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Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 2:15am On Apr 02
So why are they defending Ukraine?



Didn't they say a good defence is a good attack?
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:16am On Apr 02
benalvino3:
The pilot sits and lets the autopilot take control. Many times a crash happens because the pilot is fighting with the computer system, causing key safety mechanisms to disengage.

A pilot should be situational alert, he should be able to understand what is going on in different scenarios and take the best needed action, otherwise the plane is doing most of the heavy lifting.

My point is, there is a difference between flying a plane and be a genius of a pilot. The fact you have all the qualifications does not make you the best. So when I said anyone can fly a plane with basic instructions, while that statement is true, I don't mean it literally.
Judge Ketanji Brown is a DeI hire. She can't define a woman because she's not a biologist. ( She can , she didn't think fast enough to give an answer woke mob demands).
She has clashed with other judges over her positions on some litigation before court, actually she has been schooled.
Yet she has all the papers plus experience.
Today she said if you steal a wallet in Japan , you are under their jurisdiction when talking birth tourism / birthright citizenship.

In short ,You can have poor pilots despite them being fully qualified.There gave been 2 cases in the last decade where a pilot deliberately crashed a passenger airliner.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 2:19am On Apr 02
basilico:
Judge Ketanji Brown is a DeI hire. She can't define a woman because she's not a biologist. ( She can , she didn't think fast enough to give an answer woke mob demands).
She has clashed with other judges over her positions on some litigation before court, actually she has been schooled.
Yet she has all the papers plus experience.
Today she said if you steal a wallet in Japan , you are under their jurisdiction when talking birth tourism / birthright citizenship.
You don see am
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 2:20am On Apr 02
So the other day I posted an add about the dogs, what did budaatum say?

Today see what they are doing
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 2:21am On Apr 02
benalvino3:
You cannot educate a footballer to be like Messi, no amount of training will allow a footballer to be like Messi. Some people are truly gifted. Even in education
This simply shows what you don't know.

benalvino3:
Growth mindset is not the same as blank-slate theory. Saying effort matters does not mean innate differences do not exist.
What you call innate, I call educating inside the womb.

And forgive me for saying you don't have the "innate ability" nor desire to comprehend what I am teaching you, and you are refusing to apply yourself so that it can be innate in you too.

benalvino3:
That is why not everyone becomes Messi, not everyone becomes Einstein, and not everyone reaches the same level in maths even under the same teaching,
I agree. You have to apply yourself too.

You should go read about Mozart. No innate ability whatsoever until his parents literally glued his hands to a piano for hours everyday and innated piano playing into him.

benalvino3:
Training develops ability; it does not create identical ceilings for everyone.
Your ceiling is determined by the opportunity you have and the effort you put in. Both will move the ceiling so you don't bump your head on it.

What is funny about your position is the simple fact that you can not have the so called innate ability to do what you do not have the opportunity to train for.

If Messi were born in say USA where the football he plays is not played as much, he'd likely have applied himself to playing another sport, and you'd be here claiming that different sport ability is what is innate in him.

Do know that black women were never known to have innate ability in tennis until a father decided to innate tennis playing in to his children. And you will never be innate in Olympic swimming or ice hockey in Nigeria until we create the swimming pools and ice rinks to practise in.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 2:22am On Apr 02
Black people built America, immigrants built America, etc. All nonsense.

Now Muslim, and every immigrant from asia built Great Britain 😂😂😂😂

Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:24am On Apr 02
budaatum:
This simply shows what you don't know.


What you call innate, I call educating inside the womb.

And forgive me for saying you don't have the "innate ability" nor desire to comprehend what I am teaching you, and you are refusing to apply yourself so that it can be innate in you too.


I agree. You have to apply yourself too.

You should go read about Mozart. No innate ability whatsoever until his parents literally glued his hands to a piano for hours everyday and innated piano playing into him.


Your ceiling is determined by the opportunity you have and the effort you put in. Both will move the ceiling so you don't bump your head on it.

What is funny about your position is the simple fact that you can not have the so called innate ability to do what you do not have the opportunity to train for.

If Messi were born in say USA where the football he plays is not played as much, he'd likely have applied himself to playing another sport, and you'd be here claiming that different sport ability is what is innate in him.

Do know that black women were never known to have innate ability in tennis until a father decided to innate tennis playing in to his children. And you will never be innate in Olympic swimming or ice hockey in Nigeria until we create the swimming pools and ice rinks to practise in.
Another toddler level argument. Many children are born with a talent, a good education system identifies the talent early enough to fully develop the child wholesome .
Was actually surprised Shaquille O'Neal has a PhD.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 2:29am On Apr 02
benalvino3:
So the other day I posted an add about the dogs, what did budaatum say?

Today see what they are doing
https://twitter.com/Alexandr4Denman/s tatus/2039305215854162172
I completely ignored you after researching it because it's the sort of nonsense Tommy tells you.

Here in UK you can take a dog on public transport, and no person can tell you you can't. If your god don't like it, please get yourself off the bus and walk. We love dogs far too much to feel the need to pander to anyone's gods here.

I'm aware you disagree with AI when it disagrees with you, so provide a valid source for your dog ban please. X and tiktok are much less valid than AI!

Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 2:31am On Apr 02
benalvino3:
Black people built America, immigrants built America, etc. All nonsense.

Now Muslim, and every immigrant from asia built Great Britain 😂😂😂😂

https://twitter.com/HamasAtroc ities/status/2039356849275744391
According to some random ǐdǐot on X, ben. Intelligent people get their information from better sources.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 2:36am On Apr 02
budaatum:
This simply shows what you don't know.


What you call innate, I call educating inside the womb.

And forgive me for saying you don't have the "innate ability" nor desire to comprehend what I am teaching you, and you are refusing to apply yourself so that it can be innate in you too.


I agree. You have to apply yourself too.

You should go read about Mozart. No innate ability whatsoever until his parents literally glued his hands to a piano for hours everyday and innated piano playing into him.


Your ceiling is determined by the opportunity you have and the effort you put in. Both will move the ceiling so you don't bump your head on it.

What is funny about your position is the simple fact that you can not have the so called innate ability to do what you do not have the opportunity to train for.

If Messi were born in say USA where the football he plays is not played as much, he'd likely have applied himself to playing another sport, and you'd be here claiming that different sport ability is what is innate in him.

Do know that black women were never known to have innate ability in tennis until a father decided to innate tennis playing in to his children. And you will never be innate in Olympic swimming or ice hockey in Nigeria until we create the swimming pools and ice rinks to practise in.
You are confusing opportunity with aptitude.
yes, opportunity matters. Yes, training matters. But it does not mean that natural differences do not exist.

Ur Mozart example also overreaches. Mozart was trained early by his father, but he is still widely described by standard reference works as a child prodigy, playing at four and composing at five.

That is not evidence that innate variation is fake; it is evidence that unusual potential plus early training can produce extraordinary results.

Tha is why thousands of children get footballs, pianos, books, and coaching, yet only a tiny few become Messi, Mozart, or top mathematicians. Sport science also treats performance as emerging from an initial level of performance plus years of practice shaped by personal and environmental factors.

So ur argument only proves that talent needs opportunity to appear, not that talent does not exist.
If a child neve sees a piano, we may never discover musical ability. If a country has no ice rinks, we may never discover elite hockey ability. But that is not the same as saying all children would reach the same level once exposed.

Mozart being trained early does not erase giftedness; it shows that rare potential flourishes faster under training. Mainstream psychology and gifted education do not support your blank-slate conclusion. The accepted view is both/and: abilities matter, and development matters.

I don't know why you are putting our rebuttals to this
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 2:41am On Apr 02
The mother everyone deserves

Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by GracieX3(f): 2:45am On Apr 02
basilico:
I'm very normal and sober. I like pointing how Obama was a disaster to the whole world to those who call trump supporters cultist.
So yes I'll twist anything to remind us all what a useless person Obama is.
Obama that had better economic results than Trump? By all metrics, Obama has been a better president than Trump.

But your highness from being a Trump MAGA cult, will not allow you to admit the facts.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by GracieX3(f): 2:47am On Apr 02
benalvino3:
Black people built America, immigrants built America, etc. All nonsense.

Now Muslim, and every immigrant from asia built Great Britain 😂😂😂😂
.

Immigrants built America. that is a fact, despite that british muslim being brain dead
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 2:47am On Apr 02
People have monsters for children.
Ignore the deport part of it. This guy is obviously a racist.


Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 2:53am On Apr 02
GracieX3:
.

Immigrants built America. that is a fact, despite that british muslim being brain dead
How immigrants built America 😂

Who are the immigrants

I thought they said black people built America
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 2:56am On Apr 02
American voters 🥲🥲🥲

Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by GracieX3(f): 3:10am On Apr 02
benalvino3:
How immigrants built America 😂

Who are the immigrants

I thought they said black people built America
Yes, black people and immigrants built America. The silent part is that you are indirectly trying to say that only white people built America.

Black and immigrant labour built many urban infrastructure.

You hate black history. Please, go and read about the the wall in Wall street and how enslaved blacks built it.

Tell me, who runs the banking industry in the USA and if they came as immigrants.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 3:15am On Apr 02
GracieX3:
Yes, black people and immigrants built America. The silent part is that you are indirectly trying to say that only white people built America.

Black and immigrant labour built many urban infrastructure.

You hate black history. Please, go and read about the the wall in Wall street and how enslaved blacks built it.

Tell me, who runs the banking industry in the USA and if they came as immigrants.
How did black people and immigrants build America?
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 4:02am On Apr 02
benalvino3:
So ur argument only proves that talent needs opportunity to appear, not that talent does not exist.
If a child neve sees a piano, we may never discover musical ability. If a country has no ice rinks, we may never discover elite hockey ability. But that is not the same as saying all children would reach the same level once exposed.
Talent itself does not exist without opportunity and practise, is the point. Your gift giver does not look at the opportunities available before dishing out gifts. And no one develops gifts that they have no opportunity to practise and develop. That alone shows your innate ideology is false, since you never come across a person with an innate ability they lack the opportunity to practise and develop, while the opposite is true when opportunity to learn exists. You can not have an innate ability to play a piano if there is no piano for you to develop it on. Provide that child a piano early enough and with the right support and commitment they might give Mozart a run for his playing

Exposure alone is however not what makes the difference in children being talented or not. You said it well that one can teach children the same and not all become prodigies. I can sit children in class and teach them the same thing and some will definitely learn quicker than others and some not at all, but before we jump to innateness, we'd look at their interest in the subject, their commitment, how much effort they put in, their home environment, their relationship with their parents and their parents with each other and wealth and even size of family and home and etc etc etc.

Parents who fight each other constantly, for instance, will disadvantage their kids and kill whatever might become innate in them. A home where parents struggle financially might not provide a piano for a kid who might otherwise be a piano prodigy. A child in whom interests in a skill is not cultivated will struggle to develop that skill. A child whose parents are maths professors is more likely to prodigy in maths than a child whose parents can not count. That child whose parents can not count can however still be better than Einstein if they apply themselves and are taught well and are in the right environment to learn. And the child of maths professor parents could hate maths and refuse to apply itself.

Without opportunity, a child can not develop what you claim is innate. And not developing a talent would make you conclude that ability is not innate in that child, when you could have innated it into that child by providing the opportunity and support.

When you read the below, understand that its going to be very difficult for a 5ft 3in tall adult to have an innate ability to dunk a basketball. Muggsy Bogues at that height is however considered the best short basketball player in history, enjoying a successful 14-year NBA career. He was a dominant point guard for the Charlotte Hornets, known for elite speed, steals, and recording over 6,700 career assists. What he lost in height he gained by learning other valuable skills that made him as good as he was.

Hundreds of kids I've taught through many years disprove your innate theory, but I guess I can not make innate in you what you seem to have no experience of and put no effort into learning, so I'll better leave it at that, especially since you are refusing the DEI I'm offering you so you may catch up.

Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 4:19am On Apr 02
budaatum:
Talent itself does not exist without opportunity and practise, is the point. Your gift giver does not look at the opportunities available before dishing out gifts. And no one develops gifts that they have no opportunity to practise and develop. That alone shows your innate ideology is false, since you never come across a person with an innate ability they lack the opportunity to practise and develop, while the opposite is true when opportunity to learn exists. You can not have an innate ability to play a piano if there is no piano for you to develop it on. Provide that child a piano early enough and with the right support and commitment they might give Mozart a run for his playing

Exposure alone is however not what makes the difference in children being talented or not. You said it well that one can teach children the same and not all become prodigies. I can sit children in class and teach them the same thing and some will definitely learn quicker than others and some not at all, but before we jump to innateness, we'd look at their interest in the subject, their commitment, how much effort they put in, their home environment, their relationship with their parents and their parents with each other and wealth and even size of family and home and etc etc etc.

Parents who fight each other constantly, for instance, will disadvantage their kids and kill whatever might become innate in them. A home where parents struggle financially might not provide a piano for a kid who might otherwise be a piano prodigy. A child in whom interests in a skill is not cultivated will struggle to develop that skill. A child whose parents are maths professors is more likely to prodigy in maths than a child whose parents can not count. That child whose parents can not count can however still be better than Einstein if they apply themselves and are taught well and are in the right environment to learn. And the child of maths professor parents could hate maths and refuse to apply itself.

Without opportunity, a child can not develop what you claim is innate. And not developing a talent would make you conclude that ability is not innate in that child, when you could have innated it into that child by providing the opportunity and support.

When you read the below, understand that its going to be very difficult for a 5ft 3in tall adult to have an innate ability to dunk a basketball. Muggsy Bogues at that height is however considered the best short basketball player in history, enjoying a successful 14-year NBA career. He was a dominant point guard for the Charlotte Hornets, known for elite speed, steals, and recording over 6,700 career assists. What he lost in height he gained by learning other valuable skills that made him as good as he was.

Hundreds of kids I've taught through many years disprove your innate theory, but I guess I can not make innate in you what you seem to have no experience of and put no effort into learning, so I'll better leave it at that, especially since you are refusing the DEI I'm offering you so you may catch up.
You can argue for the sake of it sometime. Your argument is collapsing.

No ome says opportunity is irrelevant. Of course a child cannot become a pianist without access to a piano, or a swimmer without access to water. But that only proves opportunity is necessary for expression, not that natural differences are imaginary.

Mainstream gifted education still recognizes that some learners show advanced ability or potential, while also stressing that this potential must be developed through instruction, support, and practice.

You are arguing thay: you moved from talent needs opportunity to show to therefore talent is nothing but opportunity. That is the problem with your premise.

And saying give any child a piano early enough and they might give Mozart a run for his money is just speculation, not evidence. If environment alone were enough, far more heavily trained children would become Mozarts. They do not.

So your Mozart example hurts your case.
opportunity matters, effort matters, family environment matters, but people still differ naturally in aptitude, rate of learning, and eventual ceiling.

FINALLY, THE PROMPT YOU ARE GIVING AI IS FLAWED.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 4:55am On Apr 02
😅😅😅😅😅

Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bayelsaowei(m): 6:15am On Apr 02
🤣🤣😂😂😂😂

Trump supporters who have benefited from the 14th amendment, how are you all doing?

A lot are silent here in the ongoing hearing by the SC. People would support a vile maniac, until he reaches out for their own necks.

Project 2025 in full display by racists and their slave supporters.. but then the racist supporters here argued Trumps plan to implement project 2025 was a lie just before the elections. Now he is executing almost every item in that plan.

Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bayelsaowei(m): 6:19am On Apr 02
benalvino3:
American voters 🥲🥲🥲

They should give me that mic.

The guy is a felon and part of a pdf network.

A maniac, narcissist and a perennial liar. Trump lies for a living. And even more..

Very easy response.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bayelsaowei(m): 6:23am On Apr 02
benalvino3:
So why are they defending Ukraine?



Didn't they say a good defence is a good attack?
Wasn’t Ukraine attacked by an aggressor?
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by GracieX3(f): 6:40am On Apr 02
benalvino3:
How did black people and immigrants build America?
I can see that you have nothing to say. Repeating the same question many times after being answered.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by budaatum: 6:43am On Apr 02
benalvino3:
You are arguing thay: you moved from talent needs opportunity to show to therefore talent is nothing but opportunity. That is the problem with your premise.
FINALLY, THE PROMPT YOU ARE GIVING AI IS FLAWED.
The problem is with your understanding.

Talent is not "nothing but opportunity", ben, and I never said it is. You can have all the opportunity in the world, but you wouldn't develop a talent for anything without commitment to practice and the application of effort. And a talent is not innate, but a thing you must commit the effort to learn and practise to develop.

In fact, without opportunity and learning and a lot of practice, you'd have no significant talent whatsoever.

I can provide you with opportunity by putting a piano in front of you but that opportunity will not enable you to play it well if you do not learn how to play it and practise much too.

If a talent or ability is innate, you'd just pick it up and know how to do it well with no training or practice, which no one has been recorded to be able to do with just about anything.

Lionel Messi became one of the greatest football players through a combination of, immense early talent (meaning he learnt quick since he was not playing football before he learnt to walk), rigorous training (which is effort), and a high football IQ, (which is a learned skill since football IQ is not a thing one is born with). Developing his skills from age four, he moved to Barcelona's La Masia academy (for the opportunity to learn), refining his low center of gravity for dribbling, perfecting free kicks, and utilizing a "stop-and-start" movement to dominate defenders.

All the bolds above imply learning through practise and effort. Messi was not born with the innate ability to walk, not to talk of kick a football. And he still continues to practice and learn and develop his skills on the training ground, hence his ability and his talent.

Provide your own AI prompts so we can see your unflawed AI, please. Just saying mine is flawed is not convincing.
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by Maeve7: 6:48am On Apr 02
Has anyone seen the f00l address the American people on April Fools Day? How fitting.

The m0ron was trying to sell operation EPIC FAILURE as a success.

He has spent 25 BILLION to

- replace one Khamenei with another
- bombed primary school girls
- pissed off more allies
- had American soldiers killed and injured
- inflation up
- oil price up
- stock market down
- Uranium still in Iran
- Strait still closed
- Americans less safe

MAGA
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:52am On Apr 02
GracieX3:
There is no evidence that Garland funded Willis. That is a politically motivated lie.

Shame on you.

Nice try to shift the facts away. Noem, Bondi, Hesgeth and Patel are all unqualified for their jobs. Incompetent reverse DEI hires by Trump
Story is that Trump is thinking about firing Pam Bondi.I have criticized her many times here.


If basilico tells you that you are pregnant better start shopping for diapers. smiley smiley

Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by GracieX3(f): 8:59am On Apr 02
basilico:
Story is that Trump is thinking about firing Pam Bondi.I have criticized her many times here.


If basilico tells you that you are pregnant better start shopping for diapers. smiley smiley
huh
What the FAWK is WallSteetApes? Na source be dat?
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:02am On Apr 02
budaatum:
The problem is with your understanding.

Talent is not "nothing but opportunity", ben, and I never said it is. You can have all the opportunity in the world, but you wouldn't develop a talent for anything without commitment to practice and the application of effort. And a talent is not innate, but a thing you must commit the effort to learn and practise to develop.

In fact, without opportunity and learning and a lot of practice, you'd have no significant talent whatsoever.

I can provide you with opportunity by putting a piano in front of you but that opportunity will not enable you to play it well if you do not learn how to play it and practise much too.

If a talent or ability is innate, you'd just pick it up and know how to do it well with no training or practice, which no one has been recorded to be able to do with just about anything.

Lionel Messi became one of the greatest football players through a combination of, immense early talent (meaning he learnt quick since he was not playing football before he learnt to walk), rigorous training (which is effort), and a high football IQ, (which is a learned skill since football IQ is not a thing one is born with). Developing his skills from age four, he moved to Barcelona's La Masia academy (for the opportunity to learn), refining his low center of gravity for dribbling, perfecting free kicks, and utilizing a "stop-and-start" movement to dominate defenders.

All the bolds above imply learning through practise and effort. Messi was not born with the innate ability to walk, not to talk of kick a football. And he still continues to practice and learn and develop his skills on the training ground, hence his ability and his talent.

Provide your own AI prompts so we can see your unflawed AI, please. Just saying mine is flawed is not convincing.
Why no other person has been greater than Messi?
He was scouted and joined Barcelona after impressive showings at Rosario with Newells Old Boys when he was around 10-11.
Jealousy can't bring you to admit he is a specially talented person. You have to bring in the medication for growth hormone deficiency.
Didn't think anyone who has parented could be that callous
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 9:06am On Apr 02
GracieX3:
I can see that you have nothing to say. Repeating the same question many times after being answered.
No answer yet
Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:09am On Apr 02
GracieX3:
huh
What the FAWK is WallSteetApes? Na source be dat?
The video is here. Fani Willis document release is the source.



She lost and the legal expenses accrued by Trump and his co accused are to be paid from her office budget ,I think it's around $16 million.

It will drive her office broke and she is wailing .

https://www.ajc.com/news/2026/02/fani-willis-says-trump-attorney-fee-requests-would-eat-entire-budget/

She thought she'd be a hero for jailing Trump on a case she knew had no merit. FAFO.
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