08-29-2016, 04:11 AM | #2176 |
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Deporting illegal immigrants does not solve the unemployment crisis. It looks so on paper, because it frees up more jobs! But those jobs are not automatically available to Tom, Dick, and Harry. What may have been 10 construction jobs done by illegal immigrants now becomes 2 jobs done by Americans because of the wage gap. What was once an easy job to get now becomes more competitive; you're paying more (because you have to), so now you want to make sure that the person you're paying all this money too is actually worth the ticket.
The immigration process right now is a shitshow. It's been worse in the past (it's always ironic to see Central / Eastern Europeans try to justify our current immigration system considering we used these exact same arguments to keep them out of country but a hundred years ago), but its still really bad now. I pretty much agree with Stealthy on the matter: the issue is a lot more complicated than just they need to leave and we need to build a wall. (Not to mention that mass deportation requires resources we don't have, will almost undoubtedly displace many actual Mexican-Americans, and will probably be thick with general nastiness.)
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"Black people are naturally lazy and nonwhites are inferior. Therefore, they need to be given a boost through federal aid where they commonly live as well as affirmative action so they can keep up with the superior white race." There's no contradiction there. That belief arguably sees nonwhites as more inferior than most racist views, because most racist views claim that due to a perceived absence of white privilege any nonwhite who's willing to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and work as hard as a white person can succeed. |
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08-29-2016, 04:57 PM | #2179 |
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I've definitely taken a knee on this thread so I don't get banned from the forum, fwiw.
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The way I see it, there are three basic viewpoints on race: 1. The one I already outlined and charged Trump with. 2. My personal view- Whites and nonwhites are fundamentally equal, but due to the burdens of being marginalized and oppressed for generations, our society has strong-armed them into a corner where they find themselves severely disadvantaged, and thus things such as affirmative action etc are necessary to counteract as well as repent for the marginalization and oppression these people have faced. 3. The view of many conservatives, Bill O'Riley being a good example. Nonwhites are just as capable as whites, but they as a race are simply unwilling to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" as the saying goes, and therefore nonwhites are inferior to whites for (supposedly) no fundamental, racial reason, but merely due to a perceived lack of initiative. Therefore, AA etc are unnecessary because nonwhites are the ones at fault for their own marginalization. The first viewpoint, in my view, is the most racist, because it's the only one that claims there's something fundamentally wrong with people who aren't white. The third, however, is the one with the most unsound logic behind it- it inherently contradicts itself by claiming nonwhites are inferior yet somehow responsible for their own inferiority and thus are not deserving of compensation. I side with the second so I'm in no place to give an objective criticism, because I think it's by far the most morally virtuous and logically sound position to take. Obviously these are not the only three stances that can be taken but I think of the three Trump very clearly fits most neatly into the first. |
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Injecting some non-Presidential news into this thread in the form of an update on the current status of Governor Paul LePage of Maine, as seen through the eyes of the Boston Globe.
Paul LePage is New England's George Wallace. I guess we finally know where "D-Money, Smoothie, and Shifty" are from. I really hope that somebody gives newspapers the opportunity to say "Massachusetts to LePage: Drop Dead"...
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...24d_story.html
ARE YOU READ FOR THE WLASL Shuckle's Political Commentary: Some solid strategy in action. Step 1: Say outrageous things and make an unacceptable offer Step 2: Come across as reasonable in direct discussions and negotiation, seeming agreeable to tone down the shock and horror of the original offer Step 3: Come to a compromise that favors you but is more favorable for the other party than your original offer It's some classic Trump; he has a lot of weight to throw around thanks to the attention he gets and his vast wealth (probably), and he uses it pretty skillfully to get people onto his side. We'll see what Trump comes up with to get Nieto to accept his proposal.
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08-31-2016, 11:45 AM | #2183 |
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Principal Skinner trying to please the women of the PTA. If Trump is seriously playing the retroactive centrist card, as Shuckle was saying he ought to do back in June, and if this seriously plays out for him and he wins the election ...
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Trump confirmed that his visit was simply for relations purposes and apparently the subject of the payment for the wall was not seriously discussed.
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08-31-2016, 11:04 PM | #2185 |
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And yet Nieto has said he all but opened with "Mexico will not pay for your border wall". I feel like it wouldn't be out of character for Trump to lie about this, so while I admit to knowing very little about Nieto I'm gonna trust him on this one.
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08-31-2016, 11:05 PM | #2186 |
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The wall isn't happening, we know this.
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08-31-2016, 11:25 PM | #2187 |
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It could very much so happen, unless I'm just completely mistaken on something. It's just the Mexico paying for it part that almost certainly won't.
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08-31-2016, 11:29 PM | #2188 |
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It's an ultimately pointless expense on whoever ends up paying for it, easily circumvented by creative enough smugglers. Not to mention all the geography and land ownership you have to circumvent in order to build it.
The idea of the wall is dumb.
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However, that doesn't mean that Trump negotiated or discussed payment for the wall. Just that Nieto brought it up and took a stance on it. The purpose of the trip was not to negotiate payment for a wall that may or may not even happen! It was just to establish a diplomatic relationship and ease international tensions. They probably discussed agreements in which both countries could come out ahead without either country benefiting unfairly. Trump's already done the exact same thing with Britain and France by saying something to get them up in arms and then appeasing them with things they can't help but get interested in - Britain is grudgingly happy about getting a new and better trade deal from Trump and are mostly just Britishly protesting his racism by saying lots of stuff about it but not actually getting angry.
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Could you elaborate on this? Britain is quite divided politically at the moment so referring to Britain as one single entity sounds inherently wrong.
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09-01-2016, 10:11 AM | #2191 |
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This was nothing but a photo op. A poorly organized one, but still a photo op.
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09-01-2016, 12:25 PM | #2192 |
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I'm gonna say I really don't agree with Shuckle, at all. His immigration platform was really, before anything else, the defining point of his campaign. "Build a wall" on the Mexican border, its really the first thing anyone picked up on and went "what the actual fuck" about. It's also what drew a significant voter bloc of his because, let's face it, even if you don't want to admit that Trump himself is racist or xenophobic, many of his supporters are and were drawn to him by his tight immigration policy.
Him moving to be more central at this point would be a disaster. He would simultaneously lose the racist, xenophobic vote while gaining very few central voters. He would look wishywashy instead of a negotiator or someone who drives for compromise. That's not the image he initially wanted to set for himself, and its not the image that many of his supporters see in him. If he changes now, its going to be a major issue. This trip to Mexico is simply a talking point and nothing but. It's his speech in Arizona that's going to make more of a difference. That said, this alone doesn't necessarily look bad especially to his more educated voters who knows one of his weak points is that the world hates him. On a different note, Shuckle, I'm going to ask that you take an objective look at what Trump says and does. So far you've only seen what Trump has done and said in a neutral or positive light. You denounce him in name only, when its convenient, and then immediately flip-flop. A couple of pages ago you found good evidence to show you that Trump was actually racist...and now you've turned around and are saying the complete opposite. Opinions change, but this doesn't look it. When Talon says its UM levels of bad, I'm inclined to agree. Simply because you don't seem like a rational Trump supporter, you seem like someone who treats everything that comes out of his mouth like solid gold. Even among Bernie supporters here we didn't act like this. Kush shut up before you say something stupid.
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09-01-2016, 01:42 PM | #2193 |
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Seems to me like Trump's banking on his core supporters sticking to his cult of personality over any policy at this point (hi Shuckle), and that the more centrist voters that he needs to win have a short enough memory to fall for the massive swing in policy.
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I'm generally happy tiptoeing around you Emi but I'm not about to pretend you're smarter than me. Don't bait me :p
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09-01-2016, 02:05 PM | #2195 |
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Not sure if you're trying to tell me not to bait by trying to bait me
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09-01-2016, 04:30 PM | #2196 |
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Trump could always have transitioned to a more centrist view on immigration. The problem is he needed the credibility of an already solid campaign (in other areas) to do it. If Trump were crushing Hillary in the polls right now, backing off on the wall wouldn't have sunk his campaign and instead improved his chances.
It's a sales pitch, effectively. Showman will say whatever gets in you in the door and then tone it down once you're hooked. That was always Trump's best game plan and has been obvious since his primary camaign. But he's been unable to consolidate the rest of his campaign theology, and that was the issue.
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09-01-2016, 04:43 PM | #2197 |
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In a "shocker" Trump has not moved centrist on his immigration policy after all.
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09-01-2016, 06:19 PM | #2198 |
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So, I don't overly keep up with current events, so I just yesterday heard about the whole controversy with Kaepernick. I know most of us aren't very sportsy, but I don't think I saw anyone here mention it, and it might be a good change of pace from talking to death the innumerable low points of Drumpf.
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In fact I was whining about his mistakes from the very beginning. Holding his cards too tightly, making a stance about teleprompters that nobody cares about, kicking things off by attracting race-related attention, etc. He's made messes in his political campaign. He's smart and capable, and he is really good with image. When I analyze his statements and actions, I'm coming up with actual reasons for him to do the things he does. I'm pretty sure the only reason that you're saying that I'm "UM levels of bad" is because I refuse to agree with you that Trump is racist based off of your feelings on the matter. Does he make offensive jokes? Yes. Does he talk about race-related politics? Yes. Does that make him racist? Only if it makes Hillary racist, too. Which, hint: it doesn't for either one. Quote:
"Moving Centrist" means that Trump is going to stick to his guns on gun control and immigration, which is going to keep him entrenched on the Republican side. Hillary's doing the same thing in the opposite direction. Both have carefully kept quiet on several issues (Trump more so than Hillary, as he's more moderate than she is) and are now revealing their stances on both sides of the aisle to try to convince moderate voters. Trump isn't going to change his mind on immigration, he's just going to talk more about ways in which he is moderate or even liberal.
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I'll say this: As much as the First Amendment protects his right to protest like this, it protects the rights of other people to take issue with it, so if he faces consequences for it, i.e. pay cuts or what have you, it's no one's fault but his own.
Okay that was at Slash, thanks Shuckle for the Greninja.
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