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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[facilitatorn]

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/12/1976888/-You-know-that-extra-300-a-week-Trump-okayed-for-the-jobless-The-money-already-is-running-out

[barton]

The way it works is they don't delete the post that has negative votes. They simply make you have to click the post to expand it.  Similar to how the ignore feature here works. So nothing is removed (unless a moderator deems it so). 
 
Most of the posts that get downvoted aren't even opinion-based.  They are the LOL and the HEH variety.  The posts that don't add anything to the conversation.

I can see potential problems when posts are affected by "likes" or up/down votes,  especially where you might have a poster who is well-informed and literate,  but holds an opinion that's unpopular in that room.   To me,  if a post stands, then it stands on its own merits,  without bearing the medals (or scars)  of a popularity rating.   LoL and Heh are ignorable,  and don't really impede anyone's scrolling.   There's a hazard that rating systems turn some people into approval junkies,  and they become as a result less willing to speak plainly or call others on flawed logic or depart from an orthodoxy.

From my experience, straightforward rules work better - no ad homs, no bomb recipes,  no porn imagery or sexist memes,  that kind of thing.   Different places give different latitude. 

[facilitatorn]

http://www.vox.com/21429671/whistleblower-dhs-russia-interference-border-chad-wolf

[bambu.]

"It's impossible to have anything exclusively Black WHITE because our families are integrated," says Scott. "We are an integrated, tolerant and diverse community even as Black WHITE people, so we don't intend for it to be exclusively Black WHITE, but we do intend for it to be pro Black WHITE in every way."




Imagine the uproar.

It’s been happening for seventy years in more places than not. We’re living the uproar. Wake up, grandpa. Get the fuck out of the way.

The aim should be for people of all races and religions to live together in peace, love, and equality.
Everything pro-Black in a community is not that, nor is everything pro-White.

Hasn't worked in:

Liberte
Fraternite
Egalite.......France...

..so why would it work anywhere else?
It doesn't work, plain and simple.
As a white, heterosexual, Christian male I want to live in a place that is equal in every way...which is impossible...
or somewhere that heavily favours me in every way.

[kidcarter8]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/12/us/freedom-black-cooperative-toomsboro/index.html


"It's impossible to have anything exclusively Black because our families are integrated," says Scott. "We are an integrated, tolerant and diverse community even as Black people, so we don't intend for it to be exclusively Black, but we do intend for it to be pro Black in every way."



What could possibly go wrong?

I would feel comfortable living there,  more so in some ways than where I live now.   There are communities like that,  that are pro various ethnicities, all over America,  and many attract positive energy.   I've gone down to Lindsborg,  Kansas a few times,  and enjoyed soaking up the Scandian heritage stuff.   And, unlike many white enclaves,these towns don't exclude others.  So it's a false equivalence to compare this new town to a place that's "pro white. "

Name these "enclaves" that are intentionally excluding black folks, present day.

[facilitatorn]

http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/most-segregated-cities-in-america

Get out of the way, grandpa.

[josh]

"It's impossible to have anything exclusively Black WHITE because our families are integrated," says Scott. "We are an integrated, tolerant and diverse community even as Black WHITE people, so we don't intend for it to be exclusively Black WHITE, but we do intend for it to be pro Black WHITE in every way."


Imagine the uproar.

Kid, that's what many places in this country are like NOW. And those are the good ones.

That's why there is an uproar.

And you just don't get it.

[facilitatorn]

http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/most-segregated-cities-in-america

Get out of the way, grandpa.

Top 10

Pine Bluff, AR
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
Albany, GA
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI
Niles-Benton Harbor, MI
Memphis, TN
Jackson, MS
Monroe, LA
Cleveland-Elyria, OH
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

[josh]

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/virus-rises-dakotas-freedom-argument-trumps-masks-72969812

So surprising.

Why won't Trump MANDATE it?

And why wouldn't he mandate it in April or May?

Because it was effecting blue states more than red states.

We already covered that.

Now? Ask him.

[facilitatorn]

http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/most-segregated-cities-in-america

Get out of the way, grandpa.

Top 10

Pine Bluff, AR
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
Albany, GA
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI
Niles-Benton Harbor, MI
Memphis, TN
Jackson, MS
Monroe, LA
Cleveland-Elyria, OH
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

None of these are in Oregon which might be what has the inbred crackers there so tweaked.

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/12/us/freedom-black-cooperative-toomsboro/index.html


"It's impossible to have anything exclusively Black because our families are integrated," says Scott. "We are an integrated, tolerant and diverse community even as Black people, so we don't intend for it to be exclusively Black, but we do intend for it to be pro Black in every way."



What could possibly go wrong?

I would feel comfortable living there,  more so in some ways than where I live now.   There are communities like that,  that are pro various ethnicities, all over America,  and many attract positive energy.   I've gone down to Lindsborg,  Kansas a few times,  and enjoyed soaking up the Scandian heritage stuff.   And, unlike many white enclaves,these towns don't exclude others.  So it's a false equivalence to compare this new town to a place that's "pro white. "

Name these "enclaves" that are intentionally excluding black folks, present day.

Oh, look. Kid is rewriting the question to try to make it fit his narrative better.

That is an example of a racist ploy, Kid.

The line is " integrated, tolerant and diverse community."

Do you need us to tell you which places are not  "integrated, tolerant and diverse?!"

[facilitatorn]

http://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/trump-health-appointees-edit-cdc-reports-covid-coronavirus.html

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/12/opinions/voting-rights-texas-26th-amendment-election-douglas/index.html

[bambu.]

Aren't US schools segregated voluntarily along racial lines?
School cafeterias...Blacks in one section, Whites in another, Asians in another, Latinos in other...and if a student who should be sitting in their section sits down in another section they are seen as spying, listening to the secrets of the other group and forced back into their own group?

[josh]