What’s the likelihood that we see civil unrest soon?

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C-south said:
No we want equal. Your made up word “equitable” exists to give the worthless something they don’t deserve.
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1. Technically, all words are made up.
2. Equitable finds its root usage in the 1600s, an offshoot of the French word équité.
3. The definition is: fair to all parties, as decided through reason or conscience.

Also, your description of other human beings as worthless is worrisome.
 
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volfanhill said:
Which should be the same percent. I don't know how this is hard.
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Equitable is not necessarily the same percentage. Equitable percentages would be a percentage of income that is a meaningful contribution to the ability of the country to carry out it's mission as stated and inferred in the Preamble, the Constitution, and the Amendments.
 
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lawgator1 said:
But it's the dems who troll, right?

JFC, use what little intelligence God evidently gave you, put aside your overly romanticized vision of 1950s US of A, and join the here and now.
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This certainly doesn't apply to all of them, but I do believe that if Trump was still the President and calling for every one of his followers to get vaccinated, the vaccination rates in southern "red" states would be considerably higher. Conservatives / Republicans / Trump supporters just don't want to feel as though they have followed a policy directive set forth by liberal politicians. To these people, that would be akin to selling out to "The Man".

Of course, that is just my theory... but the impact of tribalism has permeated all aspects of the American public in 2021.
 
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AshG said:
Equitable is not necessarily the same percentage. Equitable percentages would be a percentage of income that is a meaningful contribution to the ability of the country to carry out it's mission as stated and inferred in the Preamble, the Constitution, and the Amendments.
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Bull. Equitable is you pay x percent and so do I. Elon Musk is going to pay tons more. It's nothing but wealth envy.
 
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AshG said:
1. Technically, all words are made up.
2. Equitable finds its root usage in the 1600s, an offshoot of the French word équité.
3. The definition is: fair to all parties, as decided through reason or conscience.

Also, your description of other human beings as worthless is worrisome.
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People that don’t contribute yet benefit are worthless unless they posses some sort of extreme physical or mental deficiency. It use to be about having equal opportunity but when that failed it became about having equal outcomes for worthless individuals based on race, sex, sexual orientation, etc. Technically nothing you say matters without acknowledging the reality of the stupid s***. Strength isn’t obtained simply through diversity there has to be some level of actual damn merit. Look no further than the CIA recruitment videos to see how idiotic it has gotten.
 
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volfanhill said:
Bull. Equitable is you pay x percent and so do I. Elon Musk is going to pay tons more. It's nothing but wealth envy.
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No bull. Feel free to look up the definitions and one of the myriad visual examples of equal vs equitable that can be found anywhere online and in philosophy textbooks.
 
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AshG said:
No bull. Feel free to look up the definitions and one of the myriad visual examples of equal vs equitable that can be found anywhere online and in philosophy textbooks.
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What should happen IMO is that everyone pay the same percent of income. Amazing how clean that makes it.
 
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AshG said:
No bull. Feel free to look up the definitions and one of the myriad visual examples of equal vs equitable that can be found anywhere online and in philosophy textbooks.
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I’m sure everyone knows what they mean and why they’re used and don’t need any of your examples or books.
 
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volfanhill said:
What should happen IMO is that everyone pay the same percent of income. Amazing how clean that makes it.
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Even a slightly graduated system. Nobody should be paying 40-50% of their income in taxes and nobody should pay nothing or especially get free money for other people paying taxes. Everyone should pay something.
 
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volfanhill said:
What should happen IMO is that everyone pay the same percent of income. Amazing how clean that makes it.
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That's an equal percentage, also known as a flat tax.

Now how do we keep the rich from rigging the system where they can hide assets and income and get out of paying their share?
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
This certainly doesn't apply to all of them, but I do believe that if Trump was still the President and calling for every one of his followers to get vaccinated, the vaccination rates in southern "red" states would be considerably higher. Conservatives / Republicans / Trump supporters just don't want to feel as though they have followed a policy directive set forth by liberal politicians. To these people, that would be akin to selling out to "The Man".

Of course, that is just my theory... but the impact of tribalism has permeated all aspects of the American public in 2021.
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It's just the most nonsensical thing. The Trump antivaxxer contingent refuses the vaccine as a symbolic way to register their displeasure he lost. The whole thing has become a proxy to say, "Hell yeah I'm stupid. It's my God given right as an American to be an idiot and the more you try to point out to me what a fool I'm being, that just restrengthens my resolve to be a dumb f*** all the more!"
 
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lawgator1 said:
It's just the most nonsensical thing. The Trump antivaxxer contingent refuses the vaccine as a symbolic way to register their displeasure he lost. The whole thing has become a proxy to say, "Hell yeah I'm stupid. It's my God given right as an American to be an idiot and the more you try to point out to me what a fool I'm being, that just restrengthens my resolve to be a dumb f*** all the more!"
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AshG said:
I'm not so sure some days.
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It’s pretty simple. When equal opportunity fails the failures want an equitable outcome because they are supposedly “oppressed” even though they had the exact same opportunity. It’s why we hear stupidity like diversity is more important than merit and such.
 
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C-south said:
It’s pretty simple. When equal opportunity fails the failures want an equitable outcome because they are supposedly “oppressed” even though they had the exact same opportunity. It’s why we hear stupidity like diversity is more important than merit and such.
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You're assigning meaning based on your feelings.

An equitable system should not provide rewards to those who do not contribute to the general welfare; that would be a broken system.
 
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AshG said:
Hyper individualism, common misunderstandings of the collectivism of individual freedom, and the tendency of some to experience the Backfire Effect to a ridiculous degree.
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You're giving him too much credit. LG defaults to thinking anybody of a different mindset is a trumper.
 
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Pepe_Silvia said:
You're giving him too much credit. LG defaults to thinking anybody of a different mindset is a trumper.
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90% of this forum's participants thinks anyone who disagrees with the group consensus is a liberal. His practice is not without precedent.
 
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lawgator1 said:
It's just the most nonsensical thing. The Trump antivaxxer contingent refuses the vaccine as a symbolic way to register their displeasure he lost. The whole thing has become a proxy to say, "Hell yeah I'm stupid. It's my God given right as an American to be an idiot and the more you try to point out to me what a fool I'm being, that just restrengthens my resolve to be a dumb f*** all the more!"
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Lol. I remember when I had my first beer. Your tds is amazing especially when you rant about something that affects less than 1% of the population.
 
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