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  • I agree your belief is admirable, but it is extremely naive if you think it will make a difference on a large scale even if there are millions who believe what you do.

    We already had a movement about peace, love, and understanding that was very popular with a huge chunk of the population doing the acts you described in the 1960s.

    You have also clearly not spent any amount of time with the kind of people you think you can emphasize with. I lived in rural Idaho for Obama’s years. I couldn’t count the amount of times people joked about hanging or shooting him.

    You want to empathize with a racist who wants a man dead just because he is black? I did plenty of this and guess the positive change it made. Yeah, it didn’t matter at all.

    The only way is to stop the propaganda. This is the source. Hate radio, Faux News, and now Xshitter feed people with lies using psychological manipulation to twist their minds and hearts.

    It takes years, sometimes decades, to deprogram people from this if they are willing to change. They are creating new racist losers at a pace you cannot keep up with. This is the reality we face.


  • You can spend years turning the heart of a racist and certainly some people have done this successfully.

    Meanwhile propaganda has turned out another ten thousand racists in the time it took you to change a couple minds.

    To be frank your belief is not completely wrong but it will not solve our current problems.

    You hint on the reality that it is our social constructs such as social media that is driving this resurgence of hate.

    As a social worker by trade I can say I know a lot about this topic. There is a classic story of people getting swept into the river.

    While it is admirable that you want to jump in to save people the real solution is going upstream and stopping people from falling in.

    Understanding racist losers will not accomplish what you want. Changing their minds will not either. You have to stop it at the source.







  • In real life firing means you made the wrong pick and is not looked upon as a good thing unless you are a sociopath. I suppose if you came into a company to clean house some would view it as correct but they are probably shareholders who have perverse incentives.

    Long story short, Americans don’t generally like bosses and don’t approve of firings unless it is obvious the choice was correct, for instance firing someone who is toxic.

    Having had to fire someone as a director myself I would think it strange to be brought up in an interview and probably a red flag.







  • Yeah, I am failing to see the downside. People are worried Vance would be more effective. Not me, I know they would be at each other’s throats soon as Trump is taken out of the picture.

    Plus you finally set the precedent that politicians and billionaires can go to prison. Now all the rest are on watch because it could happen to them.

    Politicians and the wealthy need the fear of God put in them. They love to do it to everyone else. Now is the time to start holding them accountable for their lies and fraud starting with perhaps one of the most fraudulent liars on the planet first.

    It is probably a fantasy, but damn it would be a good one.




  • I think you are missing something important. Oh yeah, they gave their nuclear arms back to Russia for peace. Who would have thought their brothers and sisters would betray them, after all they are practically the same people.

    This is what makes the whole thing just fucking crazy. It would be like if Puerto Rico voted to be an independent nation and signed a peace treaty with the US. Then less then a couple decades goes by and the US starts attacking them when there are more Puerto Rican’s in the US than in Puerto Rico. It does not make any sense.