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Neo » 24 Nov 2020, 6:10 pm » wrote: ↑

24 Nov 2020, 6:10 pm

Progressives should be against transsexuals. Only the rich can achieve a decent outcome. Bruce Jenner is a multi millionaire and still looks like a man. Those with fewer resources have even less effective outcomes.

SJConspirator » 24 Nov 2020, 7:56 pm » wrote: ↑

24 Nov 2020, 7:56 pm

I am very much interested in the concept of identity.  As
An outward manifestation, a visual presentation of an individual in the physical world.  Its not just an inner feeling or mood.

Coolguy10013 » 03 Dec 2020, 8:00 pm » wrote: ↑

03 Dec 2020, 8:00 pm

I'm looking at comments on NHB tonight and my God, it's unbelievable.

Trump surely is the master of the cult of personality and for the life of me I don't get it.

Nothing he says or does is based on any type of reality, but yet they are soaking it up like sponges.

I'm still waiting for all this "evidence" to pop up. It's been weeks. Where is it?

bludog » 03 Dec 2020, 9:50 pm » wrote: ↑

03 Dec 2020, 9:50 pm

This defines what the "cult of personality" is.   Like small children, members of the cult have invested themselves in Trump as the world's ultimate authority.  Facts are beside the point.  Contradiction by experts in their fields means nothing ....  In their eyes, Trump knows better than any expert.

Millions in this cult are so detached from reality, they are ready to die for Trump if need be, by leaving themselves defenseless against COVID19.  In my estimation, this is not only a Cult of Personality but a mass psychosis, driven daily by Right Wing disinformation.

A large part of the problem is low levels of education and a resultant lack of critical thinking.  Republicans have been fighting for decades to make it harder for ordinary people to get higher education.

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Coolguy10013 » 05 Dec 2020, 5:44 pm » wrote: ↑

05 Dec 2020, 5:44 pm

People who are in cults believe that everyone around them is lying. Everyone around them is corrupt. Everyone around them is immoral and untrustworthy except for one man. Their cult leader. He's the only one speaking the truth and he has been hand-chosen by God to save them and to save all humanity.

That literally describes Donald Trump's supporters.

You could argue that it also describes most religions, but I've often said that a Religion is just what you call a cult once it's gotten big enough and powerful enough you need to be more careful about insulting it.
 

JeanMoulin » 03 Dec 2020, 9:23 pm » wrote: ↑

03 Dec 2020, 9:23 pm

Can 70M plus all be cult members? I don't believe so, but I would guess many of them are. I know someone who voted for him, and did so because THE PIG promised heavy tax cuts for business owners, which he did do. This person is a small business owner and reaped some benefits from a tax break. I don't have personal contact with this person, but my understanding is he voted for him again. Not surprising. But having known this person, I would not consider him a cult member in the sense of the word. He's not someone who I believe is weak minded. Just greedy. I also don't believe he would ever go to one of his rallies, As far as I know he never has. I think what we have here is a mixture.

Cannonpointer » 06 Dec 2020, 4:00 am » wrote: ↑

06 Dec 2020, 4:00 am

The disease takes octogenarians. The suicides are taking children.

 

DennisTheMenace » 13 Dec 2020, 5:11 am » wrote: ↑

13 Dec 2020, 5:11 am

Let's be honest.  Was Sean Hannity conducting this poll?

The only way we can be sure there was no "hanky-panky" is if Sean Hannity was in charge of the voting process?

And this FOX news poll... If Sean Hannity wasn't in charge...it's fake news.  I assure you.   

Granted...Shawn never graduated from college.   But...he's always been the smartest man in the room...without a doubt.     

Forty-two percent of voters say President Donald Trump will be remembered as "one of the worst presidents" in history, according to a new poll by Fox News.

 An additional 8% think Americans will recall his presidential performance as being below average.
 Among Democrats, a significant 69% think Trump's term in office will go down as a disaster. 

Forty-two percent of voters say President Donald Trump will be remembered as "one of the worst presidents" in history, according to a new poll by Fox News.

 An additional 8% think Americans will recall his presidential performance as being below average.

 Among Democrats, a significant 69% think Trump's term in office will go down as a disaster.

 President Trump accepted the GOP nomination at the 2020 Republican National Convention with a speech focused on fear and chaos, breaking from party tradition.

 On the flip side, 22% of those interviewed think he'll be considered one of the best presidents ever. Among Republicans, this rises to 44%.Overall, the majority of voters - 54% - don't view Trump in a favorable light.

 This can be, in part, attributed to the fact the majority of voters think the country is worse off than four years ago (54%). Additionally, the majority disapprove of Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic (55%) and dislike how he's handled immigration and healthcare (53%).

 With regards to whether Trump should run again in 2024, it's a negative from the majority of voters. 57% would rather somebody else leads the GOP into the next election.

 It's a different picture among Republicans. Seventy-nine percent of Trump voters would like him to run again and 71% of registered Republicans would too. Just 10% of Democrats and 27% of independents hope to see him at the top of the ticket again.

 When it comes to economics, Trump is viewed more positively. A majority (52%) approve of how he's handled the economy. His economic approval ratings have only dropped into the negative twice throughout his presidency.

 The latest Fox News poll paints a mixed picture of Trump's last four years in office, with highly partisan splits coloring people's perception of the 45th president.
 This is particularly accurate when looking at perceptions of how Trump has handled his election defeat.

 While 58% of those interviewed don't believe the election was stolen, 68% of Republicans believe he won.

 Among Trump voters, 77% incorrectly think he beat Joe Biden in November.

 Fifty-six percent of voters think Trump's legal efforts to overturn the result of the election have weakened democracy - 66% of Republicans, however, think it has strengthened it.

This Fox News poll was conducted between December 6 and 9 under the joint direction of Beacon Research and Shaw & Company. 1,007 random registered voters were called. There's a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 points.

 
 

DennisTheMenace » 14 Dec 2020, 11:07 am » wrote: ↑

14 Dec 2020, 11:07 am

Kelly Loeffler clearly has no idea about anything.  She's Illinois bred and Georgia dumb.

Two days after Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) posed for a photo with former Ku Klux Klan leader Chester Doles, leading to outcry from Jewish activists, Loeffler’s campaign insisted Sunday that she had no idea who Doles was.

 But Doles’ profile as a white supremacist was prominent enough that he was ejected from a campaign rally in September featuring Loeffler and Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Loeffler claimed then as well that she wasn’t aware of any controversy linked to Doles.

 Bend the Arc, a progressive Jewish advocacy group, retweeted a photo Saturday of Loeffler smiling next to Doles. The photo was taken Friday at a campaign event. Doles had posted the photo with a caption that read in part: “Save America, stop Socialism!”

 Doles spent decades as a member of the KKK (and led a faction in Maryland) and the neo-Nazi National Alliance, the Journal-Constitution reported. He’s a convicted felon who was sentenced to prison for the 1993 beating of a Black man, according to The Baltimore Sun.

 “This is who [Loeffler] is proudly appealing to,” Bend the Arc’s Twitter account posted.

 Loeffler is “once again trying to distance herself from someone who is a known white supremacist,” said a statement from the campaign of Rev. Raphael Warnock, Loeffler’s Democratic rival in one of Georgia’s two upcoming Senate runoffs. “There’s no acceptable explanation for it happening once, let alone a second time,” the statement added, referring to the September rally.

 The communications director for Democrat Jon Ossoff, who is challenging Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) in the other runoff, tweeted: “This is Georgia’s GOP.” The twin runoffs, scheduled for Jan. 5, will determine which party controls the Senate for at least two years.

 Stephen Lawson, a spokesperson for Loeffler’s campaign, told the Journal-Constitution that the senator “had no idea” who Doles was. Had she known, she would have “kicked him out immediately because we condemn in the most vociferous terms everything that he stands for,” Lawson said.

 Doles told The Associated Press on Sunday that he has “renounced racism on several occasions in the past couple of years.”

 Two days after Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) posed for a photo with former Ku Klux Klan leader Chester Doles, leading to outcry from Jewish activists, Loeffler’s campaign insisted Sunday that she had no idea who Doles was.

 But Doles’ profile as a white supremacist was prominent enough that he was ejected from a campaign rally in September featuring Loeffler and Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Loeffler claimed then as well that she wasn’t aware of any controversy linked to Doles.

 Bend the Arc, a progressive Jewish advocacy group, retweeted a photo Saturday of Loeffler smiling next to Doles. The photo was taken Friday at a campaign event. Doles had posted the photo with a caption that read in part: “Save America, stop Socialism!”

 Doles spent decades as a member of the KKK (and led a faction in Maryland) and the neo-Nazi National Alliance, the Journal-Constitution reported. He’s a convicted felon who was sentenced to prison for the 1993 beating of a Black man, according to The Baltimore Sun.

 “This is who [Loeffler] is proudly appealing to,” Bend the Arc’s Twitter account posted.

 Loeffler is “once again trying to distance herself from someone who is a known white supremacist,” said a statement from the campaign of Rev. Raphael Warnock, Loeffler’s Democratic rival in one of Georgia’s two upcoming Senate runoffs. “There’s no acceptable explanation for it happening once, let alone a second time,” the statement added, referring to the September rally.

 The communications director for Democrat Jon Ossoff, who is challenging Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) in the other runoff, tweeted: “This is Georgia’s GOP.” The twin runoffs, scheduled for Jan. 5, will determine which party controls the Senate for at least two years.

 Stephen Lawson, a spokesperson for Loeffler’s campaign, told the Journal-Constitution that the senator “had no idea” who Doles was. Had she known, she would have “kicked him out immediately because we condemn in the most vociferous terms everything that he stands for,” Lawson said.

 Doles told The Associated Press on Sunday that he has “renounced racism on several occasions in the past couple of years.”Loeffler, who co-owns the Atlanta Dream WNBA team, said in July that she was “adamantly” opposed to the Black Lives Matter movement after the basketball league dedicated its season to supporting it.

 The senator, who paints herself as a Second Amendment supporter, has also said that Black protesters who legally carried guns during a demonstration in the state were practicing “mob rule.”

 Pressed on her controversial statements in a debate against Warnock earlier this month, Loeffler insisted: “There is not a racist bone in my body.”

In short, the next time socialism is enlisted as a tool for redistributing wealth, we will make the unhappy discovery that most of that wealth is gone.

They will not be “retrained” in some imagined federal crusade to turn meth freaks into code-writers for Google.

Most of the beliefs and attitudes of the present day will be overturned with the demise of the industrial orgy, like the idea that humanity follows an unerring arc of progress, that men and women are interchangeable and can do exactly the same work, that society should not be hierarchical, that technology will rescue us, and that we can organize some political work-arounds to avoid the pain of universal contraction.

Polar1ty » 26 Dec 2020, 2:31 am » wrote: ↑

26 Dec 2020, 2:31 am

Lmfao

I used to do a bit of gig work to supplement my full time income during off hours. I made $25-30/hr doing basic **** like tutoring and driving ppl around with Uber, and keep in mind none of these required a college education (which I already had at that point - I just wanted some play money).

Maybe if that hypothetical person you speak of were a **** retard they would choose to stay at a job paying $8/hr, but that’s not anybody’s fault but theirs when other options avail.

There are plenty of one-person self-employment/gig opportunities where you can easily make $20/hr or more: dog walking, tutoring, web design, house cleaning, social media management, etc.

Someone I know who has zero college education was making $25/hr in security, another almost $28/hr as a dog groomer, etc. 

While none of these are glamorous, and $20/hr is peanuts compared to what I make, there is almost no entry barrier and a very low education requirement that consists of reading 2-3 ebooks that cost $7.99 each from Amazon Kindle at most (and maybe some “job training”)

Based on your post, I’m almost 95% certain you were employed in a very cushy government job for most of your life where you never faced the threat of downsizing/outsourcing/layoffs, and you think your model can apply to the rest of the unwashed masses.

• Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (exaggerates achievements and abilities)
• Preoccupied with dreams of unlimited power, success, physical attractiveness, and love
• Holds the belief that they are of special or high status and can only be understood by similar people or should only associate with those people (or institutions)
• Has a need for excessive admiration
• Possesses a sense of entitlement and expects favorable treatment or compliance
• Exploits other people to achieve personal goals
• Lacks empathy regarding the needs and feelings of other people
• Is envious of other people or thinks other people envy them
• Has arrogant behaviors and attitudes

• Repeated failure to follow social norms resulting in grounds for arrest
• Engaging in deceitfulness (lying, using aliases, not paying off debts)
• Impulsivity and not planning ahead; moving around constantly
• Irritability and aggressiveness (resulting in physical fights/assaults)
• Reckless disregard or concern for the safety of other people
• Chronic irresponsibility reflected by a continued failure to maintain a job, finish school, or stay on top of financial commitments
• Lack of remorse about hurting others (indifferent or rationalizes)