US politics general thread

[scudsucker]

Thanks Obama

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

I'm certain you, too, are an expert in DNA analysis, given your vast credentials in this specific area of science.

Perhaps you would elaborate for those of us who are less gifted in our aptitude for the scientific disciplines?

Please tell me you're trolling and not genuinely this dense? The problems with the test and the subsequent claims are obvious, you don't need scientific credentials any more than you need to be a meteorologist in order to call a weather report BS when it says there will be rain and there isn't.

Then again from your post I'm starting to suspect common sense these days is in such short supply that it would soon be regarded as "vast scientific credentials" compared to the average idiot.

 

[scudsucker]

Your posting history confirms the theory you posit in your last paragraph

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

And neither did you ...

Nor would I have if I could, but I am starting to enjoy his presidency, watching people get triggered sure beats 4/8 more years of useless status quo.

I was really rooting for John McAfee to get the libertarian nomination, he wouldn't even be a blip on the election result radar, but I'd have voted for him if I was a US citizen.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

Thanks Obama

That's the first sensible thing you've said today.

Your posting history confirms the theory you posit in your last paragraph

Ah the old "no I'm not, you are" comeback, what are you? 4 years old?

 

[scudsucker]

That's the first sensible thing you've said today.


Ah the old "no I'm not, you are" comeback, what are you? 4 years old?

Probably around 24 years older than you, and having had a lot more life experience.

And that's being generous, students in SA usually leave university at +/- 21

 

[rietrot]

I'm certain you, too, are an expert in DNA analysis, given your vast credentials in this specific area of science.

Perhaps you would elaborate for those of us who are less gifted in our aptitude for the scientific disciplines?

O so now we are only allowed to have an opinion when we are an expert in the field? Why do you even comment at all. Don't be a hypocrite, put up your credentials.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

Probably around 24 years older than you, and having had a lot more life experience.

And that's being generous, students in SA usually leave university at +/- 21

and at what age do you expect to develop some critical thinking or even just wit? ...

 

[rietrot]

The U.S. government closed the 2018 fiscal year $779 billion in the red, its highest deficit in six years, as Republican-led tax cuts pinched revenues and expenses rose on a growing national debt, according to data released on Monday by the Treasury Department.

New government spending also expanded the federal deficit for the 12 months through September, the first full annual budget on the watch of U.S. President Donald Trump. It was the largest deficit since 2012.
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1MP28I

Tax cuts were always going to cause short term pain, they should have taken that and not financed it with debt. But meh. Kicking the can down the road.

 

[scudsucker]

O so now we are only allowed to have an opinion when we are an expert in the field? Why do you even comment at all. Don't be a hypocrite, put up your credentials.

I don't really need to put up my credentials. I do not have a medical degree. I have not studied DNA analysis.

But you charming gentlemen are making value judgements on a field of science in which neither of you have any apparent experience.

I'm calling you out on THAT.

Notice, please that I am not making any judgement on the actual science. I'm calling you two out for dishonest criticism. You are welcome to refute the actual science. But I fear that that is one intellectual step too far for you guys.

 

[rietrot]

I don't really need to put up my credentials. I do not have a medical degree. I have not studied DNA analysis.
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Non of which is necessary. I would suggest you start with some good old fashioned reading comprehension (about primary school level) and read the actual DNA report and then some simular ones that you can find online from places like 23 and me.
Then maybe some really basic stats so that you realise how insignificant 0.1% is especially if you aren't really sure that it is even that much. Now considering what is basically common knowledge and how much mixed DNA other groups have closer to home like konfab pointed out...

I'm more black than Elizabeth Warren is native American.

 

[Temujin]

I'm more black than Elizabeth Warren is native American.

#metoo

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

I'm more black than Elizabeth Warren is latino.

ftfy

 

[rietrot]

ftfy

Well giving them the benifit of the doubt seeing Latino is basically half Spanish half native American.

 

[scudsucker]

Non of which is necessary.

"Non". Welcome to grade 3; where all the children learn to spell single syllable words.

 

[Pitbull]

Jusus, you Libtards can get upset with the biggest crock of shyte...

For me to claim heritage of anything I would assume one would need at least 1/4 of said ethnicity. Just makes sense. Anything less means there are no defining features so you're a new "breed" so to speak. It's like saying an Afrikaans person is Dutch when he has probably less than 1/12 Dutch DNA. Similar to how I can claim to be German as I'm 50% German.

How the fark does one with 1/1024claim to be Native American?

That's like me claiming to be Khoi as most of us will have Khoi in our DNA... Geesus...

 

[Unhappy438]

Jusus, you Libtards can get upset with the biggest crock of shyte...

For me to claim heritage of anything I would assume one would need at least 1/4 of said ethnicity. Just makes sense. Anything less means there are no defining features so you're a new "breed" so to speak. It's like saying an Afrikaans person is Dutch when he has probably less than 1/12 Dutch DNA. Similar to how I can claim to be German as I'm 50% German.

How the fark does one with 1/1024claim to be Native American?

That's like me claiming to be Khoi as most of us will have Khoi in our DNA... Geesus...

The 1/1024 claim is just an indicator of how far back her heritage goes, 1024 being the worst case scenario, 64 being the best case scenario. So anywhere between 6-10 generations ago. Are you 6-10 generations away from Khoi? If you're European that's highly unlikely.

 

[Temujin]

The 1/1024 claim is just an indicator of how far back her heritage goes, 1024 being the worst case scenario, 64 being the best case scenario. So anywhere between 6-10 generations ago. Are you 6-10 generations away from Khoi? If you're European that's highly unlikely.

Thats 1700 to 1800's. Very likely

 

[Unhappy438]

Thats 1700 to 1800's. Very likely

Very likely to which part of my post? The Khoi one? Unless his great x whatever fathered a child with a local, then how is it very likely?

An interesting read

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24988-humanitys-forgotten-return-to-africa-revealed-in-dna/

 

[konfab]