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7 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:
No, no, you’re right, none of it has ever been systemic racism.
And none of it is today.
Take 100 randomly selected black kids, and 100 randomly selected white kids, and as a group, they'll end up equally successful! They have all the same opportunities, no difference in impediments, everything is EVEN now!
Care to take that wager, flattie? You know how it will turn out. So, the only question is this: is it primarily because 1) black folks are inherently less able to succeed, or 2) they are starting from a point of fewer advantages, and entering into a society that still has entrenched disadvantages (I mean, I'm sure the wild discrepancy in the rates that drivers are pulled over based on race is just an accounting error, for example). Come on. If you think you're being AT ALL clever....stop.
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Just now, fattyflattie said:
Fair enough, I should have said without difficulty.
Easily admitted - there’s separate admission requirements based on the color of your skin? Almost certain that falls in favor of pigment blessed individuals, not the other way around.
Easily paid for - Ask the hundreds of thousands of non-black individuals drowning in student debt. Seems like this falls in the “affects everyone” category. I assume there are more white families who paid for school without loans is your angle here?
Easily adjusted to college - wtf does that even mean? The vast majority of ALL college kids are 18-22 and are leaving home for the first time. There are varying degrees of difficulty in academics, determined in large part by the student. Further, there are commuter schools for those that help support family, and HBU that cater to AA students. This has more to do with individual kids than their race, and I don’t see how there can be any advantage gained either way
I mean, you can feel free to ignore the statistics that minority students -- who disproportionately come from poor backgrounds/families that have never had a college grad -- which arises in large part from family history -- which arises in large part from historical conditions -- have a harder time integrating into college and achieving. But the rest of us won't.
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Just now, Blotto said:
That is a real headscratcher.
Yeah, I mean it couldn't POSSIBLY be that the GOP WELCOMES foreign interference.
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17 minutes ago, retread said:
And that's why those of y'all waiting for the "blowback" when Trump finally drops the N-bomb in public are going to be WAY disappointed. It will only BOLSTER the enthusiasm of his base. Remember, "he talks like me!"
In no uncertain terms, the GOP is the party of normalizing racism. It's their fucking MISSION.
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Just now, lemonlime said:
Peak 2019. California passes an unconstitutional law that will be and should be struck down by the courts in response to a constitutional crisis.
Yep. Stupid reactionary law. And it will be struck down.
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8 minutes ago, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:
Exhibit A:
Schumer's response = way too fucking many words to say that the R's outright lie about wanting to cover pre-existing conditions.
They need to start using the word "lie" straight-up, no more fancy, run-on sentences. Because it's the only way to accurately characterize the blatant lying, but also because so many people need a short soundbite to process what's happening, unfortunately.
This.
"That's a lie. The Republican plan doesn't cover pre-existing conditions. They've never had a plan that does that. The Dems do."
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10 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:
I completely agree.
We think that we are always liberating Paris from the Nazis no matter who we're invading. In our naive view of a world comprised of good guys and bad guys, we're never the bad guys at the start. It takes a few photos of slaughtered villagers, blown-up children, or drone-attacked weddings before any of us even get the idea.
But we don't mean to kill civilians! The dead and their survivors don't care. They don't care because it doesn't matter.
The hell of it is....we at least used to TRY.
My Lai was a scandal. Obama took (justified criticism) for his use of drone attacks. And, goddamit, we ARE the country that helped liberate Paris and lead the Berlin Airlift.
But now.....child separation and kid cages with no basis sanitation isn't a scandal....it's fucking CELEBRATED. It's "making America great again!" Our commander in chief casually says he could kill 10 million people, but through his benificence (for today, at least), he chooses not to. Our leadership is running backwards to old-fashioned racism and white supremacy as fast as it can. Etc. etc.
The world is an evolving story. The story is complex, and every actor's actions are often ambiguous (including ours, historically). But here, there is no doubt - in this particular chapter, we are the villain. We are the USA, and we ARE the bad guy.
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5 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:
I still think a large part of where we are comes from the bastardized idea of American Exceptionalism.
"American Exceptionalism" is idiocy. It's nothing but a shield against any introspection or improvement.
It's as if I practiced "Brisket Physical Perfectionism" -- I'm GORGEOUS. There's not a SINGLE THING ABOUT ME THAT'S NOT THE MOST PERFECT EVER. And if you criticize me, you're just a hater, and you should go back where you came from or something.*
* All of which shields Brisket from trying to lose 50 lbs, dressing better, finally getting a decent haircut, realizing he's getting older so he ought to take care of his skin, too, etc. Leaving Brisket to be the plain-looking fella that he ACTUALLY is. And what's worse, it's a recipe for Brisket to get even uglier as time goes by.
America is just getting shittier, and it's in no small part because people who insist that we're fucking perfect, so how dare we actually look critically at ourselves to see how we can improve?
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2 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:
High and severe are orange and red, respectively.
Point to the spot on the color wheel where the terrorist touched you.....
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13 hours ago, Xian said:
FYI. The “elevated” threat sign is actually the NTSA rating created after 911. While on paper elevated yellow is the medium level, it actually has never been below that rating. The sign is basically saying we are at the lowest risk of a terroristic possible.
I’m actually surprised you haven’t seen it before, it’s posted around most secured faculties across the United States.
Of that, I was actually unaware. I do go in and out of federal facilities with some frequency, but they're the kind of places that have a portrait of the president in the lobby, not the kind of places that posts the terror threat level (although I have never understood the insane amount of security you have to go through to get into an EPA building). I mean, nevermind that the whole terror threat level thing is absurd. We're supposed to be on high alert when the level goes to magenta, or puce, or something like that, right?
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51 minutes ago, HenryJames said:
He was a prosecutor....in Texas. 100% chance he prosecuted at least one person with a hispanic last name. And you know what THOSE people are....so, we rate this claim TRUE!
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1 hour ago, Nivek said:
not every statement warrants a response. I understood as much, but was just being a doofus on the board.
But if we don't respond to doofus statements, this board will die.
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36 minutes ago, TahoeHorn said:
In a baseball game some batters have had more advantages over others. Two people with the same athletic ability don't have the same opportunity to hit the ball. One may have had:
1. A culture (family or community) which introduced him to baseball later in life
2. Inferior coaching
3. Discriminatory treatment by Little League coaches
4. Unsupportive parents
5. Pressure to play other sports or study instead of practicing baseball.
And many more.
But if I'm the umpire I don't care. A strike is a strike and a ball is a ball. I'm not even going to pay attention to who the batter si or who the pitcher is.
If it's a church picnic I'll give 5 year old Susie extra strikes and easy pitches. And I won't cut 14 year old Billy, who plays high school ball, any slack. But in MLB a ball is a ball and a strike is a strike.
You moronic, racist, donutfucker....when the fucking REASON Batter B has less athletic ability than Batter A is fucking institutional racism that fucked him and his family for 200 years, then I hate to fucking break it to you, race is a fucking difference-maker. Not 'unsupportive parents." Not "I chose to play badminton instead." But centuries of fucking racism. Which means that Batter A has access to fucking coaches. Batter A has mentors who help him figure out which position is likely to get him playing time. Batter A gets a shitload of advantages.
Yeah, when the ump calls strikes that day, he's going to look at the pitch and the swing. But society doesn't exist in a single fraction of a second of time, with all other times and issues ignored. I mean, I know that's how your juvenile masturbatory fantasies play out, but that's not reality.
You are the beneficiary of 250 years of systemic advantages.
Black people remain behind the 8-ball of 250 years of systemic disadvantages.
You want to ignore that. Which is what a racist does. You are, remain, and always will be a racist piece of shit. But hey, good news -- your political party is now 100% on board with your worldview.
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QuoteDidn't read your horseshit. Just stopped in to say go fuck yourself you donut fetching lickspittle.
...is a better reply than mine.
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54 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:
According g to Forbes magazine last year over 1 million. Canadians had to wait excessive amounts of time for medical care resulting in over $1.9 billion in lost wages and other insured costs. A country with far less population that the US, just about 10% of our current population. Or is Forbes just lying to protect the status quo ?
From June 11, 2018. Forbes magazine
Canada's single-payer healthcare system forced over 1 million patients to wait for necessary medical treatments last year. That's an all-time record.
Those long wait times were more than just a nuisance; they cost patients $1.9 billion in lost wages, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute, a Vancouver-based think-tank.
Lengthy treatment delays are the norm in Canada and other single-payer nations, which ration care to keep costs down. Yet more and more Democratic leaders are pushing for a single-payer system -- and more and more voters are clamoring for one.
Indeed, three in four Americans now support a national health plan -- and a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finds that health care is the most important issue for voters in the coming election.
The leading proponent of transitioning the United States to a single-payer system is Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont's firebrand independent. If Sanders and his allies succeed, Americans will face the same delays and low-quality care as their neighbors to the north.
Let's presume that the data in there is correct (setting aside the arguments, let's just look at the data).
A certain percentage of their population had to wait on medical treatments.
A certain percentage of their GDP was lost in terms of lost wages because of that.
In a vacuum, those stats are meaningless, as what the piece would purport to do is COMPARE the Canadian and US systems. So, how do they COMPARE? Because if the argument is "single-payer ain't perfect," no shit, Sherlock. The question is whether it's better than what we have here.
For example, EVERY Canadian has coverage, but 1 million Canadians had to wait for care. Compare that to the US:
QuoteThe number of uninsured nonelderly Americans decreased from over 44 million in 2013 (the year before the major coverage provisions went into effect) to just below 27 million in 2016. However, in 2017, the number of uninsured people increased by nearly 700,000 people, the first increase since implementation of the ACA.
Translation:
2.7% of Canadians had to wait for medical care.
8.3% of Americans have no coverage at all.
These are relevant comparisons. I'd rather wait for medical care than not get it at all, right?
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1 minute ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:
Every silent gen voter that died since 2016 is going to be replaced by a GEN Z that was too young to vote. That’s kind of an encouraging way to look at it.
But it's not true. Silent gen voters turned out at 80%+. Gen Z turns out at less than 20% (okay, I didn't look them up, but the numbers are a lot like that).
Trump is appealing -- with every evil dog whistle possible -- to a group of voters who show up. And sure, he's pissing people off -- young people and minorities. Who don't f'n vote. It's a GOOD STRATEGY.
That's why the counter-strategy needs to be focused on building actual enthusiasm, and getting turnout. Without those, every other part of a strategy is pointless.
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6 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:
he needs the "against hillary" contingent to be as excited to be "against bernie/kamala/biden/warren" and i just don't see that happening.
Huh. It's like you don't know that the Dem nominee is going to be the America-hating socialist who lots of people are saying supports terrorists attacking America and has helped MS-13 come into our country and rape tens of thousands of women and wants to end America and turn us over to the worst types of people (you know who I mean). Doesn't matter who the nominee actually IS -- that's who that person will be once Trump and 24 hours a day of Fox News are done with them.
And it will work. Always bet on lies and hate. They're the best fuel.
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47 minutes ago, EMAWesome said:
So it's okay to judge someone based on the color of their skin? It's okay to assume one race is going to be superior to another race when all other characteristics are the same?
You're.....not very bright, are you?
Based on our existing history ONLY, with no regard for the merits of any individual or race existing at this time.....which group in the United States is more likely to have "connections" that allow them to get a better internship/first job: 100 randomly selected white kids, or 100 randomly selected black kids?
Even if there was ZERO racism today (which, of course, is a patently false assumption), our historical racism and how that racism has been embedded in our institutions has a LONG tail.
A generic black kid, REGARDLESS of his individual merit (but let's say he has a 105 IQ and a good work ethic, and has a stable home, identical to a white kid just like that) is more likely to have the following DISADVANTAGES:
1 - does not have as big or successful a network in the upper reaches of business/government/etc. that will give him a leg up when it comes time to get a job, hustle more business/accounts, seek a promotion, etc.
2 - is statistically more likely to be pulled over by the cops
3 - is statistically more likely to face criminal penalties for minor offenses (think booze and recreational drugs) than a white kid will
4 - is statistically more likely to have his resume treated poorly if he has a remotely "black" sounding name
That's just for starters. Those are verifiable realities. Which folks who are all about "facts" love to ignore. Face it, son....you're pretty fucking dim.
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1 minute ago, Nivek said:
Why did her group exclude us regular agnostic assholes? Not that i would have gone but it would have been nice to be invited.
There were people there as a matter of conscience only -- you didn't have to be a faith leader to attend. But it was important to show that faith leaders were the heart of this movement, and were on the forefront speaking to an alternate theology than one we hear from the dominant voices aligned with our government.
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So, things have wrapped up. I'm not sure on the details, but there were some things communicated to the leadership of the protest that caused them concern -- they told the folks who had put on armbands (indicating that they were willing to be arrested) to take them off, and everyone needed to stay together.
When they arrived at the facility near the airport, they were greeted with signage indicating that they were deemed an "elevated" threat:
Nothing scarier than a bunch of clerics getting together to pray and minister to the people -- all people.
Here's a piece on what went on:
The call was simple:
Quote"We condemn and call evil and unjust the caging of people, the making people drink from toilets, the refusal to even give them a toothbrush," the group continued. "You're holding angels in this place. But you will not hold them forever. We join them now, and not only do we bring condemnation, but we bring hope. It doesn't have to be this way. America, turn around. America, repent. America, stop. America, change your ways."You know I'm not big on hope. Like, at all.
But if there is any, folks like this carry it and protect it.
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2 minutes ago, crash_davis said:
mestizos and Silicon Valley white twats?” the Instagram message continued, using a Hispanic slur for people of mixed race.
Well, not to quibble, but as an independent term, I don't think "mestizo' is actually a slur. It's actually still used in latin america, as an anthropological descriptor. "Twats," however.....that's rarely used as a term of endearment.
Just being a vocab snob here.
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Well, he's right. I mean, they're standing next to Trump -- they're clearly already at the bottom of the pits of Hell. Nowhere to fall from there.
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1 minute ago, Bama Chick said:Rat infested, huh?
Man.....those have to be a minefield for Stephen Miller.
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1 minute ago, Onboard 2.0 said:
Fast muscle twitch is really a thing ?
Huh. What I was thinking it meant was "Brisket apparently has no idea how hockey is played, because he wasn't aware that 'cornerback' was a position in the NHL."
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I'll take "racist morons who refuse to acknowledge any effect of systemic, institutional, and historical advantages" for $1,000, Alex.
Because we all know that if you give me 100 white kids and 100 black kids who all test similarly for IQ etc. at age 5, which group is going to be more financially successful overall over the course of their lives? Is it the one that won't have employers subconsciously screen out their black-sounding names? Is it the one that will have many members get sweet internships/first jobs through a connection that their dad made from HIS college days? Is it the one that won't have many of its members pulled over by the cops at a higher rate, searched, harassed, and busted for the slightest criminal infraction? Etc. etc. ad infinifuckingnitum?
In Tahoe Moron's analysis, it is the equivalent of having a foot race to determine who to draft as a CB....except one group (as a whole) starts their 100 yd dash at starting blocks 30 yards closer to the finish line. Inherent biases and advantages skew the shit out of your desire to focus on the myopic result of "all I care about is who crosses the finish line first."
But he knows that. Racists don't deny their racism. They just try to justify or excuse it. But the rest of us won't play that game. Fuck your game. And fuck you.
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Running thread of white people calling cops on people of color for everyday stuff...
in Daily Texan
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Racist cop script 101:
1) Tell the black guy you're going to arrest him for something that is utter and complete bullshit, and everyone knows it.
2) when he dares even say "WTF? Arrested for speeding?", then you say "RESISTING ARREST."
3) the only thing missing here is that he didn't shoot him full of holes. The fact that he was being recorded probably saved the black dude's life.
Power hungry, stubby-dicked, pathetic shitheel excuse for a human being. Not on should he not have a badge, he shouldn't have a fucking license to drive -- that level of immaturity and shitty impulse control has zero place on the roads, or frankly, anywhere but his wooden shack in the woods where he can abuse his wife to his heart's content (odds are, he abuses her now -- see the abuse rate for cops).