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No, it doesn't. It just means you were playing the game on an easier setting. People can still win the game if they work hard enough. It's just a lot harder if your race (or gender, or sexual orientation, or religion) sets the difficulty to "hard." I had several benefits when I was born based purely on what race I was, what gender I was, where I was born, who my parents were, what my genetics were and what sexual orientation was. I did not squander those benefits and worked hard to get where I am now. But it was absolutely easier for me than for someone who was born black in the US, or born in Nigeria, or born to drug addicted parents, or born with a cleft palate.

Bullshit. You can work hard, achieve success AND understand you may have had some help/luck/privilege along the way. It isn't a zero sum game.

It would be great if people got as incensed over the tens of thousands of gun deaths each year as they do over actors kissing on TV. Old White Man.

And....you can work hard and still not have success. Don't pat yourself on the back too hard airdvr. Yes you worked, but you also didn't start from nothing.

Discussion on the Facebook group about maps. Why would pilots need maps? Wouldn’t they have some for their area? And if they didn’t, then what area did Cooper request?

Thats not entirely true. The Committee of Soldiers' Mothers, a Russian group of service members mothers. Was a powerful force in ending the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. As casualties mount in Ukraine they will be a strong voice for service members. Its true that the lack of a free objective press. Together with oppression of opposition to any war. Leads to the acceptance of somewhat cheaper lives. As a side note: "Ever since Russia's wars in Chechnya, the country has allegedly attempted to extort some of its own soldiers for money, according to a Russian human rights activist. Valentina Melnikova, the executive secretary of the Union of Committees of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia, told the independent news site Meduza in an interview that her organization has received complaints of Russian soldiers being asked to pay for weapons and other equipment they lost in battle. The Union of Committees of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia advocates for soldiers' rights and attempts to help servicemen who have been hit with these alleged extortion attempts."

Simple: we liberals are a bunch of fuck-ups on a never ending quest to spread our sense of good. No matter if a bus is coming fast, there is always time to stop and pick-up a piece of litter.

I'm guessing mass transit will never reach any DZs. Mass transit is only viable in heavily populated urban areas. It will never be a solution outside of them.

It's been sad and scary since November of 2016. It hasn't been funny at all, even though there have been a lot of jokes about it. What's probably the scariest (at least to me) about the Jan 6 insurrection attempt is how many people are dismissing it, ignoring it, pretending it didn't happen, pretending it wasn't serious, all that. As I've said a bunch of times, it would have been very interesting to see what would have happened had the mob gotten their hands on Pence.