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5961  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Trump Threatens To Keep Government Closed "For Months Or years" on: January 06, 2019, 01:38:14 PM
I think one side will cave before the end of February once federal employees really stop receiving paychecks and people don't receive their anticipated tax refunds. Probably Trump will be the one to cave (likely accepting the original $1.6 billion and calling it a win), since polling shows that most people attribute the shutdown to him. If Trump can resist the crushing political pressure for several months, Democrats might eventually give in, but the whole event could provide them with effective political ammunition against Trump even as far into the future as 2020.

I like the shutdown because it makes people think, "The government has been (partially) shut down for a long time, but the sky hasn't fallen. Maybe we can shrink government permanently." So I hope it stays shut down as long as possible.

There's also the much more meaningful debt ceiling deadline in March which Trump could try blocking, if the dispute lasts that long.

That is the brilliance of Trumps strategy I find is repeated over and over again, and it is easy to miss if you don't look close. You said people attribute the shutdown to him, and it could be ammo against him in the future. You also said you liked the idea of people seeing the world doesn't end just because the government is shut down, because as you pointed out it conditions people to the concept that the world doesn't burst into flames if we don't have mommy and daddy government everywhere. If the dems want to use this as ammo against him, they are going to have to consistently remind people of how they don't need all the excessive entitlement programs they are trying to push Wink

In effect they have to undermine their own narrative to take that specific hit on him.  It reminds me of the time the NY police went on strike a few years back, responding only to serious emergencies, and literally nothing eventful happened and crime actually dropped. They basically just made a case that most of them aren't even needed xD
5962  Other / Politics & Society / Re: MMT: The US government does NOT have to add taxes to add spending on: January 06, 2019, 01:25:48 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABEM2r2QR_0

So many people operate off of an understanding of how gold-standard currency works but MMT is about fiat. There are several videos of well-established economists and economics professors discussing this but I chose this video as it is more concise.

Tecshare, I hope you will come to understand MMT.


I have said it before and I will say it again.

YOU DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT ECONOMICS


Stop pretending like you do. You are taking your incomplete and superficial knowledge of economics and selectively hearing only what you like about what these people are saying while totally ignoring much larger macro economic issues. These people are making the point that credit of some kind is necessary, and I agree. What they are NOT SAYING is that we can just print limitless amounts of money without serious consequence, which seems to be your mantra.
5963  Other / Politics & Society / Re: NPR's Border Fact Check on: January 06, 2019, 12:40:06 AM


and i know you are thinking that more security=less migrants even if it doesn't stop all of them.


No you don't know what I am thinking. You don't even know what you are thinking most of the time, you just open your mouth and tilt your head and let the bullshit drip out of your mouth because you think it sells your ideology.


"welfare spending is an investment with vast asset returns"

HAHAHA I would LOOOOVE to see you try to find the math on that one.


"only goes toward more danger and death"

What the fuck are you even talking about? Any danger faced is SELF IMPOSED. Once it is known the wall is there LESS PEOPLE WILL ATTEMPT THE JOURNEY. If anything the wall being there will fucking SAVE LIVES by your ass backward logic. Its like me breaking into your house and tripping over a crate you left by the door and crying and saying you should pay my hospital bill. I should have never been there to begin with therefore the injury is 100% self imposed.

Also fuck you for insinuating the only possible motivation I could have is being racist and wanting to harm people you self righteous Postmodernist piece of shit. YOU DON'T KNOW A GOD DAMNED THING ABOUT ME, who I am or my racial make up. Even if you did it would not be indicative of anything but your own bigotry.

So I told you what you are thinking then in bold you tell me I don't know what you are thinking then immediately repeat what I told you you were thinking in the first place.  Instead of derailing, I'll move on and pretend you didn't just do that.  

Its not self imposed danger because they did not choose to be born into a dangerous place.  I guess you could see it that way if you view these events in a vacuum but the result is they are simply coming here to escape even greater dangers.  The desert with a wall will still be a lesser danger than what they are escaping.  The risk will still be worth the reward.  Unless you want to address the motivating factors, people will always flow away from danger towards safety.  I'd respect it if you wanted to devote a lot of attention and resources to reducing the motivating factors but you don't.   If people choose to stay home and die to that violence as opposed to violence caused by the US in the US, those aren't lives saved.  The only lives saved are the refugees who are granted asylum and go on to live awesome lives in the US.  

I know some things about you based on your posts on this board.  I know a lot about your motivations and the way you view the world and those in it.  I know your motivations aren't race based but they are for a lot of people who share you view.  You have made your motivations clear on this issue.  Your motivations are bottom line oriented and grounded in the fear that poor people coming here will make your life more difficult.  You are worried that you will have to pay for their services or that the services you rely on will crumble under the pressure of added people . You don't care about their race.  In fact, you've made it clear that you want people of all races to come here jsut as long as they are wealthy or talented so that they can contribute to your quality of life.  

Its not clear but I am confident that you are a colorblind individual.  You don't care more about poor white people than poor people of color.  You think its all of their own faults that make them poor.  A true capitalist cannot be actively racist because that is not good for the bottom line.


You don't even bother attempting reading comprehension do you? You are either duplicitous or exceptionally ignorant, and your sophist tactics largely make me suspect you are disingenuous and find lying a justifiable means to an end. You aren't even attempting to comprehend my words, you simply project what you already choose to believe upon whatever I say, regardless of its logical validity. I say less people will attempt the journey, you see "GOOD MORE DEAD MEXICANS, LESS TO CROSS!", I was saying a wall is a deterrent to even attempt, making the risk of the journey not a factor.

That point made you then shift the goal post to the dangers of existing in their home nations, as if the USA is the mommy and daddy of the world, and we are responsible for their well being. It has nothing to do with who's fault it is that they are poor, it is simply NOT OUR RESPONSIBILITY as a nation. If you privately want to fund immigrants coming here legally with your own money, you go for it. You don't get to mandate the forced collection of funds at gunpoint to fund your narcissism.

If you really believed any of what you just said you would never have bought up any of that racism bullshit. This was nothing but a pathetic, desperate, and shameful attempt to try to smear me by insinuation and association. Just another demonstration how little regard you hold for minorities, you see calling racism as a means to an end of your own, not a means to deter bigotry.

If you knew a damned thing about economics you would know that uncontrolled migration combined with large welfare programs is a GUARANTEED recipe for financial collapse. It is not even a debate, it is a mathematical fact. This is not just my personal quality of life, it is EVERYONE'S here, including yours. Furthermore "quality of life" makes it sound like I will get one less fast food hamburger a month as a sacrifice. No, this is societal collapse, 3rd world dumpster fire quality of life drop. All so you and your narcissistic commie pals can stand around and jerk each other off over how humanitarian and morally superior you are.

FUCK YOU



Notice how this guy's "solution" involved hiring lots of social workers?

I am beginning to think this guy is looking for the final solution.

5964  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Athiest are the ultimate free thinker? on: January 06, 2019, 12:14:07 AM
There is an inherent flaw in atheism that most people don't seem to realize. Personally I have more respect for Agnostics. At least they admit that they don't know. Atheism is just yet another iteration of a religion. Atheism is the BELIEF that there is no God. There is no proof of the existence or nonexistence of a deity. People choose to believe one over the other, but it is just yet another system of beliefs.

Atheists exhibit a lot of the same patterns found in other religions. They thing their beliefs are the best and everyone else is wrong. They proselytize. They fund-raise. They gather in groups to discuss and spread their beliefs. Their priests are "scientists", and their God is the government.

Atheism is a lack of belief that there is a God.

It is not the same as a belief that there is no God.

Apple and oranges. 

PS. Most atheists are not making claims.  Although, some, myself included, are convinced that there is no God due to the lack of any physical evidence.

Yes, Atheism by its definition makes the claim that there is no God. This is a belief based on JUST AS MUCH empirical data on the belief that there is a God, that being no empirical data. It is not apples and oranges it is oranges and oranges.
5965  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Athiest are the ultimate free thinker? on: January 05, 2019, 05:04:57 PM
There is an inherent flaw in atheism that most people don't seem to realize. Personally I have more respect for Agnostics. At least they admit that they don't know. Atheism is just yet another iteration of a religion. Atheism is the BELIEF that there is no God. There is no proof of the existence or nonexistence of a deity. People choose to believe one over the other, but it is just yet another system of beliefs.

Atheists exhibit a lot of the same patterns found in other religions. They think their beliefs are the best and everyone else is wrong. They proselytize. They fund-raise. They gather in groups to discuss and spread their beliefs. Their priests are "scientists", and their God is the government.
5966  Other / Politics & Society / Re: NPR's Border Fact Check on: January 05, 2019, 02:46:25 PM
but even with that point, the barriers do not stop them from getting in.  We have them now and we will have them with a border wall.  The money spent on barriers, security, walls and enforcement only goes towards more danger and deaths so why bother when we have the immigration anyway.  Seems like a waste unless you don't mind the death.  What better way to try and discourage people from coming than a real threat of death on the way?

and i know you are thinking that more security=less migrants even if it doesn't stop all of them but that also corresponds to more spending.  So was the goal of keeping them out truly a financial one?  Perhaps the goal was simply to slow the dilution of our whiteness after all.

less security spending
more migrants
more welfare spending

or

more security spending
less migrants
less welfare spending
more deaths

Seems like an easy choice unless you are completely immoral and don't see the deaths as a factor.  Not to mention welfare spending is an investment with vast asset returns while security spending is a dead end liability.


No you don't know what I am thinking. You don't even know what you are thinking most of the time, you just open your mouth and tilt your head and let the bullshit drip out of your mouth because you think it sells your ideology.


"welfare spending is an investment with vast asset returns"

HAHAHA I would LOOOOVE to see you try to find the math on that one.


"only goes toward more danger and death"

What the fuck are you even talking about? Any danger faced is SELF IMPOSED. Once it is known the wall is there LESS PEOPLE WILL ATTEMPT THE JOURNEY. If anything the wall being there will fucking SAVE LIVES by your ass backward logic. Its like me breaking into your house and tripping over a crate you left by the door and crying and saying you should pay my hospital bill. I should have never been there to begin with therefore the injury is 100% self imposed.

Also fuck you for insinuating the only possible motivation I could have is being racist and wanting to harm people you self righteous Postmodernist piece of shit. YOU DON'T KNOW A GOD DAMNED THING ABOUT ME, who I am or my racial make up. Even if you did it would not be indicative of anything but your own bigotry.

In fact I argue that you yourself are the racist. Not only are you racist against white people, but you don't give a fuck about minorities either. To you, they are just poor inferior people you get satisfaction from LARPING as if you are helping them, giving you a sense of superiority while you use them as a shield from criticism of your own actions and ideologies. To you they are just convenient tools and pawns to accomplish your goals. They are used and disposed of once they are no longer needed.

This is a pattern of behavior that is endemic to the left and the Democrats have a long and storied history of racist policy that is WELL DOCUMENTED.  You simply run around accusing others of racism as a mask to shield yourself from this justified criticism. You are little more than a naive self righteous child who thinks they know the best way to run the world, and anyone who disagrees must just be an evil Nazi bigot. I reiterate, go fuck yourself.





5967  Other / Politics & Society / Re: A world without borders? on: January 05, 2019, 02:24:35 PM
The point is that in addition to not needing to be citizens to soak up resources, people, especially rich people, do not even need to set foot into a country to soak up resources.  We have soaked up resources from the global south for all of our lives.  That is why conditions are so bad in the first place.  Its not just the obvious resources either.   No one ever sends their coffee grinds or banana peel compost back to the soil where it came from.  

That's called trade. Welcome to the concept. What you are advocating for is confiscation of resources by force and redistribution to others. Additionally the industrialized world is not responsible for holding down every fucking underdeveloped nation, and your assertion to that effect is asinine.
5968  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Nigeria’s presidential Candidate Promises Cryptocurrency Regulation if elected on: January 05, 2019, 02:22:12 PM
Seeing a 3rd world nation try to regulate cryptocurrency is going to be hilarious.
5969  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Shoot The Shit About American Politics on: January 05, 2019, 02:21:08 PM
I have to say watching Kirsten Sinema being sworn in to the senate by Pence was so fucking awesome.

Watching a homophobic evangelical being forced to swear in a bisexual atheist using a law book instead of a bible was so fucking awesome LOL.

Meuller got a 6 month extension for his grand jury!

White Shrek is going to get hauled up to the hill.

Republicans are going ape shit over Tlaib's use of the word motherfucker LOL.  They don't seem to care when Trump uses the word motherfucker though.  The hypocrisy in the GOP and their base is absolutely hilarious!



I'm sure all that evidence of collusion you swear exists will drop any day now. No one gives a shit about her use of expletives, they give a shit about her blatant disregard for the office and government she was just elected to serve. You go ahead and keep believing the right are the puritans while the left are the ones trying to tell people what words are acceptable, who is allowed an opinion, and sit around reassuring each other of their moral superiority all day.
5970  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 9-11 documents to be released by thedarkoverlord hackers on: January 05, 2019, 04:09:13 AM
What have they actually released so far? Some info from insurance companies could be anything as there will have been hundreds if not thousands of lawsuits relating to or regarding 9/11 for all kind of things involving it. Sounds like bullshit to try squeeze some money out of 9/11 "truthers" to me. Looking at their twitter they're even trying to extort money out of some z-list celebrities I've never heard of as well.

Some have suggested it is an intelligence op of some kind already. I suppose time will tell.
5971  Other / Politics & Society / Re: A world without borders? on: January 05, 2019, 04:07:21 AM
Do you not soak up any of the resources outside of the USA borders?

Let me know when you have a point.
5972  Other / Politics & Society / Re: NPR's Border Fact Check on: January 05, 2019, 04:05:12 AM
Wasn't it you that said this happened so long ago so what is the point in even trying when native culture cannot be further displaced at this point?  It would be nearly impossible to restore native cultural values.  

What the fuck are you talking about?
Native American culture and values are already gone and cannot be "preserved" by keeping poor immigrants out after hundreds of years of letting them in.  Its a strange reach argument coming from someone who doesn't even support native American reparations.  



Again, you pretend you have some kind of moral high ground while you convince these poorly educated people all they need to do is get across that desert and the land of milk, honey, and free government resources awaits just on the other side. Why would you consider that from your position of moral superiority? Why consider all the children that are dangerously used as tickets for entry into this country to exploit polices people like you supported. Why consider that many of them are raped and sold into sex slavery after they are done being used as a free pass across the border? Nope, you are morally superior, and that is all some one else's fault.

A wall creates more danger? A wall is an inanimate stack of steel and concrete... but ok. I am sure you will give me some extremely arbitrary highly extrapolated Postmodernist "logic" to explain how a wall makes things MORE dangerous. The bill for "services you don't know who would foot the bill for?" WHAT? I know who will foot the bill. American citizens. Your lunatic collectivization of debt as if that makes it not exist any more is indicative of your overall naivete and ignorance of reality and endless obsession over what you call "morals" to the exclusion of reality itself. Realities like the reality we still have to pay that bill even if its spread out among us.
It is moral high ground because I am not placing a few extra spending money over these peoples' fucking lives. People use children as tickets? I wonder why?  Could it be because of a policy making it easier for those with children to get here?  Its almost as if my idea of caring for all human life and not just "innocent children" would solve it.

If I am wandering through the desert and there is a wall across my path out of the desert, causing me to walk parallel through the desert for a longer period of time, my exposure and thus danger is increased.  The wall would make it easier for CBP to catch people on the Mexican side.  The more difficult it becomes to get here, the more money people will give to criminals to smuggle them in. The wall will be great business for tunnel building cartels and smuggling coyotes. This will exacerbate all of the border problems you have spoken of.  

Building a wall makes it more difficult for people to get here but if you think it solves any other problems at the border then you ARE simple.  



Yeah, cool story Captain Postmodern. Very creative how you shoehorned in native Americans even though we both know that wasn't what I was referring too. Whatever allows you to jam in some more victim culture right?

The problem is not uncontrolled immigration, no of course not. The problem is these darned barriers to criminal entry preventing them from illegally leaching off of our welfare systems. That is the true crime! Anyone who disagrees is a nazi that wants to dehydrate children to death.
5973  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 9-11 documents to be released by thedarkoverlord hackers on: January 04, 2019, 04:25:42 PM




I would love to read some of those documents  Shocked  If it's true those Companies will pay big to keep them out of the publics eye.

I'll be watching this thread for developments.

See for yourself: https://steemit.com/@thedarkoverlord

https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=54063

"Hello, world. As you're well-aware, we designed a compensation plan that would allow for the public crowd-funding of our organisation in order to permit the public disclosure of our "9/11 Papers" in the interest of the public. Part of this plan was to create a tiered escalation plan that would result in multiple layers and milestones (which we're calling checkpoints) to ensure the powers at be are being properly bent over a barrel. We've said it before, and we'll say it again: we're financially motivated, and you (the public) has spoken to us in our language (internet money, specifically Bitcoin)."
5974  Other / Politics & Society / Re: A world without borders? on: January 04, 2019, 04:20:25 PM
The world never had borders to begin with.  Its just a construct applied to oppress the poor.  I have been all over the world and no one has ever turned me away at a border.  Crossing a border has never even been something that caused me trouble.  It wasn't designed to be applied to us with privilege.

I think you are confusing tourism with immigration.
I think you are.  You seem to be under the impression that with open borders, anyone who crosses our border into our country will become a citizen.  People simply being here isn't immigration.  We can have open borders and procedural immigration.  It works quite well actually. 

The key difference is that open tourism means that only the wealthy are able to travel freely and the poor cannot even do so.  Half of all undocumented immigrants arrived on legal visas and simply overstayed them.  A border wall would be irrelevant for that.

I don't think so Captain postmodern. People don't need to be citizens to suck up resources, change the culture, commit crimes, and vote illegally. Also tourists have passports and visas if required, and if they overstay they are deported. Just because people abuse that system doesn't justify allowing abuse elsewhere. Also I would ask you to source your claim but I know it doesn't exist.
5975  Other / Politics & Society / Re: NPR's Border Fact Check on: January 04, 2019, 10:22:14 AM
Wasn't it you that said this happened so long ago so what is the point in even trying when native culture cannot be further displaced at this point?  It would be nearly impossible to restore native cultural values.  

What the fuck are you talking about?


I'm saying that our policies and strict border enforcement is the main driving force of death.  If we didn't have such strict policies, these people wouldn't have to take risky paths through the desert because they would just come straight in through less secluded areas.   Having to do so much dodging, hiding, and sneaking is the dangerous behavior.   I blame it on border patrol, because if they weren't doing their job, the people wouldn't have to be out in the desert for so long in the first place.  

I am not arguing for illegal immigration or anything extreme. I am arguing that we allow them enter the country legally and seek asylum after entry. That is orderly and common international law.  Of course this is based on my feelings.  This is a human problem and anyone who tries to detach it from morals is not an ethical thinker.  That doesn't mean it isn't based on facts as well.  What facts am I missing?

We could remove the danger and save money by reducing the amount of force we present at the border.  Instead of putting 5 billion towards a wall, which will only make the situation more dangerous, we could put that money (and a lot of the money currently being used to make it dangerous) into those services you don't know who would foot the bill for.  The money is there, its just a matter of if we want to spend it saving lives or spend it putting lives in danger.  

I love how you always talk to me as if I am too simple to understand your ideas. I have to break it to you, they aren't that complicated to comprehend, they are just naive and counterproductive to even your own stated goals. Let me sum it up...

THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO BE HERE

All the Postmodernist rationalization about the philosophical nature of who has a right to be here does not mean shit. The rest of us live in reality. The reality where we have to pay for every moronic idea that you crap out of your tiny skull, based not on logic, but on what makes you feel the most warm and fuzzy inside.

You don't give a fuck about the hell on Earth your retarded policies will create, you don't give a fuck about immigrants, you don't give a fuck about ANYONE or anything but satiating your narcissistic need to make your pathetic little empty life feel more full by pretending you are morally superior and preaching to people things that seem so simple, good, warm, and fuzzy, but in reality are a fucking nightmare. None of that matters though, what matters is you feel like you are the hero fighting the evil Nazi ICE.

You don't even know what you are arguing for, and most of the time no one else does either. You  know why? You constantly change the definitions of words to fit your very narrow and naive viewpoint. I don't care if you claim to oppose illegal immigration (we all know you are full of shit on this based on past statements), creating a rubber stamp process that just lets immigrants flood in anyway is equally unacceptable.

Again, you pretend you have some kind of moral high ground while you convince these poorly educated people all they need to do is get across that desert and the land of milk, honey, and free government resources awaits just on the other side. Why would you consider that from your position of moral superiority? Why consider all the children that are dangerously used as tickets for entry into this country to exploit polices people like you supported. Why consider that many of them are raped and sold into sex slavery after they are done being used as a free pass across the border? Nope, you are morally superior, and that is all some one else's fault.

A wall creates more danger? A wall is an inanimate stack of steel and concrete... but ok. I am sure you will give me some extremely arbitrary highly extrapolated Postmodernist "logic" to explain how a wall makes things MORE dangerous. The bill for "services you don't know who would foot the bill for?" WHAT? I know who will foot the bill. American citizens. Your lunatic collectivization of debt as if that makes it not exist any more is indicative of your overall naivete and ignorance of reality and endless obsession over what you call "morals" to the exclusion of reality itself. Realities like the reality we still have to pay that bill even if its spread out among us.
5976  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Some are more equal than others... on: January 03, 2019, 05:02:30 PM
@TECHSHARE even if you didn't use the word all, you did generalise at some point and the right wing along with the media keeps violating their presumtion of innocence. I did say it in the designated thread as well by the way.

There are many countries where women are way better off than in the US. Skandinavian countires are just one obvious example.

* Women work fewer hours, shorter shifts, less dangerous jobs, and take lots of time off because they are socially conditioned to do it. They are brought up to be primarily nurturing and do this to care for their families. If men did their fair share in this, women would work more hours, longer shifts, more dangerous jobs and take less time off. Millions of women do it, those that have been brought up in an egalitarian environment. It is a live social experiment that has proven this millions of times, yet conservative societis such as US keep failing to correct this.

a) Women actually DO commit much less crime because they are socially conditined to follow the rules. Bad boys are encouraged, bad girls get grief.

b) Social prejudice states men are mentally and psychologically stronger than women, therefore don't need any help and get ridiculed to ask for it. But good morning, this is not a feminist view or consequence of it, it is a consequence of patriarchy.

c) Men more likely to die because of dangerous jobs see *

d) Girls are brought up to be "good" - therefore they go to college. Feminists didn't do this.

e) I am all for men sharing equal responsibilities in child care, thus they should equaly get custody of children. Yet again, feminists are not to blame that women are seen as the caregivers and not men (let me guess: But, but...nature! No no - see the social experiment thing)

f) If society sees women as weak, they don't do military service. It would be good for women if they were required to do it. See Israel as example. Also Kurd women are particulary bad ass in military.

g) Homless men see b)

h) Workplace fatalities see *

i) for all these reasons and other affirmative action is sadly still neccessary


You did make a designated thread for it.

MRA groups have been trying to enforce your view for a while, but majority of reasonable and ethical people see that feminist movement is ethical and striving for equality.

They aren't innocent, they are criminals by definition. Now stop using this as an opportunity to get in a quick easy jab because you know I want to stay on topic and that is not on topic regardless of how you rationalize it. Take it to the thread about immigration.

*So women are free and independent but also poor brainwashed victims with no agency of their own at the same time now? Your claim they are conditioned to do so is categorically false, ironically as proven by Scandinavian countries. They have introduced programs there specifically aimed at creating more gender equality in the workplace, and you know what happened? When given more choice women and men SEGREGATED EVEN MORE. This is not about conditioning or brainwashing, this is about a choice. Women tend to choose people focused jobs and men tend to choose thing focused jobs by their nature. It just so happens most of the socially oriented jobs aren't as in demand, and are paid less. This is along with the facts that men work more dangerous jobs, longer hours, take less time off, etc.

You have ZERO evidence to support your claim these differences are the result of social conditioning of women. Furthermore your claim of women being equal while simultaneously painting them as victims with no agency in the presence of the big bad patriarchy is quite contradictory.


The Gender Equality Paradox: https://www.youtube.com/embed/tiJVJ5QRRUE

https://bigthink.com/philip-perry/the-downside-to-greater-gender-equality-fewer-girls-go-after-stem-degrees

https://www.thejournal.ie/gender-equality-countries-stem-girls-3848156-Feb2018/


A) So your argument is men are 14x more criminal than women? I though we were all equal? Oh right, there is that big bad patriarchy again taking muh agency and conditioning us into our gender roles! No. Again your conclusions are all based on the assumption that women are both simultaneously strong and independent, but have no agency over the evil brainwashing patriarchy. Women get preferential treatment in the courts, ESPECIALLY in the case of family law, but also in general.

-Women were less likely to be detained before trial. They were 46 percent less likely than men to held in jail prior to a trial.

-Women who were released on bond were given lower bond amounts. Their bonds were set at amounts that were 54 percent lower than what men were required to pay.

-Women were 58 percent less likely to be sentenced to prison.

https://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-justice/courts-lenient-sentencing-bond-women


B) Great, so you agree society is prejudiced against men. Your conclusions of how this came to be is laughable though. I love how all of a sudden this discrimination is some how also the fault of men at the same time so you don't have to submit an inch of ground to reality over your precious pet ideology. A large portions of suicides result from after dealing with divorce court BTW, but I am sure it is just that evil patriarchy again hiding in the shadows.


C) And what a privilege it is for men to work those more dangerous and stressful jobs just to have people like you ramble on about wage gaps as if things like this aren't a factor. Also why are they working these dangerous jobs? Oh usually to support a wife an children is it? See where I already busted up your bullshit*


D) Ah yes, again the total removal of agency, and it was just the patriarchy again. I am sure it has nothing to do with limitless women's programs, affirmative action programs, the fact that the educational system is designed around women and girls, the fact that most educators are women, etc. Nope, women are just conditioned to go to school more. That is your answer for literally every issue, it was just conditioning. Funny, it almost seems like you are falling back on a nebulous and ill defined terminology on purpose because you know you have no real and substantive argument.

E) Ah yes, yet again, you admit the discrimination exists, but some how this is once again the fault of the men of the evil shadowy patriarchy. Funny how women just never seem to have any responsibility in these situations isn't it? it is almost like you think men are to blame for every bad thing. Oh sorry, not men, "the patriarchy". I am sure the potential for profit for all these women getting in laws allowing the taking of everything men spent a life time earning, over and over, along with their children, has nothing to do with it. Not a thing. No fault divorce? Nope, patriarchy!

F) Again, as usual your one and only perpetual reply, people are just programmed to think women are weak. First of all, you again don't even refute the fact this is clearly discriminatory against men and then proceed to tell me about your fantasies of women being just as proficient soldiers. Even when you are wrong you are right huh?

G) HAHAHAHA. How fucking lazy are you? Again, you don't even bother making a reply because you know you HAVE NO ARGUMENT.

H) Man, so fucking lazy. Again, what a privilege men have getting to die at a rate 20x greater than women at work. I am sure once again this is the patriarchy right? Silly men giving themselves deadly jobs cause the patriarchy programmed them.

I) If women are the majority in many of these cases, why is affirmative action necessary? just to be clear, you openly support the discrimination against men, simply because of their gender in the workplace? That is what affirmative action is.



Enforce my view? What the fuck are you talking about? I presented facts. You presented fairy tales about the patriarchy which goes around removing all the agency from the strong independent women victims, over and over again. You didn't even ATTEMPT to make an argument, you just threw the same sad old worn out tropes feminists have been beating to death forever. The only one enforcing viewpoints is feminists by systematically deplatforming, mobbing, and harassing anyone who DARES to even have this discussion. Feminism has not been ethical for a long time now, thanks for helping me prove it.

You can keep spreading your lies for a while if you like, but I am telling you the bill is coming due. Either women can start working towards creating equitable policy, or continue to live in this fantasy land where everything is seen thru the lens of feminist theory, and eventually pay a much higher price, and lose many freedoms gained. That is what happens to people who shirk their responsibilities. They lose their freedoms, because freedoms and responsibilities are inexorably linked.

5977  Other / Politics & Society / Re: A world without borders? on: January 03, 2019, 08:20:48 AM
The world never had borders to begin with.  Its just a construct applied to oppress the poor.  I have been all over the world and no one has ever turned me away at a border.  Crossing a border has never even been something that caused me trouble.  It wasn't designed to be applied to us with privilege.

I think you are confusing tourism with immigration.
5978  Other / Politics & Society / Re: NPR's Border Fact Check on: January 03, 2019, 08:19:42 AM
You all gotta remember. If a Hispanic man takes his case to Federal District Court as a man, with the requirement for a jury of his peers, he will get 12 other Hispanics as his jury. How do you think they will vote?

Cool

Frankly if they are integrated into American culture it doesn't matter. However if you let immigrants flood in there is no time for that to happen and the native culture is displaced, and the cultural values are lost, and that does matter.
5979  Other / Politics & Society / Re: NPR's Border Fact Check on: January 02, 2019, 10:52:02 PM
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/migrant-children-detail-experiences-border-patrol-stations-detention-centers_us_5b4d13ffe4b0de86f485ade8
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/un-trump-children-family-torture-separation-border-mexico-border-ice-detention-a8411676.html
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/12/31/migrant-children-pushed-and-dragged-mh-orig.cnn
Also a private system of detaining children for profit is capitalist nonsense to begin with. No ethic.  Just profit.

The hyperbole was saying that they "murdered" the little girl when they didn't literally murder her but essentially murdered her through a system that was intentionally designed to be inadequate.  Systemic racism doesn't target individuals and doesn't even involve an malintended killer at the point of attack.  Its much more complicated than that.

Even from your point of view that they are violating our rights, it should still be considered murder.  If you know someone is breaking into your property, and place a booby trap for them to fall into and die, it would still be murder.  This of course, is more complicated than that but the same logic.  The border patrol and detainment system is the booby trap.  

These children aren't spending a lot of time in the desert and aren't dying in the desert.  They are dying at the US border or in US custody.   Water in the desert would help prepare them so they aren't already dehyrdated before they are taken into a system that will make them go long times without water by design.  Other countries along their path have not had this issue and governments like Mexico have actually blamed the US for deaths. It shouldn't be that Mexico can do it in a more human way than the US.  

We could keep the awful system without murdering people by making simple changes to acknowledge humanity.  

-Immediately provide detainees with bottled water and hydration tablets
-Immediate medical screening for detainees (you should like this one since you're worried about disease)
-Immediate psychological counseling for detainees.
-Only licensed childcare workers working in child detention centers

A system designed WITHOUT proper care is a system designed to kill or torture.  

Except you said:

They made an example out of this innocent child just to send an example to anyone else who might want to bring their kid out of imminent danger.

So the part about them making an example out of her was hyperbole too? You don't just get to say insane shit like this and just walk it back like it didn't happen. This kind of statement is demonstrative of your hysterical and obsessive mindset over this issue where feelings count more than facts.

Those are some cute links. Don't see any torture there though. I see lots of extremists such as yourself claiming it is torture, I don't see any evidence of torture though. I think you just believe anyone who reaffirms your existing belief systems regardless of how nonsensical it is.

Intentionally designed to be inadequate? Inadequate for what? According to what standards? So you saying we aren't meeting the comfort needs of criminals trying to illegally invade our country? We really should step up our customer service shouldn't we? I suppose you are going to foot the bill for this too right?

First of all, bodies are found in the desert by the dozens all the time, yes including children, so they do in fact spend a lot of time in the desert. Second, learn how dehydration works. The damage is caused, then already injured they show up at the border, and morons like you blame it on the border patrol rather than their own dangerous behavior. Medical screening requires people be admitted in a legal an orderly fashion, illegal entry precludes screening by default unless captured. Only licensed childcare workers? LOL, you think that might create shortages for them for everyone else?

Nothing you are presenting is based in reality, and your feelings take precedence over facts you are presented.
5980  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 9-11 documents to be released by thedarkoverlord hackers on: January 02, 2019, 10:36:33 PM
If this is real there is a good chance anyone holding that material ends up dead.

Before or after the hackers get paid? After all, if the hackers have it, they got it from somewhere. Will those people die, too?

Cool

They got it from lawyers. You can't kill some thing that has no soul.
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