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No he isn't! Shut up Senri!
War Room Lounge v139: Trump has an IQ of at least 140 because he went to Wharton
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The general populace is pretty left these days , the only reason the conservatives even have a chance to win elections is because there is a three way vote split on the left , even then it requires the liberals to have done a crap job .
Do a couple of bad apples spoil the bunch ?
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Clearly you've never had an apple orchard. Yes a couple of bad apples spoil the bunch!
I don't hate Canadians "mate", I just think people sometimes ignore the fact there's racism up there too.
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Settle down my molting flesh... All Sapiens have an oscillation period where they must coalesce into a tighter form due to unforeseen circumstances. He will become beautiful again in order to emit a new musk that the masses crave. You will also undergo this process when the time is right.
Remember to leave your room in an orderly manner before you leave the house Mr. Tonni...
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It's funny , I watch five minute games on YouTube and I see the game really well and it seams like ample time but give me a ten minute game and that clock flies , I'm at about 1100 though , I have a love hate feeling towards blitz
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Why haven't you given me a phone call?
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Hell ya there is , especially when it comes to our first Nations , we're far from perfect
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Bud, i've been suggesting that book around here for a whiiiile nowIt's very complicated, obviously. There are a lot of issues at play.
If you're interested, I would highly recommend reading this book:
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation—that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation—the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments—that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.
Through extraordinary revelations and extensive research that Ta-Nehisi Coates has lauded as "brilliant" (The Atlantic), Rothstein comes to chronicle nothing less than an untold story that begins in the 1920s, showing how this process of de jure segregation began with explicit racial zoning, as millions of African Americans moved in a great historical migration from the south to the north.
As Jane Jacobs established in her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, it was the deeply flawed urban planning of the 1950s that created many of the impoverished neighborhoods we know. Now, Rothstein expands our understanding of this history, showing how government policies led to the creation of officially segregated public housing and the demolition of previously integrated neighborhoods. While urban areas rapidly deteriorated, the great American suburbanization of the post–World War II years was spurred on by federal subsidies for builders on the condition that no homes be sold to African Americans. Finally, Rothstein shows how police and prosecutors brutally upheld these standards by supporting violent resistance to black families in white neighborhoods.
The Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited future discrimination but did nothing to reverse residential patterns that had become deeply embedded. Yet recent outbursts of violence in cities like Baltimore, Ferguson, and Minneapolis show us precisely how the legacy of these earlier eras contributes to persistent racial unrest. “The American landscape will never look the same to readers of this important book” (Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund), as Rothstein’s invaluable examination shows that only by relearning this history can we finally pave the way for the nation to remedy its unconstitutional past.
Makes me happy to know somebody else has read the damn thing
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So I just learned about the the Dutroux affair today. That shit makes Epstein look like a saint.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Dutroux for anyone who wants the wiki account.
@tonni, as the resident Belgian, is this still a big deal?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Dutroux for anyone who wants the wiki account.
@tonni, as the resident Belgian, is this still a big deal?
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Yes. His lawyer wants to have him released. In Belgium, a life sentence is never actually for life unless 1) you get locked up in a psych ward which can be forever (a very flawed system) and 2) your case is so heinous, the government uses a not-so-often used law where the criminal is in "custody" of the government until they deem you fit to re-enter society.
Now, even in a soft country like Belgium, Dutroux gets his bones broken in gen pop, so he's in ad seg for the rest of his sentence. Here's the thing: if he gets released, there's a good chance he gets whacked or at least beaten into a pulp. We're a timid people imo (I'm not fully Belgian, I'm a bit more ehh, temperamental) but the Dutroux case cut really deep.
Belgium has never been the same afterwards. I'm from 1990, so I've experienced Dutroux when I was old enough to realize what had happened, and young enough to be truly afraid of it. I still almost don't dare to look or wave at kids, just to make sure the parents don't get paranoid. When I was walking my ex-gfs siblings to a museum (they're under 10), I was really fucking vigilant not to let any man to close, and I always had an eye on people who possibly had an eye on them.
Then there's the fact there was an obvious cover-up in the Dutroux case. There are missing documents, witnesses committing suicide left and right, a lot of big names being mentioned, the fact that Dutroux had like 4 houses fully paid even though he was living off welfare...
His accomplice and his ex-wife have been released by the way. The accomplice got his ass kicked the first week of him moving out. He moved into a neighborhood with a lot of muslims. He got beaten up by teenagers, if I recall correctly.
I know Charleroi a little bit, and it's so grimy and desolate you wouldn't believe it.
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Yeah, it's real good. It's required reading for STL leftists given that STL is like the mecca of redlining.
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Can't go into the details here for sake of my own identity, but I worked on a public project last year that used his research pretty extensively.
There are some pretty glaring flaws, but they are mostly that of omission. It's solid all around and a great tool for explaining the how active historical legacies are.
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Pretty despicable stuff in there, and really flies in the face of the pop up we get now in the WR.
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@Limbo Pete Why don't you go ahead and tackle all the Native sports mascots.
The way I see it, the Redskins name and the Cleveland Indians' Chief Wahoo mascot are by far the most egregious examples that I know of. The Indians name should go as well.
Most of the rest are more gray. Obviously, all the implicated teams should discourage the chop and outright ban the native cosplaying and attire.
Do you take substantial issue with the Chiefs (name or arrowhead logo), Braves, or Seminoles (post IP agreement)?
The way I see it, the Redskins name and the Cleveland Indians' Chief Wahoo mascot are by far the most egregious examples that I know of. The Indians name should go as well.
Most of the rest are more gray. Obviously, all the implicated teams should discourage the chop and outright ban the native cosplaying and attire.
Do you take substantial issue with the Chiefs (name or arrowhead logo), Braves, or Seminoles (post IP agreement)?
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I hate them, my man. I hate them so so much.
There's a great deal to be said here, and i've spoken on this issue before, but it's particularly grating right now for whatever reason. I tend to avoid trying to explain stuff on the internet when my dander is up; that's a recipe for gettin trolled (not by you). I've avoided the hell out of that current mascots thread, for example. Posting in that cesspool would just get me rage pwnt.
Here's a post from a while back of me breakin some stuff down for @Social Distance Warrior
https://forums.sherdog.com/posts/156396485/
I can speak more specifically about football mascots, if you'd like, but they all are a part of the same problem tbh.
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