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Posted on 2/25/25 at 12:09 pm to 4cubbies
Lyndon B Johnson.... One of the biggest screwers of the black population, more than likely had JFK Killed and was a liberal.
Not sure how anyone could be a liberal at this point.
Not sure how anyone could be a liberal at this point.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 12:10 pm to 4cubbies
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The book was published in 1974,
What book?
Posted on 2/25/25 at 12:12 pm to shinerfan
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The "bread and circuses principle" is actually a lot older than fiat currency.
Maybe so, but fiat money allows larger handouts without the unpleasantness of more direct taxation. Debasing the currency is a less obvious method of financing the cost of those handouts. Even the Romans eventually started diluting the precious metals in their coinage.
This post was edited on 2/25/25 at 12:26 pm
Posted on 2/25/25 at 12:12 pm to 4cubbies
More Marxist bullshite.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 12:13 pm to Grumpy Nemesis
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For the better part of 40 years the Democratic party has existed almost entirely to absolve black people of all responsibility for themselves
No, the Democratic Party PRETENDS like they are looking out for black people but use them to put their old white male politicians into power. At least the Republicans are honest about having no interest in equal rights for women or minorities so the ones who support them do so on their own like Kanye West and Antonio Brown and a bunch of Mexicans whose families have been deported.
I also have to add that Elizabeth Warren pretending she was a Native American is a good example of manipulative Democrat tactics.
This post was edited on 2/25/25 at 12:15 pm
Posted on 2/25/25 at 12:13 pm to 4cubbies
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what are your thoughts on the idea that government handouts are give to placate the masses during periods of civil unrest, then rolled back when political stability is restored? We saw this happen during COVID, after natural disasters, etc.
Yes and no. I believe they are given to placate masses during times of societal upheaval, but that they aren't usually rolled back once the upheaval dies down. They may be curtailed some, but it seems to more often be a case of two steps forward and one step back. The net gain is still one step.
Enough of those steps and we get into the Tytler quote:
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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 12:14 pm to 4cubbies
the movie Claudine 74 illustrates this
even won NAACP awards and Oscar noms
would NEVER be made today
even won NAACP awards and Oscar noms
would NEVER be made today
Posted on 2/25/25 at 12:15 pm to 4cubbies
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Fair, but the dominant culture in the USA is white, so people who share that culture benefit from it because they are seen as either "normal" or "ideal."
You say this knowing that affirmative action, DEI, and racial quotas for employment exist?
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A white guy is more likely to inherit a house or property from his parents because policies weren't enacted to prohibit white people from buying and maintaining homes
What specific policies currently treat white and black home ownership and inheritance differently?
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and maintaining homes in areas that weren't considered slums.
What is the root cause of these "slums"? Once you answer that, then try to figure out why gentrification works to raise housing values in previous slum areas.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 12:15 pm to Froman
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but use them to put their old white male politicians into power.
then how was Nancy Pelosi in power for so long?
Posted on 2/25/25 at 12:17 pm to 4cubbies
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Do you think those policies were put in place to ensure a black lower-class that would have no choice but to work menial jobs for little pay?
I do.
Malcolm X did too.
Of all of the black leaders of that time period, IMO history has validated his take on the situation of black Americans more so than any other figure.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 12:17 pm to VADawg
Posted on 2/25/25 at 12:17 pm to BugAC
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What book?
It's an ethnography of a community in an unnamed affluent midwest city.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 12:19 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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then how was Nancy Pelosi in power for so long?
Good point. Maybe it’s more using the votes of minorities to keep their whites in power that makes more sense. I’m also not unconvinced she doesn’t have a penis.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 12:21 pm to 4cubbies
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Fair, but the dominant culture in the USA is white, so people who share that culture benefit from it because they are seen as either "normal" or "ideal." I don't really understand why anyone would try to deny that
I don't either, but when I have invoked the same idea in the past to argue that black people in America refusing to assimilate into the dominant mainstream culture only serves to keep them down, you seem to have denied it.
Or if not denied, it, there was some reason that didn't make sense to you.
I'm not sure how it wouldn't given what you just posted (which is 100% true).
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A white guy is more likely to inherit a house or property from his parents because policies weren't enacted to prohibit white people from buying and maintaining homes in areas that weren't considered slums.
And redlining is a big reason that I believe the policies were and continue to be deliberate.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 12:22 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
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The only area where I think that white privilege applies, however, is property ownership. A white guy is way more likely to inherit a house or property from their parents. Even if you have to split it several ways with your siblings, it's still can be a nice chunk of money, and property is wealth.
I see your point... but is this really a privilege thing or is it a difference in how communities view earnings, debts and possessions? I think mindsets are different among different cultural/ethnic groups concerning these things and future thinking. Broadly speaking.
Posted on 2/25/25 at 12:22 pm to 4cubbies
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Fair, but the dominant culture in the USA is white, so people who share that culture benefit from it because they are seen as either "normal" or "ideal."
That's the same anywhere. Blacks are the norm/ideal in Zimbabwe, Chinese in China, Middle Easterners in Iraq, etc. A large majority is "the norm" because math.
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I don't really understand why anyone would try to deny that, except to paint themselves as some sort of victim.
The prominent mindset in the US is that majority = bad. DEI is, quite literally, a mechanism created to discriminate against the majority by raising race, gender, etc to the point of equaling some level of merit for non-majority members. By definition, that makes the majority who are discriminated against into victims of discrimination.
This post was edited on 2/25/25 at 12:24 pm
Posted on 2/25/25 at 12:22 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
edit.. dbl post
This post was edited on 2/25/25 at 12:29 pm
Posted on 2/25/25 at 12:26 pm to Froman
I would argue that DEI is economic racism.
I asked my 17 year old granddaughter (who is part Latino) what she thought of affirmative action and she said it is awful, because it casts doubts on your ability. She's an academic rock star and wants zero help from her ethnicity.
She's 100% correct. Democrats realize this, and do it anyway. Theyre debasing those they pretend to try to help.
Humans need purpose and meaning. Without it they just wander in darkness. The "Materialistic" value system of progressivism is backward to human development.
Men need accomplishments, not credentials. Opportunity, not handouts.
I asked my 17 year old granddaughter (who is part Latino) what she thought of affirmative action and she said it is awful, because it casts doubts on your ability. She's an academic rock star and wants zero help from her ethnicity.
She's 100% correct. Democrats realize this, and do it anyway. Theyre debasing those they pretend to try to help.
Humans need purpose and meaning. Without it they just wander in darkness. The "Materialistic" value system of progressivism is backward to human development.
Men need accomplishments, not credentials. Opportunity, not handouts.
This post was edited on 2/25/25 at 12:28 pm
Posted on 2/25/25 at 12:29 pm to SallysHuman
It isn’t a privilege thing in 2025. The information on how to save for retirement and home ownership is available for everyone.
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