The tax rate being high worked it's magic long before the tax shenanigans kicked in in response. The taxes loop holes came along and then we cut taxes on top of that, for a double down for the rich and a double fking for everyone else. — James Riley
Life was really difficult for everybody, not just the working class.
— synthesis
No, the wealthy lived large. Weird that you don't acknowledge that. — praxis
No such thing as equality. Not even close.
— synthesis
There is such a thing. It's just that those with an advantage don't want it. — praxis
I thought it was a pretty good rant. :) I would have had fun with it!I wrote a rant but deleted it. It was beneath me. — James Riley
I find there cannot be reasonable debate unless and until the person I would engage with publicly and sincerely turns their back on Trump and the alleged theft of the election. There is only one real place to have an intelligent, moderated debate on the record. The Republicans pursued that avenue in several different venues and they lost. Donald Trump continues to insist he won. He is a loser, and a bad one at that. — James Riley
One might ask, why not argue other points? Ask Elizabeth Cheney or any other member of the Republican Party who has not prostrated themselves before Trump. I will argue conservative principles and issues with them all day long. As for anyone else, they must first state: "Donald J. Trump lost, he is a loser, and a bad one at that." Then I will engage. — James Riley
You've got to get over the Trump thing and move on. Look how lame Hillary has been with her blathering about how Trump stole the election from her and he was an illegitimate president.
The biggest mistake people make in their lives is in not being able to leave the past in the past. It's over, time to move forward. — synthesis
I do not consider myself a political person but I will debate the conservative point of view with you because I believe the Left is incredibly mis-guided.
I'll start. Government is necessary but you must limit government to the smallest size possible. The reasons are multiple...gross economic inefficiencies and the direct relationship between size and corruption levels within government, to name a couple. — synthesis
Again, until you admit Trump lost, is a loser, and a sore loser, we can't debate the real issues. — James Riley
Until you confess your sins to the public, no reasonable person would teach you how wrong you are on the merits. Your failure to confess has brought this on you. Jefferson Davis may or may not support Day Care, but I wouldn't talk to him about it until he admitted that slavery and racism is an abomination and that he was patently wrong for having aided and abetted it. — James Riley
Of course Trump lost. So what? — synthesis
Debate me and I'll show you why. — synthesis
You keep raising the ante. Now you must go forth among your kind and preach, like a disciple, the error of the ways of Trump and his spawn. — James Riley
My kind? :) Enough with the bullshit. Do you want to debate or not? — synthesis
Again, can you show me where I said what you quoted me as saying? I'm not saying I didn't say it, but my limited search skills of page 6 & 7 did not turn it up. — James Riley
This is an example of how you have difficulties moving on, but I will humor you. — synthesis
Life was really difficult for everybody, not just the working class.
— synthesis
No, the wealthy lived large. Weird that you don't acknowledge that.
— praxis
Most people died before they were 40. — synthesis
Whereas you see equality as a utopia, it is in reality the ultimate dystopia — synthesis
From what I understand wokeness is majorly about equal justice and it seems perfectly reasonable to me to get as close to that as possible. Perhaps you wouldn’t be so content with the current state of affairs if you weren’t a white male living in Southern California. — praxis
Would you have me move on from an insurrectionist, or any other wrong-doer and just pretend it didn't happen? — James Riley
Would you feel better if I joined you guys and was completely miserable? — synthesis
If you can't let things go, you will end up being very unhappy (and that won't help anybody). — synthesis
I'm a white guy living a nice but modest life in S Cali too, and unwoke as well. You don't need to be woke to care about equal rights and the like. — praxis
While I am willing to admit that there are occasions where the invocation of things like "white privilege" in activist circles can occasionally effectuate the internal policing of the community, the relentless examples that the Right attempts to make out of such instances is nothing but ironically, as this is, perhaps, their favorite talking point, indicative of a complete and total double standard. — thewonder
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