Shouldn't they remove all black people from TV commercials too? And then all white people. And then stop all commercials. (just dreaming)
So is Nike racists for using athletes like Michael Jordan and Colin Kaepernick for the sole purpose of selling their shoes made by Chinese children? Are M.J. and C.K. being used by corporate America or are M.J. and C.K. complicit in the promotion of near slave like conditions these children are forced to work in?
Spotted a white supremacist!So now all sesquipedalians are racist.
It's okay when it's the [STRIKE]poor[/STRIKE] someone else that loses everything.
It's okay when it's the [STRIKE]poor[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]someone[/STRIKE] ANYONE else that loses everything.
I disagree.
There is one in Seattle that offends me and should be torn down right now:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Lenin_(Seattle)
Yes and no. You had a place to live, but it was the same as a place everyone lived. Jobs were quite diverse - depended on your education, just like here.
Cars, for sure, were a luxury. Outrageously expensive with long wait periods. Again - a result of total government control and lack of competition.
Same thing with food variety. Yes, it was there. No, people didn't starve. But that's what you get with government control.
I'm not saying it was the best place on Earth, but it wasn't this awful hellscape people here imagine.
People get so aggressive when you tell them that. Just like some people go ballistic when you tell them Trump is not a dictator...
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn said:“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
LOL. That's the Cupine meme... only copied and pasted off facebook.