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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Education.
That requires funding approved by legislation.
Reform the justice system to make it illegal for a black man to get a harsher sentence than his white counterpart. Get rid of the war on drugs. Speak clearly on statistics. Order new studies. Crack down on hate speech and incitement.
This can help that easily.
edited 21st Jul '15 4:42:16 AM by Gabrael
"Psssh. Even if you could catch a miracle on a picture any person would probably delete it to make space for more porn." - AszurI'm pretty sure that justice reforms are on the table for all the Democratic candidates; indeed, they're on the table for the current office-holder.
edited 21st Jul '15 5:02:26 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I do not think the Cuba thing is that much relevant to the United States, but it must be a huge deal for Cuba. Just the possibility of opening the market and other sort of stuff for a small country is huge.
But to the U.S it is a gigantic "meh".
edited 21st Jul '15 8:19:05 AM by Aszur
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesUgh. Cigars are disgusting. For my nostrils' sake, I hope they all stay in Cuba.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"The people in America who care most about Cuba are, no surprise, Cuban-Americans. The funny thing is that most Cuban-Americans are people who fled Cuba after being persecuted by the Castro regime, or their kids/grandkids, and as such they tend to take a really hard-line stance regarding the US's relationship with Cuba. They'd much rather see the US do everything in its power to topple the current regime than anything like normalized relations, even though actually being able to travel directly and openly to Cuba again means they'll be able to see family members that they've been separated from for years-if-not-decades.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.Indeed. Cuba's government will rise or fall on its own merits; we cannot (and should not) do anything about it. The days when it was acceptable for our government to topple the governments of other nations... wait, Iraq. Damn. Umm...
Okay, forget that. If history has proven anything, unremitting hostility towards an oppressive government only makes it dig in its heels tighter. If we are not prepared to invade, then we do far better to spread our ideals of democracy and free markets (*cough* like they're doing so well for us...) through open trade than through sanctions.
edited 21st Jul '15 9:24:45 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Normalizing relations with Cuba is also a step in getting our heads out of our asses about dark age policies.
We cut off Cuba because we could afford it. We kept cutting off Cuba because of tradition. We need to grow up and stop being the neighborhood asshole and just move on to more important issues.
"Psssh. Even if you could catch a miracle on a picture any person would probably delete it to make space for more porn." - AszurI think Trump's trying to find and achieve Peak Wingnut.
He's trying to make this into one of his stupid celebrity feuds. I can't say if this is going to help him or not, because a lot of Republicans nowadays love to spew hate at "establishment" figures, but Trump's going about it from a very unsubstantive angle.
Frankly his ability to succeed from this point forward will be an acid test of whether the GOP base has truly gone braindead, whether they are an average slice of America who happen to believe in bad policies, or if they are just stupid people who crave theatre and soundbites over anything resembling policy, because Trump doesn't seem to be pretending at policy with any of this.
From some interviews with Trump's supporters, they mainly like the idea of a businessman running the country because they buy into the ideas that "governments = businesses" and are supposed to run on balanced budgets, and that immigrants are "stealing our jerbs". They're willing to brush aside his blatant offensiveness if he can get those problems fixed.
This does not prove that they are stupid or crazy, but rather that they are victims of the utter failure of our educational system and our media.
edited 21st Jul '15 1:34:50 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"From what I've seen recently, he's got a very curious Vocal Minority following in the military that I really didn't expect to see given his proclivities. Looking at them, they all seem to be fairly new guys in noncombat roles who support him because they think he'll "bring down the hammer on our enemies" or more specifically Mexico if they're the openly racist sorts.
Well, he did promise that he has a secret recipe for "destroying ISIS", and that he'll reveal it once we elect him.
edited 21st Jul '15 1:52:35 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I think he let slip in an interview once that it involves lots and lots of bombs and zero respect for the political sovereignty of any of Iraq's civilians. Because they have a failed state, so clearly they aren't worth respecting... never mind that the reason for that failure is that we invaded them.
edited 21st Jul '15 1:56:59 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

How are policies supposed to affect their actions? All the problems The Wanderer mentioned are people acting harsher, more suspicious, or less respectful when dealing with non-white people. I'm not seeing how that's something you can legislate away.