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@Danielle
There was a poll done last Summer which found an extraordinary number of people from BOTH parties believe that you should be able to fire someone merely if they donated to Trump or Biden.
This is the inevitable consequence when you escalate social canceling from democratic legislation to the level of mob intimidation and monopolistic corporate shakedowns and then justify this with whataboutisms.
Flippant whataboutism only encourages this extreme behavior from all sides.
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@Danielle
As I said, I firmly believe if there was actual change and reform then a lot of the anti-cop rhetoric would go away.
Defund and dismantle public unions.
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@Trent0405
Okay, so what I'm saying is these non disadvantaged blacks would still get sentenced longer than equally non disadvantaged whites.
Just because black judges might understand more about the black experience doesn’t mean that they’re more sympathetic toward black criminals. In fact, a surprising new study shows that all judges in Louisiana — white or black — actually give longer sentences to juvenile offenders of their own race.
This is a critically important study since it's very rare for a juvenile to fall under the 3 strike rule which affects much of black criminal sentencing.
It also shows a direct reverse of what you would expect from the mass media narrative regarding cross-racial sentencing.
It's a logical result from decades of mandatory "sensitivity" training in the judicial system.
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@Death23
So much gossipy ad-hom posts, you would think this was Twitter, not a place to debate ideas.
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@ILikePie5
Back then you could mount a cannon to protect your boat.
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@MgtowDemon
If you ask for logical consistency with what he shit-posts with, you might accidentally turn him into a worthwhile poster, and we certainly don't want that.
I'm not going to feed any gossip about users on this site. I just address the ideas and content.
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@Death23
I guess disrupting the western family as BLM advocates isn't such a great idea according to your study.
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@MgtowDemon
Meritocracies work just fine in Jingoist nations where there is only one tribe comprised of one nation.
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@PressF4Respect
Lockdown making me really fat and bored.
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@PressF4Respect
Hi F4
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@Athias
It's verifiably hard to reliably determine anything about the DNA of a person from skin shade alone. Skin color is an isolated phenotype of millions of other traits.
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@Athias
In a meritocracy, skin color means nothing. Either you can do a task competently or you can not.
No DNA testing required.
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@MgtowDemon
it takes a lot of conditioning to superimpose your "equality of justice".
Is Tribal justice better for a society and a nation?
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@Danielle
Only if the RINOS somehow make a resurgence.
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@Death23
@HistoryBuff
If you have an hour to spare, this video goes over historical social justice.
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@Danielle
I truly find it hard to believe that the Republican Party is suddenly going to abandon their corporatist agenda so that's another thing I'm curious to see play out.
Why wouldn't they knowing getting outspent 2 to 1 since 2016 doesn't ensure election outcomes anymore?
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I just noticed that yesterday! I thought you did it in honor of me. I was flattered.
My avatar was designed by the ridiculously underrated creative genius user known as RM.
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@HistoryBuff
Glad you agree.
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@Danielle
Also...why the hell are our avatars anthropomorphic animals with sunglasses?????
You said Big Business donates more to Democrats. That was wrong.
If you look prior to 2016 and your fascination with the Rino period of history, sure.
Do you really have a pipedream where Romney suddenly becomes relevant in the future? How would that happen?
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@Danielle
Mitt Romney
You love your RINOs, don't you? A vanishing breed. Root for the underdog.
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@Danielle
Well I don't fetishize Ayn Rand but I recognize the reality of evolving markets.
I do as well, so I am on the fence with the "learn to code" crowd.
I actually respect Yang for addressing the problem of displaced workers in a world without tarriffs.
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@Danielle
then you're privileged enough to not have to care who the President is.
I do care about the SCOTUS, which is why the Senate is far more powerful than any faceman president.
Ask Merrick Garland about how insignificant the Senate is to shaping the makeup of the SCOTUS.
But go on, scream at the sky about how important any president is.
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@Death23
Should the judicial system make exceptions regarding the law based on group identity?
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@HistoryBuff
What is your definition of Social Justice?
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@HistoryBuff
Most of American jurisprudence revolves around the idea that you are treated equally under the law, no matter what you identify as.
Social Justice jurisprudence revolves around the idea that your identity should be considered.
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@Intelligence_06
ALL lives Matter is racist too.
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So what is the merit of trashing equality of justice for tribal justice?
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@Danielle
Union CEO's sure.
Has as much power over me as the fashionable monkey faceman in the whitehouse.
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@Danielle
So yes there is a lot of corporate money everywhere but more goes to Republicans overall.
Sure, if you want to go back to the good-ole RINO days and dig up some pre-2016 data about how CEOs bought RINOS in the GOP. Good point.
2016 and up is all I care about.
Trump supporters are too stupid for their own good.
If the "scream at the sky" club was so smart, they wouldn't have cannibalized the power of the Congress for a stupid faceman in a fancy white house.
I am absolutely happy with how things turned out. How about you?
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Both parties are dominated by corporate money,
Which party got the most money? It's not even close, 2016 the money was 2 to 1.
I know it hurts the feels but the DNC is the party that stays bought.
proves to me they're more likely racist
More likely to be people you don't like. I get what you are laying down.
My points are good. You're welcome for sharing my insight with you :)
The check is in the mail.
You went hard for Trump.
of course, I went hard for Trump. He is the clown that single-handedly triggered the Democratic Congress to expose themselves for what they were. Do you really think the Congress would have swung hard right if Jeb Bush were president? Not a chance in hell the DNC Congress would have attempted to impeach good ole boy Jeb for "obstruction of the Congress" A ton of RINOS also got their asses handed to them as well. Double joy.
Yeah, I am absolutely ecstatic about how the Congress improved over the one that tried to mandate government-managed healthcare. Trump wasn't able to do a goddamn thing the Congress wouldn't let him, and that's always been the case for every president. I don't really give a fuck about the president beyond the implications it has for the direction of Congress.
Yes national security is one of the only opportunity costs I see from outsourcing
So you are one of those "learn to code" types. I guess that's okay. Not very popular but it's inevitable.
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@zedvictor4
What I am saying, is that until the street is all the same.
Hegemony is the curse of the English Empire.
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@zedvictor4
Tea and Crumpets
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@bmdrocks21
How were Republicans undermining democracy?
Because they didn't vote against the will of the people that voted for a Republican Congress.
You need to remind HB that the Congress is far more powerful than a president.
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@bmdrocks21
Degentrification is cultural pride.
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@bmdrocks21
That is degentrification.
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@bmdrocks21
Because when gentrification occurs and there are no relaxations of housing construction regulations, people can't build the units needed that the poor people can live in.
So they blame the investors for "pushing poor people out" when it's the regulations that actually push them out. Investors would love the opportunity to build cheap housing if they were allowed to.
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@bmdrocks21
I find it slightly humorous that housing development, plentiful jobs, low crime, and good education are labeled perniciously as gentrification by some black communities.
All cultures must be celebrated and at the same time, cultural differences don't matter policy-wise.
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@HistoryBuff
That kind of thinking was disproved a long, long time ago.
Yep.
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@bmdrocks21
Metro Detroit has full control on how to deal with local crime and local teacher's unions, so it's really hard to blame whitey.
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@Death23
well, metro Detroit has full control on how to deal with local crime and local teacher's unions, so it's really hard to blame whitey.
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@Death23
What do you mean it is expensive? Detroit has self-segregated for years.
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@bmdrocks21
So, we don't know if Black judges gave preferential sentences to Black criminals and harsher sentences to Whites, and the White judges gave harsh sentences to Blacks and lighter sentences to Whites.
Actually, I saw a study where White guilt caused white judges to be lenient while Black judges are not hampered by any sense of skin guilt.
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@Danielle
You didn't answer which field you would put me in though. I'm curious!
You haven't answered my question about opportunity costs to the nation. I would need to know this to answer yours.
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@Danielle
It increases company profits which is good for business owners and shareholders (and hey Trump uses the stock market as the primary benchmark for a nation's economic success, so it must be valid). It lowers the cost of consumer goods. It allows for trade opportunities like the example I gave yesterday re: my friend who runs two businesses selling Chinese goods, and is able to employ dozens of Americans doing so. I also think it's a good way (maybe the only way) to lift third world countries out of poverty although that's not necessarily good for the object nation in question.Like it or not the economy evolves. It evolved after slavery. It evolved after machines and later automation started replacing human labor. It evolved after WWII when we started to see the first shift away from manufacturing and into the service sector. I think for national security purposes we should continue some semblance of manufacturing. I also think everyone in the private sector should unionize. Sometimes for funsies I like to read and philosophize about concepts like UBI or worker collectives. Unlike most people I'm comfortable acknowledging I have more questions than answers.
soo...the costs have something to do with security?
Can you start over, re-read the statement, and respond with "the opportunity costs are..."...Thanks. Although your ramblings are interesting, I would like a clearer answer.
Maybe do what I do for google searches when I want actual information and add the -Trump logic switch in the Google search bar.
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@Danielle
Big Business funds and therefore controls the Republican Party. Unions are a core constituency of the Democrat Party.
Last 2 elections show this isn't true at all. DNC got far, far more money from big corps.
You should make a distinction between Union bosses and union members. The union bosses act as the CEO of a corporation of human capital. Like I said before, I don't care if human capital wants to form a corporation. I just don't like monopoly powers that lead to job creators leaving due to "mah worker rights"
If there are American workers willing to perform "substandard" jobs, you should let them in a free country of association instead of cannibalizing those jobs to make the few elite employed union members wealthy for the time their jobs are fiscally solvent. Getting a job as an inexperienced worker in a unionized industry shouldn't be that hard, but it is when there are no choices or opportunities.
to be as generous with a Democrat president,
I don't really care who is president in either party. The Congress has all the power to affect me personally. President is just a faceman.
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@Trent0405
if there are systemic benefits to a specific skin tone, I would like to know exactly what it is so I can cash in on a capital endeavor.
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