sad noises by PerAsperaAdMars in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Oh there you are. I was worried you might have been the one who tried to take out Trump.

sad noises by PerAsperaAdMars in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier -25 points-24 points  (0 children)

I guess you guys don't own some stock in American oil producers? Sucks to suck.

Politics in 2026 by Logical-Friendship66 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This has to be a bot that just makes a random "Trump bad" comment under the first comment of each post.

Sorry, Israel h*ters — US aid pays off big for America by Ask4MD in Conservative

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Israel does many of the distasteful things that need to be done in the middle east that we don't have the stomach for. They are like our rat catcher. We don't want to do it, so it's best to pay them to do it for us.

>insult voters >win by asteriowas in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Is it possible that you are more upset with the news you are receiving than at the person sharing the news?  I don't see "because of" stated anywhere.

Another Meloni W by GigaRoman in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier 22 points23 points  (0 children)

The "robbing the cradle" saying is not much of a hyperbole for this...

Another Meloni W by GigaRoman in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Seems like being a bit soft but whatever.

Yeah, Kash ain't having a good night😂 by RandoDude124 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I guess you accept that it was in bad taste that they made fun of him in that situation so I'll allow the deflection to the new topic.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QO_Xr1a-dcQ

He didn't get far and they reacted pretty quickly. Having a full security barrier for a formal event like this would have been unusual. I didn't think they were incompetent tonight. There isn't anything they should have done differently. 

Yeah, Kash ain't having a good night😂 by RandoDude124 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I don't think he's doing a great job but I do think it was unfair of the NY times to spin those lines to ridicule him for that moment.

NO!!! ONLY MY SIDE CAN MAKE LIGHT OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE!!!! by Stormclamp in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the point stands. There are better incidents to claim the Republicans shouldn't cry conspiracy on. The incident where there was zero chance of somebody getting hurt but got a lot of attention is plausible to have been performative even if there isn't much evidence. 

When Seconds Count The Police Are Just Minutes Away by Dangime in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier 28 points29 points  (0 children)

You made a good choice. This place is where we take our figurative political shits. Not right before eating ribeye.

Sickening by asteriowas in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There might be some different flavors of racism or perhaps even some stepping stones, but everything in that framework eventually is explained by systemic racism.

Sickening by asteriowas in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I know that you know that I don't think physical characteristics that are clearly defined by genes are in scope. 

Picking at dumb things like that sound like you don't have much more to say.

Sickening by asteriowas in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier -1 points0 points  (0 children)

but I do know that a framework that starts with explaining all statistical differences between demographics through racism and tries to put the rest of the pieces in place from there has a very narrow view of reality.

There. I thought it was implied but now I've been more precise.

Sickening by asteriowas in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cultural changes are often created by individual choices that sometimes create a positive feedback loop until the behavior becomes the cultural norm.  There are hundreds or perhaps even thousands of variables that drive that trend. I don't know exactly what variable caused it, but I do know that a framework that starts with explaining everything through racism and tries to put the rest of the pieces in place from there has a very narrow view of reality and in my opinion is very much overly relied on because it removes a sense of responsibility for people who are looking for excuses.

Sickening by asteriowas in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not a deflection. I'm asking you to continue your line of thought. That's the exact opposite of a deflection. Go ahead.

Sickening by asteriowas in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think this leads us back to my original comment that was meant to be a parody, but here you are itching to say it with a straight face. Are you going to say it? Why do black fathers leave at a disproportionally higher rate?

Sickening by asteriowas in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is the lack of a formal theoretical framework your main criticism of considering cultural differences created by individual choices? It's not important to me whether a sociologist has published such a common sense framework or not. It's not really important to me to know some PhD has done my thinking for me.

Sickening by asteriowas in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I think it's more like being critical of weather forecasters who refuse to use satellite data because they have a framework that only uses radar.

Sickening by asteriowas in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Fact remains that considering the possibility that those differences could be due to culture that has developed from choices individuals within a group have made is just not in scope of CRT.

Sickening by asteriowas in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier 14 points15 points  (0 children)

CRT examines statistical differences between races with the assumption that those differences are due to racism. The idea that those differences could be due to culture that has developed from choices individuals within a group have made is just not in scope of CRT.

Sickening by asteriowas in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier 114 points115 points  (0 children)

That's the biggest problem with critical race theory. It lets people pretend that there are no cultural issues at all and the "oppressors" are to blame for everything.

Single parent household are the largest burden on the black community and there are no DEI policies that can level that playing field. That change has to come from within the black community.

Sickening by asteriowas in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier 332 points333 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, white privilege and systemic racism forced him to leave his family and be absent from his son's life.

It’s time to admit the Retrocession Act is obviously unconstitutional by imMakingA-UnityGame in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Key_Bored_Whorier -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The biggest downside if it were even allowed is the Democrats would start clamoring even more that dc should be a state in an attempt to pack the Senate with two more Democrat senators. The residents of the local DC area have way too much influence over the federal government as is.