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The pay gap is very real.
Gender Pay Gap Statistics for 2019 | PayScale
It is our body and only our choice. Wear a condom or get snipped but having sex does not give you the right to make our medical decisions. If you are truly a libertarian then act like, but you are acting like an old WASP conservative male. You previously hinted that are gay so why do you care?



If you cant make ends meet now how are you going to afford classes or find the time to attend class, especially if you are working more than one job and have children? Who is going to give you a student loan if you cant make ends meet now? Did you think before you replied to me with your right-wing talking points?

Sorry pay Gap is a myth it's an earnings Gap.

as far as the abortion thing I'm gender-fluid and for that conversation I identify female. So it's my body and my rights if you disagree with that you're transphobic.

Why do you think skills equals education that's not the way it works skills are things that you know that you can trade for money. If you can't do that you're useless don't breed. Anybody can learn skills it doesn't even cost you any money you can earn money while you're doing it.
 
Sorry pay Gap is a myth it's an earnings Gap.

as far as the abortion thing I'm gender-fluid and for that conversation I identify female. So it's my body and my rights if you disagree with that you're transphobic.

Why do you think skills equals education that's not the way it works skills are things that you know that you can trade for money. If you can't do that you're useless don't breed. Anybody can learn skills it doesn't even cost you any money you can earn money while you're doing it.

I remember when trolls were funny.
 
I remember when the opposition brought their A-game.

Have an abortion if you want. I won't be stopping you, Missy.

Don't be intellectually dishonest. If you ware working minimum wage manual labor and need to move up to a job that pays higher but requires a separate skill that is acquired with 6 months or 2 years of training, there is nothing on your current job that will help you get from point A to point B. You are also part of an interdependent and advanced society so your mindless libertarian talking points of doing it yourself with bootstraps don't work. You cannot see the forest because you only want to see the individual trees and not the unique ecosystem that the diverse forest creates.
 
weird? can you point out where i said that, quote it please . . if you cant quote me saying that looks like ANOTHER lie of yours just blew up in your face and your post gets the **** kicked out of it again . . .we'll be waiting . . ready?........ go!


:popcorn2:

I posted Democrats support open borders. Decriminalization is open borders. You said my claim was a lie, although in the debates most Democratic candidates said the support decriminalization. Your message was false.

Why are you on a political forum? You basically never learn any facts about any topic or issues at all. You just wildly assert facts out of nothingness, and then rant you win because anything you assert creates the reality of your assertion. Most of your messages are among the most bizarre claims coming out of nothing but delusions and weird fantasies.
 
I posted Democrats support open borders. Decriminalization is open borders. You said my claim was a lie, although in the debates most Democratic candidates said the support decriminalization. Your message was false.

Why are you on a political forum? You basically never learn any facts about any topic or issues at all. You just wildly assert facts out of nothingness, and then rant you win because anything you assert creates the reality of your assertion. Most of your messages are among the most bizarre claims coming out of nothing but delusions and weird fantasies.
LMAO and the lies and meltdowns continue, awesome, I love it!

Translation: You can NOT quote where i said that, that's what I thought . . your lie is easily exposed for all to see as usual. In the future simply dont post lies and your posts wont be so easily exposed and destroyed. Youre welcome!
 
Have an abortion if you want. I won't be stopping you, Missy.
You asked me what do I care. I think it's wrong for women to be able to dictate whether or not men are indebted to them for 18 years.

Don't be intellectually dishonest. If you ware working minimum wage manual labor and need to move up to a job that pays higher but requires a separate skill that is acquired with 6 months or 2 years of training, there is nothing on your current job that will help you get from point A to point B.
If you are working a minimum wage job and you have been doing it for more than a year without a raise you probably don't deserve one. If you are that much of a nincompoop why aren't you put in a home for the mentally infirm? If you are just lazy, **** off.
You are also part of an interdependent and advanced society so your mindless libertarian talking points of doing it yourself with bootstraps don't work.
Funny it worked for thousands of years just up until the snow flake generation. All of the sudden it doesn't work.

It's just that people don't want to work hard for their survival because the system won't let them fail. People used to learn a lot from their failures. Maybe that's my privilege I was allowed to fail and learn and try again.

You cannot see the forest because you only want to see the individual trees and not the unique ecosystem that the diverse forest creates.

No I've failed and started over in the ecosystem. I've worked harder and didn't sit in a minimum wage job for 2 years because I'm not a pathetic moron.
 
You asked me what do I care. I think it's wrong for women to be able to dictate whether or not men are indebted to them for 18 years.

If you are working a minimum wage job and you have been doing it for more than a year without a raise you probably don't deserve one. If you are that much of a nincompoop why aren't you put in a home for the mentally infirm? If you are just lazy, **** off. Funny it worked for thousands of years just up until the snow flake generation. All of a sudden it doesn't work.

It's just that people don't want to work hard for their survival because the system won't let them fail. People used to learn a lot from their failures. Maybe that's my privilege I was allowed to fail and learn and try again.



No I've failed and started over in the ecosystem. I've worked harder and didn't sit in a minimum wage job for 2 years because I'm not a pathetic moron.

It is her body and her choice whether to carry to term or to terminate. You do not to get a say in our medical or life decisions just because we had sex with you. Either keep it in your pants until you know her better or p[ay child support because your XY chromones do not supersede our XX chromones, no matter how much you whine and complain.

It worked in the past but that was a different time when you could actually get ahead by working 40 hours. The system is now so rigged against workers that you can work 60 hours a week and still fall behind. Trying to ignore this fact doesn't mean that your ideas are true.

Working harder doesn't get you anywhere if you don't have the ability to gain the necessary skills to move beyond manual labor. I hate libertarians and their simplistic economic ideas.
 
It is her body and her choice whether to carry to term or to terminate.
yes I know it's her choice whether or not to enslave a man for 18 years that is not equality. That's what I'm saying.
You do not to get a say in our medical or life decisions just because we had sex with you.
and you don't get to make financial decisions either you are indebted through force of wall to the choice a woman makes.

If you want equality you would support a potential father aborting fatherhood. But that's not what you want. because the poor pathetic defenseless little woman that can't do anything for herself needs the support of a man.

Either keep it in your pants until you know her better or p[ay child support because your XY chromones do not supersede our XX chromones, no matter how much you whine and complain.
men are expected to have foresight women are not. And it seems like that that's because XX chromosomes supercede XY chromosomes.

Why shouldn't the woman the expected to keep it in her pants?

It's almost like you think women are stupider than men. They don't know where babies come from?

It worked in the past but that was a different time when you could actually get ahead by working 40 hours.
most people that got ahead worked more than 40 hours on there career.

you aren't going to get ahead doing the bare minimum in 40 hours a week is the bare minimum for full time employment.

The system is now so rigged against workers that you can work 60 hours a week and still fall behind.
no that's just because people are either lazy stupid or pigheaded. If you work 60 hours a week or somebody and you don't do better you need to find someone else to work for I know that's work and it's hard to do the precious little babies don't want to do it. But that's what you have to do. If you're not willing to do it you're not going to get any better. Telling me things are different now because sitting at the same job making crap pay is what idiots choose to do with our lives it's not nowadays being harder it's nowadays being easier for go getters. I've worked circles around these slugs that whine and cry about how poor they are and how there are poor little victim of the system. I'm not because I chose not to be I'm not wallowing in self-pity.
Trying to ignore this fact doesn't mean that your ideas are true.
the fact that life is hard? Think of the generations before you that you're disgracing. People that fought in the Civil War in the revolutionary War even in world War II. They faced hardships that would break you like a matchstick.

This is some advise that you really need to take get anywhere in this world. You are tougher than you think you are. it is easier for you to do it now because there's all these little safety nuts all around you to catch you if you fall. the only reason you don't succeed is because you don't want to.

I'm not buying this crap that it's harder now. You think working a little harder then what is required of you is hard. That's probably because you've been coddled all your life and you've never had to face hard things.

You were robbed of that. So yes you're incredibly easy life seems hard. But you don't know what hard is.

Working harder doesn't get you anywhere if you don't have the ability to gain the necessary skills to move beyond manual labor. I hate libertarians and their simplistic economic ideas.
I couldn't keep a job as a mechanic nobody wanted to keep me around.

I could have just tossed my hands up in the air and said "oh well, I guess I'll just go eat worms or get in anti depressants and live on disability." I took a risk. A risk I could not afford to lose. So what did I do I make damn sure I didn't lose. I went into business for myself repairing people's cars for money. This was back when I was 19. My dad wasn't the mechanic he couldn't turn the screw without messing it up. I learned the basics in high school for free. When I went out on my own started getting my own there was an entire ocean of things I didn't know. I couldn't just sit in my air-conditioned house in Google it then I had to go to the library acquire the knowledge from books so I had it harder then people do now to acquire skills and knowledge. If I had to do a water pump on a Mitsubishi eclipse and I never did it before I went and learned how to do it and that was one thing I could charge someone $80 to do.

It's not harder because you have no economic libido. That is a you problem. You hate me for saying this because it's true.

3 weeks ago I did a repair on a hybrid Prius I have never done that sort of repair before. I didn't have to borrow $80,000 to go waste eight years of my life in college I didn't even have to put on pants ice at my house and I'm Googled it. Why and the **** can't you do that? What is the matter with you?
 
What business is it of government who gets paid what?



What business of government is it who an employers employs ?

What business is it of government who a bar will agree to sell a drink to ?

On what grounds should an employers or a bar owner be allowed to discriminate ?
 
If you have no clue what is happening currently in politics why are you on a political forum? :confused:

FACT: The Democratic Party opposes tariffs - furiously. Tariffs are to protect American jobs from foreign sweatshops (and used to be the sole income of the federal government).
FACT: The Democratic Party favors open borders, ie "decriminalization."
FACT: This thread is an example of Democratic censorship and speech control.
FACT: The Democratic Party incessantly declares racial and social divisions as their primary talking point, literally favoring blacks being in their own "safe spaces" as an example.



“Tariffs are to protect American jobs”

From whatever. Ttell me how? You say what you do without any"how".

‘The Democratic Party favors open borders, ie "decriminalization." ‘

Who do you think speaks for the Democratic Party and what have they said that makes you believe that they favor ‘open borders, ie "decriminalization” ‘

“This thread is an example of Democratic censorship and speech control.”

Can you cite dominant example?

“The Democratic Party incessantly declares racial and social divisions as their primary talking point, literally favoring blacks being in their own "safe spaces" as an example.”

You mean the Dem Party favors those whom are discriminated against? “safe spaces”? please explain.
 
“Tariffs are to protect American jobs”

From whatever. Ttell me how? You say what you do without any"how".

‘The Democratic Party favors open borders, ie "decriminalization." ‘

Who do you think speaks for the Democratic Party and what have they said that makes you believe that they favor ‘open borders, ie "decriminalization” ‘

“This thread is an example of Democratic censorship and speech control.”

Can you cite dominant example?

“The Democratic Party incessantly declares racial and social divisions as their primary talking point, literally favoring blacks being in their own "safe spaces" as an example.”

You mean the Dem Party favors those whom are discriminated against? “safe spaces”? please explain.


Don't hold your breath for a response, I'm still waiting a reply to my post #129

"You claim a fact so easily. Where is your evidence on any of the above - especially your first claim where the labor movement has been traditionally supportive of protecting jobs and suspicious of the value of trade with low labor cost countries."
 
Don't hold your breath for a response, I'm still waiting a reply to my post #129

"You claim a fact so easily. Where is your evidence on any of the above - especially your first claim where the labor movement has been traditionally supportive of protecting jobs and suspicious of the value of trade with low labor cost countries."


In debate, as I'm sure you know, but not this poster, it is incumbent on whomever makes a claim to provide the evidence of fact to support what they say. Otherwise, the claim is unfounded and need not be debated further by the opponent who asked for the required evidence. When someone refuses to provide the evidence, nor admits they were wrong, then on that thread or another, If they ask for evidence to support what claim I may make, I'll refuse to provide such until they have fulfilled their prior debate responsibility. If someone else then asks that has not lost debate credibility with me, I will reply accordingly. Posters that fail to fulfill debate responsibility will not stop me from replying to errant post of theirs.
 
In debate, as I'm sure you know, but not this poster, it is incumbent on whomever makes a claim to provide the evidence of fact to support what they say. Otherwise, the claim is unfounded and need not be debated further by the opponent who asked for the required evidence. When someone refuses to provide the evidence, nor admits they were wrong, then on that thread or another, If they ask for evidence to support what claim I may make, I'll refuse to provide such until they have fulfilled their prior debate responsibility. If someone else then asks that has not lost debate credibility with me, I will reply accordingly. Posters that fail to fulfill debate responsibility will not stop me from replying to errant post of theirs.


On so many occasions a poster has expressed genuine shock that their claim requires proof, as they're wedded to the idea that it's self evident or blindingly obvious.

They have preconceived ideas that they think everyone should have: Of course there's a god, socialists want to destroy America and homosexuals are evil men who want to rape them or their sons.


The other response is the be referred the Goggle or the public library and search until you find they are right.
 
In debate, as I'm sure you know, but not this poster, it is incumbent on whomever makes a claim to provide the evidence of fact to support what they say. Otherwise, the claim is unfounded and need not be debated further by the opponent who asked for the required evidence. When someone refuses to provide the evidence, nor admits they were wrong, then on that thread or another, If they ask for evidence to support what claim I may make, I'll refuse to provide such until they have fulfilled their prior debate responsibility. If someone else then asks that has not lost debate credibility with me, I will reply accordingly. Posters that fail to fulfill debate responsibility will not stop me from replying to errant post of theirs.

As to the claim that tariffs protect American jobs, I am almost to the point of believing that Putin is encouraging Trump to push these tariffs because they destabilize the US economy which is what Putin wants because when the US is hurt by bad policies, Putin gains power in Europe and worldwide.

U.S. railroads caught in the middle of new tariff threat - FreightWaves

https://tradepartnership.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/All-Tariffs-Study-FINAL.pdf
 
As to the claim that tariffs protect American jobs, I am almost to the point of believing that Putin is encouraging Trump to push these tariffs because they destabilize the US economy which is what Putin wants because when the US is hurt by bad policies, Putin gains power in Europe and worldwide.

U.S. railroads caught in the middle of new tariff threat - FreightWaves

https://tradepartnership.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/All-Tariffs-Study-FINAL.pdf


Tariffs will see a price rise no question

The upside is protecting jobs - and not just those threatened by cheaper imports


Manufacturing jobs aren't just "created" they take time to build.


It really comes down to the effects on supply and demand.
 
As to the claim that tariffs protect American jobs, I am almost to the point of believing that Putin is encouraging Trump to push these tariffs because they destabilize the US economy which is what Putin wants because when the US is hurt by bad policies, Putin gains power in Europe and worldwide.

U.S. railroads caught in the middle of new tariff threat - FreightWaves

https://tradepartnership.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/All-Tariffs-Study-FINAL.pdf



Americans have not yet directly felt much of these tariffs just yet because the business directly affected has been passing on the cost by demanding lower prices from suppliers, who are now at about the end of how long they can keep their prices so low and the American consumer will start to feel it when suppliers and primary business have no choice than to pass the cost on directly to the consumer.
 
Americans have not yet directly felt much of these tariffs just yet because the business directly affected has been passing on the cost by demanding lower prices from suppliers, who are now at about the end of how long they can keep their prices so low and the American consumer will start to feel it when suppliers and primary business have no choice than to pass the cost on directly to the consumer.

They will just consume less of the Chinese imports as prices find a new equilibrium.

If demand stays high, suppliers like Walmart will seek alternative sources.
 
They will just consume less of the Chinese imports as prices find a new equilibrium.

If demand stays high, suppliers like Walmart will seek alternative sources.



“They will just consume less of the Chinese imports as prices find a new equilibrium.”

Oh, sure. Plenty of other countries out there to sell as low as does China. Not. That “new equilibrium” will be higher than before. No other country(ies) can produce as much product as cheaply as China to meet American consumption demands.

“If demand stays high, suppliers like Walmart will seek alternative sources.”

What do you mean “if”? Maybe if US workers started getting Chinese wages, demand would drop, yeah. Just exactly what alternative sources? You don’t think Walmart already constantly looks for alternative, less expensive but dependable sources? Really? And the manager(s) responsible for that responsibility still have their job(s)? With Amazon breathing down their neck?
 
Oh, sure. Plenty of other countries out there to sell as low as does China....


Absolutely correct, take your pick of the SE Asian "Tiger" economies



...that “new equilibrium” will be higher than before. No other country(ies) can produce as much product as cheaply as China...

Maybe, but supply would meet demand and a new S&D equilibrium would form


...what do you mean “if”? Maybe if US workers started getting Chinese wages...


Why would alternative sources be in the USA ?
 
Absolutely correct, take your pick of the SE Asian "Tiger" economies





Maybe, but supply would meet demand and a new S&D equilibrium would form





Why would alternative sources be in the USA ?




“Absolutely correct, take your pick of the SE Asian "Tiger" economies”

Uh-huh. So, I was being sarcastic. Now, you’re joking. I mean, total SE Asia exports to the world is $328B

South Asia Trade Statistics | WITS

and to the US is $186B.

U.S.- ASEAN-10 Trade and Investment Facts | United States Trade Representative

Meanwhile, China exports $2.3T to the US. Yeah, right. Like your SE Asian “Tiger” economies of yours can make hardly any part of that up. However, now that you mention SE Asia, the US has been overtaken by Southeast Asia as China's No. 2 trade partner, with American exports plunging 30% as Beijing finds other suppliers in SE Asia.

US overtaken by Southeast Asia as China's No. 2 trade partner -
Nikkei Asian Review


Also, to dodge US tariffs, Chinese exporters are shifting production to SE Asia. Like Trump said, trade wars, tariffs, are easy.

US-China tariffs: Chinese exporters shift production to Southeast Asia

Hilarious.

“Maybe, but supply would meet demand and a new S&D equilibrium would form”

Do you realize you pretty much repeated what you said before to which I replied and that to which you now give a non-responsive reply? The “new equilibrium” will be more costly to the American consumer. Period.

"Why would alternative sources be in the USA ?"

There are none. Again, I was being sarcastic. To move what is now being produced in China to the US we would either have to pay American workers Chinese wages, immigrate Chinese-wage workers or pay higher prices for product made by American wage workers. None of those options, obviously, is realistic. We could only go to other countries that can produce product at same or near cost. Or, China can move production to those countries. Like they’re doing now as I mentioned above.

And finally, we are off-topic. But it’s been fun.
 
...total SE Asia exports to the world is $328B...


Learn to use to quotation function


So a rise in production...you could also include the Indian sub continent and Mexico/South America


...China exports $2.3T to the US. Yeah, right. Like your SE Asian “Tiger” economies of yours can make hardly any part of that up. However, now that you mention SE Asia, the US has been overtaken by Southeast Asia as China's No. 2 trade partner, with American exports plunging 30% as Beijing finds other suppliers in SE Asia....

So the US consumer market can't replace Chinese made imports?


...to move what is now being produced in China to the US we would either have to pay American workers Chinese wages...

Then move Chinese sources of production to other non-American sources.
 
Learn to use to quotation function


So a rise in production...you could also include the Indian sub continent and Mexico/South America




So the US consumer market can't replace Chinese made imports?




Then move Chinese sources of production to other non-American sources.



“Learn to use to quotation function”

Why is my preference of your concern? You obviously understand my style of differentiation between what you said and my reply. Does it bother you?

“So a rise in production...you could also include the Indian sub continent and Mexico/South America”

NE India could be included, but that is difficult to delineate. What is commonly accepted as the SE Asia economy is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Learn to research.

“So the US consumer market can't replace Chinese made imports?”

Of $16.3T in the total of all the world’s exports, $2.3T was from China to the US. You figure it out. And at what price.

I’m cutting us off here. We’re totally off-topic. And, you aren’t willing to do the work necessary to carry-on an informed debate.
 
Why is my preference of your concern?


Well it's easier for you to use and would make your posts clearer to read.


...NE India could be included, but that is difficult to delineate...

Great are you sure you meant that word ?
Quantify would be a better word - learn to use English better


...of $16.3T in the total of all the world’s exports, $2.3T was from China to the US. You figure it out. And at what price....

No you go right ahead and tell what your data shows



...I’m cutting us off here...



Good, use the time in education.
 
Well it's easier for you to use and would make your posts clearer to read.




Great are you sure you meant that word ?
Quantify would be a better word - learn to use English better




No you go right ahead and tell what your data shows







Good, use the time in education.



Start your own thread or find an appropriate one for our debate at hand and let me know. I'm not going to continue violating DP rules by staying off-topic on an OP that deserves otherwise.
 
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