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25.01.2017, 16:29
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | Sure. We could also build more aircraft carriers, or bridges to nowhere.
The $ could be much better spent on the bridges, roads, public transit, etc., and support the local construction industry in areas where people actually live, not on a needless wall in the desert. | | | | | I am sure there will be enough to go around, QE for the whole economy if you please. Inflation ahead? http://www.marketwatch.com/investing...MW_story_quote
Or maybe there will be a Gulag in the desert.
"Kodesch said investor concerns about the drop in federal prison populations over the past few years may be overdone, as the recent deceleration in the decline suggests the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, which eliminated some minimum penalties for drug possession, is running its course.
And with private Bureau of Prisons facilities made up primarily of criminal aliens, Kodesch said recent immigration trends and a new administration with Jess Sessions nominated as attorney general should provide continued demand for those prisons." http://www.marketwatch.com/story/tru...ars-2017-01-19
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25.01.2017, 16:30
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | I imagine 50% of the people there are women. And then there is Greenwich Village, Haight, and Santa Monica if gays would like to separate themselves. | | | | | My point was it's mostly christian organisations that consistently fight against rights for anyone not white, male and hetero. Directly contradicting your point that your religion has no real impact on people.
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: |  | | | I've got expat friends in the US who have been pretending to be believers because they found that people suddenly stopped talking to them when they happened to mention they don't go to church.
Other friends, who are Americans themselves moved from NY to a new job in North Carolina and have experienced open hostility because their daughter wouldn't go to church with the other kids after innocently saying that her family aren't religious. | | | | |
Yes.
When I moved to our home in Breckenridge, CO the first thing neighbors asked were:
1. What kind of car do you drive? (can you handle the mountain roads when winter comes or will I have to pull you out of the ditch)
2. Where you from? (Do you know what real winter looks like? or perhaps hopefully not California...)
3. Do you have a snow blower? (Can I sell you my old one)
When I moved to TN:
1: What church are you going to attend?
and nothing else.
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25.01.2017, 16:30
| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | There is certainly fear and hatred of it. And sure there are idiots in every camp. But American heritage is of those who fled Europe because of religious persecution, and it doesn't play in interpersonal relationships legally nor civilly.
I suppose if you were to proclaim you are a satanist, but even then there are plenty of other satanists you could hang out with.
I think it is paranoia. We have plenty of people of every religion under the sun, or none at all.
I use to hang out at Hare Krishna temples with friends because they served free Indian food on Sundays.  | | | | | So you are saying that religion isn't really a big thing in American society? If Trump was an atheist or wouldn't admit to his religion in the same way he keeps his taxes and medical history under wraps, nobody would give a fig and he'd still be where he is today?
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25.01.2017, 16:34
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: |  | | | So you are saying that religion isn't really a big thing in American society? | | | | | Not anywhere where I've ever lived.
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | I think for that, you can blame the Brits. A large portion of those communities are from Scottish heritage. Now, I don't know what the Brits did to the Scots, but they were sure territorial when they came to America.
I love the Scottish Americans. They've been the backbone of America. Great and amazing people. | | | | | Ah, that is why you love Trump | 
25.01.2017, 16:37
| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | My point was it's mostly christian organisations that consistently fight against rights for anyone not white, male and hetero. Directly contradicting your point that your religion has no real impact on people. | | | | | History doesn't support that assertion. First-wave Feminism was a Christian movement, as well as the emancipation of slavery and the civil rights movement, among others.
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25.01.2017, 16:38
| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | Ah, that is why you love Trump  | | | | | I wouldn't call it Love of Trump. But I sure love how he's turning things upside down. The culture needed it.
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25.01.2017, 16:45
| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | Not anywhere where I've ever lived. 
Tom | | | | | Yea but you've been over here forever. It's got a LOT worse over the last 30 or so years
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: |  | | | Yea but you've been over here forever. It's got a LOT worse over the last 30 or so years | | | | | With religious people or illegal immigrants? | 
25.01.2017, 16:54
| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | History doesn't support that assertion. First-wave Feminism was a Christian movement, as well as the emancipation of slavery and the civil rights movement, among others. | | | | | Not according to anything I've read they weren't. Involved maybe in the case of the civil rights movement but certainly not prime movers.
On the other hand the KKK, the whole segregation issue, slavery (Southern Baptists anybody) have all claimed strong christian religous support.
And as for christianity's attitude to womens rights historically.....
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | I wouldn't call it Love of Trump. But I sure love how he's turning things upside down. The culture needed it. | | | | | I've been wondering for a while what is it exactly that annoys me about your posts, apart from a certain quality of the poster that the content demonstrates. So I scanned your posts on the last five pages.
Here are the culprits:
I heard, I think, I don't think, I don't believe, I haven't seen, I'm confident, I heard, I don't know, I suppose, I think, I use, I think, I love, I imagine, I wouldn't call, I sure.
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25.01.2017, 16:59
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | History doesn't support that assertion. First-wave Feminism was a Christian movement, as well as the emancipation of slavery and the civil rights movement, among others. | | | | | And which institutions were opposing them?
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President?
No.
I can't believe this is still being discussed!
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25.01.2017, 17:00
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | There is certainly fear and hatred of it. And sure there are idiots in every camp. But American heritage is of those who fled Europe because of religious persecution, and it doesn't play in interpersonal relationships legally nor civilly.
I suppose if you were to proclaim you are a satanist, but even then there are plenty of other satanists you could hang out with.
I think it is paranoia. We have plenty of people of every religion under the sun, or none at all.
I use to hang out at Hare Krishna temples with friends because they served free Indian food on Sundays.  | | | | | I always thought they came to America over greed for gold | This user would like to thank marton for this useful post: | | 
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | No.
I can't believe this is still being discussed! | | | | | This thread is resistant to reason | The following 2 users would like to thank Aleydis for this useful post: | | 
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | |
About 18" or so. It's more symbolic than anything.
| | | | | First thing that popped into my head... 
Edit: Aaargh!!! Tom beat me to it. Git! | This user would like to thank Blueangel for this useful post: | | 
25.01.2017, 17:04
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | History doesn't support that assertion. First-wave Feminism was a Christian movement, as well as the emancipation of slavery and the civil rights movement, among others. | | | | | Actually Islam was the first religion to give rights to women. | Quote: |  | | | At the time of Muhammad's birth, women in 7th century Arabia had few if any rights. Even the right of life could be in question, since it was not uncommon for small girls to be buried alive during times of scarcity. Part of Muhammad's legacy was to end infanticide and establish explicit rights for women.
Islam teaches that men and women are equal before God. It grants women divinely sanctioned inheritance, property, social and marriage rights, including the right to reject the terms of a proposal and to initiate divorce. | | | | | Source | 
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| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: |  | | | Not according to anything I've read they weren't. Involved maybe in the case of the civil rights movement but certainly not prime movers.
On the other hand the KKK, the whole segregation issue, slavery (Southern Baptists anybody) have all claimed strong christian religous support.
And as for christianity's attitude to womens rights historically..... | | | | | So I wonder who Martin Luther King was named after, and he's not really a reverend?
Apparently, you can tilt and slice anything to try to support an assertion.
Most of the social justice movements in the US, abolition and feminism, were spearheaded by Quakers and Mennonites. You'll find names like Elizabeth Stanton, Lucretta Mott and Susan B. Anthony.
What, you thought these were started by drug induced hippies?
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25.01.2017, 17:09
| | Re: Will Trump be a Good President? | Quote: | |  | | | I've been wondering for a while what is it exactly that annoys me about your posts, apart from a certain quality of the poster that the content demonstrates. So I scanned your posts on the last five pages.
Here are the culprits:
I heard, I think, I don't think, I don't believe, I haven't seen, I'm confident, I heard, I don't know, I suppose, I think, I use, I think, I love, I imagine, I wouldn't call, I sure. | | | | | He was asking me a personal question. Would you like me to tell you what someone else thinks?
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