Detox's political thread

Hour?  Mine shows 123 minutes?

Yes we allowed to edit raider22. As for the object of alpha ways to empiralistic domain.... If ma'am didn't want to do this who could or would?

Thanks Nature1970   I will have to remember to use it sometime.

I still live in the Appalachian mountains. Realize though msu many of us look to you older brother for your guidance.. No we may not always agree and I never thought that was ever a condition but we do respect you your work and your opinion. ... As us a collective group of gamblers . business personal relationships or life in general we are taught that we are special we have choice where so many do not.... But with great power greater responsibility in welding that power. Over the last few years... Most here are not so different born in less than wealthy circumstances achieved a degree of success and walk better than we were raised. 

The concerns of business within the forum is not my concern 

but I admit I  miss reading your thoughts. 

Even if it's in the best Omaha range in plo...

One leftist tactic is the poverty rate and median income in the US. 

The median household income in the US is around $65,000. 

If a household is making $65,000 in Mississippi, they’re living good in a big house. 

If a household is making $65,000 in Boston, they’d be better off on welfare. 

They never look at the supplemental poverty rate. The supplemental poverty rate in far left California is close to 25%. 

Was Muhammad a slave owner? Are Democrats going to cancel Islam? 

When will the statue of Biden’s friend Senator Byrd be torn down 

You're really taking this statue thing to heart, aren't you? Heroes of yours? Are you even from the south?

I confess I was not aware that Biden is in charge of what statues remain or come down. Seems like an odd job for an ex V.P. 

What I find interesting is that a lot of these vandals are snot nosed white kids... no doubt , their brains have been infected by the liberalism that permeates  college campuses.    Liberals are destroying our society one brick and statue at a time.. 

Defunding of police,,... outright takeover of blocks in Seattle,,.. rewriting of history through statue removals..  and we are to believe that these people love America  ?!  No, they want to overthrow the country that you and I live in. 

Why does "rev" Sharpton prey on black families sadness, miseries and pain?   It seems  that BLM and him are in cahoots.  They only appear when it benefits them.  Whatever happened to Jussie Smollett?   I think its comical, protestors include Trayvon Martin... awful a young life is gone, however George Zimmerman is mixed racially but on the day he killed Trayvon in self defense , that day he was white.   Mr Floyd's death is awful but it is not a reflection of our police officers.  

Naw, bro, a lot of these folks have never stepped foot on a college campus. They're just anarchist. It's the same people responsible for the occupy movement. They latch on to the BLM movement not so much because they care about the cause but because it gives them a reason to rally against the establishment. This movement is more about socio-econonomics than it is about race. Race and the police brutality is just the lynch pin.

So much to unpack in your post. I'll have to respond when I come back from snow boarding.

Snowboarding ?

Are you sure you are black

Has to be a joke... only because there can't be much snow anywhere righ now.  Lol.  But props to  STU if true !  I love snowboarding,  too. Lol. 

All great points,  STU .

You captured it my brother..............

Plenty of snow in the cascades! On the volcanoes themselves, not so much in the surrounding lower mountains.

Brother Slim, the only other brotha I ever knew to ride was the dude who first ever took me and even he is mixed and grew up in Tahoe. Black people miss out on many fun activities simply by writing them off as "white people shit." Not me. I've been skydiving, I go wake boarding, surfing, sailing.... personally, I enbrace the white people shit. And white people. I'm a backpacker, a rock climber and it sucks to say but most black people don't even go camping. I didn't grow up around any white people except the friends I knew from visiting family in Tahoe. And now many of my closest friends, probably most if you count those I see with regularity, are white. Are at very least they non-black. And frankly, white people have more fun. I listen to rock and roll too. And rockabilly. And country. Don't get me wrong, I listen to some grimey ass rap too but you can't limit yourself. Can't put yourself in boxes. None of my family is like me in that regard but they always respected me for it. Growing up, in my family, in my neighborhood, they might think you a weirdo for liking some of the stuff I liked but I was always confident so I was always popular. It could have very easily gone the other way. Now in the black community it's hip to embrace rock style, dress different but even know most black dudes over a certain age would say that shit is weird.

”So far in 2020 97% of the people shot to death by police were men. This gender disparity has persisted for years. Are the police racist AND sexist? Perhaps the nearly exclusive depiction of males as criminals in movies and TV has created an unconscious systemic bias against men.“