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ndawg

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  1. I don't know, it doesn't seem fair to simply assume the Democrats are just as bad as the Trump arm of the GOP. If we can say that the portion of the GOP that isn't in bed with Trump is less corrupt than the portion that is, then we can also say that the Democrats are also less corrupt than the Trump GOP.
  2. That said, "I'm not Donald Trump" turned out to be a very sound reason for her have been president. Trump really is that bad.
  3. Right. I've just never seen the 2nd amendment hard liners really offer any kind of explanation for this.
  4. A question worth answering, IMO: is the frequency and severity of mass shootings in this country an aberration relative to other countries? If it is, then we can at least set out to uncover why we have a problem that other countries don't. I think the answer is very clearly "yes," but I'd rather hear from folks who think our mass shootings are more or less "normal."
  5. There's building a castle in the sky, and there's moving in. "Trumpkin" is a word that can be effectively used to mock a segment of the population that sees the world only through a primitive, tribal lens. They won't ever listen to reason, and there's no point in trying to bring a better argument to them. Pearls before swine, after all. We should never indulge it to the point where we become what it mocks.
  6. Oh look, TahoeHorn is comfortable using labels that refer to tribal identities, and allow us to overgeneralize groups of people by parroting intellectually lazy narratives. He must understand how this works. I wonder why he asked this question, then?
  7. So? You asked the definition, and then you also asked for an opinion on a laundry list of prominent politicians. I answered the former. As for the latter, the GOP leadership is obviously playing their cards close to their vest. I got no idea if they are personally aligned with Trump. They're certainly not on message boards making asses of themselves...
  8. It's a tribal identity. People who identify with Trump are Trumpkins. People who don't state their identity openly, but nonetheless derail discussions with non-sequiturs aimed at blurring the truth are also Trumpkins. Doesn't seem too complicated.
  9. I wonder what the odds are that all these idiotic Trumpkins waited until the OJ verdict to decide whether they thought he was guilty of killing Nicole.
  10. Sheeeit is such a terrible troll. Expecting that we all adopt an "innocent until proven guilty" mentality is straight out of the SEC fan playbook when deflecting accusations of cheating.
  11. I think you mistook what he said "wrong" to. You said "we can't see shit from our vantage point." We can tell a ton of shit from our vantage point.
  12. That's possible. Another possibility is that he'll find a way to spin a resignation as an "eff you" to the "deep state." For instance, "I resign in protest. And I'll be fine, because there was NO COLLUSION. It's the American people that will suffer, believe me, because I've done more for them than ANY OTHER PRESIDENT. Sad!"
  13. Just because they lack the basic competence necessary to orchestrate a vast international conspiracy doesn't mean they aren't the centerpiece of one. I wouldn't be surprised to find Putin pulling the strings of some very dimwitted puppets.
  14. Your inference that affirmative action and entitlements betray a belief that they are incapable of thriving is a tremendously dim-witted mental leap. It's a stupid, sophomoric rhetoric tactic. It belongs in a high school debate club.
  15. I think he's trying to accuse the liberal perspective of paternalism, which is almost certainly just his own projection. The liberal perspective is driven by the leadership of the African American community. His perspective is driven by the delusions of his brain, and it's imaginary idea of what's really best with people he has absolutely no clue about.
  16. So much horse shit in this thread. Racism isn't the mere assertion that Black Americans could do more to improve their situation. In fact, in a vacuum, that is unquestionably true, but only because it's a tautology. Everyone could always do more to improve their situation. Your racism is revealed by the unwavering, unquestioned confidence some of y'all have that your understanding of their situation is automatically more accurate and valid than theirs. The assumption that if they lived their lives more like your idealistic vision of what a family is supposed to be, they'd suffer from less violence, or be better off. The presumption that, since you're not part of a community being torn apart by violence, you must know better. Since you're better off, it must be because you've figured out how to pull them bootstraps hard enough to improve your lot. The pedestal you're standing on that provides such a vantage point has a name, and it's not "meritocracy." It's called "privilege." As much as many liberals have gotten carried away with it and used it to fuel their drug known as outrage, you should actually check yours. Sure, you don't hold the belief that they are genetically inferior, or that they should use a different water fountain, or be forced to live in different neighborhoods. But your belief structure is compromised by racism nonetheless. Your stupid arguments about how librulism is actually racist are nonsense to anyone with half a brain.
  17. You have it wrong. The fact that words have meaning is exactly why we have wars over semantics. If you can't see the benefits, then you just aren't looking.
  18. Inevitably, the conclusion of your semantic games will be that you don't really have any personal responsibility to help ensure everyone in the US gets an equal opportunity. After all, you're not privileged. It's other people that are underprivileged. But that's not your fault. You're not one of the racists. You don't believe blacks should be forced to sit at the back of the bus. That's what a racist is, right?
  19. I understand, and I am really sorry for your situation. Ugh. How sick is it that there's such a broad range of degrees of getting fucked over by them. The thing that infuriates me about the drug I take is that it's "discovery" came from publicly funded research. Our taxpayer dollars funded a private monopoly. This is the kind of thing that taught me in my early 20s that the America we learn about in schools doesn't actually exist. It's a fairy tale designed to delude people into thinking that if they're getting screwed, it's their own damned fault, because after all, America is great.
  20. Oh yeah, my situation is "fortunate" compared to the most absurd and egregious examples. Still, these kinds of people that can happily exploit the sick are the kryptonite of any civilized society. Socialism, capitalism, it don't make a shit. They'll rise to the top and steal from the bottom.
  21. I pay $300 a month for a drug that was essentially developed at a publicly funded university. The pharma company added an immaterial variation, patented everything, and now has a monopoly. The people running some of these companies are psychopaths.
  22. It doesn't seem like you comprehended what I said.
  23. Y'all don't get that aspect of what I'm saying. You're leaping to the conclusion that single parent households are themselves a root cause, for which blame can consequently be attributed. It would be very hard to defend that conclusion because of the strong possibility that single parent households are themselves caused by something else. You might have identified a substantial link in the most important chain that explains the high murder rate. You have to keep pulling on it to get to the source.
  24. Pretty easy to say that on a message board. Pretty useless, too. Is your formula proven to be effective? Your argument would only hold water if there were nothing that whites could do. There's a lot we can do. For instance, not throwing men who happen to be fathers in jail for circumstances that would not result in a white person being even prosecuted. Offering a career path free of biases that force blacks to do twice as much work for less pay just to prove they aren't "thugs." But no, you get to armchair quarterback from a cozy, comfortable vantage point.
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