I guess none of his jobs involved active shooter training, bc "run and hide" is exactly what they teach you.


For real, tho, what an incredible piece of ****. The cops had the suspects shot dead within minutes.

And one's seriously injured in hospital after confronting them with his baton.

Lol what a bunch of pseudo-intellectual bull****. People should freak out about terrorism because... people freak out about terrorism.

The Religion Of Peace is also responsible for today's attack in Australia. Somehow the left will put this on Trump or the evil alt-right.

Fearmongers like you enable terrorists. Good job.

'Cept I've lived in urban areas my whole life. But it's not a bad book though. Have you read it?

He has a point in that a basic data analysis point is that you consider rare catastrophic events - if there was one in your sample then you would probably allow for part of it only, and if there were none then you also allow for part of one (like a house insurer looking at past data and considering tornados etc). However, what he does with that is horse-****. We don't know whether previous years were above or below the true rate, and we are talking about terrorists not actual war so the events that wipe out a big percentage of the population are out.

Um, except that they did. Any more profanity laced wisdom you wanna share?

That's not true.

Definitive Election Study Shows Racism Motivated Trump Voters Most of All
https://latest.com/2017/04/definitiv...s-most-of-all/

Btw- I'm not saying these people don't exist and they most certainly voted for Trump. There's no doubt that the white nationalists once reduced to being holed up in their caves were empowered to come out.

It's these people you're wrong about. People who, aside from their privilege, never personally harmed a Muslim or person of color in their life. But they've watched (both parties) of our own government oppress them for years only to have snobs like you blame them for all society's ills and call them names, so they said **** you and voted for Trump.

"The oppressed but admittedly privileged upper middle class of America had to vote for Trump because snobs looked down on them with mean name calling" in an actual story you tell yourself to defend the moral righteousness of these people?

Thanks. It's gonna take me a bit to read through that. Looks interesting and maybe contains info I wasn't aware of.

If you could muster up one tenth of the passion you show in response to my rudeness about his racism people might buy your bull****, Lestat, but you can't. Because we see your priorities. **** off.

Lestat defending the truly oppressed white families in the burbs. What a hero.

No Dvaut. What I'm saying is that "some" people had concerns about say, border control for instance. You can have a reasoned debate about a country's right, or in which manner, a country should control its borders. What I'm saying is that there is no issue I could've agreed with Trump on that would've caused me to vote for him. There were just too many other disqualifying issues for me. Racism was just one. I also thought he was wholly unfit for office. But "some" who didn't think he was as unfit as I did, were willing to overlook at least his racism because they were being called racists themselves anyway by the liberal elite. Now if you don't consider yourself racist and over half the country is calling you racist, is racism really going to affect how you vote?

He even sort of admitted they were privileged then went on to bemoan how they have been victimized by name-calling. Not to coach up idiocy but usually the slightly sharper knives in the drawer know to come with the "well you know it's really hard to get by on 6 figure incomes these days, violin camp doesn't come cheap for Suzy and she's not going to slum it in the city-run summer camps!"

Very few, and I mean very few try the "yeah gotta admit everything was going great, EXCEPT for liberal snobs sneering at them, so we rightfully had to destroy the country and elect Trump, what choice was left?!" take. That's a new one, usually you get some ham-handed story about life on the mean streets trying to get by on $200k, but the whole "well actually it's great except for mean internet liberals dragooned us into fascism" is a new form of hottake. I am not sure whether to be aghast or stand in awe at the brutal honesty. He's probably stumbled into the truth of the matter about what happened in well-to-do suburban white America, which is impressive if you look beyond the fact Lestat is apologizing for it.

Haha. I don't feel I'm allowed to call out racism because I've already been labeled a racist by you. Somehow I don't think me pointing out racism when I see it in someone else would go down well with you. I imagine you'd just write it off saying, "This coming from a Sterling loving, Trump voting, POS".

This is hogwash.

Border control is racist. White people have an easier time immigrating from Europe than others. That's by design.

Haitians refugees have been kicked out for the crime of being darker than Cubans.

Dog you might be pleasantly surprised in just how strong of a explanatory variable "actually being racist" is in determining how often you get called racist.

But of course, in this same thread, you're literally inventing this nonsense about how people who were non-racistly agreeing with mass deportations and Muslim Bans voted for Trump because they agreed on the issues and because they were getting called racist anyway, or something?

But they agreed with him on the issues and didn't agree with you that he was unfit for office! They would've voted for him on the issues regardless of what we called them!!! That's how elections work!!!!!!!!


ALSO
This anecdote makes the "liberal elite" look like they ****ed nailed that call, and also seems to reverse the nature of time since they were upset about getting called racist for supporting Trump so they decided to vote Trump? What?

To people like Lestat, politics isn't about who gets what, it's about the fact that Wonder Woman or Moonlight is #1 at the box office. (paraphrased joke from Chapo Trap House).

Of course, I admit their privileged. I admit I'm privileged. My guess it that you're privileged as well. Does being privileged make you a racist? Or is the only way NOT to be racist while being privileged to apologize for being privileged?

Let me ask you one question: Was equality for black, brown, LGBTQ, women trending in the right or wrong direction over the last several years? I'm not saying it was anywhere near enough or even close to problem being solved, but which way do you think it was trending?

And which way do you think it's trending now under Trump? Hopefully, we don't start going backward, but YES! I DO think you liberal elites set back the cause or at least slowed down progress by hammering ignorant people who's crime was not understanding why their daughter had to see trans girls with penises in their school locker rooms. Their ignorant. Not intolerant or bigoted. You've managed to lump the ignorant in with the truly bigoted and I don't know how so many intelligent people people can't see why that caused such a divide in our country.

Oooh, ooh I know this one. The only way to not be racist while being privileged is to take responsibility for the ****ed up racist world you were born into. That means using your time, energy, resources, and yes, your position of privilege, to listen to and amplify issues that are important to people who aren't so privileged.

It also means that when you act and when you vote, you vote based on RESOURCES and how they are distributed. Right now the average net worth of a white person in the U.S. is $100k, and the average net worth of a black person is about $9k. I think you can see where I'm going with this.

Obviously the smarter/elite/wealthy Republicans get this. The big con of the modern Republican Party is getting enough suckers to forget and ignore this simple truth and instead vote on their inchoate cultural and racial anxieties and resentments. Having said that it's a complicated feedback loop since perpetuating racial resentments is a way to perpetuate relative wealth disparities that might be ultimately satisfying to racially resentful whites.