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RE: Two things I want to talk about, politics wise
September 21, 2023 at 11:11 pm
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(September 21, 2023 at 7:51 pm)ShinyCrystals Wrote: On another note, on the majority thing I mentioned, about the Hispanics eventually becoming the majority of the USA, Never going to happen. Watching the white supremacists melt down and the media misreport this little nugget has been amazing. It's probably one of the most consequential fuckups in the us in recent years.
The real reason they want to "limit immigration" is so they can pick cletus's pocket.
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RE: Two things I want to talk about, politics wise
September 21, 2023 at 11:20 pm
(September 21, 2023 at 11:11 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: (September 21, 2023 at 7:51 pm)ShinyCrystals Wrote: On another note, on the majority thing I mentioned, about the Hispanics eventually becoming the majority of the USA, Never going to happen. Watching the white supremacists melt down and the media misreport this little nugget has been amazing. It's probably one of the most consequential fuckups in the us in recent years.
The real reason they want to "limit immigration" is so they can pick cletus's pocket.
Either way, it is possible that the current majority of the US, the whites, can be replaced and surpassed, not just by Hispanics, but any race there is. I can see and imagine whites, especially those who discriminate other races, trying to keep their power in any way possible, even if it is dirty and bad. In the end, though, that would be a means of unwanted suppression of other races.
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RE: Two things I want to talk about, politics wise
September 21, 2023 at 11:49 pm
They try to keep the white population growing by making them ignorant and banning abortion... just like Florida is doing with their book banning and the recent country-wide removal of Roe v.Wade.
Ignorant people have kids early in life which then feed the capitalist and have their own kids early in life and rinse and repeat.
The way people move worldwide means that the population will eventually be all mixed. It may take a few hundred of years, but it will happen. Conservatives will do their darnest to delay this wherever in the world they hold power... and the methods they will use will only get worse and more desperate with time.
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RE: Two things I want to talk about, politics wise
September 22, 2023 at 12:23 am
Religion, especially Abraham's christiboi religion, is deeply woven into every stitch of "Murica's" politics.
Secondly, the pasties are deeply concerned that the country they stole, will be stolen from them.
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RE: Two things I want to talk about, politics wise
September 22, 2023 at 10:09 am
(September 21, 2023 at 7:51 pm)ShinyCrystals Wrote: (September 21, 2023 at 7:43 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: The Republicans claim to be "originalist" [i.e. supporting the "original intent" of the Framers of the Constitution] but have carved out an exception for religion in their own minds. It's not very different from Christian literalists who cherry-pick the shit out of their "inerrant" book.
I see. Well, as long as mankind has existed, or for a very long time, religion has been used as a means of power, so the fact that at least republicans do that kind of thing and try to incorporate religion with US politics is not too surprising.
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RE: Two things I want to talk about, politics wise
September 22, 2023 at 11:26 am
(September 22, 2023 at 10:09 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (September 21, 2023 at 7:51 pm)ShinyCrystals Wrote: I see. Well, as long as mankind has existed, or for a very long time, religion has been used as a means of power, so the fact that at least republicans do that kind of thing and try to incorporate religion with US politics is not too surprising.
[that whoosh you're hearing ...]
What? Was it too obvious?
Also, on what I said about Hispanics becoming the majority in the future, I must clarify that I did say in my initial post that I learned that in the 2000s in high school, and that was a long time ago, and I do acknowledge things change, and have changed since then.
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RE: Two things I want to talk about, politics wise
September 22, 2023 at 11:31 am
There's a reason they try to push for learning Spanish in high school.
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RE: Two things I want to talk about, politics wise
September 22, 2023 at 11:58 am
(September 22, 2023 at 11:26 am)ShinyCrystals Wrote: (September 22, 2023 at 10:09 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: [that whoosh you're hearing ...]
What? Was it too obvious?
My point in the post you quoted wasn't the drive to inject religion into politics, which is indeed ubiquitous. My point was the hypocrisy of those who pay lip-service to originalism while ignoring one of the founders' most basic tenets.
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RE: Two things I want to talk about, politics wise
September 22, 2023 at 12:16 pm
(September 22, 2023 at 11:58 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (September 22, 2023 at 11:26 am)ShinyCrystals Wrote: What? Was it too obvious?
My point in the post you quoted wasn't the drive to inject religion into politics, which is indeed ubiquitous. My point was the hypocrisy of those who pay lip-service to originalism while ignoring one of the founders' most basic tenets.
Oh, okay. I get it now.
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RE: Two things I want to talk about, politics wise
September 22, 2023 at 12:49 pm
(September 22, 2023 at 11:26 am)ShinyCrystals Wrote: (September 22, 2023 at 10:09 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: [that whoosh you're hearing ...]
What? Was it too obvious?
Also, on what I said about Hispanics becoming the majority in the future, I must clarify that I did say in my initial post that I learned that in the 2000s in high school, and that was a long time ago, and I do acknowledge things change, and have changed since then.
I think I hurt something either by laughing or by all my joints seizing up. I was in HS in the 70s.
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