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@booboo said in US Politics:
@MiketheSnow said in US Politics:
@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
I had lunch with my Zimbabwean friend yesterday. This madness has actually gotten to the point where some of her white friends have messaged her to apologise for their 'white privilege'. The kind of person who demands others take a knee for them are not the kind of people who should have any power at all.
I'm starting to think there is a parallel here with the turning away from religion. Maybe people really do need something to worship and believe in. I'm no charlie church but give me preachy Christians any day over this mess.
What the actual fuck?
FYI
The foot washing I suspect stems from The Last Supper (John 13 ... I just Googled).
Some of the more "expressive" Christians do it as a symbol of ... something ... humility? Respect?
Dunno.
Google it.
I understood the reference.
Still WTF
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@booboo said in US Politics:
@MiketheSnow said in US Politics:
@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
I had lunch with my Zimbabwean friend yesterday. This madness has actually gotten to the point where some of her white friends have messaged her to apologise for their 'white privilege'. The kind of person who demands others take a knee for them are not the kind of people who should have any power at all.
I'm starting to think there is a parallel here with the turning away from religion. Maybe people really do need something to worship and believe in. I'm no charlie church but give me preachy Christians any day over this mess.
What the actual fuck?
FYI
The foot washing I suspect stems from The Last Supper (John 13 ... I just Googled).
Some of the more "expressive" Christians do it as a symbol of ... something ... humility? Respect?
Dunno.
Google it.
What happens if you're mixed race?
Do you get one foot washed or you you use only one hand when washing a foot?
(I'll get my coat....)
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The light has been shone on the Democrat's. And its not a good look. Far from it.
Nanny statists (and dangerous at that) and old (and young) nutcases. As this video shows
With a Presidential challenger who hardly knows where he is anymore
By Andrea WidburgFor those of us who vividly remember the Life Call commercials, it was impossible not to see in Nancy Pelosi and the other leaders the pathetic, frail, helpless woman, trapped on the floor, crying out, "I've fallen, and I can't get up":
When I see Democrats crawling around on the ground, I do not see leadership or even faux humility. I see a party that is weak and has lost its way.
I know that people are worried about the violence in Democrat-run cities and the rise of Black Lives Matter as a political force on the left. However, I see all this rampaging theater as a good thing. This isn't an ascendant force; it is a political party in its death throes.
For a brief moment, in the early 1960s, the Democrat party could be said to represent good things for and about America. It was against communism, it was beginning to turn its back on the racism it espoused with slavery and Jim Crow, it was fighting for second-wave feminism (equal pay for equal work and equal access to jobs), it wanted lower taxes, it supported the American worker against the world, and it believed in the American family and its values. One could disagree with its belief that government expertise could solve problems, but its heart and the hearts of its broad base of followers were in the right place.
Today, the Democrat party is for ...*
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@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
I had lunch with my Zimbabwean friend yesterday. This madness has actually gotten to the point where some of her white friends have messaged her to apologise for their 'white privilege'. The kind of person who demands others take a knee for them are not the kind of people who should have any power at all.
I'm starting to think there is a parallel here with the turning away from religion. Maybe people really do need something to worship and believe in. I'm no charlie church but give me preachy Christians any day over this mess.
Suggested apparel for the newly converted:
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@Rembrandt It's just evidence the mentally ill aren't getting the services they need.
Speaking as a defence attorney, it worked for an Olympic athlete...
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@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
I honestly believe transgenderism is trained in to a number of youth today and we are starting to see consequences
If there is such a term as fuckedupness, some of this is taking it to high levels.
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Silence is violence?
Silence is smart maybe.
The Brees apology is very worrying to my ears.
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@MiketheSnow said in US Politics:
Silence is violence?
Silence is smart maybe.
The Brees apology is very worrying to my ears.
You'll love this....
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@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
@MiketheSnow said in US Politics:
Silence is violence?
Silence is smart maybe.
The Brees apology is very worrying to my ears.
You'll love this....
Fucking eh
How come she's not getting fired?
Can you imagine the fallout if he was white and had said 'your people'?
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@Tim said in US Politics:
It's a religion.
The mind boggles as to how one would actually go about an anti-black practice in research. Does that apply only to humans, but also to other species?
Mind you my wife always leaves me the black jelly babies?
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@pakman said in US Politics:
@Tim said in US Politics:
It's a religion.
The mind boggles as to how one would actually go about an anti-black practice in research. Does that apply only to humans, but also to other species?
Mind you my wife always leaves me the black jelly babies?
I can give a tech example; facial recognition. The faces that google tested their facial recognition software on didn't include enough variety of race, so they matched black people with gorillas.
There are actual problems that need to be addressed in all sorts of areas, that's getting lost in the hysterical protests currently going on.
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@Kirwan said in US Politics:
I can give a tech example; facial recognition. The faces that google tested their facial recognition software on didn't include enough variety of race, so they matched black people with gorillas.
Never seen Google publicise that. WTAF!
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@Kirwan said in US Politics:
@pakman said in US Politics:
@Tim said in US Politics:
It's a religion.
The mind boggles as to how one would actually go about an anti-black practice in research. Does that apply only to humans, but also to other species?
Mind you my wife always leaves me the black jelly babies?
I can give a tech example; facial recognition. The faces that google tested their facial recognition software on didn't include enough variety of race, so they matched black people with gorillas.
There are actual problems that need to be addressed in all sorts of areas, that's getting lost in the hysterical protests currently going on.
There are plenty of real issues that need addressing, and this is a great opportunity for a public conversation about those and what meaningful changes we can make to keep improving. That goes for NZ just as much as the States.
However, the radicals that just want to tear everything down have co-opted the whole movement and made it very difficult to support. It's very frustrating.
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@No-Quarter said in US Politics:
However, the radicals that just want to tear everything down have co-opted the whole movement and made it very difficult to support. It's very frustrating.
There are groupings with political agenda behind a fair bit of that.
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