Controversial Opinions

Your “hatred” of anybody even slightly more successful than yourself has blinded you to common sense.

I don’t hate people more successful than me. I hate those are greedier than I, especially when they have no reason to be. Papa John’s Pizza for one off the top of my head. He can totally pay his workers much much more but he does not because he’s a greedy bitch. Being fair with your profit would be acceptable. There’s no reason you need to make 6000 times the amount of your lowest wage worker.

And what an arrogant statement to make. The fuck do you know about me and my “lifestyle”?

Just the stuff you’ve bragged about here on the board.

I have a job. I work in financial services.

That’s new. For as long as I can remember you’ve always bragged about living off of investments at your mom’s house

If you could argue your case civilly and politely without resorting spiteful personal attacks, you be twice the person you are.

Personal attacks? I haven’t written anything you haven’t stated yourself. I just put it in context to the rest of society. (however, I do concede my word choice and tone were much more harsh than they should have been.)

Not the first time either.

Same for you.

Very disappointing.

Par for the course for you.

One again, the fuck would you know about my “education”?

Only what you’ve shared here on the board.

Please name one of my “right wing heroes”. I need to know who they are.

I don’t believe you’ve mentioned any by name but the crap you post is in line with typical “liberal media” bullshit constantly being pushed by the “News”
Bill O’Rielly, Sean Hannity, Neil Cavuto, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coultier, etc etc

Why - if my company is successful and people are buying my product - should my profits be capped? Why should I only allowed to be successful “to a certain point”? Why punish successful enterprises by making them pay more than their required tax (which in Australia is 30c in the dollar) ?

To keep your company from becoming more powerful than the government. Because when you have the ability to stock pile your resources to an obscene amount that gives you an unfair advantage over the rest of society.

Great argument, Mr “Educated”.

you couldn’t understand what I wrote could you?

You telling me that ALL successful businessmen are CRIMINALS!?!?

Of course not. But I do see a trend in wealth and a corruption in ethics once wealth is attained. The only reason the crap they do is not illegal is because the money they make lobbies the government to keep it legal.

Wow, what a convincing “argument”!

If only you could see past your “Left Wing” media bias, Grampy.

If only there was a left wing media bias. Then perhaps I could identify with something in the media instead of being bombarded with ultra right wing on Fox and hard core right wing pretending to be “Left” on every other station.

When was the last time a rich person paid their work force what they were worth?

Please show evidence that ALL companies only pay minimum, standard wages to ALL employees please.

have you taken a look around? The wealthy continue to get wealthy, the poor are becoming even more so. The tax rate for the wealthy has never been lower. the gap between the lowest wage earners and the top wage earners has never been wider and you wanna ask about proof? This is exactly what I’m talking about how you have no idea. and you wanna sputter out “plbplbplbplbplbplbplb you wanna punish success plbplbplbplbplbplbplb” when really what it is is the right wants free labor and anyone who won’t work for free is “lazy.”

Please refer to your “argument” (along with all your noted “facts” to back up said argument) that states that ALL rich person make their fortunes through committing crimes.

My argument is not a straw man. but yours is because I never said ALL rich people make their wealth through crimes."

Like you, eh? A guy who states an “opinion” which suddenly becomes a water tight “fact” and prances around with it like he’s just caught a big fish!

I’m flattered you think my opinion is “water tight fact’”. we both know it’s not, but it floats much easier than your crap.

I hate Grumpy. He’s a stupid sissy communist jackass. He thinks I hang out with him for my own enjoyment. I don’t. I’m actually slowly poisoning him every time we have a beer together. Don’t worry, Everyone. He’ll be dead soon.

Note to self: no longer take anything offered to me by gunnar.

An honest question for everyone here. What, to you, is UNIQUELY distasteful or evil about rednecks? Is it…

…the fervent religiosity?
…the belief that guns and / or raw violence can solve most social problems?
…the inability to appreciate subtlety in art and culture?

That - highlighted in bold - pretty much.

they are small minded, hateful, loud fuckers. Love their God, love their guns, hate “fags”, hate anything that doesn’t comply with their rigid belief system. They hate for the sake of hating and then pitifully try and justify their hatred by scapegaoting some section of the community - “I hate because what they do is wrong. We’d be better off without them”.

They’re like Nazis. They are intolerant of diversity. And their hatred is unquenchable. Like the Nazis - first it was the jews, then Poles, then the handicapped, then gypsies, then gays, political “non conformists”. They are always looking for someone to target.

And you cannot explain anything to them. You cannot reason with their small minded ugliness. You cannot point out both the strengths and weaknesses of their arguments.

“I agree with what you’re saying in principle however…”

“Hey, this guy disagrees! He’s a pinko, commie, nigger loving, faggot, Jesus-hater! Let’s kill him!!”

We all have (or at least, I hope we all have) naked pictures of ourselves or our kids in various family photo albums. They’re funny and aesthetically wonderful. It’s kind of the only time we can run around naked and not give a f**k. It’s a short moment and shouldn’t be robbed of any child.

So there’s no problem having those photos, taking those photos, or letting your kids run around in the buff.

Sure. That was kind of the point I was making with my retort to the original post.

I grew up in a “beach” community in Northern Australia in the 1970’s. Very hot and humid climate. At times the summers were unbearable. So, we didn’t wear much. Very laid back approach to what we as a community are now very prudent towards. As kids, even up to 13 or 14, we swam nude, frolicked on the beach nude, made sand castles nude and nobody gave a rats ass. I cannot remember any kid ever being assaulted in our community. During the hot weather I’d even ride my bike around town in nothing but underpants and maybe a cap on my head.

“Hey, buddy, your weenie is showing out of your undies! Tuck it back in mate there’s sheilas around.”

“Oops sorry didn’t notice! Thanks for the tip, mate”

Granted there were aspects of such a community that now would not be tolerated. For example they were pretty racist. And men were men and women were women. You just couldn’t be gay. Couldn’t. Would not be accepted. Also, the men were expected to go out and work while the women cooked and cleaned. Any woman who tried to live in this man’s world were generally regarded as “dykes”.

So yes their was an ugly side to all this freedom.

The problem is the freaky weirdo perverts who, if you put that photo online, are gonna rub one out to it. I’m not a dad, but if I were, I would find that repulsive and disgusting. So, a little bit of caution on the side of whoever controls the publishing and distributing of such material doesn’t bother me at all. That being said . . . I find some of the stuff I see in some children’s “pageants” to be far more “controversial” (though I’m not offended by it, as I find it pretty humorous) than a pic of a couple 4 year olds playing in the sprinklers.

Yeah it sickens me. My cousin got remarried to a guy who started video taping her children from her first marriage performing sex acts on each other and then eventually on him. Luckily they busted the cunt and put him away. It sickens me that there are weirdos out there that get their kicks like that. And the guy was a successful business man with good looks and money and everything. And my cousin is a good looking girl who makes no bones about the fact that she loves sex. So this guy had it all with a horny, hot looking wife to boot. Makes no sense.

My cousin got remarried to a guy who started video taping her children from her first marriage performing sex acts on each other and then eventually on him. Luckily they busted the cunt and put him away…

That is beyond disgusting.

Just for the record, there are around 2.1 Million government workers that do not earn anywhere near the amount of cash that the politicians earn (salary and/or by insider info). The majority of the Fed are middle class workers.

After 17 years, I make just over 3x more now than I did when I was originally employed right out of uni. I still live paycheck to paycheck due to the cost of everything having gone sky high and being screwed by the big bank (however, I am debt-free). Rent just out of uni: $575/month, Rent now: $1375; Gasoline then: $0.75/gal, Gasoline now: $3.55/gal; and with the exception of ramen noodles, $20 at the grocery store does not go very far these days.

Common core already exists in several states. Not every student is destine for uni, trade school, or independence when they finish high school. Nor do they all have the capacity to master every skill that is taught.

How would you guys feel about marrying a chick with a kid and the kid is not biologically yours?

they are small minded, hateful, loud fuckers. Love their God, love their guns, hate “fags”, hate anything that doesn’t comply with their rigid belief system. They hate for the sake of hating and then pitifully try and justify their hatred by scapegoating some section of the community - “I hate because what they do is wrong. We’d be better off without them”.

They’re like Nazis. They are intolerant of diversity. And their hatred is unquenchable. Like the Nazis - first it was the jews, then Poles, then the handicapped, then gypsies, then gays, political “non conformists”. They are always looking for someone to target.

And you cannot explain anything to them. You cannot reason with their small minded ugliness. You cannot point out both the strengths and weaknesses of their arguments.

Again, I’m getting a lot of well-articulated discussion of why rednecks deserve to be hated. I just don’t feel that my main question is being answered. Which is, again, why rednecks deserve to bear the brunt of the assault on social irresponsibility, when the irresponsible element of seemingly every race manifests those bad qualities.

Here’s another of my radical theories on the subject, after which I promise I’ll stop harping on it.

I believe that, for any truly harmonious pluralistic society to exist, we either have to allow ALL expressions of racial pride, or NONE. We either have to admit that both Duck Dynasty and Lil’ Wayne may have some redeeming cultural value, or we toss them all into the waste bin.

I, for one, favor the latter. Humans as a whole are kinda silly, and I think are very deserving of ridicule for their arrogant view of their ‘special’ role amidst the raging, mostly unexplored chaos of the universe. And so believing in the special destiny of one’s race is a pathetic spin-off of the belief that mankind is the pinnacle of all creation. Worse still is when those people who are incapable of organizing a piss-up in a brewery take the credit for what more exceptional members of their race have done, simply because they were born with similar physical characteristics.

So I dream of the day when, in the name of real humility, both the projects of political correctness and tribal identity will be destroyed, and we will learn to - as we do on this bulletin board, natch!!! - call each other the worst possible names we can think of without any fear of retaliation. My utopia would be a place where people tell each other “fuck your pride” almost as a daily greeting, to be followed by knowing laughter.

Admittedly that’s a very tall order. People seem to have a gnawing fear of forming an individual identity, and prefer organizing into larger and larger mobs, which never seem to be good at anything but starting wars and generally wrecking shit.

I like rednecks.

[reply]My cousin got remarried to a guy who started video taping her children from her first marriage performing sex acts on each other and then eventually on him. Luckily they busted the cunt and put him away…

That is beyond disgusting.[/reply]

Yeah, I can’t really wrap my head around that. Did your cousin know this was going on?

How would you guys feel about marrying a chick with a kid and the kid is not biologically yours?

Purely hypothetical, obviously, as I’ve been happily married for over 13 years (with no kids between us or from anywhere else) . . .

. . . but I wouldn’t have a problem with that. If I loved the gal, and was ready for marriage, it would also mean that I was ready for all the challenges and/or baggage that comes with it. If you marry a gal/guy with a kid and aren’t ready to love that kid as your own, than you’re not really ready to marry . . . or you haven’t met the right one.

You don’t get to pick and choose what you like about a person and then just toss aside or ignore the parts you find inconvenient. You get it all.

Yeah, I can’t really wrap my head around that. Did your cousin know this was going on?

It’s a long, complicated and ultimately very sad story. We all went through months and months of hell. It took two years from the time the incident was reported to the police until the day he was sentenced to a minimum three years in prison.

And it seemed that for the longest time he was going to get away with it too. The law was basically on his side. This pedo fucker got more legal support and counselling than my cousin.

The grilling her children had to endure at the hands of a merciless barrister was gut wrenching to say the least. When the tapes were finally played to the jury, one of them asked to be excused and then vomited outside. Another member of the court was taken out as she was visibly shaking.

I will never ever for as long as I live forget the harrowing 25 minutes I sat in court watching that video tape. It is etched into my memory and I will never be rid of it. Imagine watching a scene in which an eight year old girl is made to sing happy birthday to a grown man while he anally and vaginally assaults her with his fingers. And then chugs a beer while a 10 year old boy gives him oral. And that little girl and that little boy is your blood relative. And the man doing it to them is supposed to be protecting them. I’m telling you there was not a dry eye in the court after the tape ended and we were all finally spared any more torture.

I tell you I will sever that cunt’s spine if I ever see him again.

I’d just like to say… rednecks aren’t Nazis

Nazis had a formulated (albeit twisted) ideology & prized physical fitness… like there was mandatory exercise regimen and you got fined for smoking or being out of shape (in fact I think you got reichmarks if you demonstrably quit cigs - omg socialism)

I’ve been in cities most of my life but lived in a rural area for a while, I found that while you do get genuine racists in the sticks, more often than not the people are just a bit awkward around different people, rather than genuinely having a problem with them. In fact in some ways the class system is weaker out there - everyone drinks in the same pubs, goes to the same schools. Can’t say that about London

My controversial opinion:

This thread sucks and I only open it so it will show as “read”.

I like rednecks.

I like turtles

Florida is awesome…fuck you all…

My controversial opinion:

This thread sucks and I only open it so it will show as “read”.

The controversy over this will rage for days, what have you done?!

My controversial opinion:

This thread sucks and I only open it so it will show as “read”.

Well, there haven’t been any Baboon 3 postings in this one to give it more of the surreal, woozy ‘flow’ that these threads normally have. Maybe that’s the problem.

My controversial opinion today is a television edition. . .

Game of Thrones sucks. And so does the Walking Dead. I’m so sick of people babbling on and whining when one of the characters dies. It’s getting to be that I won’t even go on Facebook on Mondays due to all the whining.

I’m tired of the whole “hipster” bashing thing…yes,hipsters are an annoying sub-culture of people,just like any other overblown sub-culture…but it’s become tiresome as people are labeling others as hipsters at the drop of a hat…“Oh my god,they like The Beatles and Michael Jackson-they must be hipsters”…shit has gotten stupid…the most innocuous comments about art/music etc are getting people labeled as being hipsters…it’s become such a boring go-to insult…