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Comment Re: All of your counter points are less nefarious. (Score 1, Insightful) 62

Why do Americans tell you how bad other people/countries are and when you say the US has done bad things they say the bad things they have done are not as bad as Country A, B, or C. Your are the good guys? Why hold yourselves to a level just above bad countries. Aim higher. There is a post that shows up on Reddit every so often that quotes some journalist saying something to the effect that you might think what the US does is bad, but at least we have a free press to tell about the bad things we do. If China was in charge you would never find out about the bad things they do. This is supposed to make people feel better about the bad things the US has done.

Comment Re: George Bush vetoed Little Timmy's future! (Score 0) 226

I do not have a car, so my taxes shouldnâ(TM)t pay to maintain roads and highways. I do not have kids in school my taxes shouldnâ(TM)t pay for schools. I have never had a fire at my house I donâ(TM)t want to pay for the fire department. People with cars, kids and house fires are not pulling their weight. They are freeloading off me. We need a system where your money is only for stuff that you use. Come to think of it I have no issues with Russians and Irans, my tax money should not be used for the military.

Comment Re: George Bush vetoed Little Timmy's future! (Score 0) 226

I donâ(TM)t have a car, so my taxes shouldnâ(TM)t pay to maintain roads and highways. I donâ(TM)t kids in school my taxes shouldnâ(TM)t pay for schools. I have never had a fire at my house I donâ(TM)t want to pay for the fire department. People with cars, kids and house fires are not pulling their weight. They are freeloading off me. We need a system where your money is only for stuff that you use. Come to think of it I have no issues with Russians and Irans, my tax money should not be used for the military.

Comment Re: Right nuts (Score 2, Insightful) 224

You cannot use reasoning and logic to convince them that his plans are stupid and will lead to very bad things . We need to just see this through so they can see the results for themselves. If we keep saying itâ(TM)s going to end badly and doing things to mitigate the results they will just say everything would have been great if the libs hadnâ(TM)t stopped the great plans. Then they will elect someone else who will convince them that their lives are shit because the libs prevented Trump from fixing everything. And we will have to go through all this craziness again.

Comment Re:Musk'll Fix It! (Score 0) 246

You really look at the world around you and think that leaving things as there are things will eventually get to a point that people are judged just on who they are without any policies to encourage change? It seems people like to think there is no longer any racism in society. It's just people making noise and wanting special treatment. I wonder before the 70s in this country if the people that worked the segregated lunch counters and stores, the Teachers and Principals that worked at the segregated schools, all the people that supported segregation did they think that segregation were racist. I bet you that they didn't think that it was racist, because just like you they know that racism is bad, so they would never do anything racist. Do you think segregation was racist?

Comment Re:Musk'll Fix It! (Score 0) 246

If only we lived in a country where everyone was treated fairly and equally from the start then we wouldn't have to come up with polices to fix the results of racist and sexist policies/laws from the past. Only 24 human beings have orbited the moon, all white men, but that had nothing to do with racism and sexism right? It's because like the Under Secretary of State in the State Department Darren Beattie said "Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work" If you forefathers were not racists and sexists then you wouldn't have to worry about DEI.

Comment Re:Voter Fraud (Score 0) 23

Checking for IDs is not inherently racist, but in America mostly based on history it is racist. A lot of rules and laws in a lot of countries are based on things that happened in the past. You can act like you don't know that, one person one vote has never been a reality in this country. Voter suppression has always existed. Even today doing election time billboards are put up, call centers are used to call people in black neighborhoods to tell them the wrong info on vote locations, dates and times. Stop being racist and people will stop calling you racist.

Comment Re:I have a suggestion (Score 2, Informative) 134

The U.K.’s Investigatory Powers Act 2016. Who was in power then? Here is a quote from a 2017 newspaper article. "A report in The Sun this week quoted a Conservative minister saying that should the government be re-elected, which polls suggest it will, it will move quickly to compel social media firms to hand over decrypted data. The paper quoted an unnamed government minister saying: “The social media companies have been laughing in our faces for too long”, and suggested that all tech companies with more than 10,000 users will face having to significantly adapt their technology to comply with the decryption law." Far left?

Comment Re:Social Structure (Score 0) 137

It's interesting that you bring up the moon landings in the same post that you mentioned racial discrimination. It represent a culture of ambition and optimism, but also of racism and sexism. 24 people have orbited the moon, 12 of whom walked on the moon. All white men. I know we shouldn't bring up race when talking about the moon landing. Why is everything always about race? People should just live their lives and not worry about race.

Comment Re:The U.S. has a "know your place" culture, too. (Score 0) 137

The NAACP hasn't changed their name. Should we just go back to colored? Did you have a problem with people calling themselves Irish-American or Italian-American. Did you tell them not to call themselves that. Did you tell them what to call themselves or is it only African-Americans you tell what to call themselves?

Comment Re:The U.S. has a "know your place" culture, too. (Score 0) 137

A lot of American's have called themselves Italian-American, Polish-American, etc. for a long time one ever had any problem with this until people started saying African-American. Drive in any of the suburbs in America and you will see a lot of these clubs. And they all have these countries flag's proudly waving on the buildings. For the record white people in Africa have never called themselves African. They always referred to themselves as Europeans.

Comment Re: The U.S. has a "know your place" culture, too. (Score 0) 137

All over the the US there are Italian-American, Polish-American, Greek-American clubs and Societies. People call themselves this all the time. Most of these people couldnâ(TM)t point to these countries on a map, have never been to these countries. No one ever said these are nonsense descriptions. But say African-American and itâ(TM)s nonsense. Why?

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