February 27 [snowboarding]
February 27
For as much as she likes to sleep in during the week, when there's something fun planned Peggy can get up early. She was getting dressed when I woke up, and I'm usually up well before she is.
I got out of bed as she was pulling on her UCCS sweatshirt, and she told me that she'd already started Cobalt so it could warm up and melt the snow off.
It didn't take me nearly as long to get ready as it took Peggy, plus she added a bunch more clothes to take with her to put on when she got there. I got out my scarf and hat—which I haven't worn yet this year—in case it was really cold up there.
She said that we could get breakfast on the way if I didn't mind fast food. I didn't mind; I was eager to get going.
We made one stop at a restaurant called Tim Horton's. I had a blueberry muffin and a B.E.L.T. without the bacon, so I guess that makes it an E.L.T. And they had really good coffee: I'm not normally a coffee drinker, but Peggy insisted that I try some. It was rich and buttery, and went very well with my food.
The ski resort wasn't as far as I thought it was, and we got there just as the sun was coming up. I'd expected a big mountain, but it wasn't much more than a tall hill. Peggy said that that's all there was in Michigan, unfortunately. This one was called Bittersweet and Peggy said that it was one of the best that was close to campus. She told me that if we had fun here, we could go to one that was better but further away next weekend.
She got the rest of the way dressed behind Cobalt, and took our snowboards out of the car. Hers had little binders that her boots hooked into; since I didn't have any of the special boots, I was going to ride it barehoof. Peggy thought that would work; she said it would be just like surfing, and then said that if it did work we could call it snowsurfboarding.
The man at the ticket window was really confused about why I wanted a ticket, and I said that I was going snowboarding with Peggy. She'd modified one of her boards so that I could use it, and I was really looking forward to trying it out.
He was dubious, but finally accepted Peggy's money and gave us each a waiver to sign that (Peggy said) meant if we got hurt, it was our fault not theirs.
She thought that we ought to start off with something simple to make sure that I could ride the board. There were several lifts that carried people up to the top of the hill, which seemed easy enough for people to use but a bit more complicated for me. We decided that she could ride the lift up with our snowboards and I would just fly alongside.
That got a lot of attention, more than I would have liked. I guess nobody here had ever seen a pegasus flying next to a chair lift.
When we got to the top, Peggy walked out of the way and to the start of the route, strapped on her snowboard and set mine down next to her—not so close that we would crash into each other.
She gave me a quick run-through of how the snowboard worked, and reminded me that if things were going out of control I could just fly to safety and we'd get the board back later. She also told me that she'd probably wind up doing things that I couldn't, because the board was fastened to her feet, but mine wouldn't be attached to my hooves.
I was super-excited to try it, so I got going like Peggy told me to and pretty soon I was rushing down the hill, tilting side to side experimentally to steer the board. Broad turns were okay, but when I tried to turn farther, I felt myself slipping off the board and had to hold out my wings to help me follow the same line the board wanted to take.
I made it partway down before the snowboard's bow got caught in snow and skidded me off its front. Luckily, my wings were out, so there was no harm done: I just skimmed above the snowpack for a few meters before I thought to stop.
Peggy came up right next to me to make sure I was okay, and I retrieved my stuck board and finished my trip down the hill, only falling off four more times.
We made a dozen or so more trips down that hill until I'd figured out more or less how the snowboard ought to work with me on it. The trickiest challenge was keeping it underhoof: whenever I did anything too abrupt, the snowboard would want to go one way even if I wanted to go a different way.
When we were both sure I had a good idea of the basics and how to avoid a bad crash, Peggy asked me if I wanted to move on to something a little more challenging. I knew that I was holding her back, so I said that I did. I thought I was ready to handle any trail.
This time, Peggy took a different chair lift, and since I'd figured out how to steer the board, we took a curvier trail down. I only lost the board once on a turn.
I could tell that Peggy was having a lot of fun and so was I. It was nice to be outside instead of cooped up inside the buildings on campus.
We stayed on that hill until it was lunchtime. Their main building which is called a lodge had a restaurant inside of it, which was about the same as the Quad Stop had been. There wasn't a whole lot that Peggy said I could or should eat, so I had a basket of fries and a fish sandwich which I didn't finish because it was disgusting. Whatever kind of fish that was ought to be ashamed.
We also had hot chocolate, and that was really good. At least they know how to make proper hot chocolate.
Throughout the afternoon we moved on to more challenging trails. I'd gotten good enough that I almost always made it to the bottom without falling off my snowboard. Peggy started to leave me on my own a little bit, letting me get a head start down the trail and then catching up about midway down.
It was getting crowded and I had to be more careful not to run into anybody. Peggy and I had started to get a bit of a following; other skiers and snowboarders were clustering around us on the trail. There were a couple of men who were showing off in front of Peggy, trying to get her attention, like when a stallion puffs himself up and does acrobatics so that you'll notice him. Some of them were doing it to me, too, cutting really close and once one of them made me almost crash.
I'd started to get a bit tired from all the balancing I was doing, and had been riding the chair up with Peggy (it actually wasn't that difficult if I flew into it) and she thought that we could mess with them a little bit. She said that there was a little hummock about halfway down and I could bury the nose of my snowboard in it and then fly off the rest of the way down the hill. She said she'd stay behind and pick up the board.
That sounded like it would be fun, so I did it like she said. A bunch of the men were still trailing behind me (they liked to pass me just beyond that little hump) and when I was almost there, I shifted my weight forward to drop the bow of the board and spread my wings.
It worked just like Peggy had hoped. The board dug itself into the snow and I gave one pump as I felt my hooves skid, then I was soaring above the trail. I heard a couple of them gasping in surprise.
I was feeling a bit showoff-y, and I dropped down and followed the path as if I were still on the snowboard, but of course I didn't have to worry about keeping it underhoof. The open air is nice because you can fly wherever you want to, but sometimes it's really fun to follow a path down a mountainside and dodge around trees and rocks and stuff. Obstacle courses in the sky aren't quite as thrilling because there's no penalty for getting it wrong.
One of them did manage to keep up with me and I considered pulling up sharply but that wouldn't have been sporting. We raced together to the bottom of the hill, and when we broke into the flat area at the end I tilted my body back and braked, while he spun his board sideways and dug it into the snow.
He lifted his goggles up so he could see me better and I flew right up to him, and we just stayed there studying each other for a moment, then he held out his fist and told me that I had good moves.
I bumped him lightly with my hoof and said that he did as well.
Peggy arrived and made a little half-circle around him, all while holding on to my snowboard. She kinda studied him and looked down at the tags hanging from his jacket, then tilted her head towards the chairlift.
While we were riding back up she said that if I didn't mind, she was going to try a few quick runs down the hill. I could follow if I wanted to, or I could hang out at the top and watch.
I asked her if I could follow along in the air, and she said that would be okay, but wasn't sure where I could leave the snowboard because if I left it on the hill, someone would steal it.
I had the perfect solution to that; I stashed it up in a tree, making sure that it was firmly wedged in the branches. Nobody could get to it up there, I was sure.
Peggy said that I was like a leopard dragging home my kill. I stuck my tongue out at her.
I had been right that I was holding her back. She zipped down the hill in no time at all, effortlessly darting across the trail and around slower people. She was as graceful as any pegasus in flight, leaning and twisting her body and using the snowboard like it was part of her own body. She was easily one of the best snowboarders I'd seen all day.
Her little troop of followers tried to emulate her, but most of them weren't good enough. The guy I'd met at the bottom of the hill kept up, and a couple of others did, but most of them were left far behind.
We met up down at the bottom and she rode the lift up to try again. I noticed that she was waiting until the little group that had been following us was at the top and in position before she headed down the hill. That worked out well for me; it gave me time to get up in the air so I could follow her course.
After a half-dozen runs, she said that we ought to have some dinner, and then she was going to play on the black diamond trail for a little bit. I got my snowboard back out of the tree and we both went down the trail together.
We got our food (I just had fries) and sat down at a table, and I noticed a couple of the boys who had been showing off around us sat at the next table. They stayed there, just watching us and talking quietly among themselves. I thought one of them was going to come over, but he was just getting a new drink and our table was between him and the pop machine.
It was getting dark when we went back outside, but just like the roads in town, the trails were lighted and it was easy to see.
Peggy and I took different trails for a while: the black diamond trail that she wanted to go down was probably too advanced for me. I thought I could probably do it, but I didn't want to hold her up rescuing me or my snowboard, so I stuck with the easier course that I knew and let her have her fun on the complicated one. Each time we'd meet up at the bottom and go take the chairlift back up again.
We stayed until the resort closed for the night. I was exhausted, and I think Peggy was, too. She stripped off her over-pants and coat and put them and the snowboards back in the trunk, and we drove home.
Back in the dorm, we each had a beer to celebrate a good Saturday, and I said that if we stayed up much later we'd be toasting a good Sunday.
Neither of us had the energy to shower. Peggy said that she was going to do laundry tomorrow anyway, and changed into her sleeping clothes. I thought that was a pretty good excuse, and so I said I would do my laundry tomorrow as well.
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Yay for good sportsmanship!
... or sportsmareship I guess....
If she could hook herself the board properly, it would make for some insane moves!
Those tickets are for using the lifts. The mountain or hill in this case is almost always government property and is free to use. Silver just bought a ticket she didn't need.
I think a board with a more aggressive upward curve combined with a downward force from Silver's wings would be the best bet. Also add some of the coarse sandpaper traction tape would help. I do no think that Silver wears horseshoes but I bet a cobbler or farrier could make something up that could attach to a custom binding solution. But that is for in the future when there is more visas given out to equestrians.
I like the part where Silver thought the fish should be ashamed for itself for not being tasty.
7152591 Yes, I meant instead of couches.
7152650
Until she have a way to carry the board to the top by herself, she kinda needs it.
Or maybe Boots with good straps could do the job?
7152666 A cobbler is a person who makes shoes or boots.
7152680 From the way ou presented thing, I assumed you were still talking about making custom horseshoes that could be fixed to the board.
Oh, that poor fish. It dies for her meal, and then Silver thinks it should feel ashamed?
7152563 Now that's lucky.
7152686 Naw that is a good way to twist and break ankles. You cant have them fixed on the board, you have to have a way for them to pop off. What I was thinking was boots or horseshoes that have the catches built into the side like normal snowboarding boots. It would be a matter of a slot built into the metal horseshoe's side or it could be built into a normal type of boot that is fitted to Silver.
farriers are people who shoe horses. :)
7152757
Hmm, well, maybe a pony leg could endure it, but let's not take that risk shall we?
When she stashed her board in the tree, I thought 'She's like a big cat.' And then Peggy expressed the same notion right after.
Hey look, Timmies!
Do you have roll up the rim in america?
I went skiing a long time ago. This really makes me want to try it again.
...But I think I'll probably have to go outside of Texas first.
What kind of fish has the audacity to not be delicious, what's the world coming to? Next thing you know, there'll be humans and ponies living together!
Shout out to Tim's! They didn't buy a box of Timbits to share on the drive? Peggy, you know better than that.
7152591 unfortunately I had to back out of all my extracurriculars that were getting me project experience. Although I do have a project that's getting me some good experience right now.
I tried snowboarding twice when I was a kid, but I couldn't really get into it. I think i'd like it more as an adult though.
7152633
magnets and horseshoes, magnets and horesshoes !
7152757
that to maybe, to get the force transferred to the board
7152649
... I'm not sure whether to laugh at you or feel disappointed that you're going so far as to say "AH HA! You have shown your true colors you Alt-Right racist! I have exposed you for the bigot that you are!" Goddamn, this is just pathetic. Your own biases are blinding you to even some evidence and arguments that you could consider might be true, but you go straight to the accusatory and shaming language instead and dismiss everything else. That shit's not going to work on me.
And you never gave an example of why it is a Neo-Nazi youtube channel, never acknowledge the evidence within the videos, and just go straight to dismissing it all because you accuse the channel owner. You have no credibility on your own to fight with.
Even if you did, even racists can be right with bringing facts up. For example, the fact that black people are very roughly ~13-14% of the population, but still do a very disproportionately high amount of crime in the U.S. A racist would take that and say that it's evidence of black people's inferiority
A more logical and evidence based approach will show that it's contributed a lot by children having no fathers and low marriage rates. Children growing up in broken homes tend to do worse in everything and married biological parents helps a child grow up much better. The logical deduction is that it's a failing within communities where black people live (as well as among hispanics) that healthy relationships with a spouse, a child, and to maintain a home to be raised in aren't promoted as well as it should be. It's the most noticeable and easily fixable way of solving violence here in America, especially among the black population.
And liberal teachers, television, and youtubers can't indoctrinate, lie, or shame people either?
"See! See! Illuminati confirmed!"
You have so misrepresented the idea of what I said with your accusation, you're probably doing this on purpose now to try and straw man me. I'm against the idea of "Whiteness" in the link that white people have systematic superiority in America today. I have never denied that there has or still currently exist a tiny subculture of supremacist movements, white or otherwise, in America today or historically. The concept of what "Whiteness" is from the original link, is a bigoted screed against people of white skin color by painting an entire demographic as having supremacist beliefs or oppresses people of non-white descent.
And there's another thing. You using "Alt-Right" or "Right Wing" as a slur and straw man is evidence of your own bigotry and intolerance to other ideas and opinions. The slur as you put it for "Alt\Right Wing" is usually a catch all, thought-terminating device where you're trying to paint another person as possibly an intolerant, racist, old world, 1950's, super masculine, very religious Christian, Right Wing stereotype to try and dismiss another person. You're a shitty arguer if you use that tactic against other people.
Also, I really don't know a whole lot about the "Alt-Right" in America, except that they're not like the typical Republican political party and leans more towards fascism. They remind me more of Progressives and Social Justice Warriors, except coming from a Right wing perspective. Two sides of the racist coin.
There is no real political binary either. No one is on literal agreement with everything within politics by a binary. There will be so many little divisions, cliques, and ideas about doing things, it's impossible to use a single slogan or term to define someone.
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I know I'm a person who's beliefs are to the Left-of-Center and Libertarian (roughly the Green party on that political compass), but I don't care about belonging to any group or identifying as anything. My beliefs are my own, not a Party's.
So white people, who could and can discuss the issues of white supremacy, can't have an argument that white people can be discriminated against as well?
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Holy shit, I've seen some logical fuck ups before, but that one is a doozy. You really do believe that white people are the almighty oppressors, don't you?
Psychological projection, thy name is KB_BOY.
I'm just imagining some guy racing downhill following Silver's path as closely as he can, matching her move for move, when she suddenly whips straight up into the air...
Not sporting, but definitely hilarious.
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How do they hold the can?
7152924
7152650 I'm pretty sure that fish should be proud. After all, it made it so it's kin are less likely to be hunted down since there's at least one less carnivore wanting to eat it.
7153020
Then you are wrong. The systematic superiority is easily observed, be that in how unarmed blacks are shot to death by police very regularly, while armed to the teeth killing spree whites are arrested unharmed, or in how the electoral system is gerrymandered to split (traditionally dem-leaning) black neighbourhoods across multiple white-supermajority voting districts, or even in how every time I visit affluent regions of the US such as Los Angeles, I get to see race and class so solidly joined at the hip that there appears to have been absolutely zero progress in the past fifty years. Putting aside the LA tradition of latinos being a servant caste for wealthy whites, there's also clear systematic white supremacy even in how public services are operated and even financed - Black ghetto schools are chronically underfunded, and the concept of a "black ghetto school" only still exists because the educational system is more segregated now than it has been in decades.
You deny this widely known, heavily documented reality.
You push the idea that "anti-whiteness" is a real thing, based purely on a fascist's youtube compilation of entirely mundane university sociology videos. And yes, he is a fascist, it takes all of thirty seconds to check his social circle online and witness the sheer amount of religious extremists, nationalists, and (surprise) trump supporters in it, often all three will be the same person.
You are advocating a far right conspiracy theory. With your oxymoronic claim of being "Left-of-Center and Libertarian" (hint: Left of center would be Social-Democracy, which is incredibly different from libertarianism. Libertarianism is a highly right wing ideology, it's key thinkers are people like Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman, and it's entirely incompatible with the ideology of the Green Party), you've shown yourself as being inept when it comes to this kind of propaganda work. You don't understand the ideologies you claim to be sympathetic to, or their opponents, and can't spot the contradictions.
Your beliefs do not stand up against evidence. You are not knowledgeable about politics or race relations. As I've already discussed, you make the mistake of claiming certain ideologies as your own despite them being contradictory with both each other and the actual things you say.
You don't even know how to hold a consistent position for the duration of a single argument, or how to moderate that position to best appeal to a given audience.
(seriously. "Why would it matter if my source was put together by a Nazi?" is not something that will get you on people's good side. Most people, believe it or not, don't like Nazis.)
The only thing you have is a kneejerk hatred of whoever's been called an "SJW" this week for daring to reflect on race, class or gender relations in North America in a way that doesn't pat white guys on the back, and for that you're no different than any one of a hundred rando rightist psuedo-intellectuals. This is why you've lost on the first move.
7153081
Much to everyone's surprise, that human zips right up into the air beside Silver.
"Wha...? How?! Humans can't fly!"
"Simple. I aimed at the ground and missed!"
7153281 lol. Funniest books ever written! :D
7153360
Not if you took a larger regular cloud and did some homebrew saturation.
I'll... just see myself out now.
7153360
Apparently 4, 5, 2, 3, 6 can evoke a deeper emotional reaction than either of those more obvious orders. (1 is left out on purpose
). It's called the hatchet order if I recall correctly. I've never tried it myself but I could see it working. It's like 2 and 3 are flashbacks of the revelation of who Vader is. And then to see the redemption immediately after the fall can apparently be very powerful.
7153402 Kinda funny that people like to say it is fact when in the last 15 years there has been no jump in the average global temperature. In science everything is a theory, the only absolutes is math. Thirty years ago every scientist KNEW that the earth was going towards a mini ice age.
Global warming/ climate change is such a heavy politicized science that there is a lot of squawking and unbiased information is buried in the noise. Yes CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but there is a molecule that is 60x more effective and that molecule is called water.
7152633
Yeah, she could. They might have to invest in some sort of binding if they want to go snowboarding again.
7152650
I'm not sure if that's the case at Bittersweet or not.
No, she doesn't wear shoes. However, there might be a way to get boots to fit her. Figuring out how to rig four mounts on a snowboard instead of just two would be a challenge.
7152653
I'll change that. It's a good suggestion.
7152696
Well it should have been tastier. (Actually, it's not really the poor fish's fault. It was frozen and made into a fish patty and battered and deep-fried, so of course it tastes bad.)
7153360
And on the other end of the scale, the awful absurdity of World War I...
Not a bad choice, but if I was to introduce her to Miyazaki's work, I'd go for Nausicaä, the re-release, not the butchered 1985 version.
7153482 Close enough, it is called "machette order"
I went skiing at Swiss Valley once. Not to knock Michigan, but it's just not the same as mountains.
7153521 Water vapor (H2O) is actually the weaker greenhouse gas. Mainly beacause any excess in the athmosphere usually come down in less then 2 weeks.
And it also the only that human industry is producing in quantity.
7152711
It is. There used to be a very good German restaurant, too, but it closed down before I moved here.
7152811
Pegasi are very much like cats.
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7152899
Apparently; I just looked that up and they had the rules in English, French, and American.
7152911
Doo eet. I actually haven't been skiing in over two decades. And that wasn't downhill, it was cross country.
7152924
Fish these days . . . . Silver ought to try Goldfish crackers, the snack that smiles back.
7152954
We Americans haven't figured out how Tim Hortons works.
7152968
I've never tried it. Maybe some day. . . .
7153360
Excellent choice. That or Spirited Away.
7152971
Actually, that might work. She could strap magnets to her hooves and have metal plates on the board. If they were 'tuned' just right, they couldn't hold her on well enough that she'd break a leg, but she could keep the board with her.
7153081
And then he tries to follow her . . . she'd have a lot of fun on a jump; even if she didn't flap her wings she could get major air.
7153213
Hold in the crook of a hoof.
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Or two-hooved if she's not as coordinated as Berry Punch.
7153225
That fish would have tasted better if it hadn't been breaded, battered, cooked, and then served on a bun.
7153438
Yeah, but you'd need a lot. Either a whole team of ponies, or one who's been saving it up for a long time.
7153543
That might not be a bad choice, either. Although I think Castle in the Sky has more flying in it.
7153558
No, it isn't. Peggy knows the difference, too; she's from Colorado.
7153608 Hard to tell. If you count all the time in the castle itself, then I guess that yes, there is more fyling, Although the acrobatic scenes with the glider and such are more impressive then the scene on board a flying engine but without the feeling of movement like in Castle in the Sky.
And if flying is the criterion, I'd go with either Porco Rosso (with the added plus of staring a non-human) or maybe the heavier but beautiful The Wind Rises.
My little brother is studying to go into film animation, so I sat with him trough a few visioning of every Ghibili film, at least once and analysed them all, or rather listened to his analysis.
7153686
Surprisingly, I hadn't even heard of Firefly until just last year.
It's a great point, and I considered even phrasing that comment "she finds the one[/] person on campus who watches Stargate"
7152563
Yes, quite, I'm an irresponsible adult, so I'm basically tanking a University education (it's ok, uni is cheap around here)
7153686
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This must change.
7153546
Noted.
I thought hatchet sounded a bit off.
7154025 I kinda like the sound of "Hatchet", despite how silly it is
7153265
Looking over your post, it mostly says that you ignored listening to the reasons and evidence behind what I'm saying, continue to accuse and shame me for what I think and believe in, and constantly make assertions that I'm some kind of "Far Right" idiot bigot in order to bolster your argument.
You're not here to try to change my mind, give me facts, or try to reason with me. Forderz at least had the tenacity to see his argument through in a reasonable light, even if he seems like the type who uses overly flamboyant language. That guy has my respect. You're here to try to tilt at windmills of anything that isn't 100% in agreement with you and double down on your own rhetoric when something tries to challenge you. Really, read back your posts and tell me that there's something there that will even try to convince me or anybody else of your side.
You're assuming that black people are unarmed at all times and get shot by the cops a lot for no reason, and white people just go around with knives and Glocks in their pockets all the time doing whatever and just go to jail. This is such a logical fallacy, I'm not sure if you're either being incredibly stupid or trolling now.
And really, cops don't use excessive force and shoot white people either?
There is no systematic oppression of black people. Gerrymandering happens when political parties rig elections to make sure their side wins. It's caused by the political party that is in the state legislature who draw the boundaries, and people clustered in an area with similar minded people. It's the consequence of a flawed system that hasn't been patched to fix such an exploit.
And you saying that white people only vote Republican and almost never Democrat shows more of your idiocy. Here's a hint: Barack Obama. Twice. In a 2/3 White majority country. I even voted for him twice.
What you see in Los Angeles does not represent the state of the rest of the country or even the city I live in. I have no clue what L.A. is like and don't have any interest in visiting there.
That's pretty racist calling Latino's a servant caste to wealthy white people, and if LA is like that, that town is pretty damn racist as well. I've got anecdotal evidence as well.
I live in East Tennessee. There are Mexican and Latino people here too. (Only thing I hate is when I'm at a job, the parents can't speak English, but they use their children to be the translator for them. Gets annoying sometimes.) I see them along with white and black people trying to make a living, especially when there's not too many major manufacturing jobs around. There's a lot of Indians (the Hindu kind, not the Natives) here too that are managers at gas stations. Plenty of black business owners as well. The lawn mowers for businesses and people on the rich side of town I see are all white people with pickup trucks and trailers attached to the back with gardening equipment and a riding mower. I used to work for an Asian woman around a decade ago for almost a year. She had a shipping company where she'd have everyone deliver Asian food in box trucks around the region. She was a bitch who would dock our bonus if we so much as accidentally break a carton of mushrooms. She wasn't adverse to hiring undocumented Latino immigrants either. Met a couple of gay guys here as well and they were pretty cool. A gay co-worker that quite a while back was pretty normal but was an obsessed Star Wars fan and wouldn't shut up about The Force Awakens. His more effeminate partner came by one day to adopt a kitten that was hanging around the trash bin. Sweet cat. I had to help an acquaintance of my mothers over the past week recently because my mothers friend was in an emotionally abusive relationship with her pill popping husband. Me and her gay son, great guy even if he has the lisp and is a bit effeminate as well, we had to move her stuff out of a trailer and into her sons condo by sun down. She was a hoarder, so it did take us multiple trips with a U-Haul and at least 10 hours in the sun. My neck was burnt red, but it was worth it.
So yeah, I've got experience with minorities here who weren't straight or white in my end of the woods and I don't see any systematic oppression.
Are you sure you're not just using the stereotype of a "black ghetto school" to bolster this argument instead of actually citing resources or statistics for such a claim?
Lets see, there's $621 billion in school spending from 2011-2012 or ~$12K/year per student. That's more than every nation on earth with teachers having pretty high salaries. I don't see how schools can be so "underfunded" by one of the richest countries on earth. Hell, it sounds like it's a myth.
More like logical fallacies, fear mongering, media spin, and rhetoric. I want to know the truth. Give me any evidence to go on. Please. Much of this might as well be horseshit for all I know with all your assertions.
Those "mundane university sociology videos" are the proof of this anti-white bigotry. And no, not "anti-whiteness". You're not going to try and slip that in to try and make me defend the concept of "whiteness" or try to say that I'm for that retarded concept.
Yet you keep on using this stupid fallacy that just because a source may or may not have an ideological bias, it's automatically wrong. Also, I did check the link on his About page and found this. https://twitter.com/LaughAtLibs I went through some people he's following and the only one I know that would be controversial is a somewhat famous anti-SJW youtuber named Sargon Of Akkad, a couple Republican and Conservatives, a ProLife profile, Tea Party, Rand Paul, Ron Paul, a couple district attorney, state representatives, some human rights activists. It seems like you're seriously trying to stretch in how much you're trying to slander people that don't agree with you by giving your opponents every negative label you can give.
And here's just ONE of the videos you didn't try to watch.
What she's saying is we're all automatically racist by nature (instead of saying Tribalist which is more accurate), but if we don't talk about race all the time, especially to children, they won't learn not to be racist. Instead we will be TEACHING children how to be racist by not talking about racism, especially if that child or family is white and has come from a U.S. or European background. (Love the comment: "So following this logic, if you don't talk about murder, then we are teaching children to be murderers.")
As if children need to be taught at a young age that they should see race in every person all the time, and not see another human being who deserves to judged based on the contents of their character. And then saying that it's something that white people indoctrinate each other in. This bitch talking is the one wanting to indoctrinate children on how to be racist. This is why I'm glad I never went to college to support this idiocy.
I did say in my previous post I don't belong in any group and go by my own ideas of how a government and society should be run. Since I don't belong to a group or party, I used this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_compass It's a vague direction of what part of the spectrum of politics that I fall on and Left-of-Center and Libertarian is what I got. I am not a social-democrat and never will be. I don't support social justice, nor do I want to transition from a capitalistic to a full socialist economy.
Each of these is pretty different from one another and have very distinct ideas in how a government or country should be run. Much better than other Authoritarian ideas, but I'll have to read through each of these in detail to get a firm grasp on their ideologies. There is some overlap, but Libertarianism is much more towards anti-big government\anarchy and other stuff that seems to be ascribed to hippie thought (just the 'concepts' on the right side says enough), while Republicanism is an idea that the government should be run like a republic. There's obviously a lot of baggage involved in these ideologies and is more like a spectrum, so it'll take time to study.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republicanism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republicanism_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
Unlike you who mainly uses assertions and no evidence to back it up, I'm still willing to learn and do research, like I just gave you.
Yes yes, everyone knows Nazi=Bad. I'm not advocating for them to make a come back or supporting their ideology either. You're still trying to straw man me in this argument.
Just gonna stop right here since the rest of your post is just an effort to try and shame me into silence and prop yourself up as a self righteous savior. You can't really have an argument since you didn't try to engage me personally without going into trying to do that and create straw men as well. This is what your own ideology blinds you towards. You give no evidence, a lot of assertions, and posturing just to say you're the only one who's right.
Hello again, psychological projection. You really love projecting your own hatred of white people and anyone not of your social justice club, don't ya?
Fish in the USA have to be frozen for 30 days (IIRC) for health reasons. As to produce, the stuff is picked & shipped green & force ripened. Tomatoes were bred to have a tough enough skin to be machine picked. Apples are bred to look red, NOT to taste good. In short, food in the USA is mass produced shlock (even leaving out geneering) I'd bet EQ produce is vine ripened & hoof picked, WAY better. Let's not even get into Wonder Bread vs real bread.
As to her comment that the folks in the lift cars hadn't seen a Pegasus fly... Yes, how can they compete w the wonder of cosmopolitan sophistication that is you, Silver Glow? To be fair, even some humans freak on their 1st plane flight. Still, things ponies do not seem to have that humans do (based on the show) include TV, radio, computers (& such subsidiary wonders as The Home Shopping Network) + microwave ovens.
My 2 cents on racism. I've noticed that white folks seem to think it is no longer a problem (though there are many isolated examples of it) & non whites tend to strongly disagree.
But, I do wonder about her reaction to talk shows, shock jocks, game shows, & reality TV.
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It's a damned shame Buck Hill was sold.
http://www.startribune.com/buck-hill-s-founding-family-sells-landmark-ski-facility/333203571/
So many memories.
Of course, it's always been a family fun place with easy runs. Even by fixed-heel can't-telemark pleb standards.
7153521 You seem to think "theory" means something like "conjecture". You are wrong.