***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[ninjahood]

So folks should just be content because they get to live in good ol America regardless of racism, regardless of discrimination, regardless of police brutality, regardless of voting rights, regardless of adequate access to healthcare, etc... Is that your point?

no, my original point waaaaaaaay back among other things was essentially America, while it isn't perfect, was and is da best thing smoking on this space rock, and to act like it isn't by using hyperbolic language and acting like we da devils is just not true.

 

[ninjahood]

So you're more than happy making 34K a year because that's more money than what an average Sudanese farmer makes? What kinda of narrow minded bull is that?

i make way more than that, but its not narrow minded at all...i go to DR all da time, u got folks that would crawl thru a pit of broke glass to stand in da same position alot of bloviators talking bout what grinds their gears in 2017.

that perspective is immutable to me

 

[deuce king]

I'm not black

That definitely explains a lot champ. That's the same thing your comrade in crime ninjahood has said. Now I see why you two get along so well........it's like the blind leading the blind.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Hatch seems to be retiring.

Mittens finna run for Senate next year.

 

[Xennial]

Umm you're not making any sense, I've never said i was black i'm not blind and have looked at many mirrors in my life. I've said in every thread here that Ninja is black even if he doesn't see himself as that. Or at least @guccjermaine2 put in better words in this society, Ninja just like Guccjermaine will be labeled as black and treated as such in life regardless of what happens in the looming census

That definitely explains a lot champ. That's the same thing your comrade in crime ninjahood has said. Now I see why you two get along so well........it's like the blind leading the blind.

 

[EddieDoyers]

Hatch seems to be retiring.

Mittens finna run for Senate next year.

I hope Turtle retires soon also

 

[niketalker23]

That definitely explains a lot champ. That's the same thing your comrade in crime ninjahood has said. Now I see why you two get along so well........it's like the blind leading the blind.

 

[sundoobie]

i make way more than that, but its not narrow minded at all...i go to DR all da time, u got folks that would crawl thru a pit of broke glass to stand in da same position alot of bloviators talking bout what grinds their gears in 2017.

that perspective is immutable to me

Yes I completely understand citizens in America do have more advantages than 3rd world countries. I mean I have been to Asian countries, and in some places there is no such thing as toilet paper or running water. There is just a bucket of water and you have to use your hands to wash your ***. That experience does make you humble HOWEVER that's our 'perspective' so you cannot expect everyone to understand and it surely doesn't erase America's past and current injustices.

 

[RustyShackleford]

no, my original point waaaaaaaay back among other things was essentially America, while it isn't perfect, was and is da best thing smoking on this space rock, and to act like it isn't by using hyperbolic language and acting like we da devils is just not true.

This is false.

There were tons of black people that left America for other countries to escape racism during the Jim Crow Era. This binary choice of slavery or Jim Crow is nonsense. It implies black people should be thankful for all the terrorism they had to go through. It is a classic talking point that southern racist love to employ.

Btw James Baldwin left New York City for Paris during that time.

These points have been explained to you yet you still pedal these vile lies. But like I said, I finally agree with you on one thing. You might be bulletproof on NT

 

[ninjahood]

This binary choice of slavery or Jim Crow is nonsense.

once again, your opinion, don't confuse it with da worlds reality at da time.

 

[RustyShackleford]

once again, your opinion, don't confuse it with da worlds reality at da time.

You know nothing of the realities of that time. Especially regarding black people in America.

Your ignorance on all things black is as extensive as it is offensive.

 

[ninjahood]

You know nothing of the realities of that time. Especially regarding black people in America.

oh but you do cuz your da authority, NT's resident own Al Sharpton cuz you were alive

yo get outta my face b...your embarrassing, peddling race like da boy who cried wolf.

 

[Xennial]

Yeah James Baldwin moved to Paris and there were a bunch of Jazz Musicians that moved to Copenhagen, Paris and throughout Europe at the time but there were many reasons/incentives behind that. Even so, those jazz musicians/authors/artists/creative class of black ppl were still a small % of black americans at the time

This is false.

There were tons of black people that left America for other countries to escape racism during the Jim Crow Era. This binary choice of slavery or Jim Crow is nonsense. It implies black people should be thankful for all the terrorism they had to go through. It is a classic talking point that southern racist love to employ.

Btw James Baldwin left New York City for Paris during that time.

These points have been explained to you yet you still pedal these vile lies. But like I said, I finally agree with you on one thing. You might be bulletproof on NT

 

[Methodical Management]

Let's make this very simple.

ninjahood , I realize that enjoy playing the contrarian and your pride often prevents you from admitting fault or error. Right now, rather than dispute the perception that you're a racist, you've taken to defending the very statements that lead people to believe that you're racist.

Don't let ego "force" you to jump off a cliff because Barack Obama believes in gravity. There are some things everyone should be able to agree on, regardless of politics. Not everything is or should be a partisan issue. We're all here together, after all, because we share common interests.

If you believe you've been misunderstood, this is your opportunity to clear things up:

Do you believe that Black people are genetically or culturally inferior?


This should be the easiest question you answer all day. It should require no hedging or equivocation.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Yeah James Baldwin moved to Paris and there were a bunch of Jazz Musicians that moved to Copenhagen, Paris and throughout Europe at the time but there were many reasons/incentives behind that. Even so, those jazz musicians/authors/artists/creative class of black ppl were still a small % of black americans at the time

It was not only members the creative class that moved. Baldwin directly cites racism as his reason. And members of the black creative class still faced racism. Hell their economic opportunities were better in Europe partly because of Jim Crow.

And you are so fixated at defending Ninja you wanna downplay the people the amount of expats when the fact that their were better places than America for black people completely destroys his point.

You play devil's advocate for dude just as good as he does for bigots like Trump. So in my eyes, you are not much better than him.

 

[ninjahood]

Kimberley Strassel: The Fusion GPS bombshells have just begun to drop

By Kimberley A. Strassel, The Wall Street Journal

Source: Fusion GPS fighting to block release of bank records

Kimberley Strassel of the Wall Street Journal weighs in on 'The Story.'

The confirmation this week that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid an opposition-research firm for a “dossier” on Donald Trump is bombshell news. More bombshells are to come.

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The Fusion GPS saga isn’t over. The Clinton-DNC funding is but a first glimpse into the shady election doings concealed within that oppo-research firm’s walls. We now know where Fusion got some of its cash, but the next question is how the firm used it. With whom did it work beyond former British spy Christopher Steele ? Whom did it pay? Who else was paying it?

This probe of the Democratic Party’s Russian dalliance has a long, long way to go.

The answers are in Fusion’s bank records. Fusion has doggedly refused to divulge the names of its clients for months now, despite extraordinary pressure. So why did the firm suddenly insist that middleman law firm Perkins Coie release Fusion from confidentiality agreements, and spill the beans on who hired it?

Because there’s something Fusion cares about keeping secret even more than the Clinton-DNC news—and that something is in those bank records. The release of the client names was a last-ditch effort to appease the House Intelligence Committee, which issued subpoenas to Fusion’s bank and was close to obtaining records until Fusion filed suit last week. The release was also likely aimed at currying favor with the court, given Fusion’s otherwise weak legal case. The judge could rule as early as Friday morning.

 

[6 Rings G.O.A.T.]

 

[ninjahood]

Do you believe that Black people are genetically or culturally inferior?

why would i believe that when Lebron James & Nasir Jones walk and breathe on planet earth?



im GLAD you brought back what da definition of a racist is so everyone can read and understand it clearly.

now that that's out da way, anytime rusty levels a racist charge at me imma just holla at you about him.

 

[sonoftony]

he's gonna ignore the question like he ignores any other question.

 

[dacomeup]

He points to entertainers as his shining beacons. Can't make that up.

 

[ninjahood]

he's gonna ignore the question like he ignores any other question.

 

[NickFolarin]

LeBron & Nas......

 

[RustyShackleford]

Ninja is right.

I will quicker get banned for me pointing out how racist many of his comments are than he will for saying them.

And now he will has the juice on antagonize on the race issue more in hopes of baiting me.

 

[dacomeup]

oh on da contrary....makes me feel blessed to be born in da greatest economic super power da world has ever known, and as long as i do my thing da sky is da limit. maybe you should have that gracious perspective, perhaps you wouldn't be walking around all salty.

The reality of this is that the sky isn't the limit for you. You brag about potentially being able to make $90k if you work a lot of overtime after getting whatever degree you need. And that's certainly not to knock that at all, but that doesn't exactly look like the sky is the limit.

I'm far from salty. Trust me, I've had opportunities in your own city that you'd kill for. Your claim to fame on this site is bragging about taking advantage of a rent stabilized apartment that your mother inhabits and being able to one day pay for a necklace in cash. But me being gracious doesn't mean that I have to turn a blind eye to or ignore the systemic issues that contribute to inequality in this country.

 

[RustyShackleford]

LeBron & Nas......

For some reason I instantly remembered a certain scene from "Do the Right Thing"

Using the extraordinary examples to dodge the deeper question