Haha no probs, I enjoy debating opinions too. The analogy with the child is a good one imo, I myself one reasoned with a similar one but put a deceased parent instead of child, because the parent is dead but they still owed your neighbor money or something and you can't simply wriggle out of it, but at the same time you can't feel guilty because it's not your fault. People didn't get it though.
You make a good point about a lot of people mocking rednecks, I see it a lot on the internet but honestly I'm not from the US and people in my country don't really have a "redneck culture". Maybe some village people are proud of being village people because they think city folk are pampered and prissy, but that's about it. We had no North vs South thing so people don't really remind themselves of the history on either side, since there are no sides to take. (1/2)

Just like the chef you spoke about, she's proud of the practical nature of the "rednecks" and there's nothing wrong with that. You seem to have a high opinion of her, she seems like a reasonable person, so I'm guessing that if she was asked about some rednecks being racist, sexist, homophobic etc., she would admit it and wouldn't try to wriggle out of it by making excuses. That is a healthy approach and one I fully support. However, what rachee has demonstrated in this thread is an entirely different approach. He/she a) generalized both groups, aka rednecks good and practical, college kids bad and dumb, b) tried to make excuses for the bad seeds instead of facing the fact that they exist. (2/2)

I think you make a very good point, guest. It's not wrong to be proud of things a group you associate yourself with has accomplished. But at the same time acknowledging that the same group has bad seeds in it should be common sense. For example, there are some SJWs who say that all white people now should be punished for American slavery which was abolished centuries ago. I disagree because the people now had nothing to do with slavery at all, there should be no collective guilt. But people should acknowledge that what happened was bad. At the same time though, there's nothing wrong with being proud of the many inventors and geniuses that have been part of the same group. Personally, I'm an individualist, I don't really care about group association and I usually judge people by their individual characteristics. But if you do want to associate with a group, you should be objective and judge both the good things and the bad things the group has done. (1/2)

Rachee
Sorry for not specifying it, I thought you'd figure it out by the content of my arguments since we both disagreed with rachee.
Also you didn't have any mistakes in your comments, I think.

"Now can we move on, and I'll just pretend you still think I'm some... nobody who was too lucky to die with the rest of the Grey Wardens."
And what does that make me?
"Some nobody who was too lucky to die with the rest of the Grey Wardens!"

Here's the thing, friendo. This isn't the first time an eclipse has happened. Humanity already has the experience that if you look at it without eclipse shades, your eyes are gonna get fucked up. The Sun has been up there for a pretty long time. It makes a lot more sense to read advice and follow it than "figure it out for yourself" all anew, blinding a person or two in the process. That's why we write shit down, because someone has already figured it out before us and it would be fruitless and senseless to do it all over because we'd just reach the same conclusions.
Also, I'm gonna be an asshole now because your English skills bother me.
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He's standing on a podium speaking about "both sides".

Some SJW college students get their panties in a bunch over someone misgendering them, just like some rednecks get their panties in a bunch over a mention of equality of genders, races, or sexualities. It's not all black and white. It's not all us vs them. It's not all with me or against me. There are idiots in the very corners of the opposing sides but most people are in the middle, facepalming whenever someone makes a stupid excuse to defend their "team", like your attempt at excusing uneducated people because of "duck tape".

They're a cute addition to one's garden. Not so much to one's violent ideology.

Polynesian style torches

@poopun We need more people like you in this world.

It is sad but it may be good in the long run. If you think about it, people who buy sex dolls/robots clearly only want the sex part of a relationship, not the companionship, not the emotional intimacy, not the fun. Basically they only think of the other gender as an object to satisfy them instead of a real human being (yes I'm excluding gays from this because the overwhelming majority of sex doll buyers are straight dudes). The sex dolls will therefore remove these people out of the gene pool and prevent them from causing emotional distress to other people.

@garlog But there were other drivers passing by, surely some might've done it so that the guy didn't have to stand there.
@lemmingoverlord So I just looked it up and in my country they are also allowed to put up a radar only in certain places. I guess that sometimes they count on people not knowing. Though to be honest, I haven't seen cops do a speed trap in a long time, last time it happened was in a neighboring country.

I heard this too but just like religious stories aren't tangible proof that a God exists, they aren't proof about these characters' personal lives. But I have heard somewhere that Muhammad had a bunch of wives and Aisha was his favourite but I think we need some more proof of that than a thousands of years old book.

I'm just saying it's the same principle. If you want to blame Obama for this, you should also realize that the same thing is happening right now with Trump. If you focus on a problem when the opposing side does it but ignore it when your side does it, it's unprincipled and hypocritical.

But his comment about the Muslim boy was a blatant agenda-driven lie. The boy just wanted to make a clock.
Obama had a similar effect on the radicals on the left as Trump now has on the radicals on the right. Neither of them support these radicalized groups, but their sole presence in the White House has made these groups think that the president's got their back because he's on the same side of the political spectrum. Can we blame Obama for BLM, Antifa, feminists and just SJWs in general? Only if we at the same time blame Trump for the Alt-right, the Neo Nazis, the KKK and so on. You can't have only one, you have to admit both or neither.

You are fake news.

With abusers it should be a "duh". With drop and swappers not everybody gets it but these guys do, I applaud them.

Dude, that post is three years old.
But same.