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@Greyparrot
Do you deny that the 'criminals' are often over the top sentenced vs what a white person would get for the same crime? Also, wrongful convictions:
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@bmdrocks21
I agree to everything in your post because everything in your post supports it being deceptive and based on perception, not reality, that Trump garnered the support that he did.
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@PressF4Respect
Change my vote to Yes3 for the advertisement question, since I want that to be the winner and not text-only ads. Text-only ads are actually the only ad that will never be able to be properly allowed on DART as it's the kind of ad that violates CoC for a person to even be doing here.
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@bmdrocks21
No it isn't. I will continue to repeat the very obvious fact that Trump is esablishment and has even funded Hillary and Romney in their campaigns against Obama as well as him having many 'friends in high places'. That aside, being 'establishment' isn't reason to denounce anyone, not even Trump. Establishment simply means that the person is influential and capable of making big moves if they want to, those who are not 'establishment' cannot do much good while in power because they don't have the right connections or experience to 'grease the wheels'.
When Democrats are in power they use their influence to generally even things out for the poor, albeit never close to a socialist level. When Republicans are in power they use their influence to help the rich get richer.
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@bmdrocks21
A poor person voting for any Repuclican would be self-destructive. Thanks for agreeing.
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@PressF4Respect
List them by popularity, not order of option and then yes you have it right. 🤗
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@bmdrocks21
While I agree, the trailer parkers self-destructively vote Republican and that's a fucking travesty.
Poverty is an issue and it's unfortunate that due to past enslavement and resultant lack of financial inheritance, the black race in particular is so far behind.
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@Dr.Franklin
Do you admit that Trump's 2016 campaign and his entire theme as a politician is to appeal to jingoists and racists? I am genuinely requiring an answer here. If you deny that basic truth, it explains why you will say he doesn't endorse KKK. He aligns with their views in many ways.
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@BiblicalChristian101
Do you understand that the entire region of history where Rosa Parks, MLK Jr. and such helped blacks get truly treated equal (or at least closer to it significantly more than just not being slaves) was down to Dems being in power?
Obama and Bill Clinton also helped but what they did was help the poor and many blacks are poor, you can call it a coincidence and side effect but the helping of black people was not unintentional at all. Who suggested, initiated and succesfully implemented affirmative action? Which party?
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@Envisage
I agree with you on PR, the question is how to get it done.
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Obviously they prefer Democrats, Dems are far more sided with their agenda. Don't bring up Lincoln vs KKK to disprove this, KKK fully support Trump and you know it.
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@Envisage
I fully agree with you on proportional representation.
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@Envisage
What are Conservative views? You mean prejudice, bloodline elitism and tax evasion? What do you mean exactly?
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@BiblicalChristian101
Obviously they prefer Democrats, Dems are far more sided with their agenda. Don't bring up Lincoln vs KKK to disprove this, KKK fully support Trump and you know it.
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@BiblicalChristian101
I'd rather discuss on PMs but sure, explain.
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@Envisage
Please explain how, in the system you deem broken, one concludes that Trump is the lesser evil.Â
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@coal
Rules are not meaningless. Rules are a result of people not wanting to operate in an environment where everything nasty is allowed and where noone other themselves is there to stick up for them. People don't all want to hurt others in order to enjoy a website or neighbourhood, they want peace of mind.Â
Saying 'be nice to each other, we don't need rules' is like when the right-wing say 'give money to charity, we don't need any tax'. Not everyone plays ball and there must be moderators and such to ensure that would-be victims have peace of mind and that actual victims get justice for what happened to them. They also must ensure that the perpetrators learn why what they did was wrong and how to improve theier behavior.
Saying 'be nice to each other, we don't need rules' is like when the right-wing say 'give money to charity, we don't need any tax'. Not everyone plays ball and there must be moderators and such to ensure that would-be victims have peace of mind and that actual victims get justice for what happened to them. They also must ensure that the perpetrators learn why what they did was wrong and how to improve theier behavior.
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@PressF4Respect
Do it vertically, not horizontally. That will make it easier for people to read something like '3 Yes11, 7 Yes 12,
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@Swagnarok
The assumption is that it's nurture indeed due to the link you say. However, what if it's actually due to the genes that the correlation is found?
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@Vader
Twitter cries are what Trump does. Trump is a confirmed chronic liar. Try again. He almost declared War on Iran, forgrtting the Constitution doesn't let the President just do that on a whim unless it's defensive.
Biden's Twitter posts actually are accurate.
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@Greyparrot
What consequences do right-wing parties give to people born filthy rich who abuse that privilege?
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@Imabench
How did he know it was you who did the Weekly Stupid? This is someone from old DDO days.
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There is an experiment we can have the government carry out on many children and note and then correlate to those who choose in the future to openly support a political wing but it only can work if many are in the sample.
I strongly believe that adolescence masks true ideology and has a lot more delineation with one's true core system of ethics and social reasoning than childhood or adulthood do. I furthermore assert that those of us who seem to have changed our minds in life on politics had events and hormonal imbalance in teenage years that merely already pushed us away from the true wing we are.
What I am suggesting is that politics is far more nature than nurture but that nurture can force one who is built with one wing's psychology to vote the other only as a lesser evil and they will be anomalies in what I describe.
The sharing-justice duality test.
I want you to give a toddler/child the scenario where they believe that someone in on the experiment in front of them has stolen stealthily, bullied and finally convinced with words, another person (also in on it) to give them something that the child themselves values a lot and that the other seems visibly sad to have lost.
What is measured is the level of empathy, aggression, sadistic amusement, ambivalence etc that the subject displays towards the three situations.
It is important that the subjects are not having this done by or towards someone close to them, it must be strangers or people the child has barely met get (perhaps interacted with once first, to build some rapport, this will be fine-tuned).
My hypothesis
Children who most fervently respond to the injustice in all three scenarios will be very passionate about politics as hey grow, regardless of wing. Those that truly are upset by all three scenarios, will be passionately left-wing, while those who are among the fervent that only reacted much when force was used, will be passionately right-wing. Those that are fervent with 2 scenarios but not in particular with one, will be centrists who grow cynical of the whole system.
Those that take sadistic amusement, least when the person is talked out of it, and giggle at the whole situation, will grow to become right-wing Libertarian or some corporatist variant (even as far as ancap but not necessarily).
Those that seem to not care much at all, will grow to not vote.
Those that display fear and try to escape the room or look down at the ground wishing they could help, will become social democrats AKA progressives of a less severe kind than the fervent types.
It will be discovered that any other possible reaction combination simply never happens. It will be important to do the talking part last, so that the child understands that the talk is based on guilt-trip manipulation and not just genuine care and share mentality. The children who react barely at all to the talking part but to the other two will be left-leaning centrists while other 2-1 combinations will fluctuate in life, as the cynics hypothesised.
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@User_2006
Sharing accounts violates Terms of Use of DDO. You could be permabanned.
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@bmdrocks21
It isn't worshipping black people to realise that the white are privileged relative to other races, especially in US.
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- Abstain, I firmly believe that that's up to the mods and not us.
- No, I will vote Yes3 if another Yes seems to dominate and people want to switch.
- Yes2, this had always been my position and it's obvious why. Yes1 is futile and deceptive while No is fue to technical limitations on Rating.
- No. Forums should have polls and petition signings as a mechanical addition to thread creation.
- Yes2 but I will use Adblock and Privacy Badger. I loathe the tracking of preferences and profiling involved with advertising of that sort.
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@PressF4Respect
I will have to fake my own death here at some point, to disguise my immortality.Â
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@Greyparrot
Until now, I have tolerated the vile stuff you're typing. This is the end of it. You are blocked permanently.
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@Greyparrot
Thug mentality is not suited to a leader and right now US is being torn apart from within due to this thug mentality in its law enforcement.
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@Christen
Would I rather that we wait for justice to take its course than countries assassinating each other's high ranked officials? Yes I would. What Trump did broke every rule in the book, there's absolutely nothing less illegal about his act than Iran doing the same to a US General while the General is on non-US soil. This is a filthy game when there are no rules.
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@Greyparrot
He was a terrorist, not an army General.
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@Christen
You cannot be judge, jury and executioner for Generals of armies just on a whim. That's not how international justice works. I can't tell if you're trolling or not with your dissection of what a shit stain and wasp are but you didn't disprove my metaphors at all.
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To say that Alec gets picked on would be like saying that a mosquito is a little annoying to have right beside one's ear. If you are deaf, think of it more like flashing lights. He's a victim and this isn't said sardonically because it is essential to appreciate it when you understand his stereotype and psyche.
Alec does not pretend to suffer more than most, he genuinely does. He is wired different, not just due to his autism but due to his deep passion for anything he begins to feel for. He has learned that showing emotions, being 'soft' in any way, gets you picked on and hurt. The problem for him is that by developing a hardened exterior of anger and alertness, others see only that side of him and respond accordingly.Â
Alec is the one who is ready to be rejected, and so gets close to noone unless it's deemed extremely safe and predictable of a friendship. He's similar in his approach to money, education and life in general. The perpetual fear of people preying on him, of things going wrong if he remotely gets soft, weak or rests eats at his soul. It causes deep agony for him and makes him even more sad and internally hostile (he isn't so much externally angry as he is constantly sizzling).
For Alec, life is a brutal, blistering set of ordeals, it is not a journey. He need only become a little more soft and his real emotional self and life may begin to shine for him, though I do advise him doing so in select ways to select people.Â
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@Imabench
Trump is completely in the system though, if we talk about the crowd, shoulders he's rubbed and all that stuff. He was a campaign donor and great ally of Clinton when she ran against Obama for Dem candidacy in 2008, as far as I know.
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If two wrongs don't make a right, it follows that two rights don't make a wrong.
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@fauxlaw
Sly and yet tenacious, Fauxlaw is one to keep your eye out for. Keen to succeed from a young age, he's got his fair share of enemies, rivals and friends alike. He makes it seem clear where he stands with people, is apparently dominant and self-sufficient in many regards, yet deep down beneath it all lies an emptiness that he can't quite explain.
This emptiness is what drives him to ditch old friends, befriend old enemies and constantly push for new horizons in life, no matter how well he's achieved his original goal(s). Fauxlaw is a politician by nature but the very opposite at heart. He doesn't want to charm everyone, he doesn't need the massive recognition he gets, he can't help that he has an aura of 'big presence'. When he enters a room, heads turn, spines tingle and greetings are given.
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@bmdrocks21
You judge on literally 2 photos I bet. Tbe majority of US is white, tbe protesters are plentiful and from all backgrounds. It is obviously majority white, the protests aren't against white people, you ignorant foul mouthed racist. Do not call people self-hating cucks for standing for equal, fair treatment of a race that isn't their own.
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@bmdrocks21
They do not self-hate, your choice of terms is ridiculous. You are suggesting that to stand against general systemic poverty and all side effects of it on a race that isn't your own, as well as over-sentencing and general law enforcement brutality to a race that isn't your own is somehow you hating your own race. It isn't.Â
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@Dr.Franklin
The protestors are majority white. Try again with your nonsense twisting and out-of-context quoting. White people are not oppressed by progresssive governments. Progressive governments do not go after ethnicities at all, they defend them.
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Ranking based on what? Each is a specialist in something. Ragnar, Ramshutu and Oromagi are nearly identical because they both specialise in taking the popular, boring side of a debate and representing it by firmly asserting norm ideas backed up by well-renowned, popular sources. This is how they win so consistently. The second element of what they do is baiting out or latching onto opponents who are particularly angry, dumb or lazy based on outside factors of estimation.
Ragnar and Ramshutu do actively address what the opponent brings up whereas Oromagi keeps building his points and punishes the opponent for not rebuking him sufficiently, rather than working too hard at rebuttals.
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@n8nrgmi
That is in potato skin, partially in many vegetables (but not sufficiently) as well as the shcrose i things like apples breaking down to have energy-boosting properties that helo almost as much as vitamin B variants.
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@Dr.Franklin
No it doesn't.
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@Dr.Franklin
The Nihilist would stand neutral in the face of severe transphobia and racism. You understand the term 'Nihilism' all wrong.
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@PressF4Respect
The term roly poly came to my head and I just 'rolled' with it.
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@zedvictor4
The FPTP seat system of UK is even more forced-difference between popular vote and the chosen party than the US system.
Both nations ought to have proportional representation instead. Both Lib Dems and their enemies UKIP/Brexit-Party agree that they're both cursed by the corruption of tactical voting due to FPTP seats.
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@Greyparrot
What nonsense. They barely got to investigate his son's meetings in Russia among much else. He is a sly, wily coyote and they are trying to expose him and told 'stop'. What if he paid off or 'turned' an agent to make it happen? We will never know.
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@PressF4Respect
F is unpredictable, that is all you can know about him overall. He is the type to do yoga with the chicks and yet turn up to hockey practise and tackle just fine, without fear. He's a roly poly stereotype and the mechanics of this stereotype are not easy to explain, it is not a chameleon type.
He does not enter the environment and then match it, he chooses his interactions and ways of doing things to pressure the environment to match him. Much like a hedgehog, he curls up when threatened and like a woodlouse will just roll and roll until it's a time to be comfortable and bam he's ready to plod along and have fun.
The roly poly's instinct is to explore but his tendency to curl up is very strong, once things get hostile or uncomfortable. He will surprise you because this rolling woodlouse can transform into a roly poly polar bear rolling down a slop of snow and bam, out come the claws.
People don't know what to make of him. They also don't understand why he's so reserved at some times but extremely engaging and open at others. The mystery of what he'll do next suit him just fine, he doesn't want to be figured out.
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@fauxlaw
And what makes other families accountable?
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