jakelafort

When talking to conservatives about crime and extra attention given to black by cops, they’ll defend the practice pointing out that “the bulk of violent crime is black on black.” I typically reply that I thought conservative believed that people are individually responsible for their actions. I go on to say that if they want to suppress crime by…[Read more]

I’m not saying in your particular case that racism is the problem. What I am saying is that when cashiers can or choose to be selective about when they card people, and they disproportionately do so towards marginalised people…then that IS bigotry in action. It happens subconsciously every day. There are tons of studies which show these…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer: Where are the huddled masses from far shores (or even just North of us) wanting access to our system, money in hand to pay for ridiculously high premiums, deductibles, and copays, and wanting the most expensive health care system in the civilized world with among the worst outcomes?

Where are they?

You know, those gorgeous Hubble Telescope images of nebulae, supernovae, etc., are all LIES!

Space is mostly black and white. NASA adds the color.

No, you have not come with a valid argument.

Ugh Jesus Christ give me a bloody break. Anti-health care crusaders are some of the most stubborn and wilfully ignorant people to debate with.

The cashier is racist if they disproportionately ask for ID from marginalised people and irregularly or little from non-marginalised people. And that does happen. It’s easy to not notice and a lot of people don’t notice.

_Robert_ So long as you know I wasn’t siding with  the Bunker types, I was saying we tend to go right to racism, which is a gross oversimplification. And when I say “we,” I mean the “we we, which often includes me” not the “we means you we” which is more often what  is used.

Jake, if you think I was saying there’s no racists among the Trumpists, reread me. I’m sayin that they are racists is an oversimplification.

I forgot to mention that there’s a lot of extreme federalist small government people in the bunch as well.

jakelafort wrote:

I like what ya had to say, Unseen, but i think the MAGA/nostalgia period for many is not just pre civil rights but antebellum America where uppity blacks got what they had coming to them. If Trump promised to repudiate the emancipation proclamation and reinstate slavery we would see some real hootenanny celebration from the hard…

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You know, we aren’t talking enough about the causes of the Trumpist movement. He didn’t create it, he awakened it and gave it permission to reveal itself.

Many of the Trumpists are late middle-aged “boomers” or even older. The younger ones got their values from their parents. Others come from military service and value discipline and order.

It’s…[Read more]

Many people, once they fall into a conspiracy theory, are intellectually trapped. They believe it because they want to believe it, and so it becomes very difficult to dissuade them with facts. For example, if you appear to disprove that the election was rigged, their response won’t be to change their mind, but rather to start asking how the…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:

GA Congreswoman Says She Plans to File Articles of Impeachment Against Biden

The House is held by the Dems. That will grab headlines but not much more. I suspect a few Republicans will help vote it down.

_Robert_ wrote:

The more realistic cause is that some sort of compartmentalization of their ability to rationalize things they are told.

Makes sense, and makes me think of how inner/evolved, tribal tendencies likely nurture and communicate/spread those compartmentalizations. It’s the old Us vs Them theme as a quick justification to avoid the…[Read more]

Here are two, particularly relevant audio segments on today’s NPR Morning Edition show:

• Parler Insists It Would Not Knowingly Tolerate Criminal Activity On Its Site (6:32 long)
• Can The Forces Unleashed By Trump’s Big Election Lie Be Undone? (5:08 long)

The second one analogizes Trump’s lies to fascist lies in world history.

For some Christians, the Capitol riot doesn’t change the prophecy: Trump will be president

[WaPo story]

Excerpt:

Five years ago, a prophetess Dyrud follows said she’d gotten a message that Trump would be president and save Christian America. Trump would be “as fearless as a lion being robbed of its cubs” and cause the “tall and lofty mountains…

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Unseen wrote:

If that is their statement of purpose, it’s ideological suicide, isn’t it?

It looks to me more like an anti-ideology than an ideology, except perhaps where they quote from the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, ARTICLE 19. But yeah, any kind of promotion of western values might put those promoters at risk, ala Charlie Hebdo. Per…[Read more]

Kristina wrote:

…but I thought I read somewhere that a simple majority is enough to block him from running for office again.

Yes, but unless I’m mistaken, blocking him from running again can happen only after he’s actually convicted. In any case, I’m personally ok with the impeachment even as just a tokenal message, and ok with delaying any…[Read more]

This conservative pundit thinks Biden stands a good chance of becoming one of the most popular presidents in history, especially if the GOP’s internal schism doesn’t get healed. He could become the FDR of the 21st Century. And he can do it by being…[Read more]