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  1. Now apply that to teachers who teach the civil war, civil rights, klan, or anything related. You better watch what you say or you will get fired. And if the books teach something wrong as in my example of the Texas revolution? You get fired for saying anything other than what is in the books. They also are adding emphasis on the evil of communism in curriculums. Why not include fascism too? As I said before, it was under fascist rule that committed the greatest evil.
  2. Less funding for black schools, communities, infrastructure like having lead in water, gerrymandering, policing (discriminatory suspicion laws), prison system, healthcare, and driving while black (sarcasm). I'm not about to write a whole essay as it's for awareness. I see where you are coming from and many times it is individual actions that penalize blacks and makes systems look bad. But colored communities are always underfunded in many different areas as compared to white communities. And this happens even in democratic cities and states. But at least democrats acknowledge it and there have been attempts to equalize the gap only to be struck down by the GOP. It is engrained across both party lines no one thing will change systemic racism. It needs to include everything from education to housing and everything in between. Equal opportunity starts in grade school which are underfunded in black communities. Then discrimination laws and individual racism gets minorities arrested more including underage victims. Then they have a record before being 18 years old in many instances. And harsher punishments, first by individual judges, then by a prison system that is funded by the number of inmates, who are mostly colored. Then as they progress in life, they have to worry about healthcare. That has many instances of individual racism, but the rates tend to be higher for minorities for many different reasons. And even during this pandemic, more white communities got the funding and care needed under trump during its peak. But the racism is engrained so deeply, you can't just pin point one cause and then say blacks have all equal opportunity. Cause they don't. They can move and get a house right? What loans? They can go to college right? Sure, and work 2 jobs at the same time. They can look for a job right? Yeah good luck after that criminal record. They got health insurance right? Yeah but just don't get sick cause you won't afford out of pocket pay. You have a strong case that it is individuals messing it all up. But it is both individuals and institutions. But when it is systemic problems from an early age, and then given equal opportunity in college, that's like an innocent man getting out of prison, then out in the world he is expected to find that great job and be successful like everyone else. Cause that is the American dream with equal opportunity. And if you are poor, you are just lazy. If you protest, you need to go get a job. If you kneel, you hate the military and freedom. If you terrorize the capital, you are a patriot.
  3. He says the bill won't even hold up in court because it's against our rights to have to survey our beliefs at colleges. BUT...last I heard, republicans have more judges in Florida and more supreme court justices. Laws now, are determined not by the constitution and a balanced court system, but by a right wing majority. It all comes down to individuals who have the responsibility to protect the constitution and their oaths. Republicans have thrown both out the window, so everything is now possible in the courts. He also says something I completely agree with and everyone should know. Republicans constantly accuse democrats of doing things that republicans actually do themselves. That is called projection. And we can go on and on about republicans accusing democrats of projection. Again, it is all in the bills as proof of what republicans do. Proof is in the bills. Proof is in the bills. Proof is in the bills. Proof is in the bills. Proof is in the bills. Proof is in the bills. And he also makes a good point that the governor probably doesn't care if the courts reject it or not. But the point was to push it out there and convince stupid republicans so that he gets the hate vote when running for president. Is he gonna run? Probably so. And his only intention is to fulfill the nazi base wishes. The wackier you are, the base loves you. They have no end in sight. They will push nazi ideals in every possible way little by little to see how far they can go. See what they can get away with. Then push some more. Republicans have absolutely nothing to lose. Why not push the nazi agenda? If they lose elections, they know they fall back on democracy. They have free reign to do whatever they want. What is their opposition gonna do? There is no threat. There is no fear of losing rights. Republicans know that. At least the politicians do. The nazi push won't end as long as they have no fear of consequences from the other side. What are democrats supposed to do? What can they do except uphold the constitution. How do you fight a political fight when one side upholds the constitution and equal rights, while the other is out to destroy democracy and are pro dictatorship? If you don't agree that the real indoctrination is surveying colleges on what they believe and can be penalized by not receiving funds due to the results of the survey, then you might be a nazi or at least a nazi sympathizer.
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  5. I would have to go with someone with a lot of muscle in the world to break us out from the outside. Yep, Joker. Why would Joker help me? Cause I made him my bitch. He earned me some extra desserts on the cell corner.
  6. There was a RDR remaster in the works. I don't know the news on it anymore. I can't think of another good game that needs a remaster that doesn't already have one.
  7. That's cool!!! Do you have some games lined up? What are you gonna play first???
  8. Yeah, I didn't know Horizon Zero Dawn had a photo mode. I'm going through the whole game again just to use the tool. And it has really changed the experience.
  9. I agree, fear is a very strange thing. I love water slides, but rollercoasters are one of the evil sins of the world.
  10. I'm terrified of roller coasters, but in Oculus VR the roller coaster games are real fun. I like riding around on horses. In real life, how are they not eating their own nuts. They must have serious leg strength to not bounce on their junk like a pogo ball.
  11. Bury me with my treasures, my crystals and gems, so that people in the future find my bones and think I was a pharaoh or something. 😀 And if there is an after life or reincarnation, my stones will protect me, guide me, and bless me for the next life. Shoot, maybe I was reincarnated. That’s why I’m so connected to my rocks. Sure didn’t protect me much. And if a grave robber takes my stuff, I’ll become awakened and start haunting. I will live forever either way. Or maybe my bones will mix with the rocks and form new specimens in a million years. An alien will see my partial bone as a fossil embedded in quartz and pyrite. The alien beings will place me in a museum and say I was a super valuable being. They will research my DNA and try to place me together only to find I’m mixed with every continent. They will think I’m godlike and created all humans. WTF hahaha.
  12. I’ve got like 400 hours in Odyssey and still got half the map left. Trying to finish AC2 and Black Flag. Syndicate is pretty good. I like the London atmosphere. And I also have Origins and Valhalla I’ve been playing which are bad ass. I don’t have Unity or AC1. I really want Unity though. I just think about which location I want to explore and play that game.
  13. That view where a good guy with a gun will stop a bad guy with a gun is somewhat flawed. A good samaritan with a gun killed a man that went on a shooting spree. What's wrong with that? Nothing, until a cop arrived on the scene and shot and killed the good samaritan. https://nypost.com/2021/06/26/man-who-shot-colorado-gunman-was-mistaken-by-police-to-be-killer/
  14. How's it going? I'm a big fan of Assassin's Creed games. I've got 6 of their games on my console. They changed the save feature where you can manually save it at any time in Odyssey and Valhalla. A game needs to be user friendly up front. There are great games out there that I don't really enjoy as much because I don't feel I can jump right in and just play. Exploration and scenery is very important to catch my interest. Next for me is story. But the scenery and story kind of go hand in hand. Imagine a comic book with little lousy pictures.
  15. It's a painful world and the little creatures have taken enough suffering because of humans. But it won't end. It even teaches in the bible that man has dominion over animals. The way I see it, we have a responsibility to treat them fair. We don't have dominion over anything but ourselves, and sometimes not even then. Dominion doesn't equal abuse. Dominion equals responsibility.
  16. When Harvey hit Texas, a lot of livestock didn't make it. There were a lot of wild pigs laying about. Farmers lost entire livestock. And the thing that hurts me the most is that animal shelters and clinics abandoned the animals there when it flooded. It was their duty to protect them and they had warning time. I hope it eats their conscious.
  17. Damn, I hope it's just a summer bug. Meantime, isolate yourself from family.
  18. Just look at consoles from 20 years ago in the early 2000's and see how much has changed since. How far can graphics go? Imagine real life looking characters or maybe even have a character that looks like yourself. Frame speeds will be super high so I can expect high action packed games. I don't know what I would want because I'm pretty happy with current games I have. All games should have what Assassin's Creed games have such as having a bird fly over the entire map area and see everything. And make it even better so as to get real close to things, control speed, or zoom through valleys and have lots of great AI wildlife as if you were an actual bird. Or fly a dragon or something. Every game needs it. Blood and guts should look real as if videos were taken from an actual war scene or morgue. I hope open world games get more dialog time and cut scenes in main stories. It's sorely lacking. Witcher 3 had some really great scenes in its story for an open world. But I'm talking long 5 min scenes, then gameplay, then another good scene. That is immersive as hell. And then interact in the scenes so you won't get bored. Game systems need included major gb upgrades since I imagine these games will get big.
  19. If I was an invader to another country, I would step in to save an enemy from torture or execution. If a foreign invader was on my soil, I would allow their execution but not torture. If my own countrymen brought civil war and wanted to overthrow elected government, genocide people of color, and complete tyranny, I would torture the fuck out of an enemy. Someone else would have to save them from me. I won't hold back one bit and I expect they won't either.
  20. I would risk my life to save a pet, but I know if I die then the pet is as good as dead too. And if I had other pets to care for, I wouldn't die for just one. If I was in Africa and saw a poacher, I'd accidentally shoot him and hurry and fly back. Maybe it's legal to kill poachers, I don't know. If I were elected I would make it legal.
  21. Those social and economic realities are a part of systemic racism. Gerrymandering is a big one and while both parties do it, republicans draw out county lines to deliberately leave out communities of color so that their votes are not represented by as many electoral college members, making their vote weaker. Their gerrymandering lines are literally zigzagging in some places to leave them out. Since democrats are more diverse and also have white voters, their gerrymandering lines are not as dramatic. Laws have been passed in some states to stop anyone who looks suspicious and check for their citizenship status or papers. That is blatant discrimination. Even some police departments meet a quota to single out and arrest blacks and Hispanics. More minorities go to jail and get longer prison sentences instead of a warning. The Jan 6 attack had it's first conviction and the person gets probation and no jail time. If they were black...you can imagine. They probably won't be alive. Protestors are treated very differently if they are black. A black undercover agent at a BLM protest was beat by cops and one cop was sentenced to jail and also tampered with evidence. Minorities are less likely to get loans for a house. Obama passed a nondiscriminatory law to help them get loans for homes and trump ended it. Black farmers barely got any government assistance during the pandemic and the failed China trade war. Biden has passed a bill to help the black farmers and even now the white farmers are suing and saying it is a racist bill. There have been at least 3 bailouts farmers have gotten now and black farmers barely got any help. I guess they should have sued trump for his racist policy. Education and healthcare also have systemic racism. Black schools are way underfunded and healthcare insurance goes up with minorities and treated differently. That whole system is pretty bad. Black communities even had to deal with toxic lead in their water while a white republican governor tried to cover it up. And don't tell me the same thing would happen if it was a white community. There is very little black or Hispanic representation in corporate boards. And since corporations lobby, then they are a political entity. Systemic racism is seen through so many areas of life. I grew up most of my life in white dominant areas and white schools. Even though I have some understanding now, I'm still ignorant to other aspects how systemic racism affects people of color. But this is something this country has to fight and I don't expect you to see it or care just like many people in this country. Information is there on the web if you want to do a bit of research and learn about these things. And at the hands of republicans things are getting worse. How bad do things have to get before everyone acknowledges the serious racist threat to democracy? Systemic racism has been bad before, but it's going to get worse. I wonder at what point you and others stop and realize your talking points are dangerous. Or maybe you already know.
  22. It's ok if they are funny. Not so much as if you were two bored people on the phone and the voice becomes bathroom mumbling
  23. The best damn DLC out there is Ghost of Tsushima Legends and it is free.
  24. I think five years ago. There is a big one an hour drive from me. They even have standard size pool tables/billiards room. It's real fun there and time to go again.
  25. History obviously can’t be changed, but textbooks can. So if history teachers are teaching something race related like the civil war, holocaust, civil rights era, just to name a few, and if they say something outside of text, they can lose their job. You tell me that isn’t indoctrination. The Texas revolution is a very good example how history is completely whitewashed. I had to learn about it when I moved to Texas. And books are very different to what actually happened. Texans completely demean Mexicans and paint them as savages and that Texans had to fight for independence as if they were subjugated in some way. But the reality is that before Texas became a state, it belonged to Mexico and more and more whites moved to Texas populating the territory and brought their slaves with them. Mexico didn’t allow slavery and had the right to defend their territory, long story short. So now, if a teacher said anything other than the false or biased claims in texts, they can be fired or fined. Along with the new bills, they are changing the curriculum to teach communism and totalitarian governments are evil. But the way I see it, if they call out one political belief, they need to mention all of them including fascism. Because from what we all remember is that it was under the fascists that committed the greatest evil. So why not directly call out fascism as evil? But focus instead on communism and socialism. And what does totalitarian governments entail? That’s what fascism is so call it out directly as they do communism. So you can see, probably not, that things like this gets ugly and our teachers shouldn’t have to be afraid of what to say because of republican indoctrination. I mean, why even have a teacher if you can’t say anything outside of text. Just give them a book to read. Teaching becomes redundant.
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