CEPS Meme and Satire Megathread v2019

[Captain.Heroin]

Perfect meme until the ending. There is no free will. And you certainly can't alternate between free will and determinism.

"I choose the 2nd Amendment" would work better.

 

[Captain.Heroin]

Interestingly, aside from New Orleans bouncing back and forth between Rep and Dem since the civil war....the others have been Dem strongholds for 50+ years. Coincidence?

And, to CH's point about shithole cities of America.....we could add NYC, Baltimore, San Fran, and perhaps LA. I love most of these places, but they are unarguably some of the worst in America for safety and taking care of the locals.

I haven't been to San Fran. NYC is a SHC and Bmore has nice areas, I think you just have to not go to the wrong parts of town. LA is great. Homelessness went up, there is crime but per capita it's not too bad. I suspect San Fran is fine. Anarchy rules where open-corner sales happen as it should. Less violence that way IMO

 

[Captain.Heroin]

A celebrity who had a lot of success and a new show coming up.
But he also publicly talked shit about Bill Clinton

oh COME ON man

the man was a life long depressive, he "didn't miss cigarettes" yeah right. He was depressed. He wanted to retire but was urged not to. He committed suicide because he was miserable and didn't want to reach out for help.

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FACT.

Only reason I can't "like" this is because I don't believe in free will.

We need to quit widening the income inequality gap. We also need less people but we could have less people and keep on the current track we're on and still have an inner city problem. We need to bring back the middle class, but we're choking it out.

The only way less people will come about is severe wealth inequality. No dems, No repubs, No world governments have any solution to global overpopulation (the world is on fire and no one gave a shit to grab the fire extinguisher).

I respect your opinion, but I disagree 100%.

Maybe you can give me some examples of how two "middle-class people" (white and black) DONT have the same opportunities? (I just picked "middle class" randomly ... you can use "lower class" if you'd like) ... BOTH have the opportunity to go to school. BOTH have the opportunity to do well IN school. BOTH have the opportunity to obtain scholarships (black people actually have scholarships, just for being a minority... while white people don't .. random example). Minorities actually have "affirmative action", possibly giving them MORE opportunities, because of it (for education and employment).


If you want to do well in the country, YOU are the only person stopping it from happening.

FACT ^^^

institutional racism. peer pressure. DETERMINISM and the fact none of us have free will. Keep believing in it, though, you'll probably be more well-adjusted that way. And believe in heaven and god so you don't fear death as well. That's my advice to ya'll.

I don't believe in affirmative action. Like I don't think it ever existed.

Your right CAP H ,sounds like a compelling bipartisan argument for a Wall along the entire southern border.As ever your lateral thinking might just save not only lives, but America.I salute you.

By we I meant planet earth. It doesn't matter if Latinos are in Mexico or US. There's still the OVERPOPULATION CRISIS. That no one wants to deal with because everyone loves human life, their families, themselves too much and when the world expires and we all die love will have killed us all.

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Wouldn't DJT be her enemy?

This whole "clinton is a hitman" thing is getting ridiculous, guys. Just as much as the socialism. Can we just get back to rational thinking?

 

[JGrimez]

 

[yepyepwoah]

In America, color doesn't define your future, but it does play into your opportunities and statistical likelihood of rising above your circumstances.

FACT

I'd say it's more of a class/wealth issue. The ole "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is horeshit. We have a caste system in America.

Our cast system just so happens to have a lot of black and brown people at the bottom, but guess what, a lot of white people too.

Any sources for that "FACT"?

 

[yepyepwoah]

Fuck it. I'll PWN myself.





At least now we can blame the fuckin Asians instead of the whites getting all the heat on this shit.

Then again this graph has nothing to do with "rising above your circumstances".

 

[Factualist]

Interesting reason I read why Asians are so high in terms of income and achievement. We basically banned them from entering the country on and off for the better part of a century and a half, so the majority outside of places like San Fancisco are people who came here pretty recently, and so they had to be affluent enough in their home countries to afford to move and skilled enough to gain a work visas. So with that kind of lineage you have a bit of a better place in society than a lot of people who descend from slaves, farmers, and factory workers that came here hundreds of years ago.

 

[yepyepwoah]

sounds like a caste system to me!

Edit:

Stole from reddit.

Look like the rich get richer. The poor stay poor.


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[–]takeasecondOC: 36[S] 10 points 5 hours ago

This data is from the federal reserve. Last data collection was in 2016 but occurs every 3 years so 2019 data should be available in the near future.
Median income is before tax at the household/family level.
Plot made with R & ggplot2."


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[Zopiclone bandit]

 

[JGrimez]

 

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[mal3volent]

 

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[Keif' Richards]

It doesn't take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Send me a PM if you're interested.

 

[Captain.Heroin]

MOSCOW MITCH, I LOVE IT yes

Interesting reason I read why Asians are so high in terms of income and achievement. We basically banned them from entering the country on and off for the better part of a century and a half, so the majority outside of places like San Fancisco are people who came here pretty recently, and so they had to be affluent enough in their home countries to afford to move and skilled enough to gain a work visas. So with that kind of lineage you have a bit of a better place in society than a lot of people who descend from slaves, farmers, and factory workers that came here hundreds of years ago.

It really helps when people without citizenship or formal education aren't figured in to alter those statistics.

 

[Xorkoth]

I'd say it's more of a class/wealth issue. The ole "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is horeshit. We have a caste system in America.

Our cast system just so happens to have a lot of black and brown people at the bottom, but guess what, a lot of white people too.

I agree completely. However this leads one to the requirement of examining WHY it is there are so many black and brown people in the lower class. Saying it "just so happens" is basically suggesting it's random and oops, I guess there are more brown and black and white at the bottom. Of course there are plenty of white people at the bottom... increasingly there are more people in general at the bottom, too. It's far from entirely a race issue. But is no accident there are a disproportionate number of black and brown people at the bottom. It's because of systemic racism, most of it passive. This is my entire point. If racism didn't exist we'd find the percentages of races in each socioeconomic class at least close to even. But we don't, far from it. How else would you explain that? Are black and brown people just less hard workers? Do they want it less?

It's absolutely a class problem, but systemic racism is part of the class problem, for some races. The systemic racism element is improving and has improved but it's not gone. And overall the middle class is being squeezed out entirely which is why so many more white people are in the lower class now, and why a lot of white people are crying about racism not existing. Just because it's hard for you too doesn't mean there isn't still a separate, compounding problem for some other groups of people. We're all getting fucked though. And we have two extreme sides that are both wrong. On one side we have people shouting that racism doesn't exist, that white people are the new minority, etc. And on the other side we have SJWs demolishing the significance and meaning of the idea of racism by labeling practically everyone.

 

[Factualist]

 

[Captain.Heroin]

50% of the guards should be women, love it. Love equality.

 

[TheLoveBandit]