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richwicks says

A bunch of unqualified kids go to MIT or Berkeley or whatever, they do crappy or drop out.

Pffff, if we admit them by melanin who says we can't let them graduate based on melanin? It's already done with HS in CA: you'll get your HS diploma no matter how crappy you do in school because reparations.

Eric Holder says

Pffff, if we admit them by melanin who says we can't let them graduate based on melanin? It's already done with HS in CA: you'll get your HS diploma no matter how crappy you do in school because reparations.

The result is that people who are perceived to have been socially promoted are confined to entry level jobs to fill a quota. Basically a black candidate won't want to have a degree from such a school when entering the work force.

This doesn't help smart, "minority", students.

This is well known. Again, the people implementing these policies are doing it intentionally to harm the people they are claiming to help. I feel badly for the victims of it, but that's the result.

I think for college admissions and interviews, that you should be using a randomized number in earlier interviews, and not even see the interviewer. Professors shouldn't even know who submitted a paper but I know it will never be a meritocracy. It's easy to fix a lot of these problems, but the reality is they don't want to fix actual racism and disparities.

For a bank loan, why do you even have to let the people know you're black, or Asian, or Jewish, or white? Submit your forms and wait for a response. They shouldn't even be able to identify you.

richwicks says

Eric Holder says

Pffff, if we admit them by melanin who says we can't let them graduate based on melanin? It's already done with HS in CA: you'll get your HS diploma no matter how crappy you do in school because reparations.

The result is that people who are perceived to have been socially promoted are confined to entry level jobs to fill a quota. Basically a black candidate won't want to have a degree from such a school when entering the work force.

So what? There are plenty of government positions to be filled. And who's to say they have to stay at entry level? Affirmative action works for promotions just as good.

richwicks says

This doesn't help smart, "minority", students.

Who said that was the goal in the first place?

Eric Holder says

richwicks says

This doesn't help smart, "minority", students.

Who said that was the goal in the first place?

The people implementing these policies are making this claim.

I didn't say it was the goal, it's not.

Some fools might think that's the goal. I'm saying people that are promoting these policies know they are lying. The Democratic party really has become what it used to be back in 1920.

Eric Holder says

So what? There are plenty of government positions to be filled. And who's to say they have to stay at entry level? Affirmative action works for promotions just as good.

Government will collapse soon enough. I explained it here:

https://www.patrick.net/post/1305352?0#comment-1706280

I've explained it numerous times. Figure we have 10 years left, maximum. Could be as little as tomorrow though.

Nothing matters at this point. There's no way to fix the system - the only thing that can be done is have somebody competent handling bankruptcy when the US finally has to admit it. Trump is the best person to be in office as the US goes through a complete economic reset. If somehow this is avoided for another 4 years and we have President, I dunno, Pelosi/Adam Schiff/Hunter Biden - whatever, start thinking about becoming an expatriot.

TPB,

I wonder how many people know the other name for Brazil nuts?

brazil66 says

I wonder how many people know the other name for Brazil nuts?

My black friend knew the name. I had a can of mixed nuts, and I handed one to him and said "N-n-n Mixed Nut Tim?!"

He said "Oh you was going to say "nigger toe nut" weren't you?"

I have a friend that lives in Oakland. He was giving me a ride in his car home after I bought a few beers from work (for both of us, but I drink more) - and he had a baseball bat in his front passenger seat.

"Why do you have an aluminum baseball bat in your car?" I asked.

"Oh, that's just my NBG. I've never had to use it though."

A second later I burst out laughing. He's said everybody that's rode with him gets it eventually.

Eric Holder says

Pffff, if we admit them by melanin who says we can't let them graduate based on melanin?

I did undergrad at a crank-em-out pre-med school. UTSA. Tutored a LOT of my classmates who were getting low grades. My Tex-Mex peers were okay with that. They told me they'd get in with a C-level grade because they were Hispanic. They were correct.

Fortunately one failed, ended up at a tiny local biotech the year before I graduated. When I did he threw me a rope and the rest is history.

richwicks says

"Oh, that's just my NBG. I've never had to use it though."

Definition please. Urban Dictionary did not seem to have NBG.

Be good

Patrick says

richwicks says

"Oh, that's just my NBG. I've never had to use it though."

Definition please. Urban Dictionary did not seem to have NBG.

I suspect the "BG" in NBG is "Be-Gone" The "N" is what you think it is.

TrumpingTits says

You explained that the national debt doubles in 8 years. But you didn't explain how the GDP roughly does as well.

“How did you go bankrupt?"
Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

• Population keeps growing exponentially, but the land and natural resources aren't increasing at all.
• The percentage amount borrowed increases relative to the percentage amount collected in taxes.
• Actually, the debt seems to be rising a bit faster than inflation, contrary to TT's statement that I quoted.
• Two words: Unfunded liabilities.
• Really bad demographics that go hand-in-hand with the unfunded liabilities.
• Consumption of one-time resources such as coal, oil, aquifers (that take 100 years to fill), and mined materials used to make fertilizer needed to boost food production

Any way you slice it, I think, as a species, we are consuming way beyond the earth's renewable rate.

SunnyvaleCA says

Any way you slice it, I think, as a species, we are consuming way beyond the earth's renewable rate.

Said Malthus.

"The Wheels on the Bus" song.

(The driver of the bus says 'Move on Back')

https://www.sesamestreet.org/videos?vid=3180

As well as a few other childhood nursery rhymes and songs.

https://www.vox.com/2014/5/21/5732258/the-racist-childrens-songs-you-might-not-have-known-were-racist

Keeping schools open is racist
Also closing schools is racist

All at the same time.

Democrats*

We may need a new thread now that they have started labelling everything as "terrorist".

Patrick says

We may need a new thread now that they have started labelling everything as "terrorist".

Proper term is: "Domestic Terrorist". I'm not giving up that title so easily.

@FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut

Maybe you should make business cards with that title!

Media says Biden's staff is diverse but is it really.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/all-the-jews-biden-has-tapped-for-top-roles-in-his-new-administration/

Acronyms


https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/school-renaming-SFUSD-acronyms-racist-15919053.php

The district's arts department has decided to change its name, "VAPA" (visual and performing arts) to "SFUSD Arts Department" because they say "acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture,"

Because of course, SFUSD isn't an acronym (San Francisco Unified School District). Sadly you can't make this stuff up... were living in Bizarro world.

Bicycle locks?

Booger says

Bicycle locks?

Any kind of lock, really.

His Fraudulency

Booger says

Bicycle locks?

Is that Jimmy Fallon in blackface?

Words

Words?

HunterTits says

You explained that the national debt doubles in 8 years. But you didn't explain how the GDP roughly does as well.

First, if this was the case, we wouldn't have a debt to GDP ratio of over 1 and we do.

Second, GDP is the most worthless metric. It simply measures how much money is exchanged in a year. If I give you a dollar to make me a meal, and you give me a dollar to clean your bathroom - the GDP just went up $2.

Likewise, if the government spends a trillion dollars to blow up Iraq, and then spends $2 trillion dollars in "aid" to hire a bunch of useless contractors to build shitty infrastructure, the GDP just went up by $3 trillion dollars over the time frame.

If I get ass cancer, and spend $100,000 trying to cure it, I just increased the GDP by $100,000.

GDP is not a measure of the health of the economy which is why it's used constantly by our propaganda as a measure of the health of the economy.

Patrick says

Words?

Written word was obviously created to promote white privilege at the expense of POC.

If someone has not written xir dissertation on it, they will, it is only a matter of time.

HeadSet says

Patrick says

richwicks says

"Oh, that's just my NBG. I've never had to use it though."

Definition please. Urban Dictionary did not seem to have NBG.

I suspect the "BG" in NBG is "Be-Gone" The "N" is what you think it is.

Yep.

It's probably easier if you hear it rather than read it to figure it out. I heard "That's my N be G bat." and my friend HAS been mugged by an N. There's a BIG difference between a black man and an N, just like there's a huge difference between a white guy and a white supremacist of the aryan brotherhood.

Hircus says

Acronyms


https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/school-renaming-SFUSD-acronyms-racist-15919053.php

BLM is an acronym...

GreaterNYCDude says

The district's arts department has decided to change its name, "VAPA" (visual and performing arts) to "SFUSD Arts Department" because they say "acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture,"

Because of course, SFUSD isn't an acronym (San Francisco Unified School District). Sadly you can't make this stuff up... were living in Bizarro world.

FuckCCP89 says

BLM is an acronym...

I suppose, in a non-bizarre, meaningful way, they can reason that they are not using acronyms

"An abbreviation formed by (usually initial) letters taken from a word or series of words, that is itself pronounced as a word, such as RAM, radar, or scuba; sometimes contrasted with initialism."

which perpetuate white supremacy culture.

But, rather, are using and promoting initialisms

"A term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter."

which, of course, do not perpetuate white supremacy culture.

Acronyms are racist?
WTF?

georgeliberte says

Acronyms are racist?
WTF?

Everything is racist according to the propaganda.

georgeliberte says

Acronyms are racist?
WTF?

The point is to:
1. get us to talk about "racism" and NOT about how outsourcing to China is making billionaires much richer and the working class much poorer
2. do divide us against each other so that we don't unify against those billionaires

Bezos being perhaps the worst one.

It's capital vs labor, same as it ever was, but now capital is literally murdering labor. There is a skyrocketing death rate for poor white people since their jobs are gone and the billionaire Sackler family flooded their towns with opiates.

Their trick to prevent all resistance is to NEVER mention the causes (China, Sackler family, illegal aliens pushing down wages for poor US citizens), and to CONTINUOUSLY talk about "racism" instead.

If they can get you arguing about racism, it doesn't matter what you say. You have been NEUTRALIZED.

Patrick says

If they can get you arguing about racism, it doesn't matter what you say. You have been NEUTRALIZED.

This is true. And instead we should be educating people that freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to keep and bear arms, the right to privacy, the freedoms of peaceful assembly and unrestricted travel,etc... these are the things that unite us and keep us free and prosperous as a nation.