Rants and WTF are you talking about and Coronavirus!

[ExpatLover]

Do you think the people need to clarify the obvious? How did they get your money if you have not booked them??

You also often hear celebrities needs journalists as much as the journalists need them. It is obviously this referring to news.

Most of us have different targets in life and our targets fluctuate, to make it simple my targets today are very different from those 30 years back. My first one is to keep healthy, my second is to try to increase my welfare to secure even more my future. After 15 years of mongering with thousand of experiences I am at the end of this journey, I have more pleasure to look for a new classic car than to book a new escort.

[ExpatLover]

As usual we mostly agree, and I see that I misinterpreted parts of your post. I'm a lifelong Dem but am not on board with the far left wing of the party like Bernie, Warren, and the squad. Though the right likes to focus on them, they are a minority. As you can see none from that group became the presidential nominee, nor did they in 2016. We are a centrist country, and that's what we need to return to and maintain.

I'm convinced that Trump was a backlash to the first black president. In fact that's where it all started, with the Obama birther nonsense, and the lies just kept coming. It's a culture of dishonesty and conspiracy theories that Repubs need to be open to leaving behind.

The reason Biden picked a woman VP is because we needed to up our game with suburban women in order to win. Is no different than McCain's choice of Palin. Or when Cruz picked the woman Trump called ugly, Fiorina prior to even obtaining the nomination. These are just calculated political decisions, strategies to lure women voters.

Yes racism is engrained in US culture from the start, and was maintained through mediums like minstrel shows, the mockery of black children in literature, household products and brands, and the list goes on. What's been most concerning recently is the fleeing unarmed black suspects that were shot in the back, the case where suspects said they couldn't breathe and the cop didn't let up, and the lynching of the jogger Ahmaud Arbrey in Georgia.

Racism is coming from every where, not only white against black but also black against white. For me the main reason is that today there is no homogeneity in our western style countries and even more importantly the society is split in so many different groups, the Latinos, the Chinese, the white, the blacks but also the gay, the lesbians, the people from the big cities, the rural, and so many more. The governments are weaker and weaker unable to be above al those groups and to federate a common dream. On top of that you had politicians like Trump who create even more confusions, segregations, racism and you can t be very optimistic for the future.

[ExpatLover]

This is why I only have compact, not heavy cars, maximum 1350 kgs and quattro is not the best as I tell Audi, because when you learned about dynamic at school, then you know weight is the enemy for movement and making inerty. For German DTM, Audi would take TT or A3, for WRC A1 , because more sporty potential than trucks Q or too heavy A4, A6 and A8, powerful, but not sporty, but you just have to know how work a car, to play with grip limit and then you understand easily. German autobahns, Italy between Tarvisio and south Torino, are relaxing for me, Switzerland is so stressful nightmare, seeing RSQ or Panamera like snails. All my Swiss overspeed were under 120 km / h on autobahn, but leading to jail with Albanian drugs dealer.

My target when I am driving is to go from one place to another by respecting the rules and the others. For decades I am driving Land Cruiser diesel, heavy, conformable and reliable cars. I never drive more than 130 km / h, I feel safe and never had any accident. I listen to my radio or podcasts.

[Mursenary]

I'm convinced that Trump was a backlash to the first black president. In fact that's where it all started, with the Obama birther nonsense, and the lies just kept coming. It's a culture of dishonesty and conspiracy theories that Repubs need to be open to leaving behind.

The reason Biden picked a woman VP is because we needed to up our game with suburban women in order to win. Is no different than McCain's choice of Palin. Or when Cruz picked the woman Trump called ugly, Fiorina prior to even obtaining the nomination. These are just calculated political decisions, strategies to lure women voters.

I agree that Trump's election was made possible in part by a racist reaction to Obama. But to say that is the primary reason belittles what may be a more complex, more consequential social-political energy of the late 2000's and first half of 2010's. Obama was not the only development of that time. The Tea Party gained more prominence, at least it became a more vocal and perhaps more unified sect of various populist movements in the past. Even Occupy Wall-street on the opposite end of the spectrum harbored a similar anti-elitist energy. The difference is that the Tea Partiers actually organized and got officials elected. My point is, simply putting all of the emphasis on racism, ignores a much deeper and more complex reason to explain the rise of Trumpism. It is indeed largely cultural but not merely or primarily anti-black.

As for the reasoning for Kamala as VP pick, I get the theory but that is what I mean, was it actually effective? And why did he have to openly commit to a female in the first place? In that pandering, did she really have an effect? Biden did take a substantial amount of suburban women, but was it due to the Harris pick or did Trump and all his ways already pushed them there? One thing's for sure, the Harris pick did not sway white suburban women, as they went Trump 50-55% in both elections, perhaps slightly in higher percentages in 2020 than in 2016.

https://www.thecut.com/amp/2020/11/m...p-in-2020.html

Imagine if Biden picked a candidate with more substance, the results of the election may never have been in doubt. Imagine if he picked someone like Andrew Yang, a candidate that actually had substance and was known for having cross appeal to many Trump voters. Or if insisted on picking a minority woman, why Kamala? She probably had the leadt substance of the bunch and was the one who least genuinely harvests the energy of people of her ethnic background. She's basically a brown Hilary, a Karen if you will. A candidate of more substance and less polarizing would have been a Stacey Abrams or even a Tulsi Gabbard.

Not to make light of all of your other points on racism but I'm just choosing not to address them as I don't think there is anything to expand on, as anyone who took it upon themselves to just be familiarized with the racial dynamics history in America would be familiar with those realities. That and this is entirely the wrong audience for such topics, not that we've haven't already strayed well far from the special topics at hand.

[Arnold15]

New lockdown in France.

Congratulations.

Forbidden to go outdoors after 18.00 in 2 weeks.

How many times has France induced such restrictions?

10 or 15 times?

And no gains at all.

Only gigantic costs.

Cheers from Sweden.

[Adindas]

Sorry they don't need us they need our money, but what are most doing with their money? Most of the girls even with good business for many years have no savings, they are just spending their money on useless things. Sad for them. In this difficult times my target is not to support the P6 industry like the P6 industry will not support me: Every one is life.

Do you think the people need to clarify the obvious? How did they get your money if you have not booked them??

You also often hear celebrities needs journalists as much as the journalists need them. It is obviously this referring to news.

[Sirioja]

Seem also now South African one who could be more powerful and not sure vaccine will be efficient. Anyway World Health organization said not enough vaccine on 2021 to get immune population. For healthy, maybe to catch and train own soldiers to fights all mutants. Healthy, well trained lungs should help.

I'm afraid I was right and really wish to mistake, but not enough vaccines, Germany and France will have to make less vaccines or only first time injection because of lack, so I wish at least old and medical who don't deserve to die when trying to cure or save us, will be protected, but no vaccine for others, so covid and mutants will keep on spreading on 2021. At least no confine in France, but dodo at 6 pm, like chickens, when schools are closed in Germany, catastrophe in UK and Ireland or Denmark. I will keep on working, outside in the cold, on the field, like proud rooster, even I don't sing so good.

[Sirioja]

I drove millions of kilometers in my life, in many different countries, was only controlled 1 time in Morocco by the Gendarmerie Royale even 0 control in Namibia, Senegal. I never got any ticket. I also worked in Switzerland and never got any problems with the police. The road is not a place to express our frustrations, (big cars small dicks: those who are thinking that they are better drivers than the others should go on racing circuits.

This is why I only have compact, not heavy cars, maximum 1350 kgs and quattro is not the best as I tell Audi, because when you learned about dynamic at school, then you know weight is the enemy for movement and making inerty. For German DTM, Audi would take TT or A3, for WRC A1 , because more sporty potential than trucks Q or too heavy A4, A6 and A8, powerful, but not sporty, but you just have to know how work a car, to play with grip limit and then you understand easily. German autobahns, Italy between Tarvisio and south Torino, are relaxing for me, Switzerland is so stressful nightmare, seeing RSQ or Panamera like snails. All my Swiss overspeed were under 120 km / h on autobahn, but leading to jail with Albanian drugs dealer.

[Paulie97]

I wasn't being literal with the phrase, "it's all on the Democrats. " I simply meant that they wield most of the power now and if the party would tone down the bullshit, heartstring pulling rhetoric and start focusing on policy, then we may get somewhere. The very small amounts of condemnation of the summer racial protest was just that, giving them a covid social distance pass due to emotional policy and platform while just one week earlier scrutinizing the protest by redneck militia guys.

Yes conservative politicians and voters bear some responsibility and also have a role to play in avoiding the American apocalypse but the Dems have all of the votes. And if the Dems in charge would stop the emotion pandering, then they may win over more people who are put off by a platform based on political correctness by being polite as you say.

As usual we mostly agree, and I see that I misinterpreted parts of your post. I'm a lifelong Dem but am not on board with the far left wing of the party like Bernie, Warren, and the squad. Though the right likes to focus on them, they are a minority. As you can see none from that group became the presidential nominee, nor did they in 2016. We are a centrist country, and that's what we need to return to and maintain.

I'm convinced that Trump was a backlash to the first black president. In fact that's where it all started, with the Obama birther nonsense, and the lies just kept coming. It's a culture of dishonesty and conspiracy theories that Repubs need to be open to leaving behind.

The reason Biden picked a woman VP is because we needed to up our game with suburban women in order to win. Is no different than McCain's choice of Palin. Or when Cruz picked the woman Trump called ugly, Fiorina prior to even obtaining the nomination. These are just calculated political decisions, strategies to lure women voters.

Yes racism is engrained in US culture from the start, and was maintained through mediums like minstrel shows, the mockery of black children in literature, household products and brands, and the list goes on. What's been most concerning recently is the fleeing unarmed black suspects that were shot in the back, the case where suspects said they couldn't breathe and the cop didn't let up, and the lynching of the jogger Ahmaud Arbrey in Georgia.

Yea is true I tend hang with an older crowd when with other whites, and younger white guys as a whole are better on race, but still have a good ways to go. I got to hear plenty of chatter from younger racists when teaching at a private school. It comes with an hier of superiority, which is often unwarranted. For example when comparing a racist trailer park white to a successful professional black, the former looks like a fool.

[Mursenary]

Too funny, how do you think Blacks, Latinos, Arabs and Asians are talking among themselves about other races? I know since I've close friends of different ethnicties. I've so many fun anecdotes on that subject.

Speaking of history, are you even aware of how many Africans were sold into slavery by other Africans, some times even by members within their own tribe. Slavery was a part of African culture. Whites didn't create it, they did however partake in it. Slavery still exists mainly in Arab / North African countries like Mauritania and Libya to mention two countries. Mauritania didn't make slavery illegal until 1981.

A large number of European sailors were forced into slavery by North Africans.

Racism isn't a white thing, its universal. The key to progress is equal treatment and stop pointing out one ethnicity as responsible for all racism. Not only is it untrue, its causing more friction. There's a reason why POC are mainly moving to USA and not from USA.

Well, we were talking about the USA so methinks that enslaved white people have nothing to do with this conversation.

[ExpatLover]

Yes in China you can be put in jail or disappear when you criticize government, in Switzerland you can be put in jail without any proof you are guilty, France respect much more human rights and I m not afraid by my shadow. France is not responsible of Muslims and Jews history, but on first day I arrived in Sarcelles with my RS500, I felt like a foreigner there, but I saw a Caucasian woman and only with her eyes and sending so much love to everybody, Jews and Muslims who are population there, all followed a small woman, because they all knew she worked to help them, when she cried at home, but always big smile and ready to listen and help them. She made quiet between these 2 religions. On my first visit in US, I met a French woman there, nothing about sex, she proposed me to go to Orlando Disney, when I found Miami boring after visiting Everglades, Keys and Hemingway house and Xanadu Bahamas. I wanted to go to Downtown, but in mid 90's everybody told me too dangerous for a white. So, I rent a car and ler's go, 4 straight lines, Chevrolet going on her own and after few kilometers, police car behind with light on roof, policeman coming from his car with hand on gun, knocking at window I didn't want to open when I saw where was his hand. He understood we were foreigners, I explained him I was not used to drive in US and about speed when 95 for I think 60 or 80 LIMIT, he told me he could put me in jail, but French woman told him: but I want to enjoy Mickey, please, and not even a fine, not a Swiss robber, not meaning Swiss people I like, are robbers.

I drove millions of kilometers in my life, in many different countries, was only controlled 1 time in Morocco by the Gendarmerie Royale even 0 control in Namibia, Senegal. I never got any ticket. I also worked in Switzerland and never got any problems with the police. The road is not a place to express our frustrations, (big cars small dicks: those who are thinking that they are better drivers than the others should go on racing circuits.

[ExpatLover]

Well, do not forget these WGs need us as much as we need them. All of the girls working in the FKKs are self-employed they sell something and we buy, transaction happen. Everyone happy, so happy days.

Sorry they don't need us they need our money, but what are most doing with their money? Most of the girls even with good business for many years have no savings, they are just spending their money on useless things. Sad for them. In this difficult times my target is not to support the P6 industry like the P6 industry will not support me: Every one is life.

[ShooBree]

But I disagree that it is "all on the Dems now." The Repubs also have a part to play, especially in the matter of rejecting the many outright lies in Trumpism. There's an alternate universe out there in social media that is in our politics, and in the WH for a bit longer, from Covid denialism, stop the steal lies, new world order nonsense, and a whole culture of conspiracy theory peddlers and followers. They need to come to reality.

And you simply miss the mark with the "chicken and egg" angle, implying the Dems or "liberals" or the "politically correct" or whatnot are responsible for Trump, and thus need to back off in order for him or his movement to go away. If you want to play chicken and egg you can go back to the roots of this country and the white male privilege written into the founding documents. From there you can reference all the attempts in various generations at seeing structural change and the corresponding resistance from those in greater positions of power, chicken and egg galore.

Putting all the responsibility on one side is the last thing we need to do actually. We need to tone it down, seek understanding, dispel myths, and seek compromise. Hard work for sure, but that's democracy. But yea, we've had this discussion before. I'm a white guy with a southern accent. You're an Asian guy. You may think you know how many "conservative" or whatever American white guys talk off the record among themselves, but I don't believe it. I know because I'm perceived as safe. I'll inform the members here that it's often ugly, stereotypical, and often fueled with epithets. That also includes white law enforcement officers I've known. So yea, the property damage and violence that has occurred at some protests associated with BLM is wrong, but the heart of their concerns is right on. And I'll add that your use of the world "politically correct" isn't going to go far in forwarding the needed discussions. It's essentially a wholesale dismissal of the concerns of the other side. Often what's deemed politically correct is just being polite..

Too funny, how do you think Blacks, Latinos, Arabs and Asians are talking among themselves about other races? I know since I've close friends of different ethnicties. I've so many fun anecdotes on that subject.

Speaking of history, are you even aware of how many Africans were sold into slavery by other Africans, some times even by members within their own tribe. Slavery was a part of African culture. Whites didn't create it, they did however partake in it. Slavery still exists mainly in Arab / North African countries like Mauritania and Libya to mention two countries. Mauritania didn't make slavery illegal until 1981.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-d...-in-mauritania

https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-th...an-11568991595

A large number of European sailors were forced into slavery by North Africans.

https://news.osu.edu/when-europeans-...usly-believed/

Racism isn't a white thing, its universal. The key to progress is equal treatment and stop pointing out one ethnicity as responsible for all racism. Not only is it untrue, its causing more friction. There's a reason why POC are mainly moving to USA and not from USA.

https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/wh..._can_be_racist

https://meaww.com/tucker-carlson-acc...racism-harvard

https://www.jns.org/biden-nominee-fo...rd-university/

https://www.ibtimes.sg/kristen-clark...remacist-54877

[DaWong949]

This is a nice sentiment. Very positive. It won't be long now. We had the long bike ride up the hill, we have the crest and soon the fast descent to the finish line. Like all men, this summer we will be in the clubs, and we will be looking at breasts and our minds will have forgotten all our sorrow.

Very good!

[Adindas]

... the problem is what are we doing now to fight against the virus, but for some people it seems the main focus is more to going again to prostitutes in Germany.

Well, do not forget these WGs need us as much as we need them. All of the girls working in the FKKs are self-employed they sell something and we buy, transaction happen. Everyone happy, so happy days.