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flameboy21th The would-be novelist from California Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
The would-be novelist
#117676: Mar 29th 2016 at 6:58:42 AM

[up]When there is only one race on Earth.

edited 29th Mar '16 6:59:52 AM by flameboy21th

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JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#117677: Mar 29th 2016 at 7:11:30 AM

[up] Their already is, the human race. And anyway just because one study says it, doesn't mean it's true.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
flameboy21th The would-be novelist from California Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#117679: Mar 29th 2016 at 7:17:47 AM

It's a slow, slow climb out, from the debate about whether blacks really counted as people or citizens, to the debate whether free blacks had a place in America or should get shipped off to Liberia, to accepting Jim Crow as a compromise, to rejecting Jim Crow but inventing the various dog-whistle bogeymen. We've come a long way and it will only continue.

It bears remembering that there are going to be racist nutters in any country if you're willing to turn over every rock to find them, they just stay put most of the time.

Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
V
#117680: Mar 29th 2016 at 7:19:39 AM

[up]

It bears remembering that there are going to be racist nutters in any country if you're willing to turn over every rock to find them, they just stay put most of the time.

And they need not be a different race, either. Just a different nationality.

Keep Rolling On
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#117681: Mar 29th 2016 at 7:20:30 AM

Jack this is a nation built and defined by racial tension. A great deal of our hangups are still race issues at their core.

Oh really when?
flameboy21th The would-be novelist from California Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
The would-be novelist
#117682: Mar 29th 2016 at 7:21:31 AM

I thought our nation was built by tax dodgers.

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Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#117683: Mar 29th 2016 at 7:23:31 AM

[up] That, too.

Slavers, misanthropic frontiersmen, exiled political dissidents, tax evaders, and Puritans. Our founders, folks.

edited 29th Mar '16 7:50:22 AM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#117684: Mar 29th 2016 at 7:24:27 AM

From previous page: "Former Trump super-PAC director: Donald doesn’t even want to be president"

Interesting article. And that is so something he would do.

edited 29th Mar '16 7:25:01 AM by speedyboris

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#117685: Mar 29th 2016 at 7:47:23 AM

I wonder what his supporters would think of that.

FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#117686: Mar 29th 2016 at 7:51:31 AM

The ones who want to see it all burn would just love him all the more.

Dude is Teflon Don.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#117687: Mar 29th 2016 at 7:52:05 AM

They won't care. It would take Trump standing up on a stage at the Republican National Convention and saying, "Ha! I trolled the hell out of all of you. You nominated me for President even though I am the worst possible candidate. Just the worst. Republicans, eh, what a bunch of losers. I'm firing myself, because representing you losers would be the stupidest thing anyone could do. Go let that smug loser Ted Cruz represent you, because he'll do such a great job too. And yes, I'm being sarcastic."

edited 29th Mar '16 7:54:47 AM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#117688: Mar 29th 2016 at 7:52:19 AM

New York Governor Andre Cuomo just issued a ban against state sponsored travel to North Carolina to protest their discrimination law.

https://www.facebook.com/GovernorAndrewCuomo/photos/pcb.1147401098624435/1147395105291701/?type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/GovernorAndrewCuomo/photos/pcb.1147401098624435/1147395098625035/?type=3&theater

[down]I was trying to use anti-anti-discrimation, but didn't fully put it in there right. Going ahead and just putting in discrimination.

edited 29th Mar '16 7:54:51 AM by tclittle

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Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#117689: Mar 29th 2016 at 7:53:21 AM

[up] Note: it's a discrimination bill, not an anti-discrimination bill.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#117691: Mar 29th 2016 at 8:18:31 AM

The problem, as we can see in retrospect, is that this sent exactly the wrong message to an important element of the GOP base. It said that their own party's leaders were planning to betray them.
Well, to be fair, they were, and still are, betraying them right now. Just not to the guys they think.

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#117692: Mar 29th 2016 at 8:47:25 AM

Look what my phone's Reuters app just notified me of:

"Trump campaign manager arrested, charged with battery of reporter" - http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0WV1TP

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#117693: Mar 29th 2016 at 8:49:16 AM

I saw that. Misdemeanor battery, but at least it represents some consequence, however minor it may be.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
HallowHawk Since: Feb, 2013
#117694: Mar 29th 2016 at 8:49:16 AM

[up][up] "Battery"?

edited 29th Mar '16 8:49:28 AM by HallowHawk

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#117695: Mar 29th 2016 at 8:49:52 AM

That, too.

Slavers, misanthropic frontiersmen, exiled political dissidents, tax evaders, and Puritans. Our founders, folks.

I blame England. Their policy of putting the craziest nutters on a boat and shipping them off to die on some godforsaken rock created Australia and us.

edited 29th Mar '16 8:50:05 AM by TobiasDrake

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Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#117696: Mar 29th 2016 at 8:50:06 AM

[up][up]Legally, "assault" is the threat of violence upon a person and "battery" is the commission of violence; the root word is "batter".

edited 29th Mar '16 8:50:25 AM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
HallowHawk Since: Feb, 2013
#117697: Mar 29th 2016 at 9:04:24 AM

[up] Did not know that. Thanks.

One question: Are Native Americans allowed to leave a reservation without causing war, if assuming that was even true?

Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
V
#117698: Mar 29th 2016 at 9:06:03 AM

[up] Yeah. They're not concentration camps.

Keep Rolling On
TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#117699: Mar 29th 2016 at 9:09:45 AM

That reminds me of the Special Agent badge of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pretty sweet.

Si Vis Pacem, Para Perkele
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#117700: Mar 29th 2016 at 9:13:12 AM

What a weird question. Native Americans have implicit U.S. citizenship, as I understand it, and may exercise those rights at any time. But they have to register as Native Americans in order to claim any privileges that accrue to that status. I could be wrong; most of my knowledge comes from a Mercedes Lackey novel.

Technically, Native American reservations have national sovereignty, but I don't think that anyone seriously believes that warfare between reservations and the United States proper is a feasible idea.

edited 29th Mar '16 9:18:23 AM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

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