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At some point they give up - usually around your mid-late 30s, because at that point it is too late to pressure you to change course. In any event, they're right with respect to how to raise kids if the objective is to maximize median career outcomes. It is just that many kids who grow up in this society/culture are too fat/lazy/comfortable to appreciate the need to really strive. I'm half kidding with that, but also half serious.
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Guys, you resolve this by having a disclaimer. Most burger places WILL let you choose rare/medium rare and for many of us, that is a requirement. Somehow, they stay in business (probably because the chances of a successful lawsuit over a disclaimer for simple food poisoning is pretty freakin' small and the damages won't be worth most lawyers' time). Judging by what I'm seeing with this new restaurant's approach, this place won't. If you want to compete in a crowded market, you really to be fantastic at what you do and meet the needs of your customers. That means you make the burgers and fries the way customers want. I like truffle fries, but some people don't. Offer regular fries and maybe even a baked potato with toppings (yes, that would be neat, huh?) or coleslaw or something that sets you apart. Have outdoor tables. You know, simple things that make people go to your place instead of the other places around.
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City? The people putting on the boots aren't cops, they're Newport mall cops (private security). Is the city even seeing a dime of that cash?
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All Western countries have their differences. If you compare the US to any EU country you'll also find huge differences. That said, when considering national policy it isn't illogical to consider the experiences of other countries. We've seen Europe adopt fairly open borders to disastrous consequences. We've seen Japan do the opposite to great results.
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Correct. Also, despite score09 and I having very different political leans, (s)he is absolutely right that the US has done a ton of things to create current Islamic extremism, from support of Saudi Arabia, to support of Islamist groups in Afghanistan (and other places) against the Soviets, to support of orgs such as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and so on. I also don't even necessarily disagree that US involvement in many of these conflicts relates to varying degrees of corruption in our government. Libya is a great example of this, as is the original Iraq conflict. Basically, we have made some really idiotic alliances in the middle east which is why we find ourselves supporting some real a-holes in Syria right now who would be significantly worse than Assad if they won (just like Libya is worse off now than it was before US "assistance").
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Yeah, not sure I accept that this is the work of white supremacists, just guys that hate BLM protesters. I can't stand the BLMers and I'm not a WS.
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It obviously makes sense. The West should also feel obliged to donate money to offset their costs, particularly since it was our prodding of this "Arab Spring" nonsense and support of the Syrian rebels that produced this crisis. That is the easy, sensible solution that doesn't fit anyone's political agenda.
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But surely you agree that describing a Hispanic guy that hates BLM types as a "white supremacist" isn't exactly accurate. Or maybe he is and that explains why you think white supremacists make up a huge swath of this country and perhaps why you seem to think I'm a WS as well.
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Why would a non-white guy (or even an urban professional white guy) shill for a bunch of anti-intellectual rednecks who hate all of us? By the way, did you catch my edit? They arrested two guys in that shooting, one of them Hispanic. Clearly the work of the KKK.
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LOL, I like how you assume I'm even white.
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I don't think anyone is clueless, nor do I think they're particularly sympathetic to violent white supremacists (especially since plenty of people in our society that are nevertheless Republican, myself included, would actually be despised by your typical white supremacist). But neither are many sympathetic to your typical BLM trash either, who are right up there with the violent white supremacists. Or have you forgotten the race rioting in Baltimore and Ferguson? EDIT: Oh, and they have made some arrests of these so-called "white supremacists" - apparently a Hispanic guy and a white guy. Clearly a local KKK chapter.
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USA TODAY GOP Power Rankings: Carson slides, Trump soars
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Yeah, piss off a huge portion of the population in a public place long enough and something bad will happen. Notice the absolutely minimal public outcry from them getting shot up. Ponder on what that means. I can't bring myself to feel sad for them either.
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Sweden: Rape Clinic for Men, Publicly Funded "Virginity Tests"
One Month of Islam and Multiculturalism in Sweden: October 2015 http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/694 ... -multiculturalism-october Related: Strained Sweden tightens asylum rules further http://news.yahoo.com/strained-sweden ... es-further-165938501.html Quote:
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Right, so America presents itself to the world in a stupid fashion, and people from around the world have been noting for decades that America - a country with massive drug punishments, generally illegal prostitution, that supports repressive governments such as Saudi Arabia, that imposes an exit tax on its citizens as well as worldwide taxation, is anything but a "beacon of freedom." It isn't ridiculous to point out that the US approach doesn't make any sense whatsoever and that Japan's approach is actually correct. Bonus points for noting that Japan doesn't have a fraction of the social strife that the US or the EU have, much of which is the direct result of massive immigration.
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Yes, but it wouldn't be crazy to point at them and say "hey, maybe they have a point with their conservative immigration policies" given the similarities between these two countries. It wouldn't be equivalent to say, comparing the immigration regimes of North Korea and the US, which truly wouldn't make any sense.
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Also, it really removes any power those terms have. When you declare that anyone who likes Donald Trump (or any other Republican) to be a racist Nazi, then people just shrug and say "ok, whatever, who cares?" Just like the BLM crowd is acting in such an obnoxious fashion that most people have turned against both them and their message, which actually is counterproductive. That became obvious when they started to attack people having brunch in various large cities because they were white and had money. Also same with the liberal "all males are rapists and they should get a notarized consent form prior to engaging any sexual act - and they should add a new signature for each new act performed..." And you know where rapists really flock to? That's right, college campuses. Anyway, I guess what I'm really getting at is that this nonsense is par for course among liberals.
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I understand that there's a clear difference between AQ and ISIS, and that they commonly battle one another, but these are largely political in nature (in other words, it is a question of who they are pledging allegiance to, rather than what they believe or stand for). As you can probably guess, I'm not a large fan of the US's close relationship to the KSA. Also, it is probably an overstatement to say that I am a "strong opponent of Sunni Islam" just because I don't like AQ or ISIS, or because I'm not a fan of taking a bunch of Islamic refugees into my country. I won't say I'm remotely a fan of Islam, but your language might be interpreted to mean I want people killed because they're Sunni Muslims or something crazy like that, which isn't true.
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Why wouldn't we? Both are first world democracies facing many similar issues.
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I don't think this is hysteria. I think it is an accurate description of the org that perpetrated 9/11. How would you describe them? I also find it curious that we have people on this board actually defending AQ and insinuating that they're really "not that bad." I'd love further explanation.
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LOL, while I didn't "confuse them" you're kidding yourself if you think they're all that different. If you look at Al-Nusra or the Islamic courts in Somalia you'll see what I mean. Both sell a radical, hardline version of Sunni Islam that seeks to crush anyone that doesn't subscribe to their belief system.
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Wait, did you seriously just compare cheering for the Red Sox, an f-ing baseball team, to cheering the murder of thousands of Americans by a terrorist org that would happily roast every non-Muslim in America?
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While that isn't great, that isn't comparable. Many people hate any given president. If GWB was assassinated while in office you can bet a bunch of people would have been elated. 9/11 wasn't a single president being killed by some mentally ill guy, it was thousands of civilians being murdered by people from another country promoting a radical ideology that would happily cheer if those thousands became 100s of millions of Americans. This isn't a minor difference - it is a world apart. For some reason, it is become popular to equivocate everything these days. Where people are from doesn't matter, what people believe doesn't matter - everyone is the same. The trouble is that this isn't how humanity actually works or has ever worked. We are a tribal species and always will be. That is why when you have an Oswald killing JFK, you see a man killing another man, but when you see 9/11 terrorists strike, they are trying to kill as many people as possible because they are attacking the entire people. And of course this isn't condoning the murder of anyone - murder is obviously a horrendous crime. But murder multiplied by several thousand, with a goal to kill many more is obviously dramatically worse.
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Atsushi - is your strategy just to continually spam this thread with stories, many of which add nothing to the conversation, in the hopes of drowning out those you disagree with?
Also, I'm also curious as to your analysis of Japan's stance on the refugees.
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I don't understand your conflation of slavery and not allowing in a bunch of questionable refugees. No first world countries will ever have open borders if they're going to survive. I don't accept that barring groups from being accepted based on obvious risk is morally repugnant. Slavery, on the other hand, is not really necessary for national survival, isn't common and is generally viewed (except by certain Syrians who openly practice slavery) as morally repugnant. Quote: Quote: You're not very good at this. Barring guns based on a few bad apples restricts the rights of law abiding citizens. Potential refugees/immigrants have no rights. We either choose to accept them or not - it being entirely our decision. Basing those decisions on avoiding the consequences of those bad apples is perfectly reasonable.
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That's what I've been saying. Anyone who has ever had experience performing background checks on people who are being considered for access to sensitive information knows how this works and why this cannot possibly work for Syrian refugees (or any refugees from a non-cooperative/non-existent government).
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Not really worried about that at all, and if my children ask stupid liberal questions like that then I'll be deeply depressed (not because I supported the wrong position - far from it, but rather than I did a poor job at raising intelligent, pragmatic people). As for Ben Affleck, I have to lol @ a Hollywood liberal asking a question and then suppressing the answer when it doesn't go the way he likes. Quote:
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By the way, since when is AQ defeated? Al-Nusra front is AQ in Syria, and AQ orgs are active in numerous Muslim countries. Yes, ISIS overtook AQ as the primary force of militant Islam, but discussing defeating ISIS by noting how long it took to defeat AQ assumes that AQ was ever defeated. Also alive and well: the Taliban. It is exceptionally difficult to kill terrorist orgs based on extremist ideologies that a large number of people subscribe to. You know, many of the people that are looking to come in as "refugees"!
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Look, people can reproduce or not. My point is that your priorities change. I'm sure they also do what they can for their own interests. In fact, pretty much all of the third world would immigrate to the first world if given the chance. That doesn't mean we should let them, because we should be just as interested in our own well being as they are interested in theirs. My head is firmly where it should be. Yours is obviously not.
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Most ridiculous thing I've read on the internet in quite some time. Congrats.
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