Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I actually don't disagree with that piece. BLM is not identity politics. It's a simple fact that our prison system preys on minorities. Full stop. BLM is addressing "facts," and that's the important distinction. It's Fact Politics.

OTOH, when Ty, or anyone else, says something like "Trump likes Russians because they are white, and dislikes Asians because they are not," that's identity politics. And when coupled with disdain and accusations against Russians, which this statement is, it's really bad identity politics. You can't aim invective at one group on the basis (an incorrect one) they're white and in conspiracy with a bigoted President (thus by extension possible bigots themselves) while decrying bigotry against other groups.

It's also demeaning to categorize people as "Russians," "Chinese," "Asians," or "Muslims" and assume one group is much different than all of the others. Russia's about as diverse a nation as any on earth, incorporating shitloads of varying religions and populations. What they aren't is an approved victim in the current lexicon of blindered liberal groupthink. Hell, it's even okay to paint them negatively.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Take almost any story about there about Russians and swap in "Muslims." I know, I know -- when the media says Russians, it means Putin and the Kremlin, not the people. I agree. But just imagine if people threw around "Muslims" in the same way. Actually, we don't have to imagine it. People have done that. Many politicians and pundits have loosely accused "Muslims" generally of certain things, without noting it's but a tiny fraction of crazy Muslims who deserve criticism. And they've been slammed for it, unfairly. I notice no similar outrage when people call out "Russians" instead of specifically limiting criticism to Putin and the Kremlin.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Have you ever seen a shrink?

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Those every seventh posts you see are just classic examples of your confirmation bias at work.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Yet two posts ago you agreed with him? Hmmmm....

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Politicians promise more than they can deliver. When you like the guy who's doing it, you're inclined to overlook it, just like so many Trump supporters don't seem to mind that he's walking back so many of his promises, or were willing to take them as puffery from the start. For example, the Trump voters in Kentucky who hope he's not really going to repeal the ACA.

When you don't like the politician involved, you go and find your news from sources that will confirm your views, and they don't give you the context, or the other things that were said that were reasonable, etc.

Specifically on Obamacare, there has been a very concerted effort by the right to paint the law as a failure. The media is less interested in telling success stories I'm sure there many people who feel deceived about it want to feel deceived, and others don't realize what the law has accomplished.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

A person who wasn't trying to be a tendentious asshole would read the second of my two sentences as an appropriate qualifier of the first.

I don't know why Trump likes the Russians even as he's bellicose to everyone else in the world.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

That's one the dumber things you have said on this board lately. Which is saying something.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Go find someone who can explain to you what I meant when I referred to correlation and causation.

What if you're talking about the country of Russia? Is it OK to refer to its people as Russians, or is that not SebbyPC-compliant?

Re: Sebby is one of the whitest people I know
 

Wait. You're not a whiter shade of pale?

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Re: Sebby is one of the whitest people I know
 

Depends how badly I've been amusing myself. Sometimes, yes, I've been shockingly white... and sweating for no good reason.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

He thinks they love their children too.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Calm down. Fuck you. You're so knee deep in confirmation bias, you wouldn't recognize your own echo chamber if somebody repeated everything you said back to you multiple times in steadily decreasing decibel levels. You're like 10,000 fake news story wrapped in one. Calm down. Funkadelic is better than you. Can You Get To That? I didn't think so. The Daily Dose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rrOdcnFbAY

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

What I said re Tillerson.