Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Valmy]

I bet Reagan was delighted when Nixon became Red China's best buddy the very next year then.

[Eddie Teach]

They will once you explain to them how to make money off it.

Well you provide money for mental health services and then people who provide mental health services will get paid.

That doesn't explain how either the government or individual Congress members make money off it.

[Razgovory]

I bet Reagan was delighted when Nixon became Red China's best buddy the very next year then.

I don't know, maybe he called up Nixon to tell him a racist joke about it.

[Oexmelin]

They busy today.

Um the 80s were not this big racist era they think it was. I was there.

Were you in a position to assess the level of racism?

[Valmy]

They busy today.

Um the 80s were not this big racist era they think it was. I was there.

Were you in a position to assess the level of racism?

A good enough position to know that calling black people animals publicly was not acceptable.

Are you implying that it was, in fact, ok what Reagan said because that was just what everybody was saying back then? I mean I remember the big deal when Howard Cosell made the monkey comment in the early 80s.

[derspiess]

Reagan said it on a private phone call to Nixon that Nixon recorded.  He didn't say it publicly.

[Valmy]

Reagan said it on a private phone call to Nixon that Nixon recorded.  He didn't say it publicly.

I am aware. But the claim was made that it was a different time and the culture just accepted that kind of thing being said. Counter to that claim, I am sure both Nixon and Reagan were aware that kind of joke was not going to fly in the culture generally.

[Oexmelin]

A good enough position to know that calling black people animals publicly was not acceptable.
Are you implying that it was, in fact, ok what Reagan said because that was just what everybody was saying back then? I mean I remember the big deal when Howard Cosell made the monkey comment in the early 80s.

My bad. I misunderstood  what your comment referenced.

[Zanza]

Lines show development of mortality per 100000 between 45-54 years of age. Red line is "white Americans".

[Valmy]

Yeah that has been a thing for awhile. I think the meth and opoid epidemic are typically pointed to as the culprit. But we also have stress and bad health care and obesity and all that.

[Razgovory]

Why does this "you can't outlaw evil/criminals don't obey the law" sort of thing never apply to anything besides civilian firearms withing the US?  I've never seen someone say that we shouldn't be trying to prevent the Iranians from building nuclear weapons and instead work on promoting more prayer in the Iranian education system.

[The Minsky Moment]

We shouldn't have criminal law either. Laws against murder don't stop people from committing murder.  It goes without saying we shouldn't bother with immigration laws, because illegal immigrants will ignore them.

[Duque de Bragança]

Lines show development of mortality per 100000 between 45-54 years of age. Red line is "white Americans".

Does that include white Hispanics? 

[DGuller]

Lines show development of mortality per 100000 between 45-54 years of age. Red line is "white Americans".

Where is the folly?

[Syt]