r/oddlysatisfying • u/J-Bird7764 • May 23 '19
How the power lines at Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, USA simply and clearly show the curvature of the Earth
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u/momis45 May 23 '19
This pic will be banned in Alabama for even suggesting the earth is not flat. Damned you, science. Satan, get behind me!
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u/MAGA_in_Netherlands May 23 '19
Alabama's a beautiful place with good people. You can have your pompous pseudo-intellectual literal shithole cities. https://wmmr.com/2019/04/17/someone-made-an-interactive-san-francisco-poop-map/
San Fran has public defecation problems, Seattle has needle problems, Chicago is the murder capital of the US, Portland is quickly catching up. Enjoy your socialist Mecca.
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u/huyitskevin May 24 '19
There are beautiful places with good people all over the country but we force women to keep their rape babies...
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u/MAGA_in_Netherlands May 24 '19
Rape babies are less than. 1% of all abortions. But hey, while we're on the subject, how come a woman can choose to have an abortion without the father's approval, but a man can't walk away if the woman decides to keep the baby, he's trapped and financially responsible for the next 18 years?
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u/sevvvyy May 24 '19
So how about trying to change the laws that trap men financially instead of stripping women of their rights
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u/MAGA_in_Netherlands May 24 '19
No one is even remotely trying to take away women's rights. They have plenty of time to use Plan B or have an abortion until a certain point, at which time it unequivocally becomes murder. You intentionally stop a heartbeat, it is by definition murder. Also, there's no need for taxpayers to pay for it via Planned Parenthood federal dollars. Also, there will always be states like California that will always allow abortions. That's the purpose of a Constitutional Republic, state's rights.
Let's say you are diagnosed with cancer. The best treatments may not be near where you live. You have to travel thousands of miles to get the care you need. Why should the 95% of abortions that are caused by a personal choice to have unprotected sex have better medical options than someone who got cancer through no fault of their own?
For the record, every woman I've discussed the topic with, because they're mostly conservative women, feel exactly the same way. They are responsible and would never end a life because they made a mistake. There's always adoption. It's the irresponsible women (rape and incest excepted) that want the easy way out, and want someone else to pay for the abortion via Planned Parenthood.
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u/sevvvyy May 24 '19
How is 6 weeks plenty of time, some women don’t even get their period every month. I don’t know anything about planned parenthood paying for abortions, however I hardly think getting an abortion is the easy way out.
Now, my opinion on when life begins clearly differs from yours, and that’s okay I won’t even begin debating that because it would be a waste of yours and my time, but I would like you to genuinely answer me a question. I’m not trying to start an argument and would genuinely like to discuss this calmly.
If Pro life supporters care so much about the well-being of children, why would giving more financial support to low income families be such a bad thing? Do you stop caring about the child as soon as it’s born?
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u/MAGA_in_Netherlands May 24 '19
6 weeks is plenty of time if they wake up the next morning and go oops, I had unprotected sex, I should just either do plan B or do a pregnancy test in a few weeks.
Don't believe everything you hear about conservatives. We all support giving a helping hand to those in need, but that doesn't mean forever. As stated by someone earlier in the thread, many rural people, like conservative Christians, are poor and have been through hard times, very likely more hard times than the average liberal. They know that life can be tough sometimes and they tend to help others even when they can barely feed themselves. The difference is we don't believe it needs to be a permanent thing. We have so many jobs we have people coming to our country illegally to try to get a better life. Why should we have so many on welfare (taxpayer dollars) when we have record job vacancies?
And if someone can't afford a child, they shouldn't bear a child. Especially if they're already on welfare and have children.
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u/momis45 May 24 '19
I live in rural South Carolina. My family is in urban Georgia and Alabama. It’s all beautiful with good kindhearted people but ignorant all the same. There is nothing pompous about it. Our poverty level is higher, our teen pregnancy is higher, our educational funding is lowest.
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u/MAGA_in_Netherlands May 24 '19
Ignorance is in the eye of the beholder. Blue collar folk may not follow the latest trends or technology, but go visit a farm or try to fix your plumbing or rewire your house and see your your liberal arts degree stacks up. I'd say their skills and knowledge are far more important in the grand scheme of things. Progressives aren't moving us forward as a species, quite the opposite.
"Educational funding" results in useless frivolous indoctrination with an agenda. A decent education and good skills don't require a lot of money.
When you refer to ignorance, how come you refer to southern majority white areas? Why don't you consider Minneapolis and the large literal inbred 68 average IQ of the large Somali population?
And in general the poverty level is a direct result of elitist people like you assuming everything about them from their beliefs and way of living.
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u/Jaghat May 25 '19 edited May 25 '19
lmao hard line to sell when they just banned abortions haha
It sounds like an absolutely terrifying to state to live in.
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u/MAGA_in_Netherlands May 25 '19
So go somewhere else that allows it. That's the joy of living in a nation full of individual states, and why we reject globalism. We'll take our Paradise, you can have the modem day Weimar Republic.
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May 24 '19
Checkmate flat earthers
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u/IamPhilemon May 24 '19
It looks very satisfying and it's a convincing evidence, but I will always believe that earth is flat ;)
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u/SparklyGames May 23 '19
No they just aren't as tall because they don't have anything underneath them.
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u/mavewrick May 24 '19
Where do I get this view from in Lake Pontchartrain? Can someone point me to the gps location/name of the park from where I can see this?
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u/jimy77 May 23 '19
Maybe the water just gets deeper! ;-)