Everything posted by TwiceHorn
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Trump’s America
Well, obviously, you are a Strong, Well Spoken Black ManTM. And probably a part of that is your ability to dismiss such things. Others may not have that ability, and there's probably a subconscious aspect to it as well. That is, it affects you and others in a negative way that's less conscious than being hurt by it. I'm glad you're here. And a lot of other people of diverse experience and background that I could endlessly list. You make me a better person.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
It's evidence that the Asian guy is about 100x the human being that is the white guy.
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Trump’s America
The other thing I have come to appreciate about racism is the mental aspect. It's not just the laws and customs that deliberately and overtly denied and continue to deny minorities opportunities. It's the psychological effect. What must it be like to be told and reminded that you are a second-class citizen? Every. Goddamn. Day. Of. Your. Life. What does that do to people?
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Trump’s America
I have to confess that I notice "articulate" black people. Is that racist? Yes, in some sense I guess it is. But it gruntles me to see the disadvantaged succeed. And of course seeing "articulateness" as a sign of success I guess is kind of fucked up. And maybe wanting to see the disadvantaged succeed is some kind of salve to my conscience, I don't know. Maybe one thing that informs it is that my parents are from the country. When they moved to Dallas, they consciously shed the telltale signs of being country, the aint's the cain'ts, the po lice. They code switched. But they never had to switch back. I became conscious of this because sometimes after being around my grandparents, I'd say "ain't" or something kind of like it and I'd get chastised mildly for it, like I busted out with "shit" or "fart" or something. "That's a crude or vulgar word, don't use it, people will think you're country/dumb/ignorant/vulgar." Also, particularly with my Dad, I think he saw blatant, expressed racism as another sign of country ignorance that was to be shed. I can't say he was entirely free of discriminatory notions, but for a white man born in southern Arkansas in the 20s, he was about as anti-racist as a person could be. My mother's brother was also college educated and served in the Army Air Corps during WWII (I think my Dad's service and exposure to other educated men from around the country helped form some of his ideas about not being country or racist). But by hook or crook, in pursuing a professional career in business, he remained in country places like Bastrop, LA and Natchez, MS and retained a lot of country vernacular. My Mom was pretty critical of him for doing that. So, I'm proud of my parents for having emerged from a pretty backward, country, agrarian, no-future life into the thoroughly upper-middle. And providing me with immense opportunity. And my grandparents for being stuck there but providing that opportunity for them. It astonishes me, really, that my parents in the 1930s in rural Arkansas were as expected to go to college as I was in suburban Dallas in the 1980s. And I have been guilty of patting myself, really my family, on the back. And admiring their "bootstraps." But I have also come to realize that they rode a pretty unprecedented wave of American prosperity after WWII. And that black people and other minorities were systematically excluded from that prosperity. So, I like to see people overcome. My parents did. A guy like thatguy has overcome more. That fills me with admiration and a certain joy in an existence where that can be hard to find.
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These Jubilee 1 vs 20 social discussion videos
What's the deal with the red flags? And why can't MAGAts stick with one argument? They are constantly shifting the argument, if it's not straight whataboutism. You see it here, it's everywhere. (this is a rhetorical question).
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Trump’s America
Yeah, again a group of people that are incentivized to look down on another group, because it's nice to have someone lower than yourself. I think another factor that drives racism is lack of exposure to another race. Like Irish and Italians rarely interacted with black or brown people in their native land. Their first experiences with black people in America were in close proximity with downtrodden folk a generation or two removed from slavery and operating under Jim Crow and who had fewer opportunities to escape the ghettos than even Irish and Italians.
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Interdasting and I think valid observation. In copyright law, there is a subtle and not so subtle discrimination against commercial art (as opposed to "art for art's sake") in originality and scope of protection. Here, I mean artworks that are driven by commercial or external concerns, rather than the artists' inspirations and inclinations, solely. There are some possibly valid reasons for this in that we can't let copyright drift into protecting utilitarian designs or objects that are properly the subject of patents, which are examined more stringently and have a much shorter "monopoly" term. Probably has nothing much to do with AI, but sort of an interesting data point on the nature of art.
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Trump’s America
One thing that tends to characterize racism everywhere: it's always a problem among the lower classes who are some combination of just ignorant and have been fed a steady diet of LBJ's observation and that _______ wants your cookie, mate. In the south, it probably extends further up into the middle classes and even upper class than elsewhere.
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Trump’s America
Yeah, I may be somewhat unusual, but nowadays when I travel, especially to a place where I have been before and seen the major sites, I like to visit areas where people actually live. Like last time I went to NYC, I made special trips to the outer boroughs and Long Island to see some things and also how and where real people live. And even if I don't make some kind of special trip, I tend to be observant of the locals and how they live. But a whole lot of people just go to the big tourist attractions and gawp and maybe see the richie rich parts of town en route and where they stay.
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Huge Piece of Shit and alleged Woman Abuser Chris Beard has been hired at Mississippi
Yeah, I almost said "to the extent he hasn't already."
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Could be, but Asians do tend to wear masks pre- and post-covid.
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The Trump Economy
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2017370992436249025Community note didn't post. Look at the origin of the Y axis. Steel production increased between 1.1 and 1.5%. Which is probably within the measurement error.
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Huge Piece of Shit and alleged Woman Abuser Chris Beard has been hired at Mississippi
I sense that for better or worse, Beard is likely to be "forgiven" like Petrino and others. How long do we think that's gonna take? Or his he going to wallow in relative obscurity so long that he won't get another good job?
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
I think it's just a nod to their edgelord notion that women can't lead, shouldn't vote, work, etc. because they're too soft. They also like to tiptoe around the notion that something bad has to happen or be done to save America. Trying to pave the way to authoritarianism.
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Trump’s America
Knock me over with a feather. Although I remain somewhat shocked that college and pro athletes can spend so much time in close proximity and presumably close friendly relations with other races that they don't pick up some empathy along the way. You don't really have to be a bleeding heart empath to hate Trump's guts, or at least completely reject him.
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Trump’s America
And, I think the biggest point is that while the Confederate south has a nasty association with racism, for obvious reasons, it hardly has a monopoly on it. Yankee types can't get too self-righteous about it. And I don't really mean that as some way of keeping score between Texas and some other state, or one region or another. I mean it in the sense that we've all got problems and work to do.
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ICE activity/raids
But Biden politicized the DOJ!
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Epic movies or shows you haven't gotten around to watching
It's probably been mentioned, but from Season 1 alone, The Wire looks like maybe an above-average police procedural, with some excessive focus on the targets of the cops. That genre has kind of been done to death, in the 20 some odd years since The Wire premiered, if not before. Then you get the Season 2 wtf, and then the greatness of it begins to dawn on you. And it does have a ton of incredible scenes and dialog, but I get that that's not enough to hold people.
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Texas -- a failed state
Say it with your chest, boy. Says the anonymous aggy on a neighborhood message board.
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JD Vance Fucked 5 couches as a hillbilly, then went on to kill the pope
I think, way back in the old days, they might have muted booing of say Nixon out of "respect for the office" or something. It was disingenuous then and worse now.
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Trump’s America
A friend has a MAGAt at their gym that wears a lot of gear and attempts to engage the friend and others on political topics constantly. Most recently, he was heard stating that he was losing faith in dear leader because of too much foreign stuff, too much focus abroad.
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2026 Midterms ...
Also among rurals I bet there's a good bit of surname not matching birth surname, as I can see a lot of those births coming out of wedlock or followed by multiple remarriages and name takings, if not adoptions.