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Comment Re:Who cares if you don't vote (Score 1) 128

All you are getting is a feel good vote. But it is no different than the current two party system. At best, the third party can hope to influence another party's politics. When the democrats cater to fring elements or the right caters to religious elements, it isn't because they are benevolent and ultruistic. It is because they need or want the vote thst comes with it. They will support enough cross politics in order to not lose other support.

I get what you I u are trying to say. It's just not different from what already exists outside of a feel good vote.

Comment Re:Who cares if you don't vote (Score 1) 128

I'm sure there are lots of things they can agree on. Actually, I'm sure there are quite a lot of things they agree on but differ in approaches to address it.

Bur seriously. If the consequences of an election is what everyone agrees on, what makes the difference between two parties, 50 parties, or 1 party? The minority parties will always suffer the tyranny of the majority parties and at best have a chance to influence the politics of the majority. It's no different in reality.

Comment Re:Who cares if you don't vote (Score 1) 128

The US has multiple parties. They tend to shape the politics of the main parties.

Saying other parliamentary systems is somehow better is ignoring the truth of the matter. In the parliamentary system, the parties have to give up some of their platform in order to form a coalition and government. It's really no different in the end.

How this is superior escapes me. All it does is lallow some to think they are voting for what they cannot get. It's seems a bit dishonest if you ask me.

Comment Re:ICs (Score 1) 53

I would hope so. But let me reiterate them just to be clear...

Punishing or discrimination based on national origin is concerning. Doing so without any safeguards for rights like due process or evidence of actually committing a violation of law even if the law is discriminatory in the first place is very problematic in my opinion.

Comment Re:Finally (Score 1) 103

There was no fight to begin with. All my points were made that I wanted to make. Somewhere, that seems to have triggered you. That or your life is so pathetic that you cannot walk away because trolling on the internet is the one thing that makes you finally feel powerful or better than somebody else.

So go ahead and make another troll post if that is what you need to feel better about yourself.

Comment Re:ICs (Score 1) 53

I find it interesting that you somehow think rich people from Russia who are living abroad are somehow responsible for acts of a country they more or less abandoned.

I could understand if they were financing the invasion or something. Or maybe if they were trying to usurp sanctions or whatever. But their only guilt seems to be being born in the wrong place. "It's complicated " doesn't even begin to describe it when someone's nationality is fair game to take their property and money to ease your mind over something they likely had no control or say in.

Comment Re:Finally (Score 1) 103

Yes, I'm sure that is all true. But let me ask you something. When you were sniffing Vladimir Putin's dirty panties to determine of he is scared shirtless yet, did you consider that there might be other hot spots in the world that might see these last grasps of an old man as enough of a distraction to repatriate South Korea or Taiwan or wipe some country of the face if the map? Or are you too intoxicated from the experience to think about anything else?

There are a few places the west actually cares about more than the Ukraine area. But even then, when you back a rat into a corner, it will start attacking. Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting a rat could take you in a fight. But it could distract you long enough for somebody else to club you over the head. Once that happens, why would the rat leave. Why wouldn't just stick around eating your winter stores and shitting all over the place?

But hey, bread lines, that a good thing.

Comment Re:How Many Were Exposed? (Score 1) 90

One change to Zimmerman needs to be made. Travis Martin made it home safely according to his girlfriend in testimony then went back out looking to harm Zimmerman. At that point when he was safe, he ceases being a victim and became the offender.

This gets ignored when it shouldn't. Travis Martin may have been a victim in the start but he was an atracker by choice in the end.

Comment Finally (Score 2) 103

Great. Now all our efforts to reach the Russian people to encourage them to put pressure on the government to stop the hostilities will be easier. oops.

Sounds like a genius idea to me. Perhaps while they are at it, they can double the amount of state sponsored media parroting the virtues of war. Or does that happen by default when they can no longer access alternative messaging or opinions. Who am I kidding. They only use the internet to find cat videos.

Comment Re: Inconvenient Truth (Score 1) 294

You have a very good point. You should tell that to people like Patricia Williams, Ibeam X. Kendi, Cheryl Harris, and quite a few others.

BTW, seeing how you so aptly pretend to understand the entire literature and movement that makes up critical race theory from a couple lines in an encyclopedia entry, can you elaborate and give us your insights on whiteness as property, the concept that whites have been the recipient of civil rights legislation, and perhaps the traits of whiteness and how whiteness traits like "time" itself is racist. And while you are at it, please lecture us on how this proves institution discrimination. Feel free to delve into the many other aspects as they do nothing but sure up the conclusions a rational person would draw from the previous.

A problem you are going to quickly run into is that your highlighted little point of reference is quickly abandoned as you understand it and most everything is presented in terms of how white people are and how that whiteness gives them an advantage. Kendi even goes as far as claiming whiteness is inherently advantageous in society, the the only cure for this discrimination is more discrimination and the only remedy for that is future discrimination.

So yes, while you have a point in isolation, it is no sharper of a point than somebody sticking their finger out to sway another person's attention. You could say it is a complete distraction. When you dig into the meat behind crt, you see a completely different picture than what you want to describe from the surface. My original description remains a correct description. Otherwise there wouldn't be segregated events in practice like black family playground days or black only dormitories on campuses and minority only safe spaces. If what you point out is in practice, a Caucasian person attempting to enter one of those wouldn't be a problem. You can Google search how that isn't the case.

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