You are assuming the right-wing is interested in the Economy. They are not.
People to the left such as Bernie have noted that the vast majority of the economies gains have only gone to the top couple percent. Is it wrong for the disenfranchised people to want a change? Why would people who get none of the gains care about perpetuating the current economic model?
As for racism, that word has been so abused and played so many times that for me at least it has no meaning. Race mongers, perhaps yourself included, have cried wolf far too many times. Moreover, since racism is only a charge leveled at white people it doesn't strike me as a real thing, more a tool to be used to get people to go along with other peoples agenda lest they be labelled as "racist". To ignore the label is the best way to diffuse its power.
Only one lawmaker has been given a death sentence recently:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk...
Now if there were more people willing to go that far to protect the notion that the government is there for the citizens of the country then you might be able to call this poor ruling a death sentence.
I favor voting for the worst candidate as a means of speeding up the demise. The faster we get to a reboot the better. Granted with the two candidates up for POTUS this go around even that is a hard call:-(
I'll take my chances with Evolution being given airtime in a few states with the upside being that we aren't force fed white privilege, a dizzing array of options for what should be a simple and obvious thing like bathrooms, and no "common core" garbage.
But they're not fucking assassinating political candidates or office holders. If we start using that type of hyperbole, we stop getting taken seriously when we complain about the shit they ARE doing.
When we actually have some politicians who aren't part of the elite then and only then will we see if they aren't assassinating people. Why would they assassinate their own team, which both Democrats and Republicans are?
This bizarre, almost fetishistic need to constantly rail against the LGBT community, to invoke conspiracies like the "Gay agenda", to constantly promote fear and, yes, hatred, needs to be confronted.
Interestingly the statement could also be changed to:
This bizarre, almost fetishistic need to constantly rail against the Christian community, to invoke conspiracies like the "Christian agenda", to constantly promote fear and, yes, hatred, needs to be confronted.
Some moved up, some moved down. We keep hearing that there was a recovery and that the economy was doing fine. For the 1% that's true, incomes have rebounded and they are richer than every. For everyone else, not so much. The impression that I get is that more are unhappy than not. If times are as good now as some would have you believe then you don't have to convince everyone, it will be self evident. So ask yourself, as you look around the country and overhear people does it sound all rosy or is the recovery the punchline of a bad joke?
In a sense you're seeing the beginnings of this with Trump. Really I think much of the drama is the 1% trying desperately to keep everyone from noticing that the middle class is disappearing faster than glaciers. Keep everyone riled up over non-issues (bathrooms anyone?) while inequality grows by leaps and bounds.
Sadly truth is only a defense for fact based discussions. Race based discussions are usually anything but fact based. Much of political correctness is not talking about the elephant in the room. For white people the only winning move is not to play, or to talk in this case.
China created the monster but never took responsibility. We should, non-militarily, hold them accountable via trade. Anyone who supports North Korea gets a 5% tariff for example.
China created this problem, quite literally, and should be held accountable. If their trade with the US was in jeopardy then that might force them to actually deal with the mad dog of a country. North Korea is hell on Earth for the people unlucky to be born there. That China would feed the monster for their own comfort is evidence that the middle kingdom is unfit to rule much of anything.
Interesting article:
http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/ma...
What made it interesting is that had the carefully selected victims been just any other group, other than white, this would still be in the papers. Some simpler examples that are closer to home are most people would like things like Christmas plays at schools, optional of course, but all this is banned. It was just fine for over a hundred years without causing an issue of separation of church and state but then suddenly it became an issue. Sad. Ultimately the community feeling goes away and we get to where we are today. Hardly a win for anyone.
Those who know me have heard me say I wouldn't pay fifty cents to keep a pot head in jail or prison. I completely agree that prisons are better used for more serious things than weed. In truth, if you want to focus on the dangers of unvaccinated people I'd focus more on illegal immigration. That has been shown to have caused actual new diseases rather than hypothetical ones as shown here:
http://www.washingtontimes.com...
I think tolerance is the word that is used by the side trying to get the upper hand. I heard a lot of calling for tolerance when gay marriage was still in the trying to get legal phase. Now that the LGBTxxx side seems to have the upper hand it's about forcing bakers into making cakes and people losing their jobs over not supporting gay marriage. Tolerance went out the window as soon as they had the upper hand. I'm against any group calling for penalties based on a person's views or voting habits. If one wants to call me tolerant, so be it. However I can have serious disagreements with coworkers over a particular view without being able to work with them and it would never cross my mind to try and get a person fired over a personal view. You don't have to agree with someone to treat them with civility. Moreover talking with others who I don't agree with sometimes, not usually admittedly but sometimes, allows me to pick up a new perspective.
will facts equal hate speech??? will not believing in some political views equal hate speech???
I think that we're already there. Certainly Brendan Eich fits in this category. Don't go with political process and your career, and maybe more, will suffer.
I think that most conservatives I know are also not in favor of bailing out corporations and fear the growing corporate power as much as the left. What manages to keep them divided is mostly the lefts war on Christianity and white people in general with white Christian men at the top of the hit list. This is well enough known that it's hard to miss but here is a link anyway:
http://www.washingtontimes.com...
The 1% holds power by dividing us. We are the 99% was a brilliant slogan and a poignant observation. However the 99% includes the dreaded white male christian as well as every other group. We can all work towards making a better life together or we can fragment and live in squalor as inequality grows.
I assume you're a conservative, because they're the only people who are so convinced that there's no such thing as personal responsibility.
Funny enough most conservatives I know push personal responsibility quite hard. Earn your own way and all that. If you want to see a culture that avoids personal responsibility at all costs you would be better served by looking here:
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You are assuming the right-wing is interested in the Economy. They are not.
People to the left such as Bernie have noted that the vast majority of the economies gains have only gone to the top couple percent. Is it wrong for the disenfranchised people to want a change? Why would people who get none of the gains care about perpetuating the current economic model?
As for racism, that word has been so abused and played so many times that for me at least it has no meaning. Race mongers, perhaps yourself included, have cried wolf far too many times. Moreover, since racism is only a charge leveled at white people it doesn't strike me as a real thing, more a tool to be used to get people to go along with other peoples agenda lest they be labelled as "racist". To ignore the label is the best way to diffuse its power.
Only one lawmaker has been given a death sentence recently: https://www.theguardian.com/uk... Now if there were more people willing to go that far to protect the notion that the government is there for the citizens of the country then you might be able to call this poor ruling a death sentence.
Why bother having a 4th Amendment at all if it doesn't apply to the things you own and store information on?
Soon they'll decide that the 1st Amendment is a pain in the ass and make it conditional.
You mean like free speech zones?
Just because they are allowed to search it, doesn't necessarily mean they have the capability.
Until the next Snowden reveals that in fact they have the capability and likely have for some time.
The real problem, I think, is that a lot of older judges just don't understand technology.
I find it just as likely that they understand it quite well and are fully comfortable with eroding our liberties.
Bringing frivilous lawsuits will get you slapped down hard.
If only it were so, then we wouldn't have the likes of this guy: http://www.indystar.com/story/...
I favor voting for the worst candidate as a means of speeding up the demise. The faster we get to a reboot the better. Granted with the two candidates up for POTUS this go around even that is a hard call :-(
I'll take my chances with Evolution being given airtime in a few states with the upside being that we aren't force fed white privilege, a dizzing array of options for what should be a simple and obvious thing like bathrooms, and no "common core" garbage.
But they're not fucking assassinating political candidates or office holders. If we start using that type of hyperbole, we stop getting taken seriously when we complain about the shit they ARE doing.
When we actually have some politicians who aren't part of the elite then and only then will we see if they aren't assassinating people. Why would they assassinate their own team, which both Democrats and Republicans are?
This bizarre, almost fetishistic need to constantly rail against the LGBT community, to invoke conspiracies like the "Gay agenda", to constantly promote fear and, yes, hatred, needs to be confronted.
Interestingly the statement could also be changed to:
This bizarre, almost fetishistic need to constantly rail against the Christian community, to invoke conspiracies like the "Christian agenda", to constantly promote fear and, yes, hatred, needs to be confronted.
and be just as valid.
Some moved up, some moved down. We keep hearing that there was a recovery and that the economy was doing fine. For the 1% that's true, incomes have rebounded and they are richer than every. For everyone else, not so much. The impression that I get is that more are unhappy than not. If times are as good now as some would have you believe then you don't have to convince everyone, it will be self evident. So ask yourself, as you look around the country and overhear people does it sound all rosy or is the recovery the punchline of a bad joke?
Some groups will do anything to avoid accurate self analysis
In a sense you're seeing the beginnings of this with Trump. Really I think much of the drama is the 1% trying desperately to keep everyone from noticing that the middle class is disappearing faster than glaciers. Keep everyone riled up over non-issues (bathrooms anyone?) while inequality grows by leaps and bounds.
Sadly truth is only a defense for fact based discussions. Race based discussions are usually anything but fact based. Much of political correctness is not talking about the elephant in the room. For white people the only winning move is not to play, or to talk in this case.
China created the monster but never took responsibility. We should, non-militarily, hold them accountable via trade. Anyone who supports North Korea gets a 5% tariff for example.
- don't give preferential treatment to the parents of anchor babies. They can get in line like everyone else.
- do give preferential treatment to people with English skills as speaking the language of the country is an obvious win
- do give preferential treatment to immigrants with desired skills which is again an obvious win
- if you (or your family or other people you might sponsor) break laws then you get a fast track deportation.
Essentially this is to say do what is best for the country and the legal citizens who live there. Not hard really.
China created this problem, quite literally, and should be held accountable. If their trade with the US was in jeopardy then that might force them to actually deal with the mad dog of a country. North Korea is hell on Earth for the people unlucky to be born there. That China would feed the monster for their own comfort is evidence that the middle kingdom is unfit to rule much of anything.
Interesting article: http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/ma... What made it interesting is that had the carefully selected victims been just any other group, other than white, this would still be in the papers. Some simpler examples that are closer to home are most people would like things like Christmas plays at schools, optional of course, but all this is banned. It was just fine for over a hundred years without causing an issue of separation of church and state but then suddenly it became an issue. Sad. Ultimately the community feeling goes away and we get to where we are today. Hardly a win for anyone.
Those who know me have heard me say I wouldn't pay fifty cents to keep a pot head in jail or prison. I completely agree that prisons are better used for more serious things than weed. In truth, if you want to focus on the dangers of unvaccinated people I'd focus more on illegal immigration. That has been shown to have caused actual new diseases rather than hypothetical ones as shown here: http://www.washingtontimes.com...
I'm sure China thinks so.
The word we are all converging on is "tolerance"
I think tolerance is the word that is used by the side trying to get the upper hand. I heard a lot of calling for tolerance when gay marriage was still in the trying to get legal phase. Now that the LGBTxxx side seems to have the upper hand it's about forcing bakers into making cakes and people losing their jobs over not supporting gay marriage. Tolerance went out the window as soon as they had the upper hand. I'm against any group calling for penalties based on a person's views or voting habits. If one wants to call me tolerant, so be it. However I can have serious disagreements with coworkers over a particular view without being able to work with them and it would never cross my mind to try and get a person fired over a personal view. You don't have to agree with someone to treat them with civility. Moreover talking with others who I don't agree with sometimes, not usually admittedly but sometimes, allows me to pick up a new perspective.
will facts equal hate speech??? will not believing in some political views equal hate speech???
I think that we're already there. Certainly Brendan Eich fits in this category. Don't go with political process and your career, and maybe more, will suffer.
I think that most conservatives I know are also not in favor of bailing out corporations and fear the growing corporate power as much as the left. What manages to keep them divided is mostly the lefts war on Christianity and white people in general with white Christian men at the top of the hit list. This is well enough known that it's hard to miss but here is a link anyway: http://www.washingtontimes.com... The 1% holds power by dividing us. We are the 99% was a brilliant slogan and a poignant observation. However the 99% includes the dreaded white male christian as well as every other group. We can all work towards making a better life together or we can fragment and live in squalor as inequality grows.
I'd also support prison time for it.
You underestimate the cost of prisons.
I assume you're a conservative, because they're the only people who are so convinced that there's no such thing as personal responsibility.
Funny enough most conservatives I know push personal responsibility quite hard. Earn your own way and all that. If you want to see a culture that avoids personal responsibility at all costs you would be better served by looking here:
http://articles.latimes.com/20...
Hardly conservatives though.