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KoolBak wrote:Well good on you for taking care of your folks. Lots of people wouldn't and it is / can be so fucking hard. Lost my mom a short while ago![]()
On a related note, THAT was a topic one of our resident douche canoes got a ban over, much like the recent Bern, NP, and Mr. For some reason these trolls just thrive on the pain of real people. Must be a basement mold induced drain bamage....
Good luck manno....
The ram wrote:Shimmy the troll can post praising Islamic terrorists and [Dukasaur] does nothing.
riskllama wrote:Koolbak wins this thread.
KoolBak wrote:NP was banned, I believe, after his implied threat that he was going to come to my home / place of business to cause harm....so he wanted to visit the most well armed old redneck in town. Be a poor choice
The ram wrote:KoolBak wrote:Well good on you for taking care of your folks. Lots of people wouldn't and it is / can be so fucking hard. Lost my mom a short while ago![]()
On a related note, THAT was a topic one of our resident douche canoes got a ban over, much like the recent Bern, NP, and Mr. For some reason these trolls just thrive on the pain of real people. Must be a basement mold induced drain bamage....
Good luck manno....
I remember Bernie getting that ban but he came back. I wonder what he got banned for this time. And nomad patriot disappeared without anyone mentioning why he got banned.
Dukasaur banned me for making this thread, can you believe that? The reason he gave was that I have a bias of showing crimes committed by people of colour and a long established history of racism. And yet, Shimmy the troll can post praising Islamic terrorists and he does nothing. The amount of people visiting the site has went from just under 5k to just under 15k during the last 2 month of the covid 19 pandemic, and yet not one new member has been seen in this forum.
Maybe it's time to make some changes here, freshen the place up. It really doesn't feel like a neutral and free forum. And I won't be the only one to notice that.
mrswdk wrote:You make a good point though. With 10k new users in the space of the past month, do we really want one of the first things they see to be a subforum full of the ram's insane rants about rivers of blood?
The ram wrote:mrswdk wrote:You make a good point though. With 10k new users in the space of the past month, do we really want one of the first things they see to be a subforum full of the ram's insane rants about rivers of blood?
I haven't posted at all during the period of growth. Shall we count how many threads you've made during this period that had 0 replies?
BoganGod wrote:White liberals are super racist, and get sexual satisfaction from feeling guilty.
Meanwhile in the same ultra racist, naughty and horribly racist United States, nigeran and Caribbean immigrants are amongst the most successful groups per capita......... Are they all Uncle Toms? They start with hardly anything in a poor nation, yet manage to be more successful in America than a majority of the population, how is that if black people need special treatment because they can't achieve?
The ram wrote:mrswdk wrote:You make a good point though. With 10k new users in the space of the past month, do we really want one of the first things they see to be a subforum full of the ram's insane rants about rivers of blood?
I haven't posted at all during the period of growth. Shall we count how many threads you've made during this period that had 0 replies?
Lootifer wrote:BoganGod wrote:White liberals are super racist, and get sexual satisfaction from feeling guilty.
Fucking aye we do.... uuuunnngh. Oooh yeah.Meanwhile in the same ultra racist, naughty and horribly racist United States, nigeran and Caribbean immigrants are amongst the most successful groups per capita......... Are they all Uncle Toms? They start with hardly anything in a poor nation, yet manage to be more successful in America than a majority of the population, how is that if black people need special treatment because they can't achieve?
I like this.
I suspect when you talk about people pulling themselves up by the bootstraps, you are referring to high capability folk - intelligent and conscientious. Anybody with high capability will be fine in most countries in the world.
From my perspective, I think the issue is not one of race or whatever (although there is still a lot of unconscious bias in things like recruitment), but more that poor average capability folk struggle a lot more than well off average capability folk. I would speculate that while theres similar numbers of average capability in both camps, there is a disproportionate amount of black folk in the former category and similar disproportions of white folk in the latter (in a general sense, I am sure you can find 1000's of anecdotes to prove me wrong, but whatevs).
Finally, with all that said - it's easier to become high capability when you have good role models, plenty of basic necessities and other well studied conditions that correlate with success in your life. Again, it's the poor who often don't have these things, and for me that is the root of the problem.
mrswdk wrote:So I will put my extra digits to use, I can count to at least 24
BoganGod wrote:Lootifer wrote:BoganGod wrote:White liberals are super racist, and get sexual satisfaction from feeling guilty.
Fucking aye we do.... uuuunnngh. Oooh yeah.Meanwhile in the same ultra racist, naughty and horribly racist United States, nigeran and Caribbean immigrants are amongst the most successful groups per capita......... Are they all Uncle Toms? They start with hardly anything in a poor nation, yet manage to be more successful in America than a majority of the population, how is that if black people need special treatment because they can't achieve?
I like this.
I suspect when you talk about people pulling themselves up by the bootstraps, you are referring to high capability folk - intelligent and conscientious. Anybody with high capability will be fine in most countries in the world.
From my perspective, I think the issue is not one of race or whatever (although there is still a lot of unconscious bias in things like recruitment), but more that poor average capability folk struggle a lot more than well off average capability folk. I would speculate that while theres similar numbers of average capability in both camps, there is a disproportionate amount of black folk in the former category and similar disproportions of white folk in the latter (in a general sense, I am sure you can find 1000's of anecdotes to prove me wrong, but whatevs).
Finally, with all that said - it's easier to become high capability when you have good role models, plenty of basic necessities and other well studied conditions that correlate with success in your life. Again, it's the poor who often don't have these things, and for me that is the root of the problem.
Are you trying to say that whites are more capable than blacks
BoganGod wrote:Are you trying to say that whites are more capable than blacks, and are so because of plenty of basic necessities...... Community expectations and culture drive success. A poor immigrant neighbourhood will generally do better than a poor "born n bred" neighbourhood. I was born overseas, grew up in non western nations, and really truly recognise how lucky I am. I've had to work bloody hard to be where I am now, and have a lot of privilege. All the privilege in the world will not protect against poor decision making ability and/or the willingness to learn from one's mistakes. At various times in my life I've had intelligence, majority, and attractiveness privilege. For extended periods of time I haven't had the later two. My parents commitment to education, willingness to parent consistently, marry before having children, and limit their amount of offspring so as to be able to invest more into each child really set me and my sibs up for success. Being home schooled, with a present father who played games with us and made learning fun put us at a massive advantage compared to our western raised peers with wage slave fathers.
Intergenerational wealth is relatively rare, rags to riches to rags is the more oft repeated story. Look at the amount of lotto winners who are broke within a decade or less. A strong, driven, successful man or women will often produce lazy, wastel children who fritter away anything left to them knowing only how to spend, not how to save or earn.
I know telling someone they are a victim, telling them that they have excuses to fail because their lives are so hard compared to others, is stupid and harmful. That just builds envy, learnt helplessness, and a towering case of resentment. A phrase heard repeated often on the right that needs to be assessed objectively as I think they are on to something, possibly for the wrong reasons, but learnt truth none the less. "The soft bigotry of low expectations" don't expect much from people from a disadvantaged background, grade them differently, set the bar lower for them, do that and you are a hateful bigot hell bent on destroying those you are "trying" to help.
Lootifer wrote:BoganGod wrote:Are you trying to say that whites are more capable than blacks, and are so because of plenty of basic necessities...... Community expectations and culture drive success. A poor immigrant neighbourhood will generally do better than a poor "born n bred" neighbourhood. I was born overseas, grew up in non western nations, and really truly recognise how lucky I am. I've had to work bloody hard to be where I am now, and have a lot of privilege. All the privilege in the world will not protect against poor decision making ability and/or the willingness to learn from one's mistakes. At various times in my life I've had intelligence, majority, and attractiveness privilege. For extended periods of time I haven't had the later two. My parents commitment to education, willingness to parent consistently, marry before having children, and limit their amount of offspring so as to be able to invest more into each child really set me and my sibs up for success. Being home schooled, with a present father who played games with us and made learning fun put us at a massive advantage compared to our western raised peers with wage slave fathers.
Intergenerational wealth is relatively rare, rags to riches to rags is the more oft repeated story. Look at the amount of lotto winners who are broke within a decade or less. A strong, driven, successful man or women will often produce lazy, wastel children who fritter away anything left to them knowing only how to spend, not how to save or earn.
I know telling someone they are a victim, telling them that they have excuses to fail because their lives are so hard compared to others, is stupid and harmful. That just builds envy, learnt helplessness, and a towering case of resentment. A phrase heard repeated often on the right that needs to be assessed objectively as I think they are on to something, possibly for the wrong reasons, but learnt truth none the less. "The soft bigotry of low expectations" don't expect much from people from a disadvantaged background, grade them differently, set the bar lower for them, do that and you are a hateful bigot hell bent on destroying those you are "trying" to help.
I don't really have time to debate, but good post. I don't have a lot to disagree with here. Although I suspect we might differ on solutions.
mrswdk wrote:Lootifer wrote:BoganGod wrote:Are you trying to say that whites are more capable than blacks, and are so because of plenty of basic necessities...... Community expectations and culture drive success. A poor immigrant neighbourhood will generally do better than a poor "born n bred" neighbourhood. I was born overseas, grew up in non western nations, and really truly recognise how lucky I am. I've had to work bloody hard to be where I am now, and have a lot of privilege. All the privilege in the world will not protect against poor decision making ability and/or the willingness to learn from one's mistakes. At various times in my life I've had intelligence, majority, and attractiveness privilege. For extended periods of time I haven't had the later two. My parents commitment to education, willingness to parent consistently, marry before having children, and limit their amount of offspring so as to be able to invest more into each child really set me and my sibs up for success. Being home schooled, with a present father who played games with us and made learning fun put us at a massive advantage compared to our western raised peers with wage slave fathers.
Intergenerational wealth is relatively rare, rags to riches to rags is the more oft repeated story. Look at the amount of lotto winners who are broke within a decade or less. A strong, driven, successful man or women will often produce lazy, wastel children who fritter away anything left to them knowing only how to spend, not how to save or earn.
I know telling someone they are a victim, telling them that they have excuses to fail because their lives are so hard compared to others, is stupid and harmful. That just builds envy, learnt helplessness, and a towering case of resentment. A phrase heard repeated often on the right that needs to be assessed objectively as I think they are on to something, possibly for the wrong reasons, but learnt truth none the less. "The soft bigotry of low expectations" don't expect much from people from a disadvantaged background, grade them differently, set the bar lower for them, do that and you are a hateful bigot hell bent on destroying those you are "trying" to help.
I don't really have time to debate, but good post. I don't have a lot to disagree with here. Although I suspect we might differ on solutions.
I mean the 'inter-generational wealth doesn't get passed on' point is complete nonsense. Even in the countries with the highest social mobility in the world, the average poor person is not going to have children who go on to achieve even median wealth (and vice versa - the average wealthier family is not going to have children who end up with nothing):
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/ ... -mobility/
As for why first-generation immigrants may on average achieve more wealth than is average for their destination country, that is because first-generation immigrants to high-income countries tend to be younger, healthier and more highly educated than the average citizen of that country. For example, 69% of Sub-Saharan immigrants living in the US are tertiary educated:
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2018 ... tinations/
BoganGod wrote:mrswdk wrote:Lootifer wrote:BoganGod wrote:Are you trying to say that whites are more capable than blacks, and are so because of plenty of basic necessities...... Community expectations and culture drive success. A poor immigrant neighbourhood will generally do better than a poor "born n bred" neighbourhood. I was born overseas, grew up in non western nations, and really truly recognise how lucky I am. I've had to work bloody hard to be where I am now, and have a lot of privilege. All the privilege in the world will not protect against poor decision making ability and/or the willingness to learn from one's mistakes. At various times in my life I've had intelligence, majority, and attractiveness privilege. For extended periods of time I haven't had the later two. My parents commitment to education, willingness to parent consistently, marry before having children, and limit their amount of offspring so as to be able to invest more into each child really set me and my sibs up for success. Being home schooled, with a present father who played games with us and made learning fun put us at a massive advantage compared to our western raised peers with wage slave fathers.
Intergenerational wealth is relatively rare, rags to riches to rags is the more oft repeated story. Look at the amount of lotto winners who are broke within a decade or less. A strong, driven, successful man or women will often produce lazy, wastel children who fritter away anything left to them knowing only how to spend, not how to save or earn.
I know telling someone they are a victim, telling them that they have excuses to fail because their lives are so hard compared to others, is stupid and harmful. That just builds envy, learnt helplessness, and a towering case of resentment. A phrase heard repeated often on the right that needs to be assessed objectively as I think they are on to something, possibly for the wrong reasons, but learnt truth none the less. "The soft bigotry of low expectations" don't expect much from people from a disadvantaged background, grade them differently, set the bar lower for them, do that and you are a hateful bigot hell bent on destroying those you are "trying" to help.
I don't really have time to debate, but good post. I don't have a lot to disagree with here. Although I suspect we might differ on solutions.
I mean the 'inter-generational wealth doesn't get passed on' point is complete nonsense. Even in the countries with the highest social mobility in the world, the average poor person is not going to have children who go on to achieve even median wealth (and vice versa - the average wealthier family is not going to have children who end up with nothing):
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/ ... -mobility/
As for why first-generation immigrants may on average achieve more wealth than is average for their destination country, that is because first-generation immigrants to high-income countries tend to be younger, healthier and more highly educated than the average citizen of that country. For example, 69% of Sub-Saharan immigrants living in the US are tertiary educated:
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2018 ... tinations/
Immigrants(legal ones at least) are highly educated, and that coupled with ambition is the "secret" to their success. Intact families, choosing to have children only in marriages, limiting the number of children to invest more in each child, valuing education for their children, putting children first, all these are cultural advantages. United States born citizens are born into a culture of entitlement, low expectations of achievement, high expectations for mah money for existing, don't make excuses for inter generational failure.
Lootifer wrote:most jurisdictions find it very hard to pass anything but the most watered down policies because of the way democracy works (although as many a famous thinker has stated - its the best of a bad bunch)
mrswdk wrote:Lootifer wrote:most jurisdictions find it very hard to pass anything but the most watered down policies because of the way democracy works (although as many a famous thinker has stated - its the best of a bad bunch)
Sounds like the famous thinker coined a great mantra for getting people to accept a shitty system.
Lootifer wrote:mrswdk wrote:Lootifer wrote:most jurisdictions find it very hard to pass anything but the most watered down policies because of the way democracy works (although as many a famous thinker has stated - its the best of a bad bunch)
Sounds like the famous thinker coined a great mantra for getting people to accept a shitty system.
Well, because we are all corrupt and/or stupid assholes, the "best" system is that which has the most checks and balances. Democracy is effectively a process for checks and balances, so it's kinda hard to beat.
Lootifer wrote:Haha, love it. I mean you're not wrong...
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