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Quote: terapined

Athletes are human
It's tough when you lose your Mom
Gee, is lighting up to help cope with depression so bad

It seems that either nobody, or at least very few people, disagrees with the notion that the rule itself is stupid. However, that doesn't mean that breaking the rule cannot also be stupid.

Quote: Mission146

It seems that either nobody, or at least very few people, disagrees with the notion that the rule itself is stupid. However, that doesn't mean that breaking the rule cannot also be stupid.

It's a dumb rule
I want to see the best athletes in the world compete against one another and see who is the best regardless if somebody had a toke or drink
Jamaica has some of the fastest runners in the world. They also smoke a lot of pot.
I want to see their runners in the Olympics regardless of tokes

Quote: rxwine

I'm for it

You don't need to tell us

I assume anyone who's for Reparations, who doesn't stand to benefit, has massive white guilt syndrome . And thinks that the way to pay for it is not more taxes for them, but to just add to the US Deficit... oh, wait, we can make guys like Bezos pay for it, I forgot!

Quote: odiousgambit

You don't need to tell us

I assume anyone who's for Reparations, who doesn't stand to benefit, has massive white guilt syndrome . And thinks that the way to pay for it is not more taxes for them, but to just add to the US Deficit... oh, wait, we can make guys like Bezos pay for it, I forgot!

I would actually be impressed if a white person who says "I'M FOR IT!" would deed their house to a random black family and give a random black person their car then start over.

Otherwise they are just yapping.

I’m for reparations.

Only because it would anger a lot of dumb racists. 🤷‍♂️

Quote: odiousgambit

You don't need to tell us

I assume anyone who's for Reparations, who doesn't stand to benefit, has massive white guilt syndrome . And thinks that the way to pay for it is not more taxes for them, but to just add to the US Deficit... oh, wait, we can make guys like Bezos pay for it, I forgot!

You don’t need an ounce of guilt to agree with a principle of compensation as justice whether it’s here or a distant country where you don’t know anyone.

War reparations were paid by Germans into the next generation, who had nothing to do with it.

Quote: rxwine

War reparations were paid by Germans into the next generation, who had nothing to do with it.

Uh, no. War reparations were structured over a number of years. Just because someone was born after the war has nothing to do with it. Reparations to blacks are pointless because first the government did not hold the slaves, individuals did. Second, we are talking 150+ years, not 20 years of structured war reparations.

Quote: AZDuffman

Uh, no. War reparations were structured over a number of years. Just because someone was born after the war has nothing to do with it. Reparations to blacks are pointless because first the government did not hold the slaves, individuals did. Second, we are talking 150+ years, not 20 years of structured war reparations.

Uh yes. How do you think loans work?

Quote: rxwine

Uh yes. How do you think loans work?

While you are at it the US should probably start paying Britain for the land they stole from them during the revolution.

Quote: kenarman

While you are at it the US should probably start paying Britain for the land they stole from them during the revolution.

Most opponents do argue the all or nothing settlement as if that’s the only possibility for any such idea of reparations.