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  2. ProfD The poorest American is more well off than someone in [pick a 3rd world country]. It depends on what you're calling "well off". A lot of people in third world countries may be poor and don't have the TANGIBLE luxuries we have in the United States but most of them have benefits that can't be bought with money -Strong family connections. You almost never hear them complaining about being lonely or unwanted. -Better natural health without a bunch of pills and medications -Simpler societies that are easier to navigate through -Less likely to be incarcerated -Less likely to be shot or robbed Working poor just means one will never have a new car or take vacations but their basic needs will be met. Look no further than gas stations. Price going up like a thermometer. People still at the pump buying it. Makes me wonder how...lol. I put enough gas in my tank to get to work and back; yet I'm seeing hundreds of people riding around in gas guzzling SUVs all day and night smoking weed and bumping their sounds and I'm wondering how they're able to afford it. American poor is built different The poor in America today are certainly more COMPLACENT than they were in other periods in our history. There used to be a time in America where the men would be in the streets shouting and yelling and demanding more jobs with higher pay and better benefits. The question becomes where does that leave AfroAmericans in the mix ....behind.
  3. Rogue AI bots have hacked into governments and public bodies around the world: tech giant OpenAI Tech giant OpenAI has admitted rogue AI bots have ‘accessed dozens of organisations around the world including governments, universities, public agencies, and other institutions improperly’ and ‘meddled’ with them. The US company behind ChatGPT said it had now alerted those affected including the financial regulator US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Census Bureau and the US Department of Education. As fears over the dangers of AI grow, with Pope Leo yesterday warning that we ‘must not lose humanity to machines’, alarm bells have rung over OpenAI’s admission that some of the bots used ‘extreme methods’ to bypass security measures on websites. Autonomous AI agents are said to have found and accessed tools reserved for software developers to get census data from the Census Bureau, the company said. OpenAI also admitted its AI agents had used ‘misalignment’ in attempts to get at information from websites, effectively meaning they acted autonomously and did something they were not trained or intended to do. Rogue AI bots have hacked into governments and public bodies around the world: tech giant OpenAI If any of yall believe this.....I have some ocean front property in Michigan I'm selling for the price of a wing ding dinner, lol.
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  6. The poorest American is more well off than someone in [pick a 3rd world country]. Working poor just means one will never have a new car or take vacations but their basic needs will be met. Look no further than gas stations. Price going up like a thermometer. People still at the pump buying it. American poor is built different.🤣 The question becomes where does that leave AfroAmericans in the mix.😎
  7. The FCC issues broadcast licenses. The media agrees to operate within the broadcastint rules. However, the FCC doesn't control or dictate content. PBS & NPR are the closest thing America will get to it. Instead of being run by government, America chose its form of Democracy & the system of capitalism. The system has worked out to make the USA the most powerful nation on the planet.😎
  8. It will not get to a point where the number of feminists & [pick a pill] dudes is significant enough to affect population growth. No different than the alphabet soup community. There's more people in that community now but it still takes heterosexual folks to create them. Right. If Black folks followed the code, there would be no one-night stands or children born out of wedlock.🤣 Back in the early 1980s, HIV/AIDS had everybody shook for a minute. The needle stopped on the record. People stopped dancing & stood still like mannequins. No f8cking. As soon as HIV/AIDS was labelled as a disease among gay dudes & needle-sharing drug users, the record resumed playing & Black folks went back to unprotected f8cking like rabbits.🤣 That's why there's 50+ million Black folks running around today.😁 My point is there has been & will always be a minority of people who don't get down in the traditional ssnse of relationships &/or procreation. Feminists & [pick a pill] dudes are the modern representation of that minority.😎
  9. ProfD Employed Americans have just enough money to pay high azz healthcare costs. The government subsidizes it for poor people. Many employed Americans ARE poor. Many are making too much money to qualify for Medicaid but aren't making enough to cover their medical costs and other expenses. Massive unemployment will create a completely different situation affecting white folks. It will lead to UBI & a form of Universal Healthcare (UHC). Non-whites will benefit by default. I don't think they plan on masses unemployment for White folks. I think they're trying to flood America with as many yellow and brown and even African Black (not our Black...lol) folks as they can to make THEM the new working underclass so that THEY will take the brunt of any mass poverty and mass employment this nations slips into from time to time while the Whites sit on top. That's their PLAN. Not sure how well it will be implemented.
  10. First of all, most of the media is controlled by the government anyway through the FCC so in a sense it IS state controlled. But personally, I think America SHOULD have a state-run television channel like some of these other countries so that it operates independently of the financial or profit factor. I don't think governments should be beholden to private corporate interests but should always have the upper hand.
  11. BINGO I think you're giving Cynique too much credit.....lol. YOUR quote of being civilized means giving up freedom in exchange for liberties is an EXCELLENT one and hits the nail directly on the head and sums up the difference.
  12. ProfD Right. I do not believe the number of feminists & [pick a pill] dudes among Black people has reached critical mass or a level to be considered a pathology. We don't want to wait until it GETS do that point, do we? NF Jr. also didn't think Black people should procreate until they were well established & at least 30 years old. Dr. Frances Cress-Welsing had a similar belief. You're right in that I remember Dr. Welsing expressing such beliefs but I don't recall Mr. Fuller expressing them. I remember him advocating a LOOOOOONG LIST of questions people should ask eachother before having sex...LOL. He said they were supposed to look at eachother naked and examine eachother and ask questions like "have you ALWAYS been a woman"....LOL Depends on where you live. Go to predominantly Black cities across America & you'll see a whole lot of pure AfroAmerican children. That's true. Every time I go back to Detroit it's like going back to the Motherland, lol. Sometimes I take fellow African co-workers back to Detroit with me and they say like looks like a major African city. They are really amazed at seeing Black police officers....especially female.
  13. Gotcha. Being civilized means giving up total freedom in exchange for liberties. I still like the water & ice analogy because of the latitude between freedom & liberty within civilization. Otherwise, a human can live away from civilization & be totally free to do whatever they desire.😎
  14. Employed Americans have just enough money to pay high azz healthcare costs. The government subsidizes it for poor people. Massive unemployment will create a completely different situation affecting white folks. It will lead to UBI & a form of Universal Healthcare (UHC). Non-whites will benefit by default. Here in Wakanda, I don't know of any Black people who are getting any type of welfare or social services. Black folks got money.😁😎
  15. Right. I do not believe the number of feminists & [pick a pill] dudes among Black people has reached critical mass or a level to be considered a pathology. NF Jr. also didn't think Black people should procreate until they were well established & at least 30 years old. Dr. Frances Cress-Welsing had a similar belief.😁 Depends on where you live. Go to predominantly Black cities across America & you'll see a whole lot of pure AfroAmerican children.😎
  16. I agree with you. Anybody who lives inside of a civilization is not free. I'm just explaining the difference between freedom and liberty and while being liberated doesn't mean you're free.
  17. ProfD It will become inevitable when technology puts more people are out of work. Lol..... That's like saying the more people get sick and chronic illnesses....Universal Healthcare will be inevitable. That suggests that the government actually CARES how bad things get for the people in society. Many Black folks have been conditioned for several centuries to depend on the white man for every crumb of their daily bread. The same Black folks will offer several excuses for why they cannot be self-sufficient &/or work with other Black folks to produce & build wealth. Maybe fewer opportunities at the white man's table will force Black folks to do something different. I think it will. Otherwise, right along with poor white folks, some Black folks will collect their UBI checks & whatever monies they can hustle up & try to make the best of it. Not too much different from the current welfare situation. How many MEN do you know get a welfare check? I'm not talking about EBD/food stamps....but actual currency?
  18. Humans cannot be totally free like animals because humans are far more destructive. As a result of our ability to get out of hand, humans impose limitations on themselves in order to function as a civilization.😎
  19. ProfD You seem to be suggesting that because it's happening in White communities it's NOT a problem or it's not so bad for our people as well. This is a mistake to make for several reasons..... As a student of Mr. Fuller you as well as I know that they will harm their own just to harm our people. They'll put out AIDS and drugs in society knowing some of their own people will die, just to kill more of ours. So you can't go by what's going on among them. The Caucasian community already naturally has a large amount of sexual tension and dysfunction so it's not "new" to them. It's not considered pathological. Sexual anxiety and friction between the sexes is NOT natural to our people and is indeed new and should be treated as a crisis or pathology that must be solved. I don't see as many Black children...truly Black children....running around as I did 30 and 40 years ago. Many of them looked yellowish and mixed. Many of the ones who ARE genuinely Black (brown or dark skinned)....when you look at the parents they're usually from Africa.
  20. ....not really. It wasn't too bad but I wouldn't call it "perfect". It suggests that freedom is just a different FORM of liberty, which I would agree with. However unlike freedom which tolerates NO limitations outside of those which are found in nature, a person can be liberated WITH limits and restrictions. For example.......... Wild birds are free. Most Americans are liberated. The key factor in the difference being B/being imposed restrictions.
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  24. @aka Contrarian ..I dig your take on freedom & liberty. The water & ice analogy was perfect.😎
  25. White folks are having the same problem among their younger people. Between education with more white women enrolled in colleges & universities than white white men & career opportunities, white folks are having issues with dating too. Plenty white feminists & [pick a pill] white dudes. That's why white folks are concerned with low birth rates. I still see a whole lotta Black children in strollers & hopping on & off school buses & running, playing & laughing around these parts. That tells mw there's still a whole lotta f8ckin going on somewhere among Black folks.🤣😎
  26. For somebody who poo-poos abstract thinking, in seeking to differentiate between "freedom" and "liberty", Pioneer has stumbled into abstract territory and landed in a place that is replete with semantic overtones. "Freedom" and "liberty" are intangible concepts that have to be condensed into words in order to facilitate a definition. My approach to this subject is a broad metaphoric one, and involves comparing freedom and liberty to ice and water, suggesting that they are 2 conditions that are different versions of the same thing. One tends to be passive, the other active; freedom being subjective, and liberty being objective. Inasmuch as water can become frozen and ice can thaw, the axiom about "the same fire that melts wax, makes steel hard" comes to mind... Just depends on the circumstances. During the Civil Rights struggle, a favorite rallying cry to those in the trenches fighting for equal rights was to remind that "freedom ain't free". And whose more entitled to make the statement than those who fought for it?
  27. It will become inevitable when technology puts more people are out of work. Many Black folks have been conditioned for several centuries to depend on the white man for every crumb of their daily bread. The same Black folks will offer several excuses for why they cannot be self-sufficient &/or work with other Black folks to produce & build wealth. Maybe fewer opportunities at the white man's table will force Black folks to do something different. Otherwise, right along with poor white folks, some Black folks will collect their UBI checks & whatever monies they can hustle up & try to make the best of it. Not too much different from the current welfare situation.😎

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