Snowy_Hell
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Politicians and presidents in particular, are but mouthpieces of those whom they serve. It doesn't matter which clown shouts from the TV screen, what matters is whose agenda they're advocating for.
The 2019 Trump Presidency Thread
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Tonberry King
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Trump makes a lot of people mad. This combined with improved security(who doesn't want to feel safe at home) and a booming economy would make me put all me coin on Trump for 2020. The heavy police presence really makes me feel secure... Can't say that about before Trump.
@Snowy_Hell Your the first person i've come accross here that knows whats up? I don't voice it much for various reasons.
I'm not surprised he makes a lot of peopld mad. Thankfully I am not a US citizen so this doesn't effect me, but I also would be angry with someone pissing away my tax money doing Israels dirty work..and I wont even start on him allowing Israel to continue to milk the US tax payers for there hard earned cash threw 'Aid payments' whilst Tel Aviv continues to thrive and prosper as a rich high tech savvy developing city.
Israel taking US aid money (The most of anyone in the world) is exactly like a wealthy successful businessman bullying a kid every year for X% of its pocket money.
In 2019 people have no Idea just how wealthy Israel is. If things were fair and legit Israel should if anything be a donating country in terms of aid. Not recieving!!
Captain.Heroin
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Captain.Heroin
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andy come to the syria thread and share your thoughts 
Ahahahaha Captain your a funny funny man!! ??? Triggered ??
JGrimez
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If I've been guilty of hypocrisy before and updated my beliefs or behavior in an attempt to avoid it, that doesn't make me a hypocrite.
You routinely engage in hypocrisy because you don't care and don't see it as a negative thing, when in fact is invalidates almost all of your opinions.
Nope, it's actually pretty accurate based on the insane behavior and regurgitated beliefs of modern-day Leftists.
how do you even begin to measure something like that? who are you defining as "modern-day leftists"? approximately how many people - ballpark guess is fine - are you putting in this category?
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For example the ones who yell at us to "listen to the science" when it comes to global warming yet deny the science or basic biology when it comes to biological sex and differences between the sexes. But I could produce many examples like this. The Left today holds many hypocritical political stances.
Captain.Heroin
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takes one to know one
so you are telling us you're everyone, splendid
Good to know
who are you even talking about? seriously, define "the left".
my friend - we'll call her jane for privacy - lives in san francisco. she'd certainly identify as a lefty. is she a hypocrite? if so, why?
if not. q.e.d.
this is without a doubt your wildest claim.
alasdair
Captain.Heroin
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Me. I'm pretty sure even I constitute "the left" now.
JessFR
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OK... Continue...
lol Jess ??
Juniper Bruhmomentius
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What is this shit?
Drugs>Trump
Know your priorities
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Know your priorities
Ever Been Told to ‘Check Your Privilege?’ Here’s What That Really Means
Source: Everyday Feminism @schizopath
The first time I was told to “check my privilege,” I’ll be honest, I was angry. I was defensive. And most of all, I was offended.
It’s not like my life had ever been particularly easy. Growing up with bipolar disorder and being queer, I often felt like I was fighting an uphill battle.
So for someone to suggest that I was privileged?
“Oh please,” I said to myself, “They have no idea what my life has been like.” In no uncertain terms, I told that person to go kick rocks.
And now, years later, I can say without a doubt that I was wrong.
I do have privilege.
And chances are, so do you. Because we all carry around privilege of some kind.
Simply put, this means that we may, unknowingly, have certain advantages over others. And this is only because there are aspects of our identity that society values over others.
For example, growing up, I came from a middle-class background. I never experienced food or financial insecurity. I didn’t have a job while I was in high school, and I was able to attain a good education. It was assumed, by default, that I would be high-achieving. As a result, my teachers invested a lot in my success.
In contrast, poorer classmates that I knew experienced near-constant food and financial insecurity. As a result, this impacted their focus, their emotional wellbeing, and their grades. Teachers simply assumed that they were “lost causes” that didn’t care about their schooling. Consequently, they didn’t spend as much time mentoring those classmates as they did mentoring me.
Does this mean I didn’t struggle, too? No. Does it mean that I’m a bad person? Nope.
It simply means that I gained an unearned advantage, in comparison to other people – by no fault of my own, but rather, because of prejudice.
We, unfortunately, live in a society that carries a great deal of prejudice on many different levels – and this impacts the way that we are treated.
Often times, our laws and other institutions can reflect this prejudice, too. And the result is that people end up with advantages and disadvantages, depending on their intersecting social statuses – things like disability, race, a/sexuality, gender, class, and much more.
And this – only this! – is where the idea of “checking your privilege” comes from.
When someone asks you to “check your privilege,” what they’re really asking you to do is to reflect on the ways that your social status might have given you an advantage – even if you didn’t ask for it or earn it – while their social status might have given them a disadvantage.
Yes, it’s okay if your initial reaction to being asked to check yourself was not a pleasant one. It can be uncomfortable to be asked to reflect on these issues. It can be especially uncomfortable if, like me, you just didn’t know how.
Source: Everyday Feminism @schizopath The first time I was told to “check my privilege,” I’ll be honest, I was angry. I was defensive. And most of all, I was offended.
It’s not like my life had ever been particularly easy. Growing up with bipolar disorder and being queer, I often felt like I was fighting an uphill battle.
So for someone to suggest that I was privileged?
“Oh please,” I said to myself, “They have no idea what my life has been like.” In no uncertain terms, I told that person to go kick rocks.
And now, years later, I can say without a doubt that I was wrong.
I do have privilege.
And chances are, so do you. Because we all carry around privilege of some kind.
Simply put, this means that we may, unknowingly, have certain advantages over others. And this is only because there are aspects of our identity that society values over others.
For example, growing up, I came from a middle-class background. I never experienced food or financial insecurity. I didn’t have a job while I was in high school, and I was able to attain a good education. It was assumed, by default, that I would be high-achieving. As a result, my teachers invested a lot in my success.
In contrast, poorer classmates that I knew experienced near-constant food and financial insecurity. As a result, this impacted their focus, their emotional wellbeing, and their grades. Teachers simply assumed that they were “lost causes” that didn’t care about their schooling. Consequently, they didn’t spend as much time mentoring those classmates as they did mentoring me.
Does this mean I didn’t struggle, too? No. Does it mean that I’m a bad person? Nope.
It simply means that I gained an unearned advantage, in comparison to other people – by no fault of my own, but rather, because of prejudice.
We, unfortunately, live in a society that carries a great deal of prejudice on many different levels – and this impacts the way that we are treated.
Often times, our laws and other institutions can reflect this prejudice, too. And the result is that people end up with advantages and disadvantages, depending on their intersecting social statuses – things like disability, race, a/sexuality, gender, class, and much more.
And this – only this! – is where the idea of “checking your privilege” comes from.
When someone asks you to “check your privilege,” what they’re really asking you to do is to reflect on the ways that your social status might have given you an advantage – even if you didn’t ask for it or earn it – while their social status might have given them a disadvantage.
Yes, it’s okay if your initial reaction to being asked to check yourself was not a pleasant one. It can be uncomfortable to be asked to reflect on these issues. It can be especially uncomfortable if, like me, you just didn’t know how.
and you move the goalposts again. first it's all leftists then...
of course you would. there's no practical way of measuring it so you just claim victory based on an assumption.
'the left' appears to be some nebulous entity comprised of people you disagree with or who disagree with you. it's an imaginary army of enemies who don't exist. I don't think even you know who precisely you're talking about. it's such a vague generalization it's next to useless (except for demonizing and dividing).
from another thread:
alasdair
"...if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!)."
who talks like this? he's such a buffoon.
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