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@drafterman
The FBI goes by the book. It's usually predictable.
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@DBlaze
It is lost indeed. These young adults, especially minority adults, have had to deal all their life with the unintended consequences from bad government programs created by well-meaning politicians that wanted to make a difference.... young adults who would have been much better off had these politicians simply done nothing. Thought before action is advice RARELY given.Critical thinking is lost on the younger generations.
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@drafterman
Historically hasn't this been the case with special prosecutors? The other trend also being presidential pardons for these fall guys later. (see Scooter Libby)
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@Buddamoose
The president has plenty of fall guys. The FBI has to send SOMEONE to jail to maintain appearances. This signifies the end rather than the beginning of anything.
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@SkepticalOne
You know what? Fine. I like big butts personally, and I cannot lie.I stated Trump 'seems to have an affinity for totalitarianism' not that he was a "totalitarian president", and what I've provided should be sufficient.
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@drafterman
Cool story bro.No, he's still in the White House.
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@drafterman
We got the Russian spy then yes? No? Oh well.
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@SkepticalOne
That's a cute article. Anyway, still waiting on what Trump has done that you consider as a totalitarian president.
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@SkepticalOne
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@sadolite
Trump used ICE to deport him, so Trump is literally Hitler.
Also he said something bad about Germany, who is our trusted ally in our current war with Russia.
Trust me, the left can spin ANYTHING when people condone fake news.
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@linate
More proof that the left is losing their herd.
#walkaway
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@Zarroette
Race is a meaningless term. Race based on a single phoneme (melanin) is exponentially more meaningless.
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@Stronn
Would you say "improve the world" is bad advice? It is, after all, a call to action, without any advice on how to go about it.
See, now I am convinced you are not even trying to understand exactly what I wrote by taking snippets out of context.
I'm done.
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@Stronn
Again, it's not even close to an analogy.That is like saying that "be careful with money" is bad advice because it does not say exactly HOW to be careful.The fact that advice is too general to be of much practical use does not necessarily make it bad.
A better analogy is someone saying "spend your money carefully" which is a call to action without any advice on how to exactly do that. Advice that would be much better would NOT be a call to action, rather a call to thought. Advice on how saving your money can allow you to spend more later is better advice than a call to action to either spend carefully or to save carefully. You are completely missing the point about blind calls to action. If you haven't understood the point by now I am unlikely to convince you.
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@Stronn
And it really doesn't matter what pleasant modifiers you put to that platitude. It's still a call to action with no advice on HOW to do it. What's the point of education if you're just basically telling students..."go out there! and stumble about randomly (with a positive attitude!), and hope for the best!"I agree that typical commencement addresses are filled with platitudes and empty slogans. I just don't agree with your contention that "make a difference" is bad advice, when what it really means is "make a positive difference."
Jesus Christ that's horrible advice!
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@Stronn
You are taking a single phrase out of context and applying a literal interpretation to it. When commencement speakers say "make a difference" they mean a positive difference, or "improve things," which I suspect is clear when you look at the most commencement addresses in their entirety.
That's actually not even close to the actual case. Most speakers preach about following your dreams and feelings. A scant minority will actually address rational decision making and the actual purpose of all education, which isn't to teach you tables of data to memorize, or even a specific trade skill; but to actually teach you to think and process data for the rest of your life outside of academia. Leaving out this crucial context, the listener is only left with the blanket mandate: "mutationem faciunt"
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@ethang5
Yah you predicted it. I guess DART has it's first troll for the politics forum.Why indeed.Wait till he starts simply reposting the same things over and over. You beat him in an argument, he reposts his links.
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@Harikrish
White House confirms Trump's shithole comments.
Oh look! More fake news from Harikrish.
Claims:
White House confirms Trump's shithole comments.
Actual link?
White House appears to confirm Donald Trump 's***hole countries' comments
Thanks for the fake news Harikrish. You are a master storyteller.
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@Harikrish
It absolutely did...This is the actual copy and paste text from the source link imbedded in your link. Although I added the "trump" and "tps" in parentheses for clarification and context.
Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin was explaining to him (Trump) a proposal to end the visa lottery in exchange for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for countries such as El Salvador. Durbin was going through a list of TPS countries that would be covered. When he got to Haiti, Trump asked why the US wants more people from Haiti and African countries.
You are refuting the actual source of the WAPO story....now why would you do such a thing?
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@Harikrish
It was after discussing TPS the senators moved on to discuss US immigration from African countries, that is when Trump called people from African nations shitholes.
That's a straight up falsehood. Even your own sources you posted say Trump said his shithole comment while interrupting Durbin's (D) explanation for the then current TPS policy. You are spinning a narrative out of thin air refuting the very sources you cited.
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@ethang5
It's kind of funny because at the time, I didn't even bother to do any research on the news story when it broke because my first reaction was "Thank god Trump is not afraid to draw a distinctive line between countries with screwed up, dysfunctional governments and the United States."It's even worse than that. There is no audio or video of Trump saying so, some witnesses there saying they did not hear Trump say so, is a hearsay account brought a full day later by a never Trumper, and which Trump himself denies saying!So a no corroboration, hearsay story denied by the supposed speaker has morphed into All "African countries"Fake news indeed.
I really didn't know much about the actual policy change because the media talked more about racism than the actual TPS policy change Trump proposed. There are so many hidden policy gems Trump has done to put America first that you would never discover following mainstream media.
Looks like I will have to wait for the real story to come out after the fake news dies.
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@Harikrish
Here is the actual text from your source.
The source said Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin was explaining to him (Trump) a proposal to end the visa lottery in exchange for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for countries such as El Salvador. Durbin was going through a list of TPS countries that would be covered. When he got to Haiti, Trump asked why the US wants more people from Haiti and African countries.
Now what I want to know is which countries were on Durbin's list for TPS?
Surely it could not be all countries in Africa.
Oh wow..lookie here..looks like there are only 10 countries on the TPS
Surely Africa is more than 10 countries :D
Once again, fake news tries to spin racism and fails. Considering Trump was specifically referring to the countries on Senator Durbin's(D) TPS list as shithole countries.
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@Harikrish
Which African countries? all your sources just say "some African countries."Are you in denial? You posted Trump has not done anything racist. Calling all African countries shithole countries was seen as very racist by several African leaders.You said you are from Ghana, Africa. Do Ghanians not see themselves as Africans?
Which African countries are okay? Egypt? South Africa?
Which ones are shitholes? Which ones are just so-so?
None of your sources claim Trump thinks all special treatment policies toward all of Africa should be rescinded.
Could it possibly be Trump would rather give preferential treatment to countries that have a strong GDP and have cultures embracing free markets and liberty over totalitarian socialism, regardless of the skin tone?
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@Buddamoose
Because the entire pedestal the left sits on regarding racism is loaded with facepalms.Why would you link me to that? Idc if its racist or not, that is just loaded with face palms 😐
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@Harikrish
Where can I find the definitive list of Trump's shithole countries?
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@Buddamoose
Though given its Russia, a jingoistic reaction is understandable. "Its not the Cold War Mitt" was a silly sentiment and foolish at the time it was said. I'm just glad Dems have come to see Russia actually was and is still very much a threat 👏.
I know that was off topic, but I find it ironic that the left displays some of the very traits they claim Trump espouses, but of course, few on the left will admit this.
The same applies to racism. Given the proper context, the left can be vitriolically racist as well. (see here)
Maybe the reason why the left subconsciously fears Trump and goes into hysterics instead of ignoring him when he says dumb things is because deep down, it reminds them of themselves. This explains alot about how Antifa came to be.
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@Buddamoose
Don't be silly. The left can be jingoistic and nationalistic where Russia is concerned.So wait, hold up, people aren't always what they say they are? And being a Russian spy had nothing at all to do with Russia? Hrmmmmm 🤔
Oops...
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@Castin
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@Castin
If you really believe in progress then you can't support government intervention and mismanaged meddling in innovating and improving the human condition. That basically means you can't be a traditional Republican or a traditional Democrat.But okay, if I'm not a progressive then what am I. I believe in progress.
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@Beelzedad
Well glad you cleared that up. Mexican Birthplace= good. Russian Birthplace = bad.Mexico was not being criticized, a man of Mexican Heritage was being insulted by a racist.
Gotta keep dat P.C. rule up to date for the real racists.
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@Beelzedad
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@Beelzedad
I really don't care about your opinion on the "races of mexico", or even about the racism in Mexico.
There is no ONE MEXICAN RACE.
You can criticize Mexico for a thousand years and it still won't be racist.
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@Buddamoose
What is with this "spicy" all of a sudden?
Why don't you just come right out and admit you don't give a shit about people living in shitty conditions, only that everyone live in equally shitty conditions. Spicy sense of morality you have there 🔥
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@linate
of course there are different races. there are black people and there are white people.
Name me one genetic feature besides melanin every person with Black skin has that no other person on the planet has. Do go on.
How about every person with White skin? Don't bother replying, because the answer is obvious to anyone with a functioning brain.
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@Beelzedad
So what? Nations have culture and heritage, some that are in line with what America believes in, and some which are not.
There is no "Mexican" race, and people sound like 3rd graders when they imply that Mexico has a distinct "race" that sets them significantly apart from any other human on the planet.
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@Beelzedad
Mexico isn't a race, it's a nation. That makes Trump a nationalist.
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@linate
how do ya'll define racist? my main criteria is 'unjustified prejudice'. in my examples, he had prejudice that wasn't justified based on skin color only, pretty much. the examples weren't exactly malicious, but they were prejudicial.
"Unjustified prejudice" can mean millions of things other than skin tone.
First off, you have to be some kind of backwards idiot in this day and age to believe that races exist based on skin tone. All the latest DNA testing will show a person with percentages of ethnic DNA from all around the world. Everybody is a mutt to some degree. There are no purebred "races." Additionally, there are far more mutts in places like America where there are massive migration patterns. The only place where you could find anything close to a "race" would be some secluded South American tribe or maybe some Australian tribe. Even then, there's still significant DNA variance that goes far beyond the singular phenotype of the melanin gene. "Skin tone race" is completely debunked by every scientific metric regarding DNA.
So in order to be a racist, you first have to be an uneducated idiot that believes in some theory some white colonists cooked up with no science behind it in the 1800's that claims skin color determines "race."
Next you have to believe that there are significant differences in these races on the genetic level.
Trump fails on both these charges.
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@triangle.128k
What difference does more plastic BS make, just because it raises the "GDP" or "standard of living?" People are going into debt slavery, Capitalism is capitalizing on the worst traits of people, the masses are being manipulated, power is being concentrated into corporate elites, worship of religion is being replaced with worship of the dollar, and so forth.
That's a good thing. Natural selection will eliminate all theocratically inclined people from the gene pool; whether they worship money or a statue.
The rational atheists will inherit the Earth.
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@linate
If those are examples of racism, then everyone is a racist.
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@drafterman
Because of the general law of entropy, random change is more likely to be detrimental than no change.
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@drafterman
No change will always be better than bad change.
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@drafterman
Lol no it's not. Marching around at political rallies decked out in a sandwich board with words you don't understand isn't beneficial for society.Well it's certainly better than the opposite.
Society would be better off if you simply stay at home when you choose to be intellectually lazy.
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@1harderthanyouthink
And if he was being targeted by the media as a front-runner, you wouldn't have had to "keep your eyes open" as you so eloquently stated.And I was responding to Greyparrot implying Sanders' approval rating is only because he was never slandered - which, if you kept your eyes open for 2015 and 2016, you would have seen it every day.
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@Buddamoose
Well Milton was right in that the Industrial Revolution made slavery unfeasible through the replacement of slaves with machines. Because you needed trained people to run machines properly, you couldn't just whip someone and expect the machine to produce as many widgets as the child coming off the farm to make one more dollar a day than the zero dollars he was getting back home working on Ma and Pa's farm.
The Industrial Revolution also made guns cheap and prolific to the point that it cost too much to garrison large armies in the colonies that would resist them. In short, Capitalism eliminated those things, not some Victorian or Theocratic code.
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@1harderthanyouthink
>>>Lol what
Don't be silly. you are comparing a blip of coverage to 1000 days of wall to wall slander.
Also, I read your link..."has to be some kind of record..."
Maybe a record for the media attacking someone on the left. Creating negative stories about politicians on the right is part of the normal workday for the WAPO.
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@ravensjt
It's the same logic as removing fathers from households because life is just too hard. What about the kids? Screw the kids.
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@linate
They had high approval because the media didn't get a chance to slander them. The media only targets people who can win office.
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