Current Protests

[Mike M (the other one)]

(11-11-2016, 02:12 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: No problem with protests, heck, protests are great... but when they start burning things, destroying things, and shoving dumpsters onto train tracks to stop trains? It's obviously no longer okay.

Also, I feel like anyone who intentionally plans to block traffic on highways, bridges, or extremely busy roads, have a special place in hell reserved for them. Honestly, blocking roads/bridges like that is exactly the opposite of getting people to empathize with your message. You could be protesting against cloning a new Hitler, but if you're making people late for work or keeping them from being able to get home, your message no longer matters. All people know is you're detaining them, and they now hate you. It hurts your cause.


Also... I know it's legal, but I just can't get behind flag burning.

Kinda like when trying to reason with people and they keep calling you a racist, bigot, xenophobe, homophobe etc.
After a while, I am no listening to anything you have to say anymore whether it's true or not, because you've already pissed me off to the point where I have shut you out. This is exactly what this past election was about and why there was a silent majority.

We've seen this time and time again right here on the boards when people argue about different issues. There is no rationalizing with them.

With that said, I read that Trump has stated that he's not going to roll back the gains that the LGBT community has made.
It was decided by the SCOTUS and that's final as far as he's concerned. I tried to tell people he is not going to take the gains of the social issues away, fear/rhetoric on the Left.
He's also going to keep parts of the ACA, duh, there is some good things in it.
And I'm pretty happy about him wanted a Nationwide CC law so that no matter what state you are in, you're covered. I don't even care much for guns, but I know this is a serious pain for people that travel.