I had originally done just that, and just did it again. I don't have an argument with any or it, from you or Judaka. Had I an issue, I would have argu...
We must be talking past each other. I fail to see how the distinction between an ethnicity or nation with a state is a relevant difference from those ...
If it wasn't you, I apologize. I must have conflated this thread with the Israel thread and other threads where some wag kept harping on the the idea ...
Answer: Real Politick and might-makes-right. What I'm gleaning, though not said so openly and boldly, is this: "You, west, in your hypocrisy, and by y...
I see "ethnic identities" in the title, but then a reference to "culture" in the OP. I think there may be a difference. Anyway, I'll stick with the "e...
Guys like him make me think it might be safe to start drinking again. Then I remember, he probably killed more brain cells than I started out with; so...
No doubt. True colors. But how about a set fee of $10,000.00. That would be less than what it's been costing in shut down and probably way more than e...
:grin: I actually look up to and respect a lot of what I think of as maturity that comes from having two world wars fought in your back yard. It's gon...
I guess I should have responded to fishfry instead of you. Maybe I could have avoided all your misunderstanding. Agreed. That's why I posted about the...
It's easier to quantify if you offer incentives: $1.00? $10.00 $100.00? $1,000.00? $10,000.00? If no amount of money will get them to vax, then okay. ...
In addition, that is not necessarily true. It makes an assumption that if they were not doing it, I would have to do it myself. Wrong. I don't have to...
That was in response to your post: You crying over the poor wretched slaves making a metric shit ton of money on Wall Street solicited my response, ab...
You don't get the story because you are obstructing yourself. You are reading your assumptions into it. Where the hell did I ever say I don't respect ...
:100: Not only unfortunate, but dangerous. While the remedy might be objective, impartial analysis and investigation into the merits of a contention, ...
Quit paying them. P.S. I don't know where you get "disdainful" from. I merely said I had not chosen to invest the time and resources to become as expe...
I tagged you because you were the first to swim so far from the OP, and I felt in need of company as I did likewise. A movie, and the desert, are far ...
True. Hence my desire to see just how married the anti-vaxxers are to their risk analysis through the use of lotteries, money, and other incentives. I...
I got your reference; though, due to the nature of the interwebs, I wasn't entirely sure you were not being facetious. Sounds like you were being stra...
Here’s the way I see it, pulling a page from the conservative Republican playbook: Trump once said he was a war time President in a war against an inv...
You are too charitable. If your analysis was applied by these same stupid people every time their leaders ginned up a war, then you'd have a point. Bu...
I'm over my head on this, but here's my speculation: A system that imposes a fiduciary duty (look that up if you don't know what it really entails) up...
It's supposed to get people to rethink their alleged thinking. Same with the lotteries, game tickets, etc. In other words, "risk" is not really the re...
That is true. I just see the usual time line as taking too long when you can't even get the stupid people to wear masks and social distance. If they d...
But he won't. He needs us more than we need him. They all do. But if he did, it would ultimately be a good thing. Now, where did I put my looting clot...
One of my favorite quotes is from John Milton, Areopagitica, from memory: "Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the Earth, so ...
That is a big factor, no doubt. But we don't invest in education they way we should, and we lack good leadership. If everyone was trained in analytic ...
I don't remember the specifics but he referenced a currently well-known and extremely lethal virus that just has not yet made the jump from animals to...
I also heard that flu illness and death dropped precipitously into the toilet due to masking and social distancing related to Covid protocols. Some 33...
From what little I understand, Covid doesn't respect political boundaries, be it interstate in the U.S. or international. Early on they were saying th...
I went on a 100 mile trek through the Owyhee Desert once. I passed through a region called Black Rock. When it comes to money, I let my fund managers ...
It might, but I've chosen not to know. I've heard it's like 70+% and we are not there yet, thanks to those who decline to take the risk. I don't think...
Bingo! And let that be a lesson to them! When Michelle Obama said to go high when they go low, I said not so much. I do not. Nor do I wish to invest t...
You asked "should" not "does". So yeah, I agree. I try not to allude, but maybe I did. I think we agree on the well-attested fact. I use myself as a c...
For me, it has nothing to do with the vaccine or Covid, per se. Rather, it's more about my subjective, pre-judgmental view of what I perceive to be a ...
Society. Otherwise, I could kill you with impunity. But I do like your optimistic view of the upside. 99% reduction would be a good thing, I reckon. W...
The unfortunate part about invisible enemies is, we can't prove accessory before or after the fact, beyond a reasonable doubt, or even by a mere prepo...
I know an upper (1%) class, northern, married couple, both well educated (but not Liberal Arts) who are off the deep end. I'm also surrounded by rural...
When I hear the word "prejudice" I think of pre-judgement, or judgement prior to having heard the evidence. When I think of the word "stereotyping" I ...
I think different rules do apply to some white people, as the "offending" post specified. I think the derogatory, contemptuous language used in the po...
:100: :ok: T Clark was saying that he didn't get "heritage" from the accusations and I was merely pointing out that many a southern racist specificall...
Then again, why wear the shoe if it doesn't fit? Is it because you find them an underdog in need of a white liberal defense? I do. In fact, many a sou...
:100: The "other side" would then begin to understand what is meant by the term "dog whistle" which they've been using in support of fascist nationali...
That's the thing, by the plain language alone, it would only be about some white people, not all. And, while I like the notion of "If the shoe fits, w...
:100: This brings up the question of subjectivity: If the stronger community sells it to the weaker community as a benefit to the weaker community, an...
Oppression occurs when the costs of an activity are externalized to those who did not agree, in an arm’s length, knowing transaction, to assume those ...
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