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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]Well, will wonders never cease; an intelligent, civil, and meaningful response. Good job 'kid.' [][/size][/#800000][/font]
[quote FishingLunatic]Alright well I'll say some couple things since this isn't technically locked yet. 1- I did interpret your get your head out of your ice hole statement wrong. Yes I am aware it is ice fishing season but I've been warned in the past for language use and I suspected you used the term ice hole as a replacement for something else.This did drastically alter my perception and interpretation of the rest of what you were saying. 2- I get the impression that you think i'm a cocky arrogant guy thinks he's the best guy but believe me, anyone who meets me in real life knows i'm not. I'm a nice guy and know I'm not perfect. If I was perfect then I'd get all A's and what not but I believe me being happy and experiencing the world is worth. Like everyone, I have character flaws. [font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]You're correct that your comments on this particular thread make you appear cocky and arrogant. And since, to the best of my knowledge, we have never met in person, I have nothing to judge you by but your written comments on the net. I don't recall that your fishing reports ever gave me the same impression. So, until we actually DO meet in person, the jury is still out on your demeanor.[/size][/#800000][/font]

3-Don't call me a kid. I was a kid a long time ago. Yes I have more to learn but I'm an adult. [font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]Kid is a relative term. I'm 71 years young and you're in your early twenties; which very definitely makes you a kid relative to me. And based on the probability that you've only been thinking about our political system for MAYBE 5 or 6 years, that makes your knowledge level in this arena kid like. So for the overall purposes of THIS thread, kid it is. [] (The y face indicates that calling you a kid is NOT a slam.) [/size][/#800000][/font]4-I'm getting tired of treated like i'm a dummy. That's the reason I even reference me going to college. There's smarter people out there than me but i'm younger and doing better than a lot of the older ones. I'm not saying i'm Albert Einstein but I'm just sick of getting treated as inferior on this board just because i'm one of the youngest posters on this site. [font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]Nowhere did I (or anybody else on here that I can detect) say or imply that you are a 'dummy.' Uneducated on the bigger picture of USA and World politics for sure; but certainly not dumb. You need to stop thinking that when your elders disagree with you and try to correct your misinformation, that they are impugning your character. [/size][/#800000][/font]5-Technically speaking you're right about the bigger picture about congress sucking but I don't think you can accomplish fixing such a daunting task without mini goals. I don't know if voting them out of office or what the solution is but the reason I made this thread was to accomplish the mini goal of having our government not be able to shut down. Maybe there's hope but I don't see how it'd be possible for there not to be disagreements between both sides. It's impossible to tell republicans to think like a democrat or vice versa. What we can't have happen is what happened this year. [font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]You've stated several times that you have little interest in politics; that it's not your passion. And yet you're passionate enough about the shutdown and the LGBT issues to come on here and get beat up over your lack of knowledge in this area. If you truly want to change the status quo, you're going to have to take more than just a little interest in the way it all works. Complaining about the way things are on a fishing website isn't cutting it. If that's the best you can do, don't bother.[/size][/#800000][/font]

6- I already told you politics isn't my passion. Yes it's prevalent in every persons life but my character just isn't going to allow me to take away time from my other interests to become more informed about politics. I'm not oblivious but I'll give you that I don't know how it all works. However, I don't feel my statement about it being pathetic that our government shut down was to radical for someone with my education/knowledge level in politics to say. I don't think you need a degree in political science to know that the way they handled the situation was unacceptable. I remember seeing tons of people on here frustrated with our government shutting down and state parks being closed down. It is flat out unacceptable to quit working like they did. [font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]See my comments to your item 5 above. And please note that you are in a VERY SMALL minority of folks starting or entering a political discussion on this, a fishing website.[/size][/#800000][/font][/quote]

[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]Life is good, kid. Enjoy it while you still can.[/size][/#800000][/font]
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