Yes - but I think some of these posts were about Biden?David wrote:Yes, I do think there's been a sharp decline in the last four years, no question.
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I think it would be brilliant to have a female President. Look forward to this event coming true. It might finally temper the chauvinism a bit.Sicks Bux wrote:How are we feeling about President Kamala Harris? Because she'll probably be taking over from Biden before the end of his first term.
Don't confuse your current path with your final destination. Just because it's dark and stormy now doesn't meant that you aren't headed for glorious sunshine!
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he tried but he knew just like guns, the mountain is too high, he did help the LGBT cause though, and a small piece from the link below, so maybe a She can help the race problems: a good read:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38536668
"His election triumph is 2008 was also misinterpreted as an act of national atonement for the original sin of slavery and the stain of segregation.
Yet Obama did not win the election because he was a black man. It was primarily because a country facing an economic crisis and embroiled in two unpopular wars was crying out for change.
Doubtless there have been substantive reforms. His two black attorneys general, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, have revitalised the work of the justice department's civil rights division, which was dormant during the Bush years.
The Affordable Healthcare Act, or Obamacare, as it was inevitably dubbed, cut the black uninsured rate by a third.
Partly in a bid to reverse the rate of black incarceration, he has commuted the sentences of hundreds of prisoners - 10 times the number of his five predecessors added together.
As well as calling for the closure of private prisons, he became the first president to visit a federal penitentiary. "There but for the grace of God," said a man who had smoked pot and dabbled with cocaine in his youth."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38536668
"His election triumph is 2008 was also misinterpreted as an act of national atonement for the original sin of slavery and the stain of segregation.
Yet Obama did not win the election because he was a black man. It was primarily because a country facing an economic crisis and embroiled in two unpopular wars was crying out for change.
Doubtless there have been substantive reforms. His two black attorneys general, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, have revitalised the work of the justice department's civil rights division, which was dormant during the Bush years.
The Affordable Healthcare Act, or Obamacare, as it was inevitably dubbed, cut the black uninsured rate by a third.
Partly in a bid to reverse the rate of black incarceration, he has commuted the sentences of hundreds of prisoners - 10 times the number of his five predecessors added together.
As well as calling for the closure of private prisons, he became the first president to visit a federal penitentiary. "There but for the grace of God," said a man who had smoked pot and dabbled with cocaine in his youth."
You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
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David of all people you should know that deep seated racism and sexism takes decades to ease off. However I’m of the opinion that having these violated people in positions of power would help demystify them to the perpetrators of hate. The benefits of having positive role models and survivors of such people will help far more than hinder the overall aim of diminishing these vile practices. So all power to these wonderfully brave agents of change casting a huge shadow of positive change in a long held racist and sexist environment. Taking baby steps is better than being constantly pushed backwards with hurdles and rings of fire put in their path. They will never walk alone for too long without active support for their cause in our current world.David wrote:Just like having a black president reduced racism?
Don't confuse your current path with your final destination. Just because it's dark and stormy now doesn't meant that you aren't headed for glorious sunshine!
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This is pathetic even if by late postal votes and judicial miracle Biden falls over the line. The problems for the US are bad enough: division and instability, managerial and governmental incompetence, open corruption, wealth gap blowout, worsening healthcare, pretend jobs and promises that never materialise and make people even angrier, rising fascist and fundamentalist ideology, etc.
But the problems for the rest of us risk spiralling out of control:
1. Global economic suppression to pay for the idiot's mismanagement, which is an immediate loss out of our pockets, but which will continue after a vaccine (meanwhile crushing developing economies and making them less stable);
2. Emboldened crazies and populist hacks like Johnson in the UK and authoritarians like Bolsonaro and Duda, proliferating destructive decisions and bad actors;
3. A complete wrecking of global coordination, meaning Coronavirus will continue to destabilise the world in the near-term, while global warming, species loss, and fossil fuels conflict worsen; and
4. A strengthening of the position of Chinese hardliners as they leverage Trump's destructive protectionism, appalling character and flaky dabbling as cover for pretty much anything.
China's hardliners being strengthened by Trump is one thing, but the US itself is now a complete menace. It's increasingly obvious that the rest of the world needs to decouple from it and then quarantine its impact. It's a bloody nightmare of a place.
But the problems for the rest of us risk spiralling out of control:
1. Global economic suppression to pay for the idiot's mismanagement, which is an immediate loss out of our pockets, but which will continue after a vaccine (meanwhile crushing developing economies and making them less stable);
2. Emboldened crazies and populist hacks like Johnson in the UK and authoritarians like Bolsonaro and Duda, proliferating destructive decisions and bad actors;
3. A complete wrecking of global coordination, meaning Coronavirus will continue to destabilise the world in the near-term, while global warming, species loss, and fossil fuels conflict worsen; and
4. A strengthening of the position of Chinese hardliners as they leverage Trump's destructive protectionism, appalling character and flaky dabbling as cover for pretty much anything.
China's hardliners being strengthened by Trump is one thing, but the US itself is now a complete menace. It's increasingly obvious that the rest of the world needs to decouple from it and then quarantine its impact. It's a bloody nightmare of a place.
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