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On 10/25/2024 at 10:51 AM, riclag said:

Harris was and is  a huge supporter of

of   BLM! This is their 2020 appearance !below , in a politifact announcement.

 

https://www.tampabay.com/news/nation-world/2020/07/22/politifact-is-black-lives-matter-a-marxist-movement/

 

https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/jul/21/black-lives-matter-marxist-movement/

 

In the article above it says Patrice Cullers one of the founders was Marxist Trained. 
 

https://www.socialistalternative.org/marxism-fight-black-freedom/black-lives-matter-marxism/

 

Harris dad taught Marxist Economics!

Snopes -True

 

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/harris-father-marxist-economist/

 

 

Ha! Thanks, I do enjoy a good laugh. 41 years teaching middle school, high school and the last 27 years before retiring, American and European History. Those were the undergraduate history courses that come into requirements for anyone seeking a well rounded higher education. PBS Newshour recently had a segment on the need for liberal arts coursework for those seeking any subject of subject matter concentration. I was attempting to educate first, American citizens, only secondly trying to impart how the lessons of history applied to the present in whatever field of endeavor they were pursuing. Ah, yes … the point … I taught such things in history as communism, I studied and imparted my learning from seven countries … including China. Say what? You think that makes me questionable as an American, rather than an educated person? Ignorance is not a friend to any citizen in a participatory democracy. As currently being demonstrated.

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On 10/25/2024 at 11:03 AM, mdr224 said:

Or America could be like Thailand, where nobody has a say over whos in their government, and where people are apathetic because they know nothing will ever change

Give Trump and Project 2025. This is what the propose, a quite public, evident top down government and if things get questioning, challenging … crack down!

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1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

I would tend to agree not many wealthy expats choose Thailand. So, there is a financial component. Some of us, with limited income lead very good lives here. 

 

 I would always be in search of a place with far more joy, where the locals lead lives of fulfillment. That is not the US, these days. What celebrities do means nothing to me. 

 

You didn't answer the question so that's telling in itself and makes me wonder which dump you're from (admittedly there are many in the US but far more in LOS imho)

 

If the locals "lead lives full of fulfilment" large swathes of them wouldn't have to rent their bodies and/or themselves to foreigners to get by.

Exhibit B:  https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/country_result.jsp?country=Thailand

"Thailand Quality of Life Index:104.77  Low"

 

What celebrities do may mean nothing to you but where the rich choose to spend their time is an indicator of the best places in the world to be (ie NOT Thailand).

 

I'm NOT a yank but too many on here (many delusionally smug boomers admittedly) unfairly denigrate their home countries imho which are the real paradises compared to LOS - though their pockets can';t stretch to enjoying the good life (or good or bad wimmin) there.

Bit of honesty sometimes surely wouldn't hurt would it?

 

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

 

Delusion is NOT a river in Egypt.

Oh well. At least I tried.  

 

 

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5 hours ago, bubblegum said:

Non college educated white male=Trump base.

See a lot of them on this forum.

So, the people most likely to suffer as a result of a Harris Administration are voting against Harris? That is shocking.

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22 minutes ago, wwest5829 said:

Ha! Thanks, I do enjoy a good laugh. 41 years teaching middle school, high school and the last 27 years before retiring, American and European History. Those were the undergraduate history courses that come into requirements for anyone seeking a well rounded higher education. PBS Newshour recently had a segment on the need for liberal arts coursework for those seeking any subject of subject matter concentration. I was attempting to educate first, American citizens, only secondly trying to impart how the lessons of history applied to the present in whatever field of endeavor they were pursuing. Ah, yes … the point … I taught such things in history as communism, I studied and imparted my learning from seven countries … including China. Say what? You think that makes me questionable as an American, rather than an educated person? Ignorance is not a friend to any citizen in a participatory democracy. As currently being demonstrated.

 

IIRC voting rights were. only for men and landowning men at that - guys with skin in the game.

Maybe it's time to go back to that system.

 

Many of the people on here having an equal vote to a person who actually lives in & *contributes* (present tense) to their country is a crazy system imho.

 

Helps explains the mess though.

 

PS. I'm a Brit - do you think, if I hoped the southern US border I'd be given free board and a full debit card?

Are white skinned illegals also encouraged /. allowed or is it just for browns ?

Asking for a friend ; )

 

 

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7 hours ago, Tom Parkinson said:

The US has always had stupid people. But now the internet has given them a voice. And Donald Trump has given them a champion. 


I know of 81 million stupid Americans.

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12 minutes ago, ChaiyaTH said:

Leftish people are such terrible losers.. and it's full of them here, Americans specifically. When they won, the entire world news was quiet at once.

Now they are near losing again and the full fight and hate it is on, and if they lose, they will continue as well until the next election to try and burn anyone. Just watch now how they already try to hate on Musk again for having contact with Putin.

 

Pathetic.

And they are doing all they can to get the McDonald's that facilitated one of the most successful campaign stuns in history shut down. 

 

Most all hate comes from the left. I hate Harris's policies, but I am indifferent to her. They have a seething hatred of Trump, and care nothing about his policies, It's baffling. 

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2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

I just returned from one month in the US. Though I have some great friends back there, who are leading fulfilling lives, most people are utterly humorless, and seem to be live to work, eat, and sleep. The cost of living has skyrocketed to the point where only those who own their homes, that are paid for, or those earning over $400,000 per year, seem to be in decent shape. It feels like a relatively joyless place, these days.

 

So thrilled to be living here. The quality of life is higher on so many levels. At least for me. 

So the HUGE amount of people in your long one month visit who were making $200,000 a year ( half your whopper of a lie $ amount) were struggling to get by? Then you also say if your home is paid off. Ok no problem. No need to make your 400k made up foolish amount! I mean really. Do you think even one poster here believes you know how much of your " friends" that you met with on your massive 30 day visit make over 400k a year? Do you think anyone reading your post thinks you know exactly which friends have a mortgage or not and how much is left of it? Really the anecdotal evidence on your post is so underwhelming that I almost expect you to come back here and say " well it's true , I have only 2 friends , one who makes 450k and the other one works at the massage shop and makes 35k a year and has a mortgage. " Oi. 

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11 minutes ago, alex8912 said:

So the HUGE amount of people in your long one month visit who were making $200,000 a year ( half your whopper of a lie $ amount) were struggling to get by? Then you also say if your home is paid off. Ok no problem. No need to make your 400k made up foolish amount! I mean really. Do you think even one poster here believes you know how much of your " friends" that you met with on your massive 30 day visit make over 400k a year? Do you think anyone reading your post thinks you know exactly which friends have a mortgage or not and how much is left of it? Really the anecdotal evidence on your post is so underwhelming that I almost expect you to come back here and say " well it's true , I have only 2 friends , one who makes 450k and the other one works at the massage shop and makes 35k a year and has a mortgage. " Oi. 

I think Mike is from New York City, and $400K a year is just not that much there. 

 

$200K and you're in a dump. 

 

I have no reason to think what he says is not true, but I am surprised he supports a continuance of the same policies that got us there, 

 

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On 10/24/2024 at 10:17 PM, riclag said:

DEI is Marxist!

Its all you here from the extreme left!

the conquest of the oppressed vs the oppressor!

The Cultural Marxist want to rewrite humanity by eliminating Traditional values of merit based achievements and replace it with vibe identity based ideals.

I'm willing to bet that you have no idea what you're talking about.  If you can please put it into language that people can understand 

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1 hour ago, ChaiyaTH said:

Leftish people are such terrible losers.. and it's full of them here, Americans specifically. When they won, the entire world news was quiet at once.

Now they are near losing again and the full fight and hate it is on, and if they lose, they will continue as well until the next election to try and burn anyone. Just watch now how they already try to hate on Musk again for having contact with Putin.

 

Pathetic.

It seems that you're the one consumed with hate.  Put that in your pipe and smoke it 

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4 minutes ago, RetiredNavy71 said:

I'm willing to bet that you have no idea what you're talking about.  If you can please put it into language that people can understand 

DEI replaces meritocracy and divides everyone into oppressors and the oppressed. Whites, heterosexual men in particular, but white heterosexual women to a lesser degree are the oppressors, and everyone else are the oppressed. It is Marxism but using race rather than class as to divide the citizenry, and it started under President Obama.

 

The problem with Marxism getting a solid hold in the US, was because people that work, save, abide the law, and stay diligent do not stay in the same class. Not the same with race. With race, we can have Oprah, a black, female billionaire be the oppressed, and Joe Bagadoughnuts, a white forklift driver in Ohio is the oppressor, forever. 

 

It truly is brilliant, 

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40 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

DEI replaces meritocracy and divides everyone into oppressors and the oppressed. Whites, heterosexual men in particular, but white heterosexual women to a lesser degree are the oppressors, and everyone else are the oppressed. It is Marxism but using race rather than class as to divide the citizenry, and it started under President Obama.

 

The problem with Marxism getting a solid hold in the US, was because people that work, save, abide the law, and stay diligent do not stay in the same class. Not the same with race. With race, we can have Oprah, a black, female billionaire be the oppressed, and Joe Bagadoughnuts, a white forklift driver in Ohio is the oppressor, forever. 

 

It truly is brilliant, 

 

Another poster on here is a self proclaimed marxist but also cries at every opportunity at how his (presumably oppressed) wife rose up and dumped him + relieved him of his £600K house 😂

 

TBH I think this 'I'm a marxist' (impossible above LARPing in a capitalist society)  nonsense is just virtue signalling or a life (of jealousy for producers and providers ) spent sucking on the state's teat & hating on life's 'winners'.

 

These 'marxist' are nuts - delusional at best.

 

Least they could do is keep sponging off the state and keep their BS to themselves - obvs that's too much to ask for though!

 

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