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January LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of January?

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

11 22.45%

John Kelly

2 4.08%

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

0 0%

Rex Tillerson

9 18.37%

Jared Kushner

11 22.45%

Hope Hicks

2 4.08%

Gary Cohn

4 8.16%

Ryan Zinke

2 4.08%

Rod Rosenstein

5 10.20%

Write-in

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01-07-2018 , 11:04 PM

#526

6ix

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Aug 2017 Posts: 4,783

Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

Go to school in the hood. It's absolutely the norm. Even in the suburban district we moved out to in 8th grade it still happened all the time. But the physical violence just changed to nihilistic sarcasm.

I say nobody is bullied for 'being smart' and you post a vid about being bullied for 'talking white' so uhhh... Damn, suzz. Damn.

01-07-2018 , 11:12 PM

#527

Huehuecoyotl

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 29,257

Even in the most supposedly liberal areas racism/classism is exists

Quote:

Racial issues have also become part of the conversation. A proposal to redevelop a blighted Marinwood shopping center into 82 apartments primarily for low-income residents prompted*a raucous community meeting about affordable housing in 2013 led by then-county Supervisor Susan Adams.

There Melissa Bradley, a prominent Marin County real estate agent, charged Adams with having "volunteered us for the ghetto." Stephen Nestel, a local blogger opposed to the project, said that it could increase crime,*illustrating his argument with a photo of an MS-13 gang member in El Salvador handcuffed with tattoos covering his back. Adams later fought off a recall attempt but lost her seat in the next scheduled election, where housing issues were a dominant concern.

Marin's low-income housing advocates contend that when county residents don't allow affordable housing, they're endorsing existing inequities.

"They say they want to maintain the roots and characteristics of our county," said Omar Carrera, executive director of the nonprofit Canal Alliance. "But what they really are saying is that they want to maintain it as white and wealthy."

http://beta.latimes.com/politics/la-...107-story.html

01-07-2018 , 11:15 PM

#528

champstark

aka starkwired

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 14,838

Oprah ****ing kills it every time man

Presidency is hers if she wants it.

01-07-2018 , 11:34 PM

#529

Praetor1an

journeyman

Join Date: Sep 2017 Posts: 251

Quote:

Originally Posted by spaceman Bryce

A big status symbol of wealth in Kansas is owning horses which, the upkeep is very spensive and usually requires some help. They could use advice from a stable genius.

01-07-2018 , 11:35 PM

#530

fuluck414

veteran

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 3,281

Quote:

Originally Posted by champstark

Oprah ****ing kills it every time man

Presidency is hers if she wants it.

No ****, I got chills.

01-08-2018 , 12:19 AM

#531

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

Quote:

Originally Posted by champstark

Oprah ****ing kills it every time man

Presidency is hers if she wants it.

In a day where billionaire celebrity figures with no political experience are capable of winning the Presidency, she'd be a lock against anybody in the GOP.

01-08-2018 , 12:40 AM

#532

w00t

banned

Join Date: Jan 2016 Posts: 1,561

Quote:

Originally Posted by champstark

Oprah ... Presidency is hers if she wants it.

The Democratic nomination is hers if she wants it.

I still say voter suppression, racism, and misogyny will sink her in the general election.

01-08-2018 , 12:52 AM

#533

Chips Ahoy

help me help you

Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 28,869

https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/...06171348160512

Until I saw this I didn't realize disapproving of Oprah was possible. Those crosstabs tell the story.

01-08-2018 , 01:05 AM

#534

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

She's black and says empowering things to women. Therefore she is the #1 enemy for Republicans to destroy

01-08-2018 , 03:22 AM

#535

Huehuecoyotl

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Well that's one way to describe Millennials

Quote:

The summation Kids These Days gives us is harrowing: here is a generation hurrying to give in to the unremitting, unforgiving commodification of the self. Harris predicts a future of debt servitude, confinement for the “malfunctioning,” worsening misogyny (though his gender analysis is less coherent than the rest of his argument), and total surveillance. Millennials, that is, are the first generation to live in the dystopia to come.

https://nplusonemag.com/issue-30/rev...ond-matures-2/

01-08-2018 , 07:12 AM

#536

adios

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Connie Britton Wears Poverty is Sexist Shirt to 2018 Golden Globes. What it Meanss

Quote:

The sweater appears to be specially designed by Lingua Franca; similar pieces typically retail for around $380.

01-08-2018 , 08:13 AM

#537

spaceman Bryce

anything you guys want

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 20,646

I'm thinking of starting a thread in the chess forum called road to 1600 uscf. I can do this because I am chess royalty. Weeeeeeeeeeereeeee

01-08-2018 , 08:50 AM

#538

Huehuecoyotl

Carpal \'Tunnel

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Quote:

Originally Posted by adios

Connie Britton Wears Poverty is Sexist Shirt to 2018 Golden Globes. What it Meanss

I remember talking to bobman about Tiffany's selling normal items for absurd amounts of money and the conversation revolved around if rich people want to spend that kind of money on absurd things its best to think of it as a redistribution of wealth.

I think this is way better though. Assuming the money goes to a charity and the charity helps poverty then if people want to spend absurd amounts of money to give to a charity and the charity gives that money to the poor the its ok. Certainly more efficient than letting Tiffany's CEO and shareholders taking their cut before paying the impoverished janitor

01-08-2018 , 09:30 AM

#539

FlyWf

It's the other way

Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 58,097

Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

Is that video supposed to be shocking to me? Adolescent boys fighting is about as normal a thing I can imagine.

Also man you bully with what you got, you don't bully based on principles that you apply. If some dude you don't like is some book reading dork, you make fun of that. If he's dumb, you make fun of that.

01-08-2018 , 09:30 AM

#540

FlyWf

It's the other way

Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 58,097

The idea that intelligent kids have it harder than dumb kids is baffling and at odds with every piece of empirical life experience. I blame Ender's Game for this ****.

01-08-2018 , 10:08 AM

#541

Praetor1an

journeyman

Join Date: Sep 2017 Posts: 251

Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyWf

The idea that intelligent kids have it harder than dumb kids is baffling and at odds with every piece of empirical life experience. I blame Ender's Game for this ****.

I have no doubt things were tough on you as a kid.

01-08-2018 , 10:11 AM

#542

Loki

binary duo

Join Date: Nov 2015 Posts: 12,772

Quote:

Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

Don’t try to logic at adios. This is just another “environmentalism is fake because al gore flies on airplanes” fallacy that he’s fallen for. Nothing more to see here.

01-08-2018 , 10:13 AM

#543

6ix

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Aug 2017 Posts: 4,783

Also, I went to a public HS on the south side of Chicago. Some of the thug dudes were smart, they were in the honors classes. I'm not even sure how else you would find out somebody was 'smart'.

"You ready to get that ass beat, test tube carrying mother****er?"

"You're my AP Chem partner, G. Dial it back a bit."

01-08-2018 , 10:34 AM

#544

zikzak

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It's a lot easier to tell yourself that you got bullied for being smart instead of whatever the real reasons were. And that's not to say bullying is justified. Kids' social structures can be random as hell in determining who ends up at the top and bottom of the playground hierarchy. But bullies don't target intelligence, they target weakness.

01-08-2018 , 11:02 AM

#545

Huehuecoyotl

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Loki

Don’t try to logic at adios. This is just another “environmentalism is fake because al gore flies on airplanes” fallacy that he’s fallen for. Nothing more to see here.

Oh I know. It's another look at the out of touch Hollywood elites thing. It just reminded me of that conversation and I wanted to extend it.

01-08-2018 , 11:04 AM

#546

SenorKeeed

mew mew mew

Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 37,478

Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

Yeah and honestly I don't think anyone would **** with ender after he beat that dude to death during recess

01-08-2018 , 11:40 AM

#547

Trolly McTrollson

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$380 for a sweater sounds cheap for **** **** Hollywood celebs wear to awards shows.

01-08-2018 , 11:52 AM

#548

Huehuecoyotl

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The future of work, the disintegration of workplace protections and the lose of decent pay

Quote:

But there’s actually not much evidence that the future of work is going to be jobless. Instead, it’s likely to look like a new labor market in which millions of Americans have lost their job security and most of the benefits that accompanied work in the 20th century, with nothing to replace them.

Quote:

In 2013, Diana Borland and 129 of her colleagues filed into an auditorium at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Borland had worked there for the past 13 years as a medical transcriptionist, typing up doctors’ audio recordings into written reports. The hospital occasionally held meetings in the auditorium, so it seemed like any other morning.

The news she heard came as a shock: A UPMC representative stood in front of the group and told them their jobs were being outsourced to a contractor in Massachusetts. The representative told them it wouldn’t be a big change, since the contractor, Nuance Communications, would rehire them all for the exact same position and the same hourly pay. There would just be a different name on their paychecks.

Borland soon learned that this wasn’t quite true. Nuance would pay her the same hourly rate—but for only the first three months. After that, she’d be paid according to her production, 6 cents for each line she transcribed. If she and her co-workers passed up the new offer, they couldn’t collect unemployment insurance, so Borland took the deal. But after the three-month transition period, her pay fell off a cliff. As a UPMC employee, she had earned $19 per hour, enough to support a solidly middle-class life. Her first paycheck at the per-line rate worked out to just $6.36 per hour—below the minimum wage.

“I thought they made a mistake,” she said. “But when I asked the company, they said, ‘That’s your paycheck.’”

https://www.politico.com/magazine/st...gements-216212

01-08-2018 , 11:56 AM

#549

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

This is true. But it requires the smart kid to also be emotionally strong and well-adjusted at what is typically a tough age for a lot of kids. I always marveled at the odd-ball kids of John Hughes movies who didn't let high school beat them down. I know I did. I wasn't particularly emotionally strong. But I wasn't the weakest kid either. And I was big which saved me from a decent chunk of the bullying.

And yeah I could be kind of unintentionally obnoxious when I got 100 on the test or w/e - which definitely brought it on myself. So my solution was to become the lazy smart kid who just didn't give a ****. Super winning identity.

No offense but I get the feeling most of you lived fairly sheltered lives if you've never seen or heard of anyone bullied for being smart/"talking white" (it's the same trigger for the bully - it's just another form of being different). Life isn't always like the Cosby show or Family Matters. Erkel would have gone through hell in a tough school. I was there. I saw it first-hand.

I also saw the kid in my life go to a school where being smart was cool and almost all the kids went on to college. It's like night and day. Getting 100 on the test was cool and you could crow about it all you wanted.

That was one thing about arcade video games in the early 80s. It was one of the few places where it was cool to be smart or good at something other than sports.