oldmanjay

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by oldmanjay 10y ago
Most of the very wealthy people I've met work very hard indeed, yet they are not considered to be "working folk". Why be antagonistic toward powerful people in the core jargon of the party plank? Would honesty of language, or
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
No, you should be tolerant of people. You should also endeavor to note the distinction between saying something and doing something, because it's not even subtle and insisting it doesn't exist, for example by labeling a joke &quot
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
Do you know because you know Thiel or do you know because you're a Jedi and you searched your feelings?
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
It's a huge complaint when it confronts people who didn't learn how the system works in civics class, I guess, but it's been the way that presidential voting has worked since before we were all born, so the outcry is sort of
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
OP et al assert a particular motivation of a general population, which is hardly not generalizing.
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
Not that I'm expecting a response, but I'm curious; were you going to assert that it is impossible to be bigoted about a white male?
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
Hmm. This isn't twitter, and I quoted my entire post. What, exactly, are you on about? Edit: ah wait I see, you think I'm trying to karma bump my sentiment, but to what end? It's parented under the flagged version of itself a
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
Ahh, now if I were a man who liked reading into things people say, I'd go with inferring that you believe I am a trump supporter. You are incorrect if that is the case. Now, on to the point. I'm dead curious. Here are my words: &
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
My point is that you inferred a question that was not asked implicitly or otherwise, not that I needed a definition of implicit. I did not talk past you. I simply deny your arrogant assumption upon which you base your understanding of me. Y
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
Okay, let's stipulate that the notion of "white privilege" is real. The shattered people who voted for Trump, who spend their lives being called "white trash" by "coastal elites," are clamoring for a share
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
That's pretty much how I've lived the past year. Even close friends would descend into personal attacks they knew were completely incorrect in their zeal to deny that trump was a force they didn't understand.
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
I didn't use the word "prejudice" at all, in fact, so technically this is correct. You're still wrong about the word "bigotry" though.
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
Your lack of imagination is not a compelling explanation of the political motivations of millions of people you want to pretend don't count
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
Oh? What definition are you using? The one I just checked in the dictionary agrees with me.
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
Let's take that long hard look. What aspects of a woman I never met should be more important to me than things that are in my life, and for bonus virtue signaling, why?
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
My post did not ask the question. I don't care one whit about your feelings for my mother, because you don't know her at all. You don't even know if she's alive or if I even know her. You are simply virtue signaling. For
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
Yeah if we just spin things the right way that'll fix...something.
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
Lotteries are picked randomly. Elections are chosen deliberately. It was not a toss of the dice that gave the win to trump, so any poll that did not predict him as the winner is by definition wrong. Or to question your logic another way, wh
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
It's understandable that people would like everything to be connotation managed so their sensibilities are never offended, but it's also a very valuable skill to be able to turn off the ability to be offended and just try to compr
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
As there is no Trump cabinet as yet, this would only be something one should do if one were prejudging, i.e. engaging in bigotry. How poetic!
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
The revolution came about first, but the United States government was enacted by a vote of the second continental congress, formed of delegates from the thirteen colonies. What I'm getting at is that the rulers of the new government vo
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
Literally every presidential victory is delivered by the electoral college, as has been required by the US Constitution since long before Donald Trump was a dirty thought. What is to discuss? For that matter, what is being obfuscated?
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
I expect this all ends in revolution of some sort. Our technological advances have far outpaced our government structures, so it's feeling like time to redo things.
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
I just scrolled around randomly and one of the moments is a group of young black men kicking an old white man [0]. I'm not sure what the message is here but it seems likely that the collators are playing fast and loose to pile the evid
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
What luck that his publicly well-reasoned move supporting trump played out as he detailed, the dumb asshole.
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
Take a look sometime at the executive compensation that Obama's "smaller steps" provided for the insurance industry. They're definitely not lobbying against Obamacare.
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
I have no intense desire. I'm simply bored on the internet and long ago accepted that trump had the election in hand. I also have no obligation to detail to you which arguments I challenge. Sorry.
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
I'm not going to say it's good that people have xenophobic interactions but not liking immigrants is and has been legal for some time I personally prefer to let the people with the ugly opinions have their say so I know who they a
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
Who do you think voted to start the US government?
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by oldmanjay 10y ago
Are you trying to equate my distaste for your reasoning with sexual assault? This makes me assume that you're trolling, but I can't imagine to what end.

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