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OpheliaAdenade posted...

imagine, in 2017 we have the president of the united states tweeting memes.

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About time. The TDS blatantly standers people, encourages harassment of perceived enemies, and is generally a blight on the reputability of the alternative media. It really needs to go away.
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Anyone can be cast as SLJ
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ItsYourFault posted...

TheMikh posted...

Spent the afternoon studying the Tanakh. Might do some more.

whats that?

Jewish Bible
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Spent the afternoon studying the Tanakh. Might do some more.
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Returning_CEmen posted...

I dated a chubby girl, and I am kinda short. Did not end well.

I dated a chubby girl, and I am tall. Did not end well. They seem to lack impulse control.
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Antifar posted...

This topic and the arguments in it are, uh, interesting in light of the rally last night in Virginia.

please clarify with an actual argument
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Democrats' economic and social policies have been terrible for black people, and gradually, everyone else. The writings of Thomas Sowell are a great start on this matter.
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Darkman124 posted...

TheMikh posted...

that assumes he'll actually manage to get done what he promised economically, aside from the protectionism which is kinda dumb

but time will tell i suppose

technically just the possibility of it has driven the S&P500 up about 20% since he was elected

it's made me a lot of money

hype-driven market trends aren't really fundamentally sound, and unless an investor cashes in before correction or trump's promises come to fruition and facilitate even greater growth than average recent historical rates, the jump itself is likely zero-sum for long-term holders.
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that assumes he'll actually manage to get done what he promised economically, aside from the protectionism which is kinda dumb

but time will tell i suppose
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FL81 posted...

Never again will there be as great of a website for memes as YTMND

It started as a LUE colony before taking on a life of its own.
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LUE was a major source of memes in its time.
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Glass_Phantom posted...

I don't think any of those things are bad or worthy of mockery. I think the people who take umbrage with them are the real problem. If someone wants to devote a Facebook post to talking about a cause they believe in, or change their pic in solidarity, more power to them.

It does nothing to address the fundamental problem behind the tragedies. It's just a hollow, feel-good gesture that is basically exploiting tragedy and social malaise in a narcissistic manner.

The same people that chanted "I'm with her" in 2016, had also chanted "black lives matter" starting in 2012, as though the "her" they're with didn't have a hand in facilitating the racially motivated genocide and outright enslavement of countless black lives in Libya.

There's no brainpower, no effort, and truly no decency in idly signaling one's "virtue" to the world.
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all style and no substance: social liberalism edition
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Xeno14 posted...

NO. freedom of speech does not refer only to speech by the government.

Beyond the context of limiting government power, free speech is a virtue and ideal, but unfortunately not so legally binding on the private realm beyond more esoteric cases like (perhaps) the one raised in your article.
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• Democrat Party in its weakest state since Reconstruction in the 1870s.

Eh, I'd say the Democratic party is looking more like the party of the late 60s / 1970s right now.
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Trump really shouldn't be trying to take credit for the economy he inherited from Obama.

Because should - or rather, when - collapse occur due to some unforeseen side effect of the regulatory mechanisms imposed on the economy (or his removal of such a regulation leads to a significant correction), he'll receive blame and likely hand things over to democrats in the next election.

Reagan had the sense to wait until 1984 before taking credit for the economic upturn.
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more blood on bushes hands

but in all seriousness, the bad press for google was probably what did him in more than anything, seeing as closet neoreactionary perspectives are by no means unheard of in the bay area
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KiwiTerraRizing posted...

What liberal policy?

oversized bureaucracy / large number of state or municipal jobs, i presume
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Fill_Kessel posted...

Yeah but the infrastructure here is better and maybe people are better safer drivers? So that would help I think right?

it doesn't change the fact that it is wrong and intrinsically inefficient

the institutional endorsement of balkanization would also be more than enough to empower the morons of all sides to act in an aggressive manner, and violence or no, millions would suffer needlessly

the bottom line is that if you want to fix racial issues, stop subsidizing institutions that proliferate racial separatist ideologies or programs that absolve individuals or groups of the need to assimilate in society to survive and prosper, and liberalize the market to remove age-old barriers to economic efficiency/prosperity
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iron jojo posted...

A few years ago I would have thought the idea ludicrous and disgusting. Now though it seems like some minorities want it. I still think it's wrong.

it's ideologically rooted in german post-marxist philosophy, which became mixed with a cultural/racial/sexual dimension in the 60s-80s

been pretty dominant in the humanities departments of the ivory tower for the longest time, which is where many pick it up

it's the boilerplate of every identity movement that's running amok in society today, and the way they weaponize linguistics to push it forward is mind boggling
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Fill_Kessel posted...

Tezlok posted...

How would segragation work in 2017 when many families are mixed race? Are you going to break up families?

Maybe like make special areas that each race can exist unbothered by others optionally? I dunno I didn't say it was a good idea. I wanna know if it could help.

it's a horrible, horrible idea, period

if you want to see what the rollout of segregation into group-specific areas looks like, look at the partitioning of india - hundreds of thousands of people died, often violently, just migrating to their designated "region" (hindustan, pakistan)

and that divide was just religious
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AmonAmarth posted...

is it true that African American families quality has gone down since the changes? (like more single parents, gang problems, more family issues?)

correlation =/= causation

the great society programs and derivatives in subsequent decades did a number on black america, especially to subsequent generations

its consequences weren't exclusive to black america though, it's becoming increasingly visible in white america as well
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Medz2017 posted...

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/05/17/black-harvard-students-holding-graduation-their-own/

at my university the blacker-than-thou club had special attire for graduates, but i didn't partake in it myself

i mean, i was liberal as all hell and black of course, but i didn't see the point, never really went down the crt rabbit hole beyond what was empirically demonstrable

i fear that a few decades from now we'll lament the mess we've created of race relations in the name of wokeness
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re-institution of de jure segregation is pants-on-head stupidity

i'm on the fence about voluntary association in the private commercial realm, probably makes more sense from a libertarian standpoint, though i'd hate to empower racists like that

so i'm cool with antidiscrimination policy in the commercial/employment realm but voluntary association in the private equity realm, granted contracts are respected

defunding public universities and public sector unions would likely do wonders for social cohesiveness, since the former is a source of progressively-driven racial animosity and other post-marxist nuttery, while the latter puts way too much power in the hands of law enforcement (and educators / educational bureaucrats, but that's another rant in itself)

also, less corporate welfare for big media
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Nate Dog and Warren G are gonna have to regulate.

But in all seriousness, this is what is killing trust in society. At the same time, you should be wary of anyone that doesn't have the necessary tools to replace a flat themselves.
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Why can't Maga Man aim up?

because he's tired of winning presumably
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ChainedRedone posted...

I plead the fifth. No shrooms in my home no sir.

Accidentally misread as "I plead the filth" for a moment
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memes, of course
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How do you explain MLK then? He went through the same type of society and absolutely refused to accept this temptation regarding violence and black supremacy.

MX's family was persistently harassed by the Klan, personally, for civil rights activities in a rural area.

His father was murdered by the klan, tied to train tracks and run over as such.

It was ruled a "suicide", and his family was denied his father's life insurance as such.

The stress of dealing with all of this led to his mother having a nervous breakdown, and he and all his siblings were put into foster care.

MLK, coming from a middle class church family in a semi-enlightened southern city, had it quite easy compared to what Malcolm X dealt with.
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The Admiral posted...

put enough pressure on political leaders that they had to work with MLK on the Civil Rights Bill whether they really wanted to or not.

In reality, many political leaders had been on board for quite a while, north and south, but politics got in the way.

George Wallace's mentor (and a previous governor of Alabama) advocated desegregation as early as the 1930s-1940s, however unsuccessfully.

Wallace himself ran on a much more moderate and colorblind platform in his earlier Alabama political campaigns - but lost since it was unpopular with the large swaths of ignorant racist voters, leading him to unfortunately embrace racist politics for political gain (to the detriment of his legacy).

Goldwater was a founding member of the Arizona chapter of NAACP, and supported the 1957 Civil Rights Act, but took objection to a couple sections of the 1964 Civil Rights act which he felt gave the federal government too much reach, which unfortunately absolutely destroyed his presidential prospects.

The rest of the Republican portion of congress voted almost universally in favor of the '64 CRA (as well as the assorted previous Civil Rights Acts they had introduced), while the Democrats/Dixiecrats created biggest roadblock, as they always had done. LBJ sabotaged many civil rights attempts in his years as a congressman, before finally "embracing" civil rights as president once legislation landed on his desk in order to secure his re-election.
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The Admiral posted...

One was effective at actually helping black people get equal rights, one was not. Not sure why you'd have more appreciation for the failed approach.

In reality, it was just political good-cop-bad-cop.

What helped black people get equal rights was Booker T. Washington's ethos in action, which facilitated accomplishment of such a magnitude that it just made segregation and racial discrimination look increasingly stupid.
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Milkman5 posted...

He gave it up near the end of his life when he realized that the Nation of Islam has nothing to do with actual Islam so Nation of Islam black nationalists assassinated him

Aaaactually, he left citing corruption / moral deviance on the part of its leader, and the fact that they were silencing him for being so popular and outspoken.

He had contacts in the Middle East and Africa that encouraged him to become a Sunni a while thereafter.

I'd say he was at his philosophical pinnacle between leaving the NOI and going orthodox.
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Because he advocated taking responsibility for self and community, which is the opposite of what the powers that be want since the lack thereof grants them power.
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Spooking posted...

Aspen, CO, during Christmas.

Aspen, CO during summertime is underrated beyond words.
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First Sarms, now leana

seriously

stop driving away my favorite cepeople
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this will end well
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the inhabitants of the british colonies in north america were predominantly of european and african descent
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Left a few years back. Drop in for a while periodically.
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Ah, good times.
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That's all?

...also, who the hell would want to live in California, let alone LA?
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Saiyan.
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Jesus Christ.
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the biscuits are pretty great
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