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ProfD Taxation doesn't take money by force. Problem is wealthy people do not pay a proportional amount compared to lower classes. Since I'm not rich, I'm not sure what's really going on with rich people and the tax situation in the United States. I used to think everybody was under a flat tax and we all paid the same percentage. Then I found out the U.S. has a progressive tax system where the higher your income the bigger PERCENTAGE of your money they take! Which isn't fair in my opinion. This has to atleast contribute to a lot of the games many rich people are forced to play to keep their money from being confiscated from them unfairly. If we had a fair tax system that taxed everyone at the same rate, I believe most wealthy people would be less likely to play games and look for loopholes to avoid paying. The working folks will get paid a livable wage unlike chattel slavery. Who's going to guarantee this? Will the government be paying them directly? Or will the government FORCE private businesses to pay their employees a certain rate? Today, there are exploitative working conditions that migrant workers endure in jobs that American workers wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole. Correct, but THEY'RE not complaining. Many of them are happy as hell for the opportunity TO work and get SOMETHING, compared to where they came from. The question is how one defines illegal & immoral. The same white folks who created those laws allow wealthy people cheat, er, hide their money by manipulating tax laws. It's simple. Illegal means against the law...whether those laws are Constitutional, Federal, State, or Local. Immoral means unrighteous. Not right or just. There's a difference between robbing someone of their money & taxing them for the privilege of living within a system that allows them to earn it. True. But what good is allowing them to earn it if you're going to turn around and TAKE it from them??? You're basically raising a fatted calf or pig to be slaughtered and fed. Again, nobody has to be poor in the richest nation on the planet. Class is a construct that creates certain conditions that can be further exploited for employment & profit. Class is a construct, but an inevitable one because EVERY society has a class structure. Some are more complex than others. Even a remote tribe in the middle of the jungle has a "chief" and him and his associates are in a higher class than the rest of the tribe. Social services, law enforcement, legal system & medical industry to name a few benefit from chaos & confusion. Wealthy people benefit even moreso. So it would behoove one to GET OUT of poverty if they can, so they won't fall victim to this chaos and confusion. Beyond mental health issues, most personal problems stem from having limited resources. Facts. When I refer to people doing a better job of taking care of each other, it doesn't mean they individually have to stop whatever they're doing to help someone else. Humans taking care of each other is supporting institutions that serve as societal safety nets. I agree. Paying taxes or giving to charities or donating food are ways of helping each other that require very little effort. I agree, as long as those taxes aren't unfairly or extraordinarily high out of proportion. When taxes become too high, it then becomes a PUNISHMENT for earning money and discourages people from being productive in the first place. Why work hard and smart and try to get rich, if somebody is just going to take your wealth from you anyway??? Governments are the overarching agency with the responsibility of taking care of its citizens. Anyone with more resources than they can possibly spend in their lifetime or the next can definitely help others. You're right. However don't neglect the fact that many people would rather most of their excess and disposable resources be PASSED DOWN to their children, grand children, and great grand children; instead of redistributed to strangers who didn't earn it. There's no such thing as pocket watching a multimillionaire or billionaire or trillionaire. They have so much money that it doesn't fit in their pockets or one Brinks truck.🤣 But it's still THEIR money. You may have a wife and girlfriend on the side. The brutha with NO luck with women may see it as only fair that since you have so many women you should share YOUR WIFE with him a couple nights a week because he's lacking. All should be scolded if they are wasting money on material things & wars. If those material things make them happy AND it's not harming others, I say let them have at it. Society has a way of conditioning the masses of people to think & act in certain ways to achieve desired outcomes which includes the maintenance of class based systems True. However when it comes to "fantasy" societies like Communist and Socialist systems, there's a reason most of those societies don't last longer than 100 years. They LOOK good on paper, but are impractical because they don't take human nature and human desires into account. Any system that FORCES everybody to live the same way with the same amount of money despite differences in intelligence, skill, and ambition; is a system that is oppressive and will ultimately fail and implode on itself. Humans are NATURALLY uneven and unequal.....just like the fingers on your hand. Any attempt to "even out" humanity will be just as harmful as attempting to "even out" the fingers on your hand....lol.

frankster Our Knowledge on the subject Something tells me that can be summed up in 2 paragraphs....lol. So thats all you want stories? I want FACTS directly from those who either experienced them or observed them personally. The most direct account is to Experience it.....for yourself True. But I'm not sure if that would be the WISEST thing to do before consulting with those who HAVE, first. Who knows maybe we learn something from each other I'm already learning a thing or two from you....ABOUT you, lol. ProfD The next step would be putting in that zipper work & taking matters into her own hands. The next step would have been to keep our relationship strictly at work. I should have tried to get all of the goodies I could WHILE we were working and the opportunity was at it's clearest. Then again, I didn't know she was married........... Even when I was younger, I didn't have actual sex with married women.

It's funny that you're posting this right now, because JUST THIS MORNING I was reading this article and thought about our discussion about young and middle aged men not working.................... Voices: The silent shame of fiftysomethings looking for work is a huge problemWe are all familiar with Neets. We usually take the term to mean younger people not in education, employment or training. But should we be broadening the term to include an older cohort? Voices: The silent shame of fiftysomethings looking for work is a huge problem It seems as if this society tries TO shame people who are over 50 looking for work, as if being middle aged guarantees a steady source of income. I remember just a few years ago I had to find a new job because I wouldn't accept the vaccine my old job wanted us to take. Different things come up in life. NEET was coined in the UK but it's essentially the same thing as NILF. Again, people who aren't actively in the labor force nor in the classroom. Which explains why I hadn't heard of the term, despite the article claiming "we've all" heard of the term before....lol. Now, there's a huge population of people who were raised to look down on working with their hands but whose education does not provide skills to do real work. Facts. NILF/NEET people have a support system of family & friends in place allowing them to live a life of leisure while unemployed. Many of them are mooching off of friends, lovers, and relatives....but that type of strategy rarely lasts over a decade. Your parents eventually die, your friends get tired of supporting you, and your lover finds somebody else to love. With the exceptions of your parents...depending on how long they live....those other options rarely last over 5 years. Which means these people MUST either find a source of income or end up homeless, in prison, or dead. Baby Boomers & Gen-Xers are taking care of adult offspring & grandchildren too. They provide the housing & food, the basic necessities that enable NILF/NEET people to survive. More facts. You don't know how many 50 and 60 year olds I know who's grown ass 30 year old kids.....SONS....are still living with them. And some of these dudes have the NERVE to sit up and argue with their parents and not like being told what to do! IMO, any form of the Universal Basic Income (UBI) will increase the NILF/NEET population too. No doubt. There's no shortage of manufacturing & building & maintenence that needs to be done all over the planet. Therefore, no excuse for people being unemployed. The excuse is THEY aren't fit for those jobs, no matter how many are available....lol. You can't hold a job if you're constantly high, have ADHD, or otherwise anti-social. Would YOU want to live in a house some red-eyed mumble mouthed nigga with only a half a brain (because the other half got shot out back when he was living a gansta lifestyle) and a chronic weed addiction? In addition tp getting paid, I believe gainful employment makes people more interesting & well-rounded from a social perspective. The labor force also gives men & women a chance to meet & make positive connections too. There are far more benefits to working rather than sitting around all day doing little or nothing. MAN, you took the words right out of my....fingers??....lol. Work has always been a GREAT place to meet people, even in today's politically correct environment. You'd even work for low pay, if you enjoy what you do and the people you're doing it around. Most jobs I've been on I liked because of the people. I looked forward to seeing what kind of drama will unfold that day.

In the words of Fonzy from Happy Days....."exactamundo".....lol. One thing.... I believe Black Lives Matter sprung up as a result of the Michael Brown murder, not George Floyd. I remember they were around atleast as far back as 2016 because I had some BLM members working with me and my organization to help with the Flint Water Crisis back in 2016.

frankster Thats just The cool pose ....machismo - bravado It's not JUST a pose or a front. Compared with men of other races, when it comes to PHYSICAL abilities...Black men are clearly more confident. Whether it's sports, sex, fighting, or dancing. You can say anything you want.... Can you back it up.....or you just picking numbers out of head? Who can back up statements concerning casualty counts when it comes to mass murder and genocide in history? Every tragedy will have a dozen different figures of how many millions were killed and that number will differ based on the perspective of who's giving the report. They can't agree on exactly how many men were killed in the U.S. Civil War alone. It was your example....You said he was Once rich Correct, but "have" is PRESENT TENSE. Him having BEEN rich isn't the same as him BEING rich. Likewise White folks having BEEN conquered, colonized, and enslaved isn't the same as them BEING in those conditions today. I'm asking you examples of them BEING in that condition TODAY. Some have lost it...others are losing it There is no denying who is still the hegemon...they are Correct. I see you get my point. Just as there is no deny that most of us are no longer in Chattel Slavery or overt Political and Military Colonialism Facts...for the most part. But when it comes to overt military colonialism.....I'm not so sure. It appears that some African countries are directly subordinate to the military protection and rule of Western or Russian powers. Then you will remain a pawn....control by others and told what to think and believe. Unless you are part of nobility or a high government official, you're a pawn anyway. That includes YOU...lol. You are told what to think and believe and for the most part YOU believe it. As far as those things you choose not to believe...... The powers over you CONTROL the amount of information you receive so your beliefs and thoughts are limited anyway. My resources cannot compete...with them Correct, so you shouldn't have so much confidence in them. I find I am usually pretty accurate and correct in my assessment If THATS what you find, then apparently you're not looking hard enough...lol. In my interactions with you I've found quite a few inaccuracies and incorrect statements. ....and I didn't even have to LOOK that hard to find them, lol. I have no such resource....i have to that which is available and accessible to me Exactly. Which is one of the reasons I say your information, knowledge, and thinking are LIMITED. It may not sound smart ....but it maybe wise A wise man weighs his options as well as the pros and cons of the decisions he makes. A WISE man may come to the conclusion that he's better of not joining ANY plantation. He may come to the conclusion that he's better off taking his chances living in the woods or dead, than be a slave. You saw and heard Mandela's answer to that question....yet you ask it again They gave personnel money training weapons support to defeat....the colonialists. While the West gave the same to the Colonial oppressors Russia gave money, training, and weapons to Black South Africans to defeat the White colonist Afrikaners? When was this? I don't remember their being an ARMED conflict between Black South Africans and the White rulership. Let alone one supported by Russia. It is a point of weakness.....but you were raised to believe it is the greatest show of machismo Most heterosexual men don't have to be "raised" to seek women and wealth. It's a natural desire that automatically comes when boys hit puberty and continues for the rest of their lives. Again, if you are a heterosexual man you should KNOW this already....lol. It doesn't have to be taught. This desire doesn't necessarily make them weak, though unrestrained it can be used against them in certain circumstances. You think you have to prove you are a man....what that tells me Well tell me - when did I say this? You do not want to control people.....you want to lead people through and by organizing them around issue that concern and affect them. That involves controlling them to a certain extent. You can't lead people without having a measure of control over them. Do you have more money than the oppressors? No You can not use money and women to control You're naive. You absolutely can use these things and they HAVE been used for thousands of years to control men. ....their loyalty will be to the one who pays the most with the deepest pockets - so long as the money is coming. Which is why we need to make sure we have enough wealth for our people to rely on us, and not their enemies. If they are into money and women....them they will be tricked by people with money and women who turn tricks Only if they are too lazy or stupid to EARN these things and get them for themselves without the aid of their enemy. If they are able to recognize reason....then maybe they will be led by the wise Led where? To a monastery to become priests???? You've already condemned the desire for money and women, so apparently you want Black men to be MONKS who sit around not desiring anything anymore....less they be controlled and manipulated by those desires, lol. Most men....especially Black men...don't want to fight and put their lives on the line for a cause they are deriving no benefits or pleasures from.

frankster I think we all do to varying degrees Well now I'll have to question YOUR Blackness, if you think that most Black men suffer from various degrees of feeling physically inferior...lol. I've known a few, but generally speaking Black men tend to be the most confident men on the planet when it comes to physical abilities. As much as I would love the above to be true....it is not. When I last check approximately 20 yrs ago.... Roughly 70 million Africans died as a result of enslavement policy(Maafa) over about 400yrs....transatlantic trade internecine wars/raids forced marching seasoning/breaking in and living during enslavement in the West etc Roughly 60 million white military personnel died over 4yrs in just two wars....with a further 30 million civilians When you measure the ON GOING Maafa that started in the 1400s or maybe 1500s until this very day including military as well as chemical and biological warfare, the numbers of Africans killed goes up into the HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS. Not to mention the hundreds of millions of Native Americans that have been and still being killed through political, biological, and chemical warfare. Again, Whites have killed FAR MORE people of color than themselves. No comparison. Yea....but he was once rich - nevertheless. It goes to show that the conquerors and the rich can become the vanquish and poor.....as such is the commonality of the human condition. CAN is not the same as HAVE. We can talk about what CAN happen to rich people and White people all day, but what HAS happened to them? Have they become slaves or colonized to Africans? Have they lost the wealthy and power they've built in the Western Hemisphere for the past 600 years? We know they CAN....but HAVE they? In Zimbabwe Namibia Mozambique and South Africa Blacks are now Ruling over South African whites..... In South Africa most of the land and wealth is owned by Whites and they control much if not most of the economy. Who's "ruling" who? or do you think like a third grader?? When I was a third grader, I STILL thought like a heterosexual male....lol. I wanted to make money and get girls. Again, I can't speak for women or homosexual men and how THEY think or what THEY value. But as a heterosexual male, I can speak for us. I know what he is doing.....I have spoken to many people from their and from surrounding countries as well.. If you haven't been to the country, you don't "know" what he's doing. You know what you've read and heard, but it pretty much stops there. Even the government knows better than to trust the information they get from "speaking to people who've been there"...lol. They always want "eyes on the ground" who can witness what's happening and experience it and report those finding directly to them. Those are also sources I use I know....lol. Which is why I question the information you share about different subject. Not to say that you're wrong, but you can only get so much TRUTH and KNOWLEDGE by surfing the internet and stacking up 20th and 30th hand accounts of "he said she said". DIRECT EXPERIENCE AND OBSERVATION is where you get the best information on a subject. I am Aware and so is Traore.....but you are not - though you think you are aware You admit that you get your information about this subject from the internet, but you think you're more "aware" about what's going on there than me? You have no idea....just typing what sounds smart It sounds smart because it makes sense. Like one plus one equals two...lol. It certainly doesn't SOUND smart for a slave to pack up and leave one master's plantation and go hiking over to ANOTHER master's plantation thinking that's the answer to his freedom, does it? So why would you or anyone else think it SOUNDS smart for an African leader to abandon a French White ally in the name of "African independence from White rule".....only to go running to and snuggling up to a RUSSIAN White ally for the same thing? Money and Sex are the two biggest and most successful traps.....called Bait and Honey pot There you are thinking that is the way to accomplish Unity..... It is. Again, as I said earlier....most heterosexual men want money and women. There's nothing wrong with this....it's natural. Those are the surest ways to be controlled Ofcourse. How else can you unite people and lead them into a progressive direction without CONTROLING them? Every powerful nation of people on this planet are CONTROLED by effective leadership. The majority of Black men ARE controlled and WILL BE controlled, one way or another. The question is will you allow them to be controlled by their historic enemy or will intelligent Black leadership assume the position of control?

ProfD Neely Fuller Jr. always said we have a responsibility to insure that whoever needs the most help gets it. Neely Fuller Jr. didn't have to manage a society. He was a social COMMENTATOR who commented about his observations of society. He didn't have to build or manage one...lol. There are other ways of helping poor people instead of forcibly TAKING money from the wealthy and GIVING IT AWAY to those who haven't earned it. Yep. Especially able-bodied people between 21-59 years old. VGQ...lol. Phil Scott of the African Diaspora Channel agrees with you though. He often says that men...especially young men....should be working to stay out of trouble. Asking the question(s) doesn't deny people of life pleasures. The problem with wealth is that it usually comes at the expense of others. You can say the same thing about anything in society. Eating the food you're enjoying came at the expense of somebody ELSE'S labor. It's called a "social contract" where people exchange goods and services with eachother to keep society moving. The concentration of wealth lies in the hands of too few. It needs to be redistributed. If people got their wealth through illegal or immoral ways, that needs to be investigated and properly dealt with. Other than that....I say leave them and their wealth alone and stay out of their pockets. If you want to help poor people...HELP them. You don't need to rob the rich to do it. But like Reverend Ike once famously and wisely said, "The best thing you can do for poor people is NOT be one of them" Otherwse, as human beings we should do a better job of taking care of each other. Most human beings have enough responsibilities dealing with their own personal problems. That's what GOVERNMENTS exist for...to help their citizens. Why should I scold the church or rich people for not helping the poor of society while the government is wasting BILLIONS in the deserts of Iran? Who has the most money, Bill Gates or the U.S. government?

ProfD It all depends on how it's delivered. A man can't be meek & mild about it. True. As the old saying goes, it's not what you say but how you say it. Mutual attraction eliminates the need for words &/or verbalizing. As I said before, if a woman is smiling at you, flirting with you, and grinding on you on a consistent basis...that's usually a sign of attraction, lol. What else do you need? A written and notarized contract? Bro, I'll sit back & enjoy watching the tennis match between you & brotha frankster. Sorry to disappoint, but there won't be a bunch of back-n-forth yin-n-yang.....lol. Either he has been possessed or he's got first hand accounts of possession he's actually witnessed. Other than that.....I can surf the internet and find my own stories.

ProfD I cannot think of one good reason that poverty should exist. Outside of racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination, I can think of several............ Some people are just lazy or dumb or both, so they won't economically rise above barely making a living for themselves. No amount of government or social help will prevent that. There are plenty people who would not consider themselves smart but their grit, will, ambition & determination forced them to put in the work to be successful. OTOH, there are plenty folks who would be classified as intelligent based on their aptitude & test scores & degrees, yet, they are under-employed & broke. In both cases....are these the rule or the exception? Are most people who are successful, in that position because of "hard work" and "grit" or because they were smart and made the right decisions? Another fundamental disagreement. I take that to mean that you AGREE with forcing people to work, even if it's against their will? The question becomes who really needs to be wealthy. I'll answer that....lol. Anybody who wants to, as long as they are depriving others in doing so. Who are me, you, or anybody else to deny someone that pleasure in life? By what moral or ethical standard is this based on? There is no reason to qualify &/or rationalize poverty, poor or destitution. No human being deserves to live in that condition. If a person did nothing but steal from and harm others, I think they deserve to be in that position. Unless they spent much of their life helping others, if they are just to lazy to work....they deserve to be in poverty. If they are stupid....unless it's as a result of illegal drug use...they generally can't help themselves. It's not their fault that they were born with low intelligence. I'm not sure if they deserve poverty for this.

Troy White folks OWN China. Western corporations are using China as a big ass TEMP agency to provide cheap labor for them to mass produce their goods and services. Which is the total OPPOSITE of White Mao Zadong and this Chinese Revolutionaries actually fought for.

ProfD Never assume anything when it comes to women. Some women can be masters of deception & manipulation especially if/when they see a vulnerable man. While that's good advice, it's not always realistic. It often kills the vibe to be so blunt and straight up with a woman regarding sexual attraction and encounters. Imagine the average woman's reaction if yall are sitting on the couch together and start looking into eachothers eyes and move closer, and you STOP and say, "Is it alright if I feel on your coochie and then can we have sexual intercourse? I have your permission, right?" Some human interactions shouldn't be verbalized. Her man may have been on Puffy & Cassie sh8t. Good thing you didn't stick around & wait for them to put those kids to bed. No baby oil It wouldn't be the first time I was invited to a 3-some....by a DUDE, lol. I was getting those vibes, which is why I ate dinner with them and left....quietly....directly after, lol. She had the nerve to keep asking me what was wrong and why I was so quiet through out dinner, lol. frankster I am looking forward to sharing on this topic Lol, sharing WHAT bro???? If YOU haven't been possessed from the outside or seen it first hand, and I haven't seen a first hand outside possession (that I know of for sure)....what are we going to talk about besides stories we've read in books or heard about online? Just like the UFO discussion......... No first hand direct accounts. Just swapping old wive's tales and or bogus misleading information put out by the government to keep you running down dark alleys and peaking under garbage cans LOOKING for something tangible. The only thing we'd be doing is entertaining ProfD and confirming what he already suspects when it comes to subjects like this anyway.

Not sure if you are aware that SOME older women have a problem with anal leakage as they age. I haven't been to a strip club in years, but when I was....I didn't recall them carrying any SPILL KITS to clean up any accidents that may occur on stage. And I won't even GET into the prolapsed uteruses so many women over a certain age, often have. Things like that, usually don't go well with g-strings. NOT good for business, lol.

Now THIS one on the other hand.............. Is some straight UP bullshit, lol. Doesn't sound anything like them.

I work with Ethiopians and Eritreans who told me the history of the land and how they ENSLAVED those people. They are called "baria"...or slaves.

ProfD There's a number of clues that it's clearly AI-generated. Not sure what other clues you're speaking of but the only thing that sounded a bit off was the keyboard at the 2:40 minute mark. It sounded more like a harmonica than a keyboard. It sho' didn't sound like Devante's usual "git down" on the keyboard, lol. Other than that....that picture is a little strange because I don't know WHO that brutha is on the far left opposite of K-Ci....lol. I hope the real Jodeci is getting paid for their name, image & likeness. Let us hope, because the vocals sound JUST like them. Not how they sounded in the 90s.....lol...but how they sounded in the 2010s.