Quote from: Meta Cognition on March 09, 2015, 08:03:38 PM

As for where I'm going:

Somewhere out west. California, New Mexico, Arizona, maybe even Texas despite the fact that it's not too westward.

You know, somewhere which isn't pussy, like the east coast.

Don't go to California High School, last time my sister went there, the drugs where crazy as fuck, i wouldn't go there, try searching top ten high schools in the U.S.

>high school
>will be 21 for most of the time im there

As for where I'm going:

Somewhere out west. California, New Mexico, Arizona, maybe even Texas despite the fact that it's not too westward.

You know, somewhere which isn't pussy, like the east coast.

Should I know anything?

Like, culture shock-wise? What's different?

Yup.

Marlboro Gold motherfucker.

Richmond Menthol or Hamlet Cigars.

Okay, you have me here.

Like, at all.

I don't get it.

Most of my stories actually involve no drunkenness.

I wonder what sort of commentary that is on my personality.

They do not support LGBT rights and equality.

Not supporting things like gay marriage is not morally equal to be against gays. You will find LGBT people who have the same positions on LGBT rights as some Republicans, and women who have the same opinions on the place of women as some Republicans, but that's mostly a religious issue if at all substantial.

They do not support women's rights and needs [abortion, contraception coverage in health insurance, etc]

Being against abortion is abominable, sure, but let's not lump contraception in their either. A pack of condoms is, what, a couple of bucks? The State is there to make sure you're insurance company will not let you die from lung cancer or whatever, it's not there to hold your hand while you bone somebody.

They do not support expansion or continuing welfare benefits.

Neither do I. . . Fortunately, you haven't accused me of being "against" poor people because that will be a stupid thing to do. Not wanting more welfare =/= letting people fucking starve in the streets.

They do not support immigration reform, unless you count deportation and building a bigger wall as "reform"

Which, again, is not qualitatively equal to being "against" minorities.

They do not support the ACA.

Being against shitty healthcare reform =/= being against healthcare.

You're finding legislation and positions we probably agree are stupid on the side of the Republicans. The difference here, however, is that you're slapping all of these moral consequences which imply hating a certain group of people or being indifferent to their plight instead of just criticising the policies on the basis that they don't work.

I don't give a fuck if Republicans want to end all welfare. I just care if our society will be better off in the long-run for it. I can respect the conclusions you've reached on things like abortion and immigration reform, but I'm not going to respect the tribal biases you shoehorn on top which will ultimately cloud your methodology and lead you to work backwards from your conclusions.

WEST MIDLANDS REPRESENT!

MAH NIGGUH

So adopt. . .

It was pretty good.

"Honkey", however, is apparently perfectly fine.

Quote from: aTALLmidget on March 09, 2015, 03:20:15 AM

Compared to Obama's unconstitutional actions, this is pretty low on the list for things to be up in arms about.

If Obama's actions are so visibly unconstitutional to the layman, how is he still president?

Because impeachment requires a legislature which isn't also fucking shitty.

If I had to pick the single best thing Obama has done during his presidency, it'd easily be his protection of illegal immigrants via executive order.

The American Action Forum, which is ostensibly on the right-of-centre in political terms, has calculated the cost of fully enforcing the current law--that is, the deportation of all current illegals and the prevention of another wave crossing the border.

The costs are huge. The deportation of the 11.2 million illegal immigrants would take 20 years and cost the government $400-600 billion and would cause rGDP to drop by $1.6 trillion. It would wipe 5.7pc off economic growth. These are also fairly conservative estimates, as they don't factor in the infrastructure (like detention centres and courts) which may be necessary to carry out the whole procedure.

Obama will probably be remembered as a mediocre president overall, but this single decision is probably one of the greatest a president has made.

You realize even your own Anglo-Saxon culture is the result of multiculturalism, right?

Multiculturalism is a natural function of the human development process. I could go into more detail, but you should be able to get the picture essentially

Come on, buddy.

You know all directions of multiculturalism aren't qualitatively equal.