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MoreAug-14
LOL...
That's from Jason Aldean's song... he released it in Apr 2023 but sales were mediocre until Jul 2023... after the Democrats call the song racist... then his song jumped to the #1 spot... (* CHUCKLE *)
FWIW
Aug-15
Ohh, how did I not know the name of his song? I hadn’t heard it before. I’m not a fan of his music.
Aug-24
This is a picture of that poor little duped child Kyle Rittenhouse, right ?
Neither of his parents had been allowed to become adults.
Aug-24
Freewheel (FREEWHEEL2) said...
This is a picture of that poor little duped child Kyle Rittenhouse, right ?
No... it's a picture of Kyle Rittenhouse... and he's not a little duped child!
Freewheel (FREEWHEEL2) said...
Neither of his parents had been allowed to become adults.
I presume you have absolutely no link to back up that blatantly false opinion about his parents!
FWIW
Aug-24
Please explain what you mean. I don’t understand your comment about his parents.
Aug-24
Kyle Rittenhouse event :
In 2020, just a few days after Rittenhouse was arrested and while that story was still plastered all over the news, my employer at the time [a hard core Trump supporter] asked me what I thought of that event. It took me a few days to sort it out.
My parents had both owned guns, and they enjoyed going hunting. They had shotguns, and no hand-guns. I've known people who are just utterly confused by this, and who insist that I must be intentionally deceiving them.
Where I'm from, pretty much every family had at least one shotgun. Everyone knew about safety around tools & equipment of all sorts - - and this too, I find, people are often confused when I say it, and they insist that I must be intentionally deceiving them.
Knowing how to run equipment without getting someone hurt - - how to operate a Ford 8N tractor without having it flip over backwards and kill you dead - - how to build, or caulk, a wooden boat-hull and know that it will survive the pounding month after month of the saltwater - - how to go into the woods and know which berries or which mushrooms are poisonous - - knowing that gunpowder is explosive - - knowing that water pipes will freeze in the wintertime, & how to keep this from happening - - knowing when to plant the various crops in your garden, & not to delay too long, because if you do, there just won't be anything to eat at all - - Individual responsibility. Actions have consequences, regardless whether you want them to or not. If you know this sort of stuff, and more, you're probably capable of functioning as an adult.
If you don't, then you ain't.
Rittenhouse's parents must have lived really really wealthy & cushy & sheltered lives, where no one ever taught them anything at all, - and as a result, they both of them had never had to really become adults. I have trouble imagining any other way that they could have really not known.
They gave their own child no clues, because they themselves had no clues. It's either that, - or they intentionally left their own child clueless, so that he'd go out and stupidly get himself shot ?? That doesn't add up. Parents don't generally behave that way toward their own children.
Aug-24
Sounds like a lot of supposed speculation at best.
Kyle didn't get himself shot.
He did prevent the rioters from burning down the gasoline stand he worked at and was protecting.
And he successfully defended himself in a very dangerous situation and did not give up his weapon in the process.
How does that involve his parents or driving tractors or anything else you went to extreme tangents to explain?
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Aug-25
Aug-25
Freewheel (FREEWHEEL2) said...
So you believe that Kyle Rittenhouse's parents are not at fault ?
I didn't say anything of the sort...
I said: >>>I presume you have absolutely no link to back up that blatantly false opinion about his parents!<<<
And you come back with this straw hat question!
What proof do you have that >>>Neither of his parents had been allowed to become adults.<<< as you so boldly claim?
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Aug-26
Note 9 here, your reply to me, does not contain the string :
"I presume you have absolutely no link to back up that blatantly false opinion about his parents!"
[You could edit note 9, after having read this, couldn't you ?]
So, no, you didn't say that.
But ok, I assume that you're saying it now, so, close enough.
:)
As to neither of Kyle Rittenhouse's parents having been allowed to become adults - - that's one of the well-known results of white priviege. You may say, if you like, that I have no proof [not yet anyway] that they both, and individually, never became adults.
Their non-adult status is suggested very strongly by their decision to allow an insecure, low-iq, blubbering child - their own child - to get at a firearm.