The debate over the geographical center of North America

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For years Rugby, North Dakota, a tiny spot on the prairie, had made a name for itself from its designation as the geographical center of the North American continent - that is, until a bar owner in the town of Robinson, about a hundred miles south, used some string and a globe to claim his town was the true center. Correspondent Lee Cowan visited these unassuming contestants in a tectonic battle for bragging rights, and talked with a geography professor who, armed with latitudes, longitudes and algorithms, may have laid the question of center to rest.
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@evermar1 3 года назад

"That's not very nice", North Dakotans fighting is intense.

@becca5100 3 года назад

That's funny!!

@debrakeyes5792 3 года назад

Innocence & goodwill still does exist on this planet. Alleluia.

@jarrodbarkley9061 3 года назад

😂😂😂

@Dweller415 3 года назад

They’re all very good natured about it which makes this a good story.

@KC2MFCs 2 года назад

Except if you live in North Dakota, why do you think the heartland has such enmity in the first place?

@Chooch4mvp Год назад

@@KC2MFCs probably because people like you accuse us of “enmity”😂 We are very welcoming! But when we see clowns like you, we’re not afraid of being honest. Just because we’re genuinely nice people, doesn’t mean we have to tolerate your nonsense

@kentlarsen5834 3 года назад

Thank you Sunday Morning for such an intriguing and enlightening story. You did such a fine job of opening our minds and eyes to such a beautiful territory I never knew existed. Yes, the center of North America is important because it just is, and because of it's beautiful plains and wide open spaces.

@jeffhaman9010 3 года назад

I grew up 50 miles south of Rugby, and have been there several times. It was often asked and wondered how it was it was calculated that Rugby was the center of North America. Now after watching this, I finally have the answer.

@jarrodbarkley9061 3 года назад

"We're a loser state!" 😂😂😂 That guy is a hoot, I'd love to have a beer with him!

@ELDELD 3 года назад

Looks like the people of North Dakota are the best thing about North Dakota. 😃🇺🇸

@phil6844 3 года назад

Nah, I live in ND and that is definitely not the case 😂

@LadyPenelope 3 года назад

Agreed!

@tobinhutto7973 3 года назад

Sad

@SlayerofFiction 3 года назад

@@JillWhitcomb1966 From Montucky, depends what part of my state you are at to the friendly nature. It is changing quickly overall as more out of staters move in and bring the snobby atmosphere. For the most part how chatty people are and friendly directly correlates with how relaxed the lifestyle is. If you go to any third world country you will find people more friendly than most of Europe were people are pretty uptight.

@JillWhitcomb1966 3 года назад

@@SlayerofFiction Sorry, I don't know what 'Montucky' means. Either way, Fargo is the only place in North Dakota that has felt comfortable to me due to the more open minds, the ethnic diversity, the abundance of ethic grocery stores, and the better public transportation. I've been to India where yes, the locals were friendly. However, it was mostly local Indian men flirting with me and asking me out on dates (I declined). Even so, although I grew up in North Dakota and have lived here for 40 years, it no longer feels like 'home' to me due to the lack of progressive minds. It has vastly improved over the years, however, old attitudes and old ideas still remain for many of the born-and-raised North Dakota locals here.

@jtinsfo 3 года назад

I was born in Rugby. The nice thing is - this is about as disagreeable as people in North Dakota ever get.

@askbobcarson1141 3 года назад

Make an undisputable center between all 3 disputed centers? That's 4 stops ND, milk it for all ya' can!

@robertsullivan887 3 года назад

You could call it the “North Dakota Triangle” and spin a yarn about things that disappear inside its boundaries. Maybe that would help the state compete with South Dakota, Mount Rushmore and the tourism industry. Actually, my dad was born in Mandan, North Dakota in 1900, and I have a deep love and appreciation for the state. But I was born and raised a Minnesotan, so I do have to have a little fun too.

@battlebeard2041 3 года назад

Brilliant marketing, gentlemen. 👍🏻

@manuelrojas6912 3 года назад

The new slogan will be: ITS SOME WHERE AROUND HERE 😆

@HighwayLand 3 года назад

Oh don't give him any crazy ideas now.

@josephozturk3288 3 года назад

That’s impossible there’s 4 corners in the middle

@debrakeyes5792 3 года назад

A trip to North Dakota is GREAT FOR THE SOUL. Renews your faith in humankind to be around such honest, decent, soulful people. Just don't talk politics. You really do feel very centered there. The prairie is beautiful. ND should be on every Bucketlist for the Soul, no matter where the center really is.

@jeffperteet2327 3 года назад

With all the gun play going on, if you're quiet you might get shot for being suspicious in a red state, plus it's cold as balls in ND. I wouldn't be caught dead there.Your politics most likely will be drawn out whether you talk or not.

@Chooch4mvp Год назад

@@jeffperteet2327 Don’t play us North Dakotans as “shooters”. Yes, we love our guns for hunting, and protecting our homes. It’s very, very rare to have gun related crimes here. What hoodlum wants to stay in the streets where it’s winter 60% of the year?

@94steelcurtain 7 часов назад

@@jeffperteet2327 way to make it obvious that you're a sheltered little boy who has never traveled outside your own little bubble in your entire life. I'm literally a liberal from CA, but you've made an absolute fool of yourself by making such a moronic and baseless blanket statement about a place you've never been before.

@bobloblaw9679 3 года назад

i like how me made the loser "L" with his whole hand and not just two fingers

@jeanetteschock4744 3 года назад

Allegedly the middle of the lower 48 is Lebanon, Kansas. Don't go. Nothing there and they have a nice lil speed trap for tourists.

@margo3367 3 года назад

Every tourist town has that. Simple solution. Don't speed through little towns.

@whywelovefilm7079 3 года назад

“Hi, I’m from North Dakota.” Me: Cool “Hi, I’m from the geographical center of North America.” Me: Cool

@spencerphilippinedream3706 3 года назад

underrated comment.

@m.jasmineoporto5458 3 года назад

I visited North Dakota and actually appreciated its unique landscape ( from Aia-Pacific)

@BETTERWORLDSGT 3 года назад

The Dakotas are some of the very few States I haven't been too. I've made it to 38!!

@nursemedic17 3 года назад

I live in Minnesota...I am so going to that bar! LOL :)

@borderterrierpoppyadventures 3 года назад

I loved visiting North Dakota! I love the TR stuff and the Lewis and Clark stuff!

@mr16325 3 года назад

Man what are the chances of the town being center

@robertsullivan887 3 года назад

You should do a similar story on the center of Asia memorial in Kyzyl, Tuva. Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman always wanted to visit Tuva because as a boy he collected their stamps. But he couldn’t during the Cold War because of his involvement with the Manhattan Project and that Tuva was the site of the Russian equivalent. When the Cold War ended, he planned to go, but passed away before he could make the trip. So some of his graduate students made the trip instead and placed a plaque in his memory on the monument. I was there in 1992 adopting a child who’s orphanage was right by it, When I looked for the plaque, it had been removed.

@juanmonge8 3 года назад

I drove through North and South Dakota last September. North has 80 mile per hour speed limits. With a good headwind. You can race towards nothing.

@jackiechan_wtf4041 3 года назад

I drove from WI to Mt Rushmore. Once you hit Michell, then it turns 80mph. I never knew speed limits could be higher than 70. 😳😳

@teacfan1080 3 года назад

Actually, South Dakota has 80 mph on the interstates. North Dakota is 75 mph on interstates and 70 mph on four lane divided highways for the most part. State highways are 65.

@njunderground82 3 года назад

ND is a nice place in my experience. I visited first visited there in 2003 (just the south eastern corner) and wasn't especially impressed, but when I went back in 2019, and drove across the entire state exploring it more, I like it. The people were nice and friendly, and the Theodore Roosevelt NP is beautiful. The history is amazing too. I love history, and the pioneer history in ND does not disappoint. From Fort Union Trading Post, to Fort Mandan, and Fort Abraham Lincoln, there are many interesting places. I have visited all 50 states, and the last few years, I've been kind of going back and filling in gaps in some states I've been to but had missed cool places in them.

@Chooch4mvp Год назад

It’s a year late for this response, I hope you read this! Little things like Center are all we have. We love our badlands, including that Teddy National Park! You can sleep in a tent with zero fear of wildlife. We have Buffalo in the parks, but they mind their business. It truly is a welcoming/friendly state! If you want a “Little House on the Prairie” lifestyle, you know where to find it!

@j.w.9407 3 года назад

Love their humor. LOL needed this.

@Gracetx90 3 года назад

I’m moving to ND, ASAP.

@user-vm5ud4xw6n 3 года назад

I think they get a lot of snow. And maybe 30 minutes of summer. Not sure. I didn’t even know about the geographical center so I probably got the weather thing wrong too. Wonder what their southern neighbor has going on? I think Harrison Ford has a ranch in ND. I could be wrong about that too!

@gilhernandeziii4031 3 года назад

Priceless! Great report, all citizens of North Dakota benefit from this trademark...

@Benary96 3 года назад

Looks like I'm heading to three different towns in North Dakota 😂

@Ndizzyinthehizzy 3 года назад

This video was so endearing, and sad. They're completely self aware of how little they've got, so they appreciate the things they do have.

@spritemarie 3 года назад

I enjoyed this but I’m actually very proud to be from North Dakota. It’s a very special place!

@Lili_LaRae 3 года назад

That waving hello turns into 40mph winds on a Tuesday when your sitting at the park trying to enjoy lunch with you kid 😅. That is Honestly the worst part about living here well that and when its snowing and that wind decides to pick up randomly so you barely make it home. Have I mentioned it so damn windy here??

@teacfan1080 3 года назад

Well, at least here in ND, I can't go outside, take in a nice bike ride without having to worry about being gunned down.

@HVACSoldier 3 года назад

I always knew the center of North America was in North Dakota, and the center of the United States was in Kansas.

@Rocherz 3 года назад

U.S. minus Alaska and Hawaii

@juligrlee556 3 года назад

Need to now have tractor races to see which city wins each summer, never in winter

@VADER677 3 года назад

You dont race tractors. You have a tractor pull.

@cindymurphy6566 3 года назад

Sounds like the number on the list of 15 States I haven’t visited! 🙏🏽 I live long enough 💕👵🏽

@bobblues1158 3 года назад

Great -love it- makes me smile-thank you- i have been in Rugby.

@worldcitizeng6507 3 года назад

Make thier own Vegas, start their own music festival, people will come

@liquid79 3 года назад

That's it? Easy peasy

@JillWhitcomb1966 3 года назад

Yuck... If someone wants crowds, noise, and high crime.. .then go to Vegas or South Dakota.

@dmbalsam 3 года назад

Been to all three places. However the bar was closed the day we were there. We spent about a week in North Dakota about a year ago. we enjoyed Madeira.

@paulsmallriver6066 3 года назад

Medora yes ?

@janesmith663 3 года назад

One of these North Dakota guys sounds so much like Charles Kuralt.

@becca5100 3 года назад

Aw, loved that dear soul

@wildkindphotos7670 3 года назад

He does sound like him! facebook.com/clay.jenkinson

@JillWhitcomb1966 3 года назад

Clay Jenkinson has recorded 1400+ episodes of 'The Thomas Jefferson Hour' for public radio, in which he portrays Jefferson in voice and in character. He has also appeared in public dressed as Jefferson countless times, as well.

@dystopiaisutopia 3 года назад

Ok boomer

@houstontxdave6876 2 года назад

Adds a few more cities to visit on my bucket list

@josephtaylor6313 3 года назад

"I called the cole mine and said, 'I want a pretty rock!'"

@bobloblaw9679 3 года назад

...and so began the strangest and most disgusting period of my life.

@patricesage331 3 года назад

THIS ⬆️ comment about calling & wanting a pretty rock that is in quotes is Also a GREAT Marketing ad!! Because if this is a quote from the video I Absolutely Need to watch the video because I so need more context now 😅. (ALSO: Cole mine -or- Coal mine?) + you can call and demand a petty rock?? Must know more... Brilliant marketing teaser technique

@seikibrian8641 3 года назад

*Joseph Taylor* ""I called the cole mine..." * *Coal* mine.

@BrianHencheyShow 3 года назад

I would love to know why the bar owner surrendered the trademark! (Why wasn't that explained in the piece, CBS?!?) I might have to call the bar to ask.

@Skip2105 3 года назад

Where I’m going after watching Jaws

@patricksanders858 3 года назад

Go north fifty miles north from the bar and fifty miles south from Rugby and build a bar!

@auntiefan4202 3 года назад

Looking forward to visiting Center someday!

@BrianHencheyShow 3 года назад

...Rugby! :P

@Duricas 3 года назад

Wouldn't this be best decided by actual geographers or maybe the United States Geological Survey?

@gabxp3095 3 года назад

It was 1:50

@HighwayLand 3 года назад

I got myself so many chuckles watching this. But hey, at least I'm talking about North Dakota now🤪

@manuelrojas6912 3 года назад

Love this story

@dondoyle8474 3 года назад

Leave it to beer 🤣

@jessicaaudate 3 года назад

I cant believe I watched this whole video

@BigBoFromBtown 3 года назад

The end of this legit made me LOL

@grahamsmith5318 3 года назад

they could have done the story in June when everything is green!

@msseedlady2587 3 года назад

Up until about two weeks ago our drought was so severe that we hadn't had enough moisture to turn it green. Thankfully we got some much needed rain recently!

@jessicalt4121 3 года назад

I would love to come visit the centers of North America.

@c187rocks 3 года назад

The first two centers didn't seem to include Greenland in their calculations.

@paulthesoundguy1 3 года назад

Because Greenland is not part of North america

@jacksonsmith1729 3 года назад

@@paulthesoundguy1 I think some people would disagree

@paulthesoundguy1 3 года назад

Yes I am sure someone would disagree with anything said..... “PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN” Greenlands land mass is still undetermined....and it’s separated from “North America” by water and ice. It is also thought and has been offered that Greenland could be its own small continent similar to Australia. Not my thoughts or words.....look it up😁

@williamhild1793 2 года назад

I would think that since longitude lines are directly north-south, and latitude lines are directly east-west, you would find the longitude-latitude point where there is the same amount of square miles of land in each of the four "quadrants"---northeast, southeast, southwest, and southeast. Could that not be said to be the "true" center of the continent?

@antigen4 3 года назад

its only in north dakota if you omit much of canada as indicated here

@cyn.boujee4626 3 года назад

Hello handsome

@emarr3720 3 года назад

I thought it was Belle Fourche, SD. Years ago I use fantasize about big infrastructure projects. 1 was system of giant circular superhighways (beltways) with critical infrastructure down their medians around all cities, states to complement the interstate system. & 1 was those of those was a maglev in a partial vacuum tube moving around the at 1000 mph(long before Elon). So I made a pt to find the geo ctr of North America & the U.S.. All done on paper with a Rand McNally road atlas(remember those?) & a big protractor, ruler, & geometric contructions. I like these guys. Very good-natured, just having fun w/ the subject. & 1 if them does sound like Charles Kuralt.i remember him on Sunday Mornings & his road trips. I remember when he declared the Beartooth Highway(HY 212) the most beautiful highway in the world. P.S. I'm not a Boomer.

@rucksackzen 3 года назад

Belle Fourche is the geographic center of the 50 states.

@appnzllr 3 года назад

According to Wikipedia, the westernmost point is Wrangell Island, Alaska (52°55′28″N 172°28′22″E). The southernmost point is an island controlled by Costa Rica (5°31′8″N 87°4′18″W). Because Greenland is considered to be part of North America, the northernmost point is an island north of Greenland (83°40′N 29°50′W), and the easternmost point would be a town at its eastern edge (81°26′25″N 11°29′22″W). So the midpoint between all these is at a point near The Golf Club at Lora Bay near Christie Beach, Canada. You can't just balance Canada, the US, and Central America on a pin - unless you include Greenland.

@Bun800 2 года назад

Great story!

@vincentjacobsson3981 Год назад

I think it should be investigated in the past and present in terms of political impartiality and credibility whether CBS was informed and deliberately withheld from the people the now-known state structures.

@nnjack9931 3 года назад

The most beautiful place in the world!

@troyortiz2414 3 года назад

Interesting video

@anactaneustheeleventh2542 3 года назад

Why not!!!!!

@rachelgarber1423 3 года назад

Very sweet story

@celathianaaron6057 3 года назад

That bar really reminds me of the simpsons I hope to have a drink there one day 🍻

@arislopes1924 3 года назад

how about the geographical center of the Americas & the continent as a whole that would be matiguas Nicaragua

@abcd123906 3 года назад

The coordinates that the Buffalo professor calculated, for those who care to stick it in to Google Maps and see: 47.176, -101.3021. Cheers! :-)

@dancinkindofguy1352 3 года назад

It's true that North Dakota doesn't rank high on bucket lists. I had been to all other 49 states for several years before I went to North Dakota just to say I had been to all 50.

@keithhyttinen8275 3 года назад

Add Greenland and the center moves to Munising, Michigan.

@angelagillett1033 3 года назад

It really depends on where you mark from

@lobitome 3 года назад

The flaw with the balancing map is that it included a Central America. North America ends at the border of Mexico & Guatemala.

@armandovera2304 3 года назад

Town of Center. How cool..

@morbidlyoppressed9038 3 года назад

At least the border is open

@peredavi 2 года назад

Well, isn’t that nice! That cutout balanced on a pin includes CENTRAL AMERICA! Anyways, Me and my German shorthairs love North Dakota and all of its pheasant , Huns and sharptails. There is a place in Kansas that says it’s the center of the US. Also lots of pheasants. The Great Plains and it’s nature is beautiful.

@pokeapple 3 года назад

Center, ND is the brownest town I’ve ever seen. May just be the season though.

@alexjv1370 3 года назад

Yeah in the Dakotas the autumns are very short, pretty soon there is going to be a ton of snow everywhere.

@delvictor7570 3 года назад

This looks like it was filmed this last winter. ND had one the smallest snowfalls in its history. It should have been all white.

@msseedlady2587 3 года назад

We're in the worst drought in state history at the moment, but this could have been filmed in late winter or early spring.....we had a very mild winter. I do recommend visiting from May-September....it really is a beautiful state full of songbirds and other wildlife and some of the prettiest sunrises/sunsets/night skies you'll ever see.

@paulsmallriver6066 3 года назад

@@delvictor7570 bad drought

@BillSias-op7xw 3 года назад

Ah, suffering from this loss of identity, or, claim that the center is between all three and you are the Gateway.

@rucksackzen 3 года назад

Would love to visit the Dakotas.

@cyn.boujee4626 3 года назад

Hello handsome

@cyn.boujee4626 3 года назад

Dakotas is a nice place a friend of mine live there

@cyn.boujee4626 3 года назад

How are you doing?

@spencerphilippinedream3706 3 года назад

well you have a pretty good movie named after your biggest city. so theres that.

@battlebeard2041 3 года назад

Maps, and to a lesser extent, globes are distorted by the projection methods used in their creation. Landmasses are stretched and skewed in various ways to better represent the details that said maps are intended to focus on. One can’t just grab a man made object with it’s inherent flaws, poke at it, and decide things about the world. Satellite surveys and a good amount of calculation could settle this debate.

@danielmconnolly7 3 года назад

The Earth is Flat, not a globe.

@battlebeard2041 3 года назад

@@danielmconnolly7 Troll be hungry. 🥱

@dlbstl 3 года назад

Longitude and latitude coordinates are how the most recent Center was found.

@twstf8905 3 года назад

Hmmmmm.... 🤔 Their little, "experiment," just HAPPENED to land the Geographic Canter not only in their small North Dakota town lol but directly underneath the property in which they were sitting, at the moment, conducting the so-called; "research." I'm feeling slightly more confident in the Rugby conclusion, myself. (To be perfectly honest.) The methods involved just seem a little less biased.

@MichaelZerr_7 2 года назад

With beer anything is possible

@erich84502ify 3 года назад

Its like a desert yet, with cold winters 😛😝🤪😜😂😆🤣😊🙂

@jonathanleonard1152 3 года назад

This points out the difference between a Mercator projection as a way of mapping as opposed to using a globe. Of course with a globe the “center” would be many miles below the surface of the land.

@cyn.boujee4626 3 года назад

Hello handsome

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@toniace2274 3 года назад

Dammit i was giggling the whole time! Wtf😂😂😂

@ryanbarker4422 3 года назад

Florida and Ohio.

@JeffreyKahnartist 3 года назад

I”ll bet he didn’t want people to think he steals children’s candy too.

@ejohnson3131 3 года назад

So where is the center?!?

@craig3567 3 года назад

North Dakota may be the geographical center of North America (Canada, United States, and Mexico). However, the geographical center of The United States of (North) America, or The U.S.A. is pretty darn close to the capital of the Cornhusker football team state: Lincoln, Nebraska.

@rupert_1491 Год назад

Well we have this and a bunch of world records in construction

@larrysouthern5098 3 года назад

In the future " aliens" will land in CENTER...and take selfies...and probably take a few earthligs as souvenirs..... 👽

@Debbie9038 2 года назад

Wisconsin has the only available fourth corner of the world. In Wausau.

@cattigereyes1 3 года назад

Interesting earth is always changing..

@AckzaTV 3 года назад

0:27 3d printed goose sky writing?

@beyourself2444 2 года назад

Wow, North Dakota...

@popowazhere 3 года назад

This is awesome 😂

@social3ngin33rin 3 года назад

lol neat :) Also, nice of that one guy to acknowledge he's in a boring state, saying it's a "loser state" lol Most people would dig their heels in and defend their puny state lol But I do love good food, so the diners are hopefully nice :)

@markfornefeld299 8 месяцев назад

This place would be the perfect place for the three amigos summit that has the United States Canada Mexico to meet

@chrisward4576 3 года назад

They probably like it out there on the Prairie because most people are probably very normal, I want to live somewhere like that not in California

@primordialleftovers2197 3 года назад

Also: The Last place Russia would drop a nuke!

@lisapogatshnik6799 3 года назад

It actually would be one of the first. If North Dakota was it's own country we would be the third largest nuclear power.

@paulsmallriver6066 3 года назад

@@lisapogatshnik6799 I grew up in Minot and remember the Air Force hauling nuclear missiles through town. At one time Minot was first. Scary.

@lisapogatshnik6799 3 года назад

@@paulsmallriver6066 It's pretty sad that at that time, more Russian's knew where ND was than American's.

@mikemc4549 3 года назад

Hey ...leave Kansas and it's worlds largest ball of twine out of it.

@2011blueman 3 года назад

This is just makes me sad for that town. It's even worse than bragging about being from the corn palace town.

@volcanowb 3 года назад

No. It would change per the rate of the earth's precession.

@LadyPenelope 3 года назад

LOL...great story, if not a bit absurd! 🤣😂

@elizabethhenning778 3 года назад

It's not even a whole state. It's half a state.

@elchapojr6219 3 года назад

North Dakota lol I want to go on vacation their

@ScoobyDooIsDead 3 года назад

Only place worth visiting is Theodore Roosevelt national park

@dannmarceau9743 3 года назад

Rugby wins again.

@maritubes78 3 года назад

Well.... us Central Americans do not consider ourselves part of North America. So....

@dystopiaisutopia 3 года назад

And? You still are part of it. Now go cry about it and move to Columbia.

@alexjv1370 3 года назад

@@dystopiaisutopia I think he means culturally and everything, geographically yes but everything else might be no 🤷🏻

@dystopiaisutopia 3 года назад

@@alexjv1370 north America doesn't have a culture lol

@patricesage331 3 года назад

It's a Continent. It's land. Canada is on the North American Continent. You can not consider yourself part of a Country. Like the U. S. or Canada. But not sure you can just consider yourself separate from all of the dirt n grass and land & water mass of an entire Continent 😆 that's not really how land masses work. Land doesn't care what us mammals Think hahaha.

@patricesage331 3 года назад

Although..... Central is technically kind of an in between or either or? So, I am not certain how or who decides which land mass you belong with.. bit still I, land doesn't care about opinions its land....

@bhumphries1360 3 года назад

If you un-liked this video, you must have failed geography in high school.

@Im2Old4ThisShite 3 года назад

I'm curious about how you arrived at the conclusion that geography grades have something to do with not liking this video. As if, "who gives a crap", "this is a ridiculous and irrelevant argument", or the scoffing at the absurdity of which, Americans find reasons to argue, can't be valid reasons to dislike this imbecillic argument. Just FYI, I had a 4.0 all the way though school, 1600 on my SAT score, 99 on my ASVAB test (1984) and am a member of MENSA and guess what? I've hit dislike on this video.

@patricesage331 3 года назад

@@Im2Old4ThisShite I love this comment So much!!! I think very similar thoughts so often about comments that decide to judge a person's morality based on a RU-vid like or dislike or just hateful judging in comments in general, towards strangers because of a thought or opinion they shared I always wonder.. just curious if they are really so hateful to people with opposing views? Or so narrow minded they cannot hear another viewpoint & must belittle the person? Or insult their intelligence or wealth or values? Because they don't agree with you? I rarely ask tho because I dint want to be seen as sticking up for the opposition and get hate & anger thrown at me as well. So, love seeing your comment cuz I've thought it so its nice to see my question plus I m not the only 1 curious about this behaviour... thats nice to know. ...is it just strangers online or do people feel this way towards those around them in real life too if they have opposing views? (And keeping it secret?)Is someone around Me secretly raging at me??

@Im2Old4ThisShite 3 года назад

@@patricesage331 I couldn't dream of saying I understand why people behave the way they do. All of the years I've spent in other countries with the Marine Corps, I've noticed that Americans, more so than most others, have this toxic attitude that their opinions and needs trump all others. Yes, that pun pleasantly presented itself and I shamelessly used it. 🤭 But specifically to social media, so many people online have this notion that THEIR opinion is the only valid one. Just yesterday I was reading comments in a Tom cruise interview where person after person after person after person proceeded to detail what, why and how Tom Cruise felt and behaved towards another actor. AS IF, they had the most remote privilege of knowing Tom Cruise personally and could make these statements the way one of Tom's friends, family or coworkers could. It was positively astounding to read.

@patricesage331 3 года назад

@@Im2Old4ThisShite part of why I loved your comment was specifically the way you worded your opening. "Curious" about how they arrived at the "Conclusion." The curious, as I am too cuz I just cant even begin to guess so I'm very Curious of how they got THERE. and it also almost never sounds like a viewpoint or their opinion so Conclusion was a good choice. 👍if I get brave enough to enter the online word war I will likely steal / borrow your words haha. Thanx for validating my bafflement. 😁

@Im2Old4ThisShite 3 года назад

@@patricesage331 steal away my dear....steal away!