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Longhornfan1024

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  1. I've noticed that onboard has failed to respond to my post. I guess that's because he's a coward who doesn't want to admit that he doesn't hold the people he idolizes to the same standards that he holds poor college kids. But that's not uncommon for people who lack principle.
  2. Personal responsibility. That's interesting. So let's talk about personal responsibility of people beyond students whose parents couldn't afford to pay for their college degree. Let's say we have a person who has bankrupted multiple business, putting people out of jobs and screwing over contractors who then couldn't get paid or pay their employees, putting them out of jobs. Let's say this person's bankruptcies total in the hundreds of millions, if not billions. Should that person be personally responsible for their poor business decisions? Should they still be a billionaire millionaire who is lauded as a great business person? Or should they be a penniless pauper living on the streets? Should 40% of the country vote that person into office because they will use their "great business skills" to improve the economy? Is that personal responsibility? And when that person treats the country in the same manner they treated their companies, blowing up debt at an astronomical rate, should the people who voted for him and who continue to support him be personally responsible for those debts? Should they be personally responsible to those who voted against him? Should tax payers who support his business practices be the ones to pay for them? Personal responsibility can be an interesting and complicated concept. But I find often it just breaks down to one simple rule: personal responsibility for thee and not for me. As a somewhat wealthy white man, you are perfectly happy for poor college kids to face personal responsibility. But a rich white man facing personal responsibility? That's just fucking crazy.
  3. Bingo. I'm sure that the same posters in this thread who think students should pay for their mistake of financing a "useless" degree also think Trump is a great business man and all of his bankruptcies are just the art of the deal. When a rich person fucks up, they have bought and paid for politicians writing beneficial laws that will protect the rich person's money even as they fuck over an entire company, industry, or country (hello, 2008). And that's just good business sense. But when an 18 year old tries to give themselves a better path in life that offers them an opportunity for a career in an industry they like, it's "well you were just fucking stupid and need to pay for your mistakes."
  4. What I get from this thread is that the entire bankruptcy system, tax incentives, and public investment should be eliminated because they encourage/allow people to make bad decisions for which they don't feel the consequences.
  5. I thought that the majority of Republicans actually understood and cared about Christ's teachings and that the opportunistic charlatans were in the minority. It turns out they're all fake Christians.
  6. And then they continue to support him because they are all a bunch of hypocritical, fake-Christian pieces of shit.
  7. She was really good in the Farewell. One of the best movies of last year that got zero Oscar noms because Hollywood is full of racists.
  8. FIFY.
  9. I really don't give a shit if we get same day results. Just give us the correct results once they're in.
  10. Is it possible for someone to rep themselves? Asking for a friend.
  11. That and "we had a black president so racism doesn't exist in this country anymore" energy.
  12. Man, alvin sure did get pissy because I implied that a 90+% white Iowa that uses a fucked up, archaic system of determining delegates may not be a good representation of how more diverse states may vote in true primaries. It's almost like he's thin-skinned and was just looking for something to offend him.
  13. Don't be so sensitive, snowflake.
  14. I think you meant to post this in the dumb question amnesty thread.
  15. Yeah, even if Pete did get the most delegates, I'm going to wait to come to a conclusion until we get to a state where delegates aren't determined by a bunch of white people playing red rover.
  16. For once I'm in agreement with bt. You go in planning to hold everyone accountable for crimes committed by Trump and the Republicans, but if you can use that possibility to leverage real anti-corruption legislation, including an amendment to overturn Citizen's United, then you take the opportunity. Our country will fail, if it hasn't already, if steps aren't taken to hold bad actors accountable. That means setting an example and/or putting mechanisms in place to prevent those actions from taking place in the future.
  17. Some good news: RLC apparently played in our dev squad's friendly today.
  18. The olds clearly don't want socialist bernie to take away their social security and medicare.
  19. I won't wish cancer on him. But I'm happy he already has it.
  20. The problem is that he doesn't care about those great tits, he just cares that she's white.
  21. That type of behavior doesn't drive people to Trump. Racism, hatred, ignorance, greed. Those things drive people to Trump. A couple of talking heads, including a Republican, making fun of Trump and his followers for being ignorant (largely true), is just an excuse used by those who would already vote for Trump to pass the blame for their bad decisions.
  22. Rick Wilson, a bastion of the Democratic Party and the leftist media.
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