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re: Seattle banning plastic straws, July 1
Posted on 6/21/18 at 9:55 am to LeauxCountryTigah
Posted on 6/21/18 at 9:55 am to LeauxCountryTigah
quote:Which conservatives are trashing the environment. In LA the inner cities are the most littered areas I've seen. Are they conservatives?
Why is it so difficult for folks in the south to understand why this is a problem? Why is it cool in conservative circles to trash the environment?
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Posted on 6/21/18 at 9:58 am to Jake88
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In LA the inner cities are the most littered areas I've seen. Are they conservatives?
bullshite. Spend my youth hunting in East Feliciana. Rural as can be. Every weekend we cleaned up the ditch bank in front the camp and property. It was insane how much litter would build up in a week. Absolutely insane. I hoped it was just people with trucks who threw stuff in the bed, then it flew out. But it was so much, there was just no way.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 9:58 am to Jake88
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Which conservatives are trashing the environment. In LA the inner cities are the most littered areas I've seen. Are they conservatives?
I say this as a Trump supporter. I would be shocked if Democrats were throwing the blue and white cans out in the places I have seen them. I have seen litter in places where I know only Trump supporters are fishing and hunting and using the space. I guess it is questionable to call them conservatives and it is purely a theory but no different than saying all the trash in the inner cities comes from Democrats.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 9:59 am to lsu13lsu
Again, I have no problem with pollution laws to reasonably prevent air and water pollution. We were talking about straws and other types of litter.
But, to the tangent, the gulf dead zone has not impacted your life.
But, to the tangent, the gulf dead zone has not impacted your life.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 10:00 am to KG6
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Look at how freaked out people get about a straw!
That is the problem right there...it is not "a straw" it is literally (and I do mean literally) billions upon billions of straws. Even if you are a senior citizen today, that straw you had in you milkshake at the 5 and dime back in the 50's is still here on the planet today unless it was incinerated. And if it was, then it added toxins into the air we breathe. These are facts! And no major lifestyle changes are required to adjust these habits...all I am saying.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 10:02 am to lsu13lsu
I was responding to his ridiculous and unsupported assertion that conservatives in the south love to trash the environment.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 10:04 am to LeauxCountryTigah
Put the straw in the attic, it will be gone in two months.
I love the canard from the radical environmentalists, and those who report their saying and doings, that conservatives want to destroy the environment and destroy the planet. The deliberate misinformation is positively angering. The attitude of the "reporting" is that about 40% of the polity is just sitting there hatching schemes to deliberately throw away straws and plastic cups into brooks, creeks, streams, rivers, lakes, oceans or to litter everywhere like comic book/motion picture villains. It's beyond stupid, and beyond reasonable that so many on the opposite side of the discussion actually believe this hogwash.
I love the canard from the radical environmentalists, and those who report their saying and doings, that conservatives want to destroy the environment and destroy the planet. The deliberate misinformation is positively angering. The attitude of the "reporting" is that about 40% of the polity is just sitting there hatching schemes to deliberately throw away straws and plastic cups into brooks, creeks, streams, rivers, lakes, oceans or to litter everywhere like comic book/motion picture villains. It's beyond stupid, and beyond reasonable that so many on the opposite side of the discussion actually believe this hogwash.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 10:05 am to Jake88
Lol...you cannot use the French Quarter as an example in this case. Small towns all up and down the I-10 are flat out covered. And I have been to plenty of major metropolis areas that are flat out pristine!
Posted on 6/21/18 at 10:06 am to KG6
You've never spent much time in the inner city, have you? I'm driving in west feliciana right now, ditches are surprisingly clean. Although, I know what you're referring to. Just review the post I responded to and you'll understand my response to him.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 10:06 am to RogerTheShrubber
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It's just signaling. There are far greater methods of saving the environment than banning plastic straws.
There are a lot of more important things my neighbor could do to fix up his house but just pulling the weeds out of his gutters would be a nice start.
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Seattle is famous for these types of things.
Seattle didn't come up with this and they are far from the last place in the US that will do it.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 10:07 am to Jake88
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I was responding to his ridiculous and unsupported assertion that conservatives in the south love to trash the environment.
I don't think they Love it. It just appears to be an accepted part of life in Louisiana.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 10:08 am to RedPop4
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Put the straw in the attic, it will be gone in two months.
The fact that you believe this is beyond stupid.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 10:09 am to fightin tigers
We'll all be carrying Yeti straws in our pockets soon
Posted on 6/21/18 at 10:11 am to upgrayedd
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Why is that relevant?
Because the government is using force to solve something that's not really a relevant problem.
Nice copy and paste job. You ignored the rest of my comment.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 10:11 am to LeauxCountryTigah
quote:Mow I know you haven't spent anytime in the inner city. The French Quarter is not the inner city. Of course I would not consider it as an example.
Lol...you cannot use the French Quarter as an example in this case
Posted on 6/21/18 at 10:12 am to Jake88
Then drive down to road to Baker, Zachary, Gonzales, Lafayette, Port Allen, Plaquemine, Carencro, Brusly, Opelousas, Grammercy, etc. and tell me what you see. I have personally seen people stopped at red lights open their door and put a fast food bag out in the street like nothing. Way too many times! I am not insinuating that conservatives litter for pleasure, I am just saying that they don't take it seriously as evident by most of this thread.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 10:12 am to Jake88
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People litter. So ban everything that can be tossed out of a car window? It will get onerous, straws are the start.
No one is banning straws! They are banning plastic straws. Can you not see the difference or are you being obtuse on purpose?
Posted on 6/21/18 at 10:16 am to fallguy_1978
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We'll all be carrying Yeti straws in our pockets soon
Final Straw
I saw this on facebook some mom or grandma shared.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 10:18 am to Jake88
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Mow I know you haven't spent anytime in the inner city
Wrong! I was born in Baptist Hospital and raised in New Orleans East. What is do you know?
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The French Quarter is not the inner city
Wrong again, it is absolutely the inner part of New Orleans. But obviously you mean this: The inner city or inner town is the central area of a major city or metropolis. Inner city areas tend to have higher population densities than outer suburbs, with more of the population living inside multi-floored townhouses and apartment buildings.
In the United States the term "inner city" is often used as a euphemism for lower-income residential districts in the city center and nearby areas—with the additional connotation of impoverished minority neighborhoods.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 10:18 am to lsu13lsu
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I saw this on facebook some mom or grandma shared
Seems like it would be difficult to clean
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