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    LoL General Chat

    in Gaming General

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    The problem with things like that is that Riot doesn't like dictating the meta unless it's a huge issue. By picking and choosing which champs can build what, they're severely limiting and restricting potential new builds for champs.

    "Liberals" V.2.

    in General Discussion

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    Now that's different. I actually think the American government DOES have a debt to pay for the mistreatment of African Americans in the past as opposed to you. (and to be fair, maybe you still do too and it's just you explaining AA to me.) I also think Affirmative Action is - in most areas mind you - a good thing to have because there definitely is a need.

    I'll say I've been enlightened here too. As Tacos pointed out, I did need to specify a bit. As a white male who happens to be straight, life hasn't been so bad for me or my family that I have a vendetta or a problem to really fix in order to level the playing field. If anything, I could afford to be knocked down a peg (although I'd much rather just pull everyone else to the level I'm at unless sacrifice is absolutely needed.) - I still think America "never" being great is hyperbole to an extent, but it definitely varies in degree.

    Yeah, to clarify I'm definitely in support of reparations. I just don't see Affirmative Action in the same category as them.

    "Liberals" V.2.

    in General Discussion

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    Starting with you Neo, you bring up some fair points - and I haven't addressed in specific women/others, people of color, and those with differing sexual orientations. Looking at history as I did in general when making the post, you can definitely say that the angles are slightly different for those groups. African Americans specifically have had it pretty bad, while Native Americans have....probably seen better days (and the same could be said for other groups.)

    That being said, it's not as if reparations have been completely nonexistent. Yes, there is absolutely evident racial tension with regards to the American Justice System that has been present for ....pretty much ever. There's also opportunities out of being an African American, such as specific scholarships one could earn. As a white person looking at it in the scope of 2016 I could argue that this isn't exactly fair that I can't earn that scholarship because I never had the chance to BE black.

    Affirmative Action and reparations aren't really in the same boat. The US HAS given out reparations to select groups of people that the govt. has wronged. Black folks are not among those groups. Race based scholarships are Affirmative Action in action. They're there to present opportunities that wouldn't otherwise be available because of systemic oppression.

    In some areas, there's room for improvement (which can be said for most groups) - but that doesn't mean American greatness is non-existent. It's a country that has millions of immigrants every year coming in looking for opportunity. If America didn't have positives in place, why would people go there in such great numbers?

    Like I mentioned, America is a nation built on great ideals, they're really not acted on to the extent that they could and should be. I think America is definitely great in some regards, but it really really does have a long way to go before it can hold itself up as a truly great nation. I think we're on the same page here, actually. I think the phrase "America was NEVER great" is used to highlight our nation's past, our issues, and more importantly to question precisely for whom America is being "made great again" for.

    "Liberals" V.2.

    in General Discussion

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    Most white moderates/liberals are jokes, fam. Their idea of being progressive is damn near maintaining the status quo. That being said:

    So, the first Gold Medal in Rio this summer was won by an American...in an event that pertained to gun use.

    It's okay for other countries to say "of course it was a gun sport" and roll their eyes, but it's really bad when Americans celebrate the fact by turning on you and make you out to be an awful person because of the means of which you acquired that gold medal you've only spent years training to win - or go so deep as to ignore the fact that you've trained for multiple years by instead highlighting your obvious resistance to "gun control" through past statements you've made.

    This leads me to my second "kinda-ish" rant about liberalism's ugly side. I invite the other side of course, to find two or three things about conservatives that they feel are "typical". I also want to take this time clarify that this is NOT my interpretation of what liberalism is, but it's a easy-to-fall-into misconception. Finally, this is more directed at American liberalism, and not so much global liberalism.

    Liberals are Anti-America in nature.

    There are two responses to Donald Trump's "Make America GREAT Again" tag. The first one is something I can fully give credit to Hillary Clinton's campaign on - that "America is ALREADY great."...which is a very acceptable counter, especially from an aspiring president like Hillary is. The second response also comes from Democrats just as often, and many of these responses stem from the Bernie Sanders-Elizabeth Warren "liberal" wing of the party.

    "America was NEVER great."

    A popular term Liberals like to refer to themselves as ..is "progressives" - meaning that they are making progress by whatever reforms they hope to pass. It's easy for liberals in this kind of mindset to think "America won't be great until we've made these changes" - but to say "America was never great" would seemingly be a load of crap being spouted from those who hold American citizenship (as opposed to just being an opinion of those who have never been there.) Finally - the changes that progressives want to make mirror those of several failed governments in the past - such as changing the free market capitalist economic structure of America that has been largely successful into a socialist economic structure that (more closely, not completely) reflects the depravity of the Soviet Union and other Communist nations that America previously assisted in releasing from said depravity.

    Let's keep this shit 100. Capitalism has an expiration date, and the system that replaces it will look very similar to Communism/Socialism. It's also important to note that the USSR was not Marxist, so mixing all of those ideologies into a bag just because they happen to be within the same ideological sphere is just wrong, my guy. America, depending on whom you ask, really never was great. It's a nation founded on great ideals, ideals written by hypocrites, but great nonetheless. Real talk, women,people of color, and LGBTQ folks haven't given any sort of fair shake in this nation, and it would really be hard to sit down and say "no, yeah, it was great for them too".

    America has spent 240 years successfully operating a free market economy. It's not as "broken" as many outspoken liberals claim it is. Japan - who many of those same liberals defend - operates under the same economic structure.

    Japan participating in hypercapitalism isn't exactly similar to the US with its corporatism problem.

    You see this bleeding way outside of the economic and even political arena, where celebrities and sports icons are SHAMED by many of their high-profile peers for their achievements because of their views.

    Happens on both sides of the ideological fence, regardless of how shitty it is.

    Liberals wish to be lower on the food chain -OR- value other forms of life over humanity.

    One of the things that I keep hearing about is the tragic story of Harambe the gorilla, and it's one thing liberals can't seem to shut up about.

    "Damn that human child for climbing into the gorilla exhibit. Damn his mother for not stopping him from doing so. Damn that zookeeper for protecting that child from certain harm. #FreeHarambe."

    Harambe is a meme, fam. #dicksout

    PETA - or that one group that hates Pokemon just as much as Southern Baptist ministers do for different reasons - has inspired the left into a culture that seemingly places animal life well above the importance of human life. Outlawing leather jackets or eating anything other than man-made food in order to preserve the other species has become the "trend" in many parts of the US,along with attacking your peers that don't do the same.

    Anthropocentric people on the other hand, are much more likely to be conservative than they are liberal.

    I don't know a person that knows about how PETA operates that actually supports them. Liberal OR Conservative.

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    This means that it's easy for me to think that conservatives care more about governing over American people than Liberals do, who wish to govern in a matter that conforms to the rest of the world and eschew Americanism while placing other species above the people you are supposed to be governing.

    Replies in pink because I'm feeling pretty today

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