, and Prissy's mother, coming back in his daughter, and wisely backed down. He'd been caught in that twist before.
Prissy, of a certainty, handled the proposal: "You will marry me before I turn 22 or never. That's all I'll say, and if you agree, we can seal our love this very night." The stunning went both ways, as she received more than what she dreamed. They were together, she thought, forever, until the world fell down on top of her.
She had proposed, loved, married, was bearing a child ... and widowed, in that first year.
She told her father and father-in-law, "You get him, who took my husband, or I swear I'll go looking myself, before his child is born."
The two men met at the rage line on a splendid day, but crowded by loss and threats and dire promises of the expectant mother of Kucky Ross's child.
In the employ of both her father and father-in-law she had a few close friends among the ranch hands, especially those that had hung with her husband in his early years and/or worked trail with him in good times and hard times. She selected hard riders, tough workers, good listeners,
smart interpreters of innuendo, rumor, campfire talk, bar talk sober or drunk they might hear concerning the father of her unborn child.
Four men she commissioned for the tasks explained to them as a group at a very secretive meeting, swearing each one to secrecy, loyalty and dogged search for the simplest of clues. remarks accidentally exploited, slurred at bar or poker table, or in raucous story telling at trail camps and similar gatherings ... daring to call them Kucky's Rangers, or the KR Boys.
She'd send them in a variety of directions,, to nearby towns and villages, across the state of Texas, and into some of those places bordering Texas including the Mexican States of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the southwest, and U. S. states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, and New Mexico to the west. If necessary, the waters of the gulf of Mexico would be targeted.
"That," she said to herself in sound concern, "will be enough to set them to work from the first word."
They responded with sworn determination to unearth the Earth itself to find the thinnest leads concerning the death of their friend..
One of them, from her father's ranch, was a rugged and handsome cowboy, veteran of four drives north, Steve Anchor, who was the quietest of the lot, stared deepest into her eyes at explanations and reasons, and the only one who asked by what means they might relay information to her if it could not be brought directly to her person.
She reacted womanly, with quickness, bright ideas, and a side-saddle of humor. "Pretend, in any manner you wish, that you are seeking my favor. You may not realize the payment, but it will ease the burden on all of us to get Kucky's killer."
It was the first time any of them had heard the name from her.
As she might have foretold, it was Steve Anchor who reported back first, a note to her delivered by messenger, simply saying, "The best prospect for a new sheriff, mouthy on the cause carries a new Sharps in his saddle, the long range beauty now for sale. He drinks rum. Always has a cigar lit, smokes 'em to the stub. Worked short time TDETH, will revisit this fined village twene ArborsV LudlumT cigar fire rumble."
Prissy smiled at her interpretation, Anchors' language concepts, resigned to its meaning, "I have met a man who spoke ill of your Kname, carries a new long-range Sharps in his saddle sheath, smokes cigars to the final stub, once worked for a time at The Duke's Edge, TH his initials, in a saloon between Arborsville and Ludlumtown drinking rum. I will track him down again in towns named."
TH, in a quick session with one older foreman, was revealed as a cowpoke named Thorn Hurley who was let go for lack of effort.
She called in another trusty soul, Martin Reed, young, imaginative, one of her favorites, and said, "Draw a map with a circle around it where my husband was killed, Marty. The size of the circle should be determined by the distance a long range newer Sparks rifle would be effective. Mark all the spots you find where a man could hide and with a clear sighting shoot and kill Welcome. I hear those new Sharps rifles are excellent weapons. Don't mark any spot where sight is obstructed by a rise in the ground, trees, boulders, a shack or barn or a lean-to. It has to be a clear view. Be particular about any place you find with cover behind the shooter, keeping him out of general sight. It's a hard job, takes some decisions, but I know I can trust you all the way, Marty."
A look went across Prissy's face as though a moment of unseen history was playing itself out. Then her look changed and she said, "You know what I mean, a place where a killer, a back-shooter'd pick out just like I've explained to you. I know it's spooky business, but maybe you can do what he did in setting up Welcome as a target. Mark them all, the good spots. I'm going searching when you're done. It's wild stuff, but it could be the very first lead to come from all of this."
Her hand touched his arm. "Don't tell my father or Welcome's father, Marty. Do it as a favor for me. I want the killer caught before this baby's born." She patted her swelling full of coming life. "There's a bonus in it for a good job." Her expression could have swept up the whole world for her.
"Yes, Ma'am," he gulped, to a woman younger than he was, even as she wondered who'd get back to her first, Mary Reed or Steve Anchor. Both of them, before the other two searchers, would be out and about where she wanted to be in the limited amount of time she had to work on her end of a murder demanding to be solved.
It was almost with a divine hand in the matter when Marty Reed showed her his map, with a dozen possible places where a shot could be fired.
But one mark was bolder than the others.
"This place here, by that small crop of rock and boulders sticking out of the ground like it came from the middle of the earth in the middle of the night, and trees behind it. Even a horse would be out of sight there. It's the perfect place."
An embarrassing smile fixed his face, an apologetic smile, an innocent-as-all-Hell smile.
Prissy smiled, touched by his innocence, his youth, and said, "I know the place. Let's ride out there. You see any shell casings around?"
"Not a thing," he replied, "and I did look around. Old tracks was all I saw, dozens of them, range riders out of the sun, maybe for a rest, slop his hat for water for his horse." He shrugged, as though his mission had been diminished in its intent.
Prissy Ross searched the ground from one part of morning shade to the end of it, the rock as craggy as any ill-formed cluster thrust up out of the ground a thousand or more years earlier. She was on her hands and knees much of the time, scratching away at dirt, running her fingers through it, now and then resting as if the new weight she carried was talking to her, telling her to rest.
"You oughten't be down there like that, Prissy. It's not good for you. And I did what exactly you're doing now ... and found nothing. Not a sliver of a thing. Nothing." He put his hand out to help her get up from the ground.
She rose slowly, thanked him, and then began scouring on the rock formation as if lightning had hit it a dozen times, rending and chipping it, making cracks and fissures in the faces of the element.
And there! In one crack! In one horizontal fissure, the first solid clue! One she had been looking for. Retrieving something from that crevice, she slipped it into her shirt pocket. "Let's go, Marty, I'll never be able to thank you enough. She hugged him.
They rode back to the ranch, once in a while Marty Reed saw her hand feeling the mound on her stomach, making him extremely nervous.
But determination, dedication, effort and thorough work often come together for erstwhile souls, for as they approached the ranch house they saw Steve Anchor riding toward them from further west, waving his hat in the air.
"I found him, Prissy. He's been seen in The Cross Trails Saloon in Ludlumtown, only a few hours' ride from here."
At her direction, the two hands mustered a crew of six more men, each one newer at the ranch, and all set out for the short ride, a posse commissioned en route.
Steve Anchor checked out the saloon, came back and said, "He's in there, playing cards, cigar lit up. Not too many folk there yet."
Prissy sent in three men ahead of the others, telling them to be noisy and regular on entrance, and go right to the bar as they usually would.
When she walked in with Marty Reed and Steve Anchor she put a gun to the back of Thorn Hurley's neck. She jabbed it tightly against his neck as she felt a labor pain strike through her body.
:Thor Hurley, we're arresting you for the bushwhacking murder of my husband, Welcome Kucky Ross." She slipped her free hand into her shirt pocket, withdrew it, and dropped the stub of the cigar butt onto the tabletop in front of Thorn Hurley, the stub she'd found suck in the crevice of the bushwhacker's shooting spot..
Steve Anchor disarmed Hurley, and Marty Reed grasped Prissy Ross as her labor pains suddenly intensified.
Welcome Kucky Ross, III, was born in The Cross Trails Saloon in Ludlumtown, Texas on the 28th day of August in 1879. He lived until the ripe old age of 88, at the Duke's Edge Ranch, where he is buried in a family plot. He lies beside his mother, father, grandfather, grandmother, and a number of ranch hands alone in their world.
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misterb&b hits the equity crowdfunding trail to expand into hotels
Homosexuality is illegal in a third of the planet, and in eight countries, it is punishable by death. In the febrile atmosphere of today's politics, hate crime incidents in the US increased by 17% between 2016 to 2017, according to the FBI.
Over 20 of those incidents were crimes against an individual's sexual-orientation — the largest increase since 9/11. Similar hate crime statistics have increased in the UK and several other western countries.
It's strange and saddening to think that men, women, and gender non-conforming people who "travel while gay" are now in a more dangerous – and potentially life-threatening – situation around the world, despite us being well into the 21st Century.
The key to the situation is knowing whether the place you're staying at will be welcoming or not. There are many incidents where, at hotels, gay travelers have been rejected or forced to book separate rooms, and had to fall back on third-party, unverified, user-generated reviews.
Now, misterb&b, the short-term rental marketplace aimed at the Gay community, has a simple solution. Customers can book an entire home or rent a private room at the home of a gay or gay-friendly host, and with many located in gay-friendly neighborhoods. The startup competes with more home-spun sites like "Gay Home Stays", however, misterb&b has already raised substantial amounts in VC.
The startup graduated from the 500 Startups accelerator and has raised US$13.5M from institutional investors like Project A and Ventech, and from angels like Joel Simkhai (founder of Grindr, which sold for $300M USD). The marketplace now has 310,000 hosts in over 135 countries, and claims to have 30% revenue growth YoY; with 60% of the business done organically by repeat customers.
misterb&b has now raised over half a million dollars inside a week via Wefunder to fund its expansion. This will allow guests, hosts, and the public to invest in the company's push to launch its services into the hotel sector.
Investors are buying into a lucrative market. The niche of global gay tourism is estimated to be a $100Bn market, while gay people travel twice as much as other travelers. Its fund-raising may also benefit from the influx of new tech millionaires being created by the upcoming IPOs of Uber, Lyft, Postmates, and Airbnb.
CEO and founder Matthieu Jost says he wants to "build equality into the sharing economy and give back to a community that's been historically economically marginalized," providing its community "with the power of part ownership of the company".
The idea for starting misterb&b was first conceived in 2013 after he had a negative experience while traveling with his partner and didn't feel welcome by his host. "Six years ago, my partner and I traveled to and booked a room in Barcelona through a third party rental website," he told me via email.
"Unfortunately, when we arrived there, we were faced with a host who was very much homophobic and asked me if we were seriously going to share a bedroom. This was a very sad thing to have to face. Straight, hetero folks never have to worry about something so humiliating as this while on a lovely vacation; they will never have to think about it or prepare for it."
"When I returned home I felt dejected, but I felt I had do something to solve this horrific problem – yet common fear – that our community faces. I don't want my community to be afraid of traveling anymore," he said.
"We are reaching out to the most passionate people in the community: our hosts and our guests, as well as LGBTQ allies," said Jost. "We want to provide the opportunity to financially benefit from our successes," he added.
The crowdfunding is for a new selection of gay-friendly and gay-welcoming hotels that have been selected by the company's editorial team for their quality, exclusive, and verified reviews from LGBTQ travelers. The idea is that travelers will also be able to connect with each other to explore the city together – especially because there's safety in numbers.
This post was originally posted at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/mi–_u1Ywx0/.
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Trump lawyers keep accusing Democrats of manipulating evidence. But they're doing that themselves.
Trump's defense team is twisting words out of their context.
By Aaron Rupar@atrupar Feb 12, 2021, 3:15pm EST
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Trump lawyer David Schoen speaks on the Senate floor on Friday.
Former President Donald Trump's lawyers began their defense during Friday's portion of the impeachment trial with flimsy allegations that House impeachment managers manipulated evidence. They then proceeded to present evidence far more egregiously manipulated than anything the managers presented.
One of the defense team's key arguments was an exercise in whataboutism: They argued Democrats are being hypocritical in accusing Trump of inciting the January 6 insurrection, because they use the language of "fighting" all the time. To illustrate this point, they repeatedly played lengthy video montages of Democrats (and liberal celebrities) using language that is supposedly just as bad as Trump.
Here's a portion of one of those videos:
Trump's argument seems to be that Democrats have said "fight" a lot of times, therefore checkmate libs pic.twitter.com/BzM37Vh3Ob
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 12, 2021
One example Trump's lawyers homed in on pertains to comments Michigan state Rep. Cynthia Johnson (D) made in early December saying, "This is just a warning to you Trumpers … be careful, walk lightly." The implication is that Johnson's comments are just as bad as Trump encouraging a mob of his supports to descend on the Capitol while Congress was certifying his Electoral College loss, therefore Democrats don't have a leg to stand on when accusing Trump of inciting insurrection.
But an examination of the context of Johnson's remarks reveals that her comments were not at all what Trump's lawyers made them out to be. Johnson made her "be careful" comments in response to threats she received from Trump supporters after a hearing in which she pushed back on lies about election fraud that Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani was pushing.
Media Matters's Eric Kleefeld laid out the relevant context in an article from December:
Johnson spoke bluntly at last week's state legislative hearing, telling House Oversight Chairman Matt Hall that the witnesses presented by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani should've been sworn in: "You're allowing people to come in here and lie. And I know they're lying."
Following that hearing, she became the target of almost 100 racist and threatening phone calls, with multiple callers saying that she would be lynched and one woman telling her, "You should be swinging from a f------ rope, you Democrat."
Johnson responded with a video posted Tuesday on Facebook, announcing that a woman who threatened her had been tracked down by the FBI and state police: "So, this is just a warning to you Trumpers — be careful, walk lightly. We ain't playing with you. Enough of the shenanigans. Enough is enough."
So, instead of threatening Trump supporters, Johnson's comments were actually aimed at getting them to stop threatening her. In context, they actually reveal one of the ways in which Trump's rhetoric incited his followers in the weeks leading up to January 6.
The Johnson clip might be the most egregious example of Trump's lawyers twisting Democrats' words out of context, but it was far from the only one. Another part of the video montage focused on references to "fighting" that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) made while running for president. But as Ali Vitali of NBC wrote on Twitter, Warren's references to "fighting" were all about the political struggle for progressive policy, not encouraging an unruly mob to disrupt a congressional proceeding.
By comparison, I covered Trump for yrs & repeatedly heard him urge supporters to violence. In 2016, telling supporters he'd pay their legal bills if they punched protesters in the face or even wishing law enforcement were more forceful when removing protesters from events.
— Ali Vitali (@alivitali) February 12, 2021
Beyond twisting words out of context, Trump's team included clips of Democrats talking about "fighting" that couldn't remotely be interpreted as incitement, such as Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) talking about fighting the coronavirus.
I can't believe Chuck Schumer incited violence against Covid like this pic.twitter.com/npT53XnKVz
Some of the clips of "fighting" rhetoric included in the video montage were more troubling. Johnny Depp's 2017 "when was the last time an actor assassinated a president?" comment is indefensible and was included in the Trump lawyers' video — but that an actor made an irresponsible comment isn't really a defense of Trump or an indictment of Democrats. And Rep. Maxine Waters encouraging people to "push back" on Trump administration officials who arguably crossed a line, but even interpreted in the most incriminating way possible, two wrongs don't make a right.
Ultimately, none of the comments included in Trump lawyers' video montage is comparable to Trump radicalizing his followers with lies about the election being stolen from them, encouraging them to gather in DC, and then sending them to Congress. In that way, the "hypocrisy" defense rests on a false equivalence.
But as logically flawed as it was, the case made by Trump's lawyers during the early part of Friday's hearing seemed to be persuasive enough to at least one key undecided senator — Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) — who told reporters she found it to be "very organized" and "much stronger" than the incoherent case Trump's lawyers made on Tuesday. Sens. Rob Johnson (R-WI) and John Barrasso (R-WY) also indicated they found the Trump defense convincing.
Whataboutism may not make for strong arguments to those inclined to evaluate them on the merits, but it's enough to provide a pretext for acquittal.
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The contract of Doctors Hospital with Vesta Radiology is testament to the dedication and thrust of Doctors Hospital to continue providing patients with state of the art technology and medical innovations keeping their quality of care rating the best in the islands.
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The vacation area of Chaniotis is widely known among both tourists and Greeks. Many citizens of Thessaloniki offer their local apartments for rent. Up-market hotels and rental apartments are equally available for tourists. Those fond of tranquility can rent a cottage or a villa in the settlement for the entire holiday season. A transfer to Chaniotis will ensure a comfortable ride and good memories of the vacation time spent in Greece. An English-speaking employee of Hellenic Taxi will take care of your luggage and any transportation problems.
Intercity buses – You need to know in advance where and at what time a suitable bus stops. Buses pass through the village of Chaniotis approximately every 2-4 hours. After getting off a bus, you will need to use additional transport to get to your destination.