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[quote quote=865]Legend sir, I’d be careful about saying things like your last sentence which delve into cultural issues as a reason why giving someone money is a poor idea. That reads a lot like something I don’t think you intended. I could be wrong. I’ll keep this brief…reparations are an interesting thing to talk about and that is about it.[/quote]
If you mean my last sentence reads as bringing a focus on elements of African American culture as root issues that we all should be talking about beyond economic disparities , I intended that. I wish we all would. Dan P Moynihan said it too. I think handing a check And washing our collective hands of the concern for the plight of African Americans would be a disaster.
If you mean my last sentence read as “they can’t handle money,” I didn’t intend that at all. I can see that you could have read that in the words.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Cc that’s an important question. What sins? The new orthodox view is your sin is getting the benefit of the doubt for being white. Whiteness, they will say, is both the biggest benefit and the biggest source of ignorance there is.
there are many, many questions to ask and answer when it relates to reparations. Alaska was not even part of the Union during slavery. Is it exempted? Same with Hawaii and other territories.
What about people who immigrated to the US since 1865? A LOT of the population isn’t traced to ancestors of a slave government in the US. The Irish have experienced prejudice at least on the spectrum of what the black man has faced. Ditto the Chinese. Do they need to pay reparations for slavery? If so, why? By what logic does a descendent of a coolie brought over from China to work the railroad need to pay the descendent of a slave who was freed by a fantastically costly war?
these are very hard questions. If it just comes down to money, any kind of reparations will be a disaster for African Americans, who face a culture issue that is probably as big as the economic issue that dollar reparations would purportedly cover.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It would be hard to be civil because looking at reparations means having to also look at existing programs and subsidies. It means looking not only at means but also at existing benefits.
the “what next” is the real burner. My belief is that reparations would only benefit this generation and maybe one more, so we would be right back where we are in 25 years or so.
the real question is whether reparations should actually be in the form of free education through college for successive generations or some equalizing investment in bringing black people into stem careers over time. For me, they would need to make it less of a windfall for one generation and more of an investment in many.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)If trump did something, does it need to be public?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)This is exactly how the communists win: Turn the kids against their parents. The kids don’t know the damage they are doing in the name of perception, and the leftists just get more ammo for public show trials.
i don’t have an Instagram account. But I got to see a few of the posts before it demanded I log in. “Creepy vibe” was one of them.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Looks like they are all there. Replies to a specific post get threaded under that specific post.
this forum needs a read/unread function.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Joe Biden is, literally, the power structure that people are railing against today. That they can’t see it as they advocate for him and against IT, is a testament to the strength of ideological blinders.
Biden has been in government since the massive decline of African American families, communities, and safety accelerated. He literally has ridden along while it has happened, and advocated for some of the things that accelerated it. Why he should get a pass while trump is considered the most racist president ever is striking. It shows that people vote how they feel and not what they think. Trump makes people feel pretty awful, even while helping them. Biden feels like your benign old uncle, even while bolstering his position in the power structure and hurting communities in the process.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The only ones who do well in anarchy are the ones who relinquish their manners either first or hardest. Your rifles aren’t worth much if you still have the civility not to use them. And therein lies your salvation and your disadvantage.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)My read is that “THE” Civil War, meaning the war between the United States of America, is a subject that some who probably don’t even know the origins and realities of the war just…simply…don’t…want to see it trivialized because of slavery.
Never mind that “civil war” has a meaning independent of the American “war of Northern Aggression” or whatever you call it.
We have genuinely jumped the shark.
What goes next? Whipped cream? Is cool whip going to trigger somebody because it’s white and says “whip?”
Don’t even get me started on the hundreds of boxes of crackers in my local grocery store that are now an affront to the sensitive masses.
Or the rope swing in my back yard, which is now a symbol of hate.
Yes, I’m kidding, but only just.
It is very legitimate to ask where does “sensitivity” stop and “get over it” become an actual response to someone’s acquired PTSD?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Great point. Remember the terrorism color codes? Seems relevant here.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Oh crap. Did I run afoul of the censors with that? Watch this.
terrorists.
terrorists.
terrorists.
nope. I’m good. 🙂
Any organization that espouses burning down / tearing down government via the exercise of violent insurrection can be considered a terrorist organization. BLM (the org) has incited at least that much. The CHOP leaders captured property by force. They are outlaws and should be prosecuted, but they won’t because of some twisted sense of guilt and low behavioral standards for the aggrieved classes.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Good video. These are terrorist threats.
the black panther at the end has some good points.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=767]Control. I am not being flippant but Several studies now shows that people who control their lives, or perceive that they control their lives are happier than their peers. My life is one big egg hunt for above mentioned control feeling. Editorial note. I never doubted Spike’s redemption for beneath the rough exterior always existed a solid, god fearing, family loving man.[/quote]
I completely believe that control is an important element of happiness, so don’t take you flippantly at all, but I can’t believe it’s everything. I know or have known plenty of people who have enough money to have autonomy and who are miserable.
Now, my definition of control above is about financial control, which is certainly only part of the puzzle, but not all, and I understand that.
Is there something to happiness that is about understanding that what you control is actually under control, and that which you can’t control just matters a little bit less? I have seen people (and suspect one or two of our denizens here) who are absolutely miserable with the “direction of the country,” when in reality that direction is going to happen whether they like it or not.
Is there something about control over the things you can rationally control?
IDK.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Thanks for this. It reminded me of the notion of “being” happy vs. pursuing happiness.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I can agree with coffee in the morning. Outside. Like I’m doing right now.
family, for me, has been a double edged sword. I have the most amazing family life at home with my wife and kids, and my extended family is an all american shit show of epic proportions. Talking to some of my relatives brings that little bit of bile up while you wait for the next bit of gossip and backbiting.
I think I’m at a point where it’s family and work, still. I am happy doing things and helping people. Have been working on a couple of old cars lately with my son. That makes me happy.
I’m a full believer that there is never enough money for it to make you happy alone. There is probably never enough sex or parties or food or cars and boats or swimming pools to do it. That’s all hollow and it’s unfortunately what is most often equated with “happy.”
A long walk on a quiet trail is surprisingly happiness inducing.
if you had asked me what I thought of this question I could have easily hit you with the platitude that happiness is “something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to” and I still think that’s 80 percent of it. But there’s possibly a better framing and I’m still looking for words for it.
It’s a question I ask cautiously because the older I get the more I realize that people who are truly happy are rare, and people who walk around in a lot of pain are common.
wonder how others think about it?
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