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Wait, it does?
Posted on: 2017/1/4 18:53
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Re: Fulop: despite Trump, Jersey City remains 'welcoming' to immigrants
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Nice strawman there...
Posted on: 2017/1/4 18:40
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Re: Fulop: despite Trump, Jersey City remains 'welcoming' to immigrants
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To be fair, being here illegally makes you a criminal, so...
Posted on: 2016/11/16 6:06
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Re: Trump Our New President
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Well, they might not be happy at paying $2 for a plastic bauble instead of $1.25, but they'll be happier if they have jobs than if they don't. If you're like me and have a nice job then the $2 won't be a big deal but if you're poor and live in middle America, that is the difference between a life/future and depression/death.
Posted on: 2016/11/14 19:09
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One simple link demonstrates who would win or lose that one: https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-china-t ... cts-and-solutions-3306277
Posted on: 2016/11/14 18:14
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Re: NOT OUR PRESIDENT
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I used to be massively concerned with stuff like this, but now I'm starting to think it is a necessary evil. I was in NYC yesterday and the protestors are disruptive, violent, jerks and if allowed to would simply attack anyone they think supports Trump and loot the city. There should be consequences for that, and people that attend these protests should know that if they cause disruption, if they become violent or if they otherwise commit a crime, that they will go to prison.
Posted on: 2016/11/14 17:21
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It will return to the number it always should have been. And if I were an existing "refugee" I would start packing...
Posted on: 2016/11/11 17:26
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Re: Trump Our New President
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I haven't been on here, but I've had a smile on my face since election night. My faith in this country has been restored, and seeing all the degenerates that occupy the left cry and whine is one of the best experiences of my life. Thanks America, and I can't wait until we get Donald Trump as president with a fully Republican congress, followed shortly thereafter with a conservative SCOTUS.
Posted on: 2016/11/11 17:24
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Re: Vote No for 2 city questions
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And in fact, this is a great reason to vote yes on that item. That money is paid by the taxpayers and should not be squandered.
Posted on: 2016/10/25 19:09
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Re: Disrespecting "other" religions
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So if you don't let in gays into the priesthood (which, if you read about the history of the priesthood was exactly where gays were supposed to go) and you replace them with straight men, then all that will happen is that sexual abuse of little girls will make up a larger percentage of abuse cases. When it comes to child sex abuse, that isn't a sexual orientation issue. Both straight and gay people (though usually men in each case) do it. The real issue is the vow of celibacy, which is largely unsustainable for a huge number of people. If priests could date/marry you can bet sex abuse cases would plummet.
Posted on: 2016/10/14 17:40
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What? Sex with boys isn't something straight people do, homosexual sex is still sex, and homosexuality is just an additional "sin" per church doctrine, plus add pedophilia. In other words, if you want to think about it per doctrine, sex with little boys would be worse than sex with little girls, which is worse than sex with adult girls, which is worse than doing nothing. They pretty much did the worst thing they could possibly do.
Posted on: 2016/10/14 17:34
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This reminds me of justifications for not putting in race in reports of crime in media outlets ("the robbery at gunpoint was committed by a young male in his 20s wearing a red jacket") - well, you don't REALLY need to know things like race. True, but underlying reasoning is that somehow writing it out is offensive, which I find puzzling.
Posted on: 2016/10/7 15:52
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Except that your family knew learning english was part of the deal. That we had set holidays, a national language, a specific culture - and that adaptation to that was expected. That isn't really true anymore. Maybe your family would have adapted anyway, but maybe not. Regardless, other families that didn't want to adapt didn't move here. Now, they are perfectly happy moving here - after all, they can get public housing, food stamps, social security, etc.
Posted on: 2016/10/5 19:29
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Re: 9/26/2016: Presidential Debate (Hofstra)
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Now this, this is trolling.
Posted on: 2016/10/3 19:55
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I agree generally that this is nothing new (ergo, it isn't bizarre at all), but in the past you saw significantly less willingness to adapt to the immigrants. In fact, the melting pot isn't even seen as a goal for many today - now we're openly embracing the "tossed salad." And the reason we aren't speaking another language is because nativists, who get a bad rep today, were so unwilling to allow that change. If we don't get that kind of backlash today then we're going to get a very different result.
Posted on: 2016/10/3 19:54
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Why isn't it working anymore? Because traditionally, America has been a melting pot instead of a tossed salad. In other words, in "the good old days" no one expected to adapt to immigrant cultures, immigrant cultures were supposed to assimilate into America. But if you have to let whoever shows up take over then the obvious answer is that you probably shouldn't let people show up anymore unless they're not going to screw up your life.
Posted on: 2016/10/3 19:24
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Re: 9/26/2016: Presidential Debate (Hofstra)
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Examples of my trolling in this thread?
Posted on: 2016/10/3 19:12
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There are arguments both ways with respect to low income earners being "spread out", at least with respect to benefits for the low income people (it is always a loss for the normal folks who actually worked hard to earn what they have, but screw em, right?) This has killed many neighborhoods, and I'll use Chicago as a good example of this. Liberals always have great counter-arguments like "oh look, but the newly spread out gangbangers are shooting people with guns, the problem is guns! Also, they're living next to middle/upper class people but they're not really sharing their money! [insert assorted drivel here]" Basically, if you took Greenville residents and spread them around DTJC, most of us would have to flee somewhere else.
Posted on: 2016/10/3 18:11
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Re: 9/26/2016: Presidential Debate (Hofstra)
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hero69 has simply devolved into left wing talking points without demonstrating any willingness to consider the flaws of his own candidate.
Posted on: 2016/10/3 18:06
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This, right here, is a simple example of why multi-cultural societies can't really work. You can't account for every religion out there. You have to say "ok, this society is X, here are the holidays, and if you need to take a few days for your own stuff fine but ultimately, this is these are the holidays that are this society's holidays because we are a ______ society." That's what happens in the middle east - they're Muslim. So everything is closed on Muslim holidays. Yet, for some reason we in the West have lost our way and feel the desperate need to appease every other religion out there so "they don't feel bad."
So guys, the national holidays are what they are for a reason. The reason is that this society was founded by (feel free to fill in the blank). There's zero reason to change that now - though I do note that there is a good reason to consider this when looking at our immigration policy. The end. And yes, you can guess who I'm voting for in the election. And religiously, I'm not religious at all.
Posted on: 2016/10/3 18:04
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Re: 9/26/2016: Presidential Debate (Hofstra)
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Uh, you think she just "carelessly" setup a secret email server and then "carelessly" had her people destroy all the evidence she could to try to cover it up? Really? Plus, she was acting as a public servant while Trump was just a businessman. Neither is great but Clinton is actually worse.
Posted on: 2016/9/30 3:49
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I CLEARLY break the law speeding. Obama CLEARLY broke the law doing drugs. Clinton did not CLEARLY break the law because she took significant steps to hide her criminal activity (which involved mishandling classified data in order to avoid accountability at later points in time while in public office), making it no longer clear. If you don't see why that's not a point in her favor I don't know what to tell you. Clearly breaking a law that no one cares about, which most people do every day, isn't nearly as bad as hiding activity that is likely illegal but involves exactly the sort of thing that the job of POTUS deals with every day.
Posted on: 2016/9/30 2:50
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Agreed.
Posted on: 2016/9/29 21:04
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I'll say this - both of these candidates play it fast and loose when it comes to operating within the boundaries of the law (like running a secret server holding classified info in your basement). Everyone broke some laws at some point - Obama freakin' talked about doing drugs. I break the law every day - by speeding on my way to work. Many people I know travel to Cuba through Canada because they think that's so cool. So the question is really "have people been breaking laws that we really care about." What is more interesting is that Democrats are deeply concerned about the Cuban embargo in particular.
Posted on: 2016/9/29 21:03
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Another awesome role reversal. Suddenly Democrats, who have always massively opposed the Cuban embargo, the one Obama weakened, care deeply about enforcing this.
Posted on: 2016/9/29 20:22
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You probably should have gone on to college and grad school. You would have learned that citing to an editorial article isn't particularly meaningful.
As to Americans that were sympathetic to the Nazis - you're right, they absolutely existed. Their Nazi sympathizing organizations are not being honored by the US federal government and if they were, I would find that extremely disturbing. If we had say, a major powerful nationally supported militia with a Nazi symbol as an insignia, I would start to wonder what is going on and whether this great "revolution" was indeed a great thing. As to MH17, anyone who has been following the conflict knows exactly what happened. This was in that period when the Ukrainian government was using air power to bomb rebel cities. The rebels just got anti-aircraft weapons. The flight controllers made zero adjustment based on this, so the inevitable happened. No one really thinks it was intentional, at least if they're honest. But here's the funny thing here - imagine for a second that the Syrian rebels used an anti-aircraft weapon and accidentally downed a civilian aircraft. The US would immediately exclaim that this is further excuse for a no fly zone. Here? It is the rebels being terrible people because they're defending their cities from being bombed. Like I said initially, it is really the approach in US foreign policy that is fascinating to me. Quote:
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If you click the wiki link to "violence" at the very start of that, they point to a definition of physical harm. So this definition also encompasses things like abuse of domestic workers and other poor people. That is a very real thing and there are parts of the world where these people are essentially modern slaves, complete with being whipped or otherwise tortured when they displease their masters. You see this quite a bit with domestic workers in Saudi Arabia or fishermen in S.E. Asia, for example. Expanding this to include needing to move because your apartment you're renting is sold or your rent is otherwise increased is nuts. Like I know we like to do this as a society (two drunk teens having intercourse is rape, just like the violent crime) but it is a stupid trend.
Posted on: 2016/9/29 18:06
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So is the policy you're promoting that if Russia is for it, we're against it? So should we be for ISIS and for other assorted Islamist crazies? This is a ridiculous way to look at the world. There's no real reason the US and Russia aren't/shouldn't be geopolitically aligned on most issues.
Posted on: 2016/9/29 14:53
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LOL, do you know what violence is? That isn't violence. Maybe "gentrification related solicitation?" If you want to really stretch things, maybe use "harassment" instead of solicitation? Economic violence suggests people getting assaulted, possibly with weapons. Anyway, I think it JC gentrification is awesome. If you don't like being scared of losing your rental, you should probably buy. No one has a right to stay in their rental at low prices forever, nor should they. Needless to say, I own a row home here.
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