I've said it before: the Obama administration already tried a form of reparations in their best case scenario and it resulted in a complete fucking collapse of tribal governments and economies.
Many years ago, now, they settled a lawsuit with a multiplicity of tribal governments for $1.1 billion dollars for contract violations.
As the settlement checks went out, tribal governments begin to purity spiral with their own constituents. The term "tribal disenrollment" began to be used as tribal governments literally expelled political rivals and dissidents from tribes, which created massive political upheaval within them. Bizarre and arbitrary measures began to be imposed about who counted as a tribal member based on what evidence, and it quickly descended into infighting, nepotism, and cronyism. In some cases, political violence. As the checks became fewer and smaller, the problem got worse, as more people were removed from the tribal rolls to keep the same amount of money incoming to the government approved people.
Overall, the effective result of this reparations scheme, which had specific groups of people, who were alive, who had genuine contract violations done against them, for articulable damages, resulted in rampant crime, corruption, nepotism, political upheaval, and violence. In the end, absolutely no one benefited, even the con men who stole the money for themselves, because none of it was spent well.
Racial reparations are worse because there are no articulable damages, you have no measure to declare how black someone is, you have no way of calculation who should get reparations, you have no way of calculating how much reparations should be given, and everything I just said will happen to blacks who get reparations as well.
Wait until a town hall meeting breaks out with someone screaming, "Fuck you bitch! You're West African! Pay me my money!"
This is a brilliant take on the scam of "reparations" for slavery with an actual real-world illustration of why the concept is unworkable, even if you accept the dodgy concept of generational or racial/collective guilt for history's atrocities.
In the end, absolutely no one benefited, even the con men who stole the money for themselves, because none of it was spent well.
Once again, I am reminded of the Chappelle routine--a guy buys a semi-truckload of Newports with his share.
Another good example are the results of people who win the lottery. Most of the time, their lives are destroyed, or they end up exactly back where they started before they won the lottery.
The terrible truth is, the reason people don't have money, is because using money not just responsibly, but effectively, is a skillset. And it's a skillset that poor people do not have. Worse, poor people have a different skillset that wealthier people also don't have. Different wealth classes require different kinds of skills.
As I've become middle class (from being under-class) my biggest difficulty is trying to stop "Living Poor" or "Thinking Poor" because it actually costs you money.
For example, I can live poor by saving literally everything, taking hand me down clothes, and repairing things myself. But when you keep living like that when you start getting more money coming in, you'll have money, but waste it buying tools to do things yourself or spending crazy amounts of time learning a new skill to solve a problem, or obsessing about trying to get the cheapest good rather than the best one. If you do it too much you stay poor because you don't step out of that mindset.
Meanwhile, a middle class person has to wield their money like a weapon by saving it until you have to hurl all of it at once, like maxing out your credit card to pay for a car rental and car repairs, but knowing you've saved enough to pay it off immediately. You'll also need to start thinking about how to "invest" your money as larger assets like property or homes, rather than even financial vehicles.
The skills that kept you alive in desperate times... now become your most self-sabotaging behavior. Brutal lesson. The worst is, you absolutely can't forget it. If you do, and you don't teach your kid, and they end up down there with no knowledge, they'll get stuck too! They'll have to learn everything all over again.
It's clear that Weber and others like her in positions of political power should be ineligible to receive reparations money. Otherwise, it just looks like ordinary self-dealing...the powerful taking care of themselves.
If they are insane enough to do this I hope you see a massive exit of affluent people or any taxpayer. Although as I said before I’d love to see a white person who is like 3 to 5 percent black apply for reparations and get it. Would make for a funny skit or movie.
I support folks pushing for reparations. If you want to see Asians, Hispanics and white people uniting against racial grifters, you should tell them that you're going to steal their hard-won earnings to give to people who were never slaves.
Virtue-signaling is popular because it is easy. It's good if they make it harder. I also support the movements to tell liberal whites not to call the police.
But Obamacare was race-neutral. Whether you like it or not, it provides tangible benefits to some people. Reparations will transfer funds from people whom the Democrats need to win over, to those who vote for them 90-95% regardless. So not exactly smart.
Uniparty is a real problem, but it's an issue on things like the military and the security state (as well as others that may not immediately come to mind), rather than health care.
As Obamacare would not have passed without their 60 votes. Although it's very suspicious that right at the moment that it could be repealed, several people had a miraculous conversion to opposing repeal. I think it was stupid to not offer a replacement. Taking people's health care away, even if you believe the law in question was bad, is never going to be a good look.
Funny enough, trying to put a tax on white skin would accelerate a civil war considerably, nationwide.
Income tax and welfare is effectively this lol.
Which totally could be the intended result.
You can just get a tan.
I've said it before: the Obama administration already tried a form of reparations in their best case scenario and it resulted in a complete fucking collapse of tribal governments and economies.
Many years ago, now, they settled a lawsuit with a multiplicity of tribal governments for $1.1 billion dollars for contract violations.
As the settlement checks went out, tribal governments begin to purity spiral with their own constituents. The term "tribal disenrollment" began to be used as tribal governments literally expelled political rivals and dissidents from tribes, which created massive political upheaval within them. Bizarre and arbitrary measures began to be imposed about who counted as a tribal member based on what evidence, and it quickly descended into infighting, nepotism, and cronyism. In some cases, political violence. As the checks became fewer and smaller, the problem got worse, as more people were removed from the tribal rolls to keep the same amount of money incoming to the government approved people.
Overall, the effective result of this reparations scheme, which had specific groups of people, who were alive, who had genuine contract violations done against them, for articulable damages, resulted in rampant crime, corruption, nepotism, political upheaval, and violence. In the end, absolutely no one benefited, even the con men who stole the money for themselves, because none of it was spent well.
Racial reparations are worse because there are no articulable damages, you have no measure to declare how black someone is, you have no way of calculation who should get reparations, you have no way of calculating how much reparations should be given, and everything I just said will happen to blacks who get reparations as well.
Wait until a town hall meeting breaks out with someone screaming, "Fuck you bitch! You're West African! Pay me my money!"
This is a brilliant take on the scam of "reparations" for slavery with an actual real-world illustration of why the concept is unworkable, even if you accept the dodgy concept of generational or racial/collective guilt for history's atrocities.
Once again, I am reminded of the Chappelle routine--a guy buys a semi-truckload of Newports with his share.
I haven't seen that one.
Another good example are the results of people who win the lottery. Most of the time, their lives are destroyed, or they end up exactly back where they started before they won the lottery.
The terrible truth is, the reason people don't have money, is because using money not just responsibly, but effectively, is a skillset. And it's a skillset that poor people do not have. Worse, poor people have a different skillset that wealthier people also don't have. Different wealth classes require different kinds of skills.
As I've become middle class (from being under-class) my biggest difficulty is trying to stop "Living Poor" or "Thinking Poor" because it actually costs you money.
For example, I can live poor by saving literally everything, taking hand me down clothes, and repairing things myself. But when you keep living like that when you start getting more money coming in, you'll have money, but waste it buying tools to do things yourself or spending crazy amounts of time learning a new skill to solve a problem, or obsessing about trying to get the cheapest good rather than the best one. If you do it too much you stay poor because you don't step out of that mindset.
Meanwhile, a middle class person has to wield their money like a weapon by saving it until you have to hurl all of it at once, like maxing out your credit card to pay for a car rental and car repairs, but knowing you've saved enough to pay it off immediately. You'll also need to start thinking about how to "invest" your money as larger assets like property or homes, rather than even financial vehicles.
The skills that kept you alive in desperate times... now become your most self-sabotaging behavior. Brutal lesson. The worst is, you absolutely can't forget it. If you do, and you don't teach your kid, and they end up down there with no knowledge, they'll get stuck too! They'll have to learn everything all over again.
This is a really perceptive comment. Thanks.
No problem, I hope it helps people.
It's clear that Weber and others like her in positions of political power should be ineligible to receive reparations money. Otherwise, it just looks like ordinary self-dealing...the powerful taking care of themselves.
If they are insane enough to do this I hope you see a massive exit of affluent people or any taxpayer. Although as I said before I’d love to see a white person who is like 3 to 5 percent black apply for reparations and get it. Would make for a funny skit or movie.
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I support folks pushing for reparations. If you want to see Asians, Hispanics and white people uniting against racial grifters, you should tell them that you're going to steal their hard-won earnings to give to people who were never slaves.
Virtue-signaling is popular because it is easy. It's good if they make it harder. I also support the movements to tell liberal whites not to call the police.
No way they take money from anyone but white people
They'll have to.
I mean, it's not going to happen (unfortunately), but it would be blatantly unconstitutional if they only took from white people.
Since when do Bolsheviks care about what is legal or moral.
When their hand is forced, as it will be by the Supreme Court.
They happily and openly intimidate court members. They'll be killing them before long.
And look at the historic 2010 victory.
But Obamacare was race-neutral. Whether you like it or not, it provides tangible benefits to some people. Reparations will transfer funds from people whom the Democrats need to win over, to those who vote for them 90-95% regardless. So not exactly smart.
Uniparty is a real problem, but it's an issue on things like the military and the security state (as well as others that may not immediately come to mind), rather than health care.
As Obamacare would not have passed without their 60 votes. Although it's very suspicious that right at the moment that it could be repealed, several people had a miraculous conversion to opposing repeal. I think it was stupid to not offer a replacement. Taking people's health care away, even if you believe the law in question was bad, is never going to be a good look.