Ponderable

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot

Chris Hedges remarks that “fascist movements build their base not from the politically active but the politically inactive, the ‘losers’ who feel, often correctly, they have no voice or role to play in the political establishment”. When political debate no longer speaks to us, people become responsive instead to slogans, symbols and sensation. To the admirers of Trump, for example, facts and arguments appear irrelevant.
 
Wez said:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot

Chris Hedges remarks that “fascist movements build their base not from the politically active but the politically inactive, the ‘losers’ who feel, often correctly, they have no voice or role to play in the political establishment”. When political debate no longer speaks to us, people become responsive instead to slogans, symbols and sensation. To the admirers of Trump, for example, facts and arguments appear irrelevant.
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Says the Elitist left.
Maybe not as smart as they think they are.
Going to be a long 4 years.:p
 
Bernie Sanders said:
if you dont shut up, I might just show up and take your lunch money,.
Just kidding.
Im too much of a softie for that.
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Lol, now I'm getting threatened by these guys...

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Wez said:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot

Chris Hedges remarks that “fascist movements build their base not from the politically active but the politically inactive, the ‘losers’ who feel, often correctly, they have no voice or role to play in the political establishment”. When political debate no longer speaks to us, people become responsive instead to slogans, symbols and sensation. To the admirers of Trump, for example, facts and arguments appear irrelevant.
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This seemed pretty relevant

 
Question for the righties...Sessions is a strong advocate for civil asset forfeiture, you ok with that?

http://rare.us/story/jeff-sessions-is-a-terrible-choice-for-attorney-general/

On the issue of civil asset forfeiture—legalized theft by the police without any recourse for those who have their property stolen (which has ruined many lives)—Sessions is a strong advocate.

Robert Everett Johnson praised Sessions’ support of civil asset forfeiture at Roll Call in 2015, “Midway through the committee hearing, he declared that he was ‘very unhappy’ with criticism of civil forfeiture, because in his view ‘taking and seizing and forfeiting, through a government judicial process, illegal gains from criminal enterprises is not wrong.”

Sessions also said that “95 percent” of civil asset forfeitures involve people who have “done nothing in their lives but sell dope.”
 
Wez said:
Question for the righties...Sessions is a strong advocate for civil asset forfeiture, you ok with that?

http://rare.us/story/jeff-sessions-is-a-terrible-choice-for-attorney-general/

On the issue of civil asset forfeiture—legalized theft by the police without any recourse for those who have their property stolen (which has ruined many lives)—Sessions is a strong advocate.

Robert Everett Johnson praised Sessions’ support of civil asset forfeiture at Roll Call in 2015, “Midway through the committee hearing, he declared that he was ‘very unhappy’ with criticism of civil forfeiture, because in his view ‘taking and seizing and forfeiting, through a government judicial process, illegal gains from criminal enterprises is not wrong.”

Sessions also said that “95 percent” of civil asset forfeitures involve people who have “done nothing in their lives but sell dope.”
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Sounds like Sessions is actually an old southern law and order Democrat...
 
"This is the thing I think we begin to forget when we focus too much on a single candidate. The current president of the United States, President Barack Obama, campaigned on a platform of ending mass surveillance in the United States. He said no more warrantless wiring tapping. He said he’d investigate and end criminal activities that had occurred under the prior administration…. And we all put a lot of hope in him because of this. Not just people in [the United States]…but people in Europe and elsewhere around the world. It was a moment where we believed that because the right person got into office everything would change. But unfortunately, once he took that office we saw that he actually didn’t fulfill those campaign promises.

Snowden highlighted Obama’s failure to close Guantanamo Bay and end mass warrantless surveillance as specific broken campaign promises. Snowden said he was bringing up these points simply to drive home a larger message.

“We should be cautious about putting too much faith or fear into elected officials,” said Snowden. “At the end of the day, this is just a president.”
 
Something I am sure would be ponderable to some of the posters here - the other day I took the 237 bus from Rancho Bernardo to UCSD. At one stop near the campus on La Jolla Village Drive, 30 (I counted them - 30) college-student-age-looking passengers got on. Not one of them was a white male.
 
espola said:
Something I am sure would be ponderable to some of the posters here - the other day I took the 237 bus from Rancho Bernardo to UCSD. At one stop near the campus on La Jolla Village Drive, 30 (I counted them - 30) college-student-age-looking passengers got on. Not one of them was a white male.
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That's a nice round number. Asian?
 
espola said:
Something I am sure would be ponderable to some of the posters here - the other day I took the 237 bus from Rancho Bernardo to UCSD. At one stop near the campus on La Jolla Village Drive, 30 (I counted them - 30) college-student-age-looking passengers got on. Not one of them was a white male.
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Welcome to Cali. Just go to the Mall, same thing.
 
espola said:
Something I am sure would be ponderable to some of the posters here - the other day I took the 237 bus from Rancho Bernardo to UCSD. At one stop near the campus on La Jolla Village Drive, 30 (I counted them - 30) college-student-age-looking passengers got on. Not one of them was a white male.
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Go on campus and it's more diverse, you are just seeing the kids that stay off campus, the ones that can afford it.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
Go on campus and it's more diverse, you are just seeing the kids that stay off campus, the ones that can afford it.
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Your stereotyping may be headed in the wrong direction. Perhaps the white males drove their own cars to campus.

In my two Asian kids' combined 9 years at UC Davis, they had about 20 roommates. One Chinese female, one Vietnamese male, and one mixed Russian-Mexican male.
 
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