Haha - it does!Username checks out
Never said there weren’t any self made people. Just disputing Bezos as being one of them. I think my one comment got misinterpreted.
My post wasn't to try and correct you - was just offering up an example
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My post wasn't to try and correct you - was just offering up an example
It doesn't really matter if billionaires are self made or not. Fair play to them for working hard or coming up with the ideas. However, it is their fecking duty as humans to share the wealth and pay more towards a system that helps everyone.
A society is judged by the way it treats it's poor and needy. And also it's elderly.
Ironically, many of those poor, needy and elderly have been voting against the parties who would help them the most. Especially in the UK and USA.
Feck knows how to sort that one out.
A society is judged by the way it treats it's poor and needy. And also it's elderly.
Ironically, many of those poor, needy and elderly have been voting against the parties who would help them the most. Especially in the UK and USA.
Feck knows how to sort that one out.
As people like filmmaker Michael Moore to linguist George Lakoff have tried to say for decades
The masses don't vote their material self interest, they vote their moral values.
Anyone know how reliable that source is?
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I thought churches weren't allowed to engage in political activity?
All of the people in that picture are grifters.
All of the people in that picture are grifters.
They aren't churches. They are religious people.
Is it me or is he almost laughing? 
Probably can't believe his luck.
Probably can't believe his luck.
It’s almost funny how oblivious they are to being exactly the same as the people they hate.
I heard them refer to the venue as a megachurch
It's amazing how people in other countries are pro Trump. I'm South African and the people I work with (mostly the white guys) are actually applauding Trumps presidency.
They talk of how he got elected without funding and how he used the American media for marketing his campaign by saying allot of controversial stuff to get airtime, etc.
I'm not that clever when it come to American politics. I just follow the headlines, not knowing what to believe...
They talk of how he got elected without funding and how he used the American media for marketing his campaign by saying allot of controversial stuff to get airtime, etc.
I'm not that clever when it come to American politics. I just follow the headlines, not knowing what to believe...
That’s possible, but has never been an issue before, especially or the right.
I’ve seen a few Aussies with this view as well. In general, people who are concerned about a departure of homogeneous identity and are generally skeptical of multiculturalism, tend to view Trump in a favorable light.
People who are against multiculturalism should be forced to have their genes analysed so they realise they’re not actually “European White”, they’re 1.2% Western Asian, 1.8% North African, 2.2% Native American and 2.8% Polynesian ect ect.
We’re all a bunch of mongrels and a hell of a lot healthier because of it.
True, although for them it’s more down to retaining their cultural identity, and they see Trump as someone who can slow down the pace of change. I work with a number of these people who are casual Trump supporters and this is the only explanation I can think of.
Is America the same as England in that you get people that live in remote rural countryside where they barely ever bump into anyone a different race to them yet are convinced that they’re being overrun by [OTHER_RACE] and losing their identity because of it?
I don’t think that sort of thing happens much in the US since even people in more rural areas see people of different races and cultures, not to mention the fact that everyone is online today. I see the variances between progressives, moderate independents, and Republicans as largely a dispute over the pace of change in society.
I'd be surprised if it wasn't to be honest. It's the exact same here in Denmark for instance. Rural areas with few immigrants vote for racists.
Germany as well afaik.
Well and whether to build a wall to keep them "Mexicans" out?!
That’s a part of the homogeneous cultural preservation of the right. They obviously know that more people from different cultures is tantamount to a dilution of their own culture and a gradual departure from what they perceive as American national identity.
Big difference between reading about a minority online and having them walk past you're kitchen window. I've been through enough small rural towns in my life and in some you can feel the suspicious eyes on you everywhere. A lot of unwarranted fear out there which kind of annoys me as a healthy influx of immigrants in to some of these communities may help them in ways they couldn't imagine.
Plus, they've been voting Republican for over 40 years and watched the slow decline around them but apparently Adam Schiff is the problem. I can sometimes understand why the Democrats write these areas off, I wouldn't but changing minds is a tough business especially when you have a fully fledged propaganda machine masquerading as a news network.
I obviously can't tell you about what the average American is like, but when I think about how people from south of the US were portrayed as MS13 members who couldn't wait to rape and deal drugs in the US, how families were seperated, children locked in cages, what one reads about ICE in general, the attitude that can be openly displayed toward Muslim people; then "homogeneous cultural preservation" sounds like a generous euphemism to me.
And while even everyone in rural parts has seen a minority sometimes, I think there is a big difference between that and growing up/working in a bigger City, where they are just a normal part of your daily life.
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Just listened to a good pod with Ben Rhodes on why Trump's assassination of an Iranian General is so out of the norm. References a 12 page briefing document the Obama WH used to brief both foreign allies and congress ahead of Bin Laden mission. Also pointed out he's been a person of interest for at least 4 administrations, and his whereabouts are almost always known - ie - Bush or Obama could have done this at any time. But chose not to, because you don't declare war on Iran by executing one of the foremost generals. Unless you don't even understand what you're doing.
The Trump WH briefed noone. Didn't even tell the appropriate parts of Congress, much less NATO partners. Apparently from Mar-a-Lago too.
It's so ridiculously amateur hour over there.
The Trump WH briefed noone. Didn't even tell the appropriate parts of Congress, much less NATO partners. Apparently from Mar-a-Lago too.
It's so ridiculously amateur hour over there.
I just.....
Nope... Got nothing.
And the mag well is a damned Templar knight helmet.
He thinks he's a crusader, how cute.
I remember during the election people saying if he's elected he will tone down and cut back on tweeting
He's literally tweeting Congress these days
The 2020 election is going to be nasty isn't it
The worst ever by a considerable distance.
He's opening a full can of worms here if he says his twitter posts are to be legally obliged.
cant help but think if it comes to a pissing contest then both sides get covered in piss - and not only does the don allegedly like that but most probably he does a lot better in that kind of environment than a policy focused cordial debate
I see trump is now odds on at the bookmakers to win 2020 when a couple of weeks ago he was odds against - of course its early and that market is heavily influenced by the bets that they have received - but it suggests people are betting on the same hunch i have - that the nastier it gets the better for trump - and it looks like its going to be really feking nasty
also striking back in a disproportionate manner... from a legal point of view i'm not sure you want to be saying that
Who cares about legality when you have no respect for institutions other than yourself.
whats the odds trump starts selling guns with MAGA stamped on them... and telling people not to let the democrats steel the election and take their guns
If he looses in November there is no way I see him willingly handing over in January
I guess so - plus hes clearly going to try to get Ivanka or Don Junior in power in 2024 and they can give him immunity to live out his days in the southern white house to tweet away and be showered by Russian hookers...
There's a limit to how far you can take the nastiness before voters recoil. My take on it is if the Dems fight hard but clean it'll push Trump into going too far repeatedly, and each time it'll cost him voters. If the Dems actually went into the mud with him they'll certainly lose, but then again they don't have a candidate running who is capable of that, and the party isn't set up for it anyway. The only way I see them losing is if they once again act too weak.
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