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Originally Posted by maskedmelon
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BLM is as embarrassing for the rational minds on the left as Westboro is for those on the right. The absurdity is how politicians have managed to frame the left-right debate about trivial social issues that don't matter one fuck in the grand scheme of things.
Feel bad that your life sucks? Work harder.
Don't like same sex marriage? Don't attend.
Angry that madmen do bad things? Lock them up.
Sad that other people kills their babies? Offer to adopt them.
Feel that you are consistently treated unfairly? Kill yourself, you've already lost.
Democrats perpetuate bigotry and republicans perpetuate economic inequality. Democrats teach people that their failures are beyond their control when hey are not and republicans teach people that the market will set them free when it will not.
Dwelling on differences is never a path to harmony, but ignoring them is a path of insanity. Individuals operating more than two standard deviations above the mean will always vastly outperform the rest and failure to adequately restrict the rewards of success will necessarily result in a damaging concentration of resources.
I am all over the place this morning and cranky to boot...
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Well said. The over arcing moral of personal responsibility is dying and reverting to those invisible heroes, saviors via ex machina that don't show up when absolutely needed and are nice buzzwords for the politics. The idea of patience is wasted on current generations too, but the sad thing is that much of the social progress over the past century in the US is fragile and is easily undone by an idiot with a microphone that gets attention because they have the microphone and not because of their rhetoric.