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Quote:6ix, let me help you out with the word eugenics:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Sure buddy.
I seriously doubt that Eugenics is a "GOP Thing".
But I AM certainly down with it. I don't give a shit who else is.
Weak and stupid people shouldn't be breeding any taking up my oxygen. Sadly for you, a majority of the weak and stupid people in this country happen to be Democrats. That makes no matter to me. I can see why it bothers you though.
And, FYI, letting the old die in homes because they're old is not Eugenics, stupid.
They're far too old to procreate and therefore, dead or alive, have zero effect on any attempt at Eugenics.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population, typically by excluding people and groups judged to be inferior, and promoting those judged to be superior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
It happens that Republicans I know, maybe even you, think they are "superior" eugenically, while believing Democrats, especially the ones that look like Obama, are "inferior" eugenically. For my favorite example of a Republican joke: "What do you call a nigger with half a brain?" Sometimes the answer is "Gifted." Sometimes "Obama."
The Republicans I know hate Obama for going to Harvard Law School and unfairly taking the place that rightfully belonged to a white. #GOP_vehemently_denies_being_racist_LOL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama#Law_career
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, let me help you out with the word eugenics:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Sure buddy.
I seriously doubt that Eugenics is a "GOP Thing".
But I AM certainly down with it. I don't give a shit who else is.
Weak and stupid people shouldn't be breeding any taking up my oxygen. Sadly for you, a majority of the weak and stupid people in this country happen to be Democrats. That makes no matter to me. I can see why it bothers you though.
And, FYI, letting the old die in homes because they're old is not Eugenics, stupid.
They're far too old to procreate and therefore, dead or alive, have zero effect on any attempt at Eugenics.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population, typically by excluding people and groups judged to be inferior, and promoting those judged to be superior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
It happens that Republicans I know, maybe even you, think they are "superior" eugenically, while believing Democrats, especially the ones that look like Obama, are "inferior" eugenically. For my favorite example of a Republican joke: "What do you call a nigger with half a brain?" Sometimes the answer is "Gifted." Sometimes "Obama."
The Republicans I know hate Obama for going to Harvard Law School and unfairly taking the place that rightfully belonged to a white. #GOP_vehemently_denies_being_racist_LOL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama#Law_career
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
I didn't say anything about black people. You did.
Democrats are racist as fuck.
Would you like to talk about that again?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:HBO has a 6 episode show about a Republican winning the 1940 Presidential Election. It doesn't mention black people, either, because the GOP makes Jews their enemy. The new GOP President refuses to fight in WWII because that war is all the fault of Jewish European Bankers, at least according to the President. Actual GOP Senators and Dixiecrat Senators in our reality were just as bad as HBO's fictional Senators who refused to give permission for WWII, until Pearl Harbor made that position impossible for a Senator to maintain and still expect to be reelected.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I didn't say anything about black people. You did.
Democrats are racist as fuck.
Would you like to talk about that again?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
HBO’s The Plot Against America
Freedom is never completely won.
But it can be lost.
We were having trouble with coming up with a line for the one-sheet. (“Freedom is never completely won. But it can be lost.”) And we tried a bunch of stuff, some of it was a little bit too much on the money, some of it was a little bit too abstract. And the one that eventually we went with is something that my father used to say at every Passover Seder, and it goes with what Ed is saying. On this liberation-themed holiday, my father used to say that democracy, and freedom, by extension, can never be completely won. Every day is a quotidian struggle. Every day you have to kill a few snakes. Every day you have to fight to try to extend the premise of freedom to a few more people, to those cohorts that are the most beleaguered. You’re never going to finish the job. There’s never a moment where you dust off your hands and say, “Well, there it is. That’s our republic. It’s perfected.” It’s struggle. It’s the hardest form of government there is, is to attempt self-governance, and it’s utterly imperfect. But freedom can be lost and lost quickly, and all you have to do is stop fighting for it. You have to stop working, you have to stop killing snakes. He said it every year to us. And I don’t think I ever understood the complexity of what he was trying to say, until I lived through these last three years.
https://slate.com/culture/2020/04/the-plot-against-america-finale-davi
d-simon-ed-burns-interview.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, let me help you out with the word eugenics:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Sure buddy.
I seriously doubt that Eugenics is a "GOP Thing".
But I AM certainly down with it. I don't give a shit who else is.
Weak and stupid people shouldn't be breeding any taking up my oxygen. Sadly for you, a majority of the weak and stupid people in this country happen to be Democrats. That makes no matter to me. I can see why it bothers you though.
And, FYI, letting the old die in homes because they're old is not Eugenics, stupid.
They're far too old to procreate and therefore, dead or alive, have zero effect on any attempt at Eugenics.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population, typically by excluding people and groups judged to be inferior, and promoting those judged to be superior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
It happens that Republicans I know, maybe even you, think they are "superior" eugenically, while believing Democrats, especially the ones that look like Obama, are "inferior" eugenically. For my favorite example of a Republican joke: "What do you call a nigger with half a brain?" Sometimes the answer is "Gifted." Sometimes "Obama."
The Republicans I know hate Obama for going to Harvard Law School and unfairly taking the place that rightfully belonged to a white. #GOP_vehemently_denies_being_racist_LOL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama#Law_career
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
I didn't say anything about black people. You did.
Democrats are racist as fuck.
Would you like to talk about that again?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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An anguished question from a Trump supporter: ‘Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?’
THE SERIOUS ANSWER: Here’s what the majority of anti-Trump voters honestly feel about Trump supporters en masse:
That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought “Fine.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/04/10/tru
mp-university-settlement-judge-finalized/502387002/
That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, “Okay.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hotel-paid-millions-in-fines-for-u
npaid-work
That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, “No problem.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/list-trumps-accusers-allegations-sexua
l-misconduct/story?id=51956410
That when he made up stories about seeing Muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, “Not an issue.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/11/22/donald-
trumps-outrageous-claim-that-thousands-of-new-jersey-muslims-celebrated-the-911-attacks/
That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn’t care, you exclaimed, “He sure knows me.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/23/president-dona
ld-trump-could-shoot-someone-without-prosecution/4073405002/
That when you heard him relating a story of an elderly guest of his country club, an 80-year old man, who fell off a stage and hit his head, to Trump replied: “‘Oh my God, that’s disgusting,’ and I turned away. I couldn’t—you know, he was right in front of me, and I turned away. I didn’t want to touch him. He was bleeding all over the place. And I felt terrible, because it was a beautiful white marble floor, and now it had changed color. Became very red.” You said, “That’s cool!”
https://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-howard-stern-story
That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was funny.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-criticized
-after-he-appears-mock-reporter-serge-kovaleski-n470016
That when you heard him brag that he doesn’t read books, you said, “Well, who has time?”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/americas-first-po
st-text-president/549794/
That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn’t commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, “That makes sense.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/19/what-trump-has
-said-central-park-five/1501321001/
That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, “Yes!”
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trump-campaign-protests-2016031
3-story.html
That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man’s coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, “What a great guy!”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-orders-proteste
rs-coat-is-confiscated-and-he-is-sent-into-the-cold-a6802756.html
That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, “Thumbs up!”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/why-cant-trump-ju
st-condemn-nazis/567320/
That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, “That’s the way I want my President to be.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-insult-foreign-countries-leaders_
n_59dd2769e4b0b26332e76d57
That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they’re supposed to be regulating and you have said, “What a genius!”
https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/12/29/138-trump-policy-chan
ges-2017-000603
That you have heard him continue to profit from his busi
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Originally posted by second:
An anguished question from a Trump supporter: ‘Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?’
THE SERIOUS ANSWER: Here’s what the majority of anti-Trump voters honestly feel about Trump supporters en masse:
Majority based off of what polling model?
lol Just kidding. Nobody gives a shit.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:What polling model? You voted for Trump, a well-known criminal. That's the model. Rich Republicans knew why they voted for a crook -- Trump would make them richer. But the rich think carefully about Trump's ulterior motives and they read the small print on contracts. Poorer Republicans don't read before they sign. That inattention to crucial details about who Trump is and what he will be motivated to actually do once in office keeps them poor. 6ix wrote, "Nobody gives a shit." Correction: Poor Trump voters don't give a shit. Vote for Trump, 6ix, because I will benefit.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
An anguished question from a Trump supporter: ‘Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?’
THE SERIOUS ANSWER: Here’s what the majority of anti-Trump voters honestly feel about Trump supporters en masse:
Majority based off of what polling model?
lol Just kidding. Nobody gives a shit.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:What polling model? You voted for Trump, a well-known criminal. That's the model. Rich Republicans knew why they voted for a crook -- Trump would make them richer. But the rich think carefully about Trump's ulterior motives and they read the small print on contracts. Poorer Republicans don't read before they sign. That inattention to crucial details about who Trump is and what he will be motivated to actually do once in office keeps them poor. 6ix wrote, "Nobody gives a shit." Correction: Poor Trump voters don't give a shit. Vote for Trump, 6ix, because I will benefit.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
An anguished question from a Trump supporter: ‘Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?’
THE SERIOUS ANSWER: Here’s what the majority of anti-Trump voters honestly feel about Trump supporters en masse:
Majority based off of what polling model?
lol Just kidding. Nobody gives a shit.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
The polling model for this:
Quote:
THE SERIOUS ANSWER: Here’s what the majority of anti-Trump voters honestly feel about Trump supporters en masse:
But like I said, nobody gives a shit.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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The federal vetocracy
That the US government has become a dysfunctional vetocracy is obvious. In short: America’s system of checks and balances requires unusual and even extraordinary levels of consensus to pass legislation. First, you need the agreement of the House, the Senate, the White House, and, increasingly, the Supreme Court.
More granularly, congressional power is diffused across committees. The Senate has built in a supermajority requirement, known as the filibuster, which effectively raises the threshold for passage from 51 votes to 60 votes.
This raises the question: If the problem is embedded in the structure of the US government, how did the US ever do anything big? The short answer is that for most of our political history, two unusual conditions held. First, the parties were ideologically mixed, which made compromise easier. Second, one party was usually electorally dominant, which gave the party in the minority a reason to compromise: If you can’t win, you may as well deal.
Both those conditions have dissolved. America’s political parties are more ideologically — and demographically — polarized than ever before. We’re also in the most competitive period American politics has ever seen. In a system like that, both sides utilize the system’s bias toward inaction to foil their opponents. You can see this in the rise of the filibuster over time. The rule has been around almost as long as America, but it’s only been deployed as an omnipresent veto in recent decades.
The result is a system biased toward inaction. The left can’t remake American health care. The right can’t voucherize American schools. The left can’t pass a climate bill. The right can’t privatize Social Security. Neither side can rewrite our immigration laws, hence the turn towards oscillating executive orders. Neither side can pass their infrastructure packages. Neither side can reform social insurance.
In the midst of a pandemic, a financial crisis, or a terrorist attack, emergency measures can pass, for a little while, but absent some kind of crisis, paralysis is the rule.
At the federal level, I’d get rid of the filibuster, simplify the committee system, democratize elections, and make sure majorities could implement their agendas once elected. We should prefer the problems of a system where elected majorities can fulfill the promises that got them elected to one where elected majorities cannot deliver on the promises that the American people voted for. The latter system, which is the one Americans live in now, drives frustration and dysfunction.
But legislators on both sides prefer the status quo because it gives them power when they’re in the minority, and because they’re more afraid of what their opponents might do than committed to what they’ve promised to do. The allure of what they could build isn’t as powerful as the fear of what the other side may build.
More at www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21228469/marc-andreessen-build-government-corona
virus
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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