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@Trent0405
I firmly believe that black people are discriminated against in the courts...
What is the exact shade of skin where a person has a superior outcome in all situations?
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@MgtowDemon
Sorry I am listening to a hour and a half audiobook of John Glubb
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@MgtowDemon
You kinda dodged my question, and also made a claim that "predatory" is a clear term when dealing with young people making critical life decisions.
You do know the 3 Brookings rules yes? I mentioned them earlier in this thread I think.
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what has changed?
Cultural differences should be celebrated but cultural differences also don't matter. The greatest Orwellian doublethink to ever corrupt the nation of America.
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@HistoryBuff
. America was founded on immigration.
America was founded on the assimilation of diverse cultures into a melting pot seeking liberty from the tyranny of government.
Not today's tribal cutural saladbowl falling at the altar of the government elites for table scraps.
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@MgtowDemon
The key difference is my usage of the word "predatory",
well, you can also then make the claim that everything that entices young people to make critically bad decisions are also predatory. From people offering jobs to teens to members of the opposite sex. Where do the excuses end and responsibility begin?
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I see... It appears George Wallace was right! "Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!"
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@MgtowDemon
there are worse things young people commonly do to wreck their lives like dropping out of highschool and having babies before they are married.
Those consequences persist much longer than school debt.
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@Death23
Maybe if the mothers gave birth with white or Hispanic brown makeup on, the babies would live.
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@MgtowDemon
Whilst I am certainly sympathetic to outrageous students loans debt
why?
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@fauxlaw
A lot of neverTrumpers voted against Trump and for the Congress.
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@fauxlaw
It appears "most of them" was a comment from HistoryBuff
That contradicts the narrative from CNN.
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@fauxlaw
most of them.
CNN claims all of them. Is CNN lying?
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@HistoryBuff
I do, and they are throwing out lawsuits that have no evidence left and right. You are claiming that there is evidence of fraud. Trump can't provide any. the courts are throwing out tons of lawsuits because no one seems to have any.
Are all the lawsuits thrown out?
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@HistoryBuff
You don't trust the courts to handle the evidence?
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@HistoryBuff
I am sure there is a good reason why they are keeping evidence from corporate media.
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@HistoryBuff
Why are you not Trusting Authority enough? Do you need to be reminded again how important it is to trust authority?
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@Stephen
there is probably a very good reason crony corporate media has no access to the evidence.
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@Danielle
What do you think the opportunity costs are for a nation that outsources much of its unskilled labor? What are the costs to the global environment for outsourcing manufacturing to known polluters? Is out of sight out of mind a sustainable policy if you care about the global climate?
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@Danielle
Also, the government can't have competition, so government labor unions are god awful in practice. The public at large should set their working conditions at the ballot box instead of self-serving unions at taxpayer expense.
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@Danielle
So you're a communist. I'm curious: which job would you put me in per my skill set?
I guess I sorta am a communist for thinking a 100% free market is unsustainable for the health of a nation.
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@Danielle
Unfortunately a lot of the jobs created recently are low-wage and have no employment benefits. They may have increased slightly under Trump given the tightening labor market (I'll have to look that up) though I think wages actually began to backslide last year pre coronavirus. If you are for saving the livelihood of the US worker through protectionist interventions, how do you feel about labor unions?
First off I really liked your chart and it showed how complex the factors are involved in job creation. That said you are right, you can't say for sure it was tax cuts or deregulation.
I'm only against the labor unions that destroy choice and opportunity, such as no right to work laws or compulsory membership. Labor unions should have to compete with other labor unions and justify their existence to their members. Monopolies are bad.
Labor is a form of capital and Cartels of capitalists are exploitive and corrupt only when there are no choices to escape the monopoly.
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@Danielle
Sin taxes create higher costs for entrepreneurs which limits employment + growth opportunities.
correct, but the whole point of sin taxes is to offset the costs associated with that consumption, such as lung cancer hospitalizations, drunk driving, or large swaths of unemployed people.
It's also aimed at incentivizing expenditures into areas that do not damage the fabric of society. Growth in sectors beneficial for society and a nation.
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@ILikePie5
2022 house will look great if biden is in the seat.
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@ILikePie5
I really hope Trump gets defeated. The JFK martyrdom was the best thing to happen for his party.
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@Theweakeredge
ever since racism became socially unacceptable...
Ah to live in a world where media isn't constantly reminding you of the importance of skin color... to dream a dream.
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@ethang5
Big minds focus on Ideas. Small minds focus on people.
I agree. Gossip should be discouraged on this site.
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@Conway
Is the product worth the displacement in wealth and property that took place?
It is a valid question, and on a related topic, is having cheaper food provided by illegal labor worth losing the opportunity to have unskilled local labor work on a local farm for a decent wage? What is the opportunity cost of that cheaper food?
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Sounds like religion.
Or your trusty "pro-science" beaurocrat.
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@crossed
There is a rise in the religion of Scientology in America.
Hopefully, it will pass.
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@HistoryBuff
But there is no evidence that widespread fraud occurred.
That may be true, but there is evidence that some fraud occurred that was not widespread, and you are not being shown that.
Again, you repeating the propaganda of DC politicians that there exists no evidence of any fraud of any kind is why people don't trust DC anymore.
People should be allowed to look and judge for themselves instead of being lied to.
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@HistoryBuff
but the only things i have seen are hearsay...
That's a problem when you know the system isn't 100 percent foolproof. You are not being told everything.
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@HistoryBuff
Again, it is pure hyperbole to claim the voting system has no flaws. Extreme hyperbole.
and yet lawsuit after lawsuit is getting tossed out for a complete lack of evidence.
I don't care about your strawman of there being no evidence for the cases being thrown out. There exist cases that are not being thrown out, yet the media claims there is no evidence despite the convictions existing on public record.
It's the kind of behavior you expect from crony political DC, not the media.
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@Dr.Franklin
What is the opportunity cost of having a large unemployed class due to outsourcing?
Is it more important regarding the health of a nation for its citizens to contribute to society and have a purpose than ensuring access to a large flatscreen TV?
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@HistoryBuff
lol imagine that. There is no evidence.
It's pure political hyperbole to deal in absolutes like ALL or NONE.
Something you expect a politician to do, not "trusted media" bought and paid for by DC elites.
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@3RU7AL
"One of the great commandments of science is, "Mistrust arguments from authority." ... Too many such arguments have proved too painfully wrong. Authorities must prove their contentions like everybody else."
-Carl Sagan
Remember this quote the next time a politician in Authority tells you to "listen to the science and trust it"
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@Castin
"Okay if Alex Jones is saying it, it's ignorable."
Sure you can do that. You can also believe in angels too, nobody will notice or care.
For others, their sense of curiosity is far greater than their driving need for complacency and relaxation.
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@Danielle
Trump's trade war has been detrimental to the U.S. economy, especially in some states.
Is it possible Trump traded short term revenues and temporary job losses for an incentive to retool the economy creating new lasting Domestic jobs with his sin-tax on foreign product consumers? If so, how is this any different from a tax-funded subsidy aimed at incentivizing long-term local development?
It's dishonest for the GOP to credit tax cuts for gains during Trump's presidency.
If it wasn't his tax cuts, then the only other significant stimulus for job creation must have been his deregulation. That would really fly in the face of Keynesian economists saying that government fiscal policies drive the GDP and not the people themselves when left unrestrained.
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@Castin
Even if you find a person questionable, there is always the option of analyzing his methodology and the source of his claims over choosing to analyze the man alone. We don't have the technology to know the intentions of people, but we do have a scientific process for data collection.
I don't think it's an ad hominem attack to ask "Is this a credible source of information?"
Depends on how you go about it, but dismissing claims on the pedigree of the source invariable leads to argument from authority type fallacies.
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@Danielle
His negative experience with the media did not usher him into obscurity, but instead promoted him to fame and fortune beyond his wildest dreams. How is he the poster child for Cancel Culture then?
He is a poster child because he used the authority of the courts to fight back against the corporate media cancellation of him for wearing a Maga hat while having white skin and a smile. It shows that there can be justice for ideological cancellations in a nation that supposedly supports free expression.
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@Danielle
(as I said I find it hilarious the party which pretends to hate identity politics has been touting how many gains they've made with female and minority reps).
Don't hate the player. Hate the game.
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@Danielle
A valid Driver's license at that. Fully functional in the republic of California.
Republicans really suck at getting foreigners to meddle in elections compared to foreigners voting in California.
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@Conway
Are Republicans infiltrating the DNC to make it more difficult for only their constituents?
Poor, at-risk from Corona people are just as good as Republicans in the mind of a Democrat.
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@Danielle
No, it's actually Big Foot that's doing the meddling. Get your facts straight.
Big foot has a California Drivers license and speaks fluent Spanish I will have you know.
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@Danielle
Why do you think the house went in a hard-right direction in 2020?
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@HistoryBuff
I didn't. but it's one thing to think your government is corrupt, it is totally different to think your government is illegitimate because the election was stolen.
That's not why people think DC is corrupt. People think DC is corrupt because they tell us there is NO EVIDENCE.
You even said it yourself as a true believer of DC authority.
literally no one could unify america because trump's cultists don't want anyone to.
You don't trust Biden or Kamala either.
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@HistoryBuff
true, and trump's conspiracy theories are doing lots more damage. Even though they are all lies.
You can't put this all on Trump. The DNC is so broken right now; confidence in Authority will surely fall on their watch over the next 4 years.
Biden isn't a unifier of anything and it doesn't matter anyway when Kamala takes over in a year or 2.
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@thett3
Why do you think the house went in a hard-right direction and will likely flip in 2 years?
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@Conway
It's human nature to throw weaker people under the bus. Survival of the fittest. You don't have to run fast, just faster than someone else.
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