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It's YOUR fault that I've been radicalized! lol oh my.

San Diego is rad. It's hard to live in San Diego proper and I read that SD has the fastest "reverse movement" of the demographic of 21-34, in that the age group is actually moving out of SD at a rapid pace more than any other metro. Something about the cost of living and real estate cost versus jobs. So if that is the case, and it's already a bit red/conservative, and you have older/monied people, you have a recipe for a Mira Lago- West Coast version?

I could listen to RDCaneCutter stories for hours. Where was this college? Auburn? 'Bama? UT-Martin?

Saints cut him today.

I think it's reasonable to argue that no matter what you are doing, generally speaking, you are working hard and making a sacrifice to be doing it. The exceptions being if you are the company owner's son or something, sure, or on the payroll due to extortion or something. I don't mean this to be relativistic, but in the necessary way that it means to work. You are doing something to a level and ability that is maintaining your employment and the sacrifices you make aren't necessarily always "Oh that poor surgeon never sees his kids." but in the sense of a mandatory sacrifice via opportunity costs which is necessary in a world of scarcity and when trading finite resources, be they BTU's of your brain or horsepower of your brawn. Everyone, for the most part, is working hard and making sacrifices. Just because you don't think, for arguments sake, I work hard in relation to yourself or the Howard Roark and his merry band of bricklayers or the McDonald's janitor who walked through cacti then rode under the belly of a donkey in 105 degree heat and then drowned twice in the Rio Grande before being beaten back to life by predator coyotes on the cartel payroll, because I wear a hypothetical Hermes tie for $400/hour to throw coffee and powerpoint decks at peoples heads, doesn't mean there isn't hard work and sacrifice. Hypothetically. Joking aside, I think everyone who is working is working hard and making a sacrifice because work is work.

I agree with this, but I do enjoy getting a pay raise that comes from not paying into SS every time I hit the 137k mark around mid-summer. I assume you enjoy that too, if not earlier in the fiscal year. The problem is asking people to pay for this stuff. I think a pretty accurate generalization would be "we all, no matter who we are or what our jobs are, work hard and make sacrifices for our money." If we can paint the picture that giving more of it back to the government would help us make more in the future (CFO's these days want to see $2.50 for every $1 they spend, why are we different?) then why don't we attack that talk track, politically? Or maybe we just don't have the right minds in Washington.

3 weeks no issues. Rock on.

You are getting what Gartner calls "Social Feedback." You, of course, are free to do with that what you wish, but yea. It's your life though and I'm guessing (really hoping) you aren't such a soggy diaper in real life and this is an exaggeration of your personality (social media/online tends to do) or maybe you are work-shopping some sort of voice or character for an upcoming creative project you are trying to get off the ground. Anyways, I think you are wrong. The majority of Americans don't want cops killing black people, directly or indirectly, and there is hope.

Why not both?

To save the poor from their lot? There will be poor always, pathetically struggling, look at the good things you got.

Sure, at our worst, individual people are selfish, cruel, tribal, all that you said-- maybe even innately or instinctively, though I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it's the result of the corrupted world around us, i.e. environmental. That doesn't mean people aren't capable of banding together for better and for change. Ultimately it boils down to this: My position is that I think the majority of Americans are in favor of good and change and the peaceful protests represent that, and that the main problem is the majority don't have any influence or power versus the minority with the resources. You think that the majority of Americans are in favor of police killing black people, indirectly or directly, and that there is no hope. What I'm curious about is this: Is your thesis of hopelessness informed by your vanity and narcissism and delusions of grandeur as a sociologist and thinker due to messageboard points (my theory) OR is your buy-in of the hopelessness what has created this sort of bloated, bland, middle-class nihlism (which would be interesting and more, dangerous, but also worth investigating)?

A bit of coaching for the future and for your life: making a high-level observation, whether made with your trademark "Sound and Fury" or not, is not the same thing as digging in to a problem and mining out deep and insightful nuggets of wisdom.

Let me ask you this to just make sure I know what I'm dealing with, are you saying that you think the majority of American's are racist, republicans, trumpkins, pro-police brutality, and the blue line matters or whatever? Or do you think the majority of American's are in favor of equality and change and support of peaceful protests?

There are more poor and labor/working-class than the upper-middle class and above. That's simply the truth. So no, a majority of Americans are not okay with all this crap. It's the MINORITY who do want to keep the goons and status quo, because "stonks" and "real eztate brrrr'ing" and such. The real problem-- the root cause-- it appears, is that a MINORITY of people, a smaller coalition made up of a few different demographics which all have a few similarities, are steering the ship and driving the narrative of what "America" is and means, when the MAJORITY are powerless and their well-being is left (or at least historically hasbeen) to the minority's graciousness and generosity, which has been historically insufficient/non-existent (R) or insulting and condescending (D) for black people (and also poor white people, but less so) Crap, I think I'm a 3rd party/Independent guy now or something.

No, I think the majority of Americans are against this. Which is what we are seeing in the streets. But, I think that the majority of Americans with wealth, influence, power, decision-making power, etc. believe what you say in the bold. But that is NOT a majority. The majority are us poor (relatively speaking to the rich), laboring, salt of the earth folk who are saying enough is enough. But yea, most people with comfort support the status quo and don't want their comforts rocked or taken away; water is wet.

I thought of this and it makes me think, at the macro level, there is a risk that all of this is perhaps heading down the path of "Arab Spring" where you have all this unrest and young people who are marching and protesting and making noise and breaking glass (both figuratively and literally) to be heard by the mainstream and the entire globe...and then, what? Potentially nothing. Fall and Football then Winter and Christmas then vaccine and then it's the Summer of 2021 and... I think the Fall/Winter it's up to us to keep the conversation going and keep the pressure on. If you can get out and peacefully protest the next time the wave comes around your side of the stadium, participate. Don't let this be for naught. Say their names.

If someone doesn't dub "Let the bodies hit the floor" in that sequence, we are broken as a basketball fandom.

Lol this is highschool basketball chaotic.

Just saw Oat Willie's is still kicking!

I'm a millennial so I don't know how to put a car on cinderblocks or bust my knuckles on engines while drinking pull tab, pearl in a can, but I did grow up learning at least how to change a tire and change a battery, back when they cost $40. The first time I tried to change my own battery in a newer car and realized I had to take out half the parts to get the old one out and a new one in so I had to take it in to get done was when I saw the writing on the wall. This is why I now drive a Cadillac despite not being in the Cadillac demographic. The service is phenomenal and up to 50k, bumper to bumper anything you could possibly need, it's free. Up to 80k miles for power train it's free, and up to 90k with emission stuff it's free. I typically keep cars for about 60-80k miles, so it works for me. And the service is white glove treatment, you get a nice loaner anytime you need it, and you never have to fret.

Joto wei.

Kanye West - College Dropout Not one bad song.

We agree to disagree then, is it?

Shorty wanna be a thug.