Vilageidiotx

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@MoiraEl

oh shit whaddup!

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@Vilageidiotx
Though the party system could be argued to literally be a cancer destroying politics. And labels aren't always going to mean all individuals under that banner are the same. But I don't think the opposite ever means that they know any more...usually it means they don't follow politics so they simply are ignorant to it's effects to the world and their every day life. Basically what I'm saying, call yourself a democrat or conservative. You at least know what you are in general. (though you could argue people DON'T even know that. And you'd be right.) But my main point is, being politically active and voting and being under a political label is still more legit than being proud of your eye color. Or you being 1/16 wiccan. When you likely know absolutely nothing of that culture or have ever been there or experience any of it. (I am sort of a hypocrite in that regard, as I say I'm Irish/Polish and never actually been there either.) But I say it non-seriously, some people take their culture they know very little of, a little too seriously. imo. :/

@SleepingSilence

I agree, I agree completely. But I don't think we can avoid it. There is a part of us that takes serious comfort from belonging to a group. Even those of us who don't like it are actively identifying with some group somewhere, even if we don't think about it like that. If it isn't politics or race, it'll be religion or career-type or economic class or social group or region or even just sports team. All of these things benefit nothing from a single person joining them, but despite their irrelevance any single person in the group will identify proudly with the accomplishments and history of the entirety. Perhaps when it comes down to it, most people aren't ever going to accomplish much more than maybe having a kid, or perhaps being able to say it was them that found the fried chicken place they and their friends all go to now. Our lives a unimpressive individually, but when added up to groups we get long lists of accomplishments. Vilageidiotx as an individual can proudly claim to have never shat his pants as an adult. Vilageidiotx as an American can claim an entire history starting up in 1776. The former might be my accomplishment, but the latter feels better to claim.

"Who's Line Is it Anyway?" game

@Vilageidiotx Off topic but your Sig is mesmerizing. The hell is that from? (the one being pushed off the bed and randomly bursting into flames x/)

I'm going to go score, since you can't play right now.

EDIT: Didn't notice the similar joke. I do something else. xP

Do you have to smack my ass every time were in the showers together?

@SleepingSilence

That sig? I think I found it being used as a reaction gif and took it. I don't know where it is from, but it'd be interesting to find out.

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Movie-ticket-stub-tearer theory

I don't think it's that offensive.

I'm saying that it's likely that social cues are entirely different for them because of their situations. Just like any minority.

@Antarctic Termite

I get that. And I'm sure that's what most people think. But my argument is that their job is more important to them.

Edit: The bigger gap you see between yourself and others, the less you can empathize. The less you'll care when you have to tell them no.

My final point:

The woman in a wheelchair who checked my ticket last Friday didn't seem torn up about telling me that I couldn't bring in my fountain drink. Her tone was entirely straightforward without a hint of sympathy.

For perspective, when she's not there, the other staff doesn't stop anyone.

@Awson

I wouldn't feel sorry either if somebody was so blatant. 'spose to hide that shit that way they have deniability. If there is a girl in your party, they'll have a purse and e'ryone can cram bottled drinks in there. If you are out with only dudes or alone, just cram that shit into the front of your pants. Handicap ticket people aren't going to ask you about your bulge, and you can past unmolested by anybody but the Coca Cola company.

"Who's Line Is it Anyway?" game

I'm sorry I don't believe we have met.

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@Vilageidiotx I know, but I know my heritage and I find the blanket term of African American or black to be way too generalizing in my opinion. There are hundred of different ethnic groups in Africa so the term is pretty ridiculous when you think about it. Using the term black or white is pretty ridiculous as well since both races have countless ethnics and cultures that separate them. If you say an Irishman and a British man are just both white then there is a good chance you'll piss them off, Americans and a good amount of the world in my opinion are have very simplistic views on human identity.

I think humanity as a whole would be far better off if we stopped obsessing over collectivism and embraced more individualistic views when it came to identity and heritage. People should proud of who they are regardless of their identity, that's why I support all pride regardless of race, gender, sexuality and religion. I view society as having too many Identitarians and way too many people are wearing the ideological lens, which gives them a view of the world that they are wanting to see regardless of what it might really be.

@Weird Tales

This gets really complicated with blacks in America because the majority don't have a clear idea of where exactly it is the come from. Immigrants from Europe have an easier time trace because so many can trace their ancestry back through records and such until one finds exactly where they came from. But most blacks in America descend from slaves, and though most of those were taken from the west coast of Africa, the slave trade itself was a messy thing that permeated most of central and southern Africa as well so that slave forts on the Ivory Coast and the Congo coast acted on the continent as a straw sucking up captives from the rest of the continent. Those slaves mixed without their ancestries being recorded so that generic black identity is inevitable.

As for the individual thing, it sounds nice but it isn't going to happen. Humans aren't tigers, we are a tribal species. I guarantee you do it just as much as any the rest of us in this thread do, and your singular obsession with specific political movements would indicate that you've chosen your identity through groups possibly more strongly than anyone else here even if you are too proud to admit it. We define ourselves by group. It's a complicating factor but it's entirely human and we are as likely to shake it as we are to shake sexuality. I do say this as someone who more or less agrees with you on that point and honestly would prefer it if people stepped back and stopped beating their chest in the tribal battle-line to think about these things more thoroughly. But what are you going to do, people be people, and we aren't going to avoid that.

@Vilageidiotx@Dinh AaronMk it created libertarians BECAUSE of the attack on the ideology. They were united under fire. Sort of how you saw more pseudo intellectual creationists pop up after richard dawkins got popular.

@Dynamo Frokane

That wouldn't create Libertarians though, just sharpen the resolve of those who already exist.

Movie-ticket-stub-tearer theory

They only hire unhappy looking teen aged girls to tear stubs at my local theater. What's their issue?

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What's the opposite of being industrious, but not lazy?

@Dinh AaronMk

A word for somebody who isn't lazy, but doesn't produce anything?

That's called management, brother.

Beneath our Two Suns

wher the other fuckrs at?