"Now that law doesn't matter"

You mean ICE detaining people without any probable cause?

Yeah I agree with #21. How do you not get this conviction?

Donald Trump must enjoy fingering her or something, there's no merit based explanation for why she has the job.

The big loser in all this is Iceland.

This might play out like when police raid the wrong home, realize it halfway through, then go ahead and shoot the black people anyway. Just on an international level.

They say success breeds success. Maybe that's the difference. Without role models, a lot of people just flounder.
#212 | Posted by BillJohnson

Yep. This is also why representation is so important, especially for children.

Think about it, a century ago, your child's representation of who they saw as heroes and such was almost entirely controlled, gate-kept even, by the parents and perhaps whatever church they attended. So the problem of being a black child and seeing black people mostly indicated as criminals on TV wasn't even a concern, before TV was being broadcast into our homes.

It's a completely different world now. Parents didn't grow up in a world with infinity TV channels and the Internet.

You can understand how people get fucked in the head and end up falling in with Trump.

BillJohnson, I work in biotech. If I had thought about it a little more, I might have steered towards a field without such pronounced ups and downs. Then again I don't think I'd be happy in a field like banking. Too boring.

Planned Demolition or Sheer Incompetence?

I truly believe it's both.

I don't pay much attention to what the media corps are up to. Last time I may have cared was when Letterman went to CBS; a coup at the time. Now, CBS is shuttering their Late Show entirely because it was mean to Trump.

They are absolutely trying to be the mouthpiece for Trump.

They just suck at it because they're horrible people with no friends and no social skills that nobody wants to be around.

"ICE assert sweeping power to enter homes without warrant"

Aww, that's a shame.

The light of the Constitution being burned is so bright, it's scaring the Republican cockroaches away.

Do you live pay check to pay check? If no, then why?
#208 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Not anymore.
Because I went back to school and got a job in the top 20% tier of the economy.
You must be one of those big believers in the 80-20 Rule and take it to Social Darwinism extremes.

Really, no assets? Seems unlikely. You're talking about a spendthrift, not a person in danger of being homeless if the bus they're on breaks down on their way to work and they get fired by some petty manager for coming in late.

People living pay check to paycheck are doing so because they don't want to cut frivolous spending out or they just simply made mad choices that they cant get out of in the short term.
#181 | Posted by lfthndthrds

When was the last time you knew a person living paycheck to paycheck?

How old were they when they died?

The financial health of a family or even the government isn't determined by actions today but is usually determined by decisions made over many years.
#190 | Posted by BillJohnson

Except you deny that's what happened, when we say that explains why blacks are so much poorer than whites. (Decisions like Slavery and Jim Crow made over many years.)

When it's time for that conversation, blacks are poor because blacks make Bad Decisions.

You don't have to imagine them.

Just go to Walmart and talk to them.