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@HistoryBuff
The reason why poor people flock to throw away their life savings on lotto tickets is because the rich people that paid for your "free" education system through political corruption WANT you to believe that you can't better yourself. The State teaches you helplessness at an early age.
Rich people don't want people like you competing, so they make sure you vote for the same people they purchased, like Bernie Sanders. They want you to believe the American Dream is dead. Rich people do NOT like competition. Why on earth would a rich person allow you for a moment to think you can change your lot in life?
Universities have college "educated" people so brainwashed and indoctrinated with Marxist propaganda against rich people at this point that the cattle they enroll willingly forks over 50,000 a year with no guarantee they will get a job, and then program those cattle to blame rich people, not the University. Some universities employ as many people as they enroll in college. Do the math on that one. Every student is paying the salary of an individual University employee.
It's no secret crony Marxism is something every rich person supports as a way to eliminate competition. Crony Marxism and Crony Capitalism both accomplish the same thing using different methods. It's why the rich donate to both parties.
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@ILikePie5
We can’t listen to the experts. Thousands of people are dying for Christ’s sake!!
I KNOWW! A person on TV getting paid 50,000 dollars a day to tell me what I should be outraged at told me to FUCK TRUMP.
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@n8nrgmi
You do realize about 3 million Americans died in 2015 and you didn't give one single fuck about it.
What exactly is it about Trump that finally makes you give a shit about millions of dead Americans?
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@ILikePie5
"The health risks of keeping schools closed are greater than those of opening them."
-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Robert Redfield
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@HistoryBuff
I mean I get why it's fine to act on the advice of doctors that won't tell you that important bit of information. Millions of Americans are doing exactly what you are doing.
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I'm choosing to act on the advice of doctors during a health crisis.I don't have exact stats on that.
Apparently, doctors, that don't have the info you need to make that call.
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I don't have exact stats on that.
Interesting. Yet you act on the fears that you do have that info.
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@HistoryBuff
What EXACTLY are the chances a 20-40 year old parent in good shape will die to COVID only?
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@HistoryBuff
Yeah cause kids don't get to make that choice. Old frail people don't have that excuse, so fuck them for being irresponsible with the lives of children.
If they wanna do that to their own child, fine. But let the other kids with healthy parents live a normal life. Misery doesn't need company during a viral pandemic.
Also, the virus can be extremely dangerous to people who are otherwise healthy.
What EXACTLY are the chances a 20-40 year old parent in good shape will die to COVID only?
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They will still need to be able to get food, medication etc.
Then they are not quarantining themselves by choice. Food can be delivered so can drugs. They are choosing to fuck the kids over.
this is an intentional dodge and you know it. You want to distract from the rest of my point.
Which is what? That kids can catch Covid and die?
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Alot of otherwise healthy people have died from Covid.
Exactly how many kids in the USA 10 and younger died from COVID only?
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Those people don't get a choice about quarantining.
Sure they do. They can fuck their own child over by removing the child from school without fucking over the 99% of the other kids.
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@n8nrgmi
If those frail people don't choose to quarantine themselves, why should the kids suffer?
It's a legitimate question nobody wants to ask or answer.
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@HistoryBuff
@fauxlaw
Learned helplessness. Never heard the term, but I can easily guess what it's about.
Watch this short video.
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cutting taxes on the rich. Sounds like the republican elites to me.
Then you haven't been paying attention. Rich people donate to both parties for the same corrupt reasons.
You think Amazon gives a shit about AOC? There's plenty of other Democrats that can be bought off.
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@HistoryBuff
Why do you think different groups of elites fighting for power means one of those groups of elites is somehow a normal guy?
Because Trump obviously is not in their elite club. Duh.
what are you talking about?
The truth is, the Obama Administration, which first launched the Trump/Russia investigations and kept the pedal to the metal all the way up through the election, already knew there was nothing there.
Thursday, the House Intelligence Committee released transcripts from its years-long investigation into the matter.
President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the committee in the summer of 2017 that he’d seen no evidence of collusion.
“I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump campaign or someone in it was plotting/conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election,” Clapper explained.
Indeed, the committee asked the administration witnesses the same basic question: Had they seen or been in possession of evidence of coordination or collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign?
Samantha Power, Obama’s former Ambassador to the UN answered this way: “I am not in possession of anything — I am not in possession and didn’t read or absorb information that came from out of the intelligence community.”
National Security Adviser Susan Rice answered, “I don’t recall any intelligence or evidence to that effect.”
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch was a little more cagey in her response, saying that she did “not recall that being briefed up to me.”
Other records released show that high-ranking FBI officials knew that the infamous Steele Dossier was not found to be credible and that by early 2017 agents were requesting an end to the investigation when leadership at the agency intervened.
By all the evidence available, it appears they plotted about how to snag Flynn in a perjury trap. Records show that they brainstormed how to approach him. According to notes unearthed last week, Bill Priestep, the FBI’s former head of counterintelligence questioned in a note, “What’s our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?”
James Comey’s FBI had bypassed the White House Counsel in order to get Flynn to participate in what he was only to find out later was a criminal interrogation. James Comey bragged about his clever ploy in a subsequent interview, musing that it was “something I probably wouldn’t have done or maybe gotten away with in a more … organized administration.”
The evidence is becoming clearer and clearer. The Obama Administration used intelligence services to snag President Trump on obstruction charges, using a manufactured narrative of Russian collusion as their justification and Michael Flynn as their primary tool.
Justice must be served. Plotters, conspirators and participants on every level need to face the music.
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@HistoryBuff
you voted for trump. He is a billionaire who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. You are constantly shilling for powerful elites to rule you.
You mean all those elites that ran a fake impeachment and a fake investigation on him knowing for 2 years there was no Russian collusion?
You mean All those elites in both parties that vetoed anything Trump proposed because it would challenge their power?
You mean those Elites?
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@HistoryBuff
If I had I would meekly submit to the corrupt system as you would like people to do.
You mean meekly voting for more power for the elites in Washington D.C. And fewer choices and liberty for yourself. I get it.
Learned helplessness in action.
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@n8nrgmi
Because Trump is making the government hold to the claim it said in March that they MUST shutdown the country to protect hospitals.
Hospitals are fine now.
Kids need to go back to school, and at-risk people need to be quarantined, including at-risk teachers.
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@fauxlaw
What do you know about learned helplessness?
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They control your environment. They can dump toxins in your water, build a strip mine in a residential area etc.
That's a great way to make yourself poor and your lawyers rich.
currently, they fund the campaigns of politicians.
They don't rush to fund an elected head of a small town. Why? Because government officials with little power are not worth purchasing. The ONLY way to reduce corruption is to take power away.
They control your health.
That's bullshit. First off, 95% of health problems can be avoided by personal choices that have absolutely nothing with a mythical "rich man"
Second off, there are ridiculous amounts of ways for poor people to get the other 5% taken care of that don't include the mythical "rich man", including unlimited emergency care visits.
I would have power over people I employed.
Not if you want them to stay you don't. Employment is a contract where 2 people AGREE on something. You don't exert any more power over an employee that they do not willingly give you.
Unfortunately, many employees were raised with learned helplessness. Just like you were, so they don't understand that the power is actually in your hands, not a rich person's hands.
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@HistoryBuff
then the rich have nothing to counteract their power over you.
You have claimed this over 100 times.
Exactly what power specifically does ANY rich man have over you personally?
Now, exactly what power specifically does EVERY rich man have over you personally?
Lastly, if at some point in your life, others view you as "rich", what powers do you think you could have over other people?
I really feel at some point in your life, you learned helplessness; and someone told you that your helplessness was due to mysterious rich men.
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@HistoryBuff
No, there are ways we can get money out of politics.
There is ultimately ONLY one way.
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@HistoryBuff
Sorry bud, but if you give someone power, they can always translate that into money. Every time. There's no way to reduce corruption without reducing power. The founding fathers knew this when they decentralized the power with 3 branches of government.
The government are the only ones with the power to reign in corporations.
Pure bullshit. Consumers ultimately control which corporations have the power in a market free from government meddling.
Especially in today's cancel culture where a corporation can be literally canceled by consumers for not virtue signaling.
Do you really think we need a bloated powerful corrupt government to have nearly all corporations copy and paste an apology to Blacks and support for BLM?
Cancel culture consumers made that happen, not the government.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
I like how there are 19 different opinions in this thread. DART is thriving!
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@HistoryBuff
But having a government run by, and for, the rich isn't freedom. It is tyranny.
Everyone in government will always be rich because you voted to give them more power every year.
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@3RU7AL
I meant in the present day constitution.
You know, the ones where you can't apply the law based on DNA or skin color.
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@bmdrocks21
Learned helplessness eliminates the competition for the rich elites.
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@thett3
You need to make an effort to intentionally take on challenges.
Yeah, I made a life choice to join the Navy because I wasn't challenged enough at college and I didn't know what I wanted to do.
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@thett3
Well, narcissism is a trait shared by most rich people and other over-achievers.
These aberrant people are helpful to society if they can produce things that everyone can use.
Definitely not the best parents, no matter what Ivanka and Don Jr. claim.
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@ILikePie5
It's actually in every rich elite's best interest for them to push the idea that the American dream is dead.
Less competition that way.
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@ILikePie5
You’re welcome to keep believing that. There are countless examples where that’s not true. Everyone has the same opportunity. You can become President. I can become President. I can create a billionaire company from scratch, you can too. You choose to live in a world where you believe everyone is out to get you and as a result don’t try or work hard enough. Wake up.
Learned helplessness starts at an early age.
Lifestyle choices matter.
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@thett3
Donald Trump, who was born into a wealthy family with a thriving business had a much better chance of becoming a billionaire than someone like me, who grew up in a nice suburb.
I agree. People with good parents and access to the best schools and business connections are going to have more opportunities to become millionaires.
That being said, Hollywood is littered with failed progenies who end up bankrupt or dead from drugs. Having rich parents is no guarantee for a wealthy future unless you are a trust fund baby, which means you aren't actually productive, just spending the wealth someone else earned legitimately. You won't ever be wealthier than your trust fund if you don't produce anything. But we need the trust fund babies as an incentive for the parents that bust their balls to make millions of dollars, otherwise, the GDP suffers when they choose to sit it out.
Trump's brothers never made nearly as much money. Bill Clinton's brother was an absolute bum. The list goes on.
America needs to remain a place where the rare hyper-productive can work 80 hour work weeks doing crazy shit to keep the consumers happy. Cause they will go where they are wanted if it isn't here in America. Much of the GDP and jobs in America is due solely to the insane people that work 80 hour work weeks and invest ungodly amounts of time and money in ventures. Those insane people need to be tolerated if you want to keep your current standard of living.
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@n8nrgmi
It's true, our poor pay far lower taxes than any developed nation in the world. We have one of the most progressive tiered tax systems of any country. In fact, over 1/3 of the people pay no Federal taxes, which is unfathomable to many western nations that have the poor willingly pay national taxes for national programs.
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@bmdrocks21
Most leftists believe the "cure" for capitalism is taxation. Most people on the Right are capitalists. Most on the left are Marxist socialists.
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@thett3
They won’t have a choice. That’s the point of taxes.
The point of "sin taxes" is to force people into making choices.
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@thett3
Taxes need to go up. Especially on the rich.
I agree. all these low taxes just makes people not even think about who they are electing.
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@ILikePie5
Can't have open borders with open welfare anyway without bankrupting the country.
Pick one or the other.
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@ILikePie5
Open borders means that nation can be culturally appropriated by another nation.
The kind of appropriation that was inflicted on practically all the native populations in the Americas and Australia.
What also happened to Rome when they lost control of their borders. Roman language Latin is now a dead language due to open borders.
Open borders would ensure America would become 100% Hispanic speaking within 5 generations.
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@HistoryBuff
blah, blah, blah, culture war bullshit. i get it. You hate change.
Blind change is predictably a bad thing. Ask the billions of species now extinct.
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@3RU7AL
In other words, a return to the values outlined in the US Constitution.
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@fauxlaw
Right, they will take the money but they don't want the law and order. Absolutely gangster.
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@bmdrocks21
Both parties are bought by the military-industrial complex. The Democrats might give more lip service to withdrawal, but both parties will come together to keep troops there indefinitely when tested.
I'm absolutely 100% convinced Trump kept Bolton on until the warhawks figured out he wasn't going to play the game with DC. Then there was no need for Bolton.
Also used Bolton as a barking dog to get Iran to back down and stop with the terrorism bullshit in the ME.
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@ILikePie5
@bmdrocks21
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@ILikePie5
It's so weird how people cling to the obviously racist party that constantly injects skin color and foreign nationalities into every political policy.
It's OK to be American.
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@ILikePie5
Well said.
"poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids"
-Biden 2020
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@ILikePie5
Yeah, it's amazing what happens when brown-skinned people are allowed to identify as Americans and not some hyphenated tribe.
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@HistoryBuff
And less than 1/3rd of latinos support trump according to that source.
It's entirely plausible 1/3 former Mexicans recognize that illegal immigrants to America from Mexico include rapists.
Trump will never be a Mexican president.
There is only one party that hyphenates the American tribe into warring competing factions and that is the divisive Democrat party.
Even you were quick to toss in the hyphenated American term so flippantly.
Every hyphenated attack on America is dividing the nation, as the left loves to do.
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@HistoryBuff
You're delusional if you think legal Mexican immigrants care about the Mexico tribe anymore. There is a reason why they are here legally. To join the American tribe.
Many legal immigrants from Mexico identify as Americans and will vote again for Trump.
The only Tribe Trump believes in is the American Tribe.
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