Windex007

The irony here is that saying "Black Lives Matter" roots out who secretly hate about 20 percent of the population. They hear it and they just can't keep their mouths shut, right?

I'M the one in your analogy saying Black Lives Matter. I'M the one saying that there is a minority group worthy of consideration. Everyone tripping over themselves to explain to me why rural people amount to, and I quote "a rounding error" are the people who are behaving like bigots.

Read the comment chain again? After buddy's initial response I just plainly outlined my position. I wasn't like "you idiot, how could you possibly misunstand my one-word comment" because that would be insane and unfair.

After my explanation, he completely ignored literally everything I had said and at that point it became obvious they were arguing with a strawman.

Unless you can help me connect the dots between "I support public transit, I want north america to have what Europe has" and their bizarre assertion that somehow I'm arguing against it, then I don't know how anyone could say that their response was even the slightest bit related to what I'd written.

They banished the evil lemon tree forever. Because it was haunted.

I mean, my input was that I think it's shitty to suggest that things are complete solutions to any societal issue when it requires ignoring massive swathes of the total population.

I think it's shitty when it comes up to double down and say those people don't matter.

I think it's shitty to say "well they chose that so fuck em"

Like, can you imagine saying "fuck people in Flint MI, they want safe drinking water they shouldn't live in Flint, they chose this."

So, I mean, that's my point.

I could and did forgive the original response for exactly the reason you said.

But in my follow up, I clarified my position and point, and that being ignored is why I'm stating it as being a strawman. I explicitly said I support public transportation.

Let me say it again: I explicitly said I support public transportation.

Let me say it a FIFTH TIME NOW: I SUPPORT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.

How many times need it be said before buddy stops characterizing my position as being against public transportation?

Sincerely, how many times?

It's unrelated because you've constructed a strawman who doesn't want expansion of public transit who you're thrashing when literally nobody has said that and literally everyone here has explicitly said they want expansion of public transit.

I take public transit EVERY DAY. I loved my time city hopping in Europe. I want that SO badly for north america. I'm a very vocal proponent.

I'm not disputing the benefits of public transit.

I take public transit EVERY DAY. I loved my time city hopping in Europe. I want that SO badly for north america. I'm a very vocal proponent.

I grew up in a rural area. Our small area tried earnestly several times to get a bus route going. First with old school buses and then with some old city buses. They just couldn't make it work. The population density just couldn't support it.

My issue, as someone with their feet in two canoes, as they say, is with the mentality that rural populations are rounding areas unworthy of discussion or consideration. Broad statements that erase rural existence is alienating to these admittedly small percentages, but is alienating nonetheless

Rural

You can't make the hole for the air to escape with your hands though

Milhouse is a meme now?