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CMT has always felt like I was watching Christian television or something. Country music scene is so safe and traditional. When shania Twain blew up there was major backlash about how provocative she was before she was eventually accepted in the genre. This is just another example of how outdated and safe country music is in general
Also is it wasn’t for line dancing mylie Cyrus would have never blown up.
1.) Why do you think bringing up Pittsburgh would rile me? I don't give a fuck about most of the people here.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm
2.) That city in Oregon has something like 20,000 people; maybe that's a small town where you're from, but not where I'm from. In Ohio, you're automatically considered a city if you're incorporated and have a population of 5,000, or more (unless you're a new city, now the requirement is 25k to become a new city). In Montana, any population over 10k would be considered a, 'First Class City.'
It's pretty funny that you made this counterpoint about small towns while referencing a place that, you know, isn't a small town.
The reality is that better small town cops look to move up from the minor leagues to bigger towns and cities for better pay, benefits and opportunity
What remains is usually not great. Guys whose ambition it is to hang on til pension and bang some overtime on easy detail work.
Aldean is having a day with mythology.
Klamath Falls is not an urban area. The urban areas in this country let antifa and BLM rape, pillage and plunder. Candy ass motherfuckers in the big city. People in the small towns of this country, 20K population or whatever, are locked and loaded waiting for antifa to show up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mission1461.) Why do you think bringing up Pittsburgh would rile me? I don't give a fuck about most of the people here.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm
2.) That city in Oregon has something like 20,000 people; maybe that's a small town where you're from, but not where I'm from. In Ohio, you're automatically considered a city if you're incorporated and have a population of 5,000, or more (unless you're a new city, now the requirement is 25k to become a new city). In Montana, any population over 10k would be considered a, 'First Class City.'
It's pretty funny that you made this counterpoint about small towns while referencing a place that, you know, isn't a small town.
IIRC, it was Salem, Oregon where antifa showed up to fuck with a bar they called racist or some shit. Turned out it was a biker bar. The bikers came running out and antifa hauled ass like little bitches.
It's shit like Klamath and the biker bar that antifa is wising up to. They are learning small town people won't take their shit. So they need to go attack Pittsburgh which is filled with retarded liberals that have turned their town into a sewer.
Wise up.
BTW, Aldean's song just hit number 1 on iTunes. Fucking idiot social justice warriors turned a so so song into a smash hit. CMT is just brain fucking dead.
Just makes the poors feel important when the reality is, no one gives a shit about the areas they are talking about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sanlmar
Including criminals and rioters.
https://youtu.be/qj9b3QqTOtY
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Originally Posted by mickeycrimmKlamath Falls is not an urban area. The urban areas in this country let antifa and BLM rape, pillage and plunder. Candy ass motherfuckers in the big city. People in the small towns of this country, 20K population or whatever, are locked and loaded waiting for antifa to show up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mission146
IIRC, it was Salem, Oregon where antifa showed up to fuck with a bar they called racist or some shit. Turned out it was a biker bar. The bikers came running out and antifa hauled ass like little bitches.
It's shit like Klamath and the biker bar that antifa is wising up to. They are learning small town people won't take their shit. So they need to go attack Pittsburgh which is filled with retarded liberals that have turned their town into a sewer.
Wise up.
BTW, Aldean's song just hit number 1 on iTunes. Fucking idiot social justice warriors turned a so so song into a smash hit. CMT is just brain fucking dead.
Number 1 on iTunes?! LMFAO
There's about 127 people left on this fucking planet who still use iTunes and every single one of them is a fuckin boomer who can't wrap their ragged brains around any new forms of technology.
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Originally Posted by Serial FailQuote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm
Number 1 on iTunes?! LMFAO
There's about 127 people left on this fucking planet who still use iTunes and every single one of them is a fuckin boomer who can't wrap their ragged brains around any new forms of technology.
over 11 million views on YouTube in less than a week is noteworthy enough regardless of its results on iTunes
and the message of the song is clear enough without spinning it to knock rural folks or country music
the fact is that people in this country are fed up with rioters, looters and piece of shit far left woke tranny loving America hating faggots like yourself
the real problem is that civilized people who can debate rationally and value tradition, family, and appreciate this country are now branded as ‘racists’ and countless other labels and either cancelled or ostracized or fired.
the word ‘conservative’ is now associated with this dark stigma created by the lunatic far leftist pedophile loving cabal of closet socialist/communist pigs who are losing their grip on a media stranglehold
but thanks to Twitter and rapid tech evolutions, at least the mainstream media is quickly losing their relevance and anyone paying attention and doing their own due diligence is beginning to wake the fuck up
basically liberals and far left activists are filthy animals and should be exiled off the planet
they tried to push this ‘Jason Aldean’s song is racist’ bullshit…but the overwhelming majority of feedback has been positive and pretty much yea he nailed it
https://youtu.be/wqV-Ngy5kFE
In general, you want a small police department working on solving small crimes, and a big police department working on big crimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sanlmar
Small police departments (in both blue-collar towns and small, high-income cities) are shockingly bad at solving murders or other major/complex cases. They simply lack the experience, and often also lack the humility to accept their limitations and seek outside help/advice. The JonBenet Ramsey case was the most high profile example of this, but I've known of many lesser-covered cases (including a few I've profiled here) where a similar level of incompetence occurred.
At the same time, you do NOT want to take your vandalism, simple assault, petty theft, or auto-break-in case to a big department like the LAPD. They will do almost zero investigating, and unless you do all the work for them, it will get nowhere. Small town police are much better at this, as they have much less crime to investigate, and will take these small matters far more seriously.
Small police departments are also subject to a lot less politicking, as there's not much public scrutiny, and not much oversight beyond the immediate local area. A big city mayor will sometimes tell the cops to stand down during riots, our of fear of how it will affect his own career if police engage and some of the rioters get killed. In a small town, they basically just attack the problem head on, and put an end to the matter.
Small towns usually have far less violent crime than the cities and even the suburbs, due to their small size, isolation, and lack of tolerance of bullshit. If you rob a convenience store in a big city or suburb, you can often speed off and never get caught. If you do it in a small town, they're going to quickly pursue you and there's really nowhere to run.
Aldean really wasn't wrong with his message, and that bothers the left. They have been pushing the narrative for years that small town people are backward racist hicks, and the big (blue voting) cities are examples of the enlightened path forward. They try as hard as they can do downplay the crime, urban blight, and drug/homelessness issues which plague these cities.
Idiots that knock small town people need to fuck off and die. How small is the town I come from? Well, the welcome signs are back to back.
https://youtu.be/0CVLVaBECuc
Why are you so angry?Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm
For God's sake, Mick, it's not a small town. I can say that Kansas City is not, "An urban area," compared to NYC; that still wouldn't make Klamath Falls a small town. It's a city by almost any definition. It's only 4k short in population of the place we considered, "The big city," of our area.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm
When I think of small towns, I think of where I grew up. Of course there would be no riots there, because most people wouldn't ever notice that the place exists, and even if they did, wouldn't give a shit.
Mine was in the middle of a row of three small towns; if you put the three together, you'd still have one small town. Had the, 'Welcome to,' signs been removed, you'd honestly have no way of knowing where one ends and the other begins unless you lived in one of the three.
Let's briefly discuss the one I lived in when I grew up, even though my outdoor time was probably split roughly equally amongst the three:
We had a street called, "Main Street." Do you know what Main Street consisted of? There was an auto repair building (that used to also be a gas station decades before I was born) that was sometimes open and sometimes closed for months at a stretch. That was the entire business presence on Main Street. The rest of Main Street was residential.
On the avenue I lived on, there was a bank and a post office. At one point, it was the only bank between all three of the towns, but now one of the others has one, or did, as of last time I was there.
Go to the end of the avenue and there's a little side street that links Main Street to a different avenue. There was a pizza shop there, occasionally, but there was nothing where the pizza shop would be, more often than not. Really, Domino's came to one of the other two towns and killed that one permanently. Strangely enough, there was already a pizza place in the town where the Domino's appeared and that one survived. The pizza was probably better. The little side street also had a barber shop that was sometimes open, but usually not.
This wrapped around into the only other avenue with any businesses. There was an industrial place that was usually closed, a middle school and two other industrial-type places that were always closed. There were also two gas stations there when I was growing up, but only one of them was ever open. It was full-service, so that was cool. There was also something a little bit too big to be a convenience store, but too small to really be a grocery store.
That's the town. Other than that, there was a park and pool (which is actually shared between two of the towns, geographically-speaking), baseball fields, a golf course/bar/restaurant (which is shared between my town and the opposite of the town that shares the park) and that's it.
"Try that in a small town," please. With any coordination whatsoever, three people could have everyone in all businesses combined dead in three minutes. The good news is nobody would ever have enough interest in our shitty little place to do so.
A riot? What would they loot? Overpriced cereal from our pretend grocery store and produce that was already half-rotted as it sat on the shelf?
It was a great place to grow up, though. I mean that sincerely. I had an absolute blast. I'd wash cars, shovel snow, rake leaves and mow lawns to get money in my pocket and then go to the bar in a neighboring town to shoot pool and drink pineapple juice until it was time to go home that night. I guess a lot of the parents have drug problems now, which is a shame, though I don't think the big cities are to blame for that. Mostly painkiller prescriptions that were overly aggressive and got out of control, some meth and heroin. It's definitely not the place that it used to be and I certainly wouldn't let little kids just freely run around anywhere these days.
Still, "Try that in a small town?" We had one cop during daylight hours, for fuck sake. The fuck is he going to do against a riot? His job was just to catch enough people in the speed trap on Main to pay for he and the mayor's salaries.
It's like Sloppy Joe said: We'd never have had a riot because it would first require that someone give a shit that the town exists.
A guy who grew up and lives in the largest urban sprawl in North America is writing about small towns. It literally doesn’t get bigger and chaotic than Los Angeles.
Ok, Mexico City and New York.
You gotta laugh at the irony, Druff
I do recognize you are well travelled. You have seen what you knew to be small towns. You try to imagine what life might be like.
I drove through a small town during the pandemic. Maybe it was upper Maine. Maybe it was Colorado. All I remember was the pictures of perhaps 12 high school seniors - each student’s picture and name individually posted on sequential telephone poles. Maybe they didn’t have graduation ceremonies that year I wondered.
I couldn’t stop thinking about that as I drove. Really captured my imagination.
Certainly the entire town knew each of these kids by name. How these kids conducted their lives in this community and the sense of personal accountability this demands is stuff we know nothing about except through literature or song.
What happens when someone steps outside the law in such a setting is what we are talking about.
Well, that and line dancing
"3 pages on a 9th tier poker forum" is exactly what that hick was aiming for, tbh.
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Originally Posted by Mission146For God's sake, Mick, it's not a small town. I can say that Kansas City is not, "An urban area," compared to NYC; that still wouldn't make Klamath Falls a small town. It's a city by almost any definition. It's only 4k short in population of the place we considered, "The big city," of our area.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm
When I think of small towns, I think of where I grew up. Of course there would be no riots there, because most people wouldn't ever notice that the place exists, and even if they did, wouldn't give a shit.
Mine was in the middle of a row of three small towns; if you put the three together, you'd still have one small town. Had the, 'Welcome to,' signs been removed, you'd honestly have no way of knowing where one ends and the other begins unless you lived in one of the three.
Let's briefly discuss the one I lived in when I grew up, even though my outdoor time was probably split roughly equally amongst the three:
We had a street called, "Main Street." Do you know what Main Street consisted of? There was an auto repair building (that used to also be a gas station decades before I was born) that was sometimes open and sometimes closed for months at a stretch. That was the entire business presence on Main Street. The rest of Main Street was residential.
On the avenue I lived on, there was a bank and a post office. At one point, it was the only bank between all three of the towns, but now one of the others has one, or did, as of last time I was there.
Go to the end of the avenue and there's a little side street that links Main Street to a different avenue. There was a pizza shop there, occasionally, but there was nothing where the pizza shop would be, more often than not. Really, Domino's came to one of the other two towns and killed that one permanently. Strangely enough, there was already a pizza place in the town where the Domino's appeared and that one survived. The pizza was probably better. The little side street also had a barber shop that was sometimes open, but usually not.
This wrapped around into the only other avenue with any businesses. There was an industrial place that was usually closed, a middle school and two other industrial-type places that were always closed. There were also two gas stations there when I was growing up, but only one of them was ever open. It was full-service, so that was cool. There was also something a little bit too big to be a convenience store, but too small to really be a grocery store.
That's the town. Other than that, there was a park and pool (which is actually shared between two of the towns, geographically-speaking), baseball fields, a golf course/bar/restaurant (which is shared between my town and the opposite of the town that shares the park) and that's it.
"Try that in a small town," please. With any coordination whatsoever, three people could have everyone in all businesses combined dead in three minutes. The good news is nobody would ever have enough interest in our shitty little place to do so.
A riot? What would they loot? Overpriced cereal from our pretend grocery store and produce that was already half-rotted as it sat on the shelf?
It was a great place to grow up, though. I mean that sincerely. I had an absolute blast. I'd wash cars, shovel snow, rake leaves and mow lawns to get money in my pocket and then go to the bar in a neighboring town to shoot pool and drink pineapple juice until it was time to go home that night. I guess a lot of the parents have drug problems now, which is a shame, though I don't think the big cities are to blame for that. Mostly painkiller prescriptions that were overly aggressive and got out of control, some meth and heroin. It's definitely not the place that it used to be and I certainly wouldn't let little kids just freely run around anywhere these days.
Still, "Try that in a small town?" We had one cop during daylight hours, for fuck sake. The fuck is he going to do against a riot? His job was just to catch enough people in the speed trap on Main to pay for he and the mayor's salaries.
It's like Sloppy Joe said: We'd never have had a riot because it would first require that someone give a shit that the town exists.
You have missed the point entirely. Way over your head. Aldean is singing about towns just like Klamath Falls. But I have better things to do than argue with a mental case about what constitutes a small town. Believe whatever you want I don't care.
I'm not angry. Why are you so ugly?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sloppy JoeWhy are you so angry?Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm
Let’s take turns improving as people by admitting our faults, Mick.
I admit to being a mental case.
Now, it’s your turn to admit both to being wrong and also on using what few brain cells you managed to not drown in liquor exclusively for gambling information, because I’ll be damned if I’ve ever seen you be right on anything else.
And, I’m also an alcoholic, so I can take that shot.
Maybe the song should be called, “Try That in a Minor City.” A bit wordy.
Honestly really dissapointed that this guy wrote a song called “try that in a small town” and he never worked in the lyric “we’ll burn your house down” or “none of the people here are brown”.