There's a similar situation (though not nearly as dire) in my country, in that weed is illegal but most cops won't give a damn when they see you with a blunt, some will even ask if they can smoke with you. The government is still mostly 50+ old men, which means that legalization is far from happening, but the cops have already progressed. It's almost like progress is slowly coming up the chain of command, and once there's a new generation in charge, things will change. And of course it's not as simple as I'm describing it, but I'd have to write an essay if I wanted to describe it fully.

@diyrogue I agree that the situation is not as simple as the dichotomy I described (which was there mostly for purposes of clear demonstration), but I think that you can see that in many countries (including the US for example), the elites are just completely disconnected from the people. They live in their bubble, always talking with the same people, reaffirming their opinions and just overall existing in a big circlejerk. The law enforcement officials are somewhere inbetween, getting their orders from the elites but still in contact with the people. Before, their loyalty to the elites was bigger than their empathy with the community. But as you can see it's changing because they stopped arresting women who don't wear hijabs.

The laws did originally come from the community. But when the elites become disconnected from the people and the people move on from these outdated standards but the elites don't, this happens.
In fact, there was a sort of campaign in Iran where men wore hijabs as a parody/protest of the regime's morality police. So saying that Iran's community is the problem is quite incorrect. Young Iranians are rapidly moving forward, unfortunately Iran's government is still full of old conservatives.

You're necrobumping but I'm willing to continue the discussion.
He made the clock out of some wires he found in his parents' garage. Saying a teenage boy would make something like that just to appear like a terrorist is the crazy thing here, not believing he could make a clock. Also, I advise you cut it out with the ad hominems, you're just embarrassing yourself because it makes you seem like you can't lead a civil discussion without throwing personal insults all around.
You know what's funny, though? The boy got offered a scholarship in Qatar and moved there, because he didn't feel safe in the US. I repeat, he moved to a Middle Eastern country because he felt that in the US someone might randomly shoot him or his family. That's how fucked up the US is. And they dare lecture the rest of the world about terrorism.

and it's filled with people who are filled with shit

As I said, the point of a joke is to be funny. This wasn't.
Anyway I'm done wasting my time on this thread so I'll just click unfollow. Happy holidays.

Lol, another wave of downvotes, even on things that were +4 or so. Did you seriously use multiple devices to get multiple IPs to downvote from? Holy shit, you should really get help, this makes me cringe by proxy.
Reminds me of Black Mirror S3 Ep.1 "Nosedive". If the reality of that episode was real, this would be happening all the time, petty sad people ruining normal people's ratings. Good thing upvotes/downvotes aren't an actual measure of status like in that episode.

Lol I think I have a downvote troll on my back, all my comments went one point down, it's like someone just opened the comments page on my profile and clicked downvote on every single one of them.
How sad must a person be to do this? Seriously, mr. or mrs. downvote troll, please get help, I would laugh at how pathetic it is to stalk someone just to downvote them but I'm honestly more concerned about your mental health at this point.

Lol that's so stupid

On a 2 year old post? Being funny is one thing, being annoying af is another.

@guest_ You're probably right, I've never thought of it that way. It's just the price we pay for being tolerant of different opinions. And that's a good thing, there is no universal truth and diverse opinions are healthy for society (when they have a factual base of course, I don't think that flat-Earthers are good for society at all). I only wish people discussed more, I see it far too often that people attack each other with ad hominems and strawmen rather than give each other a rational discussion.
@pokethebear Good on you. I've been getting rather confused with these buzz words lately, as they are often being used interchangeably,

You make a very good point, however there are two things I'd like to say. Firstly, I think there is a bit of snowflakeism there as well, because many conservatives believe it was THEM who pulled themselves up by the bootstraps, and no-one else. They are the hardworking ones, everyone else is lazy etc. That is pretty special-snowflakey. Similarly, not being able to handle liberal opinions is quite weak (and therefore snowflakey) as well.
Secondly, the term snowflake has been kind of changed in the past years, and now it means someone who gets offended easily, which imo applies to people on both sides.
However, I 100% agree with the second part of your comment. I'd rather live in a diverse society that gives everyone equal opportunities than a hive mind.

Exactly. Shit like this is why I don't bring up global issues or politics when I meet my older relatives or their friends, because a) they're impossible to argue with as they NEVER give reasons. They just say "X is wrong, it's against muh values, instead it should be Y like when I was young." and no matter how many arguments you provide, they just repeat the previous statement. And b) they get sooooo offended and go straight for the ad hominems, strawmen and other fallacies. "All young people are so disrespectful, respect your elders (meaning "don't disagree with me ever because I can't handle a rational discussion"), we didn't have the technology you have blah blah blah."

Yup. The boobs are also askew, the girl would have to have a very failed boobjob.

I also prefer to observe people and listen rather than talk, because I'm kinda quiet and shy, and also because as a huge fucking nerd I don't have much to say to athletic or popular types as we don't have much in common. But holy fuck not even I'm that cringy.