[1/29/2015 10:09:22 PM] Earl Ratliff: any time my people destroy property, we're a scourge that the nation needs to exterminate
[1/29/2015 10:09:38 PM] Earl Ratliff: any time privileged people throw a party and destroy shit, it's just "kids having fun"
[1/29/2015 10:09:50 PM] Earl Ratliff: this inconsistency is enough to justify revenge.
[1/29/2015 10:11:23 PM] Satchmo: It's not even that, on a basic level
[1/29/2015 10:13:06 PM] Satchmo: You're going around fucking with people who live in a very hostile environment, from there own people. (Rival gangs/Neighorhoods, Robberies etc), and you just expect them to take it because "it's a prank"
[1/29/2015 10:13:27 PM] Satchmo: They don't know you, they don't know what you are trying to do
[1/29/2015 10:13:41 PM] Tune Star: Yeah part of a good prank is choosing your target, they were shit at that.
[1/29/2015 10:13:45 PM] Satchmo: For all they know, you could be trying to kill them
[1/29/2015 10:14:26 PM] Earl Ratliff: yes, and that's part of why I made my point - these pranksters have no respect for context
[1/29/2015 10:15:07 PM] Earl Ratliff: their defenders are so wrapped up in the intentions of the pranksters that they can't get to the meat of the matter, which is "some things are more important than the intentions of people you like"
[1/29/2015 10:15:41 PM] Earl Ratliff: this inability to see past the intentions of people you like is what drives the point I made about the destruction of property
[1/29/2015 10:16:00 PM] Earl Ratliff: it is how much we like a person that guides our national reaction to their committing a transgression.
[1/29/2015 10:18:12 PM] Tune Star: Australia has that same issue sadly, it's a plague on our society.
[1/29/2015 10:18:36 PM] Satchmo: Well, some of it was just open racism
[1/29/2015 10:19:14 PM] Earl Ratliff: of course it's open racism
[1/29/2015 10:19:14 PM] Satchmo: But I swear to fucking god, people from middle class America don't understand a god damn thing
[1/29/2015 10:19:18 PM] Earl Ratliff: welcome to being black in america
[1/29/2015 10:20:17 PM] Earl Ratliff: you can be a tenured academic and still be arrested in your own goddamn house that you don't owe a mortgage on, just because you locked yourself out and it CAN'T BE POSSIBLE THAT you own THAT house, it's too fucking nice, you MUST be trying to break in and burglarize!
[1/29/2015 10:20:34 PM] Satchmo: And some of them didn't even bother to argue the points I made, and just ridiculed me for things completely irrelevant to the conversation
[1/29/2015 10:20:41 PM] Earl Ratliff: well duh
[1/29/2015 10:20:42 PM] Earl Ratliff: this is america
[1/29/2015 10:20:50 PM] Earl Ratliff: if you dare to argue well, you're a faggot
[1/29/2015 10:20:54 PM] Tune Star: Were you talking to DN users by any chance?
[1/29/2015 10:20:56 PM] Earl Ratliff: and faggots ought be burned alive
[1/29/2015 10:21:05 PM] Earl Ratliff: this is like american ethics 101 man
[1/29/2015 10:21:17 PM] Earl Ratliff: why else do you see me mock our home so often?
[1/29/2015 10:21:26 PM] Tune Star: Sounds like a witch hunt Earl.
[1/29/2015 10:21:35 PM] Satchmo: No, this was on a facebook group, which parially makes me stupid for attempting to argue with these fucks
[1/29/2015 10:21:45 PM] Earl Ratliff: that would be unwise, Satch
[1/29/2015 10:21:52 PM] Tune Star: I have that feeling everythime I open Pub Chat or Zodiac
[1/29/2015 10:22:13 PM] Earl Ratliff: but american discourse itself is quickly becoming more and more like those facebook groups
[1/29/2015 10:22:25 PM] Earl Ratliff: as a nation we have become rabidly anti-intellectual
[1/29/2015 10:22:43 PM] Earl Ratliff: people choose their leaders based upon who reminds them of themselves the most, not based on quality
[1/29/2015 10:23:20 PM] Earl Ratliff: when the guy who "you can get a beer with" seems a better leader to you than the guy who is provably and constantly smarter than you and nicer to people than you are, you have fucked up priorities
[1/29/2015 10:24:23 PM] Satchmo: You're right Earl
[1/29/2015 10:24:24 PM] Earl Ratliff: they're not just stupid, they make the world worse
[1/29/2015 10:24:28 PM] Earl Ratliff: of course I'm right
[1/29/2015 10:24:45 PM] Earl Ratliff: I'm old and angry and tired of people abusing the fact that they're free to choose their leaders
[1/29/2015 10:24:56 PM] Tune Star: Old?
[1/29/2015 10:25:36 PM] Satchmo: Well, when you put stupid people in charge of of a large majority of stupid people, yea, you get some fucked up world leaders
[1/29/2015 10:26:02 PM] Satchmo: Everyone in power is either evil or stupid, and sometimes they're just both
[1/29/2015 10:26:16 PM] Earl Ratliff: well, evil men begin as men like me
[1/29/2015 10:26:24 PM] Earl Ratliff: you'd think people would catch on to this shit
[1/29/2015 10:26:51 PM] Earl Ratliff: good-intended wise men who finally get fed up and decide to begin hurting people instead of helping them make for the worst and most damaging societal influences