Message from @Bookworm

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2018-11-21 20:27:06 UTC  

and cuz they're in a social bubble, they think they are the majority cuz the majority of the people they know agree with them

2018-11-21 20:28:32 UTC  

As well as that the people in rural areas don't grasp that cuz of people living so close on each other so massively, theres more systems in place, people don't form tight knit communities, and they have general safety,

As well as more insanity due to more numbers of people

2018-11-21 20:30:08 UTC  

the gun issue wasn't really an issue until the last 20-30 years, when it became a scapegoat for people not understanding, and poor management

2018-11-21 20:33:57 UTC  

as well as shifting cultural climates,

Don't forget that in 1988, California was a red state, and it flipped,

Just like in 1976 Texas was a blue state that flipped

2018-11-21 20:39:45 UTC  

Gun control dates back a long time. A lot of the cities in the "wild west" actually had complete gun bans in the city limits (considering this would include places like Kansas City and most other places of famous gunfights...you can see how well that worked).

The big modern push was the 1938 National Firearms Act which was a response to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The two other major pieces of legislation were responses to the assassination of JFK and the attempted assassination of Reagan. For the most part, it is true that guns are usually a scapegoat for other issues.

2018-11-21 20:40:57 UTC  

And there is a strong urban rural divide. The cities really don't interact with the rural parts anymore and tend to demonize them. The arrogance and condescension from people like Colbert is, in my opinion, a major driver of polarization at the current moment.

2018-11-21 20:43:18 UTC  

this is why they get called Elitists

2018-11-21 20:43:40 UTC  

the demonize these Rural people because they are like alien

2018-11-21 20:43:58 UTC  

they use these "bad" words they don't know are bad because no one out there uses anything else.

2018-11-21 20:44:08 UTC  

you can use racist words while not intending to be racist

2018-11-21 20:44:33 UTC  

When quoting Blazing Saddles, for example.

2018-11-21 20:44:56 UTC  

You either quote it uncensored, or don't quote it at all.

2018-11-21 20:45:30 UTC  

the elites make of this illusion that words are the important part not the intent or context to keep the lower class fighting among themselves. And those who pretend to be in the elite but are too dumb to really be in it play along like the puppets they are

2018-11-21 20:46:03 UTC  

i think i find more genuinely nice people out in the sticks than i do in cities.

2018-11-21 20:57:15 UTC  

Cat, weren't you the one arguing that a state does not have the right to secede from the union?

2018-11-21 21:17:15 UTC  

I pointed to the precedent of the US Civil War, yes. That said, given an Act of Congress brings a state in, it could be argued that a similar Act could pave a departure.

2018-11-21 21:17:33 UTC  

That has yet to be explored to my knowledge

2018-11-22 02:06:31 UTC  

I felt like everything that I have believed in is challenged

2018-11-22 02:06:53 UTC  

No one is wrong, and No one is right.

2018-11-22 02:07:37 UTC  

What determines the rightful things is a common sense?

2018-11-22 02:20:50 UTC  

Not quite groking you on that last sentence.

2018-11-22 03:40:45 UTC  

Congratulations ihereou, you have just discovered the ideology of relativity

2018-11-22 03:41:00 UTC  

the most destructive line of thinking in our modern age

2018-11-22 03:45:15 UTC  

@ihereou of course no-one is totally right. We all get things to a varying degree of right or wrong, and it is the responsibility of each individual to learn what is right and what is wrong in order to avoid being deceived

2018-11-22 03:46:54 UTC  

I'm right, y'all are wrong
Problem solved

2018-11-22 03:49:01 UTC  

I like the way you think @Beemann

2018-11-22 03:49:36 UTC  

Slave mentalities are for chumps đź‘Ś

2018-11-22 03:49:49 UTC  

Slave moralities even

2018-11-22 03:49:59 UTC  

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2018-11-22 03:50:21 UTC  

Beemann over here be droppin some ***wOkEnEsS*** on us

2018-11-22 03:53:52 UTC  

The slave morality results in your victimization and oppression. It is subjugation seeking
The master morality is the path of the ubermensch, the alpha and omega chad. It is the only way to truly achieve historically significant chaditude, and it involves deciding that some things are, in fact, totally correct

2018-11-22 03:54:58 UTC  

Inb4 asking what those things are

2018-11-22 15:44:28 UTC  

http://www.universitytimes.ie/2018/11/tedx-trinity-postpones-feminism-talk-after-diversity-objections/

_"TEDx Trinity has postponed a proposed discussion on modern-day feminism, after several students objected to the all-white, all-Irish panel that was scheduled to speak."_

I'm sorry, you people are all too Irish to talk in Ireland

2018-11-22 15:48:19 UTC  

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't white people indigenous to Ireland?

2018-11-22 15:48:38 UTC  

Perhaps I should rephrase.

2018-11-22 15:48:50 UTC  

Aren't the indigenous people of Ireland white?

2018-11-22 15:49:04 UTC  

**YES**

2018-11-22 15:49:54 UTC  

Maybe they should show up to the conference draped in raw wool and smeared in woad.

2018-11-22 15:51:09 UTC  

Maybe they should all drop dead

2018-11-22 15:51:38 UTC  

Also from the article

_"Shubhangi Karmakar, the Treasurer of the Graduate Students’ Union (GSU) and the founder of Repealist, said in a tweet that “pale and female is getting a bit stale too”."_

2018-11-22 15:51:46 UTC  

Heeeeeeeeeeeeelp