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Wouldn't that be prison, jail, death penalty? Things that are already part of the law, or a consequence of breaking the law. I'm confused with what you're saying here.

Those are self driving too, which means it totally takes the human out of the equation. Sorry, but people don't kill people, only guns.

Summer vacation is another topic but yeah, totally silly. It's been proven that it effects learning and it's only there really to allow free child labor in the past. My point is that there is a time and place for everything. School is not the place for personal politics and religion. Teach them how the political system works, then go out there and apply it. Sick days and snow days would go with what I'm saying, a time and place for everything. When you're sick, you stay home, if it snows...you probably should move to a better place. We don't know everyone's motive. I stand by what I said, but I hear you on the bold part.

I have a problem with kids protesting during school time. If they want to go do it after school, go for it, more power to them for standing up for what they believe in etc, etc. With that being said, they are still wet behind their ears, so we need to take their opinions with a grain of salt (obviously). I mean, thinking back to when you were a teenager, what are their motives here? Popularity? Pussy? Chance to skip class? Or genuinely doing it cause that's what they believe in? Shit that we didn't have...a chance to post a picture on social media? I can assure you it's not the specific issue. Even though I tend to lean towards the pro-gun side, I do not agree with kids starting a pro-gun protest. Now that I think about it, I'm kind of even more against it than the anti-gun ones, because to me it just seems less innocent.

You know, Tutankhamun was 9 years old when he became king and then married his half sister.

Sounds like you're saying we need to start allowing minors to go fight wars again. Ok, old enough to protest, old enough to ship off to wars. You know, back around the Vietnam era, 9 out of 10 doctors recommended Camels, so perhaps we should just give them all a pack of cigs while we're at it. ...and you say I'm the one who hates kids. The world was a different place 50 years ago, let alone 200 years ago when Andrew Jackson was alive.

OR kids need to fucking stay in school and learn something instead of being a bunch of fucking know-it-all, self righteous assholes, which is exactly how we got into this mess.

I was behind a white one in Dublin on Friday...this might be one of those where pictures do the car better justice than IRL

There is no evidence of that. Besides, people have proven since the beginning of time that torture works! Never mind all that, she is the first female CIA director! #feminism

Don't speak up against Russia comrades. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43388723

I thought this was a pretty funny quote: http://thehill.com/homenews/media/377571-morning-joe-host-on-trump-north-korea-meeting-he-cant-even-make-a-deal-with-a

Today I learned that turd has racial connotation. Here I thought turd just fit somewhere between poop and shit.

I've seen that here in Ohio too. It can be used a human behavioral experiment on how people act like fucking sheep. One dipshit will do it cause he thinks he's being clever...next thing you know everyone around him starts doing it Perhaps autonomous cars will rid us from these problem.

I think in the example you used, it's unfortunate that something that marks an historic event and location (nearby location perhaps), was being used by the KKK and other groups as a rallying point and to continue spreading a message of hate. Could you not implement something to prohibit that from happening, instead of removing the monument? I guess not, and maybe in this case, it was just too much trouble than it was worth. The wiki page says that the last inscription read "In honor of those Americans on both sides who died in the Battle of Liberty Place ... A conflict of the past that should teach us lessons for the future". Which I think is a pretty good message.

I think that's right after the statue was erected, so it still has a protective cover over it. Not much else have happened since the vote in Parliament to add an amendment to the constitution to allow land expropriation without compensation. Not only has it stirred up shit between black and white, but kind of caused more shit between the different black "tribes" or ethnic groups. During apartheid, the government gave the Zulu king a bunch of land that he's been sitting on for himself (surprise, surprise), and is now worried that he will lose it. Swaziland, a neighboring country is now trying to get in on the action, saying that a bunch of South African land actually belongs to Swaziland :dumb:

I don't think there's a different between Ohio drivers in the rain or in the snow. Ohio is supposedly 14th worst in the nation. https://quotewizard.com/news/posts/best-and-worst-drivers-by-state-2017

Well, South Africa has gone through this whole statue thing already...and then some. Cities and airports have been renamed, and the person a place might have been named after, probably didn't even have anything to do with Apartheid, but the fact that they were white was enough. There is no way that a statue of anyone championing Apartheid would ever get erected right now, but for the most part, I would be against the removal of an existing statue. Let's take Hendrik Verwoerd, the "father" of apartheid. His statue was taken down years ago. I understand why his in particular was taken down, I don't necessarily agree with it being taken down because it is part of SA history (He was Prime Minister, which is probably why he had a statue in the first place). The ANC themselves have said that "removal of apartheid statues is an insult to SA's rich history". http://ewn.co.za/2015/04/07/Removal-of-apartheid-statues-an-insult-to-SAs-rich-history What started happening instead, was that black historical figures started getting statues and monuments erected to stand next to the existing white ones. For example, a very significant event in SA history was the Battle of Blood River. On one side of the river you will find a monument for the group of white pioneers that were attacked by the Zulu's, on the other side of the river you'll find a monument to the fallen Zulu's. Or here you'll see a statue of Louis Botha (The Union of South Africa's first Prime Minister, before apartheid), and recently added statue of a Zulu king facing him. http://c7.alamy.com/comp/DFBH1G/a-statue-king-dinuzulu-cetshwayo-which-has-been-covered-for-2-years-DFBH1G.jpg

I'm pretty sure I get a small stroke every time I get on the roads nowadays. All people need to do is keep right, pass left and keep a steady speed. But no, everyone is entitled to their spot on the the road, and god dammit, they won't move for anyone.

Well I doubt anything discussed here is really going to change the world, but we do it for the funz.

I'm being dead serious. Unlike greg's post, which was a ridiculous hypothetical, mine actually exist and is historically correct.

I'll give you the case by case thing. But a statue is like a time capsule of what was important to people at the time. Their ideals, believes...the world as they saw it at the time. Perhaps we should go knock down the Inca pyramids because they were used for human sacrifices. Or how about we demolish mount Rushmore because Washington was a slave owner? Ghandi, Mandela and Churchill statues stand in London by the houses of parliament. Ghandi had sex with underage girls and was quite racist against blacks, Mandela was a terrorist and Churchill supported concentration camps. Should we take those 3 statues down?

Don't be a twat.

History is a lot more than just words written in books.

Perhaps someone could argue that morals and family values have decreased based on the fact that Clinton had one incident, and the entire country lost their mind and he damn near lost his job. Whereas today, Trump has done a lot more and worse but still got elected and in no danger of impeachment. My opinion on the statue issue. Don't ever erase history, no matter how unpleasant it might be.