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Reaganfan
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« on: August 26, 2014, 08:26:49 AM »

I think I've unlocked the secret of what liberals seem to be up to in America. They are trying to take things considered "bad" and make them seem okay.

For example, drugs. Growing up in a post-Reagan America with things such as "Just Say No" and "D.A.R.E." and films and TV shows showing how bad drugs were and how they could only lead to trouble, liberals often complain that so many people are in prison due to drugs. So instead of trying to stop drug use and enforce against it, they want to make it so that the bad thing people are doing is actually legal.

The recent Trayvon Martin shooting and Michael Brown situation ongoing are more examples. Many people began mentioning how hoodies are associated with a "thug" culture. This is true. Hoodies, baggy pants, ect. So instead of thinking, "Gee maybe we shouldn't wear these things so associated with negative culture" what do liberals do? They show "solidarity" by wearing the hoodies.

Basically it's like the bad stuff makes people realize they're not behaving and are becoming socially undesired by society so instead of changing, they are embracing the bad. It's the same as the analogy of saying, "There are so many murderers in jail, so let's make murder not be a crime anymore so that those people won't be shunned or looked down upon or feel shame, ect ect."

I think it's a terrifying road to go down.

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« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2014, 08:36:07 AM »

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« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2014, 08:37:32 AM »

For example, drugs. Growing up in a post-Reagan America with things such as "Just Say No" and "D.A.R.E." and films and TV shows showing how bad drugs were and how they could only lead to trouble,
They were lying to us, and still are.  "drugs" is much too broad of a term.  "Just say no"/DARE were silly and short sighted.  Not all drugs are created equal.  It's a very dangerous message to send to our kids.  If these people say all drugs are horrible, pot is gateway drug, if you do shrooms you'll end up in a mental hospital..these things are all easily proven wrong, consistently.  They kids will assume you're lying about everything.  But heroin really is horrible for you, meth will mess your sh**t up good.  These are facts, but the kids won't believe them because you lied to them about pot and shrooms.  An HONEST anti-drug message would go sooooo much further in keeping drug use down.
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LOTS of "bad" things people do are legal, what makes weed so much more evil than say, overeating?
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« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2014, 08:38:05 AM »

Ironically, this post is itself bad.
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« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2014, 08:40:32 AM »

I frequently wear hoodies and baggy pants yet also have a salaried job and work at least five days a week. Thug life.
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« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2014, 08:46:52 AM »

That's some quality trolling, Naso. Keep up the good work.
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« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2014, 09:08:13 AM »

That's some quality trolling, Naso. Keep up the good work.

I disagree. This was a pretty stock by the numbers effort from him. Pretty disappointing.
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« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2014, 10:01:17 AM »

I think it's a terrifying road to go down.

Naso is terrified.

I like that. I think I like that a lot.
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« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2014, 10:39:21 AM »

I think it's a terrifying road to go down.

Naso is terrified.

I like that. I think I like that a lot.

Agreed, it means we are at least somewhat progressing as a society.
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« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2014, 02:00:51 PM »

I just got insulted by a guy from a state where their biggest city elected a crack smoking Mayor and another guy whose country got invaded in six hours.

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« Reply #10 on: August 26, 2014, 02:04:12 PM »

I just got insulted by a guy from a state where their biggest city elected a crack smoking Mayor and another guy whose country got invaded in six hours.

Neither of these are factually accurate.
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« Reply #11 on: August 26, 2014, 02:06:24 PM »

I just got insulted by a guy from a state where their biggest city elected a crack smoking Mayor and another guy whose country got invaded in six hours.

Neither of these are factually accurate.

What made your politics change, Joe? One minute you were a blue avatared GWB supporter, now you're a red avatared cynic.
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« Reply #12 on: August 26, 2014, 02:11:45 PM »

GWB supporter?  Don't ever insult me like that again.

And the blue avatar was strictly a representation of my temporarily registering with your party so I could be a tourist at their hilarious amateur hour clusterf[Inks] of the 2012 NV caucuses.
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« Reply #13 on: August 26, 2014, 02:20:12 PM »

GWB supporter?  Don't ever insult me like that again.

And the blue avatar was strictly a representation of my temporarily registering with your party so I could be a tourist at their hilarious amateur hour clusterf[Inks] of the 2012 NV caucuses.

My apologies. Maybe you had a green avatar. I'm trying to remember.
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« Reply #14 on: August 26, 2014, 02:25:44 PM »

Spend less time trying to remember what my avatar looked like five years ago, and more time concentrating on where it all went wrong in your life.
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« Reply #15 on: August 26, 2014, 02:31:59 PM »

It is true that some liberals support degeneracy, but not all of us.
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« Reply #16 on: August 26, 2014, 02:33:34 PM »

concentrating on where it all went wrong in your life.

You'd have to first pinpoint where it went right.
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« Reply #17 on: August 26, 2014, 02:35:45 PM »

How about you stop pontificating about nothing and talk to some real human beings. Have you ever met a black person in your life?
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« Reply #18 on: August 26, 2014, 04:41:43 PM »

How about you stop pontificating about nothing and talk to some real human beings. Have you ever met a black person in your life?

Don't ask stupid questions.

The city I lived in until recently was 1.2% African American at the 2010 Census. The new city I live in is around 10%.

The city I was born in that we moved away from in 1992 due to the ever growing crime rate is 35.7% black. Population and business has plummeted as well.
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« Reply #19 on: August 26, 2014, 04:47:36 PM »
« Edited: August 26, 2014, 05:07:50 PM by King »

The question was not do you live in the same city but have you met them.
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« Reply #20 on: August 26, 2014, 04:48:51 PM »

The fact that you answered me in the way you did is very telling.
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« Reply #21 on: August 26, 2014, 04:56:09 PM »

The fact that you answered me in the way you did is very telling.

Telling of what?
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« Reply #22 on: August 26, 2014, 05:14:38 PM »

Today I learned that we should criminalize drug use because its not good for you, and that wearing certain clothes should be looked down upon by society because of stereotypes and a possible "thug culture". And by doing these things is like letting violent criminals out of jail. Thanks for the lesson, Reaganfan! Smiley
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« Reply #23 on: August 26, 2014, 05:22:00 PM »

Today I learned that we should criminalize drug use because its not good for you, and that wearing certain clothes should be looked down upon by society because of stereotypes and a possible "thug culture". And by doing these things is like letting violent criminals out of jail. Thanks for the lesson, Reaganfan! Smiley

No my point was to say that liberals seem more concerned about the emotions of guilty parties than the actual things those people are guilty of.

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« Reply #24 on: August 26, 2014, 05:28:34 PM »
« Edited: August 26, 2014, 05:30:43 PM by Deus Naturae »

Today I learned that we should criminalize drug use because its not good for you, and that wearing certain clothes should be looked down upon by society because of stereotypes and a possible "thug culture". And by doing these things is like letting violent criminals out of jail. Thanks for the lesson, Reaganfan! Smiley

No my point was to say that liberals seem more concerned about the emotions of guilty parties than the actual things those people are guilty of.
Personally, I don't care about their emotions as much as not wanting to ruin their lives by sending them to jail at my expense, after which it'll be much harder for them to get a job (as if the never-ending sea of regulations and licensing requirements didn't make that hard enough), and they're likely to end up on welfare (again at my expense).
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