Rancid wrote:Basically blackjack is displaying apathy by being totally cool with all these potential conflicts of interest.
Conflict of interest is not a crime. Crime is crime. There are plenty of crimes committed by Trump's detractors that have not been punished. Trump himself has committed no crime. The people calling for virtue on all sides starting with Trump are really trying to stop Trump from cleaning house. It's not apathy. It's the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
JohnRawls wrote:For example this:
To many, that would suggest that the minimum wage ought to be like $200 an hour. The reality is that college is a rip-off. It should be subject to consumer protection laws, because they are systematically fleecing poor people and saddling them with debt and false promises of a good paying job for the legions of people seeking graduates of "black studies", "women's studies", "Asian studies", "conflict resolution", etc. Even similarly worthless degrees for sales people like "communications" promise to do better. The hard reality is that the types of jobs that pay well tend to be hard work coupled with high skill.
Finfinder wrote:It's not only that, look at where their kids go to college Hunter Biden Yale law school, Chelsea Clinton Stamford, Malia Obama Harvard,Chuck Schumers daughters Yale and Harvard. It goes on and on.
It's a breeding farm for the wealthy to marry the high IQ.
Tainari88 wrote:I understand @blackjack21 's POV. He is in essence an Anglo background American upper middle class guy who works in the tech industry. He is a nationalist. So he thinks if the establishment implodes on both sides what is left will be vulnerable enough for a nationalistic agenda.
It's not quite that, but I think the establishment needs to be destroyed for the good of all Americans. It's not completely unlike Remainer Brits who are loyal to a non-Democratic foreign entity rather than showing allegiance to their own country and parliament.
Tainari88 wrote:He believes in IQ and Eugenics and a bunch of things....but not because he likes to kick people out of his nation.
IQ is an important factor in income distributions, but egalitarians resist this assertion fiercely in spite of having supported de-industrialization, cutting trade schooling and saddling the lower IQ with worthless degrees, mountains of debt and no job prospects at the outset of their adult lives.
Regrettably, Obama is no longer president that we can have fervent discussions about race. I always enjoy toying with egalitarians and their blurring of the line between uniform application of the law and a sort of absolute or concrete egalitarianism. I further find it amusing that so many of them trash Christianity while trying their level best to preserve Christ's teachings in some sort of socialist political model.
I would gladly speak at length about genetic modification. For example, what would you think about coming up with a CRISPR cas-9 genetic modification switching those with a 2-repeat allele of Monoamine Oxidase A to something less belligerent like a 5-repeat allele? It would mostly affect a small percentage of the African American population in the United States. Do you think that would be a bad idea? Do you think it should be something made available voluntarily? Do you think it should be offered in lieu of shorter sentencing for violent offenders with a 2-repeat allele? Or does the very idea horrify you to such a degree that you are mentally crippled and emotionally anguished at such a notion?
Tainari88 wrote:But because he believes in natural selection and those who are superior will be that.
I believe natural selection has brought us to where we are to a significant degree. Moving forward, I do not think that will be the case.
Tainari88 wrote:If Trump is the instrument of liberal destruction? He will back it. He is practical that way about politics.
As I said in Election 2020, my main hope is to prevent the rise of a neoliberal/neoconservative. Do you notice that I am as derisive of Mitt Romney as of Hillary Clinton?
Tainari88 wrote:He truly believes the White Anglo Saxon Protestant tradition and the solid values it represents have been taken advantage of and perverted by some people who fail to uphold their social and economic obligations. They failed to think beyond a short sighted agenda.
They failed their nation, their race, their culture and their creed.
I would take that same argument to Mexico:
A Drug Cartel Just Defeated The Mexican Military In BattleWhat happened to the pride of the Spaniards in their rule of Mexico? I would take the same argument to Catholic France, lamenter of perfidious Albion. Liberals do not even like themselves, yet believe that for some reason that the rest of us should--that they should have cast their pearls before swine.
Rancid wrote:@blackjack21
What do you do in the tech industry?
Up until last year, I spent the previous six years in cloud storage helping to build mass storage starting at the petabyte scale up into exabytes and beyond primarily for OpenStack block and object storage. It had significant applications for science, military, intelligence and law enforcement, banking, retail, and health care. Undoubtedly, I've indirectly been helping a lot of people doing innocuous things like uploading pictures of their cats to share with the world, more insidiously helping people violate music and movie copyrights, and more disturbingly helping people to stream pornography. However, the most ugly part of it is indirectly helping countries spy on their citizens. Currently, I'm working toward deploying core and edge clouds at scale in furtherance of 5G cellular telecommunications.
jimjam wrote:desires to replace the existing rot with, simply, a new rot which shamelessly promotes a strict money oriented agenda with no heart where the rich get richer and the poor take it up the ass.
You view Trump as the start of something new. I view him as a nemesis of the establishment, and hence transitional. Who will follow in Trump's footsteps? He has no obvious successor.
jimjam wrote:Don't let this bother you my friend but I lack respect for obese people who lack the self respect and simple discipline required to maintain good health. They advertise to the world that they have surrendered to their gluttony instincts at the cost of lugging around a few tons of disgusting lard.
The majority of fat people are poor. Do you really lack respect for poor fat people, or are you just trying to find a concrete reason for your disgust with Donald Trump?
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