Tbf, I've had Christians accost me on campus in California, but it looks like they traveled miles just to find some young corrupted minds.

Something about showing gratitude for protecting their innocent white girls from black rapists?

It's funny, I'd actually say that Northern California is a lot more like Canada than the rest of the United States.

Don't get me wrong, California has severe inequality and structural problems that you'd never see in Canada. If nothing else, it really is a run-down ****hole. Plus, Canada absolutely does not pay as well as California, nor is it as productive (but why is a separate discussion).

The thing California and Canada share is multiculturalism. That's not as common as you'd think. Definitely not in the rest of the US.

The billionaires who live there would be miserable, but most of the people in the SF Bay Area would probably fit in better up here.

I mean, roughly 1% of all Canadians live in the Bay Area. So, like, a little Canadianization's gonna happen.

My great grandfather Canadized my great grandmother.

If you don't weep for the American South during ****town, Alabama, you have no heart.

If you're never angry during the ****town podcast, you vote GOP.

It's a large and varied state. I can be in a neighborhood of $15mil homes owned by liberal celebrities, then twenty minutes later be in a rural neighborhood filled with dyed-in-the-wool Republicans on tractors. It's a truly unique place. As was mentioned, the inequality is significant and often severe.

There's this one Canadian song that drives Southerners ape****.

Somewhere between 30-40% of Canadians are hardcore conservative rural populists. Some of them even drive tractors. Don't believe the hype.

Maybe that's where you got that 30% number that you couldn't remember.

No I'm basing it on this.

Are you back in Canada? I thought you were living in Marin or San Mateo County now. Also, I hate those places.

I was referring to a post of yours (in this thread, I believe) from months and months ago. Something about "30% of people being deadweight with no original opinions of their own".

You noted that you couldn't remember where you'd heard the figure. I submit to you that you may have remembered it (half serious).

"Let me tell you something I saw one time,"

I should admit that at the time this story was completely
lost on me.

"Me and Roger Price went up to the truck stop together, to get a little dinner, we came back by, we was passing by the south 40 trailer park.

"So, Roger is one of these dudes, he's a transmission mechanic, he's not really talkative, he's a good dude, but he's just, he only has one tooth, and its really amusing how he can balance a cigarette on that one tooth, the whole time he's talking, that cigarette is bouncing all over that one tooth! And he never loses that sum*****!

So, we're coming by this welcome to South 40 sign, and there's this girl out there, walkin' around in front of the damn sign, holding a cellphone, and she's got on a pink top and nothing else. No ****in panties, no goddamn socks, barefoot. And I remarked that to Roger, I don't remember what I said, I probably said "My God, look at her!" or something like that. And Roger's sage advice was, "Usually when you see jokers like that they done something to get like that."

And then Macklemore is exasperated.

If you don't get the story, you're like me, it went straight through you. When you get the story you might just get something.

I don't understand what Wookie gets out of trolling forums.massassi.net at his age of 50 or whatever it is these days.

I’ve been back in Canada for a year. My move was never meant to be permanent (although my employer perhaps had different ideas).

I was living in San Mateo. I liked it there fine, it’s easily in the top three cities I’ve lived in recently. Why? What’s wrong with it?

I think that deep down, Trump has forced conservatives to endure massive internal suffering.

Now I'm not sure if masochism is a recognized therapeutic technique, but it would certainly explain his apparent desire to throw himself to the sharks here.

Well, he's obviously knows which buttons to push to make people here flip out.

[QUOTE=Bob Dylan]There's an evenin' haze settlin' over the town

Starlight by the edge of the creek

The buyin' power of the proletariat's gone down

Money's gettin' shallow and weak

The place I love best is a sweet memory

It's a new path that we trod

They say low wages are a reality

If we want to compete abroad [/QUOTE]

from 2006

Forum-aided self-flagellation as penance for being part of the movement responsible for producing the worst president in a very, very long time.

It's probably pretty cathartic.

He comes in with a ludicrous statement that he presents as most likely true, refuses to elaborate on why actual known facts that go against his so-called theory are wrong, and posts condescendingly about how people lose their **** just because he posted an opinion. If you do this, of course reactions will be negative. Instead of "flipping out", though, there have been posts going over why he's not making any sense and why he's being a moron.

I really disagree with this idea where you can ****post some made up thing, get an appropriate reaction, and that somehow puts you above others because "you know which buttons to push". No, you're just being a dumbass and getting called out on it.

If someone's trying to inspire a certain kind of reaction with their posts, you reward that behavior when you react how they want you to.

That's true.

OTOH, if you're part of a movement of mutual dumbasses, you suddenly earn the right to be indignant when contradicted.

See also: literal belief in the actual existence of a mythological deity (they try to dignify this mistake by giving it a name, "religion").

"It's YOU who are at fault when you criticise my belief in falsehoods and contradictions, because: I am part of a movement whose members believe the same mistakes."

Idk or get hammered.

The anger starts to make more sense when you think in tribal terms.

Contradicting a core tenent of a movement makes you a member of the outgroup. At this point, to them you are only as good as they can scapegoat you for so much as daring to pose an intellectual challenge to what for them are unquestionable assumptions.

Something I've noticed in ordinarily highly political people who supported Trump but are now at least a little bit embarrassed by him: when confronted by my criticisms, they suddenly tell me that they no longer care for politics and would rather change the subject.

I wonder why.

Did anyone else see this?
https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/928343873000054784?s=17

A chainsaw attachment? The ****

Maybe that's what hunters use, after the kill. Like for grinding bone and then cooking a limb over a bonfire.

Edit: although the DDG top search result for 'hunting chainsaw bayonet' is a blog talking about hunting zombies...

Seems that this attachment is pretty rare, and that USA Today probably included it for humor.

COMING TO A SCHOOL/CHURCH/CONCERT/MOVIE THEATER NEAR YOU

I suppose some idiot, some where, has actually made a chainsaw bayonet attachment. It's certainly not common, nor practical, probably not even functional.

Edit:


Doesn't seem like the time or place for stupid humor. My money is on fearmongering, or a very gullible intern.

Could be a gullible intern, or more likely a more cynical decision to include it by someone savvy about what's likely to be re-Tweeted. (Someone higher up at USA Today is likely pissed at this person now.)

But yeah I guess it's possibly deliberate fear-mongering.

[QUOTE=Bill Nye, 2017]If things were any other way, things would be different.[/QUOTE]

This guy is a ****.

Huh?

Yeah what

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7bntfu/im_bill_nye_and_im_on_a_quest_to_end/dpjhmm8/

AR-15s should be banned.

Not because they're scary, just to piss off the kinds of people who buy AR-15s.