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HonorableTB posted:Southern states (except for Texas, which isn't really "Southern" per se) take in more Federal tax dollars for aid than they pay back every year This chart is also hilarious because it's basically "who uses more roads". Show me a chart that eliminates road contributions and you'd probably see a lot more in the Give vs Get pile.
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computer parts posted:This chart is also hilarious because it's basically "who uses more roads". Show me a chart that eliminates road contributions and you'd probably see a lot more in the Give vs Get pile. New Mexico would likely stay the same, with all the federal research that goes on there. Also, Texas uses the most roads, but we had the good sense to pay for it with our state gasoline tax. (Though Rick Perry has done his very best to end the method that made Texas roads some of the best in the country and instead start privatizing as many highways as possible.)
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e_angst posted:New Mexico would likely stay the same, with all the federal research that goes on there. Also, Texas uses the most roads, but we had the good sense to pay for it with our state gasoline tax. (Though Rick Perry has done his very best to end the method that made Texas roads some of the best in the country and instead start privatizing as many highways as possible.) Don't get me started on that bullshit. As an example, the beltway around Houston has earned over three times what it actually ended up costing to build, and they refuse to remove the tolls so they can use it to 'generate revenue for new toll roads' completely ignoring that those roads will also have new tolls, which won't get removed in order to 'generate revenue for new toll roads' ad infinitum. Rick Perry is a sack of poo poo, and I will be incredibly glad when he's finally removed from office.
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Sucrose posted:What I've gleaned from this thread isn't that The South is particularly hosed up, it's that we in the US treat non-whites (especially blacks) like poo poo, and most non-whites live in the South. Correct? I grew up in Michigan, and whoever thinks that extreme racism is confined to the South has never spent much time around blue-collar Northern rustbelt types. I've heard "Detroit should be blown up" more times than I can count. If you look at this map it's immediately obvious where 8 Mile is. queertea posted:Just take a look at the most segregated metro areas in the US. Note that most of them are in the Rust Belt, unambiguously located in the "North." To paint institutional racism as a Southern phenomenon is disingenuous. Indeed, and I was also surprised when I learned that the most segregated public school systems are also mostly in northern states.
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Where's the article about how some roads in Texas are being turned into gravel because the state just won't pay for them anymore?
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Where's the article about how some roads in Texas are being turned into gravel because the state just won't pay for them anymore? Is this what you were looking for? http://www.texastribune.org/2013/08/19/conversion-of-roads-to-gravel-met-with-concern/
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nucleicmaxid posted:So your options are 'literally committing war crimes' vs. help those progressives that do, in fact, live in and know something about the South (you're excluded from this, knowing literally jack all about the South as evidenced in this thread and your PYF thread that was thrown into FYD then burned to the ground.) I enjoy how you ignore the actual social and historical issues that plague the South in a real way and instead focus on supposed "War Crimes". As others have been mentioning, the poor whites and blacks SHOULD be our allies. If there is ever an argument for socialism its in the largely agrarian parts of the South that are dependent upon equal access to resources and labor. Instead we have a history of segregation, jingoism, and anti-intellectualism that leads to a ton of infighting and suppression of new ideas. I don't bash on the South because I think all Southerners are stupid. I bash on the South because people like you rush up to defend the culture as if its somehow equal to one that gives a poo poo about its poorest people. I bash on the South because, as I and others have mentioned, the levers of power have always been in the hands of a few wealthy white men. We see it from the slave holding days to the current days of gerrymandered votes and I think its bullshit and anyone that defends it is eating the bullshit. I think you and I agree on what we should do about it and probably are close politically, I'm just less inclined to accommodate bullshit romanticized Southern culture as a good thing.
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Sheikh Djibouti posted:Is this what you were looking for? Yes, that's exactly it. Thanks.
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Jastiger posted:I enjoy how you ignore the actual social and historical issues that plague the South in a real way and instead focus on supposed "War Crimes". As others have been mentioning, the poor whites and blacks SHOULD be our allies. If there is ever an argument for socialism its in the largely agrarian parts of the South that are dependent upon equal access to resources and labor. Instead we have a history of segregation, jingoism, and anti-intellectualism that leads to a ton of infighting and suppression of new ideas. No, I doubt we're all that close politically. You are a jingoistic sociopath, willing to write off several million people because of their history, while ignoring a similar but distinct history of racism, segregation, and violence in your own area. I actively dislike people who react the way that you do to things, without ever even attempting to understand why they are the way they are, especially when they call for literal massacres of people that disagree with them even slightly about things. The point of my whole post, which you seem to have ignored in your masturbatory fantasy of wiping out several million people for disagreeing with you, was that the South is actively changing, and the fastest way to see that change come to fruition is to stop being a reactionary sack of poo poo, and start understanding the root causes of the parts you dislike, so that they can be addressed and changed. Southern culture has its issues, but so does Northern culture, Western culture, and Northwestern culture. None of them are perfect. Nobody is leaping to defend the South even, they're all just attacking you for being the leftist version of a Stormfront poster. All the southerners in this thread have pretty much said 'yeah it sucks, the South has a poo poo ton of problems, but in general they're all just people, so changing them is the way to go.' You're just upset that you're viewed as a complete dumbshit with idiotic opinions when you act like a complete dumbshit and express idiotic opinions. tl;dr - You have a history of being supremely jingoistic to the point of putting right wing xenophobes to shame with your vehemence, to the point where your last thread where you frothed at the mouth about the South got shoved into FYAD then burned to the ground because you were insufferable. edit: Bip Roberts posted:Sherman didn't massacre southerners, FYI. Dismantling the slave and war infrastructure of the south wasn't a war crime. Total War has a very similar effect. He didn't ship them to an Auschwitz like place, but he did some pretty terrible things in order to win the war. Whether that was justified or not is a little more up in the air considering what was actually happening at the time, but to try and say that you should start burning down cities and more or less salting the earth during today's South is pretty extreme. Even Sherman himself was horrified by what he had to do. To have it called up as 'a good idea' is fairly offensive. If Jastiger was calling for the extermination of muslims, or the burning of muslim-owned businesses, I'd feel the exact same way I do about his call to do those things to people born in southern states. If slavery was still around, sure, it'd be justified. It's not. There are endemic issues that are also seen in other regions of the country, and to call for similar tactics is absolutely insane. It's not 1863, it's 2014. A different response is required, and if someone were to suddenly start razing and burning the south, it would almost certainly be a war crime. Or just a crime against humanity. Yngwie Mangosteen fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Jul 7, 2014 |
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Sherman didn't massacre southerners, FYI. Dismantling the slave and war infrastructure of the south wasn't a war crime.
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Also again the attitudes expressed by the South are apparently prevalent across many areas of the US it's just especially noticeable because there are significant numbers of minorities there. In other words, you have a bunch of black people move to Michigan and suddenly there are severe racial problems in Michigan even though it was never part of or near the Confederacy.
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computer parts posted:This chart is also hilarious because it's basically "who uses more roads". Show me a chart that eliminates road contributions and you'd probably see a lot more in the Give vs Get pile. Explain yourself. I don't see an obvious connection aside from a few of the New England states.
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queertea posted:Just take a look at the most segregated metro areas in the US. Note that most of them are in the Rust Belt, unambiguously located in the "North." To paint institutional racism as a Southern phenomenon is disingenuous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nGw_vAnqPI
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Grand Theft Autobot posted:Explain yourself. I don't see an obvious connection aside from a few of the New England states. The 10 highest states are all heavily rural or in mountainous areas. The 10 lowest ones are either highly compact, have the vast majority of their population in one part of the state (Nevada/Illinois), or have some of the richest regions in the country (New York with NYC and California with SF/LA). There's some exceptions like Minnesota but in general it's either compactness or brute forcing it with heavily rich areas.
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nucleicmaxid posted:Don't get me started on that bullshit. As an example, the beltway around Houston has earned over three times what it actually ended up costing to build, and they refuse to remove the tolls so they can use it to 'generate revenue for new toll roads' completely ignoring that those roads will also have new tolls, which won't get removed in order to 'generate revenue for new toll roads' ad infinitum. Rick Perry is a sack of poo poo, and I will be incredibly glad when he's finally removed from office. Avoid state roads by the way, rocks nearly flung into my mother's passenger window into her face by a natural gas tanker going on the opposite side of the road.
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Road spending is like 3% of the overall budget. Please try again. Actually it is probably less than that. Realedit: Some info on highway funding here https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/pubs/hf/pl11028/chapter6.cfm crabcakes66 fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Jul 7, 2014 |
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computer parts posted:The 10 highest states are all heavily rural or in mountainous areas. The 10 lowest ones are either highly compact, have the vast majority of their population in one part of the state (Nevada/Illinois), or have some of the richest regions in the country (New York with NYC and California with SF/LA). There's some exceptions like Minnesota but in general it's either compactness or brute forcing it with heavily rich areas. I'm not really buying that. The poster below has charts that dispute it pretty thoroughly. The bottom 10 besides VT all essentially break even. edit: to say nothing of the fact that road spending is a relatively small portion of the budget. crabcakes66 posted:Road spending is like 3% of the overall budget. Please try again. Actually it is probably less than that.
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crabcakes66 posted:Road spending is like 3% of the overall budget. Please try again. Actually it is probably less than that. That's a fair amount if it has to come out of Federal non-discrentionary spending. ![]() There is undoubtedly an urban-rural divide though: ![]()
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nucleicmaxid posted:No, I doubt we're all that close politically. You are a jingoistic sociopath, willing to write off several million people because of their history, while ignoring a similar but distinct history of racism, segregation, and violence in your own area. I actively dislike people who react the way that you do to things, without ever even attempting to understand why they are the way they are, especially when they call for literal massacres of people that disagree with them even slightly about things. The point of my whole post, which you seem to have ignored in your masturbatory fantasy of wiping out several million people for disagreeing with you, was that the South is actively changing, and the fastest way to see that change come to fruition is to stop being a reactionary sack of poo poo, and start understanding the root causes of the parts you dislike, so that they can be addressed and changed. Southern culture has its issues, but so does Northern culture, Western culture, and Northwestern culture. None of them are perfect. I'm a jingoistic sociopath because I want the worst part of our country to get its poo poo together rather than celebrate its shittiness? I'm interested to see where I"m calling for massacres too. Sherman's march to the sea wasn't a massacre. He gave strict orders to assist the poor folks in the region while beating the crud out of the wealthy land owners that actively opposed the North. He was basically doing militarily what I am advocating through social and legal means. How is this a massacre or genocide? I also think I've demonstrated that the cultural, social, and economic issues with the South go way deeper than anything you're accusing me of. Look at my first post in this thread. I'm upset that you think a thread getting thrown into FYAD because you get you complained to the mods about the precious South is somehow a justification that you're correct or that I'm somehow incorrect. The data doesn't lie. The South has a serious problem with sustainability without a poor underclass to feed them cheap/free labor. Ever since the slaves were removed, the South has been belligerent towards the government upon which it requires to sustain itself. As far as the Sherman thing, I'm not 100% convinced it would be a bad idea to redistribute all of the accumulated wealth from the White folk in the South in the form of taxes and infrastructure spending. An economic and social Shermans march if you will. Socialism would do a helluva lot of good for that region.
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computer parts posted:There is undoubtedly an urban-rural divide though Absolutely. That is more my general impression when looking at that chart. "People live here and have been living here for a while."
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Jastiger posted:The South has a serious problem with sustainability without a poor underclass to feed them cheap/free labor. You're talking about the entire first world.
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Jastiger posted:I'm a jingoistic sociopath because I want the worst part of our country to get its poo poo together rather than celebrate its shittiness? I'm interested to see where I"m calling for massacres too. Sherman's march to the sea wasn't a massacre. He gave strict orders to assist the poor folks in the region while beating the crud out of the wealthy land owners that actively opposed the North. He was basically doing militarily what I am advocating through social and legal means. How is this a massacre or genocide? Jesus christ your posts are pure ignorant condescension and arrogance. gently caress off. edit: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3634599&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=23 Sheng-Ji Yang fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Jul 7, 2014 |
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Jastiger posted:The South has a serious problem with sustainability without a poor underclass to feed them cheap/free labor. Ever since the slaves were removed, the South has been belligerent towards the government upon which it requires to sustain itself. I think you mean America in general. The South already has a poor underclass, that is why we are poaching all of your jobs. You're also mapping a current unpopular set of cultural attitudes for the South as a whole across a century and a half, which is a little brash. Rural Southerners loved the poo poo out of the New Deal/TVA, for example. boner confessor fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Jul 7, 2014 |
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Kiwi Ghost Chips posted:You're talking about the entire first world. Popular Thug Drink posted:I think you mean America in general. The South already has a poor underclass, that is why we are poaching all of your jobs. Fair enough quote:You're also mapping a current unpopular set of cultural attitudes for the South as a whole across a century and a half, which is a little brash. Rural Southerners loved the poo poo out of the New Deal/TVA, for example. Yeah Rural Southerners did! They should! Hells yes! Then......why are they sending people that want to gut those things to office again and again? Tribal identity politics:( Sheng-ji Yang posted:Jesus christ your posts are pure ignorant condescension and arrogance. gently caress off. Thanks for your great contribution.
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Jastiger posted:Yeah Rural Southerners did! They should! Hells yes! Then......why are they sending people that want to gut those things to office again and again? I'm talking about what you said, which is that Southerners have been hostile to the Federal government for 150 years. Citing things from the last decade isn't very convincing that your general statement is accurate. Basically I just don't see why I should take your proud crowing about socialism seriously when it seems like you just want to use it as a platform to attack some caricature version of the South.
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Popular Thug Drink posted:I'm talking about what you said, which is that Southerners have been hostile to the Federal government for 150 years. Citing things from the last decade isn't very convincing that your general statement is accurate. Basically, Jastiger and the Tea Party are ideologically similar. They both take something that is strange to them, Otherize it, and ignore evidence that runs contrary to their point of view. The very bigots he despises are his intellectual equals, as neither of them is at all capable of rational thought when their favorite thing to hate pops up. He's really barely even worth engaging. (Also, Jastiger, I didn't report your thread, I think you tried to accuse me of that, I just called you out for being an ignorant shitstain. Which you are. You then got your entire thread thrown into FYAD and beecocked while you whined and begged for it to get put back into PYF.)
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Popular Thug Drink posted:I'm talking about what you said, which is that Southerners have been hostile to the Federal government for 150 years. Citing things from the last decade isn't very convincing that your general statement is accurate. How is it a caricature when its the Southern voting bloc that is advocating for the dismantling of government programs? I'm not saying every Southerner is somehow in lock step with this idea, I'm saying that politically (because wealth and political capital is and has been concentrated in few hands), the South as a region has been belligerent. It isn't Washington that is trying to repeal the EPA or defund Planned Parenthood. Its Mississippi that only in the last few years recognized the 13th amendment. I mean the region seceded over the power of the federal government. I'd say it was VERY belligerent to the federal government and that sentiment hasn't completely gone away, especially due to the things I posted up on page 2 or whatever and others have echoed.
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You're... not really reading what I'm writing. I'm not asking you to change this thread so I can participate in it, I'm just asking what is the purpose of a circular South bashing thread? I'm not the only one who has noticed that you're fixated on the South as this font of problems, which I think is more of a personal beef than anything else given how you're seemingly ignoring anything that doesn't fit into your narrative. I mean have fun but it seems pointless.
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Jastiger posted:A bunch of idiotic Others have actually, repeatedly, pointed out other areas where this is the case, and made it very clear with evidence and examples that it is actually a rural/urban divide exacerbated by massive wealth disparity, far more so than it is a regional divide. But hey, keep on thinking exactly like Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz, it's been working out for you beautifully so far. You're certainly coming out on top in this argument, and you appear fully rational right now. vvv Adorable attempt. vvv
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nucleicmaxid posted:Basically, Jastiger and the Tea Party are ideologically similar. They both take something that is strange to them, Otherize it, and ignore evidence that runs contrary to their point of view. The very bigots he despises are his intellectual equals, as neither of them is at all capable of rational thought when their favorite thing to hate pops up. He's really barely even worth engaging. (Also, Jastiger, I didn't report your thread, I think you tried to accuse me of that, I just called you out for being an ignorant shitstain. Which you are. You then got your entire thread thrown into FYAD and beecocked while you whined and begged for it to get put back into PYF.) Sounds like somebody's mad the South is garbage.
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SedanChair posted:Sounds like somebody's mad the South is garbage. America is garbage, the South is just a safe punching bag for people who don't get out of the house much.
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Jastiger, you're focusing on "the South" as a problem instead of on certain attitudes. You're painting the South as a monolithic, unchanging bloc whose only hope is to be bulldozed and turned into another California. Southern progressives aren't going to listen to or agree with you because you're reducing southern culture to classism, racism, and entrenched elites. There's a lot more to us than that. We can fight for progress and remain southern, and gently caress you for insinuating that a millions-strong, beautiful and varied culture is objectively inferior to your own. Are there other cultures which you believe are just too broken to continue existing? Sounds a hell of a lot like the racist republican view of the Middle East. "Nope, impossible to fix. They're hosed unless they become us."
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"Those sugar water guzzling racist cocksuckers who probably couldn't force a coherent sentence out past their remaining tooth if somebody else wrote it down for them first are so intolerant, I wish somebody would just burn down all their houses"
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The entire country has huge problems with bigotry, but if a person begins to denigrate the white South there's hope for them.
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Goons hate sweet tea but continue to pour gallons of Mountain Dew down their throats. Coincidence?
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SedanChair posted:The entire country has huge problems with bigotry, but if a person begins to denigrate the white South there's hope for them. ...to continue perpetuating the same problems that make life worse for all of us? why yes i agree Edit: Basically you're saying people just need to refocus their bigotry in the correct directions?
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SedanChair posted:Sounds like somebody's mad the South is garbage. The South is just a slightly more rural, poorer and more conservative part of America. The South's problems are America's problems just a bit more magnetized and in your face. The most liberal and wealthiest parts of America still have overwhelming problems with racism, inequality, general bigotry and poverty. Pinning all that solely on the South as a scapegoat for America's problems is a waste of time. A thread actually about Southern politics would be cool, but instead any thread about the South inevitably becomes endless yankees trolling about a place they spent a weekend in once to visit their weird cousins and Southerners overreacting to defend their impuned Southern honor. It's like the civil war but a lot more boring.
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Noticing the most in-your-face and appalling forms of racism (which are found in the South) is the first step. It's like reading the unedited version of Black Boy. It was suitable for Richard Wright's white Northern publishers to cut out the last part of his book, where he traveled north and found more insidious forms of racism. But you can't get to the insidiousness without confronting the overt culture of poison and hatred that is the white South.
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Also let's just pretend that conservative black southerners don't exist.
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Popular Thug Drink posted:Also let's just pretend that conservative black southerners don't exist. Name seven.
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