The Real timschochet

That has nothing to do with anything I asserted. Also it seems unlikely but I don’t really care. When you brag about your wealth on the internet it doesn’t make you impressive if that’s your goal. It just makes you look like an a$$hole (and of your comment is true a stupid a$$hole too.)

This first part is true, because we benefit from that past and any negative result is our collective responsibility.

The problem is that your present continues the problem. Even if we make all universities completely merit based in terms of acceptance we will still find the same racial disparities due mainly to the differences in education in primary school. Personally I am not advocating that we rectify this with DEI programs: as I wrote I don’t think they work, well-intentioned as they are. But the conservative solution to simply leave everything alone doesn’t work either. We do need government intervention, but it has to be earlier.

Also fock off. Why do people have to be such scumbags at times like this?

Pure evil.

Murkowski voted to push the big beautiful bill through. If she votes for its passage tonight, it probably wont matter if she changes parties because she won’t win re-election anyhow.

Yours as well.

Was the last sentence part of your question?

Normal for a tiny percentage of the population. And if you’re not part of that percentage, not your concern.

Hardly. You’re lying to yourself if you think you’re better off. That or you’re simply not smart enough to see the truth.

January 6, 2021. A group of angry almost all white extremist insurrectionists attacked the Capitol Building, pissed off that that their racist hero would no longer be President. They were especially violent towards black police officers and used the “N” word as they attacked.

Personally I’m doing great. The best thing about progressivism is that it always wins in the end. Thats the history of human civilization. All progressive ideas eventually win out. For every two steps backwards, we soon take 4 steps forward. For many of you reading this, your parents railed against gay marriage (or maybe you did.) Some of your grandparents argued against racial equality, and your great-grandparents were against immigrants from Ireland, Italy and China. As I write this I am very confident that your grandchildren, in turn, will be accepting of transgender changes among teenagers and treating all trans people with respect; they will not view it as a mental illness. Further your grandkids will be much more tolerant of undocumented immigrants and globalism in general. We move ever forward.

This is so true. I highly recommend reading the book White Rage by Carol Anderson. It would certainly open up some eyes in these parts. Almost every race riot in the history of this country has been started by angry white dudes AGAINST black people.

You’re arguing that Trump’s tax cut has nothing to do with inflation?

I already did. I wrote that your tax break does not make up for the fact that your spending power is less. You’re actually worse off now than you were then. Financially you haven’t benefited. It shouldn’t be too difficult for you to verify if I am right about this though only you can do it: first, compare your net annual income in 2017 (when the first bill passed to now.) Second, compare average prices in 2017 to now. I am betting that any benefit you received specifically from the tax cut is inconsequential compared to the increased costs that you spend now on household goods. But you tell me.

MIT was founded in 1861. So 1985 is still relatively new. Go back a little farther (before the woman’s lib movement) and check the percentages.

@supermike80: Here, above is a racist argument. You didn’t make one, this guy did, when he wrote “there was never anything wrong.” I get accused of calling everyone who disagrees with me on issues like this racist. That is not so. I think it’s actually rather easy to distinguish the racist arguments from the non-racist ones.

I don’t believe it’s racism. But…I’m been a little disingenuous here because I also don’t believe it works, at least not at the college level. I don’t believe in affirmative action/DEI, not because it’s racist (I strongly reject that argument) but because, like so many other government programs, it creates more inefficiencies than it solves. You can’t solve racism at the college level. Returning to the topic of Justice Jackson: she is actually much more of a victim of DEI than she is a beneficiary: because it causes so many of you to suspect that she is unqualified which is completely unfair.

Am I? If you don’t want to take the second or two it would take it Google it, why not ring up the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce and ask them?

Not at all. I cited MAGA because my point is that they will support anything Trump does no matter whether it’s good for them or not. If you disagree with this statement, you’re welcome to provide an example or when it hasn’t been so in the last 10 years.

Serious question from a non-Christian: Why do images of Christ and Mary only appear among Catholics? Why does this never happen among Protestants?

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.