TEAYCHES posted:

how is ethnic theorycrafting in the games forum not identity politics

Smoothrich posted:

I am a liberal after all, just not a close-minded bigoted moron like most leftists are trying to understand conservatism beyond the lense of perceived (or more likely, projected) racism.

Jewel Repetition posted:

There are proooobably more racist conservatives than liberals but I don't think the majority of conservatives are.

Smoothrich posted:

Anyone who believes in a concept like "white privilege" is inherently a racist.

Smoothrich posted:

Anyone who believes in a concept like "white privilege" is inherently a racist.

Smoothrich posted:

Anyone who believes in a concept like "white privilege" is inherently a racist.

McDowell posted:

Ben Carson seems like a nice man but he is not qualified to be president and he has terrible, ill-informed ideas. He does not understand history. He'd be another Dubya.

midnightclimax posted:

Dubya was uneducated and didn't care, Carson seems to suffer from delusions.

Skeesix posted:

He was just a gullible rear end and was totally unable to govern.

TEAYCHES posted:

lmao

Golden Bee posted:

If you thought Jeb folded under Trump's glare, imagine Carson.

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1. “You know Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery. And it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care. It was about control.” – 2013 at the Values Voter Summit

2. “Well, my thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman. It’s a well-established, fundamental pillar of society and no group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality. It doesn’t matter what they are. They don’t get to change the definition.” – 2013 on Fox News’ Hannity

3. “There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing. But did they speak up? Did they stand up for what they believe in? They did not, and you saw what happened.” - Carson comparing Democrats and those who voted for President Obama to Nazis.

4. “Because 9/11 is an isolated incident. Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift. You have to take a long-term look at something that fundamentally changes the power structure of America.” - Carson claiming that “Obamacare” is worse than 9/11

5. “A lot of people who go into prison straight, and when they come out they’re gay.” – CNN interview on March 4, 2015

PT6A posted:

I'm starting to get the feeling that Dr. Carson, despite his frequent references to it, knows very little indeed about

Lotka Volterra posted:

may as well just make this easy to fill in

OniPanda posted:

ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES

NotWearingPants posted:

Are there any video compilations of all the crazy poo poo Ben Carson has said?

tia

Carson about to say more retarded poo poo posted:

At the second Republican presidential debate, in California last month, Carson said that if George W Bush had announced a plan to end reliance on Persian Gulf oil “within five to 10 years ... moderate Arab states” spurred by the threat of the loss of a key market “would have turned over Osama bin Laden and anybody else you wanted on a silver platter in two weeks”.

Pressed by ABC News host George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, Carson stood by the assertion.

“I think [moderate Arab states] would have been concerned, and if we were serious about it ... I think that would have trumped any loyalty they had to Osama bin Laden,” Carson said.

Stephanopoulos said: “But they didn’t have any loyalty to him. The Saudis kicked him out. He was their enemy.”

Carson responded: “Well, you may not think they had any loyalty to him. But I believe otherwise.”

Asked how the Saudis or allies would have located Bin Laden in his remote refuge in the tribal areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, Carson said: “I think they would have known where he was.

“There were indications, for example, during the Clinton administration that we knew where he was … If we could tell where he was, I’m certain they knew where he was.

“My point is, we have other ways that we could have done things. I personally don’t believe that invading Iraq was an existential threat to us. I don’t believe that Saddam Hussein was an existential threat to us. It’s a very different situation right now.”

Stephanopoulos said: “But sir, I wasn’t asking about invading Iraq. I was asking about invading Afghanistan, which had been harboring Osama bin Laden.”

“Well, I was primarily talking about Iraq,” said Carson. “I wasn’t particularly interested in going into Afghanistan, but I do think that we should have taken aggressive action.”

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Asked to reply to an attack by Trump, on whom Carson appears to be gaining in polls, that he did not have enough negotiating experience to be president, Carson replied that he did.

“I’ve had lots of experience doing a whole host of things, negotiating with all kinds of people in order to get things accomplished,” Carson said.

As examples of major negotiations he had led, Carson cited his work steering the Johns Hopkins pediatric neurosurgery program to national prominence, and setting up his charity for students, the Carson Scholars Fund.

Smoothrich posted:

Anyone who believes in a concept like "white privilege" is inherently a racist.

Twerkteam Pizza posted:

Mr.Pibbleton posted:

I look white so people and places are way more likely to let me use their bathrooms, it's pretty nice!

Twerkteam Pizza posted:

I am confused as to how acknowledging the advantages you get from looking white make you racist

Mr.Pibbleton posted:

Some people don't want to deny the existence of a problem so they claim acknowledging the problem causes it.

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Carson, who now leads the GOP field in Iowa according to the latest Quinnipiac Poll, would eliminate the program that provides health care to 49 million senior citizens, as well as Medicaid, and replace it with a system of cradle-to-grave savings accounts which would be funded with $2,000 a year in government contributions. While rivals have been pummeled for proposing less radical changes, Carson hasn't faced the same scrutiny -- and his continued traction in polls has left GOP strategists and conservative health care wonks scratching their heads.

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Under the plan Carson outlined most specifically last year, the government would contribute $2,000 to each individual’s tax-free account every year, with a third of the funding earmarked for insurance to cover severe medical incidents. Individuals and employers could contribute additional funds to the accounts, and the unspent funds could be shared among family members, which Carson says "makes every family their own insurance company."

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"makes every family their own insurance company."

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“People in Washington say, ‘Well, you can’t give poor people a health savings account because they’re too stupid. They won’t know what to do with it.’” Carson said at a West Des Moines, Iowa, town hall in August. “But the fact of the matter is, that is not the case.”

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When people are able to see how much more freedom they will have, and how much more flexibility they will have, and how much more choice they would have, I think it's going to be a no-brainer.

The reason that I've come up with the health savings account system, utilizing the same monies that we use to pay for health now, (it) provides a very different paradigm. Eighty percent-plus of your encounters are going to be between you and the health-care provider, with no third-party in there sucking out the resources. When that happens, there's a fiduciary responsibility and relationship that develops between the patient and a care provider. You're going to have much more transparency, much more responsibility. That's going to bring the whole system into a more free economic model. That's how you control price and that's how you control quality.

Twerkteam Pizza posted:

That's loving moronic. That comic is a satirical onion cartoon.