The Maelstrom of Violence

[Kinser79]

(09-05-2017, 11:20 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: I can think of more important rights than the right to bear a gun, like the right to travel, the right to change jobs, the right to refuse to do certain work, the right to make investments.... and the right to have consensual sex.

The right to bear arms secures all those other rights. If you disbelieve me, what is the first thing any dictator does to his population before he starts shipping them off to Konzentrationslager or Gulag? He disarms them.

Quote:People have passed -- people who have won the genetic lottery that conceals any obvious African ancestry in outer appearance.

Of course because there are no millionaires with African ancestry, no scientists with African ancestry and naturally no Presidents with African ancestry. Or could it be that in America a man who applies himself can accomplish anything he sets his mind to and is actually able to accomplish.

Winning a genetic lottery is being tall enough to compete in the NBA, I don't see many short fat Jewish guys in the NBA. Sorry. Getting rich, or getting power, or getting fame do not require winning such a lottery though. At least not in this country.

White privilege is a myth.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/43...th-reality

Quote:I would like to see the next President treat poverty as something to address with coherent programs (Barack Obama, regrettably, could not address American poverty because he is... you know) instead of treating it as a Third Rail of politics.

There have been anti-poverty programs since the 1960s. The number of people actually in poverty has not decreased one iota. The only conclusion that can be realistically drawn from that information is that anti-poverty programs do not work, or do not work as intended. I would say that they do work precisely as intended, it creates a dependent class that can be threatened with welfare cuts if the Republican gets in. It is somewhat of a masterstroke from Dimocrats.

If the goal is to address poverty then there is only one way to do that. Jobs, and jobs that pay enough that someone can support themselves and their family. In order to acheive this the US has to do several things:

1. Address trade. Service sector jobs simply will never be high paying enough to provide the majority of people who don't have the ability to be doctors and lawyers and so on with a living wage. As such it is prudent to put those people into making things. This means the base is and must be industry, agriculture and construction.
2. Restrict the labor pool. Since labor is a commodity it is subject to supply and demand like all other commodities. Wages too low? Restrict immigration and tightness in the job market will in short order bring rising wages.
3. People with rising wages will desire more services which will soak up the remainder of the unemployed. There should be no immigration into the country allowed unless the US already has full employment (and I mean the real numbers not the cooked numbers).

Quote:The Republicans are stuck with Donald Trump and the consequences of his mercurial style of government. We are beginning to see those consequences. I need not go into the details here. Polls that have shown a disapproval rating of 60%

National polls are meaningless for reasons I've addressed earlier. Polls that don't publish their methodology are worse than useless.

Quote:even if there are yet no military disasters and the economy has yet to tank

1. No one can predict the future of any military actions with any degree of accuracy. That being said, taking out the DPRK, which is necessary, should be a piece of cake if we can keep the PRC out of the peninsula.
2. The economy grew at 3% last quarter, the first time it did so in over 10 years! The leading indicators are all up, probably because the President is addressing the trade problem and the labor surplus.

Quote:About 45% of the American population is decidedly conservative, and some of those seeing something terribly wrong with President Trump are conservatives.

Citation needed. My experience indicates that, at least in Florida, the people who voted for Trump still support him. As such I'm going to require evidence otherwise this statement is just wishful thinking on your part.

Quote:White people have been able to adopt 'blackness' in culture and appearance. The rewards are small and the difficulties are great.  

Rachel Dolezal aside, most white people have no desire to be black. Most black people have no desire to be white. Let me illustrate it this way, and it applies to dick girls and vagina boys too.

I like cats, says person A.
I like dogs, says person B.
I am a cat trapped in a dog's body, says person C.

Person C is obviously mentally ill.

In the US there is only one nation, Americans, and one culture, American. You are either an American or you are not.

Quote:But Kinser is still an extremist.

Yes. Let me remind you: Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Quote: I see much evidence of people wondering how they could have voted for him.

Then you surely have citations for when I say a citation is needed then. My experience indicates otherwise, and I deal with the public nearly daily. I'm not going to bother with the rest of your paragraph since it is just the same old canned nonsense you spout off with every other post. Get some new material PBR.

Quote:Reality will crush some extreme positions of partisanship.

Yes it will. I love seeing boomer ideologues getting crushed. Unfortunately it disconcerts my boyfriend when I start quoting labor statistics and GDP figures when we're fucking.