Cynique

Can't you say what you have to say in a few words? Do you really think i'm going to waste my time reading your long drawn out drivel? Move along and focus on your "Code" project so maybe you can organize a support group to babysit you.

@Pioneer1 UGH. i have no desire to be infected with a virus like you. I'll leave that to hard-up women who don't mind teenie weenie impotent losers who try to compensate for this by never admitting they're wrong. You're who needs to stop, jack-off.

@Troy for somebody who crows about all the times he's been stopped by the "po-po" when driving while black, you ought be more invested in the whole campaign to put white cops in check, along with the NFL who exploits black players. ( Instead of posting videos of professional thieves accosting a suburban white kid in an effort to tell somebody from around Chicago that killing people for sneakers is still widespread, you might want to consider the circumstances for my statement to the contrary. As somebody who reads the head count of Chicago murder victims, - lists that for at least the past 10 years are printed everyday in the local newspapers, i can tell you i can't remember the last time any of the thousands of these homocides in this big city have been been missing his shoes, and his cause of death listed as sneaker theft.) You need to direct your wrath toward billionaire, Michael Jordan, instead of the object of your seething belittlement, Colin Kaepernick, - MJ who benefits from the blood and sweat of those overseas peons who work for slave wages to produce his exorbitantly priced gym shoes, a charge being leveled against NIKE all over FaceBook from those who stay woke, contrary to your belief that everybody but you is naive and gullible.

The people going on shooting sprees and those who become victims of the oxicodone, are more likely to be dysfunctional middle class whites, than ignorant snaggle-toothed Trump supporters high on meth, open carrying their assault rifles more for show than mass killings. You waste your empathy of these underclass whites who put Trump in office. You fall into the same category as the bleeding heart liberals who make excuses for these so-called victims. I can say with just as much conviction that they are not sympathetic characters but are bigots who did feel their white entitlement was threatened. Observe them at Trump rallies and listen to them in interviews. They bristle with resentment toward people not conditions. Kanye talked about slavery being a choice and he was wrong because black people were physically and mentally shackled. But for the millions of slovenly, indigent white folks, subsisting on government handouts is a choice. No matter how bad their schools, they are still better-funded and operated than black ones. They need only to make an effort to get their act together and these whites are free to seek their fortune, secure in the knowledge that their white skin privilege is their ticket to a better life. Compare whites and blacks to their peers when asking the question who is better off. A poor white person is better off than a poor black person, and a middle class white person is better off then a middle class black one. A middle class black person is only better off than a poor white person because he has shown more ambition but his status doesn't immunize him against racism.

Only because you can't stand rejection - and why you're a "jack-off" full of yourself.

The males on this board bring out the worst in me. Y'all don't inspire me to be angelic. "Familiarity breeds contempt" i guess and if i likewise get on your nerves, then i've served my purpose. BTW, Your newest avatar is about as far as something can get from being a symbol of its user. In the vast universe, a luminous heavenly body you are not. You're more like a dense black hole, full of yourself.

Lord, help us. Pioneer is now shielding himself behind a new avatar, one that brings to mind a biblical patriarch. Guess he figures he needs a make-over to dispel the devilishness that has recently burnished his aura. I always did say he had a "Messianic Complex", and now he's representing himself with a image he probably hopes will bring to mind a black Moses parting the Red Sea and leading his people to the promised land, - a far cry from the reality of his actually muddying the waters and misleading his tribesmen to the dead sea of Pseudo-Africanism. =

How is my description of FaceBook making Trump's ascendancy to power inconsequential? And just what is it you're doing about what Trump has unleashed besides expressing your tolerance of any black person who voted for him or opts to support him, and bad mouthing anybody who doesn't commiserate with you by hating FaceBook instead of recognizing it for what it is and taking this in their stride?

Blah, blah, blah. If you can't take it, don't dish out, What i said about you is the price you pay for lying, and all of your diversionary tactics don't distract from this.

Nothing in my description is untrue and your criticism of FaceBook doesn't make what i said false.

The dictionary definition of Oligarchy says nothing about it being a Republic. The dictionary definition of an Republic says nothing about it being an Oligarchy. If somebody like pioneer wants to twist words to concoct his own definitions rather than appreciate the intrinsic meaning of words, then let him. His opinion carries no weight even if he does take pride in his intellectual myopia while expressing contempt for higher education. Troy previously alluded to how fruits come in many varieties, an observation that can be made in nature and applied here. Though they are both fruits, an orange is not an apple, and even it they both have skin, they are not interchangeable. That's why they're given 2 different names. So it is, with systems of government. Giving each one its own name is a way of distinguishing one from another. and preserving each word's purity and integrity. That's how language works. What difference does it make whether pioneer thinks a Republic is an Oligarchy? Leave him to his brittle little world that would shatter at just the idea of his being imperfect.

@Del What does "Oofi" mean?

That's the appeal of it. It is a unique organic entity that renews itself and respires with life; something you fail to appreciate.

@Pioneer1 A sexual predator like you who is also a closet pedophile and a pathological liar needs to stfu.

FaceBook could never be accused of not having a sense of humor.

What is the trade-off? it's not like you're spending your money and not getting something in return. Are you ever a victim of the ploys you warn others about? Or do you just do without, satisfied with generic products? BTW, FaceBook is on fire with people saying what you're saying about the NIKE Kaepernick deal. So users are not that naive. A lot of blacks say whatever the case, they are still going to patronize NIKE in support of Kaepernick. And, of course, there are millions from the MAGA crowd who will boycott this company, and there are pictures all over the internet of these disgruntled fans burning their NIKE shoes. I won't be buying any NIKEs and i am a supporter of this campaign.

That's because you taunt him into changing his mind; not the case with your lil bro. But this isn't really anything worth quibbling about.

You enthusiastically do this to Troy all the time. But you remain under the thrall of pioneer

NIKE is not a philanthropic organization. @Troy As a business man, yourself, why are you so contemptuous of corporations using marketing strategies in order to push their products and realize a profit for them and their stock holders? If you had your way, companies would just post a picture of their product with a caption: "This is what we are trying to sell. We'd appreciate it if you would please buy it." Nobody forces anybody to buy something that catches their fancy. Consumerism is based on a "buying what you want rather than what you need" mind-set. People tend to compartmentalize their lives and acquiring cherished possessions is a niche they set aside to spoil themselves.

Why?

A republic is not an oligarchy because it is not ruled by a small group of people; it is ruled by a large governing body elected by its citizens to represent them.

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@Troy . Actually anybody of any age who has anything of value on them or is a driving late model car is a target for being robbed. or hi-jacked. iPhones are a hot item in Chicago, carjackings rampant, ATM customers also at high risk. Not to mention - banks! Why single out gym shoes? It is 2018 and what corporate America does is not unexpected.. i still get a charge out of the embarrassment and shame and outrage this demonstration is inflicting on the NFL, the MAGA crowd and super patriotic hypocrites.

Sacrifice is relative. Anything you give up what robs you of what has meaning in your life is a sacrifice. Kaepernick is being elevated, not by his own design but by others seeking to villanize, idolize or capitalize off him. i think his intentions are good , which is why i continue to give him credit. He has made yet another impact thanks to NIKE. He is using them as much as they are using him. As for NIKE, just as many affluent people buy them as those who can't afford them; even more. And they come in all price ranges. Once again, you and i clash over ordinary people seeking things that make them happy instead of being satisfied with drudgery, just to make a point. i don't think anybody is being killed for their shoes anymore. Nowadays most kids from all walks of life are more focused on video games and iPhones and social media.

To associate other forms of government with an "oligarchy" robs the word of its meaning. If it was all those other systems, then there would be no need for the word "oligarchy" to exist. pioneer falls in the same category as Donald Trump. He believes that he need only state something to make it so, and anything that contradicts what he says, is "fake". His egocentrism is the glue that holds him together - what keeps his fragile little private world from imploding.