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  1. DiogenesTheWiser

    Jeff Secessions's hard-on for weed continues; DARE Revival

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/12/a-brief-history-of-d-a-r-e-the-anti-drug-program-jeff-sessions-wants-to-revive/?utm_term=.92858051306e This gives me an opportunity to explain how a government subsidy program for cops, in the 1980s it was called DARE, came to my school and...
  2. DiogenesTheWiser

    U.S. Economy sucks ballz, & won't get any better

    http://eig.org/dynamism Heard a summary of this report on NPR this afternoon as I negotiated irate state troopers and parish deputies searching for a score on the I-20. In short, it says there are good areas, megaplexes like Chicago, NYC, LA, DFW. But if you're in a medium sized city--most...
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    Are we entering the Post-Cognitive Age?

    Historians divide historical time period into ages. Perhaps you've heard of the "stone age" or "iron age." The "Dark Ages" refer to European backwardness after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. More recently, in America, there was the Gilded Age when capitalism seemed to run amok and a...
  4. DiogenesTheWiser

    the upside of Trump's presidency

    The more King Donald has to pow wow with other world leaders, the more he'll appear as the inept buffoon that he is. Trump won--won the electoral college--and did so narrowly with the votes of a handful of states pushing him over the edge. But Trump will lose as the el presidente. Even el...
  5. DiogenesTheWiser

    Who says history class is not important? Trump lovers, that's who!

    https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/7/5/1678072/-NPR-tweets-the-Declaration-of-Independence-Trump-supporters-think-it-s-an-insult-to-Trump NPR tweeted out the entire Declaration of Independence, line by line, word for word. Trump lovers on Twitter thought it was directed at King Donald J. Trump...
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    Acc. to Trump cultists, he has already won re-election

    https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-05-11/president-donald-trump-will-likely-win-reelection-in-2020 In fact, the Democrats or any other party out there should just sit out 2020 since the pussy grabber already has it locked up. And all King Donald Trump the Great has done...
  7. DiogenesTheWiser

    Today, July 2, is Independence Day!

    Two days from now, fireworks shows will go on across the country as rank and file Americans will likely burn themselves or their trailers down from putting on home-made fireworks shows (please post videos of any fireworks mishaps, those are hilarious). Also, beginning this past Friday and...
  8. DiogenesTheWiser

    Who believes U.S. Constitution is a great system?

    It's failing us now. Congress should at least censure the el presidente (but really should impeach him for gross incompetence if for anything else). Congress holds checks against POTUS power, but aren't using it because they want Trump to rubber stamp their oppressively harsh agenda. And I think...
  9. DiogenesTheWiser

    Best takedown of Gen'rul Lee that I've seen

    Yes, pun intended. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/lee-national-review/529206/ Quotable: "The myths both about Lee and the Confederacy, his supposed hatred of slavery, his non-ownership of slaves, and his conduct during the war and his reasons for fighting it, are all...
  10. DiogenesTheWiser

    Rural America is the new "inner city"

    http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/05/26/rural-america-is-new-inner-city-2.html I used the fox business site because the Wall Street Journal requires a subscription to read their shit. Fox business news reprinted the article, linked above. I currently live in rural America and have since...
  11. DiogenesTheWiser

    The GOP in Trump's America & what they stand for

    Trump's GOP has gone off the rails. I'm perplexed that they actually support and advocate the following things: 1) violence--going back to 2016 campaign, Trump openly and repeatedly called for violent responses from his cult members. Now, politicians in Trump's camp are acting out violently. 2)...
  12. DiogenesTheWiser

    What does it mean to make sense?

    What I've determined from my internet friends here, on FB, and on twitter is that few Trump cultists make any sense whatsoever. So maybe it'd be a good exercise to have a thread on what it means to make sense. Please state in your own words (and add citations if you use a source) what it means...
  13. DiogenesTheWiser

    Debating with a Trumper part three

    Twitter asshole: The Constitution guarantees the states the power to run their own affairs regardless of what the federal government does. Me: Actually, the Constitution gives the federal government the power to oversee the states' powers. Twitter asshole: You're wrong. The Constitutional...
  14. DiogenesTheWiser

    The legacy of slavery permeates nearly every aspect of the South

    Whether it's neo-Confederate Nazis like Dick Spencer leading a torchlit promenade in defense of pro-treason, white supremacy statues, or black majority counties in which African Americans possess no political power whatsoever, slavery's legacy still permeates every aspect of the American South...
  15. DiogenesTheWiser

    The past, history, and heritage

    These are three different things. Allow me to explain. The past is what happened before right now. For example, I walked my dog about an hour ago, I made coffee about 45 minutes ago and finished that coffee about 30 minutes ago. 951 years ago, Normans invaded England. That's the past -- what...
  16. DiogenesTheWiser

    So who among you can make a legitimate argument for no government?

    So many anarchists and libertarians fail to make a case for no government. Can anyone offer an argument with sources that no government would be a good idea? Anyone who responds should also explain how we could transition from government to no government.
  17. DiogenesTheWiser

    Plantation prodigy Dick Spencer is bankrolled by government

    http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/03/richard-spencer-cotton-farms-louisiana-subsidies BTW, unrelated, he was expelled from his gym and his membership was recently revoked. That's hilarious. There's an article out there with this snowflake whining about why his gym cancelled his...
  18. DiogenesTheWiser

    America's becoming one big metropolis

    http://statchatva.org/2016/06/06/the-metropolitanization-of-rural-america/ Rural areas have no jobs, opportunities, affordable housing -- rather, they all serve the nearby city. See map, linked above. After the el presidente runs the federal government into the ground, all we're going to be...
  19. DiogenesTheWiser

    Washington Times butchers Harvard research in article on Trump's press coverage

    The WT, a right-wing newspaper, has a story today that supposedly confirms the el presidente's claim that the American press has never been as negative toward an el presidente as they are toward him. Yet if you read the Harvard press study linked in the WT article, you'll learn of the study's...
  20. DiogenesTheWiser

    American police depts. In it just for the $$

    https://harvardlawreview.org/2015/04/policing-and-profit/ From Harvard Law Review--with the states having less revenue from taxpayers (thanks to state-level GOP taxation policies), and coupled with the financial downturn that began in 2007-08, local communities receive less support from the...
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