Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan for Manufacturing in Wisconsin

Re:Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan for Manufacturing in Wisconsin by rootusrootus on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @06:14PM (#19040644)

I don't have to look back too far to see that the last anti-intellectual occupying the hot seat had no problem getting us involved in more wars. ISTM that is not a defining characteristic.

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Re:Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan for Manufacturing in Wisconsin by jessaustin on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @06:32PM (#19040757)

You're right Libya was a terrible idea.

[EDIT:] You mean Iraq and Afghanistan, of course. Bush the Lesser was not so much anti-intellectual as he was easily suggestible. If a Wolfowitz or a Paulson or a Cheney had a horrible idea, he didn't have the resources to challenge that idea. Of course all the worst neocons have some sort of Ivy League credentials.

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Re:Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan for Manufacturing in Wisconsin by krapp on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @06:54PM (#19040908)

>Bush the Lesser was not so much anti-intellectual as he was easily suggestible.

How certain are you that those attributes aren't correlated?

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Re:Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan for Manufacturing in Wisconsin by jessaustin on Sunday February 10, 2019 @03:49PM (#19129941)

I'm not certain of any of this, but if I may go by personal experience, I would say the two qualities are orthogonal. I have known intellectuals who could be bullied into just about anything, and I've known an "anti-intellectual" who wouldn't step out of the street if you told him there was a truck bearing down on him.

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