Everything posted by ndawg
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The Robert Mueller Investigation
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.
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The Robert Mueller Investigation
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.
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Michael Cohen Investigation
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.
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The Robert Mueller Investigation
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!"
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The Robert Mueller Investigation
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.
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40 people shot in 3 days
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.
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40 people shot in 3 days
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.
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40 people shot in 3 days
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.
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40 people shot in 3 days
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.
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40 people shot in 3 days
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?
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The cost of pharmaceuticals
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.
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The cost of pharmaceuticals
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.
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The cost of pharmaceuticals
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.
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40 people shot in 3 days
It doesn't seem like you comprehended what I said.
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40 people shot in 3 days
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.
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40 people shot in 3 days
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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40 people shot in 3 days
Blaming gun violence on a breakdown of family structure is pretty lazy analysis. Where's the measurement of the breakdown? Where's the root cause analysis? People who have never lived in these neighborhoods (including myself) have absolutely zero working knowledge of what the real situation even is. By the time we see such a low precision statistic like murder rates, we're looking at a proxy variable that's so far removed from the fullness of their reality that the most responsible course of action we can take is to refuse to draw conclusions altogether. At least without equipping ourselves with a deeper understanding. Different cultures throughout the world vary greatly in their family structures. Do you even have any particular style of family structure in mind when you mention the "proper" kind of one?
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Michael Cohen Investigation
That 40% of morons/psychopaths in presidential elections end up being a much bigger factor in mid terms. They show up more than other groups. And all the GOP really needs to do to have a shot at 2020 is to push a simple narrative on the political middle: with all the crazy lies flying around with both sides, you can't really trust either one. Trump may be a scoundrel, and he may cheat to win here and there, but the left is way worse because they pretend to be honest and fair, when they've been out to get Trump since he won the primary. Remember that, when they predicted he'd never win, but he did? Etc. If they succeed with that messaging, they'll convince some of the people in the middle of the spectrum to vote Trump, and others that might lean left will feel justified in staying home. This will get worse if the Dems pick an unpopular candidate again.
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Place your bets now: Predict the Year and Exit of Donald Trump
Indeed. One way or another, after the 2018 midterms, they can suddenly see the light whenever the next wave of damning evidence gets released. Americans have short memories. Many will forget how long the Republican party licked Trump's boots once they start siding with impeachment. It'll be a feel good moment. It'll also make me sick.
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The Robert Mueller Investigation
That's good shit, man. Good shit right there.
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Joy Reid Blog Post Scandal
Do you mean a right leaning pundit on a "liberal" network or a right leaning pundit on Fox News? Because a conservative pundit has to pretty much unmask himself as a demon of some lower region of hell to get fired from Fox News.
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The Robert Mueller Investigation
Doesn't that play into Mueller's hands by giving him more time to wrap up the investigation?
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Donald Trump 2018
She prolly has an even younger dude of her own, too!
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Donald Trump 2018
Man for a sixty some odd year old woman, Brigitte has really got it going on.
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Kamala Harris 2020
Let's be honest, the minute the GOP decided to support legalization, the Democrats would support it and turn it into a bipartisan movement, ultimately helping the perception of neither party.