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  • static111
    static111 Posts: 5,112
    edited November 2020
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    What even is reparations... 
    trying to find a modern way to pay the balance owed the ancestors  after being freed from slavery and finding a way to financially pay back the tribes for their broken treaties and the genocide.  Either through programs or direct financial payments.
    Post edited by static111 on
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
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    static111 said:
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    What even is reparations... 
    trying to find a modern way to pay the balance of the 40 acres and a mule the ancestors were promised after being freed, and finding a way to financially pay back the tribes for their broken treaties and the genocide.  Either through programs or direct financial payments.
    So it's just a loose concept, and not a concrete idea of what it actually entails (yet) ?
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • static111
    static111 Posts: 5,112
    edited November 2020
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    static111 said:
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    What even is reparations... 
    trying to find a modern way to pay the balance of the 40 acres and a mule the ancestors were promised after being freed, and finding a way to financially pay back the tribes for their broken treaties and the genocide.  Either through programs or direct financial payments.
    So it's just a loose concept, and not a concrete idea of what it actually entails (yet) ?
    Yes there is a lot of theoreticiZing. Which is why most modern activists are looking at minority specific equivalents of FHA loans and GI Bill type of college funding etc.  Basically Americans having to pay back their biggest outstanding debt. The biggest obstacle being pragmatic white people
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  • static111
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    Scio me nihil scire

    There are no kings inside the gates of eden
  • Spiritual_Chaos
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    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • static111
    static111 Posts: 5,112
    Spiritual_Chaos said:

    Won’t be enough evidence of a progressive shift for some very pragmatic people.
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,599
    now let the "left eating itself from within" begin! LOL
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  • static111
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    HughFreakingDillon said:
    now let the "left eating itself from within" begin! LOL
    Celebrating the victory of progressives and progressive policies is eating itself from within?
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,599
    static111 said:

    HughFreakingDillon said:
    now let the "left eating itself from within" begin! LOL
    Celebrating the victory of progressives and progressive policies is eating itself from within?
    no, haha, i just mean that when dems are in power and we don't have a trump to focus our hatred on, we tend to look within and. the republican party just doesn't do that, at least not on the same level. 
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,510

    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,436
    edited November 2020
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    static111 said:

    HughFreakingDillon said:
    now let the "left eating itself from within" begin! LOL
    Celebrating the victory of progressives and progressive policies is eating itself from within?
    no, haha, i just mean that when dems are in power and we don't have a trump to focus our hatred on, we tend to look within and. the republican party just doesn't do that, at least not on the same level. 
    The democrat party has a long history of raucous internal debates on a plethora of issues and populated by a diverse constituency. Sometimes to our detriment. The repub party, not so much. They march in lockstep goosestep, yo! 
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,599
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    static111 said:

    HughFreakingDillon said:
    now let the "left eating itself from within" begin! LOL
    Celebrating the victory of progressives and progressive policies is eating itself from within?
    no, haha, i just mean that when dems are in power and we don't have a trump to focus our hatred on, we tend to look within and. the republican party just doesn't do that, at least not on the same level. 
    The democrat party has a long history of raucous internal debates on a plethora of issues and populated by a diverse constituency. Sometimes to our detriment. The repub party, not so much. They march in lockstep goosestep, yo! 
    i applaud the democrats for having raucous internal debates. that's essential. the downside, as you said, is that republicans are a full-on team mentality. they are better at grabbing all of their supporters on joint causes, while liberals argue within themselves. but i guess that's the difference between status quo and progress: not everyone progresses at the same rate, so you're going to have conflict. 
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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    static111 said:

    HughFreakingDillon said:
    now let the "left eating itself from within" begin! LOL
    Celebrating the victory of progressives and progressive policies is eating itself from within?
    no, haha, i just mean that when dems are in power and we don't have a trump to focus our hatred on, we tend to look within and. the republican party just doesn't do that, at least not on the same level. 
    The democrat party has a long history of raucous internal debates on a plethora of issues and populated by a diverse constituency. Sometimes to our detriment. The repub party, not so much. They march in lockstep goosestep, yo! 
    i applaud the democrats for having raucous internal debates. that's essential. the downside, as you said, is that republicans are a full-on team mentality. they are better at grabbing all of their supporters on joint causes, while liberals argue within themselves. but i guess that's the difference between status quo and progress: not everyone progresses at the same rate, so you're going to have conflict. 

    It's gets to the essence of who tends to vote democrat and who tends to vote republican - the whole essence of conservatism is that people cleave to certain ideas and principles that they view as stable truths without examination. Conservatism appeals to people who just want things to remain the same and to be told what to do. 
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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    static111 said:

    HughFreakingDillon said:
    now let the "left eating itself from within" begin! LOL
    Celebrating the victory of progressives and progressive policies is eating itself from within?
    no, haha, i just mean that when dems are in power and we don't have a trump to focus our hatred on, we tend to look within and. the republican party just doesn't do that, at least not on the same level. 
    The democrat party has a long history of raucous internal debates on a plethora of issues and populated by a diverse constituency. Sometimes to our detriment. The repub party, not so much. They march in lockstep goosestep, yo! 
    i applaud the democrats for having raucous internal debates. that's essential. the downside, as you said, is that republicans are a full-on team mentality. they are better at grabbing all of their supporters on joint causes, while liberals argue within themselves. but i guess that's the difference between status quo and progress: not everyone progresses at the same rate, so you're going to have conflict. 

    It's gets to the essence of who tends to vote democrat and who tends to vote republican - the whole essence of conservatism is that people cleave to certain ideas and principles that they view as stable truths without examination. Conservatism appeals to people who just want things to remain the same and to be told what to do. 
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,599
    oftenreading said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    static111 said:

    HughFreakingDillon said:
    now let the "left eating itself from within" begin! LOL
    Celebrating the victory of progressives and progressive policies is eating itself from within?
    no, haha, i just mean that when dems are in power and we don't have a trump to focus our hatred on, we tend to look within and. the republican party just doesn't do that, at least not on the same level. 
    The democrat party has a long history of raucous internal debates on a plethora of issues and populated by a diverse constituency. Sometimes to our detriment. The repub party, not so much. They march in lockstep goosestep, yo! 
    i applaud the democrats for having raucous internal debates. that's essential. the downside, as you said, is that republicans are a full-on team mentality. they are better at grabbing all of their supporters on joint causes, while liberals argue within themselves. but i guess that's the difference between status quo and progress: not everyone progresses at the same rate, so you're going to have conflict. 

    It's gets to the essence of who tends to vote democrat and who tends to vote republican - the whole essence of conservatism is that people cleave to certain ideas and principles that they view as stable truths without examination. Conservatism appeals to people who just want things to remain the same and to be told what to do. 
    it's also been so funny to me how conservatives claim we are the "sheep" when we're the ones expressing freedom of thought and progression of ideas. they are the party of projection in its finest form. 
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,510

    Joe Scarborough Begs Democrats To Purge The Left

    https://youtu.be/qncn07xwsXw

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  • static111
    static111 Posts: 5,112
    Spiritual_Chaos said:

    Joe Scarborough Begs Democrats To Purge The Left

    https://youtu.be/qncn07xwsXw

    A Republican telling democrats what to do...seems legit...🙄
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  • DarthMaeglin
    DarthMaeglin Toronto Posts: 3,025
    edited November 2020
    Sounds like both sides are urging a purge based on the above post’s headline and this one...both are the worst kind of wrong in my opinion (I realize a purge of Trump supporters will be very popular in this district, lol).

    https://nypost.com/2020/11/06/aoc-facing-heat-for-wanting-to-archive-posts-by-trump-sycophants/

    Edit: I misread the headline I referenced, is Scarborough (ironically the name of the suburb I live in, lol) a conservative or liberal? I thought he was on the con side.
    Post edited by DarthMaeglin on
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  • static111
    static111 Posts: 5,112
    DarthMaeglin said:
    Sounds like both sides are urging a purge based on the above post’s headline and this one...both are the worst kind of wrong in my opinion (I realize a purge of Trump supporters will be very popular in this district, lol).

    https://nypost.com/2020/11/06/aoc-facing-heat-for-wanting-to-archive-posts-by-trump-sycophants/

    Edit: I misread the headline I referenced, is Scarborough (ironically the name of the suburb I live in, lol) a conservative or liberal? I thought he was on the con side.
    He’s a republican
    Scio me nihil scire

    There are no kings inside the gates of eden
  • DarthMaeglin
    DarthMaeglin Toronto Posts: 3,025
    static111 said:
    DarthMaeglin said:
    Sounds like both sides are urging a purge based on the above post’s headline and this one...both are the worst kind of wrong in my opinion (I realize a purge of Trump supporters will be very popular in this district, lol).

    https://nypost.com/2020/11/06/aoc-facing-heat-for-wanting-to-archive-posts-by-trump-sycophants/

    Edit: I misread the headline I referenced, is Scarborough (ironically the name of the suburb I live in, lol) a conservative or liberal? I thought he was on the con side.
    He’s a republican
    Thanks, so both sides are being disgusting in not shutting these calls down.
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