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Thatguy

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  1. Weird hill to die on. You cannot see the benefits teaching diversity and inclusion would have on not only your employees but how they treat the customers that come through the doors? Fuck a study. Never heard the phrase silence is collusion?
  2. I am glad you took the time to type this out. So many times I starting typing out posts like this but don't want to be the guy always responding to this topic. It's funny how many people used to tell you to back off the ledge. Now they are praising you for being correct. There are still a few holdovers, but keep on pressing the line. You've been dead on thus far. I appreciate you!
  3. Teach them to be mobile and how to leverage moves to their benefit. If you wait to have a family you can do well for yourself taking advantage of opportunities others cannot.
  4. Yeah. Let's not offend the snowflakes or there be's torches and pitchforks fo us massa
  5. A couple things- This board is an outlet. In war you might be scared but it doesn't stop you from fighting. People on this board are out here in these streets kicking ass and being successful. We are just venting about the day to day frustrations of our country's, and sometimes the world's, politics. Take me for example. My mom, like a lot of African Americans from her era, never owned a home. In a single generation we went from no home ownership to all of us owning our own home, with me owning a house where if you turn right out of my driveway and drive 1/8 a mile, turn left, drive another 1/8, and turn right, you will be looking at a 15k sq ft house. No one is folding up the tent. That said, this is a board of educated people. When you learn what you did to this country's indigenous. When you learn why we actually fight wars or the puppet regimes we've put in place around the globe to serve our own interest. When you learn the steps this country has taken to keep a thumb on the head of its people. When you know how the country has legislated itself to protect the elite. When you have the means to travel and hear how people outside this country feel about us. When you work in places that are multinational and your colleague sits down and has a beer with you and lets loose about his world view. When you are old enough to see the same things that didn't work 40 years ago tried again and again. When you studied enough to know history and have to sit by and watch people "touch the stove". When you know all that, you need a place to let off a little steam, and thank the lord for this place.
  6. But still fighting to take this tiny little country over 3 years later @Incredulity
  7. I stand by the theory that this is what happened to Trump at some point.
  8. Maybe it has something to do with, oh you know, the backdoor phone calls to Putin and Netanyahu asking them not to cooperate so that he would be back in office. Or did you forget that part? You know how Reagan did.
  9. Yeah man, my kid is about to graduate high school and all she knows is batshit crazy politics. Let that sink in.
  10. That's the thing Mac. A lot of these folks recently weren't actually undocumented. They were here on some type of program that got canceled because reasons. Trump's last day in office he granted asylum to Venezuelans. I am sure he did it to fuck with Biden but he let in a shit ton of the very people he is now deporting. Haitians came the right way. A ton of other people came the right way.
  11. Lol. Any black person that has done well for themselves knows what Brisket here said is dead on balls accurate. You're one of the good ones. "You are so well spoken". They have it in their heads that everyone else is ignorant and a criminal. Just one or two good ones.
  12. My daughter refused to entertain any recruiters from traditional red states for college volleyball. She is headed to a blue state for school. We saw it as an opportunity to vacate Texas as a family. So we will see how that goes but we are also looking at properties outside the country. If things start to really hit the fan me and my daughter are out(the brown ones) and my wife will stay and close up shop.
  13. This part reminds me of a conversation I had. I have a friend who was talking about no tax on tips. I told him it was Republicans shenanigans, simply a loophole they can exploit. When he disagreed I told him if they really wanted to help tipped workers, how about eliminating "tipped minimum wage". ...........Silence.
  14. Isn't it weird though? We've been running the trickle down experiment for over 40 years now. Why are people still voting for it?
  15. True as this is, that stretch from WW2 to 1980 man. We almost had it. Peaking in the 1960's. Housing construction was still pretty good. Almost everything we churned out in the automotive world was fuckin awesome. Equality was heading in the right direction. That's when the south rose up, and politicians rode that wave all the way to current times if you think about it. Sometimes I think to myself, what if Reagan never came along. That dude, even though more polite and charismatic, did far more damage than Trump is doing.
  16. My mom was an alcoholic so much appreciated sir!
  17. What's crazy about this country is the motherfuckers that came over here, came here because they weren't shit where they came from. They got here and a couple years in, here come the Irish and Sicilians. Now they hate those dirty Irish and Italians. A Few years later here come the Chinese, and the Blacks were set free. All the sudden the Irish and Italians get folded into the "white" box in order to gang up on those dirty yellows, reds, and browns. Now the Jews want in, but we would rather let the dude in Germany kill them all rather then let in those shifty Jews. The truth is none of us were shit or we wouldn't have left where we came from. That's the funniest thing about it. Now we wanna puff out our chest as if any of us are from some Aristocrats. Fuck out of here.
  18. Naw bra! Olds vote. Olds should have enough experience to quit falling for the okie-doke. I think I was about 7 when I first started screaming at Wile E. Coyote to quit falling for the Roadrunner's shit every Saturday. That's how I feel when I look at this country.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
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