The Real timschochet

Of course. ETA - actually it could be argued that some very rich people get richer. Though even that’s debatable, since being rich only improves you if you live in a relatively secure society. And stuff like this creates instability.

OK? Even if this is true, (I have no idea) it doesn’t begin to make up for the fact that throughout most of MIT’s existence, almost 100% of the students were white males. Why is an attempt to rectify that sad fact just a little bit still unfair? (So long as the applicants are all qualified.)

Sure. Anything that increases the debt this much (estimated 5 trillion dollars) shrinks the value of the dollar. Your spending power will be considerably less over time. The continued tax break you think you’re getting won’t make up for it.

Nope. I don’t answer to you. Look it up if you’d like. Plenty of articles on this out there.

As for the MAGA crowd, many if not most of them will be financially worse off but since this bill sticks it to undocumented immigrants they don’t care. They also want to make liberals cry.

My understanding is that, very cleverly, most of the pain caused by this bill begins AFTER the midterms. Meanwhile there is a temporary tax reduction for Social Security which starts immediately but goes away…after the midterms. So transparent. But who knows, it might work. As old Abe said, the people CAN be fooled some of the time.

First off I have never once argued that those who are well off didn’t earn it. That is true for most people. If you have worked hard all your life and done well as a result more power to you. You needn’t be ashamed of it. In my own case I don’t really talk about it too much because it’s no one’s business but mine. It’s true I inherited my firm from my father but that was after working with him as #2 for over 30 years, during which time I contributed greatly to the expansion of our business. Nothing was simply handed to me. But my point is this: when I speak about white privilege I am not arguing that white people are simply handed things that others are not. I am suggesting instead that we have opportunities to succeed that many minorities do not; they begin, in general, at a lower rung on the ladder. That doesn’t mean they can’t succeed. Nor does it mean that every white person will succeed. All it means is that it isn’t an even playing field. Liberals as a general rule seek government intervention to try and make it a little more equal. But conservatives fight us on every attempt.

The use of the term also assumes that any white person in a similar position must have achieved it through merit- which we all know is total bullsh!t as well.

Nope. The answer to your question is that there is an inherent assumption among bigots that black people aren’t as smart as white people. And when you label someone a “DEI hire” you imply that they aren’t qualified for their position but only achieved it for to their race.

Reading last night that the Canadian boycott is killing Nevada. 30% of Las Vegas tourism is from Canada. Or was.

It does in a Communist society. That’s why the comparison is so lame.

I mean think about it. Almost all of you whiners about DEI, here and elsewhere, are white males. Of the 116 Supreme Court justices in our history, 108 have been white males. And this percentage is pretty much the same in nearly every other aspect of our society (major team sports being the only exception, only recently, and only because it’s the the only industry that is truly merit based without institutional racism, amd that’s true only for the athletes.) So all of you privileged whites reading this, stop b!tching about racism against white people. You don’t get to. Ever. Just go about your lives and maybe feel guilty a little bit sometimes for those who don’t have what we have and maybe try and even the odds a little. No matter how much we try we’ll never even them enough.

1. DEI isn’t racist. 2. If you belittle someone by describing them as a “DEI hire” YOU are being racist. 3. Biden was not racist nor sexist for wanting a qualified black woman on the Court. The racist and sexist part is that, in the whole of the Court’s existence, there have only been 3 blacks on the Court and 6 women. Until numbers like those change significantly in all aspects of our culture, affirmative action and DEI will be absolutely necessary.

Except you’re not helping. And you’re showing off real stupidity here. You obviously know nothing about this topic. I mean your posts about tariffs have been especially ignorant and embarrassing even for you. Have you ever taken an Econ class? Serious question.

They won’t work here either very well, but offering up old Soviet Russia is a terrible example. You guys simply don’t get it with these stupid stupid comparisons. If a leftist like Mamdami ever gets his stupid store it won’t eliminate any of the higher end stores. You dudes gotta lay off the Communism. It’s really paranoid and pathetic and it doesn’t make you look very smart.

Putting aside all the stuff that doesn’t really matter because it won’t ever happen, I wanted to talk about one of Mamdami’s leftist ideas that according to polling is really popular among NY voters: rent control. It doesn’t work. Santa Monica has had it for 40 years. Here’s what happens in a nutshell: tenants never leave. And there’s lots of corruption: tenants with deep pockets claim poverty, then sublease the premises for double or triple the rent. The landlord is helpless. This is an example of a socialist idea that simply works against what it’s intended to do, (Actually I believe that’s true of most socialist ideas.) It’s why I could I never be in love with this sort of candidate; I’ll only support leftists if my alternative is a Trumper.

The Supremes need to stop. In the name of love.

Having a bad day?

My wife often says, because of all the blues music I listen to, that I have the soul of an old black man.

Seriously comparing this dude to Pol Pot…

Well as to your last question I couldn’t say. But I dispute your claim that there was no causation.

You’re right that’s a big reason I like him. I want more public officials who defy Trump. As mayor of NYC he can do a lot to interfere with ICE in particular and that seems like a very good thing to me. His platform is that he’ll run NYC as a liberal mayor. The rest of his supposed platform is meaningless because he has no power to enact it. in truth I don’t particularly care who the mayor of NYC is. It’s a fine city and I enjoy visiting but I don’t live there and never will. I just want more public figures standing up to Trump and I want more elections where the Democrat is chosen, We need to do that until this MAGA sickness is finally defeated.

Well he’s one of many in the legislature.

Sure. Patriotic duty that included defecating on the desks of Congresspeople and brutally attacking police officers which caused some of them to die.

Freudian slip there. As in devolution, given the the conservative decision.