The Ohio River being a massive cultural divider between north and south has been a very common and very strange part of history, but it's impossible to argue against. Whether it's going from Ohio to Kentucky or Ohio to West Virginia, the cultural distinction is immediate and observable. West Virginia is tragic, because in Southern Ohio you can see the ruins of Steubenville, but the surrounding poor, rural, community is slowly picking up the pieces. Cross over into West Virginia, and that effort is just lost. You can see it immediately with debris strews about, projects unfinished, unrepaired cars out front, and it's a sense of real depression in the state.
What's worse is that when you go north, you are starting to see the same problem, except it's related to weed. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not big on the drug war, but you can clearly see how Michigan has started to entirely fall apart, and all you've got left are pot heads. It seems like weed is the only functioning industry. Worse, I think the mass distribution of downers like weed may also be spoiling people's ability to be ambitious and productive.
The stunning lack of ambition of people was demonstrated to me in Iraq at it's worst, where I watched a man fail to fish for 12 hours. In that same town, you could see that the only person who was putting any real effort in was the imam and his sons, mostly trying to fix or improve the mosque. Even if you are a productive person, being surrounded by unproductive people is wildly disheartening and unhelpful.
What is so controversial in this post that warrants the downvotes? I live in Ohio and the contrast when crossing the river is pretty stark. Less so going into Kentucky, but the difference is there. Would be more productive if the people who downvoted came in with counterpoints.
Me. There are specific storm fags that have a problem with me because I oppose racialism, even when there is nothing they can actually argue about, or even disagree with.
Dude, I'd estimate that more often than not, your posts sit at 100% upvoted. Apparently the "storm fags" are able to overlook the messenger if the message is good.
About the only exception to this is when you're in a thread calling people names.
Stormfags don't comprise a majority of the site, even though they desperately want to blow it up like they did Voat. They are never able to differentiate message from messenger, that's one of the reasons I get called a jew. To them, jews are a bourgeois race. They are the cause of 100% of all problems that exist within history. Therefore, if I'm doing or saying something wrong it is because one of the following must be true: a) I am a jew, b) I am paid by jews, c) I am hypnotized by jews. No exceptions exist.
Yes, I engage in name-calling. So do they. They say worse shit than I will ever say, they say it hoping everyone will agree with them, and they get furious when someone insults them back. They can't fucking tolerate that someone in a place that isn't theirs to begin with, is allowed to call out their wild fucking behavior and blinding stupidity.
And to be honest, normally, they don't get called out because their behavior is so poisonous that most people can take one look at the thread's title and think "Oh fuck, here's another stormfag post" and just ignore it completely because they know the local Austrian Artist fans are going to be squatting on the thread and screaming about wooden doors.
Yes, I'm going to insult them because yes, we have a moral imperative to gate-keep socialists out of our forum. I'm happy to argue with them intelligently (if and only if they manage to maintain decorum), but I reserve the right to belittle them while they call me a kike-lover
The Ohio River being a massive cultural divider between north and south has been a very common and very strange part of history, but it's impossible to argue against. Whether it's going from Ohio to Kentucky or Ohio to West Virginia, the cultural distinction is immediate and observable. West Virginia is tragic, because in Southern Ohio you can see the ruins of Steubenville, but the surrounding poor, rural, community is slowly picking up the pieces. Cross over into West Virginia, and that effort is just lost. You can see it immediately with debris strews about, projects unfinished, unrepaired cars out front, and it's a sense of real depression in the state.
What's worse is that when you go north, you are starting to see the same problem, except it's related to weed. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not big on the drug war, but you can clearly see how Michigan has started to entirely fall apart, and all you've got left are pot heads. It seems like weed is the only functioning industry. Worse, I think the mass distribution of downers like weed may also be spoiling people's ability to be ambitious and productive.
The stunning lack of ambition of people was demonstrated to me in Iraq at it's worst, where I watched a man fail to fish for 12 hours. In that same town, you could see that the only person who was putting any real effort in was the imam and his sons, mostly trying to fix or improve the mosque. Even if you are a productive person, being surrounded by unproductive people is wildly disheartening and unhelpful.
What is so controversial in this post that warrants the downvotes? I live in Ohio and the contrast when crossing the river is pretty stark. Less so going into Kentucky, but the difference is there. Would be more productive if the people who downvoted came in with counterpoints.
Me. There are specific storm fags that have a problem with me because I oppose racialism, even when there is nothing they can actually argue about, or even disagree with.
Dude, I'd estimate that more often than not, your posts sit at 100% upvoted. Apparently the "storm fags" are able to overlook the messenger if the message is good.
About the only exception to this is when you're in a thread calling people names.
Stormfags don't comprise a majority of the site, even though they desperately want to blow it up like they did Voat. They are never able to differentiate message from messenger, that's one of the reasons I get called a jew. To them, jews are a bourgeois race. They are the cause of 100% of all problems that exist within history. Therefore, if I'm doing or saying something wrong it is because one of the following must be true: a) I am a jew, b) I am paid by jews, c) I am hypnotized by jews. No exceptions exist.
Yes, I engage in name-calling. So do they. They say worse shit than I will ever say, they say it hoping everyone will agree with them, and they get furious when someone insults them back. They can't fucking tolerate that someone in a place that isn't theirs to begin with, is allowed to call out their wild fucking behavior and blinding stupidity.
And to be honest, normally, they don't get called out because their behavior is so poisonous that most people can take one look at the thread's title and think "Oh fuck, here's another stormfag post" and just ignore it completely because they know the local Austrian Artist fans are going to be squatting on the thread and screaming about wooden doors.
Yes, I'm going to insult them because yes, we have a moral imperative to gate-keep socialists out of our forum. I'm happy to argue with them intelligently (if and only if they manage to maintain decorum), but I reserve the right to belittle them while they call me a kike-lover