Posts by Anony Mous

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Black Lives Matter—Do You Agree With Their Philosophy?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i agree with people who say all lives matter.

i think blm is a racist group.

if white people pushed an agenda saying white lives matter, some people would have a conniption..

Anony Mous

@OnTheWayOut: That is a very superficial way of seeing the movement. It's like saying GreenPeace is about for Peace for Nature when they really are a very militant activist group, borderline terrorist, with a very narrow agenda that isn't really about nature or peace. Or that ISIS is just about creating an independent Islamic state. Or Nazis are just a form of socialism. That's all true, the Nazi's and ISIS had a political platform that had 'good' aspects, for a very narrow group of beneficiaries, that sure, may have been oppressed at times, and at the cost of a great amount of others.

Sure some of the BLM platform is 'good' but the solutions they propose (riots, burning, changing language, destroy the police) is anything but. And that is a problem. The primary issue BLM has is that, unlike Dr. King in the 60s, there is no system that is inherently racist to stand up against so they invented one and then demand that everybody agrees and if anyone disagrees or goes against the heterodoxy they must be destroyed.

If you really believe the system is racist to the core, the US has a first and a second amendment, if you can't get your representatives voted in, perhaps that says something. If you still believe that you didn't get voted in because "rrrrrrrrrrracism" form a militia, get some weapons and start policing your own neighborhoods and declare your independence. Black Panthers tried that. It failed miserably as it turns out criminals are bad at policing. But you can try failed policy again.

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new situation in world helpful to org?

by Magnum in

sometimes new situations can provide cover for one’s mistakes or intentions.

for example, suppose that i crack the windshield in my dad’s car one night.

i go home, park the car in its usual spot in the yard, and go to bed without telling my dad because i’m scared and i’m trying to think of a way out of the situation.

Anony Mous

I think we've seen this train coming for a while. Many here have suggested this in the past. It makes sense, they probably have a few more billion tied up in real estate and running a website can be done with a dozen or so people and a handful of translators, it's not like they are anything special. You can run this organization without any collections for another decade or so if not longer. Just tell the plebs to buy a tablet or even better, sell them yourself.

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Black Lives Matter—Do You Agree With Their Philosophy?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i agree with people who say all lives matter.

i think blm is a racist group.

if white people pushed an agenda saying white lives matter, some people would have a conniption..

Anony Mous

You're constructing a straw man, nowhere does Simon says that all black people support BLM. You read that because you desperately want to see racism and partisanship where none exists.

Plenty of blacks, especially the ones that have had higher education, a business are conservative but BLM has a lot more supporters, both black and white as a proportion of total population than the KKK ever had even though their tactics and message are the same.

The mainstream media is a supporter of BLM and Antifa, that is what is scary about giving in to these hate groups, their message is immoral and outright evil, like the KKK, but BLM/Antifa are more akin to Nazis where they took an entire nation with them, even though the majority of Germans never agreed politically with the Nazis, their intimidation tactics are the same and can control a population into even worse atrocities.

We just had an event similar to Kristalnacht just happen in the US the only difference is the group they are attacking is the business owner and the middle class instead of the Jew. And if you wanted to see them try with the Jews, Al Sharpton incited antisemitic violence in the 90s using the same excuses.

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Black Lives Matter—Do You Agree With Their Philosophy?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i agree with people who say all lives matter.

i think blm is a racist group.

if white people pushed an agenda saying white lives matter, some people would have a conniption..

Anony Mous

@Quetzal: What solutions are you proposing? You're looking to decriminalize drug offenses, okay, then what, how are you going to do addiction treatment? What other crimes are you looking to overlook to get to equality in outcome?

Programs that help reduce single motherhood, abortion and take drug dealers off the streets and address gang culture help. You did see that after conservative criminal reform and tax reductions which incidentally meant axing government and welfare programs the black community had the lowest number of unemployed.

On the other hand, CA and NY have had decriminalization and free methadone/needle/housing programs for a very long time, yet homelessness and drug addiction continues to rise there. After minor crimes get deregulated, what we see is a spike in other crimes and related issues, not a reduction.

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Black Lives Matter—Do You Agree With Their Philosophy?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i agree with people who say all lives matter.

i think blm is a racist group.

if white people pushed an agenda saying white lives matter, some people would have a conniption..

Anony Mous

@coalize: Quetzal is incidentally quoting victimization rates but misreading the statistics. He reads the statistics as the case that blacks are slightly less victimized than whites, hence there are less criminals in the black community. What he is ignoring is that blacks only make up 12-14% of the population. This is a typical left-wing fantasy that everything in the world is and has to be 50% for blacks and 50% for everyone else.

As the report itself reads: While blacks accounted for 13% of the U.S. population in 2005, they were victims in 15% of all nonfatal violent crimes and nearly half of all homicides.

He's also misquoting me deliberately on various points to make his point.

Institutional racism (race-based characteristics explicitly on the books to make decisions) no longer exists, Dems continued the welfare policies but rebranded them this time as a good thing for blacks, totally ignoring their backgrounds. That doesn't mean the welfare policies or the systems are currently racist or that Dems are racist for pursuing them, because the wording and activities surrounding them that applies to blacks has been removed. But the unintended consequences of welfare remain the same, not because welfare today is racist but because welfare in and of itself is still immoral. Their intentions have morphed and now the intent of the Dems continued reliance on the welfare state is to buy votes instead of a platform, like Biden said, if you don't vote for him, you ain't black.

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Black Lives Matter—Do You Agree With Their Philosophy?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i agree with people who say all lives matter.

i think blm is a racist group.

if white people pushed an agenda saying white lives matter, some people would have a conniption..

Anony Mous

@Quetzal:

There is plenty of research showing that intergenerational wage mobility is greatest with conservative men than more liberal leaning counterparts. This sociology research goes all the way back to the 60s. It also points out that extremism of any sort (whether it's religious or political) is associated with downward mobility.

That doesn't mean everyone who votes Republican will suddenly have their kids become rich, but it's statistically a better chance that within 1 or 2 generations you are lifted out of poverty.

The simple fact is that conservative values (dual parent households, get married and have a job before kids, take care of your parents and grandparents, don't be a criminal) are associated with much greater wealth generation indicators, it generates more income in a household and less instability if one income drops off and thus less reliance on crime to supplement income.

This has nothing to do with your race by the way, sure, any minority group will have it more difficult because they are a minority group and thus need to do more to get out of whatever well they are in, but likewise, minority groups that are lawful (eg. immigrants and racial groups alike) will almost certainly have their kids do better vs minority groups that are illegally residing here and kids with parents that are criminals.

As far as why Democrats suddenly started making inroads in the black community is pretty easy to find out: the kids growing up post-civil rights became reliant on government cheese. Democrats started giving out more and more handouts in an effort to destabilize black economies. Eventually all the racists died off but the policies remained. The policies Dems like FDR designed in the 40's and NYC and other cities and states as well were specifically coded to destroy Black communities, for example, NYC had a policy that if you took welfare checks and a black male was present in the residence during a random welfare check (which were targetted), welfare checks were discontinued - as a result you have less black males, both fathers and other role models in the house. Just like Planned Parenthood's original motivation was to reduce black babies being born, the motivation of welfare was to disrupt and reduce the black population.

So yes, institutional racism existed until the late 60s and as a result, welfare policies were designed with a racist background. However the welfare never went away, the Dems simply rebranded them as 'good' and 'helping' and a generation of black people forgot the reason they were designed the way they are and is now wholly dependent on it. Breaking a dependence on free stuff is hard, even though FDR explicitly said that his policies were not intended to last, we have them, almost a hundred years later, in their original form and any politician that says he wants to get rid of Social Security and Welfare is committing political suicide.

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Jehovah’s Witnesses Reject Plasma Injections for COVID-19

by Rattigan350 in

jehovah’s witnesses reject plasma injections for covid-19.

https://www.newsintervention.com/jehovahs-witnesses-reject-plasma-injections-covid-19/.

the jehovah’s witnesses have issues with modern medical information because this is seen as against the tenets of the religious faith.

Anony Mous

This is confusing, I thought individual 'parts' of the blood (eg. plasma) were allowed, but not whole blood. At least that was the case before I stopped carrying my "blood card" (about 15y before I left the JW). At that point, fractions were "medical technology developed specifically for JW" wholly allowed and not a 'conscience matter'.

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Riots one reason to own an AR15 and several 30 round or 100 round mags.

by phoenixrising in

i hear this from the leftist idiots all the time.

if someone breaks into your home 6 bullets are enough.

well if its a one of i would argue that i still my need more round for even just one person.

Anony Mous

@TTWSYF: Abortion is a lot more nuanced of an issue. I personally don't support abortion except in the case of medical issues and that's where the grey part comes in, what percentage of risk are you willing to take for both yourself and the child and how much, if anything should we legislate.

As a libertarian myself, I don't think we should legislate any of it, because the minute you do you run into the vagaries on both sides of the issue, that does mean it would be legal if one declares an unborn child not to be human, but that's a risk I'm willing to take to let government or a judge not ruin the life of those that effectively need it and those that don't want to do it at great risk to themselves.

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Riots one reason to own an AR15 and several 30 round or 100 round mags.

by phoenixrising in

i hear this from the leftist idiots all the time.

if someone breaks into your home 6 bullets are enough.

well if its a one of i would argue that i still my need more round for even just one person.

Anony Mous

you @Finkelstein: I don't think you understand rioting. This is a kill-or-be-killed situation. Ask David Dorne, he was trying to protect his store, hoping an 'old black man' could talk to the 'adolescents' and inspire some wisdom about the actual racism and non-violent protests in the 60s. He got shot.

And there are examples everywhere of police retreating and letting the citizens, often elderly, being beaten with 2x4's, stores and homes and buildings attacked with molotov cocktails, windows and cars smashed.

These people aren't 12 year old shoplifting some Nike's. They are adults, making adult choices, they should learn to live with adult consequences. Antifa and BLM are anarchists, anarchism means the survival of the fittest.

If the police won't help you, what recourse do you have in your own home when they come raping and looting and killing? This is real, both in Minnesota and in New York, the government is actually voting on defunding the police departments and it seems in Minneapolis they actually have a majority in city hall to push it through while in New York, the governor actually agrees with the rioters that his own police forces are bad.

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Riots one reason to own an AR15 and several 30 round or 100 round mags.

by phoenixrising in

i hear this from the leftist idiots all the time.

if someone breaks into your home 6 bullets are enough.

well if its a one of i would argue that i still my need more round for even just one person.

Anony Mous

As far as Europeans: The Swiss are all well armed and have gun training in high schools. They have a reason and they are as a reason one of the richest nations in the world and maintained that status for hundreds of years.

On gun laws: for some reason handguns require permits but rifles do not. In NY getting a handgun requires 9 months wait time, 5-7 character witnesses and an application to a judge. Rifles can be picked up as fast as they're shipped. A 9mm rifle is basically a handgun with a stock and a barrel but can be taken down to large pistol size.

On assault weapons: all weapons are assault weapons, I have knives and batons, those are assault weapons too. There is no reason to have a full-automatic, lacks precision and gets out of control unless you have a fixed mount.

Yes, America has lots of guns, but like Switzerland, it's a large area, there is no guarantee the cops can even drive to your house fast enough and as recently demonstrated, not an option if you live in a Democrat controlled area.