Picked on white guy ideas

[TheVictors]

This thread had potential ...

I thought it was about what White guys have had to face over the past few decades ..

You know, like ...

No more smacking broads in the ass at work!
Having to share the bathroom with minorities!
Losing roster spots on athletic teams to better - minority - athletes.
No longer being the Majority
Having to get a job based on merit and not melanin.
Seeing steak and bourbon lunches replaced with sushi and salad bars
Having to pay the actual musician or artist and not just the label.

 

[Michchamp]

And was resurrected and is still with us. One day you will convert and repent. #30

repent? for what? for going to law school? for valuing logic, reason, and weighing evidence over blind faith?

 

[byco42]

repent? for what? for going to law school? for valuing logic, reason, and weighing evidence over blind faith?

#30 ... not commenting anymore. Else mods warn that this is not a topic for this forum.

 

[Michchamp]

This thread had potential ...

I thought it was about what White guys have had to face over the past few decades ..

You know, like ...

No more smacking broads in the ass at work!
Having to share the bathroom with minorities!
Losing roster spots on athletic teams to better - minority - athletes.
No longer being the Majority
Having to get a job based on merit and not melanin.
Seeing steak and bourbon lunches replaced with sushi and salad bars
Having to pay the actual musician or artist and not just the label.

all such injustice.

I'd like to add there's nothing more manly than whining that it's women, feminists, and "PC culture" keeping you from being a real man in our society today...

 

[Gulo Blue]

This thread had potential ...

I thought it was about what White guys have had to face over the past few decades ..

You know, like ...

No more smacking broads in the ass at work!
Having to share the bathroom with minorities!
Losing roster spots on athletic teams to better - minority - athletes.
No longer being the Majority
Having to get a job based on merit and not melanin.
Seeing steak and bourbon lunches replaced with sushi and salad bars
Having to pay the actual musician or artist and not just the label.

Middle class has been punched in the gut economically. No matter what your race is. Everyone is pissed. Focusing on race like this just helps split people that should be working together. Doesn't mean racial issues aren't real, they've very, very real. But you generally can't get people to give a crap about others unless their life is on an upswing. As long as they feel like it's eroding, there are going to be blinders on regarding racism while they work on their own problems.

 

[Spartanmack]

Well, this election. Nobody can look at this and say this machine is running well. This is a nightmare. We are more polarized and full of anger directed at our fellow citizens than ever.

are you blaming Trump for that? It seems he is more of a by-product of president popinjay dividing us for 8 years.

 

[Spartanmack]

I get it but why doesn't obstructionism ever stick to the Gop? Because it never does.
But you watch when the Democrats try and stop anything they will be blasted in the media. It is such bullshit .

bob, you're out of your mind if you think the GOP gets a free pass at obsructionism but the Dems get taken to task in the media. This is legitimately delusion - like, you're not taking your meds delusional.

 

[Spartanmack]

repent? for what? for going to law school? for valuing logic, reason, and weighing evidence over blind faith?

and i thought bob was delusional.

 

[biggunsbob]

bob, you're out of your mind if you think the GOP gets a free pass at obsructionism but the Dems get taken to task in the media. This is legitimately delusion - like, you're not taking your meds delusional.

Whatever are you talking about . The gop never gets punished for its obstructionism even if and when the gop does it. It never seems to hurt them at the ballot box. I totally disagree with you .

 

[Gulo Blue]

are you blaming Trump for that? It seems he is more of a by-product of president popinjay dividing us for 8 years.

I'm not calling him a root cause, but he's a powerful feedback mechanism.

 

[TheVictors]

Middle class has been punched in the gut economically. No matter what your race is. Everyone is pissed. Focusing on race like this just helps split people that should be working together. Doesn't mean racial issues aren't real, they've very, very real. But you generally can't get people to give a crap about others unless their life is on an upswing. As long as they feel like it's eroding, there are going to be blinders on regarding racism while they work on their own problems.

I get that. But it might come as a surprise when these disenfranchised working-middle to middle class folks find out that it wasn't a Mexican that took their manufacturing job, it was a robot. And robots are here to stay. I think a lot of Trump's rhetoric that played to this demographic was misleading and in many ways manipulative. Just like promising to re-open coal plants in PA and WV that have been closed for years.

 

[TheVictors]

bob, you're out of your mind if you think the GOP gets a free pass at obsructionism but the Dems get taken to task in the media. This is legitimately delusion - like, you're not taking your meds delusional.

300,000 voters in Wisconsin turned away and the 27,000 margin of victory for Trump..?

 

[tigermud]

it's a combination of the both Victors, you think what you want, the republic will now be restored, the crap trade agreement days are over. The angry white guys have spoken and will not relent, we;re just getting warmed up!

 

[Gulo Blue]

I get that. But it might come as a surprise when these disenfranchised working-middle to middle class folks find out that it wasn't a Mexican that took their manufacturing job, it was a robot. And robots are here to stay. I think a lot of Trump's rhetoric that played to this demographic was misleading and in many ways manipulative. Just like promising to re-open coal plants in PA and WV that have been closed for years.

I don't disagree. But the solution isn't to keep feeding the separation with stuff like racial tension. If a robot (or some overseas worker, or some overseas robot) is taking your job, you're probably distracted from racial inequality you don't personally experience. If a robot (or whatever) is taking your job, and that's on top of the racial discrimination you experience, you're not going to notice that the white guy lost his job too. Understanding from either side would help, understanding from both sides is needed to make progress forward. But nobody can make the other side understand; the other side can't pay attention to you. You can only make your own side understand. All this extreme partisanship is a poison and I see very few people pumping the breaks on it. Most are hitting the gas harder than ever.

 

[TheVictors]

it's a combination of the both Victors, you think what you want, the republic will now be restored, the crap trade agreement days are over. The angry white guys have spoken and will not relent, we;re just getting warmed up!

Fight the Machine, bro ...best of luck to you, angry white man.

If you want me to look at things your way, I am in such a high tax bracket that the Trump cuts will be a windfall for me. But I'm not going to take that money and spend it. I am going to sit on it and invest it, but not spend it in the marketplace.

 

[Michchamp]

it's a combination of the both Victors, you think what you want, the republic will now be restored, the crap trade agreement days are over. The angry white guys have spoken and will not relent, we;re just getting warmed up!

What's next? Kristallnacht USA?

 

[byco42]

What's next? Kristallnacht USA?

I think that's already happening. Not even dogs are safe from the enraged rioters.

 

[tigermud]

Fight the Machine, bro ...best of luck to you, angry white man.

If you want me to look at things your way, I am in such a high tax bracket that the Trump cuts will be a windfall for me. But I'm not going to take that money and spend it. I am going to sit on it and invest it, but not spend it in the marketplace.

good plan, stay away from gold and silver now though, I think those days are now over also.

 

[TheVictors]

good plan, stay away from gold and silver now though, I think those days are now over also.

I will be sure to heed your sage advice when our investment committee meets next Monday and yeah, buying gold on fear is a chumps trade. You know I work for a $97B investment trust, right?

 

[Spartanmack]

300,000 voters in Wisconsin turned away and the 27,000 margin of victory for Trump..?

have moved on from obstructionism to vote fraud and suppression? how about the thousands of felons who voted for Al Frankin and he won by less than 312 - and he was the 60th vote for obamacare.