BOHICA NY- Reparations Edition
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Bigfoot
.475 A&M Magnum
I wonder how much the commission to study slavery in NY is costing the taxpayers.
Ho Lee Fuk, the sentence above says a lot about NY.
Ho Lee Fuk, the sentence above says a lot about NY.
TEOTWAWKI inc.
.338 Win Mag
$5 million
Bigfoot
.475 A&M Magnum
wE aRe nY herp derp
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Saltwater60
20×102mm Vulcan
And many of us didn’t live here or have a thing to do with it when it was.
I have a great idea, send the bill to the UK. After all it was the Europeans that did this. I’m Italian and Irish so the Europeans treated my people terribly as well. Where’s mine? Oh that’s right I worked for mine and I’m happy with what I have. I don’t want it or need it.
What’s next reparations for the Indians? Are we all going back to where we came from and giving them our land for that one?
This crap is ridiculous, but I do agree with people want it they can chose to opt in, but I don’t want to pay for it.
dwa12479
.338 Win Mag
So did plenty of other ethnic groups across the globe since the birth of man kind. So what? No one is owed anything. If someone's not happy with what they have, they can lace up their bootstraps and do something different. Enough with this reparations grift.
And for those that are actually descended from slaves.... had your ancestors NOT been brought here, ask yourself this. Would you be better off today living in the town your ancestors were taken from in Africa?
Perhaps those people that actually are descendents of slaves, those that can actually prove it, should go to Africa and seek reparations from the people that captured and sold your ancestors in the first place.
Let me know how that works out for you.
Let me know how that works out for you.
The first slaves brought to America were IRISH. Well before Africans were brought here.
Why is it that we never hear about Irish American people demanding reparations ? Is it just a different mindset ? Or maybe it's that "white privilege" I keep hearing about - even though they were slaves, they are white, so they recovered all on their own.
Why is it that we never hear about Irish American people demanding reparations ? Is it just a different mindset ? Or maybe it's that "white privilege" I keep hearing about - even though they were slaves, they are white, so they recovered all on their own.
Robin
.577 Tyrannosaur.
You don't hear about it cuz all this shit is a divisive sham for the simple minded unlearned fool that can't help but buy into it.
Robin
Robin
My dad’s mom, came to America as an indentured servant,- from Ireland. You don’t see me pissing and moaning about it and crying for reparations…
All this reparation grift shit reminds me of a saying I heard:
“I never owned any slaves,- and you were never forced to pick any cotton”. Case closed.
The Irish were NOT slaves in the United States. Just wanted to point out that fact of our history.
Were they treated bad? Really bad?? Indeed they were.
The Chinese were treated really, really bad as well.
The Indians, the American kind, were treated really bad as well.
Got it... Many were treated like shit. I do not give one rats ass to how they were treated. Nope, I do not care at all.
Africans were treated poorly also. Nope, I do not care about that either. Not in the least.
No one deserves anything from crimes of the past. No one group of peoples should be given anything from the tax payers here in the US.
Indentured servitude was legal. Slavery was legal. Women not being able to vote was legal. Lots of things in the past was legal that is not now.
Sucks to be those people that were forced to endure bad treatment. Nope, I do not care, their plights affect me absolutely none in life.
If my people were here in the 1700's and they owned slaves, so be it; I would not be on the hook for their deeds.
I have done a lot of work on my family tree. I come from some great warriors and Kings of the past, they committed all kinds of heinousness upon many different people. I am not responsible for their deeds. I know of at least one distant ancestor that was at The Viking raid on the Lindisfarne monastery, the raid that began the Viking age. Lots of bad stuff was done there, I am not responsible for that. No US Taxpayer is responsible to give these people, these beggars anything at all.
They are pitiful. They are pathetic. They have no honor, no pride in self.
Were they treated bad? Really bad?? Indeed they were.
The Chinese were treated really, really bad as well.
The Indians, the American kind, were treated really bad as well.
Got it... Many were treated like shit. I do not give one rats ass to how they were treated. Nope, I do not care at all.
Africans were treated poorly also. Nope, I do not care about that either. Not in the least.
No one deserves anything from crimes of the past. No one group of peoples should be given anything from the tax payers here in the US.
Indentured servitude was legal. Slavery was legal. Women not being able to vote was legal. Lots of things in the past was legal that is not now.
Sucks to be those people that were forced to endure bad treatment. Nope, I do not care, their plights affect me absolutely none in life.
If my people were here in the 1700's and they owned slaves, so be it; I would not be on the hook for their deeds.
I have done a lot of work on my family tree. I come from some great warriors and Kings of the past, they committed all kinds of heinousness upon many different people. I am not responsible for their deeds. I know of at least one distant ancestor that was at The Viking raid on the Lindisfarne monastery, the raid that began the Viking age. Lots of bad stuff was done there, I am not responsible for that. No US Taxpayer is responsible to give these people, these beggars anything at all.
They are pitiful. They are pathetic. They have no honor, no pride in self.
If reparations actually go through to where they are going to pay, I think that's the point where my wife and I have a serious discussion about making a genuine plan, pulling the kids out of school and uprooting our lives.
It becomes much less idle talk and future ideas, and much more "this needs to happen".
If I had to stay in the area due to my wife's family situation, I would seriously consider just moving to Erie PA just to get out of NY.
TEOTWAWKI inc.
.338 Win Mag
The fact that it's even being discussed at the state level should be an indicator that those serious conversations about moving are already overdue.
TEOTWAWKI inc.
.338 Win Mag
Plus, the $5 million for the committee funded in a prior budget year is already 6.25 reparations. A lucky few have closed the wealth gap.
livingston
20×102mm Vulcan
This is exactly the same situation my wife and I are in. It would be a sacrifice, but a necessary one
My mother in law is in ailing health and it's weighing heavily on my wife and it's a significant limitation factor to consider.
TEOTWAWKI inc.
.338 Win Mag
Your money can go farther elsewhere. Way of life (family/friends/etc) doesn't transfer over as well.
It's easier to leave them behind than you might want to believe though.
I thought this would be difficult. Leaving friends and family.
I built some amazing friendships over the years.
Turns out, was not all that difficult.
Black people are 13% of the population.
They pay 6% of taxes, but collect 28% of welfare payouts..
We’ve been paying reparations already, time to cut it off!
They pay 6% of taxes, but collect 28% of welfare payouts..
We’ve been paying reparations already, time to cut it off!
TEOTWAWKI inc.
.338 Win Mag
I'm surprised it's only 28%.
I was as well.
spat
.950 JDJ
There's plenty of white moochers out there too.
If you look at the math for 13% of a population to be 28% of a group, that makes them individually more than twice as likely to be in that group as the individuals in the other 87% of the population.
Yes. JD Vance's book is actually quite good at describing the mindset of the welfare dependent in rural areas. There are quite a lot of them.
thughes
.223 Rem
Agreed
My daughter is a day's drive away, and most of my old friends have bailed for the free States now too.
Keyzard
.45 acp
FWIW, Erie is pretty blue. You could do what we did, we set a drive time limit of 2 hours before we started looking. We ended up 15 mins past our limit, but it was worth it. We ended up in a very small conservative borough in one of the reddest counties in the state.
At a two hour drive, day trips are easy. We go right through the rez in each direction and top off our tanks. My wife has to go back to Buffalo once a month for her job so she usually spends a few days with our oldest and one of the grandchildren, or her parents.
I see that you've put a lot of thoughts into your decision and trying to find an option that would meet your family needs. I like that. I might have some questions for you at some point.