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1 minute ago, JDHillFan said:

uhhh…..

people of color=colored people.  perfectly acceptable terminology.  just left the WW2 national museum. echoes of racial purity for trump's America.  seems as a species, we've learned little.  A sobering experience.

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3 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:

people of color=colored people.  perfectly acceptable terminology.  just left the WW2 national museum. echoes of racial purity for trump's America.  seems as a species, we've learned little.  A sobering experience.

This congresswoman of color disagrees but I guess an old white fart like yourself knows better. 
 

looking forward to hearing more about what you are up to this weekend. I’m sure it’s fascinating. 
 

 

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On 8/16/2023 at 9:16 PM, Joe Ferguson forever said:

not defensive at all.  Clarence Thomas is an Uncle Tom.  That term is not racist when appropriately and accurately applied.

I forget that you are an authority on such matters. 

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9 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:

This congresswoman of color disagrees but I guess an old white fart like yourself knows better. 
 

looking forward to hearing more about what you are up to this weekend. I’m sure it’s fascinating. 
 

 

it's complicated...my feeling is if one is referring only to Africans, it is often considered derogatory.  If applied to all nonwhites, it's a descriptive acceptable term.  But I'm surprised that you take issue....

https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/08/colored-person-versus-person-of-color-how-does-society-decide-which-racial-terms-are-acceptable.html

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2 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:

it's complicated...my feeling is if one is referring only to Africans, it is often considered derogatory.  If applied to all nonwhites, it's a descriptive acceptable term.  But I'm surprised that you take issue....

https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/08/colored-person-versus-person-of-color-how-does-society-decide-which-racial-terms-are-acceptable.html

As an old white fart what you feel is what’s important so please carry on. You don’t have to defend yourself here. 

 

You should try to educate the congresswoman. 

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Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion when it was worth half that

 

He cut 80% of the workforce that was not doing anything useful,

unwavering against angry cries.

 

He used the data to create xAI, which is now valued at $75 billion.

 

X is now sustainably profitable for the first time, raising money

recently at a $44 billion valuation — but this time it’s actually worth that

, and has a 25% stake in xAI.

 

Through his acquisition, he unseated the President of the United

States of America.

He changed the lives of X creators by introducing revenue share.

 

Everyone laughed at him, mocked him, and attacked him for this acquisition.

 

Look how it’s turned out so far. Now he wants to apply this formula

to the federal government, and you ***** idiots want to murder him?

 

You want to kill America’s leading clean energy and technology company?

 

You prefer the status quo of multi trillion dollar deficits?

 

You prefer spending more on INTEREST on the national debt than

we do on national defense?

 

You realize that the federal government ran fine in the past without

multi trillion dollar deficits right?

 

We used to actually have a budget surplus.

 

How did something Democrats used to support under Obama and

Clinton turn into something that makes Democrats want to

start a terror campaign? 

 

This is why we can’t have nice things.

 

God bless the DOGE team for trying to do what’s right for

our children and grandchildren in the face of so much hatred.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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52 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

 

Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion when it was worth half that

 

He cut 80% of the workforce that was not doing anything useful,

unwavering against angry cries.

 

He used the data to create xAI, which is now valued at $75 billion.

 

X is now sustainably profitable for the first time, raising money

recently at a $44 billion valuation — but this time it’s actually worth that

, and has a 25% stake in xAI.

 

Through his acquisition, he unseated the President of the United

States of America.

He changed the lives of X creators by introducing revenue share.

 

Everyone laughed at him, mocked him, and attacked him for this acquisition.

 

Look how it’s turned out so far. Now he wants to apply this formula

to the federal government, and you ***** idiots want to murder him?

 

You want to kill America’s leading clean energy and technology company?

 

You prefer the status quo of multi trillion dollar deficits?

 

You prefer spending more on INTEREST on the national debt than

we do on national defense?

 

You realize that the federal government ran fine in the past without

multi trillion dollar deficits right?

 

We used to actually have a budget surplus.

 

How did something Democrats used to support under Obama and

Clinton turn into something that makes Democrats want to

start a terror campaign? 

 

This is why we can’t have nice things.

 

God bless the DOGE team for trying to do what’s right for

our children and grandchildren in the face of so much hatred.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We did NOT have true budget surpluses.  ONLY by including FICA revenues as general revenue was there a surplus.  And those have ALWAYS been earmarked to be spent as payments to retired workers since they day the government collected them.

 

The national debt increased in those years that we had "surpluses" while 42 was in office.

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1 hour ago, Taro T said:

 

We did NOT have true budget surpluses.  ONLY by including FICA revenues as general revenue was there a surplus.  And those have ALWAYS been earmarked to be spent as payments to retired workers since they day the government collected them.

 

The national debt increased in those years that we had "surpluses" while 42 was in office.

 

 

This is true, but it was hardly the point of the post about Elon.

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Just now, B-Man said:

 

 

This is true, but it was hardly the point of the post about Elon.

 

Didn't say it was the point of the post.  But that claim that there were "surpluses in the late 90's" is a personal pet peeve.

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