What does a BIDEN Presidency look like?

[Valmy]

The only black USSC Justice on the court was nominated by a Republican.

Sure. And Republicans passed the 13th Amendment. But that is all ancient history now. If GHW Bush was still representative of the modern party I would feel very differently about it.

Ben Carson was briefly ahead in the polls in 2016, before people found out he was crazy.

Yeah with like 18% or something. And I dispute the notion that was before his positions were known or that his quick collapse were due to that.

[Berkut]

The only black USSC Justice on the court was nominated by a Republican.

Can you expand on what your point is here?

Clarence Thomas is so radically right wing that he isn't even taken seriously by other conservative judges.

Are you seriously arguing that because the GOP found a insanely right wing black person to park on the USSC, that means....what exactly, about their position on race and racial equality?

How should we balance that, for example, with the GOP's war on CRT?

[viper37]

edit: fuck off with trying to equate the racists in the GOP with people with mental disabilities. You know exactly what the insult was intended to convey.

you are equating people with mental disabilities to Republicans.  It is extremely insulting for the disabled people.

[crazy canuck]

edit: fuck off with trying to equate the racists in the GOP with people with mental disabilities. You know exactly what the insult was intended to convey.

you are equating people with mental disabilities to Republicans.  It is extremely insulting for the disabled people.

I agree.  disabled people do not share the characteristic of being unprincipled despicable human beings, unlike the modern day GOP.

[garbon]

edit: fuck off with trying to equate the racists in the GOP with people with mental disabilities. You know exactly what the insult was intended to convey.

you are equating people with mental disabilities to Republicans.  It is extremely insulting for the disabled people.

I agree.  disabled people do not share the characteristic of being unprincipled despicable human beings, unlike the modern day GOP.

Great but GOPtard as an insult has retard as its root. And that term isn't really something thst sensible people use as an insult.

[Eddie Teach]

This argument is retarded.

[crazy canuck]

edit: fuck off with trying to equate the racists in the GOP with people with mental disabilities. You know exactly what the insult was intended to convey.

you are equating people with mental disabilities to Republicans.  It is extremely insulting for the disabled people.

I agree.  disabled people do not share the characteristic of being unprincipled despicable human beings, unlike the modern day GOP.

Great but GOPtard as an insult has retard as its root. And that term isn't really something thst sensible people use as an insult.

You are right.  I will stop using that term.

[OttoVonBismarck]

I see this forum has gone full woke.

[Jacob]

I see this forum has gone full woke.

I think we still have a few holdouts.

[Barrister]

I see this forum has gone full woke.

I'm half-woke at best.

[Habbaku]

I'm still pretty sleepy.

[DGuller]

I wonder, what does it take to count as being woke?  Let's say you're saying something that you feel is deeply stupid, but you're saying it because that's the only socially acceptable thing to say in your environment.  Does that make you woke?  Or do you have to be a true believer?

[Jacob]

I wonder, what does it take to count as being woke?  Let's say you're saying something that you feel is deeply stupid, but you're saying it because that's the only socially acceptable thing to say in your environment.  Does that make you woke?  Or do you have to be a true believer?

In my observation you can be dismissed as being too woke if your opinions are to the left of the speaker in matters related to the greater American culture war.

So in the case you outline, yes that makes you woke in the eyes of of those who refuse to mouth those platitudes in your environment (or who are from an environment where they are not under pressure to do so). Conversely, you will not be deemed woke by those who sincerely subscribe to the opinions you are merely mouthing (assuming they even clue into the fact that you don't actually believe what you're saying).

[garbon]

I see this forum has gone full woke.

No, I think our transgender megathread prevents us from collecting any woke badges.

[The Brain]

I wonder, what does it take to count as being woke?  Let's say you're saying something that you feel is deeply stupid, but you're saying it because that's the only socially acceptable thing to say in your environment.  Does that make you woke?  Or do you have to be a true believer?

You are what you do. Not what you think you are.