Bigbrog

Wow...you claim others of having a "MO"...you ASSuming things about people is your "MO". Funny part is you "think" you are fighting for the oppressed when in actuality you are doing no one any good with the things you say. Here is a hint, people that are less fortunate than others don't need you making excuses for them. Excuse after excuse. By the way, it isn't a person's fault if they had a good family to fall back on. It isn't anyone's fault if they worked hard to get themselves out of a bad situation. I too was in jross' position when I was younger, almost exactly the same position, a lot of debt and missed payments from extremely high interest rate credit cards and loans (I had no debt history, nor did my family), but I didn't have any of the things you claimed he had, and I was still able to get out of the debt I racked up...how...through working multiple jobs, getting a degree, and learning how to budget with absolutely ZERO help from anyone else. Let's see if you can work in reality and facts instead of pure emotion...who are the "victims still today"? And I ask based on policies in place today, or "systemic actions" that occur today. Please provide actual evidence of this.

Unlike you I answered based on my opinion and what I think, not assuming what other people think.

After all that over-emotional foot stomping and belly aching in the original post....I weep for people who don't know how to think for themselves and only read and listen to the things they want to hear so they can be the victim or make others out to be victims.

I can't believe 3 point takedown hasn't come on here to lecture people about "privilege" yet....

Are you related to Ban?? Wowza LOL

This is why I love Bill Burr....he talks about Trump and liberals and think his take is spot on...the whole clip is great but this part starts about 7:20 min in

Because you use it to insult people, as do others...I think it is stupid and childish...regardless carry on Rasta And I could start most of my posts with LOL as that is usually how I am feeling about what I read on here...and of course I have insulted people on here...never said I hadn't...I find it funny what people try and "use" to insult people...what I say about "MAGA" as an insult, I could say about the term "libtard"...both childish terms...but again, whatever, people keep on keeping on

People literally have lost their s#$% when people wear the red hat....cracked me up that something like that would trigger people to the point of anger/violence.

I kinda laugh when people use the slogan as a way to insult people

LOL..."Trump tried to become a dictator"...man people are coocoo. I can't stand Trump but that is absolutely ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as people who use the term "MAGA" as an insult...especially by those who most of the time are pretty logical posters. Anyway, if Trump is guilty I hope justice is served...if HB is guilty I hope justice is served.

Come on Rasta....that's not what this is about... I...nor Plasi is normalizing anyone who died

Uhhh...say what?? There isn't a correlation to age and the death rate?? Really? If Desantis was SOOO much worse than CA then the numbers, which I provided, would have been drastically different...i.e., the percentage of deaths according to you and Newsome is that FL was SOOO much worse, when in fact they were actually not that far apart based on percentage of old people that died compared to the total death count....~0.05 % difference...if FL's policies where so bad there should have been a significantly higher percentage of older folks that died comparatively, but that isn't the case.

What gives what...weren't we talking about FL and CA?? The point I made still holds true...the data speaks for itself...if Desantis' policies were so terrible the data would have clearly showed that, but it doesn't. The takeaway is that the rona hit the older folks significantly (not even close) worse than those under 50, and in my opinion policies that were a blanketed approach for the whole population was...well...stupid and not needed. And so did Desantis

Your use of the term privilege cracks me up...such a trendy thing to say...anyway, you are essentially wrong for claiming what-about-ism as I have not done that...nice try. But you are right about the point of saying both sides do it and that both sides need to be held accountable. I don't get caught up in if it's an R or a D that is in trouble, the truth and justice is the most important thing...no matter who it is, if they did something wrong they should be held accountable...period....but what people do, is pick sides, not based on what is right or wrong, but rather what letter is after their name from a political perspective. The HB things is s#$# show just like all the other special committee hearings that have happened, whether it was a D, or and R being the one taking the questions. Both sides play the stupid f'ing games and accuse the other of doing the exact same thing they do when it's their turn.

So you don't have proof...got it. Average population of people over 65 by state...Florida ranked 2nd....California ranked 45th... (Which U.S. States Have the Oldest Populations? | PRB)...yes I know I used 2022. Here is the CDC's page where you can look up deaths associated with Covid for all demographics by state. Take away, as once again, the data shows the rona was drastically more impactful to the older population...I mean it's not even close (ex. in FL of the 81,894 deaths, 78,380 were 50 and over, and in CA of the 129,249 deaths, 100,473 were over 50). COVID-19 Provisional Counts - Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics (cdc.gov) And I won't even get into HOW the Covid deaths were counted...that has been hashed out so many times and still can't believe people don't care how they were counted...but ignorance is bliss for some.

I agree with Vak on all this...horrendous.

Normalize it for age...i.e., are there more deaths per 1000 due to a greater number of older folks in FL?

Proof?

Did you normalize the numbers based on average age of the population in each state....didn't think so

I thought you didn't watch it??

So...this happens on all types of issues. Do you get to choose which like-minded individuals can group together on social media platforms??

What is the privilege? And by the way both side are hypocrites...

If that was the case, who cares...no one would use it then. Problem fixed.

Come on Plasi...if you were willing to do so you would see it...plenty of examples out there. Problem is you may not see them because you agree with them wholeheartedly versus having any sort of skepticism...which to me skepticism is a good thing when it comes to anything coming out of a politicians mouth or what I read online.

How did I know that this thread would somehow get turned into it being about Trump?? TDS is real folks! I for one would love to go even a day without hearing about freaking stupid Trump...why...because I don't like him.