So who is responsible for the actions of an AI?

It's not like it's ever going to be paid off.
#24 | POSTED BY REDIAL

Why would it be? It's paying interest in peoples' savings accounts. National debt = T-Bills and Savings Bonds. People buy them because they are the safest investments there currently are. If the national debt were eliminated, where else could money be invested that safely?

Never happen. There is not enough money on earth to cover the law suits from "alleged" VAX illnesses.

#16 | POSTED BY PHESTEROBOYLE

Do you ever get anything right?

U.S. government on the hook for COVID-19 vaccine liability

America never learns from other countries' experience. We "know better". We're Exceptional, doncha know?

"Whatever the rioters in D.C. thought they could do, there was no constitutional path that led to DJT being president beyond noon on Jan 20."

If they could prevent the certification of the vote, it would be tossed to the House where there are more red states than blue = Trump wins (1 vote per state).

Blue collar workers and agricultural workers used to reliably vote Democrat. Not any more.

#140 | POSTED BY SAMS

No, not since "forced bussing". Dems have a large reliable black constituency. What are they supposed to do, ignore them, and chase the votes of racist whites (who moved to the suburbs to avoid the blacks in the cities)? One constituency is growing, the other is diminishing. Which should you court?

It's pretty obvious that Russian agit-prop played a role in stoking that. Why can't you see it also played a role in the civil unrest related to BLM protests?
#104 | Posted by sentinel

You know, that's exactly what they said about MLK, John Lewis, and the entire Civil Rights Movement in the 60's. Claimed they were all communists. Seems as if white people think black folks are too stupid to organize a protest against oppression without "outside agitators".

and I can accept some lacking of trust of the part of blacks but the question remains how many unvaccinated blacks made that choice over Jim Crow, etc.

Distrust becomes endemic within a community -- any community. It's not necessarily a conscious explicit response to any one thing.

It's not in a vacuum. You have to also consider 400 years of lies and mistreatment. Do you not realize that all ethnicities have historical grievances? Like the Irish vis a vis Northern Ireland, or the Armenians vs the Turks, Shia vs Sunni, etc. Some of these are centuries or millennia old, but blacks should just disregard 400 years of slavery/Jim Crow in this country?

IMHO, "conservatives" don't like science because of its principle of "falsifiability". They don't like the idea that they can be proved to be wrong about anything. They also probably flunked Geometry.

they don't trust democrats. It's a sad and pathetic reality, unfortunately.
#44 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Are you under the impression that most scientists are democrats? How about a link for that? And if it is true, I wonder why, don't you?

" Tuskegee ... ..LOL"
~Eberly
I know you're trolling, but it's the equivalent of trolling in blackface. Not a good look.

#31 | POSTED BY DANFORTH

I had to explain it to Eberly on another thread. I worked (volunteer) at the Tuskegee VA Hospital when the experiment was still going on ('66-'69, it wasn't terminated until '71). I worked in the medical photography department that documented the untreated lesions. These people were allowed to suffer from progressive disease while the medical staff merely documented the course of the disease. They lied to the patients telling them that they were being given treatment. Now some blacks question whether they are getting "the real vaccine". See how that works?

America is a full to the brim toilet these days when it comes to civility. You can thank people "who tell it like it is" for the decline in polite behavior and the acceptance of boorish behavior.

#3 | POSTED BY NIXON

But to do otherwise is "Political Correctness", doncha know?

They supported Hillary, a candidate so repulsive that even Donald Trump beat her, didn't they?

Only after Faux Snooze convinced all the "deplorables" that she was the worst thing since Hitler (because "her emails"). Comey didn't help, either.

Also funny (not ha-ha) that the victims of racism and sexism are always viewed as suspect. We have to question whether they should be believed. Why is that not true for all crimes? How do we judge which victims to believe (racism and sexism are deeply embedded in these judgments)?

When it comes to discussion of racism unfortunately most white people, including the "well-meaning" ones, don't actually have a clue as to racism. They have no skin in the game (pun not intentional, just necessary). Just like most men don't have a clue about misogyny, for the same reason. You don't have to believe me, ask a woman.

I want to know the city. I'll bet it wasn't Tulsa, or Little Rock.

I've had similar experiences (as have friends and family) in Raleigh, NC, too.

Every black man I have ever known has had similar experiences. Some black women, too. A friend of mine was pulled over by cops in her Corvette. They made her get out of the car and dump her purse and sit on the ground cuffed. Then they discovered in her purse the funeral program for her father who was a prominent dentist (and could afford to buy his daughter a Corvette), indicating the attendance of Tom Bradley (Mayor of Los Angeles at the time). They let her go with an apology. The only reason they stopped her was they assumed the car was stolen.

Where were you when you experienced this?
What city(s)?

#163 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Los Angeles, in the downtown financial district. I was an IBM Systems Engineer in a Large Systems sales branch, calling on customers like Union Oil, Chevron, and Exxon Mobil. This was in the early 80's.

They are quite willing to make and/or accept blanket statements about blacks, but unwilling to do the same about whites. What's up with that? Couldn't be racism, could it?

I have stood at street corners waiting to cross only to see white drivers close their windows and lock their doors when they see me. Did I mention that I was a "professional" working for one of the biggest Fortune 500 companies and was wearing a suit and tie and carrying a briefcase? Is that why blacks including Obama and Eric Holder report being "hassled" by cops in their youth and young adulthood even when they were practicing attorneys.

Blacks would love to be judged as individuals, like white people are.

If most people support DACA then they should sign it into law. DACA en perpetua is an illegal policy.

#5 | POSTED BY SENTINEL

It is the will of the majority party. Unfortunately, under our system with the (absurd) filibuster, a minority can continually thwart the will of the majority of the country.

How can you have a "constitutional republic" where the majority is over-ruled by the minority? What justifies that?

"Don't trust" =/= "Hate"

Especially when distrust is historically justified. Whites, OTOH, have no real reason to distrust blacks.

If my 6 month old baby was shot in the head, I'd "lean" on some banger punk for the truth too.
Stop coddling people who have not yet been adjudicated and who are "innocent until proven guilty"

#6 | POSTED BY PHESTEROBOYLE

FTFY

"What reasons do minorities have to not trust the medical system?"
In 1932, the USPHS, working with the Tuskegee Institute, began a study to record the natural history of syphilis. It was originally called the "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male" (now referred to as the "USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee").
^
Stuff like that.

#40 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

It was horrible! I did volunteer work at the Tuskegee VA Hospital from 1966 until 1969 (the experiment continued until 1972). I worked in the medical photography department that documented the lesions in "living color". It was a horror show! They told these people they were being treated, while the doctors were merely documented the untreated progress of the disease. My daughter almost bled out during childbirth (4 yrs ago) because a white doctor ignored her symptoms. A black (female) doctor caught the problem and sent her to the OR immediately. The doctor told her she could have died. Also did you hear about what happened to Serena Williams in childbirth? Did you know doctors don't give painkillers to black people because they believe we are all "drug-seekers"?

Black people, by and large, receive inferior service or downright mistreatment from the medical industry. But you're surprised that many blacks don't trust them. Did you know that many black people don't trust white people period? It is not without reason.