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Old 09-01-2017, 03:56 PM
 
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And start worrying about Russian Caucasians. Can you compete and keep up with them intellectually? Because they will eat you for lunch if you cannot. They don't care about PC or globalization or every other feel good program we have going over here. They care about dominating the world and they are gaining at a rate to overtake soon.

Putin: Leader in artificial intelligence will rule world - Houston Chronicle

 
Old 09-01-2017, 04:09 PM
 
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I don't worry about anyone. My people are among the world's most resilient...and we're bright.
 
Old 09-01-2017, 04:13 PM
 
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And start worrying about Russian Caucasians. Can you compete and keep up with them intellectually? Because they will eat you for lunch if you cannot. They don't care about PC or globalization or every other feel good program we have going over here. They care about dominating the world and they are gaining at a rate to overtake soon.

Putin: Leader in artificial intelligence will rule world - Houston Chronicle
If we start taking policy advice from the Russians our country will end up in the toilet.
 
Old 09-01-2017, 04:26 PM
 
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I don't worry about anyone. My people are among the world's most resilient...and we're bright.
Resilient is great. But the point of this thread is we have to stop fighting and bickering over meaningless crap like White privilege and racism and start working together to stay ahead of Putins people.

And we need all hands on deck.
 
Old 09-01-2017, 04:29 PM
 
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Resilient is great. But the point of this thread is we have to stop fighting and bickering over meaningless crap like White privilege and racism and start working together to stay ahead of Putins people.
There is no "we" involved here.

I don't really have to worry about those things where I live.

But minority groups know better than to fall for the above because people will unite against or ignore minorities when they are ready.
 
Old 09-01-2017, 04:31 PM
 
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And start worrying about Russian Caucasians. Can you compete and keep up with them intellectually? Because they will eat you for lunch if you cannot. They don't care about PC or globalization or every other feel good program we have going over here. They care about dominating the world and they are gaining at a rate to overtake soon.

Putin: Leader in artificial intelligence will rule world - Houston Chronicle
The question isn't ethnic or based on any nationality of immigrants, permanent residents, or citizens of this country.

The question is, can we, as a nation, compete globally with these entities. And it's really not Russia we should be worried about, primarily (although, they are a very formidable cyber threat), it's other nations like China that will "eat our breakfast" if we don't wake up (and realistically, they have over a billion people...the odds are not on our side).
 
Old 09-01-2017, 04:32 PM
 
Location: Los Awesome, CA
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Resilient is great. But the point of this thread is we have to stop fighting and bickering over meaningless crap like White privilege and racism and start working together to stay ahead of Putins people.

And we need all hands on deck.
Racism is not meaningless. Racism is America's original sin and she still struggles with this problem.

Truth be told, racists need to get over their prejudices, bigotry and hate so we can all move forward... White supremacy is getting old..

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Old 09-01-2017, 04:33 PM
 
Location: Northwest Peninsula
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Resilient is great. But the point of this thread is we have to stop fighting and bickering over meaningless crap like White privilege and racism and start working together to stay ahead of Putins people.

And we need all hands on deck.
Minorities should stop considering themselves victims.
 
Old 09-01-2017, 05:08 PM
 
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Russian Caucasians didn't shoot Alton Sterling or exonerate the murderer of Philando Castile.

They didn't create this drug war or the American prison industrial complex either.

Nor did they vote to send all my tax money to Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
Old 09-01-2017, 05:09 PM
 
Location: The High Desert
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Minorities should stop considering themselves victims.
That goes equally, if not double, for whites.
That is the one thing that gets some people out of bed in the morning -- to point fingers and complain about their self-defined victimhood. Life is not fair. Things go wrong. But individuals make choices and sometimes those choices were bad choices. Smart people cut their losses and consider it a learning experience and move on. Dumb people sit in their self-made crap-nest and blame everyone else.

If you have skills but live in a place without job opportunities for those skills, move to a better location...or sit on your butt and complain and point fingers thinking some miracle will happen and a job will appear. It won't and you are getting older every day.

If you can't find work because you didn't value education and take proper advantage of school, that was your choice. You can seek out ways to gain an education and job skills...or sit on your butt and complain and point fingers and look for handouts.

There is no level playing field in life and some folks are higher and some are lower. Some are there because of their life choices...good or bad. Some are there simply because of an accident of birth. The playing field is growing steeper and the high ground is a little more scarce thanks to income inequality and the failure of trickle-down thinking. Life choices are more important now than ever before for everyone, not just minorities.
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