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ChromaticAngel posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

LightningAce11 posted...

What has Hillary done that's so evil? I never got a straight answer from CE.

For starters, Libya.

"We came, we saw, he died! Kyahahaha!"

And now there is an active slave trade there. Tadaaaaa

Yeah Kadaffi totally had nothing to do with that.

It's as if toppling a dictator in the ME has disasterous consequences. I wonder if Hillary ever made a mistake like that before that she could have learned from...
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I tried looking at *ahem* her twitter page once but I can't handle that many emojis. #wegotthis #barf
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

LightningAce11 posted...

What has Hillary done that's so evil? I never got a straight answer from CE.

For starters, Libya.

"We came, we saw, he died! Kyahahaha!"

And now there is an active slave trade there. Tadaaaaa
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

Tails has better AI than before in mania. You can at least use him to reach new areas without using the second controller. And he no longer screws up special stages like in Sonic 2.
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GenGrievous03 posted...

I've probably gone down on a dozen women in my life, and none of them had bush. It would be an instant turn off to me. Like nauseating type turn off. But then again, I live in Brazil. We are really strict about keeping our pubes shaved. Men and women.

I've seen Brazilian girls with hairy thighs. Seems kind of backwards but maybe that's rare.
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Antifar posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

You have to compare the damage from GM to the damage caused by trying to avoid it. I

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/4254681996_27b1ed7ff0.jpg

The rest of my post that you didn't quote is a good response to that cartoon.
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

You have to compare the damage from GM to the damage caused by trying to avoid it. It's worth noting that we keep hitting these inflection points that supposedly mean we're doomed, and politicians propose measures that don't even work per the models.
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Your wife deserves as many boyfriends as she gosh darn wants.

Edit: Damn phone
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

boxington posted...

idk how I'm inserting anything when just from the topic title - "White people don't get to decide what's racist or offensive to POC"

POC includes every group besides whites. Is there anything that black people or Jews should be discouraged from talking about that every single other group can talk about? Or is
that rule only for whites?
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boxington posted...

if that makes you feel better, then go for it.

It's about reason and evidence, not how I feel. But I think you are inserting intentions in the OP that are not there. You can say, "people shouldn't tell others how to feel" if you want. The OP was saying something that was akin to "Jews shouldn't talk about X."
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boxington posted...

darkjedilink posted...

boxington posted...

no, it said that white people shouldn't get to say what's racist to PoC.

and PoC have historically been silenced as to what they might be considered racist to them.

Edit: at post 48

So silencing white people will somehow fix racial divide?

it's not "silencing white people"; there can still be dialogue.

it's just saying that people no longer have to accept the definitions of others as to how they should feel, and that another person shouldn't be able to tell them how they should feel

Great. So I completely reject the idea that white privilege and the patriarchy exist in 2017 and if anybody is upset by that they can go pound sand.
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Super_Guido posted...

Why is the term "People of Color" used?
East Asians and some Hispanics are probably lighter than, say, Southern Europeans.

It's a disturbing phrase because it encompasses every single person who isn't white. We could easily see the racism if somebody were to instead say "non-Jews" or "non-blacks know more about X."
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boxington posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

It's amazing how the same crowd that will tell you how great multiculturalism is will so easily also say, "shut up white people." Cultural Marxism is a sick parody of Christianity where only white guys are subject to the humility of original sin. How is multiculturalism supposed to work like that? It's like SJWs want it to fail.

what does this have to do with the OP?

The OP says white people should shut up about this topic. That's not a sustainable way to handle discord in a diverse country.
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Axiom posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

If they're using their own definition of racism why should whites care?

Also when did colored people become a monolith collective that decides on definitions of words for languages not of their ancestors?

Almost nobody cares when the left brands them as a racist anymore because it's obvious that a SJWs ability to see racism when it doesn't exist is like a religious fanatic's ability to see Jesus in their toast.

Racists have never really cared about being called racist

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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

If they're using their own definition of racism why should whites care?

Also when did colored people become a monolith collective that decides on definitions of words for languages not of their ancestors?

Almost nobody cares when the left brands them as a racist anymore because it's obvious that a SJWs ability to see racism when it doesn't exist is like a religious fanatic's ability to see Jesus in their toast.
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

It's amazing how the same crowd that will tell you how great multiculturalism is will so easily also say, "shut up white people." Cultural Marxism is a sick parody of Christianity where only white guys are subject to the humility of original sin. How is multiculturalism supposed to work like that? It's like SJWs want it to fail.
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

Just let professional victims tell you what is and isn't offensive. They have pure intentions.
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

So if you accidentally run over a dog, should it impact your life as much as running over a pedestrian?
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

I provide for my pregnant wife, but she does a lot in return. This will especially be the case after she gives birth. It's about give and take, and it's different before marriage.
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

Imagine when Pokémon comes to Switch...
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

The range of answers you get when asking this question shows how great old school FF was. It's like asking a group of people to name their favorite South Park episode.
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

Zodd3224 posted...

They have all been shit after 9 and Tactics unfortunately.

I plan on giving 12 Remaster another shot, maybe change my opinion on that one. Only played about 10 hours the first time.

I liked 10, but I haven't played it since it first came out. Also, I guess SE can make good MMOs but I've never played them.
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You're welcome for keeping Hillary out of power.
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

A_Good_Boy posted...

They did the same thing with a woman walking around NYC.

That caused a bit of a civil war on the left. They wanted the catcallers to be a bunch of white guys, but that's not what they got.
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I had the most fun with 7. If I don't use nostalgia googles and I try to look at them all now as a critic I'd be tempted to say 9, but the ATB was slow, trance was terrible, and the summons were nerfed.
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

Oscar bait.
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

I hope to have a mortgage soon.
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

The term is probably used for shock value. In a worst case scenario, something horrible may happen in South Africa that could be considered an actual white genocide.

President Jacob Zuma sings "Kill the Boer" at ANC Centenery Celebrations in Bloemfontein, South Africa in January 2012.


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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

I hate certain religions and I'm an atheist. I have noticed that the really militant atheists are often cultural marxists, which is itself a perverted parody of Christianity.
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

I suppose it's possible that hardly anybody else on CE is following the US Open, but DelPo just had one of the most amazing comebacks ever against Thiem. Down 2 sets to 0 with a fever and he was about to retire. But he stuck with it because the crowd was pulling for him and came back to win in 5 while saving a bunch of match points in the process.

It's great to have DelPo back on the tour. Thiem seems like a good guy so I kinda feel bad for him.
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wah_wah_wah posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

wah_wah_wah posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

Hispanic immigrants use welfare at a much higher rate than native born Americans. The CIS did a study showing that 73% of their households use some form of welfare. Regardless of what the exact number is, that makes the debate much harder to win for small government minded people. How am I supposed to convince somebody to vote for me when the opposition is offering free stuff?

The CIS study exaggerates the number of immigrants on welfare by using households as the unit of analysis; as long as the head of household is an immigrant, they consider it an immigrant household, and Camarota counts a household “as using welfare if any one of its members used welfare during 2012.” This means that a household with an American spouse who therefore qualified for welfare could be counted as “using welfare.” The same would go for a child born in the United States to immigrant parents. If he or she received subsidized lunch at school, the whole household would be categorized as “using welfare.” As the Cato Institute notes in its critique of the study, that measure is “ambiguous, poorly defined, and less used in modern research for those reasons.” Relying on such mutable methodology let Camarota exaggerate the number of immigrants on welfare to back up the claim that Americans are footing the bill for immigrants.

I read that before posting and posted anyway because nitpicking at the methodology doesn't seriously challenge the thesis that a huge portion of these households are not economically self sufficient. I used it to support the idea that it's hard to get this demographic to vote for a conservative, not to precisely quantify the bill natives are paying for immigrants. If somebody in your household is on government assistance, you'll tend to not vote to reduce that assistance.

So how do you square all of those Republicans (who skew older) on Social Security and Medicare?

No republican politician is willing to cut that significantly. It's political suicide. That's why my generation is screwed.
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

wah_wah_wah posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

Hispanic immigrants use welfare at a much higher rate than native born Americans. The CIS did a study showing that 73% of their households use some form of welfare. Regardless of what the exact number is, that makes the debate much harder to win for small government minded people. How am I supposed to convince somebody to vote for me when the opposition is offering free stuff?

The CIS study exaggerates the number of immigrants on welfare by using households as the unit of analysis; as long as the head of household is an immigrant, they consider it an immigrant household, and Camarota counts a household “as using welfare if any one of its members used welfare during 2012.” This means that a household with an American spouse who therefore qualified for welfare could be counted as “using welfare.” The same would go for a child born in the United States to immigrant parents. If he or she received subsidized lunch at school, the whole household would be categorized as “using welfare.” As the Cato Institute notes in its critique of the study, that measure is “ambiguous, poorly defined, and less used in modern research for those reasons.” Relying on such mutable methodology let Camarota exaggerate the number of immigrants on welfare to back up the claim that Americans are footing the bill for immigrants.

I read that before posting and posted anyway because nitpicking at the methodology doesn't seriously challenge the thesis that a huge portion of these households are not economically self sufficient. I used it to support the idea that it's hard to get this demographic to vote for a conservative, not to precisely quantify the bill natives are paying for immigrants. If somebody in your household is on government assistance, you'll tend to not vote to reduce that assistance.
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

wah_wah_wah posted...

Here is a hint - they don't vote for you because you don't even talk to them or make the argument. It is that assumption that hard-working Latinos wouldn't like a tax cut or less payroll tax taken out that makes you fail with them.

Hispanic immigrants use welfare at a much higher rate than native born Americans. The CIS did a study showing that 73% of their households use some form of welfare. Regardless of what the exact number is, that makes the debate much harder to win for small government minded people. How am I supposed to convince somebody to vote for me when the opposition is offering free stuff?

This is obviously the reason why people are suspicious of Democrats' desire to import relatively poor people into a wealthy 1st world country.
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That_Happened posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

Flaming and strawmen after trying to poison the well.

Your well was poisoned when you made your statement. All I did was acknowledge that it was poisoned from the start. Just because I notice you don't have a leg to stand on doesn't mean I was the one who amputated your limbs.

Yeah you really exposed me.

Take it as you will but when I see a post that I feel isn't worth my time I ignore it. I don't go on a "I could totally wreck your argument if I felt like it and also muh Brietbart" meltdown. To each his own I guess.
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That_Happened posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

What I said to Kineth is equally applicable to you. Your post is not an argument.

Because your idiocy does not deserve a legitimate response. Just because someone makes an argument (that has been debunked and beaten to shit repeatedly) doesn't mean they've made an argument worth discussing. Kind of like when someone says "the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery." You know that person is an idiot and you'd rather not waste your entire day trying to build his intelligence from the ground up.

Flaming and strawmen after trying to poison the well. Nice posting.
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That_Happened posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

That_Happened posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

Democrats blew up the nuclear black family with welfare in the 1960s. That is what is holding blacks back now, not systemic racism.

You can always tell when someone listens to too much conservative radio.

I don't listen to any at all. Back to the drawing board?

Or reads too much Brietbart. Or thinks Ben Shapiro and Louder with Crowder are legit. Basically you get your info from very specific right wing sources and none of your statements are likely to resemble reality.

What I said to Kineth is equally applicable to you. Your post is not an argument.
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Kineth posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

Kineth posted...

I'm not watching a video.

Ok. I'll get over it somehow.

Present an argument yourself.

You haven't done so once. You got triggered and said "Southern strategy".
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That_Happened posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

Democrats blew up the nuclear black family with welfare in the 1960s. That is what is holding blacks back now, not systemic racism.

You can always tell when someone listens to too much conservative radio.

I don't listen to any at all. Back to the drawing board?
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

Kineth posted...

I'm not watching a video.

Ok. I'll get over it somehow.
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

Kineth posted...

You say that while conveniently ignoring the Southern Strategy. Well not conveniently. It's because of your bias.

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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell

joeun_saram posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

Democrats blew up the nuclear black family with welfare in the 1960s

oh fuck

it's almost like nothing actually happened to black people prior to 1960

The black nuclear family was intact prior to 1960.
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Kineth posted...

But that's not the case. I was crying bias because you asked a question, got an answer and moved the goalposts bringing in Democrats out of nowhere, while pretending like you mentioned them in your original post all to circle past identity politics, which was an important part of your original point.

I suppose it makes sense that you'd end up complaining about Democrats and black people, but my response had nothing to do with not liking what you posted. Your post was literally fucking drivel. My response was based on the fact that your bias consumed you so hard that you fucking went off the path of where the argument started at.

I was responding to a post about cause and effect and the history of identity politics. I was on topic, I just struck a nerve.
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Dash_Harber posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

You don't need an endgame. All research points to immigration actually being a huge boon to the economy and, shockingly, people who aren't treated like monsters actually tend to integrate really quickly.

OP included the condition that legal immigration would be as smooth as you want. So even under that condition you don't want borders?

I'm not saying no borders. I'm not even arguing for or against the cause. I'm pointing out all research points to two things; firstly, both legal and illegal immigration tends to be a long term boon to the economy and despite short term difficulties, and secondly, people tend to integrate rather quickly.

This is a dodge. You are just arguing for more immigration, but immigration laws exist under the assumption that eventually some amount of immigration is too much too fast. Unless you think it would be great for the country if we imported all of Somalia.
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Kineth posted...

My argument is that your post is riddled with bias and, thus, is not salient.

I realize that's what you're attempting to do. I'm just saying that simply crying "bias" when hearing something you don't like is not an argument.
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Kineth posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

TroutPaste posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

How was I supposed to care about anything before I existed?

Empathy, realistic thoughts, basic understanding of cause/effect

I don't think you understood my post. Of course I care about history, but you phrased your post to say I didn't care about democrats playing identity politics in 1950, but I do care about democrats playing identity politics in the current year.

I do have a basic understanding of cause and effect. Democrats blew up the nuclear black family with welfare in the 1960s. That is what is holding blacks back now, not systemic racism.

So apparently this is all a ploy for you to bash Democrats since your bias dropped its pants in front of us.

If you could make an actual argument that would be great.
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -Thomas Sowell