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Yesterday, a co-worker spoke about how she hates America because of the treatment of minimum wage workers. She burns flags on the weekends. This is why I am discussing this.
I'd ask her what SHE was doing to help the situation at all. Does she vote? Reach out to Congress? Support organizations designed to help low-income people? Anything productive at al? Tell her that talk and flag-burning are cheap when she can put positive action behind her outrage.
I think there are irrational people left, right, and center. Centrist just means that you either don't take a stand on anything too strongly, or you don't go outside of the Clinton-to-Bush-sized box that you're given.
It's good to not blindly follow one side or the other, but that doesn't mean that people who have views outside of the "allowable opinion" aren't sane or well-adjusted. I was going to ignore your post, but it's a fallacy I hear all the time.
It depends how you approach my post. I was writing it with the mindset that people who are centrist tend not to care about politics a lot, and people that do on the left and right, get too worked up and serious about it and violence usually happens from both those 2 powder kegs exploding.
Me, in real life, I couldn't give a rat's behind about politics. I don't take it seriously, I never discuss it with anyone in real life and if the topic comes up I try to end it by feigning ignorance or disinterest. It's not worth it rocking your social circle over politics, IMO. Especially since Americans take it too seriously like if it were the NFL
absolutely right. dont let teh door hit you where the good lord split you.
i dont hate the first amendment, but remember with rights come responsibilities. i realize that you progressives dont want any responsibility, but they are there none the less.
It might be easier to say and easier to comprehend..."nothing in free in this world, not even freedom"
What is your message to some Americans who say God D*** America, who despise everything about America, and who wants anarchy in the U.S.?
It depends on the context, but for the most part I don't care. It's just their opinion. People in America are allowed to have their own opinions. This isn't the USSR or North Korea.
It depends how you approach my post. I was writing it with the mindset that people who are centrist tend not to care about politics a lot, and people that do on the left and right, get too worked up and serious about it and violence usually happens from both those 2 powder kegs exploding.
Me, in real life, I couldn't give a rat's behind about politics. I don't take it seriously, I never discuss it with anyone in real life and if the topic comes up I try to end it by feigning ignorance or disinterest. It's not worth it rocking your social circle over politics, IMO. Especially since Americans take it too seriously like if it were the NFL
Ah got it...I still think politics is important though, only because it affects everyone's life greatly. I wish people could forget the game of politics and focus on running their own lives instead of the lives of others. Then I'd definitely agree.
I say, if you hate this country, feel free to leave!
Yeah, that is the flippant response, but other countries actually put some effort into keeping illegal immigrants out of their country. A person can't just decide they are moving to another country. It's a very difficult process at best and an impossible one at worse.
People have every right to be mad at the country. Some of us think that the only way to fix things is through a complete collapse and rebuilding. If the system is fundamentally broken, how can the problems possibly be fixed through the system?
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Originally Posted by bingo3000
Yesterday, a co-worker spoke about how she hates America because of the treatment of minimum wage workers. She burns flags on the weekends. This is why I am discussing this.
So what? She is engaging in free speech. I am not a fan of flag burning, but she has every right to do it.
What is your message to some Americans who say God D*** America, who despise everything about America, and who wants anarchy in the U.S.?
I'd ask them WHY they believed that and would most likely agree with them on some of their points, but probably not all. America has sucked in many ways, but I think that it has a somewhat moral arc that bends towards justice, albeit too slow at times.
What is your message to some Americans who say God D*** America, who despise everything about America, and who wants anarchy in the U.S.?
I say take your right wing teajad somewhere else Trump supporter.
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