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It's always been understood that White lives matter. That has never been brought into question. Black lives, not so much. So, to say "Black lives matter" is to correct a misapprehension that led to the killing, of, say, Emmett Till.

Was this before or after USAID provided food in countries where people are starving, operated the world’s gold-standard famine detection system, used data analysis to predict where food shortages are emerging, bolstered health programmes, such as offering polio vaccines in countries where the disease circulates (thereby deterring a global pandemic), provided medicine and installed clean water supplies to the world’s poorest countries, provided prosthetic limbs to soldiers injured in Ukraine, cleaned landmines, and contained the spread of Ebola in Africa? What’s this got to do with the US, you ask? Okay, you want to make it about you. Fine. Why should we care about dropping maternal, infant and child mortality rates in foreign countries? Does the US want to be a global leader or not? Do they want to retreat from the world stage and isolate themselves? Do they want to give up their influence?

It would be comical if it wasn't so sad. Do you really believe that any money saved by Trump and Musk destroying American government will be used to help out the average guy? You are deluded if you believe so. It will only be used to strengthen the power and increase the wealth of the rich.

Do you know how to read? The "domains ... occupied by 1.8 million Palestinians" are not in Gaza. “Being in its presence just has not been good and it should not go through a process of rebuilding and occupation by the same people that have really stood there and fought for it and lived there and died there and lived a miserable existence there. Instead, we should go to other countries of interest with humanitarian hearts, and there are many of them that want to do this and build various domains that will ultimately be occupied by the 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza, ending the death and destruction and frankly bad luck. And by "people of the area" he does not mean Palestinians. He means people who will invest in his "Riviera." He clearly wants to move the Palestinians to a another place. President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed that the United States take a “long-term ownership position” over Gaza, moving its residents to a “good, fresh, beautiful piece of land” in another country and developing the war-torn territory under U.S. control, offering a vision of mass displacement likely to inflame sentiments in the Arab world.... “I don’t think people should be going back to Gaza. I think that Gaza has been very unlucky for them,” Trump said. “They’ve lived like hell. They lived like you’re living in hell. Gaza is not a place for people to be living, and the only reason they want to go back, and I believe this strongly, is because they have no alternative.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/04/trump-netanyahu-meeting/

Well, following the tariff fiasco, I wondered what would be Trump's next big great ridiculous distraction to keep his base mesmerized. Now, with this plan for Gaza, we have our answer. With this forced relocation, Trump can have his own "Trail of Tears"

I wonder what will be the next performance he fascinates his base with.

What do you know about it? Really, tell us. What do you know about it besides what you have been told?

I don’t know why I am still surprised to find Trump acting in such bad faith. Maybe I am not so surprised. Maybe I am more surprised that anyone puts any faith in him at all. I had a chance to read Trump’s Whitehouse “Fact Sheet” today. I put “Fact Sheet” in quotes because the facts are crooked. The official government release makes out like Mexico and Canada are equally at fault for the fentanyl crossing the borders into the US. Notice the “our borders.” No differentiation is made. Oh, well, the sane person asks - How much of that is coming from Canada? 43 pounds. Compared to 21,000. Why did they hide this fact?

He couldn’t legally impose the tariffs on Canada without first declaring an emergency so he made up a story about fentanyl pouring in from Canada to the US. You most certainly did imply that there are rational economic reasons behind Trump’s tariff strategy and I call bullshit on that. His reasons are not economic at all. He has been warned by businesses, economists and diplomats alike that the fallout could be huge, that tariffs are wholly counterproductive. He is trying to wreck our economy so he can more easily exploit us. This is the ‘economic force’ he referred to when talking about making Canada the 51st state. He knows tariffs will hurt American workers and families, too, but to him that is just collateral damage in his quest for power. This includes funding his tax cuts for the rich with external sources of revenue. He thinks it is money for nothing. Trump is a stupid and dangerous man. What he doesn’t understand: And the whole idea of making all the stuff in American factories would mean a much more inefficient manufacturing system than the

You argue as if not everyone is against open borders, drug addiction and crime. No-one supports these things. Uncalled for Your knee-jerk reaction doesn't address my point

Here’s a little lesson in economics, beginning with these two facts: 1. The no. 1 brand of beer in the US is the Mexican beer Modelo. (It overtook Bud Light for 1st place in 2023). 2. The top US export market for barley is Mexico. 75% of the barley exports from the US go there. The 25% tariff on Modelo will now increase the cost of this imported good in the US. American brewers will see that they can increase their price, too, by less of course, and still increase their market share. The increased price of beer causes its demand to go down. Less beer overall is sold. The demand for barley goes down, decreasing its price, as well as profits and wages in that sector. It’s not good for anyone. The Price America Will Pay for Trump’s Tariffs Alienating allies and partners that the U.S. desperately needs means that “America First” will be “America Alone.”

Trump's purge is targeting career prosecutors, not political appointees, so I don't know how he can get away with it. It's not safe to do your job anymore in the US.

For the U.S. economy, tariffs will be escalating costs on roughly 40% of imported goods across three major economic regions, amounting to roughly 5% of GDP. Six months of tariffs at this level could see the economy grind to a halt. To put some figures behind this, during Trump's first term that skewed tariffs more heavily to China, the impact hit about $360 billion in imports. Today that figure is crossing $1.3 trillion. For Canada's economy, the situation is worse. Our calculations show if these tariffs are sustained for 5 to 6 months, it would officially tip the domestic economy into recession, albeit a relatively shallow one at that point. Further duration would naturally deepen the contraction. Likewise, the unemployment rate would cross the 7% threshold within that six-month period, instead of our baseline scenario from mid-December that saw it fall to 6.4%. https://economics.td.com/ca-trump-tariffs-2025

Then why has Trump's main justification for the tariffs been to stop the flow of illegal fentanyl? And it is to this "national emergency" he says he is reacting. This of course has caused more lies from him - On Inauguration Day, Trump said foreign drug cartels are "killing 250,000 [or] 300,000 American people per year." On Friday, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said tariffs are warranted because fentanyl has "killed tens of millions of Americans." The actual number is much, much lower. And there is nothing more than a trickle of fentanyl coming from Canada (estimated at less than 1% of the total fentanyl that reaches the US). Canada plays virtually no role in the fentanyl crisis in the US. The economics of Trump's trade war will harm all concerned. He's already loudly proclaimed he wants to make us the 51st state, and would use economic force to do it. This is another power ploy from him. I find your excusing and justifying his lies so he can bully Canada reprehensible. People in the know know that what Trump is doing makes no economic sense. From the Wall Street Journal: The Dumbest Trade War in History Trump will impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico for no good reason.

Not only are they a non-sequitur, they are false. While it is true Biden enacted more humanitarian policies, the border was never open. And if that is your response to my point, I have to assume you have no valid counter-point to my point.

I said power and the brand. Different things. Trump in fact has admitted that his brand is his most valuable asset. He said, "I became president because of the brand."

it astonishes me that you cannot see that Trump inflames this so-called culture war as a complete and total distraction from his true purposes - which are his power and his brand. He doesn't give a f*ck about DEI, or transgenderism, or abortion, or any other facet of the culture war. They are just convenient control techniques for his ignorant base. I've said before - his method is "outrage and distract" - so he can go about his true purposes

He's a predator. He's a sexual predator, he's a business predator, he's a people predator, he's an allies predator... And he's a predator of minds, as the existence of the Trump cult shows...

Trump peddled his lie about how other countries would pay for the tariffs. His supporters were too stupid to know this was a lie, or else they didn't care, in their mass exultation of their cult leader. But when Trump makes the same lie to an economic forum, to a group of people who know that it is a lie, that seems proof positive that his game is only to perform for his base. His game is only to support his brand. He doesn't care about the American worker. His audience is his base, his only concern is his brand.

I have just downloaded Jack Smith's report to my computer https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025.pdf I'll keep it for posterity Republicans are all for free speech unless they don't like what you are saying

You have no idea of the oppression and the injustice Indigenous peoples have endured throughout our history? Let’s go back a bit, to the 18th and 19th centuries. The common refrain was “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.” This attitude is captured in an American “classic” – Nick of the Woods (published 1837) written by Dr. Robert Montgomery Bird. In it, he popularized old settler slurs for Native Americans – “red niggurs” – “niggah Injun” - “cussed niggur of a savage” - Niggur-in-law to old Sattan.” This novel featured serial racial murder complete with Jack-the-Ripper-style mutilation as a cause for celebration. A brief for genocide. As late as 1953, this book was classified as an example of “American humour” (In American Humour, by Constance Rourke). You have no idea about how residential schools tore families apart? Children were taken, forced from their families, for no other reason that to commit cultural genocide, and make those children ashamed of where they came from. A common slogan of the time was “Kill the Indian in the child.” This evil created a detrimental intergenerational effect and laid the foundation for the epidemic we see within Indigenous communities today. A mass cultural trauma. So, for example we see today that Indigenous people are at much higher risk of suicide And we see a greater estrangement from society, as evidence by their greater incarceration rate: Colonialization was not good for them.

You probably don't even see the irony in your rejecting someone else's reality based on your feelings.

yes, there are some responses that deserved to be ignored. I stop short of using the "ignore" function, however, because "free speech" and all that. But I do notice that the prime motivation for some on the right seems to be to yank someone's chain, rather than to present a considered position. It's almost like they think they are living vicariously through Trump. They are attracted to his ugly show of power, and try to emulate it. It's a rather fascinating sociological tendency.

So, you are indeed denying the validity of their identities. It's that sort of attitude that leads to stigma and harassment. There has been research to disprove the idea of social contagion.

the environment certainly provides stimuli, but the brain provides the response But we are not. No-one controls their environment. You only control yourself. What we control is our response to the environment. My main point has been to point out that during fetal development, a human brain sexually differentiates to either male or female. You haven't provided any valid counter-point to that. That they exist and are real.