Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "The Rubin Report"
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That's the plea of the childish at heart. "How come Johnny has a bigger one than me?".
We live in an era where people are falling over one another to prove how oppressed they are. The oppressed are the heroes....not the strong, fearless and determined. Just prove your oppression and then insist that you need help.
It's time to grow up and grow a backbone. If you don't make enough an hour, work longer hours, cut back on expenses, plan a budget, DON'T DO DRUGS. There are ways to get out of it. The poorest people alive today are richer than more than 95% of the people that lived 150 years ago. They have better healthcare, better and more abundant food, even better shelter. What am I talking about. I have better healthcare, better and more abundant food and shelter and I make below the poverty level on a senior pension and that's it.
We're happier complaining than we are working towards solutions. Until we change that, as a society, things will get progressively worse. That's how progressivism works.
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@LovingPrinceTamayuki
Let me try this again, seeing as that you seem to relish in being as thick as you are.
Collectivism is about being of one mind, that we operate as metaphorical drones in a beehive. That our group identity defines who we are, how we think and what we believe.
People, like Haslam, are not collectivists. They believe in individual agency, that we CHOOSE to cooperate or even to opt out, as we choose as individuals. That our group identity is NOT who we are and it does NOT define us. We define ourselves. We work together, as individuals of our own free will, each one having the freedom to decide the depth of our cooperation or even to freely opt out, without recrimination BECAUSE we are individuals and not forced into being a part of the hive. The individual is the priority. In collectivism, the group supersedes the individual....ALWAYS.
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@mbnall
In 2005, Obama, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, claimed that there were problems with the voting machines, helping the Republicans to the 2004 win. In 2016, Hillary and the Democrats claimed that Trump colluded with the Russians to get HIM the win, invoking the compromised computerised voting machines, again.
Now, with mail in voting and the lack of confidence is the voting machines not addressed, we have a large majority of Republicans claiming election fraud concerning those SAME voting machines and the enhanced mail-in voting process.
Now, we have the Democrats wanting to add Puerto Rico and Washington DC to count of the states in election and possibly doing away with the electoral college, something that has been in place since the beginning of the US. This isn't gerrymandering? Worse, the Democrats don't want voters to produce their IDs to vote, saying that it's racist. The entire free world is laughing at that nutty idea.
I'd say fix the entire system, including any appearance of gerrymandering, mail-in voting, the vote counting machines and the way votes are verified. If almost every election has claims of fraud, then have a thorough investigation those claims and propose ways to regain confidence in the system. The way it's being done now is ridiculous.
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@davidhowell1415
That applies to the band "Rage against the Machine", too. In the nineties, they were all about fighting the status quo. Now, they are the status quo, carrying water for the swamp. Weird how that happens. I saw the same thing happening to the hippies of the sixties. A lot of them came from upper class families, railing against the establishment, peace, love, drop out and tune in. In the eighties, a lot of them became the establishment, making big money working for the very corporations that they hated 15 years earlier. The Clintons are a great example of this shift. Activists in the sixties, while at college, bit in the swamp by the nineties.
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@briana.g.7412
It's so easy to judge the lives of those who lived almost 250 years ago. You can sit there on your moral high horse because there's no way that you'd ever be put in that position where your immediate family would ever have slaves.
It's like my dad. He grew up 20 miles west of the German border. When he was 8 years old, he hid in a ditch, along with his brother, and watched in terror as thousands of Nazi troops marched by singing battle hymns, in their invasion of the Netherlands. He's now 89 and still says the it was the scariest day of his life.
But what if he had been born 20 mile EAST of the German border, on the same road that the Germans used to march into the Netherlands. Would he have play marched alongside those soldiers, goose stepping along, dreaming of the day that he too, would be marching off to fight for the Fuehrer and the Fatherland.
That imaginary line was all that defined whether he was a bad guy, a goose stepping Hitler youth, and a good guy, the kid that would eventually see the Canadian soldiers, sleeping in his barn as his teenage idols.
You just don't know where and what life hands you. Except for you, of course. You'd be that 9 year old Berliner that would refuse to join the Hitler youth and be a hero, today. Don't be so morally self righteous.
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Dick Toles
You really don't get it, do you? They're all Americans and she is an individual, a single entity that happens to be an Asian woman, just as you're a single entity that happens to be a white male. Affirmative action says that an Asian individual shouldn't have the same opportunity as another group of individuals and has assigned an hierarchy of opportunity based on group identity. It may be fair to the group (maybe) but definitely not fair for the individual.
Her argument INCLUDES you because you, as a white man, are also at the bottom of the opportunity hierarchy. If she proves that Affirmative Action is discriminatory, she is also speaking for you, because it is also discriminates AGAINST YOU. She is advocating against this type of discrimination and that we should be judged as individuals, not as Asian woman or white male. It's like two people trying out for a baseball team. Do you take the one who's the best baseball player or do you take the black guy because there are already too many white guys on the team.
I take the best ball player because I want the team to be the best it can be. When you apply for university, you take the application that shows the strongest potential, that manifests itself in previous achievements of scholarship and effort. You do that to prepare for the future of your society in the best possible manner. That the top minds are the ones doing the most complex tasks that are needed for a functioning society. I don't care what ethnicity my surgeon is, so long as he's the best, not because he's Latino and there isn't enough Latino surgeons. That's not only colossally stupid, it's just plain crazy.
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@minkman99
I'm afraid that you're not following this very well. The SJW stuff, the safe spaces and such, has been around for quite a few years. It was in the universities and any student who said things that establishment deemed inappropriate was called onto the carpet. It always seemed to be conservatives that were being censored and belittled. They weren't allowed to have their own speakers or their own conservative clubs. There were protests, sometimes even violent, directed against anyone that would say anything that went against the leftist dogma. This was going on before Trump became president. Books were beginning to be cancelled but they couldn't outright ban them. Not yet anyway, but some would love to do it. The rhetoric was always about race, gender, sexual preference and accusations were becoming more and more rampant. Every dissenting conversation ended with "You're racist" or "You're homophobic" or something to that effect.
Now, it's in the media. Critical race theory is the new thing. People, in the work place, are called to meetings and white employees have been required to "acknowledge their white privilege". Kids, starting schools, are taught that they may belong to the race that represents racism, colonialism and sexism, that there's something inherently evil in them. Everything has become racist. Mathematics, getting up on time, working hard, street lights, milk, camping, skiing, the list goes on and on and on. University professors have longed for the demise of the white race and done so publicly, without any sanctions from the MSM. BLM have rioted, burned, looted, injured and even killed people but the MSM says their protests are "mostly peaceful". Antifa, in Portland, rioted for over 120 days in a row, last summer, all chronicled by Andy Ngo, but to Nadler, a Democrat Congressman, it's all a myth and Biden says Antifa is an idea. You should google "Evergreen College" and read about the craziness there, a few years ago. Strangely, completely ignored by the MSM. Had a bunch of conservative students done this, they'd still be talking about it.
If you haven't noticed any of this, you really haven't been paying attention. The left have been taken over by a bunch of overt Marxists. A woman, who wore Chairman Mao's picture on her clothing almost won the election to become Mayor of Portland recently. You really have to start finding out what is going on with the left and how they're infiltrating the education system, the media, human resources of big corporations and the Democrat party. They will completely destroy the western world as we know it and we'll be left with a place where we won't have to worry about illegal immigrants or refugees. They won't want to come here.
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