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mitchejw wrote:Randall Flagg wrote:I know what you mean. The Nepalese family 2 houses down asked for some help unloading lumber out of their truck. As I carried the wood to their back yard, I thought “is this it? Is this when Mount Everest erupts in Pittsburgh?” Luckily they just wanted to build some raised gardens and thanked me. But for a second....
Yea... i can see how my concern for my children equates to you being an entitled douche bag.
Yes, because the news is just littered with state cops killing random mixed race children along the side of the road. Glad you guys survived that perilous situation.
It's actually more about what they are growing up in...ya know...and how they might process this shit...or not process it...but ya know...it's cool...
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buzzsaw wrote:mitchejw wrote:Yea... i can see how my concern for my children equates to you being an entitled douche bag.
Yes, because the news is just littered with state cops killing random mixed race children along the side of the road. Glad you guys survived that perilous situation.
It's actually more about what they are growing up in...ya know...and how they might process this shit...or not process it...but ya know...it's cool...
There's a whole thread just waiting for your input to discuss this very topic that it's noted you haven't participated in...
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Re: US Politics Thread
I can’t reconcile the left’s desire to destroy monuments, with their martyring of George Floyd. How many Columbus statues? Abolitionist statues? And obviously confederate generals. By modern standards, all these men did bad things. But they also changed the world for the better and are remembered for it for centuries after. Nothing justifies the murder of George Floyd, but he was a horrible human being.
Every living Democratic President has been on the same stage as Farrakhan. Scholars last year released evidence of MLK watching a friend rape a woman (to say nothing of his recorded affairs that would make Clinton and Trump blush).
I couldn’t give a fuck about confederate flags and their monuments. But some people do, and I’m not going to call them evil or immoral before knowing their personal reasons.
I’m just not comfortable with mobs deciding what historical figures need to be erased because of certain actions, while ignoring actions of other people in order to build them up into a symbol of their disjointed movement.
Re: US Politics Thread
mitchejw wrote:buzzsaw wrote:Yes, because the news is just littered with state cops killing random mixed race children along the side of the road. Glad you guys survived that perilous situation.
It's actually more about what they are growing up in...ya know...and how they might process this shit...or not process it...but ya know...it's cool...
There's a whole thread just waiting for your input to discuss this very topic that it's noted you haven't participated in...
I’ll participate...I’m just not ready yet.
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I hope everyone enjoyed that 15 minutes of people actually coming together before the left-wing parasites did their inevitable power play to exploit George Floyd's death.
They had a great opportunity for an open discussion and change, but they just got Trump re-elected instead. Protesters don't vote. The people the media shits on do.
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I hope everyone enjoyed that 15 minutes of people actually coming together before the left-wing parasites did their inevitable power play to exploit George Floyd's death.
They had a great opportunity for an open discussion and change, but they just got Trump re-elected instead. Protesters don't vote. The people the media shits on do.
I did not ever believe any substantive change would happen on a macro level. I think several more generations will need to pass (including ours) before a real progress is achieved.
Based on what I see in the racial discussion thread, it’s basically just everyone doubling tripling down on the same positions they’ve always had. A total indifference to symbols in leadeds who perpetuated the cycle, even enhanced it.
As the police continue to rack up killings and behave abhorrently across the country the finger continues to get pointed in the same direction that it always has. We, at large, will always find a way to point the finger at the exact same direction that it always has been.
And our fake president couldn’t be any less interested.
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Reality is, police killings are very low. AND keep dropping. A black man is more likely to be struck by lightning than get shot by a cop. But people film everything now, it goes viral, and seems like it's an epdemic. It's not. So we will always have these issues. You cannot purge every bad cop off the force, like you can't in any profession. So one bad cop will suddenly be representative of all cops, even thought they're not. One racist Karen being a bitch to a minority on YouTube will be representative of all white people. This is it, man. Generations aren't changing anything, they're making it worse. They don't accept differing by opinions. Words are violence now. Step out of line, you're cancelled.
This is the new normal.
Anyone who disagrees with you is a liar.
Something goes wrong, they burn something down.
No more just blaming Trump for facts not mattering.
My truth = Alternative facts.
Re: US Politics Thread
Reality is, police killings are very low. AND keep dropping. A black man is more likely to be struck by lightning than get shot by a cop. But people film everything now, it goes viral, and seems like it's an epdemic. It's not. So we will always have these issues. You cannot purge every bad cop off the force, like you can't in any profession. So one bad cop will suddenly be representative of all cops, even thought they're not. One racist Karen being a bitch to a minority on YouTube will be representative of all white people. This is it, man. Generations aren't changing anything, they're making it worse. They don't accept differing by opinions. Words are violence now. Step out of line, you're cancelled.
This is the new normal.
Anyone who disagrees with you is a liar.
Something goes wrong, they burn something down.
No more just blaming Trump for facts not mattering.
My truth = Alternative facts.
Isn’t that how we got Trump? Alternative facts?
Isn’t this kind of in some way an extension of the Trump movement? Why should i follow the rules when obviously the key to success is lying, cheating, declaring bankruptcy, lying on your taxes. Trump and his father got wealthy by screwing people over at every turn.
Why should i be honest and caring when the clear path to being president in 2020 is being as awful to your fellow human being? Remember when you were told as a kid that anyone could be president in this country? That it was something to aspire to? Why wouldn’t his behavior and personality permeate across its citizens?
