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Charlottesville protests thread
otto-san:
--- Quote from: Red Spy on August 13, 2017, 03:19:58 AM ---just as a side note i went to arlington a few years ago and it was hot as forget how could anyone live there without ac
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i've never seen a southern house built in the last century that didn't have ac because you would die on the spot
ShadowsfeaR:
--- Quote from: PhantOS on August 13, 2017, 03:16:13 AM ---what exactly are you saying? at least they did something good? it was a different time? society was still advancing?
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You don't fix a developing countries issues by instating laws that make swooping motions to change things. A stable developing country needs to incrementally fix its issues. You have generations of people with differing opinions trying to do what they think best for the country, or themselves, or their family, or whatever motive they could conceivably have. There will always be opposition, and the fairest way to create change is to have compromise. How the forget do you think the Constitution was written? This appeases all sides while simultaneously moving and progressing your government and country.
--- Quote from: PhantOS on August 13, 2017, 03:16:56 AM ---so robert e lee is suddenly no longer a white supremacist
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He was and possibly continued to be until his death, but at least he made amends to create a more equal America.
Red Spy:
--- Quote from: otto-san on August 13, 2017, 03:21:11 AM ---i've never seen a southern house built in the last century that didn't have ac because you would die on the spot
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dude i remember someone getting a loving heatstroke and having to get a firetruck up the goddamn hill
PhantOS:
--- Quote from: ShadowsfeaR on August 13, 2017, 03:22:04 AM ---at least he made amends to create a more equal America.
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he also owned slaves, which no amount of 'amends' can fix unless he like, personally gave each of those slaves like a grant of millions of dollars as an apology or some stuff
badspot once summarized this phenomenon pretty well, i can't seem to find it. basically he said that doing unrelated good things doesn't balance out the bad things you did before. if you go on a hacking spree and then try to justify your character or glorify yourself because you were nice to a couple people and contributed an add-on, you don't necessarily deserve the respect.
hopefully you understand where im coming from when i express this- there's no such thing as redemption. doing good for other people is a standard, a given, and it doesn't at all excuse or balance out all the stuffty stuff you did
IkeTheGeneric:
PhantOS historically misses a point