The Joe Biden Drops Out thread

[Woke Locc]

Originally Posted by magnetaress [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Joe is for sure going to screw anyone not snow white. And some snow white people too.

But so is Trump probably more or less. IDK. Really.

Abandoning the Dem coalition to win over Republicans is one of Lune's more harebrained ideas.

Dunk stands.

[Gwaihir]

Originally Posted by Kich867 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

On the next episode of "Stuff Gwaihir Says":

Imagine suggesting it's difficult to get any job better paying than:

"Welfare recipient"

[douglas1999]

The african american population in the US is considerably poorer than the population of african *immigrants* currently living in america. I doubt anyone is going to argue that people born in west africa have some kind of leg up compared to african americans born in america in the modern day, because that would be a totally incoherent argument. At some point the left needs to honestly address the element of american black culture that glorifies violence and castigates educational achievement if they actually want to improve conditions for black americans and not just regurgitate nice-sounding lip service.

And no it's not racist to point this out, scores of black academics already do, and it's also a very specific issue with *young* black men. It's not an issue with older black men nor young or old black women. People who claim to advocate for "racial justice" are so neurotically unable to criticize elements of american black culture that are directly detrimental to black populations and I have little hope that they'll ever grow enough of a spine to do so.

[magnetaress]

Originally Posted by douglas1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The african american population in the US is considerably poorer than the population of african *immigrants* currently living in america. I doubt anyone is going to argue that people born in west africa have some kind of leg up compared to african americans born in america in the modern day, because that would be a totally incoherent argument. At some point the left needs to honestly address the element of american black culture that glorifies violence and castigates educational achievement if they actually want to improve conditions for black americans and not just regurgitate nice-sounding lip service.

And no it's not racist to point this out, scores of black academics already do, and it's also a very specific issue with *young* black men. It's not an issue with older black men nor young or old black women. People who claim to advocate for "racial justice" are so neurotically unable to criticize elements of american black culture that are directly detrimental to black populations and I have little hope that they'll ever grow enough of a spine to do so.

We just need to give them land to farm and put them on it so they can do an honest day's work for once.

0.o (yikes at what I just typed)

You do make it sound like black people can't and won't go to Elons mars tho. (Very fckn cool TV show though)

Look it's not just young black males. Or even necessarily males in general. Law and economy has gotten real hard and bookish. As a male. I'm going to say it's too damn hard. Already. Bureaucracy is all well and good but the underclasses and ultraviolet dumbs like me need to be well insulated from it or your society will inevitably crumble towards genuine anarchy and chaos.

Gimme a hammer I'm fixn to build a utopia. Hurrr hurr.

[Kich867]

Originally Posted by Gwaihir [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Imagine suggesting it's difficult to get any job better paying than:

"Welfare recipient"

Sorry not everyone lives in the midwest where everything is free and the whole economy is held up by government aid. A lot of us live where things actually cost money and being Kyle's tractor driver for free rent and beer money doesn't actually constitute a career.

Btw my rent is twice the amount someone working minimum wage earns per month and my apartment isn't even that nice.

[Blingy]

Originally Posted by Kich867 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sorry not everyone lives in the midwest where everything is free and the whole economy is held up by government aid. A lot of us live where things actually cost money and being Kyle's tractor driver for free rent and beer money doesn't actually constitute a career.

I'm guessing you're not all that familiar with how farming and growing crops works or even what the lifestyle in the midwest is like. Listening to a CNN mouthpiece for 30 seconds doesn't make you an expert in whatever subject they gave a sound bite about.

Originally Posted by Kich867 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Btw my rent is twice the amount someone working minimum wage earns per month and my apartment isn't even that nice.

This means nothing. Cost of living varies greatly from one place to another. A $7.25/hour earner would have to work 1000 hours a month to afford renting a house in my neighborhood. Nothing in my neighborhood is over 1500 square feet and all the houses are 60+ years old.....nothing fancy. Please compare apples to apples.

[Gwaihir]

Originally Posted by Kich867 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sorry not everyone lives in the midwest where everything is free and the whole economy is held up by government aid. A lot of us live where things actually cost money and being Kyle's tractor driver for free rent and beer money doesn't actually constitute a career.

Btw my rent is twice the amount someone working minimum wage earns per month and my apartment isn't even that nice.

so, you're saying, its a bad idea to drop out of school and start up a career strong-arming people for pocket change while repping your block selling dime bags at the corner liquor store in these higher demand areas instead of focusing on your education with free scholarships, of which there are plenty, because you're black, if you want to land a well paying job in an affluent area?

Well, it's nice to see we agree.

Bruh, i grew up in a "Black" neighborhood. I seen't how it is; watched my brother get strong-armed for his first paycheck by the local crip gang, watched half the crew get locked up for coercing a local underage hood rat into letting the crew pull a train on her only to have her dad get home early from work and report them for rape and erryting

[Bigsham]

Some racist posts here, also most of you are stupid

donald is the only person to do anything regarding overseas manufacturing, the tariffs on mexican produce , car parts and china air freight tariffs are injecting billions into US Economy but none of you would know that due to dirt poor poverty also moms house

See you at the polls

[Kich867]

Originally Posted by Gwaihir [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

so, you're saying, its a bad idea to drop out of school and start up a career strong-arming people for pocket change while repping your block selling dime bags at the corner liquor store in these higher demand areas instead of focusing on your education with free scholarships, of which there are plenty, because you're black, if you want to land a well paying job in an affluent area?

Well, it's nice to see we agree.

Bruh, i grew up in a "Black" neighborhood. I seen't how it is; watched my brother get strong-armed for his first paycheck by the local crip gang, watched half the crew get locked up for coercing a local underage hood rat into letting the crew pull a train on her only to have her dad get home early from work and report them for rape and erryting

Bruh, you didn't grow up in that neighborhood, sorry you grew up in a cul de sac.

Look though, you're not wrong, the only way out is to break the chain, but the reality is that breaking that chain is drastically more complicated than you're portraying it to be. I've met a lot of people in my life, the vast majority of those people live kind of shitty lives, but they grew up with a real support system, they grew up with a community that wasn't crime ridden, they had all the opportunities they needed, and most of those people fucked it up. Badly.

I've met a few people that grew up in a real shit hole of a life, and they fucking fought, and they had mountains of awful shit they had to deal with but they came out on top and they made it and I'm super happy for them. But that's hard. If you can't empathize with that you're just another elite, disconnected from reality and you don't really understand what its like to have to deal with actual shit.

So no, I can't actually imagine that its as simple as "just not getting into that lifestyle" for people who don't have a stable home life, don't have a positive support system, live in a crime ridden community, and aren't even aware of the opportunities you've pointed out because they can't even get that far to realize they're there.

[Blingy]

Although Kennedy is speaking specifically about going to the moon the sentiment can be applied to most situations:

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

If somebody wants something bad enough they'll find a way to achieve that. When we started working at a food bank 6 years ago I met a lady that came in once a week. Broken english, tattered clothes, barely functional car, etc. you get the picture. It took her 2 years to finally turn things around but when she stopped needing to come to the food bank and started wearing nice new clothes we asked her what had changed. She said she looked for opportunity (that wasn't available for a single mother from Pakistan) and worked hard at it. Last I heard she drives a $70k Lexus and owns a home that's nicer than ours.

So yes, things can be hard. If a single Pakistani mother can come here with a child and two suitcases of things and become who she is today then I see no reason why others can't do the same; American born or otherwise.