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KnightofLsama Since: Sep, 2010
#253676: Aug 31st 2018 at 12:29:00 AM

Sorry for the late reply (this thread moves fast) but Raineh Daze, does that article say how old the woman in question was when she was adopted? Because if she was an older adoptee (and I don't mean that old, but even as low as six or seven) it might have contributed to her current feelings.

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#253677: Aug 31st 2018 at 12:40:08 AM

With racism having now become official Trump government policy, how real is the threat of this being a trial balloon before applying it to who is for and against Trump?

This particular bit of odiousness probably isn't, but I am quite worried about what'll happen if that project to remove citizenship from recent immigrants gets off the ground

CookingCat Since: Jul, 2018
#253678: Aug 31st 2018 at 1:24:35 AM

[up]x4 That's a good way to go out of business when people switch to other banks who don't discriminate using immigration excuses.

Edited by CookingCat on Aug 31st 2018 at 1:28:03 AM

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#253679: Aug 31st 2018 at 1:28:48 AM

Wells Fargo: Oh man, I fucked up so bad. No other bank could possibly fuck up as badly as I did.

Bank of America: Hold my beer.

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BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#253680: Aug 31st 2018 at 2:25:55 AM

I hope they feel very stupid when it turns out that some of those people actually have US citizenship

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Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#253681: Aug 31st 2018 at 2:29:45 AM

No, they'll just claim it's fraudulent, like the government is doing in Texas right now.

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#253682: Aug 31st 2018 at 3:08:10 AM

Sorry for the late reply (this thread moves fast) but Raineh Daze, does that article say how old the woman in question was when she was adopted? Because if she was an older adoptee (and I don't mean that old, but even as low as six or seven) it might have contributed to her current feelings.

The only implication it has seems to be before she was eight. And I'm really not an export on developmental psychology.

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#253683: Aug 31st 2018 at 3:28:57 AM

So today's Scandinavia and the World makes a good point: if the right thinks participation trophies are so bad, why do they keep ardently defending Confederate statues?

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#253684: Aug 31st 2018 at 3:37:02 AM

It's typical rightwing doublethink hypocrisy.

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#253685: Aug 31st 2018 at 3:38:03 AM

Pretty much.

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#253686: Aug 31st 2018 at 3:48:14 AM

The easy (lazy) argument is that they're not praising the losers, it's about remembering the dead.

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#253687: Aug 31st 2018 at 3:52:31 AM

And totally not about trying to intimidate the civil rights movement.

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PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
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#253688: Aug 31st 2018 at 3:53:55 AM

Maybe we should start putting up statues of civil rights leaders everywhere. King, X, Parks, and them.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#253689: Aug 31st 2018 at 3:58:11 AM

Not a bad idea, though those statues would almost certainly be vandalized on a regular basis by bigots.

Kind of like how the Emmett Till Sign keeps getting riddled with bullets.

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#253690: Aug 31st 2018 at 4:09:14 AM

They should rebuild it and encase it in bulletproof glass.

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#253691: Aug 31st 2018 at 4:42:39 AM

If they want to celebrate the person rather than an unfortunate idea, make a statue of that general in civilian attire. Or celebrate the armistice between the confederacy and the union.

Not like that kind of logic would fester in those kinds of people though.

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#253692: Aug 31st 2018 at 4:57:46 AM

A lot of the generals they built statues of, civilian attire would be Klan robes. Which is why they built the statue.

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#253693: Aug 31st 2018 at 5:39:07 AM

Trump considers linking capital gains taxes to inflation

For reference, this would provide a roughly $100 billion tax cut to the richest demographics.

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Friendperson Since: May, 2018
#253694: Aug 31st 2018 at 5:39:37 AM

If they want these racist heroes of theirs to be a remembered, build a museum and jerk them off in there, not in public.

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#253695: Aug 31st 2018 at 5:41:52 AM

But that wouldn't allow them to intimidate the proles with it.

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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#253696: Aug 31st 2018 at 5:55:40 AM

I said that if they wanted to honor General Lee (for whatever reason) they should do an image of him surrendering or dressed as a college professor.

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#253697: Aug 31st 2018 at 5:58:13 AM

They should rebuild it and encase it in bulletproof glass.

Problem is, "bulletproof" glass isn't really bulletproof. It's only guaranteed to stop the first three bullets fired from a handgun.

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megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#253698: Aug 31st 2018 at 6:22:33 AM

[up][up] I personally like my Field of Surrendered Lees idea.

Basically, that would involve putting all the non-historically significant statues of Lee in a Field at Appomattox, with appropriate interpretive signage and programing, explaining the history and meaning of confederate monuments in the United States. Like why they were built, the connection to racial supremacy, cultural context, etc.

Edited by megaeliz on Aug 31st 2018 at 9:32:31 AM

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
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#253699: Aug 31st 2018 at 6:56:06 AM

I said that if they wanted to honor General Lee (for whatever reason)

Didn't General Lee explicitly say he didn't want any statue or monument built after him or the confederates?

Well, why not honor his wishes in life as well in death?

Oh wait, they don't care.

I'd build some William Tecumseh Sherman statues in the South just to piss them off. With I love the smell of burning confederates in the morning. It smells like victory written on the base.

Edited by AngelusNox on Aug 31st 2018 at 12:05:04 PM

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TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#253700: Aug 31st 2018 at 7:14:33 AM

Sherman didn’t go far enough, in my opinion.

There whole way of life should’ve been burnt to ashes.

But I’m black so I may be biased.

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