11 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

yeah this is a big swing and miss. 

I think they are pandering to republicans who hate the 🤡, but still think "Reefer Madness” was a documentary. 

1 hour ago, Tnt4philly said:

Can you really care for black lives if you support the policy that is used to target them the most? 
 

 

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/democratic-party-delegates-reject-marijuana-legalization-amendment-to-2020-policy-platform/

 

 

But of course this bothers the board "Libertarians" the most about the radical socialist party that they've thrown in with.  

1 hour ago, The_Omega said:

But of course this bothers the board "Libertarians" the most about the radical socialist party that they've thrown in with.  

But of course legalizing drugs bothers the board authoritarians. 
 

We get thrown in with the radical right wing white nationalist at times too. 
 

 

23 minutes ago, Tnt4philly said:

But of course legalizing drugs bothers the board authoritarians. 
 

We get thrown in with the radical right wing white nationalist at times too. 
 

 

Sure it does.  I think you'd find most conservatives on board with legalizing weed.  Been that way for a long time.  Keep pretending otherwise though.

2 hours ago, The_Omega said:

Sure it does.  I think you'd find most conservatives on board with legalizing weed.  Been that way for a long time.  Keep pretending otherwise though.

The ones that count are the ones you all elect. Their voting record says differently. 

28 minutes ago, Tnt4philly said:

The ones that count are the ones you all elect. Their voting record says differently. 

Except you were talking about people on this board.

20 minutes ago, The_Omega said:

Except you were talking about people on this board.

You should get off the EMB once I awhile and see that there are lots of other people out there. Though my comment said board authoritarians, it meant you. You are the boot locker i was talking about. 

20 minutes ago, Tnt4philly said:

You should get off the EMB once I awhile and see that there are lots of other people out there. Though my comment said board authoritarians, it meant you. You are the boot locker i was talking about. 

I never pegged you for a liar. Yet here we are.

 

how can you be woke if you sleepin’?

3 hours ago, iladelphxx said:

 

Good thing lazy isn't one of their stereotypes...

59 minutes ago, BFit said:

Good thing lazy isn't one of their stereotypes...

One of who’s stereotypes? 

6 hours ago, iladelphxx said:

 

 

 

White people and their :shuffles deck: rules to not touch the art exhibits

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These stations unwind the behaviors that white cultural institutions tend to impose on visitors, training us to keep our bodies to ourselves (don’t touch the art!) and avoid others. Here, you get to touch, lie on, and be intimate with the art. 

Come for the art, stay for the subliminal messages from black trans women.  

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In the background of the exhibit, a recording of the artists reading science fiction texts written by Black trans women plays so softly that it’s inaudible. You can’t consciously hear it, because you are not supposed to. The soundscape is intended as subliminal messaging designed to program empathy into white visitors, the artists tell me. "It’s cataclysmic, based purely on theory and the vibration of it, and trying to find the right kind of vibration with white people,” Acosta says. Sosa adds, "It’s like a device that provokes hyper-empathy in white people, planting this neurological map that they don’t have. They’re reprogrammed to interpret reality in a different way.”

Reparations to include sick days at work.

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Black Power Naps complicates the idea of reparations for Black people, reminding us that reparations are not solely about money, but also time. Time is an asset in capitalism; it is, in itself, a kind of privilege that has translated into financial wealth for white people. If we reframe centuries of unpaid slave labor as sick leave, annual leave, or overtime, then we, the descendants of the enslaved, are heavily owed. We also have reason to be restless, angry, and, as Hughes predicts in "Harlem,” ready to explode. This sentiment is shared by the artists, who believe a call to action means " front lines existing in our bedrooms as well as in the streets.”

Time is racist.

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Time, as we know it, is a colonial invention and forms the backbone of American society, making the racial distribution of time inherent to white privilege. 

Final word at the end:

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When was the last time you enabled Black people to rest?

 

58 minutes ago, NOTW said:

 

 

Time, as we know it, is a colonial invention and forms the backbone of American society, making the racial distribution of time inherent to white privilege. 

 

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For thousands of years, devices have been used to measure and keep track of time. The current sexagesimal system of time measurement dates to approximately 2000 bc from the Sumerians.

The Egyptians divided the day into two 12-hour periods, and used large obelisks to track the movement of the sun. They also developed water clocks, which were probably first used in the Precinct of Amun-Re, and later outside Egypt as well; they were employed frequently by Persians and the Ancient Greeks, who called them clepsydrae. The Zhou dynasty is believed to have used the outflow water clock around the same of the time, devices which were introduced from Mesopotamia as early as 2000 bc.

Other ancient timekeeping devices include the candle clock, used in ancient China, ancient Japan, England and Mesopotamia; the timestick, widely used in Persia, India and Tibet, as well as some parts of Europe; and the hourglass, which functioned similarly to a water clock. The sundial, another early clock, relies on shadows to provide a good estimate of the hour on a sunny day. It is not so useful in cloudy weather or at night and requires recalibration as the seasons change (if the gnomon was not aligned with the Earth's axis).

The earliest known clock with a water-powered escapement mechanism, which transferred rotational energy into intermittent motions,^[1] dates back to 3rd century bc in ancient Greece;^[2] Chinese engineers later invented clocks incorporating mercury-powered escapement mechanisms in the 10th century,^[3] followed by Arabic engineers inventing water clocks driven by gears and weights in the 11th century.

 

 

remember when the maniac fringe, was only the fringe ? 

12 minutes ago, Alpha_TATEr said:

remember when the maniac fringe, was only the fringe ? 

 

3 hours ago, Tnt4philly said:

One of who’s stereotypes? 

It's a stereotype that black people are lazy. Stop playing dumb. 

2 hours ago, 20dawk4life said:

It's a stereotype that black people are lazy. Stop playing dumb. 

I’m not playing dumb. I just couldn’t tell if he supported the stereotype or not. 

We hold China as a potential trading partner, as a country that has pulled tens of millions of people out of poverty in a short period of time, and as a country growing into a respectable nation amongst other nations. I deeply believe that.
 

-Diane Feinstein. 7/30/20

12 hours ago, Tnt4philly said:

One of who’s stereotypes? 

 

8 hours ago, 20dawk4life said:

It's a stereotype that black people are lazy. Stop playing dumb. 

 

6 hours ago, Tnt4philly said:

I’m not playing dumb. I just couldn’t tell if he supported the stereotype or not. 

 

12 hours ago, Tnt4philly said:

One of who’s stereotypes? 

Christopher Columbus and the seven dwarfs......

6 hours ago, Tnt4philly said:

I’m not playing dumb. I just couldn’t tell if he supported the stereotype or not. 

Well ok than.....