(Part 2) Best products from r/POLITIC

We found 20 comments on r/POLITIC discussing the most recommended products. We ran sentiment analysis on each of these comments to determine how redditors feel about different products. We found 38 products and ranked them based on the amount of positive reactions they received. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.

Top comments mentioning products on r/POLITIC:

u/lollitics · 3 pointsr/POLITIC

you're a fucking idiot LOL. Sea_Still is officially illiterate. here's a book on teaching kids how to read for dummies, it's about $16 so I'm sure you can skip out on some meth for a bit so you can afford it!

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here's another one for you, some easy to read books for beginners. after some practice you can probably learn to read the reports rather than listening to morons talking on AM radio.

u/darxeid · 1 pointr/POLITIC

I don't think any educated and informed people (because there actually are educated, intelligent people who don't consider some subjects relevant or interesting) deny that the Earth's climate changes, what they question is the cause of the change since it appears that the Earth's climate has changed significantly in a cyclical pattern throughout it's history. I also don't think many of these people question the idea that populations of organisms change to adapt to their environment, what they do question is the idea of descent from a common ancestor, and it seems that those pesky, ignorant, hateful "Fundies" are not the only ones who question this since even the proponents of this idea are being forced to acknowledge that it's full of holes. Here is Amazon's description of a book coming up for publication in 2014, A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth: "Charles Darwin’s theories, first published more than 150 years ago, form the backbone of how we understand the history of the Earth. In reality, the currently accepted history of life on Earth is so flawed, so out of date, that it's past time we need a “New History of Life.”

In their latest book, Joe Kirschvink and Peter Ward will show that many of our most cherished beliefs about the evolution of life are wrong. Gathering and analyzing years of discoveries and research not yet widely known to the public, A New History of Life proposes a different origin of species than the one Darwin proposed, one which includes eight-foot-long centipedes, a frozen “snowball Earth”, and the seeds for life originating on Mars.

Drawing on their years of experience in paleontology, biology, chemistry, and astrobiology, experts Ward and Kirschvink paint a picture of the origins life on Earth that are at once too fabulous to imagine and too familiar to dismiss—and looking forward, A New History of Life brilliantly assembles insights from some of the latest scientific research to understand how life on Earth can and might evolve far into the future." source

u/My_soliloquy · 1 pointr/POLITIC

Don't fall into the trap of 'prepper' mentality. Doomsayers have been profitable for the entirety of human existence. Yet actual reality refutes their claims.

Is it going to be a rough 4 years, yes. Is it the end? Nobody knows, so keep on working towards positive solutions during the meantime.

The folks that feverishly sell doomsday only profit if you fall for their bullshit. And go actually take the time to read the two books I linked, instead of falling for the 'accidents' that draw your view on TV's lies. They are using your hard wiring to manipulate you, don't let them.

u/j3utton · 3 pointsr/POLITIC

> murdered that man

Yea, that was kind of the point of posting the quote.

And somehow you morons don't understand that as soon as the socialists take power here the same thing is going to happen to all you other useful idiots, as has happened every single other time this little experiment has been tried.

Here's some recommended reading.
https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-Aleksandr-Solzhenitsyn/dp/1843430851/

u/morebeansplease · 1 pointr/POLITIC

> You have been given voice and you used it.

This is not an exercise of using voices, we were supposedly discussing getting work done. If you won't back up your priority of race and ethics on how we should be making decisions in reality you should not be talking to other people. I would rather you stay until we resolve the issue but also I understand how hard it is to understand other perspectives. I dare you to stop running away and confront the counter point.

u/SolomonKane827 · -1 pointsr/POLITIC

>Greg Zoller in The Dark Eagle, argues Benedict Arnold was the victim of a plot by George Washington. Link.

By claiming the coup was orchestrated by GW, all Zoller does is smokescreen Jewish involvement.

u/Ordinate1 · 2 pointsr/POLITIC

> Trump Voters and history!

That's from Howard Zinn you fascist asshole!

https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States/dp/0060838655

u/alternate-source-bot · 1 pointr/POLITIC

When I first saw this article from thedailybeast.com, its title was:
> John Oliver's Gay Bunny Book Outsells the Pences'

Here are some other articles about this story:

u/fuckswithboats · 1 pointr/POLITIC

>Historical context is irrelevant.

Says the guy who thinks the only racism is anti-white racism.

> Jim Crow has been gone longer than 95% of blacks have been alive.

Read this and let's discuss.

u/Poor_Irishman · 2 pointsr/POLITIC

Donald Barr is AG William Barr's dad

Donald Barr was in the OSS, which was the precursor to the CIA

Donald Barr gave Epstein his first job as a math teacher in an elite, politically connected school, even though Epstein did not have any qualifications or even a college degree.

Donald Barr wrote a book called Space Relations, about a race of aliens that are so rich they become bored with everything and start a sex slavery ring and are also aroused by fear


Why downvote the truth?

u/SuperCharged2000 · 2 pointsr/POLITIC

We're told that the old crop of government agents were trying hard enough. Or that they didn't have the right intentions. While it's true that there are plenty of incompetent and ill-intentioned people in government, we can't always blame the people involved. Often, the likelihood of failure is simply built in to the institution of government itself. In other words, politicians and bureaucrats don't succeed because they can't succeed. The very nature of government administration is weighted against success.

Here are ten reasons why:

I. Knowledge


Government policies suffer from the pretense of knowledge . In order to perform a successful market intervention, politicians need to know more than they can. Market knowledge is not centralized, systematic, organized and general, but dispersed, heterogeneous, specific, and individual. Different from a market economy where there are many operators and a constant process of trial and error, the correction of government errors is limited because the government is a monopoly. For the politician, to admit an error is often worse than sticking with a wrong decision - even against own insight.

II. Information Asymmetries


While there are also information asymmetries in the market, for example between the insurer and the insured, or between the seller of a used car and its buyer, the information asymmetry is more profound in the public sector than in the private economy. While there are, for example, several insurance companies and many car dealers, there is only one government. The politicians as the representatives of the state have no skin in the game and because they are not stakeholders, they will not spend much efforts to investigate and avoid information asymmetries. On the contrary, politicians are typically eager to provide funds not to those who need them most but to those who are most relevant in the political power game.

III. Crowding out of the Private Sector


Government intervention does not eliminate what seem market deficiencies but creates them by crowding outthe private supply. If there were not a public dominance in the areas of schooling and social assistance, private supply and private charity would fill the gap as it was the case before government usurped these activities. Crowding-out of the private sector through government policies is constantly at work because politicians can get votes by offering additional public services although the public administration will not improve but deteriorate the matter.

IV. Time Lags


Government policies suffer from extended lags between diagnosis and effect. The governmental process is concerned with power and has its antenna captures those signals that are relevant for the power game. Only when an issue is sufficiently politicized will it find the attention of the government. After the lag, until an issue finds attention and gets diagnosed, another lag emerges until the authorities have found a consensus on how to tackle the political problem. From there it takes a further time span until the appropriate political means have found the necessary political support. After the measures get implemented, a further time elapses until they show their effects. The lapse of time between the articulation of a problem and the effect is so long that the nature of the problem and its context have changed - often fundamentally. It comes as no surprise that results of state interventions, including monetary policy , do not only deviate from the original goal but may produce the opposite of the intentions.

V. Rent Seeking and Rent Creation


Government intervention attracts rent-seekers. Rent seeking is the endeavor of gaining privileges through government policies. In a voter democracy, there is a constant pressure to add new rents to the existing rents in order to gain support and votes. This rent creation expands the number of rent-seekers and over time the distinction between corruption and a decent and legal conduct gets blurred. The more a government gives in to rent-seeking and rent creation, the more the country will fall victim to clientelism, corruption, and the misallocation of resources.

u/fullbloodedwhitemale · 0 pointsr/POLITIC

"the only racism is anti-white racism."

I didn't write that. I wrote the only institutional discrimination is against whites via affirmative action, quotas, bonus SAT points, and racial preferences.

Read this and let's discuss.

OK, lets discuss. Blacks are in prison more than whites for several reasons: The commit exponentially more crime, their sentences are tougher due to recidivism, they are much more likely to be busted for drugs since they're more likely to be taking, possessing, or selling drugs.

The US Department of Health and Human Services does regular surveys, and asks people if they take illegal drugs. Blacks are only about 10 to 20 percent more likely than whites to SAY that they do.

www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUHresultsPDFWHTML2013/Web/NSDUHresults2013.pdf

But if you look at the arrest data, blacks are 2-1/2 times more likely to be arrested for drug possession and 3.7 times more likely than whites to be arrested for trafficking. So, is this proof of police discrimination?

www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/aus9010.pdf

Do police suddenly go nuts if drugs are involved? Every mayor in Wash DC has been black since 1975. Two thirds of the police officers are black. And yet, the ACLU itself black reports a black DC resident was 8 times more likely than a white resident to be arrested for marijuana possession.

www.aclu.org/files/assets/aclu-thewaronmarijuana-rel2.pdf

The idea that blacks don’t use illegal drugs much more often than whites comes from surveys. But when you ask people if they take illegal drugs do they tell the truth? Researchers ask people if they have taken drugs and then take urine or hair samples to find out. And almost every time, blacks are a lot mowhite pre likely than whites to say they haven’t taken drugs but the test then proves they were lying. A study in the Journal of Urban Health, for example, found that blacks were ten times more likely than whites to lie about cocaine. Hispanics were five times more likely. When it came to marijuana, not one of the 109 whites in the sample lied, but one in eight of the 191 blacks lied.

link.springer.com/article/10.1093/jurban/jti065

A study of Vietnam-era veterans in the journal Addictive Behaviors found that blacks were more than 20 times more likely than whites to lie about cocaine, and twice as likely to lie about marijuana.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2495080/

This behavior goes back a long way. In 1994, more than 20 years ago, a large study of young people, aged nine to 20, found that blacks were six times more likely than whites to claim they didn’t use cocaine–but have it show up in a urine test.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7960302/

Want more data? Every year, the US Department of Health and Human Services tells us how many people went to the emergency room because they took an illegal drug and got sick or went crazy. Since the government tabulates these numbers by race, we can calculate rates. Blacks are 3-1/2 times more likely than whites to go to the emergency room because they took an illegal drug.

archive.samhsa.gov/data/2k13/DAWN2k11ED/DAWN2k11ED.pdf

u/ChaosOpen · 0 pointsr/POLITIC

Sorry, I must have forgotten, only white people can be racist right?

>ChaosOpen, we should never brand an entire community or race of people for the acts of one or a few.

Captain obvious is here to tell us all what we already know.

>Trump talks in general terms with the sentence that Mexico is sending people here who're rapists and smuggling drugs etc.

From what I can tell the progressive left has pretty much said all males are rapist, which is why I had to attend a "consent class" where I was told that I was an awful human being who is waiting for an opportunity to rape a poor innocent woman.

>And Trump also talks about this Mexican guy who supposedly killed ( i think it was an accident as he the gun went off as soon as picked the gun wrapped up in a towel and left by a federal agent)the American woman in San Fransisco pier .

Yes, and he was an illegal immigrant, if he was never in the country then that never would have happened. One of the few crimes that could have been prevented but wasn't because people were too busy biting their tongues lest they be called a racist.

>a majority of them are just trying to find work in America and not bad people at all.

I feel bad but the law is the law. They are here illegally and no matter the rationalization, they are breaking the law.

>The same goes for one Muslim couple who killed 14 people in San Barnardino in California and Trump wants to bar the entire Muslim people from coming to America "until we find out what's going on".

Al Jazeera, one of the largest media outlets in the middle east, did a poll of all of its viewers, turns out 81% support ISIS and what its trying to accomplish. How do you plan on sorting out the 19% of muslims who don't support ISIS from the 81% who do?

>We never stopped and searched all the White men going to the Black churches after Dylan Roof killed nine Black parishioners in a Black church in South Carolina.

The "white men" are American citizens, the 81% of ISIS supporters from the middle east are not. Also, we haven't stopped black people from doing anything, despite the fact that a blacks kill far more black people than white people do.

>We also never searched all the White people even after an idiot like Timothy Mcveigh killed 168 people in Oklahoma. So why should we stop and search and suspect every Black people (like in New York) just because one Black man called John Allen Mohammad killed 10 people and injured 3 people in D.c. area in 1995

So, the fact that blacks make up 34% of the prison population but only 13% of the population of the US is irrelevant to police, it's all that single case is it?

>Same way why we should stop all the Syrians coming to U.S.A. just because some I.S.I.S. killers are killing innocent civilians in Syria and Iraq

Because the Syrian refugees are raping, murdering, and beating the native inhabitants of Denmark, Norway, Germany, Sweden, etc.

>Either we should generalize everybody and punish all the communities for the actions of one or few individuals or we should stop this collective punishment of entire Black communities or Latin American communities or the Muslim communities just because one or a handful people are doing horrible things. We should treat everybody like we're treating the White communities, that is with a kid glove.

What ever happened to "we should never brand an entire community or race of people for the acts of one or a few?" Are you one of those who scream "white privilege" because you read about it on liberal news outlets? Here is a fun read for you: http://www.amazon.com/Race-Pimping-Multi-Trillion-Business-Liberalism/dp/1619339528

And after a google search here is a relatively decent article with the references of where he got his numbers debunking a few of the claims you have heard: http://www.allenbwest.com/2015/11/crime-expert-releases-shocking-new-statistics-about-black-men-killed-by-cops/



There is no systematic racism, Trump is trying to keep illegal immigrants out, he doesn't hate Latinos. He is trying to keep radical Islam out, he doesn't hate Arabs. And police are trying to protect victims from black-on-black crime, which is the real problem that needs to be addressed. Stop trying to protect the lawbreakers from police searches and try petitioning for better policing of high crime areas(whether the inhabitants be white, black, or Latino).

If there is a problem with the police and blacks, it is that the police have given up on protecting the law abiding blacks so that they don't "appear racist" because it has somehow become more PC to protect the perpetrator than the victim. For some reason it seems the single black mother who works 40-50 hours a week has less of a right to safety than her killer, a sad but all too common story in the high crime areas liberals are telling police to stay out of or get labeled as racist.