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Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by GatorTheo, Feb 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM.

  1. CHFG8R

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    IDK, US troops in GAZA!!!

    Granted, it's just typical Trump BS, but he did say it. Or maybe we're supposed to assume he doesn't mean what he says?
     
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  2. CHFG8R

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    Someone get him a tissue. What a bunch of Ps. The talk so much shit, talk so much about how "tough" they are. And, in the end, they make the most woke trans activist seem "tough" and "resilient" by comparison. These are people who routinely throw out the term TDS, but reel and wretch like bitches if you suggest they maybe suffering from BDS. Complete losers who's opinions aren't worthy of a single consideration.
     
  3. ajoseph

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    It’s one of my fears … that Trump’s presidency will be so exhausting and painful that the Country becomes open to the other end of the political spectrum, like AOC.
     
  4. ajoseph

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    Can’t get anybody to tell me the elixir to decipher when to listen to what he says, and when to ignore what he says. Lots of people on here say this, but nobody can give me the magic formula of Trumpeteer Translations.
     
  5. CHFG8R

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    Okay, let's be fair here.

    CRT is a mentally masturbatory and self serving "social science". I'm not saying ban it, but let's understand it for what it is.
    DEI is definitely informed by CRT. But, much like CRT, is just self-flagellating and/or self serving (the white guilt book the woman turned into a multi-million dollar consulting enterprise). For CEO's, it's just another PR angle to play and something else for Karen in HR to do. Which gets us to the real problem with DEI: Karen in HR. If "Holocaust 2.0" delivered the right margins and guarantees, they'd roll that PR angle out tomorrow.

    Ultimately I don't disagree with the sentiment of "woke" or whatever you like to call it, but the application has been horrible to say the least. If you want to have quotas, fine, have quotas. Do what you have to do to make the world a better place. But stop advertising it and looking for backslaps. Just do it and STFU about it.
     
  6. GatorTheo

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    It looks like convoluted gibberish. The 'study' was probably financed by someone who wanted the Rooney rule to look like a good idea.

    My opinion is that we should not have separate rules for separate races. That overrides the result of any 'studies'.
     
  7. slayerxing

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    Hard to have a rational discussion with someone starting from that position. Trump did plenty to contribute to the political exhaustion of that period and if you can’t admit that then you aren’t worth talking to.
     
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    Dems need new people leading the charge. no more Nancy, Schumer, and even though she’s young and cool - no more AOC. There are dem govs that come across as sharp & pragmatic, let’s hear more from them.

    And much better messaging. stop dying on the hill for causes that are nebulous and only impact a small few. Maga didn’t keep going on about who a baker can and can’t sell to. And they also didn’t make banning books their big issue.

    And stop with Harris. She shouldn’t run again and shouldn’t be gov of Cali.

    If dems want to be radical they should go with a rino, right of center.
     
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  9. mdgator05

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    It is actually pretty simple statistical/economic analysis. What is the struggle in understanding here? I'll see if I can help you out.

    In terms of financing, the paper clearly discloses the only funding source here. It was their own school (Wharton).

    But that is the point: we had separate rules for separate races. They just weren't written down. Pretending that they don't exist doesn't make them not exist.
     
  10. wgbgator

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    If that's your fear, perhaps the centrists can take a lesson from her and actually provide a credible opposition to Trump instead of calling him a fascist and then voting with Republicans on anything. Voters like people who fight and dont just hold up a rule book saying "dogs cant play basketball," and if the self-proclaimed "reasonable" people wont, then guess who will. AOC is one of the few Dems who seems to understand politics and communication in the present, probably because she isnt 1000 years old.
     
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    Issues around CRT and DEI are not going to solve the racism problem.
    Even if white America all stood on the mountain top and screamed "THIS IS A RACIST COUNTRY AND WE ADMIT IT" would not change anything no matter how much you want it to.
    When the position is perceived as one group has to lose in order for another group to win, you won't get anywhere. Which is why all those gestures about renaming a military base or tearing down a confederate statue are really just pissing into the wind. I mean, "we took all those statues down and changed the names, and named all the public buildings after some black people so we are all good now right?"
    I don't know what the right answer is other than this. I don't think Individuals are racist and have not seen evidence of it in how our business is run or the interactions with people of all races including clients and contractors. However, you can definitely see that Groups of people can show racist tendencies like assuming all the people rioting during the George Floyd incident are a bunch of animals therefore all black people are. Or all white people at a NASCAR event are racist rednecks.
    There is no easy solution and I don't even know where to begin.
     
  12. toprowgator

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    Hard to have a rational discussion with someone who doesn't consider that bogus four-year investigation and the MSM's cheerleading that came with it, shall we say, unprecedented?
     
  13. slayerxing

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    of course the investigations contributed. So did Trump. Admit it or just put me on ignore. I expect more of the same this time around - especially with how things have started.
     
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    Conservatives seem to think it would. If it doesnt change anything, why stop people from teaching about racism or systems of racism / oppression?
     
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    How have things started? By doing exactly what he ran on which got him elected in a landslide?
     
  16. slayerxing

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    Yep - not so much what he’s doing but how. You still haven’t admitted it. Are you incapable?
     
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    Admit what? That I don't give two chits if he's a loudmouth New Yorker? My country's health is way more important to me than one man's personality. The country made its decision in overwhelming fashion, but only after getting to know Trump over eight years. So, I'd say the majority of Americans feel the same way.
     
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    A landslide... now poster has lost any credibility he had. LOL How's those lower prices working, and that really cheap gas, and so glad the felon solved Ukraine. But he sure extracted zero from Canada and Mexico and has the entire world laughing at that one. At least Greenland and Panama are safe this week, but I'd imagine poster is trying to pick up some cheap properties in Gaza. Just as the right leaning WSJ stated last week.... total incompetence and a disaster.
     
  19. slayerxing

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    It’s weak, but I’ll accept this as an admission that he was a part of the problem during his first term. Well done. I know any criticism of your dear leader can be traumatic.
     
  20. toprowgator

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    All I can say is, lay off the MSNBC, chief. You done lost it.