Tell me then, normal person who openly disdains people like me.
What should I have done in the situations I was presented with?
Look, being nice to people is not the issue. Telling someone who calls scumbag criminals, scumbag criminals, that he wouldn’t say it to their faces is being a hypocrite. You have said illegals should be deported because they are illegal and I agree. But the fact you wouldn’t say shit to the face of some Tren members doesn’t make them any less criminal and doesn’t mean they shouldn’t go. If I said to you, you wouldn’t say they are criminals to their faces, I would sound like a moron.
The truth is, you don’t want to join HA. You don’t want to be a criminal. You believe violent criminals are scum. The fact you won’t say that to them doesn’t mean it isn’t true. The fact you won’t say it to their faces doesn’t mean you can’t say it all.
You can actually fuck off for tonight, castoli. I don’t need to get your opinion on how human interactions ought to have gone. You pollute nearly every conversation you participate in, no matter what alias you are posting under.
I know a pattern when I see one. Endless disagreement and diverting of the discussion into all manner of silly directions is your hallmark, which is shared by almost every sincere socialist in Maine I’ve ever interacted with.
I expect the pace of the Trump administration to accelerate, and I expect my political thought I’ve put out on these forums over the years will continue to be vindicated. Reality will have to prove me wrong, not your twisted words.
I won’t block you but you should really question your purpose on these forums. It seems like you’re just here to be a dick wad among people whose interest you don’t share.
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Love the feeling of isolation it has
You should question why you have accused me of being woke and a socialist yet have failed to provide any evidence when asked. Why? It’s fake news.
A couple of things. This is a political forum so maybe you shouldn’t be surprised there are different opinions being given here.
As far as sharing similar interests, this is you being dishonest again. You said I don’t lift weights, not me. So until you post evidence for your accusations, I will call you a liar.
You’re not a socialist at all. You just think the only people who are organizing against them politically are easily-fooled rubes being led into disaster by Trump.
You cling to this notion even as the nationwide scale of the grift I’ve been writing about in Maine for some time is being laid bare.
We are over the target in Lewiston. Politicians are getting a lot of letters about how the racist Maine Community Foundation, whose every action is guided by principles of “equity”, siphoned off almost two million dollars donated to mass shooting victims to unrelated immigrant and prisoner advocacy nonprofits.
They’re having a very difficult time explaining that one away, just as nobody can explain why the dysfunction must persist in our schools and our streets. Their only remaining advantage is the election rigging aspect of the grift that is still in place in Maine.
I’m just as certain that Trump is over the target in Washington, D.C., and I have a high degree of confidence in the role he’s given Musk.
The D.C. grifters are all acting the same way they do in Lewiston, but the grifters at the local level in Maine aren’t nearly as adept at twisting words as their Washington level counterparts are.
Happy Super Bowl Sunday. I’m not a big football fan, but I think this is a great aspect of American culture.
So you made all of that up. Nothing weird about that.
Now you know what I think.
And God help anyone who doesn’t share this same degree of optimism. Your way of thinking created Gulags.
I know what you say, and you have been quite clear in your disdain for Trump voters for going on a decade now.
You won’t say what your political beliefs are under this identity, endorse a candidate, or say who you voted for for President, let alone why.
All you can do is “deconstruct” conversations in a very Marxist way that’s characteristic of people who believe they understand the nonsense of his dialectical materialism.
Hell, you even had to pop in my thread about physical attributes in a struggle to accuse me of abusing my female training partners in BJJ by constructing an abusively violent scenario in your head and deciding that’s what I was talking about.
That was a big success for the thread topic.
Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, probably is a duck.
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The ideology comes for everything, sooner or later. Its entire purpose is to erode Western civilization and culture. The Boy Scouts are so far in rear view mirror it almost seems quaint how they came after that so long ago. Now, the public menace of Legos must be tackled by applying transgender ideology to plastic Danish bricks.
Star Wars and Tolkien have also been dealt with. Speaking of Tolkien…
Dungeons and Dragons now considers the fantasy concept of orcs, who were intrinsically evil for all of Dungeons and Dragons and all of Tolkien, to be racist.
Ignoring that humans in the game (and in Tolkien) include ALL humans, these people who obsess over race declared that orcs were a representation of black people and have completely redesigned the concept for the latest edition of D&D, which I will not be purchasing.
All I can say is these people should continue to make themselves and their beliefs known to as many people as possible.
Yeah.
My neighbor, a pretty middle left guy, was asking me what made Obama so divisive.
Alienation. You alienate all of these people through direct and indirect action. Then you have a hard core group of party patrons that will follow you through the gates of hell.
Then you grow that. Like selective pruning. Continue through a few cycles, and you have successfully alienated anybody who might have disagreed,and cultivated a following.
Thats what this kind of silly shit is. It like “If you can get behind this, you’re the one we’re looking for!”. Followed by a “But wait, theres more…!”.
Gay freakin legos. What a bunch of sisified morons.
Nothing is greater than the cause!
If that is true, if, how would it be any different than your disdain for Biden, Clinton or Kamala voters?
Why does anyone have to do that? We don’t have the freedom to reject the choices forced upon us?
Given how you have mentioned Marx a lot more than I have, you would seem to be the expert on him, not me.
Could I introduce you to the kettle?
I think we are all beginning to understand that the grift behind the ideological cause has been the most important part the entire time. The ideology is just a tool for control, as socialism has always been in every rotten form it has taken.
We’ve spent enough time in the abstract, let’s get back into reality…
I’m entirely unsurprised that some of the first concrete actions being implemented via DOGE include the same kind of basic data management concepts I attempted and failed to convince State of Maine to adopt in their HR software modernization project, which was a $42 million failure.
It was followed by another failure of similar magnitude and is yet to be implemented nearly a decade later.
I’m not an accountant but I’m pretty familiar with manufacturing cost accounting concepts as they relate to tier 1, large-scale business databases like SAP.
DOGE is prompting the government to adopt the business 101 concept of required fields, and I’m totally here for it.
The big question I could never answer working for State of Maine or looking at this emerging situation is how much of the bad systems implementation is by design vs a result of incompetence. I am beginning to speculate that much of the murkiness is by design, as to better obscure corruption.
I don’t think he was any more divisive than his predecessors. The way social media and the 24 hour news cycle was developing it just amplified things. The thing with Obama was that when he said something that was divisive and potentially going to bite him in the ass, he knew enough to correct things. This is when we started to hear the use of “I misspoke.” Now, whether or not he believed he was wrong or was playing political games is another matter. Keep in mind, the birther movement didn’t help.
The one who mastered divisiveness to her demise was Hilary. She would say something like basket of deplorables and instead of disavowing it, she tried to justify it.
Drizz’t dealt with a lot of prejudice and rejected racial stereotypes.
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Is that some rapper?
While he didn’t rap, he Was from a tough neighborhood.
He was more sophisticated.
He managed to cut away all of the trades. Police & fire, coal/oil/gas, and began the catch & release imigration policy. That was the core of the party for a long time, and primarily very practical meat & potatoes types.
Perfect example of someone who lacked the sophistication and oratory skills Obama owned. She’s a vulgar clod compared to him.
I think I only read one of the Forgotten Realms books he was featured in way back in Jr. High. D and D has always been “progressive” in that it allows for unlimited freedom of play within the game’s framework.
I mean, we all kinda assumed that bards were probably gay.
Back to the interesting developments coming out of DOGE, I cannot emphasize how much competence is needed to open up a massive database and discern where bad concepts have been implemented.
The software that handles roughly 1/3 of the world’s business transactions, if measured by journal entry lines, is called SAP. Out of the box, with no customization, it consists of over 40,000 distinct tables, all preserving what is called “referential integrity” so that they all work together with consistent design to model the business.
I’m unsure of how many databases or tables are in play in the federal government, but the number is surely mind-boggling. State of Maine has seven different legacy databases that “model” all HR and employee payment functions. It is a complete rats nest that nobody has successfully rooted out in a decade.
The amount of organizational inertia that was opposed to the change was also tremendous. Maine definitely needs DOGE.
From a Fox article on these changes…
“Nobody in Treasury management cared enough before. I do want to credit the working level people in Treasury who have wanted to do this for many years, but have been stopped by prior management,” Musk said.
“Everything at Treasury was geared towards complaint minimization. People who receive money don’t complain, but people who don’t receive money (especially fraudsters) complain very loudly, so the fraud was allowed to continue,” he added.
“It is ridiculous that these changes didn’t exist already! Yesterday, I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number,” he continued. “If accurate, this is extremely suspicious. When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!! This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately.”