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re: Let's get one thing straight regarding this confederate flag brouhaha
Posted on 7/10/15 at 10:16 am to TbirdSpur2010
Posted on 7/10/15 at 10:16 am to TbirdSpur2010
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it's been a hot one lugging shite all over the supply yard.
Yep and it ain't even got hot yet. Remember you ain't up there in the cold north anymore and we are only just now warming up
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 10:26 am to TbirdSpur2010
I would up vote this ten times if I could..
I've been reading your posts on this subject lately and you're quickly becoming my favorite Ag..
I've been reading your posts on this subject lately and you're quickly becoming my favorite Ag..
Posted on 7/10/15 at 11:05 am to Agforlife
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it ain't even got hot yet. Remember you ain't up there in the cold north anymore and we are only just now warming up
You ain't lyin'
I mean, we haven't even hit triple digits down here yet since I've been here. I'm amazed t how fast I got re-acclimated to the heat, though. Sweating buckets (I always do
), but I feel fine. Definitely built more for the heat than the cold. quote:
DorchesterGamecock
Now see here, guy, don't start down the primrose path of liking Aggies. We s'pose t'be rivals, goddammit!
Posted on 7/10/15 at 11:42 am to the808bass
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But truth is truth. And it's powerful.
You don't lose anything by pointing out truth. Even if it agrees with your ideological opponent in that moment
Amen. If it's the right thing to do then you don't oppose it simply because a group you distrust had the idea. The right thing is the right thing. You stand on principles, then strongly oppose the group you disagree with when they take it too far.
Posted on 7/10/15 at 12:09 pm to TbirdSpur2010
I agree. The flag has no place on government buildings.
I also find it extremely distasteful that people are even talking about digging up graves and tearing down monuments.
People today don't understand how torn the country was after the war. There is a reason that there were so many bases, streets, monuments, etc named after confederates, when it would have been easy to ban it. There was intense hatred of the federal government and the north for decades, and one of the ways that frustration could be vented was through remembrance. It's the same reason we are now friends with Germany and japan after we crapped all over them. There are monuments to Japanese and German soldiers all over the world, because allowing peoples to honor their dead is important for reconciliation.
I also find it extremely distasteful that people are even talking about digging up graves and tearing down monuments.
People today don't understand how torn the country was after the war. There is a reason that there were so many bases, streets, monuments, etc named after confederates, when it would have been easy to ban it. There was intense hatred of the federal government and the north for decades, and one of the ways that frustration could be vented was through remembrance. It's the same reason we are now friends with Germany and japan after we crapped all over them. There are monuments to Japanese and German soldiers all over the world, because allowing peoples to honor their dead is important for reconciliation.
Posted on 7/10/15 at 12:09 pm to Agforlife
Frick, I got 3 down votes
What the heck is that about? Obviously some new OT'ers didn't get the joke
What the heck is that about? Obviously some new OT'ers didn't get the joke
Posted on 7/10/15 at 12:21 pm to TbirdSpur2010
That's a good point. My feeling are indifferent. I care for the confederate flag about as much as I care about the French, Spanish, or British flags. They all ruled my state at some point, but I am an American. The rest of those countries can frick off.
However I do not like the memorial removals and the discussion of digging up graves and relocating them like they are doing in Memphis regarding NB Forrest.
Give me a break. We need the monuments to remind us of the stupid mistakes we have made in the past, so hopefully we wont make them again.
However I do not like the memorial removals and the discussion of digging up graves and relocating them like they are doing in Memphis regarding NB Forrest.
Give me a break. We need the monuments to remind us of the stupid mistakes we have made in the past, so hopefully we wont make them again.
Posted on 7/10/15 at 12:22 pm to Old Sarge
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Frick, I got 3 down votes
What the heck is that about? Obviously some new OT'ers didn't get the joke
Yeah they just don't know is all I can figure
Posted on 7/10/15 at 12:30 pm to TbirdSpur2010
Did we really need yet another thread of this? 
Especially since everyone knows your opinion already
Especially since everyone knows your opinion already
Posted on 7/10/15 at 12:39 pm to alphaandomega
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However I do not like the memorial removals and the discussion of digging up graves and relocating them like they are doing in Memphis regarding NB Forrest.
While I fully agree on the issue of memorials, the Forrest thing (even though inspired by the current PC mood) doesn't quite rise to the same level. He wasn't originally buried where he lies now. They dug him up almost 30 years after his death and relocated him to the current location. I really can't find the outrage if they just move him back to the original spot.
Posted on 7/10/15 at 12:47 pm to Old Sarge
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Frick, I got 3 down votes
What the heck is that about? Obviously some new OT'ers didn't get the joke
It's all the rednecks sad that their precious flag is came down today.
Of course since there are only like 10 gamecock posters and maybe 4 Clemson posters (along with me) I doubt any of them live in SC.
Posted on 7/10/15 at 12:52 pm to Carolina Tide
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Carolina Tide
Not as tasty as
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amirite?
Posted on 7/10/15 at 12:56 pm to cokebottleag
Everyone has different taste.
Posted on 7/10/15 at 1:02 pm to Cockopotamus
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Did we really need yet another thread of this?
Especially since everyone knows your opinion alread
First thread I've made on the subject, and I was discussing a different angle.
You don't have to like it, but you will mf'n deal with it
This post was edited on 7/10/15 at 1:06 pm
Posted on 7/10/15 at 1:03 pm to Cockopotamus
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Did we really need yet another thread of this?
Especially since everyone knows your opinion already
Kind of an odd thing to say given how much you've stressed free speech and all that.
Posted on 7/10/15 at 1:06 pm to CNB
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Kind of an odd thing to say given how much you've stressed free speech and all that.
I wasn't the idiot that said taking the flag down violated the first amendment in the last thread
Posted on 7/10/15 at 1:12 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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First thread I've made on the subject, and I was discussing a different angle.
Just because its the first thread you've started doesn't mean there hasn't been enough already.
And I'm curious what lazy partisan arguments you have seen. I can't even think how the flag is a partisan issue unless you want to count the SJWs and PC clowns as Democrat partisans.
But even most of the Republicans in SC's legislature are PC clowns so calling that a lazy partisan argument is tenuous at best
Posted on 7/10/15 at 1:16 pm to Cockopotamus
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But even most of the Republicans in SC's legislature are PC clowns so calling that a lazy partisan argument is tenuous at best
So the only true republicans are the ones who don't listen to their constituents? I guess you think that the 3 Repubs in the Senate and the 20 in the House who voted to keep the flag are the only ones in Columbia with a brain, huh?
Posted on 7/10/15 at 1:28 pm to Carolina Tide
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So the only true republicans are the ones who don't listen to their constituents?
How do you know what their constituents wanted?
I guarantee if this was a legislative referendum the flag wouldn't have been moved
Posted on 7/10/15 at 1:43 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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I'm as GOP as they come,
wtf
That explains the love for NASCAR. J/k 
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