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He used to. I haven’t seen any evidence of it for years.

Yep. RBG was a progressive icon because she cared about the rights of others. Rush was a conservative icon because he was angry at the people they hate. That's exactly the point. Except.... every single time something like this happens we hear 'Democrats would have done the same if...' but every single time it is an example of things the Republicans have actually done. Republicans engage in the most widespread gerrymandering. Republicans engage in armed voter intimidation. Republicans rewrite the rules of postal voting and ID laws to suppress the most votes possible from unfavourable groups. Republicans refused to hear one nomination for over a year and rammed another through in less than a month. Sooner or later anyone with the slightest grip on reality has to realise that when you only ever hear people saying 'Democrats would have done this if...' then maybe it's just not true. Because that's the thing - the truth does not always lie in between two opposing groups or viewpoints. Sometimes one viewpoint is simply wrong, and sometimes one group is simply more amoral, more selfish and more concerned with excercising power instead of respecting the norms of good government than the other.

How about you read the part of my post where I directly addressed the thing you just underlined? I can't be bothered to repeat it just because you can't be bothered to pay attention. I certainly haven't served in yours. But the people who have actually studied the problem instead of just relying on their own anecdotal experience and who have concluded that the Army does still suffer from institutional discrimination, have served in the military. What I have or have not done is irrelevant, the information still exists independently of my life choices. (Now will you use this as another opportunity to attack and pivot, or will you talk about the issues for once?)

So you do not view it as an insult?

No shit Sherlock. Lefties like doing things to help slow the spread of a pandemic. Righties like howling 'freedom!' and giving science the middle finger. What a stellar observation.

Biden couldn't draw a crowd to a rally? What are you talking about? Biden didn't hold any rallies. He was intelligent enough not to want to bring tens of thousands of people together in close proximity during a pandemic. But talking of popularity numbers, you're surprised that the guy who consistently polled ahead throughout the course of the entire campaign, against an incumbent with record low approval ratings, won by a margin very close to what was expected to happen? I mean, it's not the greatest uset of all time, is it?

That is quite an outrageous troll even for a seasoned pro like yourself. First, I would consider that comparison to be dancing on RBGs grave. To compare someone who spent her career working for equality and justice to an overt racist who spent his entire career just trying to make money from conservatives by insulting liberals? What the hell kind of comparison is that? Second, when Ginsburg died Republicans won. Through pure hypocrisy and the shameless application of political power in defiance of what they themselves recognised as the will of the people the right got exactly what they wanted, a hard right swing to an already right leaning court presiding over a nation which, on the whole, does not share those ideals. That is their celebration of her death. Lefties dont win anything from Limbaugh dying except the feeling that, on the whole, it's better that he's gone.

is that a Qanon poster? Sometimes you need to be careful who you're agreeing with.

So explain to me, in your own words, why that is bad.

Apparently not interested enough to do the 10 seconds of googling it would take to find them.

Hereby proving that you don't read what people wrote. The military itself admitting that systemic disparities in how different races are treated exist within its institutions, including its internal justice system, cannot possibly be defined as any kind of exception. Sure they're trying. But they quite obviously have not yet come close to fully succeeding. And while the everyday experience of life in the Army is not yet the same for black and white soldiers across the board, the claim that the only colour in the Army is green is insane.

Great advice for youself, do better! Saying I don't read what people write is an outright lie, and you know it. You, on the other hand, I cannot remember the last time you even attempted to defend a point you made here. At the first hint of contradiction you simply attack the person responding to you without even touching the topic at hand. QED. I don't know when you became too sensitive to handle any form of criticism but I know you used to be better than this.

Once again, how convenient that admitting that there is a problem generated and perpetuated by people who look like you, would somehow be even more damaging for the people who don't look like you. Interesting one. Alabama, for example, elected 3 black Congressmen within a decade of the civil war. It took well over 100 years to elect another, and there have still only been another 3 in the last 30 years. While I'm sure that unrepentant racists would like to claim that black people as a whole must have simply lost interest in pursuing the self determination of their place in society, but I'm pretty sure that anyone with a clue would recognise the lasting effect of decades of Jim Crow laws, and decades of further systemic racism including nationally co-ordinated armed voter suppression and extreme gerrymandering by the Republican party.

Population density. How many people live in mega-cities in California and how many in Oklahoma? You can go about your normal day in the rural midwest and still see far fewer people than you would while going food shopping in lockdown LA. Oh, you noticed that? So how come you're not confused about why our curve isn't flatter than Florida's, because shouldn't we have more herd immunity than they do by now? After all, comparitive case rates can be skewed by testing rates, but death are deaths. Nah, you're far too dishonest to ever admit that doesn't make sense.

Who do you think you're fooling when you just make shit up? The top of Florida's curve in early January was an almost indentical if slightly better per capita infection rate to the UK. Where's your herd immunity there? The infection rate in the UK now is significantly lower than the Florida infection rate, similarly UK deaths are trending sharply down since mid January and Florida deaths are holding steady. BTW, the UK government is manifestly anti-lockdown. At the beginning of the pandemic they pushed the same lunatic 'herd immunity' strategy as you are still clinging to now. Partly as a result, when they finally took concrete steps to minimise infections we were firmly established as one of the deadliest countries in Europe. They only decided to implement each lockdown when it became clear that there was no alternative, each time it was an embarrassing political climbdown and each time it's clear in the numbers that it worked - unless you know of some stunningly well timed coincidental factors that suddenly cropped up on all three occasions?

How convenient that progress requires never admitting that anyone who looks like you did anything to create the current situation, and maintaining that all the problems are due to people who look like them.

You are insane. Air Force investigation finds disparities in how Black and White members are treated A racial reckoning arrived at West Point, where being black is a ‘beautifully painful experience’ Military leaders promise to address systemic racial disparities in the military justice system As he tackles extremism, Lloyd Austin draws on military’s experience dealing with 1995 racially motivated murders "“We woke up one day and discovered that we had extremist elements in our ranks, and they did bad things that we certainly held them accountable for,” Austin said. “But we discovered that the signs for that activity were there all along. We just didn’t know what to look for or what to pay attention to..." George Reed, who commanded the Army criminal investigation unit at Fort Bragg shortly after the incident, said some commanders had detected neo-Nazi ideology on the base before the incident but, as was common across the Army, they had hoped that military culture and values would ultimately counteract toxic ideas."

Remember when OAN articles were just verbatim 'The President said...' quotes of Trump and his cronies? Ron said he liked them then because they just reported the facts with no opinion. Call me crazy but I might have spotted just a hint of opinion creeping its way in.

It doesn't. It really, really doesn't. Where is Florida's halving of cases from mid November to early December? Where is Florida's 2/3rds reduction from early January to today? Again, this persona of yours - is it supposed to oblivious or perfidious?

Holy shit Ron - how radically far right do you have to be to view the Boogaloo Bois as leftists? Meanwhile, opening defense leaves Republicans saying 'what the heck was all that nonsense about?' https://time.com/5937941/republican-senators-trump-defense-impeachment/

This is a graph of daily cases in the UK. On the 5th of November we started a 1 month lockdown. On the 6th of January we started a lockdown we are still in. If I'd asked you to guess when those lockdowns occurred just by looking at the graph do you think you'd have been able to get it approximately right, or is the effect just too damn subtle to notice?

What do you think makes all those black fathers leave their children? Does it happen in a vacuum? Are there no external factors that created this self-perpetuating situation? Is it just what black people do, no matter what?

As a general rule, education is supposed to come from books. I know you prefer the truthiness of what you feel in your gut, but it's not a good source.

Lol So again I ask, I know you said you intentionally make your online persona appear really spiky, but why do you want to make it appear so stupid?

Right. Smollett's lawyers get him a sweet plea deal over filing a false police report, and Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers got him a sweet plea deal over being a serial child rapist and sex trafficker. Who's more privileged?