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wv wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

Well for me, I try to put myself in their shoes. Would I enter a country illegally so that I could feed my family…
….I’m not going to deny them the chance to get just a little taste of what I have and enjoy. And what I have is largely due to me being born on the right side of that same arbitrary border.

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Yeah, that is what i always think about. And it leads me into a foggy mess
that i cant find my way out of.

I mean I dont ‘identify’ as “an American” (even though i recognize i have been influenced and imprinted by this place and time, etc)

I identify as an ‘earthling’. A being-of-the-Biosphere.

I dont like all this ‘my border vs your border’ tribal bullshit. It reminds me of Religions and Race and all the other primitive ways human-systems have created “us versus them” constructs. Systems create “the others” and then dehumanize them, blah blah blah.

I hate it.

But then that view of mine does not lead me to any simple answers to the question of “should everyone just be allowed to move to the USA or North Korea or anywhere they want on the Planet, and how would that work…etc…?

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”I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world. ~Socrates

“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. ~Eugene V. Debs

“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? ~Blaise Pascal, quoted by Tolstoy in Bethink Yourselves

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country. B.Russell

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. ~William R. Inge
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ~Albert Einstein, The World As I See It, 1934

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family. ~Buddha

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. ~Arthur C. Clarke

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Brevity is the soul of wit. ~William Shakespeare

wv wrote:

bnw wrote:

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The people most definitely voted FOR Trump. Need to work on some self reflection and take another look at that election map..

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Actually ‘the people’ voted for The-Hillary. She won by about 1.5 million votes.
The Electoral-College voted for The Donald.

Its all pretty complicated. Even the voting-system itself. The one that comes in second is The President.

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No the Hildabeast lost by 1.5 million votes since 3 million illegals voted.

PA Ram wrote:

bnw wrote:

They still don’t get it. To vote republican and for Trump to them IS racism. They won’t listen to those white voters who fear their jobs will be sent out of this country. No, they only see white meat turkeys they believe is theirs. Its jobs, the economy, rule of law, accountability that all voters capable of rational thought want but still the racism drum never misses a beat. Its good that most people have already tuned it out. Time for positive change.

And yet they sent the same Republican congress back…and then some.

People talk change. They mostly vote from their ideology or habits.

Obama wasn’t a dictator. This was a team effort on things like trade bills.

People vote to send incumbents back time and time again. It’s the OTHER guy they want out–not theirs.

I think Trump’s biggest asset was running against Clinton. People did not so much vote FOR Trump as they did AGAINST her. People do not particularly like Trump. They hated her.

Wrong, so wrong. Trump didn’t have any say in the republican congressional races. He will two years from now because his voters will follow his lead as long as he keeps his promises.

You say Obama is not a dictator? So his murdering americans without a trial, his support for the N,DAA- I know YOU know what that entails, and his utter contempt for the peoples house by his legislating through executive orders is not being a dictator? Then WTF is a dictator?

Incumbent republicans better realize it is a different time and they either get on board or get out of the way. People want solutions to problems and they want it now.

The people most definitely voted FOR Trump. Need to work on some self reflection and take another look at that election map. Party doesn’t mean as much any more to voters. The people voted for change. Not Obama change. They voted FOR Trump.

Hildabeast lost because she is a lying traitorous self enriching hypocrite who has zero appeal to people because she doesn’t like people. She likes her voters. Huge difference. She outspent Trump by 10 times, by 20 times? No amount of money spent could wipe away the insider swamp stench that permeates her being. Her flagrant disregard for the law and the safety of government workers goes way back. She was the original Brian Williams sans consequences until the night of November 8th.

Yes the MSM outrageous anti-Trump coverage helped Trump. However Trump’s calling out the MSM at every event across this nation for months helped him more. He brought the public’s record high disdain for the press out of the normal passive acquiescence to an active protest in which the thousands at his events could participate. Trump took the supposed strength of the MSM and turned it against them and they’re too stupid to realize he’s been doing it against them since election day too. He will take his message directly to the people as president and the MSM will still be incapable of stopping him.

nittany ram wrote:

— X — wrote:

The alternative is to just drop immigration policies altogether and let whoever wants to come across illegally, do just that. If they’re terrorists, or drug dealers, or violent criminals, or looking for government welfare, then fine. Everybody come over and destroy and/or pillage this great Country in the interest of political correctness and “love”.

I don’t know if you’re aware of this X, but
illegal immigration really isn’t an issue currently. It’s been used by Trump and other Republicans to whip the masses into a frenzy but the number of illegal immigrants in the US is shrinking and has been for several years.

Link: http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/11/19/more-mexicans-leaving-than-coming-to-the-u-s/

Its NIMBY for you but I assure you it is a big problem south of the Mason-Dixon Line, especially border states.

snowman wrote:

I didn’t see the game but it seems like the same thing happened today that has been going on for years – anemic offense and undisciplined defense equals another close loss.

So true.

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wv wrote:

Why are you people discussing two LOSER shows, when you COULD be talking
about the second BATTLESTAR GALACTICA series. Which was the best sci-fi series, like, ever.

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As if Battlestar Galactica could ever compete with Lost in Space.

Who could ever forget the older sister Judy? As a kid if I had a VCR back then I would have been hospitalized for dehydration.

wv wrote:

Why are you people discussing two LOSER shows, when you COULD be talking
about the second BATTLESTAR GALACTICA series. Which was the best sci-fi series, like, ever.

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Was never really a fan of either BG efforts. However I did enjoy the prequel to the new BG series titled Caprica.

What is there to get butt sore about? How was anyone harmed? How could anyone take offense? Nowhere in the article is it stated that the Danbury team or community is populated by illegals so what is there to take offense to? Those students should not apologize and the Student Council should start standing on principle rather than rubber stamping the snowflake principal’s whim. Time to put on the big boy pants because things are going to change for the better and fast. Time to get used to not getting your way when you cry the longest and loudest making a complete ass of yourself coasties.

nittany ram wrote:

There are people who have biases or prejudices, and no amount of condemnation or rehabilitation is going to change that. So let them be who they are. Who cares? If a Klansman can’t find peace, then that’s his sorry lot in life. Similarly, if a racist-hunter can’t find peace, then that’s his or her lot as well.

The problem is not what they believe, but how their beliefs affect others. Because those beliefs will ultimately be turned into actions. Sometimes overtly but usually more subtly and less obvious. But those actions have a negative impact on people with less power and privilege. I want to live in a society where those actions are immediately exposed and condemned.

I don’t want to be offended. I don’t need to be offended. The alt-right has nothing to teach me. What you see as a brave fight against manufactured racism I see as an attempt to legitimize their racism.

I just want people to be kind to one another and to stop punching down.

You do not have the right to not be offended. Welcome to my world.

PA Ram wrote:

To me, Star Trek was better as a television series. Star wars is the better film franchise.

Star Trek plays better small.

Star Wars plays better large.

I disagree. Star Trek in both TV and movies is much better than Star Wars. Star Wars is the Chuck E Cheese of Sci-Fi.

— X — wrote:

bnw wrote:

Because Hip Hop and Gangsta Rap are misogynist.

Yep. But it’s far more violent than misogyny. Also, although black women only make up 8% of the population, 22% of homicides that result from domestic violence happen to black women and 29% of all victimized women, making it one of the leading causes of death for Black women ages 15 to 35. That’s why I wanna know who “we” is.

Perhaps the whites that were ordered to the rear of the BLM protest march?

Because Hip Hop and Gangsta Rap are misogynist.