Re: What happens to an issue deferred?
 

"Terrorism" basically means violence by brown people with political/ideological aims. Violence by white people with political/ideological aims (Dylan Roof, that dude in Quebec, etc.) is not seen as terrorism.

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

Like.

Re: What happens to an issue deferred?
 

"Terrorist" is what our govt calls people with whom we used to do business (bin Laden, Hussein, Gaddafi) after our deals with them are concluded, they are no longer useful to us, they know too much, or we've screwed them and they've threatened retaliation.

See also: "Drug Kingpin," as applied to Manuel Noriega.

Re: What happens to an issue deferred?
 

(if A then B) does not mean (if B then A). Yes, the government has called those people terrorists. No one thinks that's what the word means. Also, all of those people were brown, not that you disagreed with me.

Re: On Noember 13th, Young Adder was asked to remove himself from his place of reside
 

It's a means of distinguishing between trans people and non-trans people. You're really stretching to find a problem with that.

You're doing a whole lot to demonstrate your lack of privilege, bro.

How much of your day is spent wondering whether someone else is going to harm you?

Dude. You declared a universal list of priorities that you argued everyone should agree with. I pointed out that maybe people might have different priorities than yours because they face issues you don't face.

This has led to silly ranting on your part.

I mean, if you want to be a decent human being you do. But we know you don't care about that.

Yes. They threaten real people's existence, just like those things do.

This is stupid and not at all how the world works. You make progress where you can while you can.

Only because you don't value some of them.

Man. You think progress is linear? You can't possibly think that.

That's a sure-fire way to never have to address the grievances of any minority.

ETA: Oh, and btw, that's not what your list does. For some reason you care about cops shooting tiny numbers of black people than you do certain other things. Weird, really. Maybe politics isn't just a straightforward weighting of collective utility.

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

I will be targeting one particular Republican, the one who represents the place I great up, John Faso, with a vengeance.

I just scanned the comments on his announcement of his support for this godforsaken piece of shit they call a bill, and they are running more than 99% against him.

Re: What happens to an issue deferred?
 

First point: Gold star for you.
Second one: Yup.

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

My rep, Ted Poe, was on the wavering list and caved. Motherfucker has been battling leukemia all year. I called his office to voice my concern as a constituent, a family member of someone who relies on the exchanges, and as someone who works in the Texas Medical Center.

May Karma be swift.

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

I'm in Culberson's district. I don't even check how he votes on things anymore because he's so consistently an asshat. It's awesome to see how he used to get shouted down at town halls at places like West U Elementary. Then he started making his town halls infrequent and at such times and places it would be inconvenient for anyone who isn't a retiree to attend.

Re: What happens to an issue deferred?
 

It is true. But if you think about my laddering of issues, you'll notice, I'm carefully suggesting fixes at the top which will also fix a lot of the problems below.

It all comes down to money. Find a way to assuage the economic anxieties and most of the other ills self-correct.

Think about how addressing the priorities I listed fixes others, and fixes those lower on my own ladder.

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

For Sebby: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_EC1bIX...jpg&name=large

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

Not be assholes.

Startups constantly give themselves an excuse for being assholes because its "innovative" or "disruptive". But, yeah, the key is, not being assholes. Or at least limiting it a bit.

Time to taste what you most fear/Right Guard will not help you here...
 

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/unit...icipation-rate

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/unit...es/wage-growth

No, the lower participation is not because of retirements: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...orking-past-65

Shall we talk student loans next? Or perhaps how many millennials are living in basements? Or the automation/outsourcing chainsaw working its way through Gen Xers in middle management positions?

It's a good time to have assets. The "recovery" has been a gift to those who who were on top pre-2008 -- a preservation of their position on top.

And it's really funny to hear from you about how Everything's Just Dandy with the economy, but we have dire social issues to consider regarding non-cis bathroom users. The reason you're fixated on the latter and not the former, I suspect, is, like a lot of people in our social strata:

1. You truly do want social change;
2. But you don't want to change the economy, which is delivering for people like you; so,
3. You recoil at criticisms of the economy and support a narrative that insulates it from real, substantial change, but assuage your need to make a positive difference by focusing on social issues at the periphery.

Maybe people like you and me should start checking our "economic privilege." Let's see how many white liberals want to have a conversation about how their best decision in life was selection of their parents. It's quite easy to throw moral opprobrium around regarding somebody's failure to empathize (which is what accusing someone of failing to grasp their privilege is doing). I'd like to see some of the enlightened white folks with those criticisms atone for the privilege that grants them the ability to burn time tsk-tsking others: That daddy and mommy bankrolled our asses.

My white liberal friends who went to my white bread schools don't like that conversation all that much. They're all about solidarity with the little guy, until someone suggests a radical economic change that tanks their portfolios.

Re: What happens to an issue deferred?
 

At heart, you're a Marxist?