Modacity.net: Texas Simulator

[TVTyrant]

Ross, your opinion of civilized is laughable coming from the group that slaughtered people all over the world for financial profit for 300 years. Also, your prison opinion is hilarious since you are in love with the Soviets.

As far as the KKK are concerned, that is the worst kind of bigotry that is often seen from people outside of this country. It's pathetic that you would make an argument based on what people did 100 years ago, since 100 years ago the Brits were busy raping every Indian woman in sight and burning/enslaving their men. Your double standard is really pretty disgusting.

That said, I am from the North so yeah, Texas is a crazy place. Not anywhere I would want to live for sure. Far too conservative and I can't stand the social stratum there. I'm a liberal at heart and can't stand the politics that seem to be common in that place. Anywhere where Rick Perry can win a major election is an atrocity.

[PopeAK49]

inb4...

Left 4 Texas: Rise of the Boomers

[arbiter901]

it's cute how you kids keep assuming any of this comes from 'the media' (hint: our media, and in fact most of the world's, is not like yours; they generally deal in facts and not fairy stories and any political bias is so minor it may as well not be there) or 'textbooks' (lol what the fuck textbooks would i be reading this from?), instead of things like 'family and friends who have lived, or are currently living in, the united states', 'personal experience from time spent in the united states', or 'actual facts about america from non-politically-biased sources'

or are you seriously trying to tell me that the lie-beral media just want me to believe that rick perry is the scum of the earth and that the majority of texans are either so happy with him or so utterly lacking in compassion and human decency that they allowed this shitlord to hold the position he did? because i'm pretty sure all those death row inmates he failed to pardon regardless of guilt or innocence aren't some invention of the fucking media you arrogant little shit

Yeah I remember some of these casses. Don't blame perry for it, blame the damn forensic testimony.

If you take somebodies life do you deserve yo to live? Absolutely not.

I understand innocent people get put into death roll, and I really feel sympathy for them, but then again life isn't fair is it?

i don't recall ever saying a damn word about the us economy, and i also don't see how you think this is even tangentially relevant since economic concerns have approximately 'fuck' and 'shit' to do with the social advancement of a community, state, country, or otherwise

Was this directed towards you? Don't think so. All I said was that the US would never allow an economy like Texas's just slip away.

[Pooky]

That said, I am from the North so yeah, Texas is a crazy place. Not anywhere I would want to live for sure. Far too conservative and I can't stand the social stratum there. I'm a liberal at heart and can't stand the politics that seem to be common in that place. Anywhere where Rick Perry can win a major election is an atrocity.

I work with blacks and Mexicans every day. I have openly gay friends. I'm a professed Athiest and nobody seems to mind. For the most part, the only intolerance here is facetious. I do live in a major city and it's true that the ignorance gets more intense as you get further into the country, but I think you could say that about anywhere. It's been my experience that most people who think they know what Texas is like know exactly shit.

[rossmum]

Right, so we're all fucked up because of a few standouts and some shit that happened over a century ago. I only replied to incredible stupidity with the same.

texas, the state, is backwards

the state

p.s. calling government-sanctioned murder and several incredibly violent and grotesque lynchings 'a few standouts' is both insulting and incredibly arrogant

Ross, your opinion of civilized is laughable coming from the group that slaughtered people all over the world for financial profit for 300 years.

what group would this be? i don't recall being born in 1700s britain, nor do i recall ever endorsing its actions, nor is that particularly different from what america has been doing for the last 100

Also, your prison opinion is hilarious since you are in love with the Soviets.

lol yes i am so very in love, let me tell you how i agree with all soviet policy 100%

...except the bit where if you had ever spoken to me about that specific issue you'd find out pretty fucking quickly that i think the rsfsr took several wrong turns very early on which it never recovered from, and at the end of the day the soviet union was special for being the first constitutionally socialist state, not because it was in any way an ideal socialist state

i swear for people who try and pull the "WHAT DO YOU KNOW YOU DON'T LIVE HERE" argument the people on this site love straight up assuming shit about me or putting words in my mouth without bothering to ask first

As far as the KKK are concerned, that is the worst kind of bigotry that is often seen from people outside of this country. It's pathetic that you would make an argument based on what people did 100 years ago, since 100 years ago the Brits were busy raping every Indian woman in sight and burning/enslaving their men. Your double standard is really pretty disgusting.

lol you think i was talking about the kkk? that was the doing of the good people of plano, texas, including most of the local government and police. the people who did the lynching were not wearing white bedsheets, they were ordinary townsfolk, just like the vast majority of lynchings in american history. by the way there were still lynchings happening in the 1960s in america, think about that for a second.

also where did i ever defend the crimes of the british? i am calling america backwards because it is, it is decades behind even them. the british abolished slavery in the 18th century, it took america over fifty years to do same and they had a civil war over it because the south didn't agree. the british generally quit lynching people around the early 20th century (and that tended to be white people who did really unpopular things like rape and murder, not black people who were guilty of nothing more than being easy scapegoats). ordinary, non-kkk americans were happily lynching people until the 1960s. britain put an end to the death penalty in either the 60s or 70s from what i recall, and it hadn't really been practiced much for several years before it was finally abolished. so far only a few american states have stopped using it, most of them still murder people in the name of "justice" (hahahaha) on a regular basis, including texas.

even a country with as horrible a track record as the uk is far ahead of the us, and has been consistently throughout history. i don't need to pretend the uk is perfect, i think the fact that the us is even worse speaks for itself.

p.s., just to pre-empt anyone actually moronic enough to claim it is cheaper than keeping someone in prison for their entire life, no it actually isn't, so even the most basic attempts to justify killing people for your own disgusting revenge falter in the face of actual, rational thought.

Yeah I remember some of these casses. Don't blame perry for it, blame the damn forensic testimony.

hmmm yes, don't blame the man who could have prevented people being killed, there is surely no blood on his hands

If you take somebodies life do you deserve yo to live? Absolutely not.

you are a repulsive slug and your attitude towards human life literally makes me want to vomit

I understand innocent people get put into death roll, and I really feel sympathy for them, but then again life isn't fair is it?

no seriously this right here? you are a truly awful person and in any real country saying something so stupid as that would mark you as a social pariah for life. i'd tell you to kill yourself but i do not share your absolutely fucking reproachable attitude towards other humans so i would never be able to live with myself if i did say it

I work with blacks and Mexicans every day. I have openly gay friends. I'm a professed Athiest and nobody seems to mind. For the most part, the only intolerance here is facetious. I do live in a major city and it's true that the ignorance gets more intense as you get further into the country, but I think you could say that about anywhere. It's been my experience that most people who think they know what Texas is like know exactly shit.

if this was as much the case as you make out, then the death penalty would no longer exist, texas would be a blue state or at the very least not a red one (the irony of the far right using red in the us kills me every time), and this entire discussion would not be taking place.

even assuming that you are correct in extrapolating from your anecdotal evidence that texans are not as bad as the state makes them seem as a whole, they are still pretty fucking bad for not standing up for their beliefs if they can honestly sit on their hands while the man who is governing their state and representing them at a federal level is killing people like it is going out of style. they could be the chillest, leftest leaning people in the world but as long as they just shrug their shoulders and pretend there is nothing they can do about it they are no better than the assholes who are causing it to be the way it is in the first place

[rossmum]

basically what i'm saying is if you think that killing another human in any circumstance whatsoever can be excused or justified you are an awful person with absolutely abhorrent views and you are an embodiment of the reason europeans, canadians, australians, and really basically the entire civilised world cannot take americans seriously

edit: also, to clarify, arbiter: please do not ever kill yourself, instead please try and experience the real world outside your terrifying weirdo little conservative bubble so maybe you, like me, can realise what a fucking retard you are and then adjust your opinions appropriately. look at me, i fell out of the upper middle class and used to think the poor were all shitty and lazy and now i love them because they are unironically far better people than most of my old middle-class aquaintenances were (and also most people on this forum too).

[PenGuin1362]

I hear Austin is a nice place.

[=sw=warlord]

If you take somebodies life do you deserve yo to live? Absolutely not.

And it's exactly that stance that make you lot look worse than the Chinese in terms of actually understanding human ethics.
Killing someone because they've already killed someone puts blood on your hands and gives them an easy way out.
you do not under any circumstance become a leader when you allow yourself to drop to the level of those you are trying to make an example out of, to do so shows your vanity and shows just how weak you truly are.

you want to punish someone and force them to show remorse? show them the emotional impact they've caused on those around them, not just the victims but the impact their loved ones and the shame they would now feel being associated with such a person as them.

Texas is so backward it still has a prohibition on gambling because the government doesn't even trust it's own populace to even be responsible with their own money, how the hell it expects to survive if it does break off from the union is beyond me, at least in economically worse places like north Korea they actually have some idea of what responsibility is unlike the population of Texas, the population that can't balance a bank account and can't balance it's own justice service and prefers to just execute instead of figuring out why such people exist and prevent such occurrences in the future.

[rossmum]

man i sure am glad such intelligent and thoughtful people as forums shitposter arbiter901 are here to ensure that no criminal is ever rehabilitated into society and able to see the error of their ways and perhaps dissuade others from taking that path, instead they are all just killed because that'll learn 'em, let god sort 'em out

[arbiter901]

man i sure am glad such intelligent and thoughtful people as forums shitposter arbiter901 are here to ensure that no criminal is ever rehabilitated into society and able to see the error of their ways and perhaps dissuade others from taking that path, instead they are all just killed because that'll learn 'em, let god sort 'em out

Who says this hasn't been tried/done before? It doesn't always work. What are we gonna do with the repeat offenders? We already have a overpopulated jail system as it is.