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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
The party of scared white people. 'Nuff said.
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So, Meritocracy. Apparently, the main trouble is that people think it's a thing that's been already achieved, rather than something that's inherently unattainable but worthy of being strived for. Furthermore, the trouble is that they use this assumption to have the rich feel entitled to their wealth and contemptuous of the poor for failing to become as wealthy as they, regardless of how much economical (let alone moral) sense such a stance makes.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
A.K.A. Calvinism, a doctrine promulgated by the wealthy classes in an ostentatious turn to piety around and shortly after the New Deal became a fait accompli, specifically for the purpose of suborning religious populism which had, previously, been strongly in favor of social support programs and higher taxation.
edited 25th Aug '15 9:16:32 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Of course, Calvinism wasn't a new idea, invented by the wealthy in the 1930s — it had been around since John Calvin
come up with the idea in the 16th Century.
edited 25th Aug '15 9:22:41 AM by Greenmantle
Keep Rolling OnI am actually very happy with this whole "anchor baby debate".
I think it will create a coalition between two very different social groups, hispanics and asians.
I believe that from here onwards hispanics and asians will become a more or less unified voting block.
Jeb Bush Brings Asian Immigrants Into 'Anchor Baby' Debate
edited 25th Aug '15 9:32:15 AM by BAFFU
Sam Brownback's Kansas disaster is getting even worse.
(full article)
(source data)
The unemployment rate climbed for the fourth straight month, up to 4.6 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. And look at this disastrous note: The Sunflower State now has 1,700 fewer jobs than it did at the start of 2015.
One more fact from the latest report shows that Kansas has added a puny 5,600 total jobs in the last year — from July 2014 to July 2015. The new information shows that the tax cuts that have drained the Kansas treasury of hundreds of millions of dollars the past two years are not working to attract employers and jobs.
have anchor baby relatives.
. It is fairly commonplace in middle-class to upper-class Chinese social circles over here.
Honestly, it is a loophole. so, imo, if the Americans want to change it, I think it's within their right. Already more than enough trouble taking care of your own + the immigrants already over there, legal or illegal.
I will also admit freely that I do not like using children as anchors. People should have children with the intention of them living their own lives, not as a pathway to a better standard of living. It's basically like getting the USA into a baby trap.
edited 25th Aug '15 9:46:06 AM by probablyinsane
Plants are aliens, and fungi are nanomachines.I need strong sources on this one because the difference between stowing away on a freight ship and trekking a desert is negligible in terms of the ingenuity required to accomplish the task. This is also a simple matter of geography and topography rather than success rate. Same goes for the green card application process.
edited 25th Aug '15 9:48:07 AM by Aprilla
We should want these people to come. There's more than enough space for them. Of course they displace "White American Culture" to some extent, but that's inevitable. Can't roll back the clock, can't push back the ocean. The alternative is to become Japan.
edited 25th Aug '15 9:50:56 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Our social services suck because upper-class whites don't want to cough up their hard-earned (*cough* extracted via rent-seeking) money in taxes and because poor whites want to stick it to the dirty blacks/Mexicans/whatever. We have ample resources to provide for everyone and will for the foreseeable future.
Have you seen how hard immigrants work? If their work ethic were to be matched by fair economic compensation, they'd be the new middle class faster than you could say "goodbye white privilege".
edited 25th Aug '15 9:55:25 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"![]()
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Right. Public assistance programs like equal opportunity housing, TANF, SNAP, WIC and workforce grants are much cheaper in the long term than debt accrued from past due notices and defaulting on loans. In terms of cost, public assistance is dwarfed by corporate subsidies, but our country has a magnificent unwillingness to understand and accept that.
edited 25th Aug '15 9:57:56 AM by Aprilla

When it comes to number of kids, I'm pretty much "have as many as you can comfortably support (preferably without govt. assistance or asking the public for donations)".
19 kids though is WTF, imho.
Plants are aliens, and fungi are nanomachines.