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Here's a fun one:
http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/23/don ... modernism/

Lurker13 wrote:

jrfox92 wrote:

This is fucking awesome, btw.

Needs more reptilians.

Faldoe wrote:So the Trump admin is talking about tariffs on Mexico to build "the wall." I wonder what that would do to MIM Fender stuff.

I was actually thinking about that too. Previously, when stuff like this has happened US companies has moved their factories to other places. Maybe other places in Central America, maybe Indonesia, maybe somewhere else. Or, Mexican and American companies alike can setup export fronts in neighbor countries to bypass the tax. Actually, this whole wall business is probably gonna end in disaster for America. Mexico likes having American business, but it will survive without. If China or Russia wants to play great power politics they'll start investing heavily in Mexico and Mexico is gonna do just fine, and the US worse. China is already heavily invested in Central America, with a canal through Nicaragua and whatnot.

D.o.S. wrote:Here's a fun one:
http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/23/don ... modernism/

That was an intresting article. I don't know if I believe it it to be the only explanation for his success but it might have been a factor

Brandsmannen wrote: Actually, this whole wall business is probably gonna end in disaster for America.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... zona-tribe

John wrote:

jwar wrote:I use my prayers to ask for others to have help when they are in need or guidance or food in their bellies or an end to their suffering...etc. It helps me and I hope it helps them.

Pray in one hand and shit in the other, and see which fills up first.

jwar wrote:...I don't want all this ugliness in the world...He is my President...

Your president is responsible for a great deal of ugliness and he's only been in office for a few days. Pray harder holmes.

I was raised Christian and still believe the message of Jesus, if he existed, was a righteous one. It's inconceivable that a real Christian can't see that Trump and the Republican party are the antithesis of Jesus's message.

Prayer isn't a physically solid thing though, so obviously my hand would fill first. I would never shit in my hand though. I'll leave that to the apes in the zoo.

If you live in the United States, my President is your President. I know that's unacceptable to some, but you can't change that fact. It is a fact you know. He may not be the President of you in the sense that he controls every aspect of your life, but he is the President of the United States. I will pray harder, I've had great things happen through the power of prayer. It's ok if you don't believe that though, not my agenda to change who you are.

Also, I do see Trump and the Republican party in the way you describe, just like I see the Democratic party in the same light. They are all bastards and a guy like me who is mixed on all the issues will never have a good candidate in the country.

Disarm D'arcy wrote:

UglyCasanova wrote:Reissue time?

Who's gonna serve the white man his fast food now? Shortsighted bigotry is shortsighted.

The overqualified 30-something who hasn't been able to find work elsewhere since the late 00s.
The 28 year old still living at home because the rent is TOO DAMN HIGH.
The teenagers who have traditionally worked these fast food service jobs for decades.
Old people who didn't get a golden parachute after outliving their usefulness elsewhere.

Shortsighted is still marginally better than myopic
Assuming any/all of the above are non-white is still, at best a form of the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Also implying "white" and "non-white" are classes

I think he means White People as a class, like how carlton banks is a white person

not condoning, just defining

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd4C8_FMdjA[/youtube]

^
"great for all ages"

Happy 92nd birthday, Grandma!

rustywire wrote:Also implying "white" and "non-white" are classes

Breaking: they are. And, under this spectrum, Carlton would totally be a "white person"... He stopped eating pork, he stopped eating greens, he traded in his dashiki for some Jordache jeans, etc.

Chankgeez wrote:

Brandsmannen wrote: Actually, this whole wall business is probably gonna end in disaster for America.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... zona-tribe

Uh. Yeah. So apart from diplomatic and economic disaster, apparently there's that too

Oh and there's this:
https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/26/tru ... rivacy-ri/

D.o.S. wrote:

rustywire wrote:Also implying "white" and "non-white" are classes

Breaking: they are. And, under this spectrum, Carlton would totally be a "white person"... He stopped eating pork, he stopped eating greens, he traded in his dashiki for some Jordache jeans, etc.

Postmodernist poppycock. Cultural marxist malarkey. Class is dynamic. Both white and non-white can be high, middle or low class.
Individuals can ascend through hard work and/or luck. Misfortune, mistreatment and misery aren't as fussy.

"Race" as in skin color is more or less static. Carlton was a high class black character.
If he were on Good Times, that "white person" distinction you're granting him is gone.
The Father on Good Times is of the same class as the father on Roseanne, Married With Children etc.
A character's superficial appearance, beyond their control, is of little to no consequence to their effectiveness. What is an individual's potential and value?
To assert an individual's potential and value are limited by their complexion is racist, is racist, is racist, is racist.

I'm curious how blind people perceive race & class. I suspect they distinguish one from another, but IDK.
In any event, the hounds will still be released, regardless of your skin tone, if you're trespassing in someone powerful's domain...
...and expect to feel the wrath of an angry individual if they determine you to be a threat, beneath them, offensive etc

If you don't think our modern day class system is rooted in the racial divide that defined the first hundred years of the country (and obviously this phenomenon. isn't defined just to the US) I have some Pantera-branded camo shorts to sell you.

Simply asserting that someone's superficiality shouldn't influence how they exist in the world does not mean that it is so. The television tropes are decidedly beside the point and are basically meandering around the morass that is middle brow entertainment programming.

rustywire wrote: I'm curious how blind people perceive race & class. I suspect they distinguish one from another, but IDK.