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Rob Roy

Rob Roy

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ArcticGranite said:
When you're a hammer everything looks like a nail.

In 1964--to the disgust and dismay of most of my academic friends--I served as an economic adviser to Barry Goldwater during his quest for the Presidency. That year also, I was a Visiting Professor at Columbia University. The two together gave me a rare entree into the New York intellectual community. I talked to and argued with groups from academia, from the media, from the financial community, from the foundation world, from you name it. I was appalled at what I found. There was an unbelievable degree of intellectual homogeneity, of acceptance of a standard set of views complete with cliche answers to every objection, of smug self-satisfaction at belonging to an in-group. The closest similar experience I have ever had was at Cambridge, England, and even that was a distant second.
The homogeneity and provincialism of the New York intellectual community made them pushovers in discussions about Goldwater's views. They had cliche answers but only to their self-created straw-men. To exaggerate only slightly, they had never talked to anyone who really believed, and had thought deeply about, views drastically different from their own. As a result, when they heard real arguments instead of caricatures, they had no answers, only amazement that such views could be expressed by someone who had the external characteristics of being a member of the intellectual community, and that such views could be defended with apparent cogency. Never have I been more impressed with the advice I once received: "You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
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ThickStemz

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UncleBuck said:
i think they called that the 1500s through the 1800s and beyond.
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Blacks were valuable at that time. They weren't killed for no reason.

Too bad they're not valuable anymore. They know it too. They have to run around trying to convince people that their lives matter. To whom?
 
Unclebaldrick

Unclebaldrick

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HAF2

HAF2

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Unclebaldrick said:
You love Chicago. What would you do without it? Pretty much the same thing you and Trump will do with it - nothing.
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Agreed. I beleive trump will do nothing good for the poor. Nothing for the crime. Nothing for bringing manufacturing jobs back that he lied about to get elected.
What I do fear is that he will roll back human rights to the 1950's. That he will put right wing pro life judges in the Supreme Court and continue to blame minorities for the problems in America.
More than anything, I think he will make decisions for the country for his own personal financial gain. That's why he ran, besides the fact that like Kanye he is the definition of a malignant narcissist. He wanted to be president so he can run the country like a new wing of his business empire and get rich as fuck on trade deals he makes that benifit no one but the elite.
He is in it for himself. There was never any doubt in my mind about that.
 
UncleBuck

UncleBuck

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ThickStemz said:
Blacks were valuable at that time. They weren't killed for no reason.

Too bad they're not valuable anymore. They know it too. They have to run around trying to convince people that their lives matter. To whom?
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the slave trade caused over 5 million deaths you racist.
 
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