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Let's Talk About- Political Edition
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(07-24-2023, 07:46 PM)copycat Wrote:(07-24-2023, 05:39 PM)mikesez Wrote: Beans beans, they're good for the heart. Macon is about 10x as big as Brunswick. Brunswick counts as a small town, to me. Why do you say no?
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We show less advertisements to registered users. Accounts are free; join today! (07-24-2023, 07:35 PM)mikesez Wrote:Rats is one of them and if you follow his history, you see he was picked to run as a republican. Kemp is a RINO also but he was at least saying there should be an investigation. Then his daughter's fiance got in an "accident" and died. It looked like a bomb or missle hit. At least 1 of the investigators was killed or committed suicide (can't remember which).(07-24-2023, 07:10 PM)p_rushing Wrote: Go read the other side of the story to get their input before you just decide GA is right because the WSJ gave you talking points. Cases won't be won in GA with Rats in charge. Sent from my SM-T970 using Tapatalk (07-24-2023, 07:53 PM)mikesez Wrote:(07-24-2023, 07:46 PM)copycat Wrote: No. Neither is Macon in case you are wondering. A small town has 1 high school.
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07-25-2023, 07:34 AM
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(07-25-2023, 01:03 AM)copycat Wrote:(07-24-2023, 07:53 PM)mikesez Wrote: Macon is about 10x as big as Brunswick. There's only 1 in Brunswick. The other is in unincorporated Glynn County. You're saying in small towns people look out for each other, and someone is likely to chase you down and pull a gun on you if you try to rob a liquor store. And that's good. But we know Brunswick is a place where people are likely to chase you down if you look at a pile of construction materials too long. Even if you don't take any. Is it that second high school that causes us to cross that threshold from "good ol boys" to openly corralling and murdering joggers in broad daylight?
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(07-24-2023, 06:54 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:(07-24-2023, 04:00 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: LOL - 4 pages about a song, and you fly in here and start attacking me out of nowhere. Intellectual elitism means never having to say you're sorry. We can now return back to your disdain for tradition and the working class. I know, I know.... you never said that. We show less advertisements to registered users. Accounts are free; join today! (07-25-2023, 09:35 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote:(07-24-2023, 06:54 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: LOL Yeah I get it You're getting beat down in every thread here and can't support any of your stances with facts or compelling arguments. So you've reverted to your little [BLEEP] [BLEEP] punk method of putting words in my mouth and hurling insults. Have fun with that. You suck at defending your piss poor arguments and you suck at this little schtick too. FYI I'm not going to keep stooping to this level, so I'll just ignore you moving forward if you are just attacking me instead of posting anything relevant. (07-25-2023, 07:34 AM)mikesez Wrote:(07-25-2023, 01:03 AM)copycat Wrote: A small town has 1 high school. Ok, say population around 1000. Brunswick is not a small town.
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At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening. (07-24-2023, 07:44 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: Here's another article about "True the Vote" and "2000 Mules."https://rumble.com/v324ki6-gregg-phillip...d-ina.html Here they are responding to this WSJ "article". I'm sure you will claim it's misinformation because it's Bannon or not even watch it but you really should. They offered to share all of this before and did share it with the GBI but stuff was leaked and they stopped. No one wanted to touch it in MSM and the GBI and other agencies all tried to bury it or selectively leak info. This is one of the problems with MSM and liberals who only present/view their side. They can't see when they are being lied to or just don't care because the liberal viewpoint is best regardless of the truth. Sent from my SM-T970 using Tapatalk
07-25-2023, 03:19 PM
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(07-25-2023, 09:38 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:(07-25-2023, 09:35 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Intellectual elitism means never having to say you're sorry. We can now return back to your disdain for tradition and the working class. I know, I know.... you never said that. Lol. If that's how you feel, so be it. I don't feel like I'm getting beat down. I mean, if the analogy is akin to a person playing wall ball. If you want to be the wall, eventually I'll get tired and put the ball down. I wouldn't consider that a loss, though, since I'm the one getting better. I don't really know which argument you feel your "winning" here. Let me make it clear that I'm never attacking you personally. I insinuate plenty, certainly, but I do that for my own amusement. If you're feelings are getting hurt, I can certainly be more sensitve. Would you prefer that? I've told you before that if say you and then make mentions of moderates or liberals more broadly, I am attacking a position, not you as a person. You don't ever seem to make that distinction. Even when I intentionally don't mention you but speak to your point by addressing all moderates or liberals, you apply it to yourself. I have a problem with moderates, which I have said repeatedly. I have stated specific problems they cause, and I have encouraged the moderates here to challenge the information they are being fed. It's a perfectly rational position, and it works whether you're being lied to or being told the truth. If your solution starts and stops with the authorities, then progress is limited to that of the authorities. Knowledge is limited to that of the authorities. Morality is limited to that of the authorities. That's terrible, and if you don't want to have your world dictated by people you disagree with, you shouldn't advocate for it when your side holds power. Now, if this thread follows the other ones where I have been "beat down," you'll ad hominem either with conspiracy or whatever it is you use to dismiss my points. That's really not a loss to me. That's a lost cause. You can block me if you want, but I'll still point out where I think you are being hypocritical, and the only difference is you don't get the benefit of making a snide comment. Win-win. We show less advertisements to registered users. Accounts are free; join today! (07-25-2023, 01:07 PM)copycat Wrote:(07-25-2023, 07:34 AM)mikesez Wrote: There's only 1 in Brunswick. The other is in unincorporated Glynn County. The town of 1,000 may not even have a liquor store.
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(07-25-2023, 04:14 PM)mikesez Wrote:(07-25-2023, 01:07 PM)copycat Wrote: Ok, say population around 1000. Brunswick is not a small town. True, the one I grew up in was a dry township.
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At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening. (07-25-2023, 03:19 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote:(07-25-2023, 09:38 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: Yeah Comments in red. ^ ON TOPIC: Anyone have an opinion on DeSantis inserting the "benefits" of slavery into Florida public school history? Seems a bit ridiculous to me. By the way - the whole "some slaves were taught to be blacksmiths" narrative he's trotting out (while silly compared to the rape, torture, detainment, child separation etc) is actually even more silly when you learn that West African slaves who already knew blacksmithing actually brought previously unknown techniques to the states. Many of them were actually sent out to various other blacksmithing forges to teach their techniques.
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(07-26-2023, 11:23 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:(07-25-2023, 03:19 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Lol. If that's how you feel, so be it. I don't feel like I'm getting beat down. I mean, if the analogy is akin to a person playing wall ball. If you want to be the wall, eventually I'll get tired and put the ball down. I wouldn't consider that a loss, though, since I'm the one getting better. I don't really know which argument you feel your "winning" here. Any and all that you've attempted to counter me in so far. Not about winning, I'm here to learn and discuss, but you continue to just fire blanks. Not my problem. I wish you were better at it so I didn't have to continue breaking down your errors in reasoning. It's tedious. From what I read somewhere else, these ‘benefits of slavery’ quotes are hyperbolized and the actual passages being targeted were written by black scholars.
(07-26-2023, 11:23 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:(07-25-2023, 03:19 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Lol. If that's how you feel, so be it. I don't feel like I'm getting beat down. I mean, if the analogy is akin to a person playing wall ball. If you want to be the wall, eventually I'll get tired and put the ball down. I wouldn't consider that a loss, though, since I'm the one getting better. I don't really know which argument you feel your "winning" here. Any and all that you've attempted to counter me in so far. Not about winning, I'm here to learn and discuss, but you continue to just fire blanks. Not my problem. I wish you were better at it so I didn't have to continue breaking down your errors in reasoning. It's tedious. Except, that's not what is happening. Your VP lied to you (shocking!). Nothing in the curriculum says anything about "the benefits of slavery". There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't. (07-26-2023, 03:11 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:(07-26-2023, 11:23 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: Comments in red. ^ I put the word in quotes for a reason. How would you describe skills learned as slaves that "could be used for personal benefit?" Quote:Florida's 2023 Social Studies curriculum will include lessons on how "slaves developed skills" that could be used for "personal benefit," according to a copy of the state's academic standards reviewed by CBS News. By the way, I'm unaware of the content of the VP's comments on the subject other than knowing she mentioned the new curriculum in a recent podium appearance. I merely described them as I've seen them described in 12 different headlines. I even put the quotes around the word to avoid this semantics roundabout.
Because slaves did develop skills. They had some of the fastest growing businesses after slavery was abolished... right up until the federal minimum wage law was passed to keep well established companies in positions of power. If the goal is to whitewash history, then, sure, be mad, but I don't think that's the goal of these new standards. I think the goal is to contextualize history.
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(07-26-2023, 05:03 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Because slaves did develop skills. They had some of the fastest growing businesses after slavery was abolished... right up until the federal minimum wage law was passed to keep well established companies in positions of power. If the goal is to whitewash history, then, sure, be mad, but I don't think that's the goal of these new standards. I think the goal is to contextualize history. History is a story. Certain facts distract from that story. If you just say, "the slaves acquired skills" that makes it sound like it's a silver lining or even a positive thing. Especially when you consider Robert E Lee's letters, reflecting a common attitude at the time, that slavery was necessary to "educate" the slaves, that this "education" was somehow genetic and generational, and they would soon be "worthy" of freedom. Starts to make it sound like 250 years of slavery was done for the slave's benefit. This is a false conclusion obviously, and therefore any facts that might lead one to such a conclusion must be presented in a blanket of context or not at all. As for the federal minimum wage law, at that time, the average buyer of goods and services was racist and avoided doing business with black people unless the price was dramatically lower. The minimum wage did have that impact (if you believe Thomas Sowell, and I do) but it was not the problem. The racism was the problem.
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(07-26-2023, 03:18 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:(07-26-2023, 03:11 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: Except, that's not what is happening. Well I’ll be. There it is right there! Unbelievable! Right there in the 2nd paragraph, between the third and fourth sentence. Desantis is pro slavery.
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