What if racism is an evolutionary response?

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

I accept that you see it that way.

So if you see why I can say it's racist, why do not make the attempt to try and not sound racist, even a little bit?

 

[OldWiseGuy]

So if you see why I can say it's racist, why do not make the attempt to try and not sound racist, even a little bit?

I parse my posts carefully to avoid sounding so. You and others just have better 'ears to hear' what you consider racism. First any criticism was racism. Now it has advanced to include honest observations.

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

I parse my posts carefully to avoid sounding so. You and others just have better 'ears to hear' what you consider racism.

I doubt you do parse them at all because a lot of things you say are either totally ignorant, or just outright racist.

 

[grasping the after wind]

I've often wondered if those touted $billions in fines are ever really collected, or are they legislated away in back room deals.

Either way the political class gets the money.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

I doubt you do parse them at all because a lot of things you say are either totally ignorant, or just outright racist.

I think your problem is that you don't know what I'm talking about. If what I say is outright racist the mods would intervene. Let's let their response or lack thereof be the litmus test.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Either way the political class gets the money.

The upside is that they spend it.

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

I think your problem is that you don't know what I'm talking about.

No, I can see what you're talking about, and so can everyone else. And also, in the age of the modern internet and social media, I am exposed to more of the faults of the United States than I will ever wish to be exposed to.

 

[grasping the after wind]

The upside is that they spend it.

At least in the US, I don't claim to be knowledgeable about how other countries' political leaders do things, they not only spend a lot of it but spend trillions more that have no provenance at all. They also greatly enrich themselves along the way to spending all that money they collect and invent.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

No, I can see what you're talking about, and so can everyone else. And also, in the age of the modern internet and social media, I am exposed to more of the faults of the United States than I will ever wish to be exposed to.

Perhaps you should do some reading on the subjects I'm talking about. Lots of info out there.

 

[grasping the after wind]

No, I can see what you're talking about, and so can everyone else. And also, in the age of the modern internet and social media, I am exposed to more of the faults of the United States than I will ever wish to be exposed to.

I feel the exact same way about Europe.

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

Perhaps you should do some reading on the subjects I'm talking about. Lots of info out there.

Again: in the age of the modern internet and social media, I am exposed to more of the faults of the United States than I will ever wish to be exposed to.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

At least in the US, I don't claim to be knowledgeable about how other countries' political leaders do things, they not only spend a lot of it but spend trillions more that have no provenance at all. They also greatly enrich themselves along the way to spending all that money they collect and invent.

We are awash in money. All that's needed to get some of it is a job, and good credit.

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

I feel the exact same way about Europe.

I'm the same.

 

[grasping the after wind]

We are awash in money. All that's needed to get some of it is a job (the great 'money catcher').

I think you have been misinformed . We are indeed awash in money but getting it does not require a job. The government has already, and is planning to again, just hand it out with no strings attached and whether or not one has a need of it.

 

[Zaymer]

with no strings attached

Using COVID lockdowns to ruin the economy and get people dependent on the government handouts is an insidious control method; along with the destruction of communities, families, morality, and the stoking of racial/ethnic conflict with the hyperfocusing on racism, perceived or otherwise, as a population divide-and-conquer tactic to prevent a united front against their tyrannical endeavors.

 

[pitabread]

Using COVID lockdowns to ruin the economy and get people dependent on the government handouts is an insidious control method; along with the destruction of communities, families, morality, and the stoking of racial/ethnic conflict with the hyperfocusing on racism, perceived or otherwise, as a population divide-and-conquer tactic to prevent a united front against their tyrannical endeavors.

That's quite the conspiracy theory you've got there. You might want to head over to the conspiracy theory forum.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

I think you have been misinformed . We are indeed awash in money but getting it does not require a job. The government has already, and is planning to again, just hand it out with no strings attached and whether or not one has a need of it.

I won't get much if any of it. Anyway what people get won't last very long.

But let's say I got $600. I'm not going to rent my upstairs apartment until this thing cools down a bit (we share a common forced air heating system). That's a loss of $650/month. So the $600 would cover just one month's lost rent.

 

[Zaymer]

That's quite the conspiracy theory you've got there. You might want to head over to the conspiracy theory forum.

Yes, anything not explicitly written out, signed, dated, and publicized on corporate information-channels doesn't exist despite our ability to see it with our own eyes. Stop gaslighting.

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

Yes, anything not explicitly written out, signed, dated, and publicized on corporate information-channels doesn't exist despite our ability to see it with our own eyes. Stop gaslighting.

Saying it's a conspiracy theory isn't gaslighting.

 

[Zaymer]

Saying it's a conspiracy theory isn't gaslighting.

Somehow I'm not sure people would feel the same way if contemporary claims of systemic racism, despite laws abounding against it, was considered a conspiracy theory too.