White supremacy a 'transnational threat', U.N. chief warns

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  1. RP12

    RP12 Well-Known Member

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    One if you dont know what does not factor into inflation why are we discussing this?
    Far more then the "top bracket" got a tax cut and revenues were still reaching record highs.
    Roberts changed the ****ing language of Obamacare to pass muster in the first place.
    Dems wanted Single payer but did not have the votes when they had complete control of Congress.

    Dear god you just repeat the same nonsense over and over again.

    Ever wonder why we keep having midnight deals when the debt ceiling is reached? Politics.. Do you remember the fear mongering during the last government shut down? The leadership of both parties wants to spend spend spend a President alone can not change that.
     
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    LangleyMan Well-Known Member

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    I showed you how the Fed has controlled inflation.

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    I gave you the title of a now famous book on the subject.
    Yeah, 15% of the tax cut went people less than $400,000 a year. BFD.
    You have no clue about economics, yet you're lecturing an economist. Egads.
    The debt ceiling is an artificial construct of Congress and probably unconstitutional.
    You didn't really want to know why I'm not worried about inflation. It seems you wanted to tell an economist (me!) I don't know what I'm talking about. What's your schedule for next week? Telling @CenterField you know more than he does about medicine?
     
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    CenterField Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Hey, LangleyMan, you seem to have quoted yourself so you are replying to yourself instead of replying to your interlocutor, who won't be notified of your reply.
     
  4. LangleyMan

    LangleyMan Well-Known Member

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    Actually, it goes to all members identified in the message. It went to you because you're named. It goes to @RP12 because he's quoted. I'm in there at the beginning because I showed him what he was referring to in the message he sent to me.

    I give up on @RP12. I pointed out some Republican-controlled states have high crime rates. He translated that into my having said Republicans are committing more crimes. I told him I don't know who is committing the crimes, I just know there are more reported crimes in some Republican-controlled states.

    The map speaks for itself.

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    interesting, but there is, of course, a lot more to it.

    Anyway, I quit. No need to... :wall:

    Good to see Joe Biden putting food on the table. We're getting more if our schools open, that will free up women in particular to return to work. The extra cash is needed to increase aggregate demand in the economy.

    I just wish we were handing these out these out to anyone who would wear one.

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    You can buy little adaptors to filter the exhalation valve.

    How could the government go wrong making them available cheap to anyone who will wear them? Yes? No? Am I missing something important, perhaps fundamental?

    Would wearing them not cut transmission rates? Is it worth trying?
     
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    CenterField Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Oh, now I see why I didn't realize what was going on... Your interlocutor's quote didn't appear on my screen... you will understand why.
     
  6. RP12

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    Considering you had no idea i was hinting at core inflation over inflation i would say you should give your degrees back and hang your head in shame.
     
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    No, because nobody would wear them.

    N95 masks are torturous enough, and that Darth Vadar contraption strapped to your face would be even worse.

    I wore an N95 in the hospital where I work at the height of the panic, and it was sheer misery. I didn't even make it a week.

    I challenge you to wear one yourself and see how long you can stand it.
     
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    Creasy Tvedt Well-Known Member

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    That map is worthless, because it doesn't tell the real story, and the real story is that crime and violence isn't concentrated in states, it's concentrated in cities- especially Democrat-governed cities.

    If you overlay a map of crime and violence over a map of Democrat cities, it's basically a perfect match.

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  9. a better world

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    (link)
    List of mayors of the 50 largest cities in the United States - Wikipedia

    Note all the cities with population over a million are Dem. controlled.

    The first Repub city to appear on the list is ranked 14th, with population in the 900,000's.

    The are only 11 Repubs on the entire list of 50 cities, weighted to the bottom of the list.

    So crime and violence reflect the economic inequality in the largest "wealthiest" cities, within the inner city localities.

    "You are living in poverty, your neighborhoods are like war zones, your schools and hospitals are broken, your young men are in prison...." (DJ Trump).

    Solution:

    The Case for a Job Guarantee | Pavlina Tcherneva (pavlina-tcherneva.net)

    "One of the most enduring ideas in economics is that unemployment is both unavoidable and necessary for the smooth functioning of the economy. This assumption has provided cover for the devastating social and economic costs of job insecurity. It is also false.

    In this book, leading expert Pavlina R. Tcherneva challenges us to imagine a world where the phantom of unemployment is banished and anyone who seeks decent, living-wage work can find it – guaranteed."
     
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    The hive mind pod people tend to live in clusters.
     
  11. LangleyMan

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    Suggest you stop digging.
     
  12. a better world

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    Thanks for engaging the debate in an intelligent manner.

    Your thesis is: crime and violence are more evident in Dem. controlled areas.

    I have pointed to some factors (unemployment, social disadvantage in big-city ghettos) explaining why that might be the case.

    Your observation: "hive mind pod people tend to live in clusters".

    Including in 'hicksville'?

    Can you offer a solution to the problem of crime and violence in the most populous cities?
    (.....)
     
  13. LangleyMan

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    I wear one. It's fine for light work. It would be ideal for city folk having to get into closed spaces like elevators, transit, visit stores, the mall. Much better protection than N95 respirators.
     
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    Democrats only control cities in Republican-controlled states because the state government lets it happen.

    The map shows Republican-controlled states have more crime.
     
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    Yes.

    Hire lots more police, and significantly increase their budgets. Institute 'broken windows' and 'zero tolerance' policies, and have the police use tactics such as 'stop and frisk'. Apply policing technology such as Shotspotter and facial recognition.

    It worked miraculously when a Republican mayor(Giuliani) increased spending on the police by over a billion dollars, put thousands more cops on the streets, and instituted aggressive crime fighting tactics. It transformed NYC from a crime-ridden hellhole into one of the safest cities in the US.

    Giuliani Urges Street Policing Refocused on Crime - The New ...

    www.nytimes.com › 1994/01/25 › nyregion › giuliani-ur...
    Jan 25, 1994 — The police released those memos last night at Mr. Giuliani's urging. ... Police officials said community police officers hired as part of the Safe ...

    Then NYC elected a progressive lunatic who undid all of Giuliani's hard work, and NYC reverted right back to a crime-ridden hellhole.

    More cops, less crime.

    It ain't rocket surgery.
     
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    CONCENTRATED in Democrat controlled areas with high minority populations. OPEN YOIR EYES!!!!

    Would it be rational for someone who lives on an interior lake to be afraid of shark attacks? No. Also irrational for people to be afraid of a threat that doesn’t exist...like KKK members rampaging across the country.
     
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    But it IS still only sticking a bandage over a scab, won't heal the underlying problem, namely, insufficient above-poverty employment for all who want it.

    "One of the most enduring ideas in economics is that unemployment is both unavoidable and necessary for the smooth functioning of the economy....."
     
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    A good example is that I live in Arkansas, which according to that chart is one of the most dangerous states. However most of the state is very low in crime, where I live crime is virtually non existent. The high crime areas are concentrated in Little Rock and Pine Bluff. Anyone want to take a guess at what's different in Little Rock/ Pine Bluff area compared to most others?
     
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    At least Trump "had his eyes open" when he said (of big-city, inner-suburban ghettos: "You are living in poverty, your neighborhoods are like war zones, your schools and hospitals are broken...."

    But his attempts to deal with the problem had marginal results....hence the BLM protests resulting from increased police interaction - inc. some poor interaction - in an attempt to manage crime in poor ghettos.
     
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    Sure if you ignore the role of DA's....

    There is a reason why Progressives rant about states when the majority of the issue is located in Democrat run cities....
     
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    Open my eyes to what? Unless you think genetics is behind black people being concentrated in poor communities, in which case you would be dumber than a sack of hammers, those areas support Democrats because they're the only party that tries to help.

    This country is struggling with limited success to get over its racism. We now have some liberals denying blacks can be racist, too--a step back from even a couple of decades back when the principal black character in The Jeffersons was a racist, and we have some conservatives supporting a racist pig like Trump.

    I taught high school students and adults (mostly younger adults) for more than three decades and you can be rest assured the majority of them increasingly see racism as stupid and want to move on. If you don't think I'm right, look around when you're in a mall in a mixed race area and observe young blacks and whites hanging out. Do you think they agree with you?
     
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    Oh, lemme guess--there are poor blacks living in the older, rundown areas.

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    "They" choose to live in poverty? There's a genetic basis for how blacks act?

    Why do you think this is still happening? You figure this is Democrats' fault?
     
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    DA's are controlled by states.
     
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    I was referring to Demographics, political leanings and that it’s somehow a Republican issue. It’s NOT. Racism is NOT a thing significantly effecting anyone anymore. Systemic racism would have squashed Obama’s chances. It would have squashed Harris. The KKK is insignificant and powerless.

    And please clarify Trump being racist. For every comment you quote, I’ll quote one from Biden.
     
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    The map just reveals the areas(red) with the greatest population density. These libocrats cannot even use statistics in a convincing way.

    If there was a map revealing senile elderly people the area where the white house is would be fire engine red.
     

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