thett3

It amuses me that even on a rinky dink site with a trivial election people see conspiracy theories about a sinister rinky dink deep state whose evil master plan is to stop two rinky dink votes.

I'm not sure how you can say resentment only runs in one direction? The moment you frame an issue in terms of "white vs black," you're stoking resentment on both sides. And either way, I'm more concerned about who benefits from the resulting divisiveness. It's not whites, and it's not blacks.

I'm not entirely opposed to reparations. I'd be willing to pay the price if it gets Americans to stop being so weird about race. And it's worth noting that there'd be benefits for whites too -- ending programs like affirmative action, for example. Living in a world where race doesn't matter is the ultimate objective, and that's a good thing for all of us.

As for Warren, I doubt she becomes the nominee or beats Trump. I think Biden or Bernie seems likely at this point, for reasons that polling or betting markets don't reflect. But again, who knows? Am I wrong to assume you'll vote Trump regardless?

No, this isn't boredom. Boredom would result in you actually spending your time that you waste bullying others and laughing at them, actually doing something more stimulating and entertaining. 

The reason you do this, is because you, TheHammer, Tyrone and Thett3 had absolutely no clue how to handle that you'd gone from being so popular and relevant to DDO to snickering cynics in the corner on this website. So, you chatted together on Hangouts or wherever and were like 'oh yeah, I know how we can avoid feeling shit about that, let's vote someone who is really hated by many... No, not RM he's already winning and we hate him too... Hmm, oh yeah hahaha if we all vote Wylted he outdoes the 5-pointers so the 4-6 moving to next Round will have to include him over them... Oh and let's vote each other, maybe we can even get Bench or Vaarka to join in our trolling and also get Warren to nominate 2 of us to really upset those losers who feel good about being nominated, HAHAHA we're so fucking epic and clever! Oh god man, those guys won't see it coming... The sorry suckers!"

I guess I should be more precise. When I think "power," I mostly think "the major holders of financial, cultural, and technological capital," the people reaping the benefits of our system. 

The "white vs black" rhetoric plays out within this framework. It's been monetized by corporate power, and most of those engaging it aren't actually concerned about blacks or whites, they're just repeating what they've been told. It keeps us divided against each other so that we don't notice what's actually happening, and the rhetoric of net harms reinforces these divisions.

Neither Biden non Bernie support a reparations bill, and they clearly have the majority of black voters behind them. Reparations is just a purity test for the awful neoliberal candidates (e.g. Buttigieg). So again, it's a distraction.  

You're asking the wrong questions. The relevant issue is power. The issue of net harms to specific racial groups is mostly a distraction at this point, and based on the media creating false narratives around it, I'd say it's been co-opted & monetized. 

And btw, you say that you aren't trying to play up "white victimhood" but if you frame the issue as "whites vs blacks," it always turns into some sort of victimhood olympics. I'm very surprised that's the approach you take.

If you can't accept that there's such a brutal snowball advantage that happens to mostly favour whites, you are simply ignorant of the statistics and reality.

I'm not just alleging that whites committed more crimes that weren't charged. I'm also alleging that blacks were charged with more crimes than they should have which also inflates the stats.