More of this, please.

[Winston]

I see it the way it is.

The non-swimmers can't swim with the weights tied to their ankles.

Great post and exactly right. Those on the right want to throw equal outcomes out there, it is an excuse. They absolutely fear equal opportunity. Like I said, it isn't like that in any other developed country. Here, in the United States, the lowest quintile of test scores in the highest quintile of income have a better chance of graduating from college than the lowest quintile in income and the highest quintile of test scores. That is totally FUBARED.

You have heart surgery, wtf, the surgeon is from India. You know why? Even with their caste system, the highest test scores get into the best universities. For many, Harvard and Yale are fallback schools. They absolutely eat our lunch. Same for almost every European country, Germany comes to mind right away. Your test scores get you into a university, not who your Daddy is.

The call for the elimination of the Department of Education, it is denying equal opportunity, tying weights to those thrown in the lake, that it is all it is about. It is foolish. Want to talk about China? There are high schools in California with Lamborghinis in the student parking lot. Kids of coal barons from China. Are they the smartest and the brightest? Hell no, I promise you, there is a son of some illegal immigrant that has a way higher IQ then those Chinese immigrants. They just don't have parents that can throw down half a million dollars and buy their way in. We lose, we all lose, when we don't bring that illegal immigrant son to full potential.

I mean I have seen it. Hell, I have lived it. Mom, she was born into wealth. Generational wealth that went back to land grants prior to the American Revolution. And each generation, well they just sat on their damn hands and waited for the inheritance to come in. Now, the whole lot of the descendants doesn't have a pot to piss in. Dad, born to a migrant farm worker that was ******* illiterate, couldn't read or write. But at the poker table, well there was no match. He raised doctors, engineers, and built quite the estate.

Equal opportunity, time to make it happen. I mean you give me the poorest people, those struggling to survive, hardships at home, drug addicted parents, gangs in the street in front of their apartment. I take them. And you can have the spoiled little rich punks, think they are entitled. I don't care what it is, cross country, debate, hell football if that floats your boat. My team will eat your lunch. Time we understood that. Time we made it happen. Time we moved forward.

 

[jc456]

I’m a Red-State Mayor Who Knows the Value of Diversity​

One of the things that makes America great is our collective resolve that every American should have an equal opportunity to succeed. We have never fully achieved this, but the Constitution gives us the tools to try, and we have used them. As a result, the arc of American history has bent toward greater equality for 249 years, passing through the Civil War, women’s suffrage, the civil rights movement, Obergefell v. Hodges and other milestones.

Of course, that progress is occasionally met with resistance. Oklahoma City, a purple city in a red state, where I serve as mayor, has witnessed Ku Klux Klan activities as well as successful sit-in movements.

As residents of a purple city in a red state, we’ve been hearing a lot of rhetoric that portrays the drive for equal opportunity as a form of reverse discrimination, that says we should not celebrate greater diversity as evidence that we have expanded opportunity, or even that we should not support Pride or other celebrations of our residents’ unique identities.

Sometimes this rhetoric is cloaked in patriotism, but it is really just repackaged bigotry, misogyny and racism. To cast equal opportunity as a threat rather than a goal is to move backward.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/opinion/oklahoma-city-mayor-diversity.html

Op-eds like this give me hope trump has not completely polluted the party with disdain for people "not like me." People who see, on a granular level, the value of diversity are still keeping a vestige of the GOP alive.

I like how you stupid mthr fkers have no idea what diversity is.

 

[jc456]

Great post and exactly right. Those on the right want to throw equal outcomes out there, it is an excuse. They absolutely fear equal opportunity.

what is equal opportunity? define it for us.

While you're there, why are you against school choice for blacks?

 

[Winston]

what is equal opportunity? define it for us.

While you're there, why are you against school choice for blacks?

Giving everyone equal access. I mean it is so evident. The current system of funding public education through property taxes is completely wrong. I promise you, take those inner city students in their underfunded falling public school and bus them to some high-wealth neighborhood in the suburbs, and bus those spoiled rich kids in the suburbs to those underfunded school, see what happens.

The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

I am sick of it, it is all the Republican party stands for. Protect the city, exacerbate the poverty. Tired of them protecting themselves because they are such pussies. Wake up, clean up, stand up. I can promise you it is coming. History tells us nothing else.

 

[Independent thinker]

I’m a Red-State Mayor Who Knows the Value of Diversity​

One of the things that makes America great is our collective resolve that every American should have an equal opportunity to succeed. We have never fully achieved this, but the Constitution gives us the tools to try, and we have used them. As a result, the arc of American history has bent toward greater equality for 249 years, passing through the Civil War, women’s suffrage, the civil rights movement, Obergefell v. Hodges and other milestones.

Of course, that progress is occasionally met with resistance. Oklahoma City, a purple city in a red state, where I serve as mayor, has witnessed Ku Klux Klan activities as well as successful sit-in movements.

As residents of a purple city in a red state, we’ve been hearing a lot of rhetoric that portrays the drive for equal opportunity as a form of reverse discrimination, that says we should not celebrate greater diversity as evidence that we have expanded opportunity, or even that we should not support Pride or other celebrations of our residents’ unique identities.

Sometimes this rhetoric is cloaked in patriotism, but it is really just repackaged bigotry, misogyny and racism. To cast equal opportunity as a threat rather than a goal is to move backward.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/opinion/oklahoma-city-mayor-diversity.html

Op-eds like this give me hope trump has not completely polluted the party with disdain for people "not like me." People who see, on a granular level, the value of diversity are still keeping a vestige of the GOP alive.

Nothing wrong with diversity as long as it isn't DEI and discriminatory.

 

[Woodznutz]

Great post and exactly right. Those on the right want to throw equal outcomes out there, it is an excuse. They absolutely fear equal opportunity. Like I said, it isn't like that in any other developed country. Here, in the United States, the lowest quintile of test scores in the highest quintile of income have a better chance of graduating from college than the lowest quintile in income and the highest quintile of test scores. That is totally FUBARED.

You have heart surgery, wtf, the surgeon is from India. You know why? Even with their caste system, the highest test scores get into the best universities. For many, Harvard and Yale are fallback schools. They absolutely eat our lunch. Same for almost every European country, Germany comes to mind right away. Your test scores get you into a university, not who your Daddy is.

The call for the elimination of the Department of Education, it is denying equal opportunity, tying weights to those thrown in the lake, that it is all it is about. It is foolish. Want to talk about China? There are high schools in California with Lamborghinis in the student parking lot. Kids of coal barons from China. Are they the smartest and the brightest? Hell no, I promise you, there is a son of some illegal immigrant that has a way higher IQ then those Chinese immigrants. They just don't have parents that can throw down half a million dollars and buy their way in. We lose, we all lose, when we don't bring that illegal immigrant son to full potential.

I mean I have seen it. Hell, I have lived it. Mom, she was born into wealth. Generational wealth that went back to land grants prior to the American Revolution. And each generation, well they just sat on their damn hands and waited for the inheritance to come in. Now, the whole lot of the descendants doesn't have a pot to piss in. Dad, born to a migrant farm worker that was ******* illiterate, couldn't read or write. But at the poker table, well there was no match. He raised doctors, engineers, and built quite the estate.

Equal opportunity, time to make it happen. I mean you give me the poorest people, those struggling to survive, hardships at home, drug addicted parents, gangs in the street in front of their apartment. I take them. And you can have the spoiled little rich punks, think they are entitled. I don't care what it is, cross country, debate, hell football if that floats your boat. My team will eat your lunch. Time we understood that. Time we made it happen. Time we moved forward.

We can't make it happen. It's really up to them. It's up to them to move forward.

 

[Woodznutz]

Giving everyone equal access. I mean it is so evident. The current system of funding public education through property taxes is completely wrong. I promise you, take those inner city students in their underfunded falling public school and bus them to some high-wealth neighborhood in the suburbs, and bus those spoiled rich kids in the suburbs to those underfunded school, see what happens.

The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

I am sick of it, it is all the Republican party stands for. Protect the city, exacerbate the poverty. Tired of them protecting themselves because they are such pussies. Wake up, clean up, stand up. I can promise you it is coming. History tells us nothing else.

The Republican party, conservative Americans, stands for personal responsibility. That's it in a nutshell.

 

[jc456]

Giving everyone equal access. I mean it is so evident. The current system of funding public education through property taxes is completely wrong. I promise you, take those inner city students in their underfunded falling public school and bus them to some high-wealth neighborhood in the suburbs, and bus those spoiled rich kids in the suburbs to those underfunded school, see what happens.

Dude, republicans are all in on school choice, I said that already, only demofks oppose that, so shut the fk up! SCHOOL CHOICE, say you are for it.

The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

put the black man back in the house. You know this is what caused low income areas right? Tell me you knew that.

I am sick of it, it is all the Republican party stands for.

Republicans are for School Choice, you?

Protect the city, exacerbate the poverty. Tired of them protecting themselves because they are such pussies. Wake up, clean up, stand up. I can promise you it is coming. History tells us nothing else.

demofks hate blacks it's why those patterns are always in demofk districts. Why aren't you demanding more from demofk mayor and governors? you are a silent fk.

 

[jc456]

The Republican party, conservative Americans, stands for personal responsibility. That's it in a nutshell.

we believe in a man in the house, and stop welfare. low property values is due to that and that alone, all created by demofks. Again, they have shot themselves in the foot with this.

 

[Billiejeens]

Many people support diversity. Right up th the point they get carjacked.

Or stabbed on a train

 

[jc456]

Or stabbed on a train

Standard practice for demofks

 

[Quantrill]

Diversity does what it is intended to do...it divides. Diversity doesn't unite. It is simply a false label that makes idiots feel good about uniting. Like uniting is alone some glorious thing. Uniting occurs when there is something you unite behind. Not just because you want to unite.

The more 'diverse' America becomes, the greater the divide becomes. Yet democrats love to tell us that is our greatest strength. What a lie. It's our greatest weakness. It has already destroyed America.

If you think the killing of Kirk was only a single incident, think again. It will continue from the liberal, leftest democrats. Our country sits upon a tinder box ready to explode, because of 'diversity'. There is no unity. There can't be.

Quantrill

 

[Missouri_Mike]

I’m a Red-State Mayor Who Knows the Value of Diversity​

One of the things that makes America great is our collective resolve that every American should have an equal opportunity to succeed. We have never fully achieved this, but the Constitution gives us the tools to try, and we have used them. As a result, the arc of American history has bent toward greater equality for 249 years, passing through the Civil War, women’s suffrage, the civil rights movement, Obergefell v. Hodges and other milestones.

Of course, that progress is occasionally met with resistance. Oklahoma City, a purple city in a red state, where I serve as mayor, has witnessed Ku Klux Klan activities as well as successful sit-in movements.

As residents of a purple city in a red state, we’ve been hearing a lot of rhetoric that portrays the drive for equal opportunity as a form of reverse discrimination, that says we should not celebrate greater diversity as evidence that we have expanded opportunity, or even that we should not support Pride or other celebrations of our residents’ unique identities.

Sometimes this rhetoric is cloaked in patriotism, but it is really just repackaged bigotry, misogyny and racism. To cast equal opportunity as a threat rather than a goal is to move backward.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/opinion/oklahoma-city-mayor-diversity.html

Op-eds like this give me hope trump has not completely polluted the party with disdain for people "not like me." People who see, on a granular level, the value of diversity are still keeping a vestige of the GOP alive.

When jobs are handed out by skin color, sexual preference or anything other than qualifications that’s a travesty that can not stand.

 

[berg80]

This dummy doesn't understand the difference between "equal opportunity" and "equal outcome".

He sounds like a DemoKKKrat.

As residents of a purple city in a red state, we’ve been hearing a lot of rhetoric that portrays the drive for equal opportunity as a form of reverse discrimination, that says we should not celebrate greater diversity as evidence that we have expanded opportunity, or even that we should not support Pride or other celebrations of our residents’ unique identities.

Sometimes this rhetoric is cloaked in patriotism, but it is really just repackaged bigotry, misogyny and racism. To cast equal opportunity as a threat rather than a goal is to move backward.

 

[berg80]

When jobs are handed out by skin color, sexual preference or anything other than qualifications that’s a travesty that can not stand.

The thing is, what you are describing is the way hiring practices were conducted here since the Founding. A time period during which white, Anglo-Saxon, men were always given preference over all others. Even those who were more qualified.

It's probably why you were hired.

 

[jc456]

As residents of a purple city in a red state, we’ve been hearing a lot of rhetoric that portrays the drive for equal opportunity as a form of reverse discrimination, that says we should not celebrate greater diversity as evidence that we have expanded opportunity, or even that we should not support Pride or other celebrations of our residents’ unique identities.

Sometimes this rhetoric is cloaked in patriotism, but it is really just repackaged bigotry, misogyny and racism. To cast equal opportunity as a threat rather than a goal is to move backward.

who doesn't have equal opportunities exactly?

 

[jc456]

The thing is, what you are describing is the way hiring practices were conducted here since the Founding. A time period during which white, Anglo-Saxon, men were always given preference over all others. Even those who were more qualified.

It's probably why you were hired.

you're still in Lincoln's time huh?

 

[jc456]

When jobs are handed out by skin color, sexual preference or anything other than qualifications that’s a travesty that can not stand.

it ensures too much stupid is hired. Ask Bud Light.

 

[berg80]

Judge Admonishes Border Patrol Leader for Tactics in Chicago​

In a courtroom in downtown Chicago on Tuesday, a federal judge admonished Gregory Bovino, a senior Border Patrol official who has become a face of the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, for his agency’s use of force and tear gas in Chicago in recent weeks.

For more than an hour, the judge, Sara L. Ellis of Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, read Mr. Bovino restrictions she had previously set as part of a lawsuit over tactics that agents are using and cited examples of times his agents appeared to violate those restrictions.

They used tear gas in a neighborhood where children were about to march in a Halloween parade, Judge Ellis said. They failed to warn residents before tossing tear gas canisters at them, she said, noting an incident in which an agent threw a canister out of a car as it drove away.

The judge then ordered Mr. Bovino, who took the stand in his usual green fatigues and Border Patrol insignia, to appear at the federal courthouse at the end of every weekday to personally provide her with a report on the day’s arrests and incidents.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/us/chicago-bovino-tear-gas.html

There's no reason I can think of not to start locking up ICE agents who violate the conditions of temporary restraining orders.