Adderbox76

Do I deny the Irish and Italians were treated like shit? No, of course not.

But let's not forget that an Irish Catholic won the presidency while Jim Crow laws were still largely in effect.

There is an ocean of difference between being hated by your neighbours, and having a government that literally enshrines your exclusion into law.

Fixed that for you. To imply that no white cultures have ever been vicimized is erasure on a colossal scale.

I'm referring specifically to the United States in the pre-civil rights era. Not on a global scale, so simmer down with your umbrage thanks. I've got enough education that know that slavery and other forms of oppression have crossed the colour barrier. But in pre-civil rights era U.S. it was clearly WHITE people. Yes, there were poor white people who had it hard as well, but they weren't getting lynched and their towns burned to the ground ON TOP of that.

If you can point me to one American poor white person who had to go through something like the Tulsa massacre, I'll accept your rebuke. If not, kindly go away.

They're not abandoning anything. They simply don't feel the need to hide it anymore.

They finally have the implied permission they've always craved to return to the days when white guys controlled everything, minorities (now including LGBTQ+) can't sit at the same counters in delis, and they could smack their secretaries on the ass and say "thanks, toots."

This is who they've always been.

How else are they supposed to compete with Chinese sweatshops if they DON'T have their own workforce they can legally pay pennies per day!?

That there is just good ol' 'murican ingenuity.

/s

Didn't Trump in a speech actually challenge Nikki Haley to one? If I'm her, I'm calling his bluff and demanding that he actually does it. It's the best thing she could possibly do.

Trump doesn't do anything "privately".

Just because he hasn't blathered on about it nonsensically in incomplete fragments of word salad YET, doesn't mean it won't be the main thrust of his speech to the next gathering of idiots who come to hear him speak.

This is the exact type of thing that Trump speeches are filled with; random asides about how much better/popular/cognitive/etc... he is compared to his "detractors".

How the fuck is this even legal?

I often wonder if it ever pisses Martha Stewart off that she did time for a crime that nowadays, is just seemingly a part of doing business for the super-rich. (as well as much much worse)

The world has gotten so much more fucked up since then. A little insider trading to save a few measly millions is NOTHING compared to what blatantly do in the open nowadays.

I have a Motorola Edge 2023 and it's so much more premium than I would have expected at its price tag.

Every day you wake up and think, "There's no way America can get even more fucked up than it was yesterday".

And every day some asshole says "wanna bet...watch this."

Even without the US, the EU combined forces are More than enough to deal with Putin; especially now that it's become startling clear that the emperor has had no clothes and his own strength was largely fiction.

That being said, they would have to be much more careful regarding China supporting Putin.

But also, as someone already mentioned, Trump is a bloviating idiot. The US isn't going to give up the convenience of having strategic military bases around the world; there's no way the pentagon and cia would never allow it. They'd outright Kennedy the idiot if it came to that.