Curious for you to explain why you see it as “revenge”?

That term seems to imply that Thompson had caused harm of some sort.

Care to help me understand better?

He could pardon everyone of the dreamers.

I guess both ‘identity’ and ‘heritage’ are doing a lot of heavy lifting.

And I know this is mostly pedantry, but there’re terms that actually do fit better. Like immigrants, settlers, etc.

My great grandad was from Sicily. I’m from Minnesota. I don’t have any heritage or identity that has much to do with Sicily. I do have heritage as the progeny of immigrants from Sicily. But not Sicily.

But the golden rule presents the flaw of self interests. The golden rule relies on you presuming others want to be treated the same as you.

You shouldn’t treat others as you’d like. You should treat others as they’d like.

Self is group, group is self.

Dog is cat

Water is dry

Up is down

I call that the Costanza maneuver

(checks username) mmm hmm

They’re called temples

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But they’re not Irish or Cuban or Italian.

They’re Americans.

I think there’s a big difference between knowing your family’s history and drawing an identity from it.

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We’re all Ethiopian

As far as white/Caucasian Americans, I’d bet money it’s Germanic ancestry.

I recall reading that at one point in the 19th century, 52% of American newspapers were printed in German. And, you still find towns with German names from coast to coast. Anaheim California, Hamburg Minnesota, Berlin New Hampshire.

If you’re near Eastern Indiana, check out Oldenburg.

On the Uber budget end it’s not an option.

And while I haven’t been shopping for one, the few times a glanced inside the home center over the last year, they all were WiFi connected.

Even my living room TV, if I don’t hook it up to WiFi, has an annoying blinking light asking you to hook it up.

It’s an industry problem, not a consumption problem.

Just because same sex couples don’t birth kids doesn’t mean we’ll stop trying.

Anything is possible through Jesus.

When is this magical time you think when everyone used cash the majority of the time?

Because I’m 45 years old and it wasn’t in my adult life. I’ve had a debt card to my savings/checking since I was 15 years old. And I’ve had credit cards since I was 19.

Half my friends bought their first homes right after the 2007 crash because mortgages were cheaper than rent. I’ve financed 4 vehicles. I currently have a mortgage.

I’ve rarely used cash for anything in my life other than “vice/sin” (drugs, strip clubs) purchases in order to keep them more private.

I don’t think your comment has any truth to it at all. Nobody’s been relying on cash to get them through most of their purchases since cheques became universal in the early 80’s.

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Neo liberal / laissez-faire applies to both major parties in the USA.

Although, it’s certainly becoming less so with the GOP than the Democrats. IE: bailouts for farmers affected by their own tariffs, mass deportations which will affect business, etc.