Always question never dismiss. Ive seen that nobody wants to question these women and thats silly you should question everything and everybody but you should never dismiss somebody outright.

But to say that Haitians shouldn’t be allowed to move here because they were born in a shitty place is just flat out wrong and disgusting.

“But that was a long time ago, haven’t they had plenty of time to recover?” *peripherally twitches*

Learn what “remedial” means. It has the same root as “remedy”.

How long does it take for a destroyed civilization to recover? It took Rome 1500 years. Africa was decolonized less than 60 years ago.

Did “Conservative” make it into the DSM V?

Japan has never been colonized by the west. Japan also has an uncanny ability to rebuild or change in an incredibly fast way. China had way more time than most African/ S American countries to get its shit together, having been colonized through the early 20th century. Some Aftrican nations had only been independent…

The real core problem with what he said is he said that people from those countries are lesser because they are from those countries. That their character is inherently flawed because of where they were born. That the people of Haiti are, by extension, shitholes.

Compare how much money went in to rebuilding Europe to “aid” to countries like Africa and Haiti.

I love how the discussion is so shallow on the right when they say, “Yeah, those are shitholes.” There’s no follow up on how those countries got so poor (hint: mostly because of the U.S. and European countries).

Look guys, I’m deeply liberal and I think the conservative party right now is pretty atrocious, but let’s not pretend conservative news outlets are all trash heaps while the liberal outlets are bastions of integrity. Some of the shit I read on the Washington Post lately is embarrassing. Wild, biased, poorly sourced…

You know. I know. But saying it is damn depressing: The people who make the decisions are above the people that work for them. No matter what moral or social code their creators or founders might espouse, by the time a company becomes a “corporation” that is only a pile of text on some paper or a wall.

Woah, easy there - you’re coming awfully close to making an actual point, which would require nuanced thought and an acknowledgement of the intrinsic values of both systems, as well as the foundational issues with both systems. Then you would have to reconcile with the obvious and simple fact that both systems must be…

Cliff Notes recap:

Humans are corrupt and will game any system to be sure. It’s in our DNA.

Obama was not duped. He is a very intelligent man, he knows exactly what was happening, and he was fully complicit.

The Soviet Union failed deeply on many things, such as democracy and free speech and human rights. However it did redistribute wealth quite well, compared to how things were under the Tsar regime.

I don’t necessarily care so much about political experience as I do about policy experience. Throw her in some internship-type positions in the state department, labor, HUD, defense for a few years and yeah, sure. I don’t doubt that someone with Oprah’s charisma / people skills / force of personality could learn to be…

. . . we all know that Oprah would probably be a great president.

i love oprah, but: Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, and some really poorly chosen book club choices. But mostly Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz: two charlatans who prey on ignorance and advance pseudo-science.