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  • Re: 2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line

    Originally posted by joecct View Post
    Young whites have to start reproducin'!!
    Have you seen the pictures from Rio?

    They've got to start miscegenating.

    An American 8 is a Brazilian 3.
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    • Re: 2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line

      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
      Right. The two growth demographics are non-whites and old people, so in a 2x2 matrix of white/non-white and young/old, 3 squares are growing. The one that's shrinking relative to the others is young whites. This has enormous ramifications.

      The political-demographic time-bomb isn't that old whites are dying off -- old whites are actually living a few weeks longer with each passing year. It's that when we finally do die we're going to be replaced by everything except young whites. After 150 years of patiently waiting for America to fix the racial-wealth correlation politically, Mother Nature has decided the hell with it, she'll just fix it Herself.
      And that shift is going to create a very interesting political dynamic as it occurs. As the baby boomers move from the workforce into full dependency mode, and the costs of programs skyrocket even more than they presently do, which way will the Echo Boomers and the young, less white, voters go? Just full blown economic socialism similar to some European models, or do they now become the "conservatives" lashing out at excessive taxation and government programs?
      That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.

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      • Re: 2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line

        I'm not sure Boomers is the right way to look at it. People born in 1946 and therefore came of age during GOP ascendancy and then were in their 30's during the Reagan era seem to be more conservative than people born in the early 60's who were in college during the 1980's. Roughly from what I can tell the sweet spot for conservatism seems to be roughly from pushing 60 years old to your mid 70's. A generation too young to remember the shared sacrifice of WWII and the Great Depression, hence no memory of the New Deal or alliance driven foreign policy, but who do remember the height of the Cold War and the strife of Vietnam.

        Now if you were born in the early 60's you'd have little recollection of the height of the Vietnam war, would have been in grade school when Nixon resigned, but would have hit your 30's during the peace and prosperity of the Clinton Era.

        There's an interesting article floating around about the back end of the Millenial generation, those born in 1998. They'd have no memory of Clinton and a vague memory of the Bush II disaster, so they're formative years will be of the Obama years, and will that make the more liberal or more conservative. The premise was that the economic stagnation might make them conservative, which sounds good in theory if young people weren't so socially liberal.
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        • Re: 2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line

          Originally posted by SJHovey View Post
          And that shift is going to create a very interesting political dynamic as it occurs. As the baby boomers move from the workforce into full dependency mode, and the costs of programs skyrocket even more than they presently do, which way will the Echo Boomers and the young, less white, voters go? Just full blown economic socialism similar to some European models, or do they now become the "conservatives" lashing out at excessive taxation and government programs?
          The funniest part will be that it's a multiracial working population supporting a white social security population. The entire rhetoric of inter-racial balance of payments will be reversed. It will be amusing to watch the Foghorn Leghorns suddenly see the wisdom of a strong social safety net, and the Ta-Nehisi Coates types adopting the rhetoric of pull yourself up by your bootstraps and don't rely on a handout.

          In all seriousness, it's the best thing that can happen to us. Every society has a perpetual balancing act between protecting equality of opportunity while not stifling innovation. The poison in America has been that this lined up with the racial divide. Breaking the white monopoly on wealth once and for all will obviously not stop the left/right pendulum swings -- those are forever and healthy -- but it will finally suck all the toxic racism out of them and allow those arguments to be a lot less emotional and vicious.
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          • Re: 2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line

            http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/09/politi...ver-night-out/

            I think Obama missed a once in a generation (century?) opportunity to watch an entire political party implode. You think BenghaZOMFGi was bad? Just think of a sitting president took a hit. ****.
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            When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
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            • Re: 2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line

              Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
              http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/09/politi...ver-night-out/

              I think Obama missed a once in a generation (century?) opportunity to watch an entire political party implode. You think BenghaZOMFGi was bad? Just think of a sitting president took a hit. ****.
              The only equivalent would be Hillary having an abortion on live TV.
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              • Re: 2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line

                Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                The only equivalent would be Hillary having an abortion on live TV.
                While touting that our tax dollars are paying for it?
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                Originally posted by bigblue_dl
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                Originally posted by Kepler
                When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                • Re: 2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line

                  Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                  http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/09/politi...ver-night-out/

                  I think Obama missed a once in a generation (century?) opportunity to watch an entire political party implode. You think BenghaZOMFGi was bad? Just think of a sitting president took a hit. ****.
                  I'm sure there will still be plenty who put on the "shocked and outraged" routine because he laughed at it.

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                  • Re: 2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line

                    Originally posted by GrinCDXX View Post
                    I'm sure there will still be plenty who put on the "shocked and outraged" routine because he laughed at it.
                    The Freeper crowd will probably insist he'd already taken several hits in the bathroom, and that gay sex was involved.

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                    • Re: 2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line

                      Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
                      The Freeper crowd will probably insist he'd already taken several hits in the bathroom, and that gay sex was involved.
                      Senator Larry Craig was there? I thought he was back in Idaho?
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                      • Re: 2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line

                        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                        Have you seen the pictures from Rio?

                        They've got to start miscegenating.

                        An American 8 is a Brazilian 3.
                        I've been there - it's not that disparate. You can't judge by the average jersey chaser they show in the stands. Everyone knows there are hot women at sporting events and ESPN isn't in the habit of showing ugos.

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                        • Re: 2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line

                          Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
                          I've been there - it's not that disparate. You can't judge by the average jersey chaser they show in the stands. Everyone knows there are hot women at sporting events and ESPN isn't in the habit of showing ugos.
                          Fair nuff, though it's not an observation that began with this WC.
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                          • Re: 2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line

                            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                            Fair nuff, though it's not an observation that began with this WC.
                            I think part of it is the allure, the exotic look, and that some of the features they have stand out. In Thailand the most beautiful women there blow me away, but the other end of the spectrum is worse than in the US imho. I liken it somewhat to the phrase, "Behind every hot chick there's a guy that's tired of her s**t".

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                            • Re: 2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line

                              Scooby! Good news: Boehner says the House has passed 40(!) "jobs bills"
                              http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...ist-jobs-bills

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                              • Re: 2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line

                                Originally posted by Priceless View Post
                                Scooby! Good news: Boehner says the House has passed 40(!) "jobs bills"
                                http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...ist-jobs-bills
                                He should check his pants cause I think they're on fire.

                                Meanwhile USA Today has proven that the American Dream is dead.

                                http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/...ream/11122015/
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