dtownwarrior

tyler82 said:

Kuyangkoh said:

Everyone is moving to Texas, they are all leaving California, hmm i wonder why??? 

California has its problems, but is still above and beyond a stronger economy and much more desirable place to live than Texas. The reason some people are leaving is because of it’s own success and popularity: it’s too damn expensive because everyone wants to be in California (well, everyone who matters anyway, not trailer park Fox News indoctrinated cranks). 

I wonder how many people are regretting their move after the power grid failures and mass deaths of people in Texas freezing to death. That’s some third world dystopia right there. 

rob53 said:

Property tax breaks of 92.5% means Samsung won’t be contributing to schools and infrastructure (utilities). Who pays for those? Oil? Nobody does because the rich get richer and everyone else lives in poverty. Texas has become like an abused third-world country. 

timpetus said:

neelypeely said:

I live in the UK and support Apple in this. They should pull out of the eurozone market, to hell with whatever financial loss that incurs. And people wonder why we voted for Brexit!?

Right you are! I totally understood Brexit and never heard an argument against it that made any sense. The EU is a cancer, like all bureaucracies, and it's metastasizing at a rate proportional to its behemoth size. I hold Apple stock, but I don't care if it takes a beating - they should pull out of the EU until these stupid demands cease. Hardball is the game they want to play, then so be it.

StudioSoup said:

I find the fact that some people seem to be so triggered by this to be much more of a reflection of something going on inside them than on Apple. I honestly kind of fear for our future if people have become so highly sensitized that they can’t even watch something like this without getting their feelings hurt.  Lighten up, people! 

It’s a creative ad showing a bunch of inanimate objects being crushed down into an “impossibly thin” iPad! It immediately reminded me of some of the hydraulic press videos on social media and I found it to be playful, creative, and fun. 

80025 said:

Why not offer a similar programme for Tribaly Controlled Community Colleges and Tribal Colleges? Time to fully realize there are under-represented minority postsecondary institutions.

Things have improved, but we, as Americans, still have a long way to go.  Even in the 2020’s southern states are still not equally funding HBCUs equally vs PWI.  A Biden report stated this. You have southern states banning books and not approving black history curriculum.  Other “races” history programs and curriculum are taught without issue, but African American history is a problem.  Every time we try to get ahead, other Americans block black progress.  

1. Emancipation/Reconstruction met with Jim Crow.

2. Prosperous black community = burned down and destroyed. 

3. Wanting equality in education = redlining and informal “segregation”

4. Protesting for non-discriminatory policing, met with new states laws making certain protest felonies.  BTW this is in the 2020 not 1950s or 1960s

5. Removing DEI programs which were not meant for just African Americans but minorities and gender equality being banned in the 2020s.  These programs have been successful for 40 to 50 years and now it’s a problem?

6. So called bogeyman of CRT. 

7. Curtailing voting rights in the 2010s and 2020. 

8. Continual Gerrymandering that suppresses the minority voice.

9. And much more

How dare people say we just want a handout, when white Americans were just giving “free” homestead land that was stolen from Native Americans.  

How dare you say we want a handout when white Americans were giving unfettered access to the GI bill for returning soldiers.  When black veterans asked for the same benefits they were denied.  White Americans were giving a “handout” long before others and had more time to establish themselves in the “land of the free”

as a middle age Blackman I haven’t experience the same brutality of Jim Crow, segregation or apartheid. But I still remember my parents, grand and great grandparents talking about it.  And I see daily reminders of the effect of long term racism in America. I won competitions where I was “accused” of cheating. Then hearing from others afterwards that they “modified” the test because an African American won.

Don’t get mad at us because of White fragility.