That seems a bit unfair on Letsgambool. Sure he hasn't changed much and it's still the same old obsessive nuttiness but who has changed around these parts?

My political views have changed a lot since I first posted in politics, i was interested in ACland bull**** lmao. There are a lot of things about me that haven't changed much but hopefully some of us occasionally listen to reason.

Hahaha look at your work in this thread. You don't behave reasonably and I doubt you have solid reasoning to justify your behavior. You are a smear artist and a hater, though it's never too late to start being actually reasonable, rather than merely trying to claim as such while behaving otherwise.

No, we were playing 501. Essentially you have to double out. The middle skinny area is worth 3x the number, the outside skinny thing is worth 2x. So for a 153 out you have to hit a certain combination to end the game. 3x20 = 60, 3x19 = 57, add them together leaves you 153-117, which is 36, which means the only way to end the game is to hit a double 18, which I somehow managed to do. Obviously, what makes it so difficult is that you need to hit an area less than half an inch wide from 7 feet away. It's pretty hard to do but it's REALLY hard to do 3x in a row.

Heh. Was fun.

Pretty sick. I exaggerate a little, I played like two three times at the local dive but I'd be pretty happy to hit one of those I was aiming for. Hopefully you beat someone that that beats you normally or you know well.

When I moved to Toronto to attend a small college I got a job at Walmart working evenings in the back unloading truck shipments. There were these two guys who were the alpha males of the group - you know, the loudest, most confident, the most obnoxious, arrogant, pushy, etc. One of them was pretty short, about 5'6", but stocky, and he seemed to be the type to want to assert himself over people, beat them down before they had any smart ideas about trying to bully him.

There was this Asian guy who worked with us, he seemed like he'd try to act alpha a bit, but generally he seemed just like a nice guy.

During my first week, one shift the aggressive joking and ridiculing that goes on in an all-male blue-collar workplace turned ugly. The two dominant males began calling him Asian racial slurs and making disparaging comments about his eyes such as "how can you see out of those slits?"

He tried to make some weak comebacks and act like it was all just part of the joking, but I knew that a line had been crossed (This was 12 years ago). There were other people laughing along, but a few of us were dead silent and I know I wasn't the only one who felt very uncomfortable, even upset by it. The Asian guys eyes were watery, like he was crying on the inside but it showed in his eyes. It went on for atleast 15 minutes were they just kept picking on him. I couldn't believe nobody was doing anything.

It really bugged me thinking about it for the rest of the day and into the evening, so I decided to bring it up to the Supervisor of the unloading dock the next day.

My supervisor was a portly guy with a shaved head and tattoos - kinda reminded me of a biker. When break came up and everybody left the area, I asked to speak with him in private. I brought up what had happened and he was very nonchalant about it, telling me it's just how this group messes around, it was all in good fun, so not to worry about it.

I was disappointed, but now I was also worried, because what if the Supervisor told the racist bullies that I had ratted them out? Them two were much meaner than me and i didn't want to be their next victim.

Later that night I gave one of the nice guys a ride home. I could tell that he didn't like what was going on either so I brought up the subject and he agreed. Something should be done. The good people need to take back control from the bad ones.

For the next week or so I kind of was "work friends" with him and we'd speak in hushed tones about what was going on, feeling too weak and afraid to do anything about it, except not like it. We were the nice guys.

Anyway, I quit that job after only being there about a week and a half. There were several reasons, part of which I felt like there was nothing I could do about it, basically feeling stressed, and I thought it wasn't my problem, so why should I feel stressed, it's not up to me to stand up for him. So I left.

The thing that shocked me the most about the whole situation was that the two racist bullies were black males. I was incredulous that black people, who've been the victims of racism for centuries, could turn around and be such despicable racists themselves, without any self-awareness, being completely lost in a fog about right and wrong. That was the thing that was the most baffling to me about the whole episode.

They have Wal-Mart's in Canada?

Walmart is a hellhole.

It's the only place I've found that sells Clear American sparkling water. It's the best and nothing else comes close.

Anybody can be racist is something the knowledge about racism confirms, but it is a stretch to say anybody who acts racist does so for the exact same reason. If only the problems of racism were so simple.

When I was living in Calgary in the summer of 2013 I witnessed a racist incident.

I went for a bike ride and living on the edge of the downtown core, I decided to cut through downtown to get to the riverfront trails. I was stopped at a red light when a pickup truck with 4 or 5 white males around 17-20 years old pulled up slowly beside me and were apparently yelling at me. I looked at them but couldn't make out the gibberish that they were spouting. All I knew was that they were all yelling and laughing. They only had the windows partially rolled down making it more difficult to understand them.

Feeling uncomfortable, I turned away and looked in the opposite direction and that's when I noticed a black man walking on the sidewalk beside me. At that point it dawned on me that the men in the truck were actually making monkey sounds and jumping around the truck acting like monkeys in order to mock/insult the black man.

The truck made a right turn and sped off. I'm not sure if the black man knew what was going on, he didn't seem to react and was pretty blank expression wise. Maybe he was just pretending he didn't notice in order to not give them the satisfaction of seeing them get a rise out of him, or fear of provoking them.

My perception of the event was that these kids were not hard core racists like a KKK member, they were just harmless, ignorant idiots. I couldn't see them getting out of the truck, just by them having the windows mostly up, I sensed that they were rather cowardly and partially trying to hide themselves from view.

The incident was very brief, lasting maybe 10 seconds, but I was a little shocked because I hadn't witnessed very many racist incidents before.

I would imagine that at least one of the participants in your story would disagree with the bolded.

Suffering indignities doesn't make people act more dignified.

However it can strengthen dignity. Indignity can also lead to hate. Depends on the individual and the indignity. Stronger dignity is better than hate. IMO. However just knowing indignity exists can lead to stronger dignity, I do agree experiencing indignity isn't required to act or be dignified as I read what you say.

No. Suffering indignities doesn't guarantee lack of dignity, but in no case does it increase it. Where dignity still exists, it stands out in stark contrast, which is precisely how it shouldn't be required to stand out.

Inherent dignity and that which we develop from experiences are both relevant in my view. Connects to racism as racism can be like a developed indignity. A person grows more dignified by getting rid of a developed indignity.

I wasn't sure where to post this, but this thread seemed like the best place and since gambool has a program that tells him where and when I post I think it will work here.

Gambool, a week or so ago trump retweeted some radio stations tweet that had a picture saying how often each race kills each other. It claimed that the % of whites that were murdered by blacks was something like 82%. However, that number is really a lot lower (I'm thinking in the 10s or 20s %). Does this mean that you think trump is racist for reposting an article/picture that was factually incorrect that was about race?

The guy who is tailoring his whole campaign to gain the support of racists, called Mexicans rapists, and wants to build a wall around Anerica? That guy?

I haven't read where he said Mexicans were rapists. I read an article where he said something like Mexico sends their rapists and murders to the US, but that isn't at all what you are saying so I guess we are talking about two different quotes of his OR the more likely scenario is that you still have reading comprehension issues.

Either way, my question is if you think he's racist for retweeting that tweet about which race is responsible for killing which race.

Yeah, taking what you said at face value, given that he thought that stat was true and couldn't wait to retweet it plus everything else he's said....yeah he's probably a faint racist!

Lol at going to bat for his Mexican comments

The quote was widely reported at the time:

Do you think this is a misquote and he actually said "their rapists"?

Also, the article I linked above is headlined 'Donald Trump defends calling Mexican immigrants "rapists"'. Do you think this headline is inaccurate or unfair?

He's doing this as a proxy fight. He's perma upset he got called racist for posting "you mess with the bull you get the horns" alongside an article about a woman shooting a (article quote) "tiny brained African American teenager". The story wasn't true, site turned out to be a satire site designed to fool racists.

Not sure what his angle is here. Like yeah if you had a couple of racist incidents like bahbah or are running a xenophobia based candidacy for president and you buy off on a made up story designed to disparage black people you are probably racist. I guess his angle is if the racist bull**** is wrong and you get fooled by it, hey, not your fault?

Since bahbah wants more solutions here's one...check facts before posting disparaging bull**** about minorities

Also lol at bahbah bitching about reading comprehension. He got banned from alpha for being repeatedly too dumb to read and understand what others wrote.

My point is that he isn't racist for retweeting a tweet he saw that he thought was correct. He may be racist, but not because of that tweet.

With all due respect only an idiot can listen to this and think he is calling Mexicans rapists. He is very clearly saying that the Mexicans that are coming over are the worst of what Mexico has to offer (drug dealers and rapists). Typical liberal media trying to vilify a conservative.

http://youtu.be/C6QEqoYgQxw

If anyone else thinks this is racist, besides Gambool, please let us know so we know who else is in the "everything a conservative says is racist" camp. Duker, please watch that and answer your own questions.

You know the video in that link has Spanish subtitles, right? Type "ellos son violadores" into Google translate and let us know what you come up with.