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This would fit in the grind my gears thread, but that's not for anything remotely political.

But calling Black Americans that have been American's since the day they were born, African Americans, grinds the fuck out of my gears. Black Americans aren't African Americans they are Americans. And if you want to add an adjective, they are Black Americans.

Most black people in this country are American. And that's it.

You're not African American unless you weren't born here, then came here, and became a citizen.

I've never in my life referenced myself as a White American.

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[quote=sdskinsfan2001;1291842]This would fit in the grind my gears thread, but that's not for anything remotely political.

But calling Black Americans that have been American's since the day they were born, African Americans, grinds the fuck out of my gears. Black Americans aren't African Americans they are Americans. And if you want to add an adjective, they are Black Americans.

Most black people in this country are American. And that's it.

You're not African American unless you weren't born here, then came here, and became a citizen.

I've never in my life referenced myself as a White American.[/quote]


What about Irish, Italian etc, ? I understand your point and I have worked with actual Africans who get upset at the term "African Americans ".

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Let people be called whatever the hell they want to be called.

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[QUOTE=Giantone;1291844]What about Irish, Italian etc, ? I understand your point and I have worked with actual Africans who get upset at the term "African Americans ".[/QUOTE]

The same would apply.

[QUOTE=MTK;1291861]Let people be called whatever the hell they want to be called.[/QUOTE]

Individuals can call themselves whatever they want. I meant when people are referencing other people in conversation, debate, etc.

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[quote=sdskinsfan2001;1291866]The same would apply.



Individuals can call themselves whatever they want. I meant when people are referencing other people in conversation, debate, etc.[/quote]

Black or African American are both perfectly acceptable

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In what other profession can you bring giant memes to work and not be laughed out of the room and/or fired? WTF is going on, this is Congress?

[URL="https://www.indy100.com/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-scooby-doo-meme-b1925458"]Marjorie Taylor Greene unveiled a Scooby-Doo meme in Congress and people are laughing at her, not with her[/URL]

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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the controversial Arizona Democrat who threatens to derail President Biden's legislative agenda, received more than $750,000 in donations from the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. After that, she announced her opposition to a Democratic plan to lower prescription drug costs.

Sinema told White House officials that she opposes House and Senate bills that would allow Medicare to negotiate drug costs, sources told Politico this week.

[url]https://www.salon.com/2021/09/23/big-pharma-firms-donated-750k-to-kyrsten-sinema--then-she-opposed-bill/[/url]

[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/us/politics/democrats-drug-pricing.html[/url]

I dont know much about prescription pricing and I imagine a drug thats been out for while with generic options are cheaper than newer drugs with generics .....

prescription pricing seems to be a bipartisan issue. Insulin really highlights the problem.

Seems like a handful of Dems plus all republicans voted against the bill but I think it was tied to the 3.5B budget bill in some way so itd be disingenious to label all republicans as pro big pharma.

A clean straight up bill should be brought and then lets see what happens. See who is bought and who actually walks the talk.

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750k in "donations"

Right

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Sinema is another Joe Manchin willing to destroy the planet for power.

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[url]https://www.statnews.com/feature/prescription-politics/federal-full-data-set/[/url]

Both sides of the aisle get big pharma donations it’s almost evenly split. 7.1 to 6.8 with a slight lean GOP.

Krysten Sinema is so freakin hot. Complete smoke show.

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[quote=MTK;1291873]In what other profession can you bring giant memes to work and not be laughed out of the room and/or fired? WTF is going on, this is Congress?

[URL="https://www.indy100.com/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-scooby-doo-meme-b1925458"]Marjorie Taylor Greene unveiled a Scooby-Doo meme in Congress and people are laughing at her, not with her[/URL][/quote]


Can we get [URL="https://twitter.com/KnowNothingTV/status/1440844068230090763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1440844068230090763%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-36694817611731800403.ampproject.net%2F2109102127000%2Fframe.html"]this entered[/URL] into the official House record too?

Literally dying over here.

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[url]https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-emotional-israel-iron-dome-vote[/url]

AOC consoled by other members after Israel Iron Dome House vote

Remember folks, it’s not democratic socialist…going forward it’s National Socialist. She and her squad are well know national socialist.

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[QUOTE=Chico23231;1291893][url]https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-emotional-israel-iron-dome-vote[/url]

AOC consoled by other members after Israel Iron Dome House vote

Remember folks, it’s not democratic socialist…going forward it’s National Socialist. She and her squad are well know national socialist.[/QUOTE]


Yes well known National socialists. Lol.
You must really miss the White Nationalist Autocracy we were basking in…[emoji849]

AOC is such an obvious target of the extreme right. A woman and a minority. Man y’all hate that she has the nerve to stand up for what she believes in….

Now of course the extreme right will call her anti-Semitic, when it is clear the problem is not with Jewish people but with the Government over there - as well it should be.

Furthermore since when does the extreme right give a fuck about our allies? We just shit all over them for years. Completely damaged our standing with them all over the world. America First and fuck the rest of the world…right? All of the sudden their hearts are bleeding for Afghanistan citizens and Israelis to the point they are just sickened that AOC and her anti-Semitic “crew” or “gang” or whatever other scary they are going to take the white peoples land away - moniker you wanna throw on them- are not just throwing money at a foreign government. Ok. This is nothing more than political spin. It is what the extreme right does best.

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[quote=punch it in;1291899]Yes well known National socialists. Lol.
You must really miss the White Nationalist Autocracy we were basking in…[emoji849]

AOC is such an obvious target of the extreme right. A woman and a minority. Man y’all hate that she has the nerve to stand up for what she believes in….

Now of course the extreme right will call her anti-Semitic, [B]when it is clear the problem is not with Jewish people but with the Government over there[/B] - as well it should be.

Furthermore since when does the extreme right give a fuck about our allies? We just shit all over them for years. Completely damaged our standing with them all over the world. America First and fuck the rest of the world…right? All of the sudden their hearts are bleeding for Afghanistan citizens and Israelis to the point they are just sickened that AOC and her anti-Semitic “crew” or “gang” or whatever other scary they are going to take the white peoples land away - moniker you wanna throw on them- are not just throwing money at a foreign government. Ok. This is nothing more than political spin. It is what the extreme right does best.[/quote]

No no no. NO room for nuance Punch. It's black and white - if you have a problem with Israel's government you are an anti-semite.