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Dattebayo?

yeah black zetsu kaguya came outta left field

OPM is the Hero's Journey on Steroids

MA and interview Shiva Ayyadurai

Warren just shot herself in the foot with that whole DNA test nonesense

http://www.cherokee.org/News/Stories/20181015_Cherokee-Nation-responds-to-Senator-Warrens-DNA-test

https://twitter.com/va_shiva/status/1051990643881463813

@Timcast very disappointed in your take on the video about allowing non citizens to vote. I'm not for allowing non citizens to vote in the slightest but the train of thought was heavily flawed. For one thing why do you think legal residents/immigrants would be for open borders? It takes many several years of paperwork, quite a bit of money and hope to get through the process to obtain legal residence. The last thing legal immigrants would want would be open borders that allows people to skip all those steps. And then the point about taxpaying citizens. Last I checked legal immigrants have to pay taxes. Also legal immigrant males below the age of 26 have to sign up for the draft as well in order to obtain residency. I'm with you on only allowing citizens to vote. That is their right as citizens but your argument and train of thought regarding the subject was seriously flawed.

@Rabbi Shekels I wrote a similar comment. My youtube name and discord name are different though. I'm sad because I'm a legal immigrant trying to make it here. Took me close to 14 years to get here and the last thing I would subscribe to is the progressive agenda. I come from a country rife with racial tension and totalitarian control and corruption. Most other legal immigrants I know have build a life in the US and are pretty conservative in their politics and would be against allowing voting rights to just residents and would never be for open borders or anything of that nature.

@Propaganda Merchant©™ For sure. As are all things you will find variations and complexities. For the most part I've found two groups of immigrants. Those who want to integrate and adopt western culture and those who only stick to their people and previous culture. The former want to live here for more than just economic reasons while the latter only do so for just that.

@Rabbi Shekels no still an immigrant. I only got here a few years ago so I can only apply for citizenship after 5 years. I'm already prepping for the test though. Got a copy of the constitution and a basic breakdown of the judicial system and other civics related material that is required knowledge for the exam.

with far less substance in his statements which is saying a lot

Anyone else think the migrant caravan is going to time very nicely with the midterms and try and cause Trump to create a volatile situation?

Symbolism is important though.

I wonder who is funding the caravan. Seems like they have a ton of resources from nowhere

@ExceptionalFeather Agreed. Shit like this pisses me off and other legal immigrants feel the same way

This also tarnishes the image of immigrants in the minds of people regardless of illegal or legal. The far right wing has been advocating for a complete ban on immigration. Stuff like the caravan is fuel to the fire

Urgh I hate that Warren is my senator. People here seem to not care for her but she still gets votes

@Undead Mockingbird Inform how? Race has nothing to do with culture it depends on the society you live in and if you integrate well into the prevalent cultural environment. I would argue that religion plays a more important role in informing culture than race does.

@Undead Mockingbird environmental factors will inform behavior but that in my estimate is quite separate from culture as a whole. I grew up in a tropical country that had 3 different types of environments packed together. The culture among the majority race and religion was essentially the same throughout with minor cuisine differences

@Stefan Payne please expand on what you mean by comparison of Europe and Indochina

@Undead Mockingbird you are operating under the premise that culture is set in stone and doesn't fluctuate quite rapidly over short periods of time. What you are describing is human behavior adaptations to environment. Quite distinct from how sociocultural behavior takes root

@Stefan Payne So your point being that race innately predisposed people to being more open to certain types of political thinking? Do you not think that if the environmental factors and political influences were switched there might not be different outcomes?

@Undead Mockingbird I'm not trying to project. I'm merely attempting to point out that simplifying culture as based on decades of environmental factors and then relating that to race is a stupid argument

As a baseline. Have you lived in a non western culture for more than a few years?

@Undead Mockingbird You are relating environmental factors that develop over time and influence genetic makeup as some form of influencer on cultural attitudes. Those I would argue are very distinct from culture itself

Personally I am more open to the study of honor dignity and face culture as baseline models for understanding culture. Here race is irrelevant and environmental factors related to politics are the key motivator. None of that simplified collectivist vs individualist argumentation.

https://staffanspersonalityblog.wordpress.com/2014/04/19/honor-dignity-and-face-culture-as-personality-writ-large/

@Stefan Payne Of course you can separate culture from race. Explain to be then why mixed raced people living in the west are not predisposed to behaving differently?

@Undead Mockingbird Here we agree. Humans are highly adaptive. That's where my disagreement was. Your attempts at relating race to culture doesn't make sense on a grand scale.

@Stefan Payne I'm sure every single person was of pure aryan genes then before?