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Apple Loses Out as Netflix Inks Content Deal With Former President Obama

thadoggfather said:
Let me leave this right here for ya to absorb and then defend/deny:

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hmmm

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prasand said:
Either you didn't read what I wrote, or you're so busy projecting your biases that you cannot comprehend. I said he was racist, I just said he was open to change ... which excludes him from an extremist (therefore you are exaggerating).

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The second quote you used, can be attributed as a statement of observation. It can be said by someone who isn't racist. However, again, he indeed was racist ... you're just exaggerating. I'm not saying you're wrong for calling him racist. I'm saying you're making him out to be an extremist when he wasn't.
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On no I read and understood what you wrote. What is the basis for you claim he was open to change? What exactly am I exaggerating? What is your argument beyond just saying I’m exaggerating. He disapproved of race mixing and wanted to ship Blacks back to Africa. You can’t get more racist than that, and he never repudiated those sentiments.
 
GermanSuplex said:
He's got a track record of racism, many of us outside of the NYC area were just ignorant to it. But he really pulled out the dog whistles when he became the spokesman for the gang of morons who peddled the birther issue.
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A track record that has no evidence. One doesn’t have to be racist to think it possible Obama was not a natural born citizen. That is unless criticizing Obama equals racism. It doesn’t of course.
 
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RichardMZhlubb said:
You do know that those “decapitation” portraits showed a scene from the Bible, right? The same scene portrayed by many artists over the last 500 years?
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Nooo! Don't let facts get in the way of alternative facts and conspiracy theories from the likes of Fox News, Breitbart, and Infowars.

Kid builds a clock into a briefcase-styled pencil box (much of the media just said "briefcase" and showed the police's picture which has few reference points for size - it was roughly 8 inches by 4 inches by 2 inches). Somebody decided it looked like a bomb (because apparently the criteria now is "anything with blinking numbers carried by someone who is Muslim or from the Middle East" - given the fear and paranoia constantly stoked by right-wing media), and the poor kid was detained, interrogated, handcuffed, fingerprinted, and taken to jail (oh, sorry, "juvenile detention facility"). His crime was learning about electronics and looking like the people that Fox News says are out to get us.

President Obama was trying to make amends and promote healing and understanding, by inviting the kid to the White House, but apparently, according to GREEN4U, that is clear evidence that President Obama is... "racist"? Trying to get the nation to see beyond fear and stereotypes is racist? I would have said President Obama's actions were the exact opposite of racist.
 
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brendu said:
There have been several attempts at forming third parties. It’s really, reallt difficult. It takes an insane amount of money and most people with that kind of money have already bought off politicians in one of the two existing parties. I have been wondering over the past year if it would be possible to croudfund a third “centrist” party but I don’t have the time to be the guy to make it happen and I don’t know that it could really make the difference people want. Until Americans learn to think for themselves and scrutinize the info we are fed by the media (right or left leaning) there is no point in offering better politicians. They won’t get elected because people are too ignorant about the issues they are voting on.
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Take the money out and the problem while not instantly solved will be in an elections cycle or two, until that's done we'll hunker down on our "side" and throw bombs.
 
neliason said:
A track record that has no evidence. One doesn’t have to be racist to think it possible Obama was not a natural born citizen. That is unless criticizing Obama equals racism. It doesn’t of course.
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Trump had to settle with the DOJ over complaints that he illegally discriminated against potential minority tenants. That’s real evidence, as compared with the Obama birther conspiracy nonsense.
 
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thadoggfather said:
How about addressing the question I brought up instead of whataboutism's?

Oh, because you can't.

Thats right
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What question? Do you mean the idiotic suggestion that there’s something wrong with an artist who painted a scene from the Bible that has been depicted by scores of artists over hundreds of years?
 
RichardMZhlubb said:
Trump had to settle with the DOJ over complaints that he illegally discriminated against potential minority tenants. That’s real evidence, as compared with the Obama birther conspiracy nonsense.
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One might settle because it is cheaper. He may well have discriminated. If he did I imagine it was more because it was good for business. In other words his customers wanted it. I think that more likely. Trump is a man who likes to make money and doesn’t have many scruples about how he makes it.

Anyway, that is the only real claim I’ve ever seen. It is one instance from a long time ago when the culture was different. It was after this that Jesse Jackson gave him an award. So Jesse didn’t think this made him a racist for life.
 
lowendlinux said:
Take the money out and the problem while not instantly solved will be in an elections cycle or two, until that's done we'll hunker down on our "side" and throw bombs.
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I completely agree. Good luck getting bribe recepients to eliminate their ability to get bribes though.
 
Toutou said:
The two-party system is absolutely hilarious and terrifying at the same time. This whole good me vs bad them mentality is INSANE. Look at you, grown men and women acting like a bunch of kids.

Let me tell you a secret.
Obama was a crazy socialist who didn't even try to reduce your massive debt, spent money he didn't even have, and got thousands of people killed. Trump, being mentally stuck in the 16th century and thinking mercantilism is the hottest **** ever, is currently trying to start a full blown trade war, which is the only kind of war where everyone loses.

Your politicians suck. Hard. Your economy has been one step away from "Suck. Hard." for the last ten years or so.
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Our politicians are democratically elected though. The only way we could have sucky politicians, is if those are the kinds of politicians the average intellectual ability of our voting populace earns and deserves.

We've all been mentally crippled here...
 
RichardMZhlubb said:
What question? Do you mean the idiotic suggestion that there’s something wrong with an artist who painted a scene from the Bible that has been depicted by scores of artists over hundreds of years?
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No I'm referring to the artist who painted a scene of white people being beheaded and glorified, sorry we see two different movies.


And being pals with Farrakhan, an open Anti-Semite, that was withheld from being released until now.. I wonder why


Great avatar. I see Trump lives rent free in your brain too!
 
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