We're pretty good

Originally posted by Silent Master
It probably happened some, but I doubt it was anywhere near as common as it is now.

That is what I think and it's why I take issue with the simplified logic of "every generation thought the previous one was bad!".

We see the failures of that. Past generations thought Dungeons and Dragons was evil. Then it was porn then video games. Oh and music at one time. We see in hindsight yeah those weren't the scares they were made out to be.

Yet this SJW shit...take a look at what is going on in Europe right now lol. It's not nothing. It's not an unfounded worry. This is not equivalent to people shaking their fist at some pot smoking teens and thinking the future is in trouble.

Originally posted by Rockydonovang
I'll take my chances.

Also, consider getting a house before judging the makeup of someone else's. What's your stance here exactly?

If you don't have one, you should refrain from derailing discussion.

My stance is that you are a hypocrite.

DDM, what UBI are you considering? Negative Income Tax or basic UBI?

Originally posted by dadudemon
Sorry about that, yes, that thread was intended as click bait but they both know me and my positions quite well and it was more for us all 3 to have a laugh (somewhat at each other's expense) about it.

They know that I have quite a strong position (pro-transgenderism and in general, very pro-LGBT...really, it's just "let consenting adults do what they want with each other and to themselves"😉 about this topic and we all 3 have argued about it. It was not intended to make blood boil or make people legit mad-bro. I would fully expect one of them to make a thread mocking delicious looking pizza or donuts because, clearly, I love those things.

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Wasn't intended as a personal dig. It just helped to make my point. I could have chosen about 80% of the threads in this subforum these days. That just happened to be one that I remembered off the top of my head.

Originally posted by Surtur
So essentially your argument is it happened, we just didn't see it cuz there was no social media, etc.

Which doesn't that work out to you not really having to provide any proof beyond just what you mentioned? It's neat, but it's not what I was looking for. If this stuff mirrors stuff in the past I'd be curious for some actual examples. Thanks in advance.

People didn't get upset about trivial things?! My point isn't that we're only now just seeing it, my point is that your fixation has made you myopic. It's different issues in different eras, but the same tendencies.

I believe Surt's point is that he thinks it's happening more often these days and the times it does happen, more people are involved.

Originally posted by Rockydonovang
If I'm straw manning you, it's because you never bothered to cite which part of the article pertained to the point you were making.

And with that in mind, you still aren't telling me which parts of the article you're interpreting to say "Trump got elected because he was white".

Furthemore, you're citing the atlantic which isn't anywhere near as mainstream as fox news. All I've so far from the Atlantic are allegations Trump is racist. Allegations it supports with

I can't comment on the cnn article because when i clicked it it said

Quote on me on which part of the article was racist. And then show me this happening on a source comparably mainstream as fox news. If you can't do either, then this example you're citing is not equivalent to fox news' treatment of Obama.

Well, if you weren't pretending to be ignorant, the points I literally paraphrased straight from the first few paragraphs of the article on CNN should have been your first clue.

If you were any good at this adult talking stuff, you'd abandon this clearly dishonest path you're taking to try and futility discredit my point that, yes, CNN really really did post some shit that would be racist as f*ck if it was about Obama (and people did say the same things about Obama and it was called racist, then).

Here's the only correct path you could have taken to try and debate against my point:

That was an opinion piece by CNN and does not reflect CNN's official opinion on President Trump. That would be correct.

Originally posted by DarthSkywalker0
DDM, what UBI are you considering? Negative Income Tax or basic UBI?

Neither.

Fair Tax but where each household starts the year with a credit. For example, 4 family household starts the year with...I don't know...$26,700 in a tax credit. They are literally give a check for that. It's supposed to be based off of the FPL which I don't know the numbers directly off the top of my head. Then the beginning of the year tax credit is calculated by a coefficent of the FPL (something like 2x or 3x). This credit is being called a "rebate."

http://commonprogress.blogspot.com/2015/01/fair-tax-and-negative-income-tax.html

Want to start a thread and debate/discuss NIT, UBI, and FT?

Originally posted by Digi
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Wasn't intended as a personal dig. It just helped to make my point. I could have chosen about 80% of the threads in this subforum these days. That just happened to be one that I remembered off the top of my head.

People didn't get upset about trivial things?! My point isn't that we're only now just seeing it, my point is that your fixation has made you myopic. It's different issues in different eras, but the same tendencies.

You're not going to provide anything that mirrors what is going on today. I get it. Moving on. Since nobody said people didn't upset about trivial things. Nobody. This is the scale and the LEVEL of outrage.

3 day leadership conference cancelled cuz students saw a banana peel in a tree.

Originally posted by Silent Master
I believe Surt's point is that he thinks it's happening more often these days and the times it does happen, more people are involved.

I am curious what Digi feels in the past mirrored cry closests:

College Installs "Cry Closet" As Safe Space For Student Snowflakes