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Thatguy

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  1. I feel the same way I did when the Rodney King video came out. I was angry that they were doing it but felt a sigh of relief that finally people got to see black folks weren't lying about the ass kickings they were getting when no one was looking. The ugliest part of America is right out in the open. All these years most of America has been in denial. Swearing everything was just fine. Sure, it was fine for a small segment of the populace. This was the only way forward. Sad it had to come to this but the 1st step of the 12 step program is said to be the hardest.
  2. What part of this don't you guys understand? The Republicans have successfully pulled 7 presidential terms in my lifetime to the Dems 5. In that time they have cut top line taxes from 70%. Cut corporate taxes. Created a bunch of tax loopholes. Signed a bunch of bills to allow corps to destroy US manufacturing. Dipped into entitlements. Merged the banking sectors back together and allowed banking entities to keep swallowing one another. Deregulated. Got us into a bunch of wars. Ballooned the debt. Put us into a recession everytime one of them has held office. Gotten a bunch of kids shot at school. Reversed women's bodily autonomy. Literally they have successfully been stripping away everything that was gained from the Progressive Era, The New Deal Era, and the Great Society. Republican states have the lowest minimum wages. Most crime. Worst schools. Most poverty. Yet still the masses keep voting for them. How have they been doing it? Because the American people care more about making sure they have a caste system than they care about self preservation. This has been the problem throughout history regardless of the system the people have been in and the number one reason societies crumble. The Dems struggle because they preach equality. America doesn't want equality. As long as Republicans include a hierarchy they will keep winning.
  3. Like Apple gives a fuck. Americans are going to buy their products regardless. If you really wanna hurt Apple, Donald, cut Huawei and ZTE loose.
  4. Let me preface this by saying nothing you said here is wrong Stache. So I have the pleasure of having a father in law who mainlines Fox. Shit is always on in the background. So I hear the stuff they broadcast. They either don't cover the things you outlined or spin whatever is "spinnable". Now my father in law is highly educated, and so the worst kind of Republican. However, the majority of people out there have no idea what the law actually says. They DO think the president has the power to make decisions. They are told that the judges are wrongly prohibiting the President's ability to do his job and get these filthy criminals and rapists out of OUR country. They WEREN'T paying attention in Civics class. When you have dialogue with them this is completely obvious. So if we aren't having any dialogue with them, they have no education of the subject matter, and their go to source for information is lying to them, how are they to learn? It is absolutely exhausting to engage them in conversation, but it must be done. The general consensus here is that Dems mustn't concede online spaces, and we are critical of them for not fighting the good fight. Yet here we are unwilling to take on difficult dialogue with right wingers in our own lives. The fight starts at the grass roots level. We need to be willing to not neg bomb anyone coming here with a difference of opinion because that discourages discourse.
  5. Deep down I know this is the case but I keep holding out hope.
  6. I try my best to imagine the perspective from other cultures. I think about how it must feel to see minorities be able to proclaim ethnic pride while white people have to sit that one out.
  7. I get it. I guess I am just hopefully to have something other than an echo chamber here. Maybe it's not feasible.
  8. Man, I am not trying to overstep here but the banning and negging aren't my favorite. We can never have a decent back and forth here because people who disagree are too afraid to say anything for fear of what just happened. If someone gets out of pocket maybe we could handle it through DM?
  9. I get that, but you are intelligent and therefore able to step outside the "them vs us" and see the trajectory looks awfully familiar. So why pretend you don't see it?
  10. Some years back two of my teammates from High School got the idea for the three of us to start meeting up yearly. One went to SMU(my high school center) and remained in Dallas. The other went to West Point and is up for General and was in Killeen. So we meet in a small town in Texas at a BBQ spot. Anyway, we started talking about things that were happening when we were kids and when I started telling my experiences they were shocked at how different it was from theirs.
  11. That depends on where in the Hitler story arc we are talking about. Hitler didn't come right out with the death camps. What he did was put those undesirables on trains to another country out of the view of the German citizens. Some years down the line the Germans found out they were killing them. We are currently in the beginning stages of Trump trying to suspend Habeas Corpus so he can get on with the process of pushing out 15 million(his words) Hispanics to who knows where to do who knows what. But keep chuckling.
  12. Went? Lol Been
  13. Yep. Obama came out of nowhere.
  14. It's hard to win when the other side always has the trump card. R's- "We are going to raise your taxes and give HUGE tax breaks to billionaires!" The unwashed masses- R's- "and don't wanna get rid of those dirty Meskins?" The unwashed- We don't have anything like that on our side where we would sell our soul in order for it to get done. Hard to beat that.
  15. Don't feel bad. Every culture is particularly fond of that ole ladder function. We will make it through this thing together. 19% + 14% is a whole lotta people.
  16. I get what you are saying but I think the disconnect is that what he is saying is that the GOP is using already well known people to broadcast their message. People like Rogan and Andrew Schulz are pulling in huge numbers. We have a ton of left podcasters but none of them of the notoriety of them since they were celebrities before the podcasts. Despite the optics Dems have to do the same because without a recognizable name you just don't drive the numbers you need to.
  17. Let that be a lesson to you. You should've taken a cue from the black community and kept it under the 15% threshold like we have. Now you fucked around and drew the Eye of Sauron and now all of Mordor is after you.
  18. This is exactly what I am talking about. I am not saying "don't go into their spaces" when I say Fuck Them Kids. What I AM saying is don't craft strategy you think would appeal to them. This is what Clinton did and it turned off loyal lefties, got the party blamed for the housing collapse in 08, and lost his wife the 16 election. Stand on business and force people to align with you. That's what the Republicans did.
  19. The kids in this video were never going to be on our side. You can hear in what they are saying that they are just regurgitating their parents' talking points. Meanwhile there are millions of young ethnic adults that DON'T vote because the government doesn't care about us that we ignore every single election cycle. Those are the young adults we should be going after. When I was a young adult in the 90's when Clinton was championing the 94 crime bill do you think that inspired me to vote? If you couple the apathetic kids with the already liberal leaning kids that is plenty enough to offset the ones in this video. The mistake the Dems make every cycle is to keep trying to win people back over to their side instead of taking care of their own constituents. Meanwhile the Republicans could give two shits about winning any leftists and just double down on their efforts and come away just fine. We need to quit fucking worrying about what white kids spawned by Republicans care about.
  20. You aren't winning these kids https://youtu.be/ePbMNq8m7Jw?si=b4X01fF1COalx2cX
  21. I agree and that is the reason I said that Dems are to blame for the way the American public views politics. In their view a Dem pres was the one who signed the Glass-Steagal reform and a Dem pres who bailed out and allowed Wall St to go free. People also see the bank accounts of these leaders grow exponentially while in office and they feel like they are no different than the Rs. If we could just get rid of that then we would encourage all the apathetic non-voters to get off the couch.
  22. You talking about the bailouts?
  23. I am all for dunking on the right so you will get no argument from me.
  24. Children DO rebel but a large segment of them come back to the ideological fold when they get to adulthood. That's exactly how racism, bigotry, and hatred stay alive my friend.
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