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Idiocracy

Like I said, I don't really believe that in a small-ish city that racial tensions can be confined to one high school. Likewise, I think you might need the input of racial minorities to really ascertain what "business as usual" means in terms of tension.

I'm not from there but I know people who are and they describe things slightly differently than you.
 
And like I've said, I live there, I lived it, I went to that school. I understand many of the dynamics that affect it as I've been a member of a couple of the involved communities. I've also personally been a victim of a "race related" incident in that school and can personally tell you that it didn't increase racial tensions. If Cole Harbour and the surrounding communities have been described to you as such that's a shame and disingenuous. Does the HRM have no race problems? I'd be pretty naive to even suggest that. But did Sydney Crosby grow up in an area that was on the verge of race wars with continuous levels of elevated tension? No. Syd was 2 in 89, 10 in 97, and was playing in Pittsburgh by 2007. There's a lot more personal vendetta involved than the media ever played it out to be. They just always jumped on the fact that two communities have had a feud for decades, one of which was a white community the other a black community, and painted everyone with the same brush.
 
spiderbob said:
If Cole Harbour and the surrounding communities have been described to you as such that's a shame and disingenuous.
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I'm not sure if you're accusing me or my friend of being disingenuous here but there is the additional possibility that my friend simply has a different opinion of things than you do.

spiderbob said:
Does the HRM have no race problems? I'd be pretty naive to even suggest that. But did Sydney Crosby grow up in an area that was on the verge of race wars with continuous levels of elevated tension? No.
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I don't feel that was the implication. I get that you may be exaggerating for effect but the basic gist that I think you, my friend and the tweets seem to agree on is that it's unlikely that Sid Crosby is completely oblivious to the concept of racial tensions.
 
Another member of Team Trump goes down as Tom Price resigns as HHS Secretary after getting caught in a private/military jet spending scandal where he racked up over a million dollars in international flights. 
 
Donald Trump getting into a twitter war with Puerto Rico, while he is golfing in the middle of a catastrophe that happened to US citizens.  When will this just stop.  The Republicans need to be barred from holding public office for propping him up.
 
Here's the story...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/30/trump-lashes-out-at-san-juan-mayor-who-begged-for-more-help.htmll


And...sounds like something very foreign...

Asked why government aid to Puerto Rico has been slow to arrive after Hurricane Maria: Puerto Rico is an island.

?It?s very tough, because it?s an island,? Trump said during a meeting with members of the House. ?In Texas, we can ship the trucks right out there. And you know, we?ve gotten A-pluses on Texas and on Florida, and we will also on Puerto Rico. But the difference is, this is an island sitting in the middle of an ocean. And it?s a big ocean; it?s a very big ocean. And we?re doing a really good job."

?Frankly, we?re doing ? and it?s the most difficult job because it?s on the island ? it?s on an island in the middle of the ocean,? he said. ?It?s out in the ocean. You can?t just drive your trucks there from other states.?

That?s true. Instead, supplies must be transported by airplane or ship instead of by truck. But that?s still not a great excuse for why the island is awaiting supplies.  But there?s a way to scale that up. In January, a cargo ship operated by the U.S. Navy delivered supplies to researchers in Antarctica totaling nearly 7 million pounds of supplies.

So couldn?t the government have either sent supplies in advance (as it did for Texas and Florida by truck) or sent cargo after the fact that could have gotten to Puerto Rico by now?

The answer is yes and yes.

More:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/09/26/the-very-big-ocean-between-here-and-puerto-rico-is-not-a-perfect-excuse-for-a-lack-of-aid/
 
Puerto Rico est? aqu?...

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Is the fact that Puerto Ricans don't pay federal income tax part of the issue here?

Not that I think it should, but I wonder if that's part of the thinking at the highest level.
 
WhatIfGodWasALeaf said:
Is the fact that Puerto Ricans don't pay federal income tax part of the issue here?

Not that I think it should, but I wonder if that's part of the thinking at the highest level.
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If paying taxes is the issue, why do they continue to back Trump?
 
herman said:
WhatIfGodWasALeaf said:
Is the fact that Puerto Ricans don't pay federal income tax part of the issue here?

Not that I think it should, but I wonder if that's part of the thinking at the highest level.
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If paying taxes is the issue, why do they continue to back Trump?
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He's a rich white male, one of them, not subject to the same rules as the plebians.
 
WhatIfGodWasALeaf said:
Is the fact that Puerto Ricans don't pay federal income tax part of the issue here?

Not that I think it should, but I wonder if that's part of the thinking at the highest level.
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Isn't that because they're a territory and not a state? Afaik theres a lot of issues with being a territory and not a state.

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https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/915248547859066885
www.twitter.com/NBCNews/status/915248547859066885

Can't make this stuff up.
 
That sort of brings up a question I've been pondering. Do Trump's supporters think he's smart? Do they think that if given, say, a substantive test on the constitution or health care policy or American history that he'd do well?

Fans of Bush always seemed to think the question was besides the point. They agreed with his values, so his raw intelligence was incidental. Meanwhile people like Obama and Hillary, I'm pretty sure, would do well in those settings and that was part of their appeal.
 
Nik the Trik said:
That sort of brings up a question I've been pondering. Do Trump's supporters think he's smart? Do they think that if given, say, a substantive test on the constitution or health care policy or American history that he'd do well?

Fans of Bush always seemed to think the question was besides the point. They agreed with his values, so his raw intelligence was incidental. Meanwhile people like Obama and Hillary, I'm pretty sure, would do well in those settings and that was part of their appeal.
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I think it's still kind of the same now. Intelligence is not a prerequisite of the Republican candidate; only whoever will take the same 'moral' stand with their base. I know the Bible Belt bloc of voters were willing to jump into bed with Trump for the ability to appoint a conservative Supreme Court Justice, his past and present sins be damned.
 
herman said:
I think it's still kind of the same now. Intelligence is not a prerequisite of the Republican candidate; only whoever will take the same 'moral' stand with their base. I know the Bible Belt bloc of voters were willing to jump into bed with Trump for the ability to appoint a conservative Supreme Court Justice, his past and present sins be damned.
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No, I get that. The party is essentially comprised at this point of craven cynical opportunists disguised as defenders of virtue and the wall street types for whom craven cynical opportunism is a virtue unto itself but I still don't know if the rank and file would rate him with Bush there. Like I wonder how many would effectively say that he must be smart because he's a billionaire/got elected president or just because they themselves don't want to admit they voted for someone who isn't really bright.
 
This administration is an absolute embarrassment.

Having an oil/gas man as the head of the EPA is disgusting. They're ending some of Obama's moves towards limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/epa-chief-says-administration-roll-150239621.html
 
For the past twenty years the media has catered to and celebrated the lowest common denominator in society and now we're seeing the chickens come home to roost.

When I was a kid, intelligence, kindness and the sciences were all things we celebrated.

Now we've created a world where people are so desensitized to the worst aspects of humanity that we've allowed an utter buffoon to drag us towards a thermo-nuclear third world war.

I mean how has he not been dragged out of there kicking and screaming yet?

Think of his Presidency and go back five years and describe his first year in office to someone, it's literally beyond reasonable comprehension.

He is an absolute affront to all that is good and decent in the world and he makes me worry about the world my son is going to grow up in.
 
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