The burning question is...


...why does jj pretend to be objective on the weekend?

Answer the gosh dang question, jj.


We want answers!

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You want answers?!!!!

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I WANT THE TRUTH!!!!!

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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato

... This is why I come here

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Everything is an overreaction these days. It's like people are finding reasons to be mad at someone or something and if they can't then they make something happen to be outraged about. It takes away the importance of the things we should legitimately be upset about as a people.  

 

I agree with that.  

 

I blame the multitude of 24 hour, all over the place media we have these days.   Anger sells.   Every December, Fox News starts alleging that there's a secular "war on Christmas."   Liberals do the same thing.   It's all about money, raising money from contributors, getting viewers, getting eyeballs on the internet, getting people to listen to your radio broadcast, and you do that by making people angry, by demonizing the other side.  My parents made a small political contribution years ago, and now they get all sorts of mailings, "Look at what the Democrats/Republicans are trying to do!  We need a contribution so we can fight against this!"  

 

People make money by driving us apart.   Divide and conquer.   There seems to be very little attempt to find out what we have in common.   There's very little attempt to find political unity.   There's no money in unity.   There's money to be made in anger and polarization. 

 

"We must have your contribution today or the country is going to go down the drain!"  

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Black child used as a prop.

 

It's a photo shoot. They're all props.

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I agree with that.  

 

I blame the multitude of 24 hour, all over the place media we have these days.   Anger sells.   Every December, Fox News starts alleging that there's a secular "war on Christmas."   Liberals do the same thing.   It's all about money, raising money from contributors, getting viewers, getting eyeballs on the internet, getting people to listen to your radio broadcast, and you do that by making people angry, by demonizing the other side.  My parents made a small political contribution years ago, and now they get all sorts of mailings, "Look at what the Democrats/Republicans are trying to do!  We need a contribution so we can fight against this!"  

 

People make money by driving us apart.   Divide and conquer.   There seems to be very little attempt to find out what we have in common.   There's very little attempt to find political unity.   There's no money in unity.   There's money to be made in anger and polarization. 

 

"We must have your contribution today or the country is going to go down the drain!"  

This is why I don't watch the news....other than I don't have regular TV. I get news from bbc.com because all the other news sites just suck. When I go to other people's homes and they have the news on I go to another room or go outside to chill. I can't stand the divisive nature of our society these days. It's no wonder why we're all at each other's throats and you touched on why. Another issue is everyone feels like they must be are right. All the time. No one is right all the time. But that's a whole other conversation.

 

I don't have a problem with differences of opinions, I have a problem when name calling and insults and intentional baiting happens. It happens all too often on this board and it makes for poor communication among folks whose differing opinions could be interesting or a learning experience but ends up in verbal schoolyard type brawling. I have no reason nor inclination to listen to folks who resort to name calling and the like. There are a few people on here who I find to be quite interesting and informed even if I don't always agree with their POV but when they resort to name calling or other such things and I lose some respect for them. 

 

Sadly we have become a society that resorts to pretty ridiculous things to get a leg up on everyone else. Just look at the debates for POTUS. Good grief we must look so foolish to folks from other countries. And to say that doesn't matter is wrong. As the supposed leader of countries around the world we should set a high standard and give those countries reason to respect us. As it is we give them nothing better than the stuff from the bottom of our shoes. And we allow it to happen by not holding those in authority accountable. Heck, we don't hold ourselves accountable anymore. It's all about who we can point the finger at because "it is not our fault." Every word we speak, action we take, and reaction we have is our responsibility. It's not how others treat us that shows who we are. It's how we react that shows who we are. 

 

*stepping down from my soapbox now. 

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It's a photo shoot. They're all props.

Nuh uh

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*stepping down from my soapbox now. 

 

Unless that is biodegradable soap, I DEMAND YOU RETRACT YOUR POST!!!!

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If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
- Bob Marley


 

Unless that is biodegradable soap, I DEMAND YOU RETRACT YOUR POST!!!!

Eh hem....ORGANIC biodegradable soap!!

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What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is agoin' on here???

Unless that is biodegradable soap, I DEMAND YOU RETRACT YOUR POST!!!!

 

 

Eh hem....ORGANIC biodegradable soap!!

 

 

I'm reporting your two commies to the National Commie Reporting Bureau...  

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Unless that is biodegradable soap, I DEMAND YOU RETRACT YOUR POST!!!!

It's a compost box. Does that meet your high standards?

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It's a compost box. Does that meet your high standards?

 

NEVER!

 

World dominance hinges on never recognizing compliance. No standard is too high. Every compost component must be certified organically, inspected and regulated. There is no possibility short of the extreme.

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If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
- Bob Marley


 

NEVER!

 

World dominance hinges on never recognizing compliance. No standard is too high. Every compost component must be certified organically, inspected and regulated. There is no possibility short of the extreme.

Well I guess I'm screwed then because I will not conform! Never!!!!! 

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Seriously? I am a tall person and was always doing that to my friends as a joke, no matter the color of their skin or if they were a guy or girl, and no one had a problem with it. Well the guys didn't like that I was taller than them. Of course this was back in the 80's when there was still common sense to be found.

I think you sort of answered your own question. Some might view the ad as an expression of dominance over the minority. I think that is a bit much, and agree with other posts in this thread that focusing on things like this tend to be missing the forest for a minor blemish on a piece of bark of a particular tree. It reeks of some liberal arts graduate student's critique of the semiotics of race relations in corporate speech, blah blah blah. 

And to your later post about both sides being extremist, while I agree with you, it certainly isn't anything new. Heck, some of the political ads from the founders make current ads seem genteel. And the distractions of 'racism' aren't new either. From my understanding, early on in the last century racism was used to trump class-ism and squelch populism. Sorry, just had to throw that sentence in there due to the thread title. 

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<p class="bbc_left">Education is the cheap defense of nations. - Edmund Burke

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<p class="bbc_left">Or is it from Burke? I tried finding the source, and looked through some of his writings, no luck. Anybody with google-fu got a citation of the source?