How many of these issues concern you? Select all that apply.

Thumbs up to whoever already voted and picked the exact same options as me

I just saw the tide pod thing on the news tonight. I actually saw some piss ignorant lady saying they need to make them look less appetizing and make the detergent less powerful so kids wouldn't die when they ate them. How about you watch your fucking kids instead?

I had no idea eating Tide pods was a thing.

It's not just Tide. And dishwasher pods are supposed to be the most dangerous/deadly. They always put them in a separate plastic bag at the grocery store.

idiots putting tide pods in their mouths is just natural selection fine at work

concerned mother classic

nah concern

Taking a knee during the National Anthem - you guys take your ball games too seriously if you have to stand for the national anthem before a match. Trump's autistic screeching about this is dumb.

Filming a dead guy in a suicide forest and putting it on YouTube - In hindisght, I think the reaction is overblown, and youtube is probably gonna do something dumb like they always do when one of its creators gets in hot water.

Coolest Monkey in the Jungle - even the mother of the child is telling everyone to calm their tits and get over it. Typical over the top outrage.

Happy Holidays - eh what?

Dressing up as Madeleine McCann for Halloween

I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his - I lol'd

Kenya is a shithole

California legalizes recreational marijuana - good

Death from the flu

Teenagers eating Tide pods - tide wat?


yah concern

Sexual allegations in Hollywood - kevin spacey lmao

Apple purposely slowing down older iPhones

What's your preferred pronoun? - idc what people call themselves, so long as they don't try and make it a crime to fail to recognize them as such. Can't take the non binary stuff seriously either.

Destruction of Confederate monuments in Virgina - Destroying your own past doesn't right any of its wrongs, and you take away any lessons you could learn. Every historic monument on earth is a testament to a shittier time. Slaves fought to the death for entertainment in The Colosseum, knock it down! The Taj Mahal was built by slaves, get rid of it. Horatio Nelson supported slavery, knock Nelson's Column down! I guess people that can't create anything themselves can only look to destroy things instead.

Mass shootings in the USA - You guys are crazy lmao

Big game hunting - Depends what you are talking about? If you mean when people go to safaris and shoot protected animals, then fuck those people. Hunting in general is an important skill for people to retain tho. I do think at least that if you are going to hunt, you should at least eat the animal you kill.

"Concern you" as in "involve you" or "concern you" as in "which of these are you deeply concerned by?" Please clarify, Concerned Mother.

The confederate monuments don't serve as "lessons" for us to learn. They were erected by white supremacists as a way to assert their white supremacy.

i feel out of the loop on some of these

-Coolest Monkey in the Jungle
-Dressing up as Madeleine McCann for Halloween

what do these mean

the tide pod thing is a meme

Buffy @ 13/1/2018 12:01

The confederate monuments don't serve as "lessons" for us to learn. They were erected by white supremacists as a way to assert their white supremacy.

The point still stands. You can take nearly any historical monument and you'll find some ugly history behind it.

All the churches in Europe were erected by Christians to assert Christian supremacy. There's a lot of ugly history there, but I don't think anybody would suggest we should tear down all churches today.

itsbrianyay @ 13/1/2018 12:13

i feel out of the loop on some of these -Coolest Monkey in the Jungle -Dressing up as Madeleine McCann for Halloween what do these mean

Madeleine McCann is a British girl who went missing in Portugal years ago. Because she was never found the story is constantly resurfacing. I hadn't heard about somebody dressing as her for Halloween til this thread tho.

And the coolest monkey in the jungle thing: H&M put out an advert with a black kid wearing a hoodie which read "Coolest monkey in the jungle"

And everybody lost their shit because of the supposed racial connotation of the word 'monkey'

Wikey @ 13/1/2018 12:44

Buffy @ 13/1/2018 12:01 The confederate monuments don't serve as "lessons" for us to learn. They were erected by white supremacists as a way to assert their white supremacy. The point still stands. You can take nearly any historical monument and you'll find some ugly history behind it. All the churches in Europe were erected by Christians to assert Christian supremacy. There's a lot of ugly history there, but I don't think anybody would suggest we should tear down all churches today.

Yeah but those churches are still used, for the most part.

Confederate monuments are glorifying a rebel government that tried to break up the United States. Why would it make sense to honor that?

I'd be more forgiving of the confederate monuments if they were actually a relic of a different time when slavery was the norm and the war had just been fought, but a lot of them were put up during the civil rights movement a century later as a way of pushing a political agenda, not actually commemorating the people the monuments are supposed to stand for. I'd say move them to a museum somewhere, rather than outright tearing them down to preserve the history, but they're being torn down as a reaction to a changing social climate, just like the reason they were put up in the first place. Then being torn down by angry protesters is as much HISTORY as any of it, so "learning from history" is a fairly weak argument for leaving them up.

There's no current social shift against the rulers of ancient rome that's going to tear down the coliseum. The statue thing is much more CURRENT in every sense.