Jimbeaux

Me no Insta

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This is a terrible take, I may not agree politically with most of Chomsky's positions but he as far from a babbling idiot as you can get.

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Here’s a video of Chomsky debating William F. Buckley. He sounds pretty idiotic right out of the block. He holds that some topics are beyond even being discussed (anti-free speech), and his examples are Auschwitz and similarly, the Vietnam War.

Even if we make the assumption that he means it’s beyond the pale of discussion to talk about systematic extermination of a group of people (of course), he then equates that to (I presume) the continuing military intervention of the U. S. in the Vietnam War.

Say what? Those are equivalent? And participation in the Vietnam War beyond even discussing? Spoken like the communist sympathizer he was.

That’s just the beginning.

Damn, $600 Billion is a really big number!

Imagine having a Million Dollar lottery ticket- nice!

Now imagine having 1000 Million Dollar lottery tickets - very nice!

Now imagine having 600 times that 1000 Million Dollar lottery tickets - hard to imagine!

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If you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns.

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This is exactly true, but to a leftist it sounds like a tautology with no actual substance.

They think, “Well of course, by definition, as soon as you outlaw guns, then those who have guns will be defacto outlaws!” But that’s not what we’re saying.

In their Rousseauian worldview, the poor and “marginalized” were pushed to the point of their crimes by a cruel and oppressive system. You can’t blame them for being outlaws, and the guns they use is excusable because they oppose the oppressive system.

Those who benefit from the system, the “normies”, the law abiding successful people, who own guns because they can afford them, have guns to maintain the oppressive system.

So in their view, outlawing guns will turn normies into outlaws, which is what they always were anyway, the oppressors, the hitlers, etc.

What the right actually means is that if you outlaw guns:

- the outlaws will be emboldened to use guns against the unarmed populace.

- the outlaws will turn to gun ownership because they already don’t care about following the law and now it will be even more beneficial for their crimes because the victims are softer..

“Climate change” :lol:

Wasn’t this a plot device in the movie, Departed?

Buuuck- - - Nekids

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If they can offer him something..

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Not just “him”.

As President, Trump mostly negotiates to help the country in the way ge thinks is best. Even at times when it is personally detrimental.

He truly is not the monster the left thinks he is. They can’t actually conceive of how he is motivated.

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We tasked him with fixing our country, not trolling for attention.

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You don’t seem to understand the nature of politics.

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I'm size 14.

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Damn, where do find shoes in your size? It’s difficult to find 12’s most times.

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I'm 34, my parents are boomers, I spend a lot of time online, so I know the discourse even when I don't agree with it. I was still in school during the 2008 financial crisis. I grew up rural so I didn't have access to the internet at all until probably 2003, didn't have broadband internet until 2006, didn't have a cell phone until 2008, and didn't have a smart phone until 2013. Generational stereotypes are stupid and reductive. However, comparing economic data can be useful.

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Thanks for answering my query.

I’m curious to hear your thoughts on the 2008 financial crisis. As a working adult with 3 kids, I was kind of busy.

To me, it was a fubar caused by Wall Street in cahoots with Democrats. Nevertheless, the housing speculation bubble they caused had to bust eventually.

How specifically did this bust affect the Millennial generation?