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by sure_about_that 4y ago
Yes, the Epoch Times is an invalid “news” source. == You are parroting talking points you see on social media without exploring the topics any further. Funny thing is I bet we follow a lot of the same left leaning people on twitter but the
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
== Right. I've been there in the business practices but I've never been a type-A black man trying to succeed against all odds in a racist nation. == This is exhausting. In your mind, one 75-year-old black man can speak for all of
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
== Lookup "Keffals" and "Hoogland transgender".== 2 Canadian cases that have nothing to do with American laws. == If you're using something as a lead-in to a forbidden topic for your class's age range, it would
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
But they didn’t only give loans to business who were shut down. That’s the point. You claimed businesses got loans because the government forced them to close. I am saying that plenty of business that didn’t close (and saw record demand) so
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
Re-read your quote, those weren’t Justice Thomas’s words. They are the words of a New Yorker writer. It’s not his quote. Also, DEI is not only about black people. Affirmative Action is not the same as DEI. == By that rule everything such as
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
No examples from Florida, the state being discussed. The two "articles" you did provide are sourced from the same author at the same publication "The National Desk" (owned by Sinclair Broadcasting). One the sources they
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
==Essentially the people that cry racism the most are generally the racists feeling like they have to white knight for the poor oppressed minorities. The worst part is that they just cant see it, most openly racist people can at least ackno
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
==Even you talk about it as if it does.== No I did not. I echoed OP's comments and tried to follow their reasoning. =="For [Justice Thomas], white benevolence denies black people the pride of achievement.....= How is this related
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
==Democrats nicknamed it the "don't say gay" bill but that isn't its name, its goal, or its outcome.== The actual bill language sure makes it seems like the goal, as it was written with ambiguous phrases like "age-a
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
==I didn't have the feeling that it wanted me to "sit in my shame", it legitimately said it on a slide.== Did you feel shame? If I was told that, and didn't feel shame, not sure I would have dwelled on it so much. You do
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
==covering employment costs due to lower demand, and to cover costs due to being shut down.== Except that there wasn't lower demand across the whole economy, only very specific industries. Most businesses were not shut down. Lots of bu
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
==California still has all the same issues.== We weren't talking about California, the topic was Florida. That said, California's Governor is trying to solve those issues through policy, Florida's Governor is focused on being
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
I think DeSantis is the one engaging in social engineering, you just happen to agree with his policies. He is simply leaning into the culture wars which leads us to continued division without any actual solutions for the very real problems
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
== The government shut down businesses so it makes sense to compensate them.== Not all loans went to businesses that were forced to shut down.
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
My kids are also Jewish, from my wife’s side. It is interesting to hear the comments of people when they have no idea. Voting for split representation is a perfectly reasonable approach. I personally think DeSantis is pro-power, not pro-fre
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
You asked why there was an eighth principle and that is because it was adopted by credit unions [1]. It doesn’t only apply to black people. So you haven’t actually asked a black person if they are offended by it. It is in fact you who are o
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
==I have to think its tiresome from their point of view to constantly be reminded that white people see them as other.== It’s interesting how you read DEI and immediately think it only applies to black people. Have you actually asked a blac
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
== I still can’t believe we spent $7T on the global war on terror and no one is asking questions.== Everyone who asked before we started that “war” was called a traitor.
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
I’m fascinated by how different people define being “free”. From my perspective legal sports betting, legal medical and recreational marijuana, not banning books, not dictating what teachers can/can’t teach, freedom to protest without
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
== You could say that the lowest common denominator of both of these methods is that, in both of them, there is an equation== You certainly could say that, but you have no idea how the variables will react. That sets people up for disappoin
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
Does this include the people who got paid out and went on to build new software companies?
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
Dallas and Houston are almost as big (with worse crime rates) and barely make the news. They are also in a Republican state, so Fox News, talk radio, and the like don’t focus on their issues. It’s political. They don’t actually care about c
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
Same things happening in Republican-led cities, but doesn’t get the national headlines for some reason. Miami, FL: https://www.local10.com/news/florida/2022/09/14/watch-allege... Oklahoma City, OK:
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
As someone who lives in Chicago, it’s odd how obsessed other people are with my city and it’s crime, politics, etc. Don’t see the same interest in other cities.
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
== Those numbers are so horrendous that you'd be better off going to a bar and hitting on every single woman. You could get shot down 50 times in a row, yet as long as you want to 3 bars in a week w/at least 20 approachable women
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
Not sure how you have privacy concerns in metros that large, but I’d be interested to hear what the people in your new metro area say about your old metro area. Either way, you still moved to a city, so the local politics aren’t likely all
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
== Funnily enough, I left a comparable (to Boston, in incomes, house prices, political attitudes, etc.) metro for a smaller city in a stereotypical "red state", which the residents of my former city are fond of describing as a thi
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by sure_about_that 4y ago
==I would bet this deduction does not benefit anyone who is struggling to decide between renting or buying.== I can tell you from personal experience that you are wrong.