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@n64dd said:
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@zaryia said:
@Solaryellow said:
@n64dd said:

If they moved, I don’t see a problem here.

Logically there shouldn't be an issue but you know..........

"The letter didn’t give people a deadline to reregister and an October press release from the elections commission said anyone who received the letter would remain on the list of eligible voters until 2021. But a lawsuit filed in October by the conservative group Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty said the elections commission is required by law to purge anyone who received the letter from the voter rolls if they do not reregister within 30 days of receipt.

The Journal Sentinel reported Democratic-leaning areas would be hit harder by the voter purge than Republican ones."

Read the first 2 sentences. No one saw a problem though. Logically there wasn't an issue. The GOP group forced this change because it helps their team in elections.

This isn't rocket science.

Not to mention that there's absolutely no harm in leaving these voters on the rolls in the first place. At worst you have a bunch of people who are on the rolls but don't show up to vote for one reason or another, whereas by purging voters you basically ensure that a lot of eligible voters can't vote. It's creating a problem by trying to solve a non-problem.

Or we could just follow the laws.

How does leaving voters on the rolls have anything to do with following or not following the law?

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@ad1x2 said:

Nothing wrong with asking the question, since context could be a contributor in why they called the cops even if the people that called them were 100% in the wrong. For example, there’s a difference between someone calling the cops because there was a kidnapping in the neighborhood a week prior and someone calling the cops because they tell their friends and family in private that people with a certain skin color or lifestyle don’t belong here.

Also LJS, depending upon the neighborhood you’re in the neighbors may actually know the entire families of the kids that go there on a regular basis. That concept may be alien to people that live in huge cities where hundreds, if not thousands of kids use the same playground every week but common to people in small towns that may have at most a dozen kids using the same playground.

I don't care why people called the cops, if it ends in a bad situation then I'm against it. I don't think the person who called the cops on Tamir Rice did it specifically because he was black, but it still resulted in a child getting gunned down. Police rarely de-escalate a situation, and I personally will not call them unless it's absolutely necessary. People need to learn to talk to other people rather than just jumping to conclusions and going straight to the police.

@saltslasher said:

Honestly, in last 3 years, of all political things, what offends me the most is woke, outrage, and leftist culture. But the stem of this, isn't so much their ideas and views, but how unwilling they are to talk it over, their complete dismissal of all other opinions beyond not listening but shutting anyone down and shaming them for not sharing same views and the deep rooted view point that no information even lets them consider possibility they are wrong, and turn on deranged mental gymnastics to make their side work for them by putting up a huge delusional bubble they live in.

Some might say conservatives are so out of control they refuse to listen, but that's cause they convinced selves that they are Nazis, and anyone who shares their point of view, even if a logical human or a 3rd party, they've found a way to dismiss half the opinions in the country. When viewing right opinions, they never shy away from talking about everything, yeah they have their narratives, but they aren't as big of hypocrites, Smolett as example, or selective coverage left does.

Basically, I want to have conversations about why Ariel shouldn't be black, but I'm too racist to talk about it which blows my mind cause Disney making her black is ignorant and racist, yet called racist for talking a bout something racist. Want to talk about why Peleton bike is stupid shit ever, but too sexist/misogynist cause I'm not delusional bubble that makes me see the world in twisted way. And want to say why Supergirl should wear a skirt or judge a woman in beauty contest, but too much of an incel/loser/toxic man to talk about it, cause all women are powerful and beautiful how dare I saw a girl would look better in different hair or different clothes.

It blows my mind that conservatives are suppose to be the racist Nazis with their Hitler leader, yet progressive left are the ones policing the internet and enforcing a 4th Reich of Wokeness, inciting chaos, condoning ignorance, and otherwise radical viewpoints.

This right here is what people mean by entitlement mentality. You want to have conversations about Ariel not being black, but black people want to see people like themselves onscreen without it turning into an enormous controversy. "Conversation" for them is often a way of just shutting down their viewpoint and ensuring the change they want to see never happens. If all you want is a conversation then how about we just make all movie characters black and we can have a conversation about it afterwards? It's never just about the "conversation." This is to say nothing of the toxic hate campaigns that are more frequently being directed at people who represent minorities onscreen. If you really want space for conversation, then you should be concerned about the internet mobs that are doxxing, threatening, and harassing public figures for their race and gender. Open conversation requires people to feel safe, and right now a lot of the people you disagree with don't.

You can say what you want about progressive culture and whether or not you personally find it oppressive, but we're not Nazis. Nazism is a very specific ideology associated with authoritarianism, traditionalism, and the vilification of outgroups (typically racial and sexual minorities). We're not putting people in cages, we're not separating families, we're not accusing minorities of undermining the country, and we're not trying to force a traditionalist view of the country on other people, ergo we're not Nazis. It's also relevant to note that you're upset about what private citizens say on the internet, whereas we're upset about what conservatives are doing with the power of government. Kinda hard to argue that we're the fourth reich when what you're really upset at has absolutely nothing to do with abuse of government power.

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I don't know too many conservatives who are on the ACA plans. However, my parents have always been extremely concerned with my insurance coverage, and Obamacare let them keep me on their coverage a few extra years and then got me into a Medicaid plan. They used to go on an on about how happy they were about being able to keep me on their coverage. They can't bring themselves to say a kind word about President Obama, though, and endlessly insult him and say that he ruined this country. It must take a lot of effort to maintain that level of cognitive dissonance.

Did you ever bring it up to them that Obamacare is why you got to be covered until you were 26?

Yeah. They have an amazing talent for shutting down arguments they know they can't win. I think it's part of the reason I like going after conservatives so hard online.

What arguments do they shut down? Just curious.

Basically any that they're not winning. If you ever manage to get them into a situation where they might have to admit that they're wrong or change their perspective they have a massive bag of tricks to shift the conversation and avoid it. It's not a one-topic thing, more just how they interact with the world. Healthcare is a big one, though, where what they want is often in direct conflict with what they're arguing for. Ditto Obama. They seem to love most of his actual policies, but if you actually mention him then he turns into Satan to hear them tell it.

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@leicam6 said:

Trump won Wisconsin by 50,000 or so and the election was won by a margin that you can fit into a football stadium.

It is evident that Republicans don’t want people voting and this is just one way they are doing that. Really shameful but expected from that party.

This is the same state where Republicans passed legislation stripping the governor of most of his powers as soon as a Democrat won. No one at all should be surprised that they'd stoop to dirty tricks to hold on to power.

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@zaryia said:
@Solaryellow said:
@n64dd said:

If they moved, I don’t see a problem here.

Logically there shouldn't be an issue but you know..........

"The letter didn’t give people a deadline to reregister and an October press release from the elections commission said anyone who received the letter would remain on the list of eligible voters until 2021. But a lawsuit filed in October by the conservative group Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty said the elections commission is required by law to purge anyone who received the letter from the voter rolls if they do not reregister within 30 days of receipt.

The Journal Sentinel reported Democratic-leaning areas would be hit harder by the voter purge than Republican ones."

Read the first 2 sentences. No one saw a problem though. Logically there wasn't an issue. The GOP group forced this change because it helps their team in elections.

This isn't rocket science.

Not to mention that there's absolutely no harm in leaving these voters on the rolls in the first place. At worst you have a bunch of people who are on the rolls but don't show up to vote for one reason or another, whereas by purging voters you basically ensure that a lot of eligible voters can't vote. It's creating a problem by trying to solve a non-problem.

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@AFBrat77 said:
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I was born in 1992, so I’m under Millennials 2. I grew up with N64/GameCube.

Yes, I think you should have just been under Millenials period. Thanks for putting your answer under Millenials 2 though, we can see what the age range on Off-Topic is these days. I made a slight misjudgement there, so here's how I would correct if I were to edit my poll (but I can't).

I would expand Millennials to a 12 year generation (1982-1993) and Zillenials would be 1994-1998 which upon further readings seems more accurate. 1999-2010 would be about the size of Gen Z, another 12 year generation.

So the breakdown should have been more like this:

Generation Y or Millenials(1982-1993), 12 year generation: Millenials grew up with the wild west of the internet in the late 90's, Star Wars prequels, Netflix, Steam, flip-top (dumb) phones, Windows 98/2000/XP, CD-Roms, AOL chatrooms, Pokemon, N64, Dreamcast, and the 6th generation consoles (PS2, Gamecube, original XBox). They remember 9/11 clearly.

These guys are often hardcore gamers, so games like Diablo/Diablo 2, Half-Life/Half-Life 2, Counter-strike, Starcraft/Brood War, World of Warcraft, original Halo, Ocarina of Time, Resident Evil 4, Super Smash Brothers Melee, and GTA: Vice City and/or San Andreas were popular among them. They remember 9/11 clearly.

Generation K (Katniss) or Zillenials(1994-1998), 5 year generation: Zillenials grew up with Smart Phones, Social Media, Harry Potter, Hannah Montana (like it or not) and of course The Hunger Games. They were the youngest to have been able to vote in the 2016 presidential election. Like any cusper generation they have an understanding of their border generations to a differing degree and can feel more at home with either one or the other, or just as themselves. Fuzzy if any memories of 9/11.

People born between 1995 and 2002 (and even Z) often get the name Generation Katniss but that intersects 2 generations so I will give it to Zillenials. It pretty much is given to the generation after Millenials.

Generation Z or iGen (1999-2010), 12 year generation: Kids of tech-savvy late GenX, Xennial and early Millenial parents, these guys grew up with Wi-fi, smart phones ubiquitous before high school, Marvel movies, Game of Thrones, Netflix original content, PS4, Fortnite, and something called Tik Toc (which I have no idea what that is but I guess its a big deal). No memories of 9/11 and their entire life has been after the internet was up, running, and thriving.

So are you finally admitting you're just making this up as you go?

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Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Hole, Soundgarden, STP, Local H, Sonic Youth. Also, internet says Radiohead is grunge, so them if they count. And I don't know if more punkish bands like the Pixies, Flaming Lips, and Dinosaur Jr. count either. And I'm of the unpopular opinion that AiC are overrated.

@davillain- said:

Grunge is definitely my favorite genre while growing up in the 90's, I have alot of Bands that I enjoy listening to and they are:

  • Alice in Chains
  • Nirvana
  • Bush
  • Pearl Jam
  • Faith No More
  • Stone Temple Pilots (some fans would argue that they strayed away from grunge later in their career, but I love it all)
  • Offspring
  • Foo Fighters

Those are the one's I jam during the 90's. And that leads to you OT, what's your favorite Grunge bands?

Are Offspring considered grunge? I would have called them new wave punk.

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@ajstyles said:

It’s part of the Nintendo Tax. Nintendo loves to dangle the carrot of “great games” in front of their fan base but NEVER actually gives them great games.

The fanbase is so delusional that they will defend these bad games.

It’s the same with the service.

Nintendo promises all these amazing games....and they never come.

Or if they ever do come, they are always gimped somehow or your put through more hoops to pay more for them.

It’s this never ending greed and their fanbase can’t stop giving Nintendo their money no matter what.

Nintendo is like that abusive husband who keeps beating his wife, but the wife/fanbase loves him to death anyway.

It’s sad.

They also love re-releasing old games on new systems, not allowing people who already own them to transfer them over, and aggressively going after people who use emulators to play games they already own. Oh, and shutting down fan projects and let's plays. I love Nintendo games, but I honestly think the company hates its fanbase.

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@r-gamer: And CNN has always been considered a centrist site. Even today, when they're far more combative with the Trump administration, non-partisan fact checkers rate them as centrist. They were even more conservative back when they launched in 1980.

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@Serraph105 said:
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I don't know too many conservatives who are on the ACA plans. However, my parents have always been extremely concerned with my insurance coverage, and Obamacare let them keep me on their coverage a few extra years and then got me into a Medicaid plan. They used to go on an on about how happy they were about being able to keep me on their coverage. They can't bring themselves to say a kind word about President Obama, though, and endlessly insult him and say that he ruined this country. It must take a lot of effort to maintain that level of cognitive dissonance.

Did you ever bring it up to them that Obamacare is why you got to be covered until you were 26?

Yeah. They have an amazing talent for shutting down arguments they know they can't win. I think it's part of the reason I like going after conservatives so hard online.