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Spin Zone / Re: Talk to you later
« on: May 27, 2017, 02:06:47 PM »
Be safe and have fun!
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Exactly.
The way we are doing it now is inefficient, unfair, destroys personal motivation and encourages fathers to leave their families.
Universal income provides opportunity, and as a side benefit eases the burden on employers.
When people see that they actually have an opportunity to succeed, they will try harder. Of course, we are always going to have the lazy, non-motivated, and people that are just not able to improve themselves.
Appreciate it, getting old ain't no fun.
The desire to defensively hold on to your beliefs in the face of contrary facts is a common human fault. It's not specific to Liberals, nor is it specific to politics. It takes maturity, humility, and a number of other things to admit you've been wrong or an element of your belief system is wrong. It sounds like your daughter isn't there yet. Some folks never get there, some folks partially get there, and we're all guilty of it.
Actually, it's not. The desire be a part of the tribe and to comply with how the tribe does things is a common human trait. People don't fail to change their beliefs because in the face of contrary facts, they fail to do it because the facts are not trustworthy and fly in the face of how their tribe behaves. There is an important difference.
As far as anyone knows, Trump never grabbed anyone.
Totally agree. The War on Drugs, and the War on terror ahs been used by both Republicans, and Democrats alike to grow agency budget5s, expand "law enforcement", and deny freedoms to law abiding citizens. I no longer trust law enforcement. I don't blame them for everything either, but I don't trust the motives of police at any level anymore. I think they want numbers to justify larger, and larger budgets, and agencies just like most other government entities. However, unlike other agencies, they can and do put people in jail for all the wrong reasons.
We have serious discussioms about oil production versus oil purchasing, inflation as an inhibitor of jobs and the escalating damage to the economy of business toxic regulation around the dinner table and our daughter hears a single trigger word and goes off like an idiot.
When I patiently explain the details all she can do is spout talking points and that Trump is racist and sexist.
Not seeing a lot of discussion about what happened here so I assume you're all good with the Obama administration spying on citizens?
Our daughter is a wild-eyed progressive. She instantly recites the current talking point but if you ask her a simple question she resorts to anger, tears and then evil behavior to cover up the fact that she has - literally - never given the topic a serious thought.
She was screeching about Trump's sexist and racist past one night. She claimed he was the KKK in the White House and I simply asked to point out one single instance of racist behavior on his part.
After the stupid, blank stare, followed by babbling about Trump is racist, sexist and evil, she screamed out, "He wants to build a fucking wall!!!!!"
So I showed her examples of other administrations wall building efforts and then googled for her Bill Clinton and Hilary's comments on things like marriage and national security, which sounded exactly like conservatives and she sat stunned until she could build up enough rage to start crying - again - and turn her venom on me for being "just like that fucking trump."
Liberals, as a general observation, have zero credibility in any argument because they tend to be emotional basket cases, absent a scintilla of thoughtful study and intelligent curiosity.
When they can't win on babbling stupidity, they think tears and then violent rhetoric will solve it all.
Did you think I was serious?
Abedi was born in Manchester in 1994 and is of Libyan descent.
The second youngest of four children, his parents Samia Tabbal, 50, and father, Ramadan Abedi, a security officer, were Libyan refugees who came to the UK to escape the Gaddafi regime, although they are believed to have returned.