Policy wise he probably didn't make any bad decisions. But his words have made it okay to be racist. As a minority, I experienced more minor forms of racism in last 4 years than in last 20 years before. He made it cool to be racist. He made my life slightly more inconvenient. And I am sure if I didn't had high paying job I would have suffered more balant racism. Trump is evil human and I am glad he will gone soon enough.
> I experienced more minor forms of racism in last 4 years than in last 20 years before
That's awful. What kind of things happened (if you don't mind) and do you think it was an attitudinal change or were there policy decisions that were the cause?
> He made it cool to be racist.
I infer from this it was young people that you think (or know) have been affected.
Mostly attitude changes. Like if our group of mostly brown people with kids is at a festival, security gaurds or cops would all of sudden hangout next to us. We would just laugh it off and cops are not rude or anything. But I rarely noticed cops hanging out near us when we are in mostly white group.
Another thing, a little worse service especially at upscale suburban resturants. Now brown/desi people are known to be cheap when it comes to tips, so that does have some effect on the service. However, before 2016, we rarely got bad/slow service. But it seems we had more issues at resturants in last 4 years than before. (Btw I always tip decent 20% standard and more depending on the service)
From cool I meant people now openly sterotype minorities especially on Facebook. Both young and old. Like friends complaining that they didn't get a job because company was trying to hire a black woman. And, in fact, I have heard from multiple of my Republican friends that a Black Woman is the most powerful person in the US. (Ofc, I don't believe that)
Here is a more balant racism experience I had. On a date night, we sat next to another couple. The guy was really not happy, he started talking just loud enough for us to hear that Trump will round up all Muslims and immigrants and ship them out. Then he started singing that his cousin is Navy Seal and he likes to kill Iraqis, Afghanis, and all the dities. His date kept telling him to shut up. He asked waitress to change tables, I think.
We tried our best to ignore and have a good evening. This is the only incident in last 4 years but never experienced anything like this before especially in upscale restaurants.
That must leave a nasty taste in the mouth. I know from my own experience that it's harder to laugh off these kind of things if you feel they're more pervasive in society than just one idiot. Of course, it's hard to draw good conclusions from anecdotes but they're still evidence of prejudice that too many are too quick to dismiss.
> I rarely noticed cops hanging out near us when we are in mostly white group.
I heard something similar from a mixed race footballer in the UK (where I'm from). Again, it's difficult to draw conclusions but these things add up. Part of the problem is how to measure or validate things like this in such a way that they become persuasive to change.
For what it's worth I hope it doesn't happen again, or the good far outweighs the bad (which may be all we can hope for in life!)
> But his words have made it okay to be racist. As a minority, I experienced more minor forms of racism in last 4 years than in last 20 years before. He made it cool to be racist.
No, he didn’t. He denounced white supremacy more than any politician ever has, but folks were obsessed with these “Trump is a Nazi” lies. There’s a reason that more minorities voted for him than any GOP candidate ever. In fact, the only demographic that he lost ground on was white men.
What minor forms of racism are you saying he caused in your life?
Tell me this: When Trump riled up his supporters to chant "send them back" when referring to the American congresswomen known as "the squad", was it racist or not?
"Go back to where you came from" is a common racial insult non-white immigrants endure even decades or generations after they naturalize.
I find this incredibly disturbing. I don’t mean that negatively or personally in any way. But I routinely meet people who are completely unaware of this and who actually think he called Nazis very fine people. Because the media and the campaign ads and people on social media keep repeating this lie and never show the dozens of times that he has already addressed this, including in the second half of the sentence that quote comes from, but was edited out. The fact that such a significant hoax that is trivially debunked continues to live on for years is a bad sign. Obviously, this is why he attacks the media so much. And who can blame him?
Sibling comment has a compilation of him doing it 38 times. I recommend this video as well:
But Trump [1] also says the non-white congresswomen known as "the squad" should go back to where they came from. Even riled up his supporters [2] to chant "send her back".
You know "go back to where you came from" is a common racial insult hurled at non-white immigrants decades or generations after they naturalize in the USA?
Is Biden any better? Quoting 'adventured' from elsewhere in this thread:
> As opposed to Biden's belligerent life-long racism, which the left universally goes a great distance out of its way to ignore?
> Even Kamala Harris called him a racist. She did her best to run away from that after it was no longer convenient of course.
> See: Biden's statements on "a racial jungle," segregation, busing, and how he didn't want his children going to desegregated schools.
> See: Biden's support of the crime bill that specifically targeted and locked up a million black people.
> See: Biden's past friendships and associations with 'former' KKK memembers like Robert Byrd (someone he considered a good friend and mentor). Byrd was one of the most vile pieces of scum elected to the US Government in the past century. How's that for associating with white supremacists?
> See: Biden's racist statements about Obama prior to the 2008 election.
It is in the context of Trump supposedly “making it cool to be a racist”. You’re not replacing Trump with a pure and just candidate like Sanders, but rather with another racist (if you believe Trump deserve to be labeled a racist) who’s been on the wrong side of history for the majority of his political career. The only difference is that the mainstream media has abandoned all journalistic integrity in order to protect Biden and attack Trump at all costs. They’re really no better than FoxNews at this point.
There are a lot of stories of people paying for Google Services getting locked out too.
Personal experience, once I created an Adword ad using one of the image that Google Ad creator had suggested. It was nothing, just a woman in bikini. It was approved and then rejected with warning that I violated their guidelines. I wanted protest but thought probably not worth it. This could have perma banned me from Google, I stopped using AdWords.
Do you think Google really cares about this, or do they get pressure from "outside" forces to impose such rules?
I seriously doubt Google cares one wink about people posting bikini photos. These rules exist because activists put pressure on the company to enforce such rules, for better or worse.
This is the post I needed to start cutting out Google as much as possible. Not because I want to go 100% Google free but having too many Google services means that you are more likely to inadvertently violate one of their terms.
1. Remove Google Analytics and Adsense. Especially Adsense seems high risk.
2. Remove free apps from Play Store
3. Stop uploading public videos on YouTube
4. Stop sharing files through Google Drive
5. Use only my own domain for emails that are forwarded to Gmail.
6 Stop storing passwords in Chrome.
Only reason I want to keep Google is for Gmail, calendar, Nest Thermostats, Nest Doorbell.
Photos are already backed up in Apple Photos in addition to Google Photos.
That was my first thought that wine drinkers tend to richer, so live longer. But when I looked deeper, those studies actually controlled for various factors including income and education.
I prefer web clients because I don't want bloatware on PC. Only when desktop client has some feature that I really need and I trust the company, then I install desktop client.
Knowingly buying stolen property is illegal and may result in jail time.
Unknowingly buying stolen property still comes with a risk that if LE ever find it, they can take it away from you without compensating you.
I had my TV stolen and sold to a pawn shop. Detectives found it at local pawn shop and they recovered it for me. These laws exist so that when one is engaged in business, they have to do reasonable due diligence that they are not dealing with stolen or illegal goods.
This is not collective punishment. There are already laws where children have to give up inheritance because it was created with illegal activities. There are laws against illegal dumping of dangerous chemicals. It is not too far fetched idea that existing laws can be used to recover some of damages caused by this.
Great. Now imagine the next administration deems that your prior, legitimately gotten gains, are now ill-gotten. Don't see how that could turn into a slippery slope, no sir!
And yes, punishing a family member for a crime perpetrated by another is, by definition, collective punishment.
Yes, women seems to be attracted to guys with dogs. As a guy, I have a dog, every time I take him out to dog park without my wife, I get hit on.
But dogs are so much work and they are needy. If I had to do over, I would get a cat. My friends with cat can take wknd trip without taking or boarding their cats. Sometimes, they have no idea where their cat is.
My guess is having a dog is not about masculinity but it shows that this guy can handle responsibility and needs of others.
It does though? You have to have a stable life in order to keep a dog. Vet bills, food etc. might not seem like a whole ton to you but we're still thousands of dollars a year at best. Also like OP stated, you can't just take off as a dog needs daily care and attention.
I want a dog but I haven't been able to make the time nor can I afford one at this point.
Also if you have a not-tiny puppy, the first year means a lot of damage. You will have to replace a few things you did not expect. I'm pretty sure I spent ~$1k, although this will scale with the worth of your possessions.
Edit: jinxed myself, just went out to see a throw pillow gutted and spread around.
I know people who still refuse to believe that the earth is spehere. Especially, when religon is involved they won't even believe their own eyes. Someone actually said that the way universe appear is because God is testing us.
But you can convince them by making them feel good and hit on their emotions. It feels dirty salesy marketing bs. But apparently it works on us.
I have been telling some conspiracy theories to help some friends. I don't think they believe me, i wish i can make cool videos. The theory I say is that COVID19 is made by government to save money on social security. Wearing masks is messing up the government plans so that's why they are so against it. Etc.
