Who's the bigger offender: Conservatives or Liberals?

So you have two, compared to countless thousands of qualified blacks who didn't a hearing.You specifically said:

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punished qualified employees in order to meet quotas for hiring minorities.

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Not qualified applicants.

That would be redistribution of wealth. You won't find any conservatives in favor of this. Jesus:Phat:Either you're neither a conservative nor a follower of Jesus, or you're so confused you can't get either's philosophy straight.--Percy

What is it that you think you're proving by presenting examples of misapplication of affirmative action.I think I saw a couple movies about you the other day: I don't think I've ever seen such a pronounced personality change. A year or two ago people would have called you one of the sweetest guys on the site. Now they might call you confused, lost, soulless. Here's hoping you find some Christian charity in your heart. Treat an Arapaho to dinner - after all, you're living on their land.--Percy

Plus quotas were ruled unconstitutional nearly twenty years ago. Affirmative action will remain necessary as long as there's racism.--Percy

I know that you will jump on me for posting this video, but I think that Fox News is spot-on in its assessment of the looting situation in San Francisco. California made several mistakes.

They reduced shoplifting (under $900.00) to a misdemeanor rather than a felony as it should be.

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they have allowed criminals to be looked upon as victims rather than being held responsible for lawless and blatant actions.

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Of course, a lot of you will say that Fox News portrays the ideological battle between conservatives and liberals in a clearly biased fashion.

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Ringo will bray on about helping the "least of these" as if people committing criminal acts are simply victims of a racist society. The policeman from NYC is spot on in his assessment. California may be "woke" but they soon will be broke. And yes, I know that money is not the issue...blah blah blah. To be honest, I know that I am coming across as a heartless a*hole, but my concerns regarding lawlessness and crime are not racist rants. They are based on common sense values which this country now tiptoes around for fear of offending anybody.

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For the record, I am not suggesting that bringing back Trump is in any way a solution. What I am saying is that we the people are heading towards a lawless atheistic society, and that what you see as the solutions are nothing more than gasoline being thrown on a fire.

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Reparations do not mean that people should look the other way when a crime is clearly being committed.

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"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain "
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“…far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.”- Dr.John Lennox

“The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe.”
- Criss Jami, Killo

“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.” — Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You
(1894).

... and Tangle will say "why the fuck are you watching Fox News?"It's not good for you Phat.

I rented the movie Scrooge with Albert Finney last night. It was a delight. I shed a tear or two and I saw some of myself in that old heartless miser.I feel like he did sometimes. I feel no sympathy for criminals, yet I fail to see the beam in my own eye as I comment about the splinters in many of them.

You truly are an utter idiot Phat.Are the people that committed the mass smash & grabs being sought by the police?Have any of them been caught, tried and found innocent because they were vitims?Reality Phat.Stop paying attention to liars and conmen.

Jesus taught that traditional culture was the source of oppression in His world. Clearly not. Like only the ones who need it?

Go ahead and answer your own question. Would it be people like you and definitely not blacks, American indians and other minorities? Please tell us which groups you were planning to discriminate against through exclusion. Do even you know what this means? Is that like all of everything? The Earth rules the universe? The Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory exists. Cultural Marxism does not. It is nothing except what you're making up as you type on your keyboard. Note that focus is on a conspiracy theory, not a conspiracy. A conspiracy theory is a set of spurious arguments for the existence of a conspiracy. Which is what Cultural Marxism is. Cultural Marxism has no actual existence in reality. It's just one of the many bugaboos of the right to keep the base active and agitated and sending in those donations. Jar did comment in this topic area, but I don't think this accurately captures what he said. If I can add my own take on this, the industrial might of the the United States was a reality well before WWII. We became the world's largest economy by 1890. But the physical separation from the rest of the world by two oceans led to a more isolationistic foreign policy than much of the rest of the world, especially in military matters, that didn't end until WWII left much of the rest of the world in ashes and the US as the world's dominant power. Trump possesses no qualities that the Phat of five years ago would have approved of. You're saying this yet again just one day after I debunked it in Message 365, so I'll say it again:

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And why are you worried about deficits now and not under Trump? Here's a graph of our annual deficit since 2001. Notice that the deficit increased each year under Trump, and especially in 2020, Trump's last year. The projected deficit for 2021, Biden's first year, is slightly lower:

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About upcoming deficits, are you somehow imagining that the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and the $1.75 trillion social programs and climate change bill are all going to be spent in one year so that next year our deficit will increase by $2.95 trillion? You do think that, don't you, so let me disabuse you of that misconception. The $1.2 trillion for infrastructure will be spent over five years, averaging $240 billion per year. The $1.75 trillion for social programs and climate change will be spent over ten years, averaging $175 billion per year. That's a total increase of $415 billion next year. Feel better now?

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Do you get it now? Trump and the Republicans were the big deficit busters, not the Democrats. Jar said nothing disturbing. Investing is a good thing. This is still a free country, and Americans are still allowed to invest their dollars where they choose. Is there nothing so simple you can't misunderstand it? Jar is saying that tax dollars used to send military aid would have been better spent as economic aid. It's tempting to arm a country beset by enemies like Israel, but the result is the massive human rights abuses of Gaza and the West Bank. That's all on us. Are you still responding to jar, because it sure doesn't seem like it since you're ignoring that you just quoted him arguing for, namely economic instead of military assistance. Not that this isn't true, but so are you. Here's a link to what Mr. Pavlovitz said: Yes World, It’s That Bad Here in America—and Worse. Some of it is so pertinent and powerful that I'm going to quote it again:

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It’s the face of family members whose newly revealed racism is regularly leveling us around the dinner table.

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It’s the face of former church friends, who have completely abandoned the Jesus they claim faith in and chosen the vilest of idols.

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It’s the face of once pleasant neighbors who casually regurgitate extremist propaganda in sidewalk conversations.

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It’s the face of childhood friends spewing anti-immigrant filth on their social media profiles.
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So yes, it’s the staggering cruelty of those holding the power here—but just as much it’s the people we know and live alongside who are so gladly empowering them.

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Yes, it’s the complete bastardization of the rule of law and the systems of protections our forebears put in place to avoid putting our nation in such peril—but it’s our coworkers and uncles and classmates who don’t seem to give a damn about that.

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Yes, it’s one political party’s sociopathic lack of empathy and their unrepentant viciousness—but it’s the people we’ve shared Thanksgiving dinner with and served on mission trips alongside, who share their venom and boost their signal.

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Yes, it’s Republican politicians’ incessant attacks on LGBTQ people and immigrants and Muslims and the sick and the vulnerable—but it’s the once kind-hearted people we love, who have been so poisoned by partisan talking points and perverted Christian theology that they celebrate all of it.
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We’re certainly losing the big things here: the integrity of our elections, the stability of our Republic, the faith in our systems, the illusion that our Republican leaders will put anything over power and party.
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We’re wondering what happened to our nation—and to people we once loved and respected; to our parents, grandparents, siblings, neighbors, and best friends.
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He's talking about you, Phat. You're the person with the "newly revealed racism" who has "completely abandoned the Jesus they claim faith in and chosen the vilest of idols." You're the one who "casually regurgitates extremist propaganda" and is "spewing anti-immigrant filth." You're the one "empowering...staggering cruelty" and "the complete bastardization of the rule of law." It's you who is enabling "one politcal party's sociopathic lack of empathy and their unrepentant viciousness" and "incessant attacks on LGBTQ people and immigrants and Muslims and the sick and the vulnerable."It's incredible that you're so clueless you quoted a spot-on self-portrait describing your heartlessness, cruelty and disregard for democracy. The people you criticize for denying Jesus have far more Christian spirit in one fingernail than you have in your entire body. You have surpassed Faith in lack of self-awareness. You've elevated belief in God and accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior as the sole qualification to goodness while spurning kindness and charity toward your fellow man. Your beliefs won't save you from the consequences of your heartlessness and cruelty.I can just picture it as you approach the pearly gates. "I appreciate that you believed in me and accepted my son as Lord and Savior, but did you really write that blacks and Indians would just waste the money, and did you really argue against helping the poor and the descendants of those robbed of their land and freedom?"--Percy

Yes, thanks to modern technology some have been caught. I wish technology could catch all of them. Not to my knowledge. Quit calling me an idiot just because I lean conservative at times. You and others will find out soon enough that the progressives never will run everything and that there are two sides to every story. Quit burying your heads in the sands of ideology and imagining that the world would be a better place if you got rid of the other side. I certainly realize that we need both conservatives and liberals. Maybe you need to learn the same reality.

It was Jesus who brayed on about the "least of these". I only quote Him. You're being dishonest. You're trying to pull the old switcheroo. You're palming the pea. You post videos of organized crime and dishonestly conflate that with people who ARE victims of a racist society. You might as well post videos of the Holocaust and claim that I condone that. They're idiotic rants. Racism is another form of idiocy that you exhibit. And nobody has suggested that. You're swallowing hook, line and sinker what your right-wing handlers are telling you we think. And you're ignoring what WE tell you we think. "Lawless atheistic" is an oxymoron. It's pretty clear that atheists have a moral compass that's equal to or better than Christians'.

You're the one who's doing that.

Stop lying Phat.I call you an idiot because you keep posting idiotic nonsense.If it walks like an idiot and posts like an idiot it is almost certainly an idiot.I am a conservative.But I am NOT a Fascist.I support the concept that we should have a government of the people, by the people and for the people. All the people and that means providing for the least of these our brothers.I have NEVER suggested getting rid of 'the other side' whatever that absurdity means.I have never tried to stop you from posting really stupid idiotic crap.Stop and honestly read the stuff you've been posting.Look at how often you have retracted your comments only to immediately repost the very same absurdities.You need to seriously stop and actually address your health and mental wellbeing.

No, you do not lean conservative. Your leaning is toward radical right wing extremism, which is very different from conservatism.