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Reparations isn't a handout. It's an apology and acknowledgement that the government screwed up and wants to make things right. Just like it was to our Asian Americans for US behavior during WWIIcap'n grunge said:
I agree. Even if Joe - or more likely, Kamala - tried to push hard left, we have checks and balances. In particular, Congress has plenty of moderate Dems who, along with the Rs, would hold them back.
I haven't followed this closely so forgive me if I don't understand. Are you saying it's a bad idea to apologize for and acknowledge mistakes? Why is that "a horrible idea" in your view?
Huh? Why would you say that?
This is extremely discouraging. I know you have a big heart and it is very disheartening to see your interpretation of this video as being anywhere near enough to sway you from doing everything in your power to rid our country of Trump. Your vote does matter. Every vote against Trump matters.
This is 100% correct. Yet it's telling how quickly and easily some can be dissuaded from opposing Trump. Lots of folks are essentially looking for anything they can find to justify not voting for Biden Harris. Mind boggling that 4 years of watching Trump and this cartoon could change someone's vote.
That's my feel too.
If I'm driving carelessly and run over my neighbor's dog, it would be good for me to apologize and acknowledge my mistake.
I said that because you said that reparations were a bad idea. Reparations are an expression of regret and acknowledgement that they screwed up. An apology. I'm confused by the meaningful distinction you seem to think there is between giving individuals money and giving communities money. Does it matter all that much if you give an individual X amount of dollars for their kid to go to Y school vs giving X amount of dollars to Y school that the kid goes to?
Agreed.
Right. There's not really such a thing as "the United States" apart from the citizens who make up the United States.
One can still oppose Trump and vote for a 3rd party. Especially in my state of Tennessee which Trump is expected to win so the vote is symbolic.
That's not true.
I did in 2016...vowing never to vote for Hillary, could never bring myself to doing so.
Good for you sho. Glad to have your support. Joe Biden was not my first choice either. Just like in fantasy football, where I'm starting Kyler Murray. He wasn't my first choice, but Pat Mahomes was already gone when it came time for me to select my QB. While bummed that I didn't get my first choice, it would be insane to throw away Kyler Murray and start Blake Bortles instead, just because I'm frustrated not to have Pat Mahomes.
Sure. But even that symbolic vote matters, because with so much uncertainty about Trump leaving office even if he loses, it's important for Biden to run up the score in the popular vote, as well as in the electoral college. Trump's "election was stolen" argument may resonate if it's a close election and Biden only wins by 1-2 million popular votes. If Biden wins by 10 million, that dog won't hunt.
Oh, come on.
I don't think it's hysteria to suggest that Trump may file lawsuits that delay or gum up the transfer of power. If anything, Trump has shown us that norms do not matter anymore, only law. I think there are plausible scenarios in which a Trump challenge to the Supreme Court could result in chaos. Not likely, but not nearly as dismissable as you seem to think it is.
What's there to be confused about?
Are you in favor of a 100% death tax, so that children do not inherit money that they did not work for?
Is this going to fix the problem of oppression? BTW Asian Americans are the more sucesfull than Whites in this country.
You're giving it to them either way...it's just an extra step
which means more of that dollar goes to someone else which means less efficient means. On top of that, we're talking about a one time payment as an apology or making amends. This isn't welfare...it's symbolic so I give no real energy to this particular "concern".
I doubt it....society has to change that. That's not what reparations are for though, so I'm not sure why it's even a criteria.
I'm not sure what singling out women have to do with any of this...is this some sort of attempt at "where do we draw the line?!?!?!?!?!
" shtick?
The bold is debatable.You're giving it to them either way...it's just an extra step
Perhaps but in my experience, the more hands the money passes through, the less thats left in the end. Regardless, we are talking about reparations which are mostly symbolic. We arent talking about money for an entitlement program. No reason to talk about it in those terms
It's important for you for Biden to run up the score, but for those of us who did not vote for either Biden or Trump, it is not. Sorry, but this continuing thinly-veiled criticism of people who voted their conscience by not giving a vote to either poor candidate the two major parties threw at us, rather than how you wanted them to, needs to stop. Symbolic votes for a 3rd party candidate matter. If you wanted to run up the score against a candidate as bad as Trump, blame the Democrats for not getting a much better candidate.
I can't speak for others, but my vote for Jorgensen wasn't intended to be symbolic. She's a better candidate than the others.
Agree. The bolded is THE message here. Believe her when she says who she is and what she is about and, just as importantly, understand fully what Equitable outcomes is because, in the context of the message she sent, it meant, pure and simple, a basic fundamental of socialism in which everyone ends in the same place and each and every historical model we have seen illustrates that the end result is a massive population of poor people without true freedom and opportunity with an elitist class ruling over it under the guise of "for the good of all".
Jesus said "It's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God" and his greatest commandment was "You shall love your neighbor as yourself".
