The Trump presidency
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J Ed
Follow Back Pro Expropriation
Is that what you do then?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
they don't tell us much about the empires darker deeds either. Thats why you've got prats on TV talking about it being 'a light to the world'
aye right. No its all abolition, ww 1 and two, roaring twenties USA etc
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
oh and google geniuses get rumbled quite quickly. If you haven't done your reading, then winging it only takes you so far
CRI
Registered Chooser
There's no shortage of white guys who just love to make assumptions about how and why Black folks vote for their own aims (in this case, dissing Clinton). On the other thread, I posted links to several articles from, y'know, actual African American people, explaining why they didn't back Sanders in the primaries and would vote Clinton. The response here was to ignore what they said, insisting Black people should support Bernie, their oppression was based on class, not race, maybe Bernie could have done more reaching out, yada yada - like dropping a few buzzwords would be all that's needed for them to fall in line.
We're not going to agree on this, so I suggest you put me on ignore, as I'm about to do with you. Ciao baby.
Johnny Canuck3
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There are times that I'll google some idea, person etc that's new to me. I don't feel any shame in admitting that I'm not an authoritative expert on every possible subject under the sun.
Also, one of the pleasures of discourse, for me, is learning about new things.
Whenever I come across someone [there are a few of them here] who talk as if authoritative about almost anything, I assume some googling is going on. It's possible that some people have gargantuan stores of knowledge on all subjects, but I don't think that's the case, in general.
For one thing, most people aren't sufficiently interested in absolutely everything, to spend the time to become authoritative on all subjects. There's vast amounts of information out there. Which is why we tend to see specialization to specific fields and areas, and even to subcategories within fields. A university History department will have specialists in American history, British history, etc.
You don't see too many 'Professors of Everything' anymore.
However, I do think that here at U75 [and elsewhere on the internet] we have a number of 'Masters of Profundity'.
Also, one of the pleasures of discourse, for me, is learning about new things.
Whenever I come across someone [there are a few of them here] who talk as if authoritative about almost anything, I assume some googling is going on. It's possible that some people have gargantuan stores of knowledge on all subjects, but I don't think that's the case, in general.
For one thing, most people aren't sufficiently interested in absolutely everything, to spend the time to become authoritative on all subjects. There's vast amounts of information out there. Which is why we tend to see specialization to specific fields and areas, and even to subcategories within fields. A university History department will have specialists in American history, British history, etc.
You don't see too many 'Professors of Everything' anymore.
However, I do think that here at U75 [and elsewhere on the internet] we have a number of 'Masters of Profundity'.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
it makes everyday a schoolday, which is right and true. If I've got an interest in a subject though I have to at least find a docu on it or look out for a book. the whole .epub/torrent thing has served me very well. In the 90s you had to buy books, and theres never enough money to cover fiction and non together
CRI
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On the theme of history repeating itself . . .
It’s Already Happened Here
Trump is a familiar figure, a manifestation of deep-seated will-to-white-male power
...as Lincoln’s letter reminds us, this has always been America. We have always vacillated between lofty precepts on paper and the refusal of white men to apply them in practice. This refusal has resulted in slavery of African Americans, genocide against Native Americans, internment camps for ethnic minorities. It has also systematically denied most of the population the right to vote over most of our history, rationalized discrimination against and banning of immigrants on racial and ethnic lines, and shored up segregation and Jim Crow. Today, this same white male authoritarian outlook fuels a prison and police system that disproportionately targets non-white citizens.
At the center of all this executive-assured destruction, there is Trump, both a hater and a loser. Desperate for applause and enthusiastic about abusing executive power, he is driven by narcissism and need. His paranoia and megalomania is typical in foreign authoritarian leaders, yet Trump is a native archetype: he is the conman, the showman, the “Confidence Man” of Herman Melville, the President Stillson of Stephen King’s The Dead Zone.
Unlike his products, Trump is made in America, and we have dealt with his kind before. His bigotry, incompetence and intolerance were of the sort that better Americans, like the future president Lincoln, saw as a domestic threat. But never has such an execrable individual been given such power in our government, and never a president been surrounded by so many who view America as little more than a playground for punishment and plunder. With this marauding manifestation of America’s deep-seated will-to-white-male power—steeped so deeply in the uglier American canons of self-assertion, exploitation, and plunder—our “progress in degeneracy,” centuries in the making, may have reached its peak.
It’s Already Happened Here
Trump is a familiar figure, a manifestation of deep-seated will-to-white-male power
...as Lincoln’s letter reminds us, this has always been America. We have always vacillated between lofty precepts on paper and the refusal of white men to apply them in practice. This refusal has resulted in slavery of African Americans, genocide against Native Americans, internment camps for ethnic minorities. It has also systematically denied most of the population the right to vote over most of our history, rationalized discrimination against and banning of immigrants on racial and ethnic lines, and shored up segregation and Jim Crow. Today, this same white male authoritarian outlook fuels a prison and police system that disproportionately targets non-white citizens.
At the center of all this executive-assured destruction, there is Trump, both a hater and a loser. Desperate for applause and enthusiastic about abusing executive power, he is driven by narcissism and need. His paranoia and megalomania is typical in foreign authoritarian leaders, yet Trump is a native archetype: he is the conman, the showman, the “Confidence Man” of Herman Melville, the President Stillson of Stephen King’s The Dead Zone.
Unlike his products, Trump is made in America, and we have dealt with his kind before. His bigotry, incompetence and intolerance were of the sort that better Americans, like the future president Lincoln, saw as a domestic threat. But never has such an execrable individual been given such power in our government, and never a president been surrounded by so many who view America as little more than a playground for punishment and plunder. With this marauding manifestation of America’s deep-seated will-to-white-male power—steeped so deeply in the uglier American canons of self-assertion, exploitation, and plunder—our “progress in degeneracy,” centuries in the making, may have reached its peak.
Yuwipi Woman
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Lots of good video lately. Here's Betsy Devos being blocked by protesters:
Betsy DeVos Tries To Enter Public School, Gets Blocked By Protesters | The Huffington Post
I don't see any reason to make life easier for oligarchs.
Betsy DeVos Tries To Enter Public School, Gets Blocked By Protesters | The Huffington Post
I don't see any reason to make life easier for oligarchs.
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gosub
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Thanks for Brit-splaining American history to me
Obviously, had they poured the milk into Boston Harbour first, we would have razed America to the ground.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
What gets me is that there were like five of them, not even physically stopping her team, and she still immediately ran off looking really rattled. She could easily have got in. They seem really unable to deal with even mild protest.
CRI
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CRI
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And
FBI terrorism taskforce investigating Standing Rock activists
FBI representatives have contacted several ‘water protectors’, raising alarm that an indigenous-led movement is being construed as domestic terrorism
FBI terrorism taskforce investigating Standing Rock activists
FBI representatives have contacted several ‘water protectors’, raising alarm that an indigenous-led movement is being construed as domestic terrorism
J Ed
Follow Back Pro Expropriation
She probably hasn't dealt with too many people disagreeing with her to her face before in her life.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
True, she's not even got a background in the political system boosted by money - she just flat out bought that position. Disagreement must be quite a shock there.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
If you think this is shit you'll be all out of words when he really gets going
CRI
Registered Chooser
I can recycle the word "shit," or perhaps try "shit to the power of 3" or something.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
For how long did you find it not boring, listening to a derelict swear?
petee
no gods, no malarkey
we're sorry
Sirena
Don't monkey with the buzzsaw
On a positive note, Netanyahu promises to kill himself.
Netanyahu threatens to 'kill himself' in order to stop Iran deal
teqniq
DisMembered
Drama queen.On a positive note, Netanyahu promises to kill himself.
Netanyahu threatens to 'kill himself' in order to stop Iran deal
Tankus
Amused OAP
Probably claim that she was under sniper fire....
Raheem
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On a positive note, Netanyahu promises to kill himself.
Netanyahu threatens to 'kill himself' in order to stop Iran deal
They'll probably find this tempting as an opening offer, though. He could teach David Davies a thing or two.
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