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Post by adurot on Sept 7, 2020 14:53:01 GMT -5
It’s the kind of thing that only helps those already willing to change. The actual problem people won’t care about it. Certainly an odd move for the optics though.
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Post by Emblematic Wolfblade on Sept 7, 2020 16:42:37 GMT -5
Yeah, it's mostly about the optics. Without ripping a huge chunk of the system out and starting fresh, you'll never really get rid of the racists.
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Post by dusa on Sept 7, 2020 20:43:09 GMT -5
I’m always confused about what power or special treatments or benefits us white folks must protect, considering that privilege doesn’t exist and we haven’t gotten any special benefits from our whiteness...
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Post by semipotentwalrus on Sept 8, 2020 6:24:34 GMT -5
Focault wrote on how things like ideology, identity and sexuality historically has been used as means of control. With QAnon being what it is, I can especially recommend "The History of Sexuality" which outlines how accepted norms of sex and gender has shifted over the millennia while still being used for control in the same way as always. I'm not as familiar with Focault's work on race, but I imagine similar arguments could be made there. In short, the GOP is locked in "knowledge" of how things are; "white people are superior, any attempt to even racial disparities is wrong because the disparities either don't exist or are caused by the minority in question etc." Just like we once "knew" that women were inverted men that could turn into a man through certain kinds of physical extersions.
Hence,anything that challenges this idea must be wrong, because they *know* how the world works, damnit! In a sense it is the ultimate rejection of Christianity by those that yell about Christ the most: there is not one iota, not one shred of humility in them.
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Post by steelmage99 on Sept 8, 2020 12:39:29 GMT -5
The lack of humility in Radical Evangelical Christians is most readily apparent in the group of them, that thinks the we are currently in the End Times.
Every single generation of the last 2000 years has had members that claimed that the Second Coming was right around the corner and was going to be here "Real Soon"™. They were all wrong. Obviously and demonstrably so.
Yet Christians keep making these "predictions".....and other Christians keep believing them. Despite any such predictions flying in the face of what the Bible has to say about the Second Coming/Rapture/End Times, and despite EVERYBODY making such predictions having been wrong WITHOUT EXCEPTION, some Christians simply cannot keep their arrogance and feelings of self importance in check.
The creator of the universe not only listens to them and cares about them, but he simply has to come back to save THEM in their particular tiny minute window of existence. Not before.....not after....but right now!....for ME!
The arrogance is simply staggering.
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Post by Emblematic Wolfblade on Sept 8, 2020 13:12:08 GMT -5
Officers shoot a 13-year-old autistic boy while talking to his mother on the phone as she was telling them the best way to calm him down. I hate the actual headline more, which contains the quote "Why didn't you just tackle him?" which implies some level of serious force had to be used. He's fucking 13. A fully grown and trained officer shouldn't need to use serious force to stop the kid. Oh, and after they shot this dangerous threat they lied about him having a weapon and handcuffed the kid. (As for the actual kid, he has "injuries to his shoulder, both ankles, intestines, and bladder, according to his mother." Also, the officer on the phone was not apparently the one who shot the kid.)
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Post by A Town Called Malus on Sept 8, 2020 15:06:56 GMT -5
That is fucking disgusting
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Post by tannhauser42 on Sept 9, 2020 14:57:26 GMT -5
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Post by CommieCanUCK on Sept 9, 2020 17:14:44 GMT -5
How many times can a book about what a total piece of shit this guy is be written? He has been famous for being a piece of shit his whole life.
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Post by hatoflords on Sept 9, 2020 22:39:52 GMT -5
How many times can a book about what a total piece of shit this guy is be written? He has been famous for being a piece of shit his whole life. How many times can people close to a narcissistic egomaniac and see how incredible immoral and unqualified for his position he is, but chose to keep quiet about it till they can cash in on a book deal?
It's seriously getting depressing at this point. Where was this information months ago when it might have made a difference?
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Post by Disciple of Fate on Sept 10, 2020 0:50:33 GMT -5
Letting Americans die to profit from it seems to be the foundation of US capitalism. Bob isn't doing anything out of the ordinary in that regard.
Trump can't look any worse on Corona, but it does help bury the story that the DoJ trying to take over the Trump defamation lawsuit to kill it. The DoJ as his personal defense team is going to save him so much money in all these private lawsuits.
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Post by adurot on Sept 10, 2020 1:32:14 GMT -5
Letting Americans die to profit from it seems to be the foundation of US capitalism. Bob isn't doing anything out of the ordinary in that regard. Trump can't look any worse on Corona, but it does help bury the story that the DoJ trying to take over the Trump defamation lawsuit to kill it. The DoJ as his personal defense team is going to save him so much money in all these private lawsuits. It’s sort of worse than that? The DoJ is representing him because they say it was done as part of his official duties. Well you can’t sue the government. Expect the next step to be them to file for dismissal on those grounds.
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Post by Disciple of Fate on Sept 10, 2020 5:05:30 GMT -5
Yes, they are specifically taking over a lawsuit against Trump as a private person to kill it in its tracks. Its blatant abuse of power and right after a judge ruled against Trump on certain parts of the ongoing suit (to try and postpone discovery until after the election iirc).
I doubt any judge will actually go along with the DoJ reasoning. But the attempt itself is particularly disgusting as a sort of L'état c'est moi move. The DoJ will be lost if Trump gets four more years.
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Post by CommieCanUCK on Sept 10, 2020 11:19:10 GMT -5
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Post by steelmage99 on Sept 10, 2020 20:52:48 GMT -5
Apropos of absolutely nothing, here is a reminder that Trump called COVID19 a Democrat hoax, that would magically disappear.
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