This is off topic and too dense to address in detail.
Suffice it to say, the chap in the video competely bypassed the multiplexity of colour, race, or ethnic prejudice and mistakenly tried to claim that it directly and immutably equates to wealth.
Whilst racial prejudice is linked with keeping people of colour in poverty through many a nefarious means, wealth does not preclude someone from being a casualty of racial prejudice.
Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William Bryan shot Ahmaud Abery to death for running whilst Black. How much money he had, or didn't have is utterly irrelevant.
The first drone strike that Trump authorised after his inauguration killed 22 civilians including 10 children under the age of 12. He described it as a 'win'.
I'd be well pleased if every last war criminal on the planet were prosecuted, regardless of nationality, or political party. That would include our former Labour leader, Tony Blair.
Who in their right mind would think it's okay for someone to get away with war crimes?
And by the way, absolute federal Sovereign immunity is limited to specific areas such as core legislative acts, or statements made on the floor of the legislature. It doesn't extend to criminal acts as was affirmed earlier today in the DC appellate court (see op.)
The video title '...Brian humbled her' was telling.
This is about a gender power game, one that you clearly want to win, gal.
In the first instance, there are two bigger, older-looking, prepared men in the control seat of that discussion. Some of those girls/young women looked like they were barely adult (assuming they weren't minors) and at that age a year, or more is a big age, experience and authority gap.
I heard the point that the second young woman was making - it's not her responsibility to make sure random young men are going to college, etc. It's not her responsibility to tend to the needs of men and any idea that it is stems from our long history of patriarchal oppression. At her age, her responsiblity is getting hersef through college, etc. as she quite rightly pointed out.
When the third young woman said she loved men, but didn't need men, I heard what she was saying - she's okay not having an intimate relationship with men, which is nothing like acknowledging that men are relevant in society because they build things.
What this Brian fella is trying to compare is 'a shelter built by a man and rented to a woman' and 'the emotional needs of man being nutured by women because it's our gender role to provide that service for free'.
If you, or any other man is feeling sexually irrelevant, it's not our job to remedy that by availing ourselves to you for the purposes of a relationship.
If you would like support with becoming more sexually relevant from a demographic better suited to the single life, you might start with behaving less like an arse towards us.
And before you start whining like a big girl's blouse that I'm not being nice to you for telling you straight (no subtle hints given, nor mind reading expected here), refer back to the subject matter of the video you chose to repost.
No, but I did once spray 'You can't beat a woman' on a domestic abuser's car with silver Christmas paint (having made sure it washed off.)
My daughter tells me I'm a badass grandma, so if there's any wiggle room and a vacancy for tying people to a stake and knocking some sense into them with a wet kipper, I may be available.
A common objection to 'others' is a lack of integration, but at the same time those same complainants want the means to integrate withheld.
Putting people in an impossible position and then berating them for it is the epitome of emotional abuse.
It's a bullying technique described by many survivors from many situations including those who seek refuge.
I wonder how any times my mum felt retraumatised by the people around her in England, including by her own mother-in-law and the Catholic church. Both of those entities should have been sancturies, ffs.
So you and Ozzie can talk about unrelated current issues in your own countries in response to Suzie's admonishment, but I can't respond with a Trump related issue...?
Perhaps the 'hate' is yours.
It's not a word I use very often and for good reason.
There are not only degrees of British citizenship and naturalisation, there have been lots of changes since the middle of the last century.
Looking at the GOV.UK website, I'm guessing my mum had Indefinite Leave to Remain, but her status wasn't always called that. She lived in England married to a British citizen for nearly 65 of her 85 years, so I find it peculiar that she didn't have full voting rights.
She certainly had the right to some gruelling, poorly paid employment with no restrictions.
My mum couldn't vote in general elections because she was one of these asylum seeker/migrant/refugees that so horrify you.
She could vote in local elections, however.
She once recounted a story of the mayor going out of his way to make sure she could vote in something, or other even though technically he wasn't supposed to sign the paperwork for her to do so. His attitude was that my mum lived there just the same as everyone else and that she should have an equal say in her community.
His kindness for including my mum and for hearing her voice meant a lot to her.
Yeah, he was friends with Jeffrey Epstein and is (supposedly allegedly) a rapist, but his own mother stripped him of his position without us even having to ask.
Now can we get back to the US version of the Epstein chum and adjudicated rapist?
The thing is, if one of the largest, most powerful countries in the world changes from a democratic republic to dictatorial rule it will likely have a global impact. Our fate, our grandchildren's fate, may be in the hands of the American people who have managed to hang on to ther suffrage and the dedicated lawyers who are fighting for fair representation.
We won't get a say in what happens, but I don't see why we should be silenced here as well.
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This is off topic and too dense to address in detail.Suffice it to say, the chap in the video competely bypassed the multiplexity of colour, race, or ethnic prejudice and mistakenly tried to claim that it directly and immutably equates to wealth.
Whilst racial prejudice is linked with keeping people of colour in poverty through many a nefarious means, wealth does not preclude someone from being a casualty of racial prejudice.
Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William Bryan shot Ahmaud Abery to death for running whilst Black. How much money he had, or didn't have is utterly irrelevant.