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| Topic | Mind blowing concept: What if there was more than 1 cause for mass shootings? |
| legendary_zell 08/04/19 9:43:06 PM #144 | That's a completely different type of media effect than what others in this topic were arguing for. That is also not a cause of the mindset, even if it does amplify it. Even including the amplification effect, it still happens more here than anywhere else in the world. --- |
| Topic | Mind blowing concept: What if there was more than 1 cause for mass shootings? |
| legendary_zell 08/04/19 8:48:34 PM #141 | People are literally just posting their world views and societal critiques while trying to deflect away from the obvious culprits of gun access and white supremacy/apocalyptic political views. Not a shred of evidence has been posted by the people blaming the media, anti-depressants, lack of traditional masculinity, mental health, etc. That's one of the biggest problems with the discourse surrounding this topic. There probably are factors beyond guns and bigotry that are contributing to the mass shooting problem in the US, including cultural ones, but people use the discussion as a political Rorschach test. --- |
| Topic | Neil DeGrasse Tyson tweets about El Paso/Ohio shootings |
| legendary_zell 08/04/19 7:52:09 PM #130 | He truly is like a lot of posters on this board. He may have some correct ideas, but the way he communicates is fundamentally douchey, condescending, and lacks basic empathy and social awareness. --- |
| Topic | Active shooter in El Paso; Police say to stay away from the area |
| legendary_zell 08/03/19 6:19:16 PM #218 | I always feel so sorry for the families of the shooters. How could you do this to your family? The entire world will hate them now and consider them responsible for your acts, they will likely have to go into hiding, move, dodge the media and death threats, change their names, undergo investigations etc. It's just mindblowing. --- |
| Topic | Why are so many against minority representation in media? |
| legendary_zell 08/02/19 4:35:05 PM #11 | It's an acceptable means of expressing negative views of other races and of social progress towards inclusion and increasing social/cultural/and economic power for those groups. It's an expression of anger about losing relative power over the media and the types of characters that are presented as heroes or at least worthy of empathy. That's why they claim representation isn't important when minorities argue for access but freak out when that access actually happens. Because it is important. --- |
| Topic | If Tulsi Gabbard wins the Democratic nomination |
| legendary_zell 08/02/19 4:01:28 PM #54 | Balrog0 posted... legendary_zell posted...Balrog0 posted...check it out: This is what I saw earlier. Who knows how reputable this org is though. But it meshed with my preconceived notion of who would be on top, so I didn't question it much. https://progressivepunch.org/scores.htm?house=house --- |
| Topic | If Tulsi Gabbard wins the Democratic nomination |
| legendary_zell 08/02/19 3:45:15 PM #52 | Balrog0 posted... check it out: I'm confused about these rankings then. I see AOC ranked as number one in other rankings and Gabbard way down the list. --- |
| Topic | If Tulsi Gabbard wins the Democratic nomination |
| legendary_zell 08/02/19 1:13:35 PM #47 | Balrog0 posted... legendary_zell posted...Holy_Pumpkin posted...I hope plenty because she's a true progressive that has the people's best interests in mind and hasn't sold her soul for money and corporations. Nope, it's pretty fair. She's more conservative than 83 percent of House Dems. I agree with what you're saying about the Dems foreign policy views though. https://www.google.com/amp/s/fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-tulsi-gabbard-could-win-the-2020-democratic-nomination/amp/ --- |
| Topic | If Tulsi Gabbard wins the Democratic nomination |
| legendary_zell 08/02/19 11:04:55 AM #40 | Holy_Pumpkin posted... I hope plenty because she's a true progressive that has the people's best interests in mind and hasn't sold her soul for money and corporations. She was one of the most conservative Dems in the House and has had/continues views that are essentially disqualifiying on Israel, Syria/Assad, Modi in India, gay rights, etc. The idea that she's a true progressive is simply incorrect. If she was legitimately what you think she is, she'd be winning because she'd have attractiveness, public speaking skills, and being a veteran on her side. But in reality, she's a weirdo with weird opinions, votes, and connections. --- |
| Topic | I don't get Tulsi Gabbard's angle with Assad...like why |
| legendary_zell 08/01/19 12:44:26 PM #19 | CruelBuffalo posted... legendary_zell posted...You don't have to start a regime war to recognize reality and stop being weird. She does this on LGBT rights and too and she'd probably find a lot more support among the left if she didn't do weird stuff like this. That's the weird thing. She pretty much has found the right approach on LGBT issues. She recognized she had some heinous views and owned up to them and is now in the mainstream on those issues. That's what she needs to do on Assad. Again, that doesn't mean bombing them, sending troops, or even calling for regime change. --- |
| Topic | I don't get Tulsi Gabbard's angle with Assad...like why |
| legendary_zell 08/01/19 12:42:00 PM #18 | I watched her interview with Anderson Cooper after the debate last night and she was given so many easy outs to make her point while also acknowledging that Assad is a POS. She hemmed and hawwed and refused to do it and it was noticeably strange. She needs a better answer on these things. --- |
| Topic | I don't get Tulsi Gabbard's angle with Assad...like why |
| legendary_zell 08/01/19 12:39:05 PM #14 | You don't have to start a regime war to recognize reality and stop being weird. She does this on LGBT rights and too and she'd probably find a lot more support among the left if she didn't do weird stuff like this. We need to be pulling away from support of all human rights abusers and stop supporting ones that support our current ideology or just oppose our current enemy. That starts with simply recognizing who is butchering their own people. It's not hard and there's no need for strawmen or whataboutism here. --- |
| Topic | CNN debate coverage doesnt even mention Andrew Yang |
| legendary_zell 08/01/19 10:24:00 AM #8 | That's not true. He was specifically mentioned as doing well. Van Jones yelled out Yang Gang twice. He was interviewed by the whole panel and asked interesting questions. --- |
| Topic | I dunno what it is but something about Kamala Harris that scares me. |
| legendary_zell 07/29/19 9:59:37 AM #6 | |
| Topic | Virtue signalling is as obnoxious as flatulence. |
| legendary_zell 07/28/19 4:26:55 PM #45 | The right constantly virtue signals. They virtue signal about how they don't get offended and how they're not sensitive and how they are free speech absolutists. Even calling out virtue signalers is virtue signaling. See how ridiculous this use of the concept is now? --- |
| Topic | Virtue signalling is as obnoxious as flatulence. |
| legendary_zell 07/28/19 3:25:23 PM #8 | Patting yourself on the back for being a good person is better than being a bad person. Patting yourself on the back for spreading correct and helpful beliefs is better than spreading harmful beliefs. Even disingenuously going through the motions of being a good person is better than sincerely being a bad person. So what's your point? This is one of the most idiotic buzzwords that people who take pride in their callousness, cruelty, and ignorance have invented to attack people who dare to call them out for their shitty behavior. --- |
| Topic | "I just thought we were friends this whole time" |
| legendary_zell 07/28/19 12:53:38 AM #52 | DeroIin posted... Cleo_II posted...Something you did on the first date turned her off, but she didnt know what to tell you so she gave you the friends line. She doesn't owe you that. She told you that she wasn't interested, that's all that's necessary. She probably told you she wanted to be friends and hoped you would comply with that because you likely said you would, otherwise there wouldn't have been additional meetings. You can't just decide to date someone against their will and she did provide you with an explanation (again not required). You have to develop self awareness and an "okay this one didn't work out, I'll try to improve and move on to the next one" mentality. The more you do it, the easier it gets. --- |
| Topic | "I just thought we were friends this whole time" |
| legendary_zell 07/28/19 12:15:05 AM #46 | Dude, it's important to remember that you're 22 and are only meeting a tiny trickle of people. You seem to be going down a dangerous path very early and it's not okay. You are way too old to be in niceguy mode and thinking people are leading you on when they make it clear they aren't interested. You are too young to be acting like no one will ever be interested and that you'll never find mutual attraction. You have tons of time to improve your approach and your mindset, and that's what you should focus on. You have to work on knowing when to fold them. If someone tells you they're not interested, remember that they are an autonomous individual with their own likes and dislikes and do not take it as a personal rejection of your essence. Don't throw yourself at just anybody, at least try to screen for shared mindsets, hobbies, etc. When you do get a chance, do your best to be engaging, to be the best version of yourself and to make your interest unmistakable in a natural way. It's right personal mindset-right type of person-right approach. It might seem hard now, but it's much easier when you get the order right, it almost happens automatically. They will be attractive to you, you will not take it to heart if a specific girl isn't interested, but one will be interested, you will make yourself attractive to them, and then it doesn't feel like you're taking a huge leap of faith when you make a move and you have a much higher likelihood of success. Try thinking/acting this way before becoming an incel. --- |
| Topic | CNN to host climate crisis town hall with Dem candidates in September |
| legendary_zell 07/26/19 5:47:57 PM #8 | |
| Topic | Wanna take 4 days to make an egg big and blue? |
| legendary_zell 07/25/19 5:45:54 PM #6 | |
| Topic | Trump goes full sexist and racist, says some congresswomen should 'go back' home |
| legendary_zell 07/14/19 12:01:06 PM #53 | NinjaBreakfast posted... legendary_zell posted...At least it's exclusively trolls defending this so far. That's true, until the right wing news blocs and forums can manage to come up with a spin. Let's see what they come up with here. If they want to just ignore it, then it's our job to keep bringing it up. --- |
| Topic | Trump goes full sexist and racist, says some congresswomen should 'go back' home |
| legendary_zell 07/14/19 11:52:23 AM #47 | At least it's exclusively trolls defending this so far. Hopefully that means this has at least some consequences for him. I don't see how Pelosi can argue for the Squad to work with him again after this, he doesn't respect them as Americans, much less as legislators. --- |
| Topic | Trump goes full sexist and racist, says some congresswomen should 'go back' home |
| legendary_zell 07/14/19 11:37:35 AM #35 | NeverOffended posted... legendary_zell posted...The President is a racist. The President is a white nationalist. Anyone who doesn't acknowledge that is a joke human being or agrees with him and this topic will prove it. @NeverOffended already has. He thinks trolling about old school racism is funny and that reacting negatively to it is being a triggered lib rather than a functional human being. Way to prove my point. You are the definition of an NPC. --- |
| Topic | Trump goes full sexist and racist, says some congresswomen should 'go back' home |
| legendary_zell 07/14/19 11:30:09 AM #33 | The President is a racist. The President is a white nationalist. Anyone who doesn't acknowledge that is a joke human being or agrees with him and this topic will prove it. @NeverOffended already has. He thinks trolling about old school racism is funny and that reacting negatively to it is being a triggered lib rather than a functional human being. --- |
| Topic | How millennial are you guys? |
| legendary_zell 07/14/19 1:09:23 AM #88 | 3....I've failed my generation. I am about to visit Brooklyn for the first time though, so I'll probably have most of these. --- |
| Topic | "Racism in America is dead! they need to stop complaining about it" |
| legendary_zell 07/12/19 5:23:05 PM #28 | KillerKhan420 posted... It's not dead but it's overplayed by race baiters like you. The KKK literally has less than 10,000 members....it's in the thousands, maybe not even 8 thousand. First, the KKK is one organization that reflects one type and level of racism, not the full range of it or its primary expression. In a country with huge mass incarceration, segregation, wealth and income inequality, and other racial issues, you can't point to KKK. Second, you constantly defend racists and it's noticeable. --- |
| Topic | "Racism in America is dead! they need to stop complaining about it" |
| legendary_zell 07/12/19 4:37:47 PM #10 | How are the black citizens of Tennessee supposed to feel about this? Since Forrest represents Tennessee values, how should they feel about Tennessee? I guess they don't count. Or maybe they count as 3/5ths of a Tennessee citizen? --- |
| Topic | Why do poor people have so many Goddamn kids?!?! |
| legendary_zell 07/12/19 4:00:38 PM #96 | tennisdude818 posted...
I know that's the conclusion that you and the Heritage foundation are reaching, but that's not proof that the increase was caused by the welfare state. Other major societal shifts that affect poverty and the rate of single motherhood that accelerated during the time on that graph include women's liberation, decreasing unionization, the drug war, mass incarceration, loss of manufacturing jobs, and many others. I think you think that graph says a lot more than it actually does. --- |
| Topic | Why do poor people have so many Goddamn kids?!?! |
| legendary_zell 07/12/19 3:49:12 PM #93 | EdgeMaster posted... legendary_zell posted...EdgeMaster posted...legendary_zell posted...tennisdude818 posted...hockeybub89 posted...tennisdude818 posted...You get more of what you subsidize. We subsidize poor single moms, so we get a rising single motherhood rate along with all the additional crime and poverty associated with a high single motherhood rate. My point is that whatever the amount of food stamps and other assistance, it's nowhere near the amount it would take to actually significantly subsidize child rearing to the extent that you're implying and they would only get that benefit for a few years maximum. It does make it easier than it would otherwise be, but that doesn't mean it is incentivizing having children. Those are two separate concepts. --- |
| Topic | Why do poor people have so many Goddamn kids?!?! |
| legendary_zell 07/12/19 3:41:34 PM #89 | tennisdude818 posted... legendary_zell posted...tennisdude818 posted...legendary_zell posted...tennisdude818 posted...hockeybub89 posted...tennisdude818 posted...You get more of what you subsidize. We subsidize poor single moms, so we get a rising single motherhood rate along with all the additional crime and poverty associated with a high single motherhood rate. Again, cite some evidence for this. It's a very strong empirical claim and requires strong evidence. Countless things have changed economically and culturally since 1964, but you're attributing changes in poverty directly to the limited availability of limited assistance for limited amounts of time. Not to mention trafficking in stereotypes without any factual support. People without welfare who live at subsistence levels around the world also have many children and people had many children before the welfare state, and the numbers of children per household has fallen for all income levels over the years. You can't just combine libertarian rhetoric with welfare queen myths and expect to be persuasive. --- |
| Topic | Why do poor people have so many Goddamn kids?!?! |
| legendary_zell 07/12/19 3:27:03 PM #82 | tennisdude818 posted... Shablagoo posted...aki_sora posted...That why government need to make parent license to stop poor people make more kids The government has a responsibility not to leave children dying of hunger, that's much more important than your "don't pick winners and losers" mentality. Especially with all the myriad ways the government picks the rich and the middle class as winners through almost every policy area imaginable "Welfare" is a tiny proportion of your tax burden and the federal budget, it's not the reason anyone's life is hard or why they have issues affording children. It is the reason why there aren't millions of people out on the streets begging for money and looking to rob you though. --- |
| Topic | Why do poor people have so many Goddamn kids?!?! |
| legendary_zell 07/12/19 3:23:04 PM #80 | EdgeMaster posted... legendary_zell posted...tennisdude818 posted...hockeybub89 posted...tennisdude818 posted...You get more of what you subsidize. We subsidize poor single moms, so we get a rising single motherhood rate along with all the additional crime and poverty associated with a high single motherhood rate. This is a claim you should be able to back up, right, especially since you have attached a dollar amount and a number of children. Show me that cash assistance, food stamps, housing assistance add up to "smooth sailing" when taking into account work requirements, time limits, the actual expenses of raising a child etc. --- |
| Topic | Why do poor people have so many Goddamn kids?!?! |
| legendary_zell 07/12/19 3:20:41 PM #79 | tennisdude818 posted... legendary_zell posted...tennisdude818 posted...hockeybub89 posted...tennisdude818 posted...You get more of what you subsidize. We subsidize poor single moms, so we get a rising single motherhood rate along with all the additional crime and poverty associated with a high single motherhood rate. It's not inconsequential because it keeps them alive. That doesn't mean it's an incentive to have a child when that's still easily a net negative proposition. It takes $180k to raise a child from 0-18, you need to provide some evidence that food stamps etc are offsetting that in people's minds. --- |
| Topic | Why do poor people have so many Goddamn kids?!?! |
| legendary_zell 07/12/19 2:57:08 PM #69 | tennisdude818 posted... hockeybub89 posted...tennisdude818 posted...You get more of what you subsidize. We subsidize poor single moms, so we get a rising single motherhood rate along with all the additional crime and poverty associated with a high single motherhood rate. Very few people are getting cash assistance at this point. And the expenses of having a new kid significantly outweigh any increases in benefits that people get for each additional child. Do you really think people are going through pregnancy and childbirth for a few dozen extra dollars in food stamps per month? --- |
| Topic | Why do poor people have so many Goddamn kids?!?! |
| legendary_zell 07/12/19 1:14:41 PM #24 | It's free happiness, entertainment, connection. Plus lack of cultural and economic access to birth control and lack of reason not to. Rich people across societies have less children because they have more to lose. --- |
| Topic | A nuclear missile is headed for your exact location. 20 minutes. What do? |
| legendary_zell 07/11/19 6:05:42 PM #54 | Doomed due to rush hour traffic so I'd call my parents and closest friends as quickly as possible then walk to the closest liquor store and just chug stuff off the shelves. --- |
| Topic | How to pick up beautiful women as a 5'5" gamer. My tricks. |
| legendary_zell 07/09/19 6:14:58 PM #16 | |
| Topic | Staunch NRA supporter talks about the new ammo background check in California |
| legendary_zell 07/09/19 6:09:47 PM #9 | Abiz_ posted... Solar_Crimson posted...Voter ID laws were specifically made to curb certain people--typically those in the inner city--from voting. Republicans, including lawmakers have admitted the laws are intended to have that effect and have admitted they're fine with it at the very least and studies have shown that it does/will have the effect of disenfranchising black and brown people. Stop your concern trolling because as a black person your concern for "racism" is unwanted. --- |
| Topic | "When your first time having sex was rape" |
| legendary_zell 07/03/19 4:06:42 PM #58 | COVxy posted... This is why "educating men" isn't the solution here. Men know they are being pieces of shit, they just decide that their pleasure is more important than a woman's life. I don't think this wide of a statement is accurate. There's a lot of people who are genuinely ignorant of boundaries and who have learned very toxic behavioral scripts that wouldn't behave the way they do if they had been taught differently from an early age. You're right that this kid isn't one of them, he's a knowing, gleeful rapist. --- |
| Topic | "When your first time having sex was rape" |
| legendary_zell 07/03/19 2:00:29 PM #35 | Esrac posted... I mean, I'd say we are not just the worst thing we've ever done and maybe the kind of person you are should carry some weight in sentencing. But this is a really bad take by that judge. This type of empathy is rarely extended to non-white, non-rich people. Our entire criminal justice system is built on doing the opposite. It would be nice to see you and other non-sjws pushing this idea in other contexts. --- |
| Topic | What's more depressing, JFK or Abraham Lincoln's assassination? |
| legendary_zell 06/28/19 3:53:09 PM #17 | Buchanan is up there for a lot of the same reasons, but Grant didn't do anything with nearly the long term impact of Grant and Johnson's failures. --- |
| Topic | What's more depressing, JFK or Abraham Lincoln's assassination? |
| legendary_zell 06/28/19 3:44:23 PM #15 | Lincoln's death directly to our worst President Andrew Johnson who abandoned black people when our country's race problems actually had a chance to be solved, dooming us to 100+ years of apartheid and discrimination, and setting up our current issues. So that. --- |
| Topic | Live: First Round of Democrat debates. Live Youtube Link Inside. |
| legendary_zell 06/26/19 11:09:04 PM #250 | Warren>Castro>De Blasio>Booker>Insley>Gabbard>>>Others Castro did himself a lot of favors because I hadn't given him a single thought and he impressed tonight. Beto is the big loser most likely, he gave vague ass answers and sounded rehearsed. Warren did great. --- |
| Topic | Live: First Round of Democrat debates. Live Youtube Link Inside. |
| legendary_zell 06/26/19 10:48:21 PM #222 | Spooking posted... MonkeyBones23 posted...Obviously Tim Ryan never had a chance to be President, but he absolutely demolished himself with that last answer. Time Ryan has a way better chance than Tim Ryan. --- |
| Topic | Live: First Round of Democrat debates. Live Youtube Link Inside. |
| legendary_zell 06/26/19 10:43:37 PM #209 | |
| Topic | Live: First Round of Democrat debates. Live Youtube Link Inside. |
| legendary_zell 06/26/19 10:31:56 PM #182 | LMAO, she hasn't gotten to talk for an hour and now this is it? She deserves it tho. --- |
| Topic | Left handed people are among the most discriminated against minority of all time |
| legendary_zell 06/24/19 2:48:12 PM #13 | |
| Topic | White woman raped and beaten because of slavery |
| legendary_zell 06/21/19 10:09:39 AM #74 | It's not blowing up because there's no actual controversy here. No one is going to spend hours on Facebook arguing that he did nothing wrong and that she deserved it. 99.99999 percent of the population will agree that he should be thrown under the jail. This isn't a Ferguson or Trayvon situation where there's debates about self defense, implicit bias, policeman brutality, interpretations of videos etc. There's no one out there taking the guy's side. It's just heinous crime that will no doubt earn the guy life in prison if not the DP and possible hate crime charges. It's not evidence of some media conspiracy against white people. --- |
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