like half-disinterested tone. Another thing is that I spend a max 1 and half hours on here (plug-in on my browser) so I just type shyt and don't really pay attention to how it comes across.
I don't know if you replied to me last night or not, but I'm honestly the least condescending person you'll ever meet, it just doesn't translate well through text because I have a very direct but nonchalant way of saying things. If I could give you some sort of heuristic, literally everything I say is with a
Again, I only ever mentioned you were Canadian because there are somethings that you can't possibly fully get unless you've been around policymakers and watched DC work first-hand. Just like how when we were talking about Pakistan we @ alybaba. But maybe I shouldn't have said Canadian because a lot of American posters have never sat in DC and watched that wrangling either. But you're still making general statements that necessarily follow, you make unfounded assumptions. Like "a progressive supporting a republican plan" is silly. It's shyt like that makes me question you. Especially when that Republican plan you're questioning was pushed forward by JOHN CHAFFEE who as a Republican was one of the most liberal members of the Senate by any metric. One of the last Rockefeller Republicans. How else do you think he kept winning in RHODE ISLAND, the most reliably Democratic state in the country.
Come on man, you're smarter than this.
I don't know why every discussion that we have has to turn into BrokeWave's experience and formal education vs Barnone's experience and formal education instead of the substance.This is Barnone in a nutshell
I'm not even going to try and have a reasonable discussion with you breh until you get off that. Oh for the record John Chaffee voted with his party 78% of the time
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/C000269
real liberal. Stop this
Man you just called this dude one of the most Liberal senators in the senate... and when I post evidence to prove the opposite you call me a rigid ideologue, then accuse me of ad hominems? And then you characterize my arguments as vague ... of all things my arguments are vague
I don't think you understand what it means to be a Liberal friend. He is a fiscal conservative, which is the most important part of the left-right dichotomy. Being a fiscal conservative AUTOMATICALLY disqualifies you from being "one of the most liberal senators by any metric". Social issues are a distraction from the meat of what we as progressives ask government to do and that is facilitate an equitable and productive economic atmosphere. A plan which involves economics and fiscal issues by a fiscal conservative being championed by another fiscal conservative in Obama is nothing for you to be defending. Voting with your party for Obama does not make him a liberal. The Democratic party is largely not a progressive party... that is the point of this thread.
As far as me calling Obama a blue dog... OBAMA CALLED OBAMA A BLUE DOG. In his own words he said "I am a blue dog".
I think we need a referee or something... Some how I think you're over there looking at your screen like "AH HA THIS GUY BROKE HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT" and I don't think anyone else thinks that... so stop acting like I come across foolish... please @ one person who disagrees or agrees with me and ask them if I come across misinformed. Not ONE person would say that.
This is what we MUST CHANGE in our community.
Very true. I just got finished reading a book on passing down family wealth. He says that weak family structures is what causes bitter fights over inheritances.
I'm looking at my family and we are lacking in a number of these departments, even though we aren't rich...yet.
A lot of this is what is wrong in our community.
1. He says without a strong matriarch AT HOME tending to the children, you aren't likely to raise productive and emotionally healthy adults. The man should work, ideally. Someone HAS to stay at home.
- Most black children are being raised by 1 parent and that one parent doesn't have the time to pay attention to the diverse needs of the children as they grow.
2. Human Capital - "It is the matriarch who builds the family. She develops its human capital. This is the family's most valuable resource. A family with members who are capable of building and preserving wealth will always be able to rebuild if something goes wrong."
- We lack human capital as a race. We have to stop depending on government schools only to educate black kids, most urban schools do a poor job. The education establishment isn't likely to equally educate black kids to eventually compete with white kids in the workplace.
3. Family Culture - a set of beliefs, a mission, a history, holidays, traditions and celebrations. Families need a common narrative about who they are, where they come from, and what they are doing.
- This goes back to what you were saying about our lacking a cultural bond. I had to go ask my father to tell me about our family history and he went
4. Family Values - thrift, frugality, underconsumption, delayed gratification are necessary values to hold on to wealth.
- We lack all of the above in the black community. We don't want to be cheap. We want to buy Jordans and Jerseys.
5. Family Business, family hobbies, education goals, marriage, family motto and crest, family traditions and rituals, family properties, family investments, family constitution, fighting addictions and troublesome behavior, etc.
We lack everything and we don't even know it. The government WILL NOT help you gain any of the above. It must be apart of your CULTURE.
I knew twism would be 
over this post...
at living in a generation, where a D- average is acceptable, while not acknowledging how hard our ancestors worked under "real" dire circumstances...
Honestly, all information, in the post above should be common sense.
