WHY THE FUCK ISN"T THERE A THREAD ON THIS
Heavily armed police have shut down Ferguson. There is a media blackout. Arresting reporters. The Missouri Militia supposedly has boots on the ground.
This is very fucked.
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-benedettoLooking for handouts in life?
louie.miragsI don't think he understands they get those people get handouts because they generally have it harder... The more black people that can get educated, despite how poor their family is, can hopefully have children who don't need the handouts.
AT-ATI don't get the have it harder? I'm not trying to be a dick, I honestly don't get how people have this thought anymore.
If you say it has to do with family issues, or issues where they grow up, or influence of inner city gangs and drug trade, look no further than the parents. Parents set their kids up for this "having it harder", and last time i checked genetics, you can only have kids that are the same race as the parents. This doesn't matter what you skin color is. Parents set their child's environment for them.
So what you saying by giving "minorities" (I hate this word, we are all humans) all this handouts is that they are not good enough, that they are lesser than the "white people." You are continuing this cycle that says they are different. I am responsible for my well-being, i am a human, all humans should be responsible for their own well being.
AT-ATI don't get the have it harder? I'm not trying to be a dick, I honestly don't get how people have this thought anymore.
If you say it has to do with family issues, or issues where they grow up, or influence of inner city gangs and drug trade, look no further than the parents. Parents set their kids up for this "having it harder", and last time i checked genetics, you can only have kids that are the same race as the parents. This doesn't matter what you skin color is. Parents set their child's environment for them.
So what you saying by giving "minorities" (I hate this word, we are all humans) all this handouts is that they are not good enough, that they are lesser than the "white people." You are continuing this cycle that says they are different. I am responsible for my well-being, i am a human, all humans should be responsible for their own well being.
roddy116Only quoting this to save up space. I get that they have it harder in life, but people like that have so many opportunities to make something of themselves but they don't. A lot of colleges have Native American and African American help centers. I see maybe three or four people there at the most when I walk past it. There isn't a lack of help but a lack of interest and motivation.
AT-ATI don't get the have it harder? I'm not trying to be a dick, I honestly don't get how people have this thought anymore.
If you say it has to do with family issues, or issues where they grow up, or influence of inner city gangs and drug trade, look no further than the parents. Parents set their kids up for this "having it harder", and last time i checked genetics, you can only have kids that are the same race as the parents. This doesn't matter what you skin color is. Parents set their child's environment for them.
So what you saying by giving "minorities" (I hate this word, we are all humans) all this handouts is that they are not good enough, that they are lesser than the "white people." You are continuing this cycle that says they are different. I am responsible for my well-being, i am a human, all humans should be responsible for their own well being.
AT-ATSo what you saying by giving "minorities" (I hate this word, we are all humans) all this handouts is that they are not good enough, that they are lesser than the "white people." You are continuing this cycle that says they are different. I am responsible for my well-being, i am a human, all humans should be responsible for their own well being.
Huck_NorrisThe beauty of white privilege is that most are so privileged they don't even realize it. It's like the story of the two goldfish- one says to the other "Water's nice today, eh?" and the other replies... "What the fuck is water?"
See, you're so enveloped in special circumstances i.e.- financially secure upbringing, availability of entry-level work for you, good school systems and probably two parents that have enough time to properly parent you since they each make enough at one job... That you don't even realize how special that is because it's just how it's always been for you.
By showing your inability to understand WHY those programs are needed you are pretty much admitting that your life is dripping with white privilege- literally you're so fucking privileged you have no idea how others don't "make it" since even your laziest buddies Tanner, Skylar and Connor all have jobs. Lol.
You might as well throw out "let them eat cake" as a solution to widespread poverty and an ever-widening income equality in this country if that's how you assess racial equality. It just doesn't make sense in any capacity unless you're a below-the-bar underachieving white person who's getting passed up because you are in the bottom percentile that is actually effected by these programs- even given your white privilege status- and that makes you mad. You should really just be mad at yourself for dropping the sweet pass life threw you after you were already born in the end zone by being born into an upper-middle class white suburban family.
AT-ATI was not born into upper middle class, sorry. Both my parents worked two jobs to help support me and my sister growing up.
I started mowing lawns when I was 12, by 14 i was selling firewood with the help of my dad, I started my first job when I was sixteen, and throughout the summers in highschool and college i worked 60+ hour weeks and two jobs so I could help pay for college and other expenses.
Yes I was lucky enough to be born into it, but do not think that I am so rich white bum. My whole family busted their asses so I could have the life I live now.
By creating these "need" based programs all you're doing is robbing from hard working families like mine and giving it those who are "in need." Some whom may deserve it.
But to many times do I see these "in need" people flashing new nikes and using their EBT card to buy racks of ribs and steak. Ever go to a supermarket at 12:00 am on the first of the month? I have and it's disgusting. The lobster tank is full at 11:59pm and by 10am the next day it is damn near empty, and no, I hate fox news.
I only have pity for the kids, they have no choice in where they are born, and what they have to deal with, and i know i have no clue what it is like to be in their shoes, but neither do you. Do you think giving to their parents will help? Because I know it won't, it doesn't. Their parents after all are the ones that decided it would be a good idea to have a kid, and raise them in the hell that they call living.
I have seen mothers calculating how much more money they'd get from the state if that had another kid. Go to a family court if you don't believe me. The employees there can tell you the amount of abuse of the system that goes on.
I do not know the solution to the problem, but i do know that giving away all these freebies does not help. /rant
wepresidentnowgonna go out on a limb here and say you're a white, north american, male
AT-ATActually I am of a high enough percentage to be seen as a native american in the eyes of the state, so no, I'm a native american, male, from north america.
AT-ATI was not born into upper middle class, sorry. Both my parents worked two jobs to help support me and my sister growing up.
I started mowing lawns when I was 12, by 14 i was selling firewood with the help of my dad, I started my first job when I was sixteen, and throughout the summers in highschool and college i worked 60+ hour weeks and two jobs so I could help pay for college and other expenses.
Yes I was lucky enough to be born into it, but do not think that I am so rich white bum. My whole family busted their asses so I could have the life I live now.
By creating these "need" based programs all you're doing is robbing from hard working families like mine and giving it those who are "in need." Some whom may deserve it.
But to many times do I see these "in need" people flashing new nikes and using their EBT card to buy racks of ribs and steak. Ever go to a supermarket at 12:00 am on the first of the month? I have and it's disgusting. The lobster tank is full at 11:59pm and by 10am the next day it is damn near empty, and no, I hate fox news.
I only have pity for the kids, they have no choice in where they are born, and what they have to deal with, and i know i have no clue what it is like to be in their shoes, but neither do you. Do you think giving to their parents will help? Because I know it won't, it doesn't. Their parents after all are the ones that decided it would be a good idea to have a kid, and raise them in the hell that they call living.
I have seen mothers calculating how much more money they'd get from the state if that had another kid. Go to a family court if you don't believe me. The employees there can tell you the amount of abuse of the system that goes on.
I do not know the solution to the problem, but i do know that giving away all these freebies does not help. /rant
AT-ATI have seen mothers calculating how much more money they'd get from the state if that had another kid. Go to a family court if you don't believe me. The employees there can tell you the amount of abuse of the system that goes on.
I do not know the solution to the problem, but i do know that giving away all these freebies does not help. /rant
AT-ATActually I am of a high enough percentage to be seen as a native american in the eyes of the state, so no, I'm a native american, male, from north america.
zzzskizzzYou don't know jack shit about anything. That's cool you're against food stamps and welfare fraud, can you tell me how much money it cost the country every year. Now can you look at corporate tax evasion and the financial crisis and tell me how much money banks and businesses have cost America over the last few years. Now look at the giant war we've been having can you tell me how much economic strain thats put on our country? Now can you look at government corruption and tell me how much money that cost US per year? There are much more important money pits that we should be fighting in this country.
AT-ATThe snap program last year cost 78 billion dollars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assistance_Program
We spend way to much on military; 716 billion
Medicare comes in at 572.5 billion, in 2012
Medicaid at 421.2 billion
http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/NationalHealthExpendData/NHE-Fact-Sheet.html
Revenue lost from tax evasion, 305 billion.
http://www.demos.org/data-byte/federal-revenue-lost-tax-evasion
Revenue lost from corporate tax evasion is hard to find, I have seen anywhere from 30 billion to 70 billion per year.
Lets not forget that the US has the second highest rate of taxing on corporations. So if we were to tighten the grip there, there is nothing stopping them from setting up in another country and paying 0 in corporate tax here.
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/fidj45hkdk/usa/
Section 8 housing at 16 billion in 2009, at 3% that's 18.5 billion.
What i have learned from this is that we spend way to much of healthcare and military.
milk_manThis whole riot is dumb. Michael brown was in the wrong. The rioters are supporting a criminal who isn't innocent at all
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louie.miragsno. what is dumb is using paramilitary (who are supposed to be serving and protecting) to stop protesters. This is America. Not some communist country. If people want to protest they have every right.
louie.miragsno. what is dumb is using paramilitary (who are supposed to be serving and protecting) to stop protesters. This is America. Not some communist country. If people want to protest they have every right.
roddy116raiding and looting stores =/= protesting.
AT-ATThe snap program last year cost 78 billion dollars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assistance_Program
We spend way to much on military; 716 billion
Medicare comes in at 572.5 billion, in 2012
Medicaid at 421.2 billion
http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/NationalHealthExpendData/NHE-Fact-Sheet.html
Revenue lost from tax evasion, 305 billion.
http://www.demos.org/data-byte/federal-revenue-lost-tax-evasion
Revenue lost from corporate tax evasion is hard to find, I have seen anywhere from 30 billion to 70 billion per year.
Lets not forget that the US has the second highest rate of taxing on corporations. So if we were to tighten the grip there, there is nothing stopping them from setting up in another country and paying 0 in corporate tax here.
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/fidj45hkdk/usa/
Section 8 housing at 16 billion in 2009, at 3% that's 18.5 billion.
What i have learned from this is that we spend way to much of healthcare and military.
snobunnyso the right-wingers are now blogging and yelling from the hilltops that officer darren wilson suffered an orbital eye socket fracture/blowout during the incident.
I don't know if that's true, but if it is, he is still in the hospital--he would need reconstructive surgery, and it will be obvious when he is seen.
my brother had an orbital eye socket fracture..and id doesnt exactly go unnoticed...
wepresidentnowok story time wtf happened
Granite_Stateand you are a fucking moron if you think all that is happening is stores being raided and looted. The peaceful protests far outweigh the damaging riots...
roddy116welp it must be bad enough to have to militarize.
snobunnyhe was sentenced to 7 years.
wepresidentnowworth it
Granite_Stateor the police are overreacting. You can still police without MRAPS, full body armor, and automatic weapons.
snobunnydamn, that pic came out a lot bigger than i had inteded.
also-- im not saying the cop doesnt have serious facial injuries--but there's just no way he didn't need medical treatment if he had an orbital fracture.
jblaskiThe officer was taken to the ER straight after the incident.
.Hugo.its called riot gear for a reason
Granite_StateI mean I understand that but it looks like the Ferguson police were dressed for a ground invasion in Afghanistan. I've seen countless photos of riot police, these guys look like fucking soldiers.
Also reports that a private security firm are guarding an "individual".
And more evidence of police deliberately firing tear gas at news crews, contradictory to what Fox News is saying (that SWAT is working with the journalists)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqqp_LAVklA
They were also firing rubber bullets at these reporters. There is another vid from Info Wars (in the vid when they are running away you see a black guy with them, he was the guy filming) kind of outlying how the media is lying in their coverage (at least Fox news). Cant imbed because its a facebook video though. Fucked.
snobunnysource? I thought it said he stayed on the scene and was walking around and didn't appear injured.
Also the nypost is not a source-- they're a tabloid.
This whole thing is very strange--i wish they'd disclose some actual facts, so that there weren't these rumor mills on all the news and fake news sites-- but then again, i guess its still an open investigation.
saskskierSo what? 1/8th? 1/16th? That would be like expecting everyone to refer to Tiger Woods as Chinese because one of his great grandparents was.
KravtZHEY EVERYONE.....
Curious if ANYONE heard about the black officer who killed an unarmed white teenager in Utah last week? Im sure the UTAh residents did but here in NYC...almost nothing. Would probably have no idea it happened it it wasnt for the internet.
The media is on a rampage. Race baiting america. Its so obvious what is going on. It drives massive ratings and increases profits. Not to mention that Obama has perpetuated the race problem as well. We are 30 years set back.
KravtZHEY EVERYONE.....
Curious if ANYONE heard about the black officer who killed an unarmed white teenager in Utah last week? Im sure the UTAh residents did but here in NYC...almost nothing. Would probably have no idea it happened it it wasnt for the internet.
The media is on a rampage. Race baiting america. Its so obvious what is going on. It drives massive ratings and increases profits. Not to mention that Obama has perpetuated the race problem as well. We are 30 years set back.