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Hegel Exercises posted:What if we judged people on policy positions rather than age Perhaps boomer is a state of mind.
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K so normally I don't have time for succdems won't do anything cuz I'm pretty okay with not throwing kids into camps or losing the scraps we got from the ACA or not banning trans people from the military or any one of the billion terrible things this administration has done. A warm poop sitting on a desk would be a better president than pissbaby. But Biden not having any policy positions is real bad and he might actually not do anything!
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Are you suggesting a milquetoast status-quo candidate is still preferable to what's in office right now? They're similar, one just has a facade that doesn't curdle milk.
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May 5, 2019 17:45
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Didn't have time to come up with a plan to stop separating children and putting them in cages.
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May 5, 2019 17:45
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May 5, 2019 17:53
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what 4 people in the cabinet should that orange bitch kill
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May 5, 2019 18:02
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EBB posted:Are you suggesting a milquetoast status-quo candidate is still preferable to what's in office right now? They're similar, one just has a facade that doesn't curdle milk. I mean it would be nice if our cabinet officials weren't dedicated to the wholesale destruction of the agencies they're appointed to.
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May 5, 2019 18:14
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There’s a performance evaluation for you, peninsula style.
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May 5, 2019 18:18
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Boomers were born through 1964, so don't go throwing genX out with the bathwater. tbh gen x is pretty bad too.
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May 5, 2019 18:27
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I am one of the youngest individuals within the leadership department at my hospital and I hear the term "entitled millennial" probably once a week when there's an issue with one of the floor nurses. It's getting annoying having to reiterate that I myself am a millennial, which causes a ton of backpedaling and the usual "well what I mean is, there's Millennial's and then there's Millennial's . " Next time I get that statement I'm going to ask if I was let into the secret club of baby boomers and can now stereotype young people.
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I was only half joking about the over 40 crowd. I know people of all ages and status levels with garbage political opinions, but I regularly hear the most  stuff from the 40-55 crowd. Especially the dudes that served between the first gulf war and 9/11; they seem to be really salty about not getting any of that "SUPPORT ARE TROOPS" love. I dunno though, small sample size and all that.
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EBB posted:Are you suggesting a milquetoast status-quo candidate is still preferable to what's in office right now? They're similar, one just has a facade that doesn't curdle milk. I said warm poop on a desk would be a better president, so that's a bit redundant
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May 5, 2019 18:40
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FAUXTON posted:what 4 people in the cabinet should that orange bitch kill He doesn't have the guts to order an execution. He waited until Comey was on the other side of the country before having his bodyguard deliver the pink slip to a mailbox. Comey, who was trying to hide in the drapes during meetings with him. Republicans are a bunch of loving cowards. Every last goddamn one of them. It shows in everything they do.
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May 5, 2019 18:42
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https://twitter.com/shaneharris/status/1125086902510604288?s=19 Obama official? Why would Trump be hiring an Obam- https://twitter.com/LouDobbs/status/1123745787232628737?s=19 Three days elapsed.
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bengy81 posted:I was only half joking about the over 40 crowd. I know people of all ages and status levels with garbage political opinions, but I regularly hear the most The "SUPPORT R TROOPS" thing seemed like a backlash to anti-sticking dicks in beehive sentiments rather than an actual "care about the troops thing" to me. Like if you really cared about the troops, maybe don't put them in a forever war with nebulous goals?
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bengy81 posted:I was only half joking about the over 40 crowd. I know people of all ages and status levels with garbage political opinions, but I regularly hear the most These guys also tend to be the most pro-war, supercritical types. Everything in their day was harder, and those Browns are lucky they didn't turn him loose. Also, very pro war crime.
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I think "support our troops!" post 9/11 edition is the natural evolution from "yeah man I was almost a marine" multiplied by the guilt of supporting wars one didn't participate in. If you support the troops hard enough it's like you're almost one of them. They fight there, but you fight here, with your bumper sticker. It gets buy in from a lot of actual Are Troops because hell yeah they want to feel special. It's obviously a lie though because right outside of every military base in the United States is a small town of blood-red republicans whose entire local economy is based on ripping the troops off. Like if you actually want to support the troops, step 1 would be not selling one of them a stock mustang for 50k in expensive debt.
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bulletsponge13 posted:These guys also tend to be the most pro-war, supercritical types. Everything in their day was harder, and those Browns are lucky they didn't turn him loose. Also, very pro war crime. I'm unfortunate enough to have a few of those in my social circle. Yeah, all that time starching BDUs and polishing boots would for sure have paid off in battle.
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A Russian passenger plane caught fire mid-flight and it somehow still landed: https://twitter.com/InfosFrancaises/status/1125084803496386560?s=20
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DoktorLoken posted:A Russian passenger plane caught fire mid-flight and it somehow still landed: cleaner footage: SelenicMartian posted:A Sukhoi Superjet in Russia has caught on fire in flight, landed like a fireball.
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May 5, 2019 19:09
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May 5, 2019 19:17
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Aeroflot is the best. None of this boring safety and maintenance bullshit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUx3h63Xbpk
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Maybe it's the sociologist in me but I keep harping back to the educational changes since GenX/Reagan in conjunction with the commodification of media. The narrative has changed a lot and both the people that are still desperately clinging to power and the people poised to inherit it (because nobody cheats the linear progression of time) are massively uninformed and/or misinformed. Boomers were handed everything to them on a platter and used that cheap/free education, unions, etc. to live essentially a hedonistic lifestyle (compared to our generation) and the only way to ensure that the music keeps playing for them is to pull the ladder up and/or be racist as gently caress about who "deserves" it. They're all running out of time, but they've done enough damage that even in the best case scenarios our generation will never know the highs that theirs had. Because they still largely control the levers of power and they're easily manipulated by the media narrative (because back in the day the news would never lie!!!! as I've been told) so they're spending their twilight years sucking the marrow out of the bones of our futures either directly or by allowing it to happen when they're still in society's driver's seat. edit: I got into a discussion about college/jobs recently with a guy I work with. He said that back in the 70s he paid for college by working part time as a waiter, a stockboy, a landscaper, and as a bank teller. I remarked that it must have been a motherfucker to do all of those jobs and still manage to study. He remarked that no, he meant he did one of those things each year for four years. Over the summer. I told him that going to my local (state) university, living in a better-than-market rate apartment, owning my car, and living frugally would require working roughly 120 hours a week at minimum wage. Meaning that assuming I could find FOUR establishments to cover me for 30 hours a week, assuming of course that I was somehow superhuman and worked 7 days a week with hardly any sleep and everything meticulously lined up perfectly, I could graduate "self made" with no debt. Naturally I remarked that I could drop it down to a mere 60 hours a week across two jobs if it was 15/hour and he cries bloody murder about paying more for a cup of coffee. Vasudus fucked around with this message at 19:50 on May 5, 2019 |
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Vasudus posted:because back in the day the news would never lie!!!! if this is true, then it explains so many things
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TF CURES GENERATOR posted:if this is true, then it explains so many things I've heard this from so, so many old people both in-person and online just reading poo poo like comments on news sites (because sometimes I'm bored at work ok) that there's probably a lot to it. So many boomers lamenting how Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather would never lie to them and so on. Because people back then understood the lines between editorial content and news content, and having sensationalist editorials and reality television on news channels (or even the base concept of a news channel, I guess) was never a factor. edit: Like if you don't have a proper understanding of source vetting (or just take everything at face value) then man are you in for a wild loving narrative. It's practically a full time job remembering which loving billionaire owns which media source or which think tank they're funding. edit2: and by proper source vetting I mean applying more than two brain cells together and thinking that statements from the Coalition of Coal Producers saying good things about coal might be a tiny bit biased instead of saying A SCIENTIST SAID CLEAN COAL RULES BABY Vasudus fucked around with this message at 20:05 on May 5, 2019 |
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May 5, 2019 19:56
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McNally posted:Someone in my Gold Star Facebook group put together a spreadsheet of all the Congressfuckers who haven't cosponsored HR 553. Instead of listing names, I'm going to list Congressional Districts. Emailed IL-8
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Basically our country is driven by the fact that neither Boomers or Gen X got their Saving Private Ryan/Band of Brothers moment and we've spent decades since trying to convince them that everything from Korea to right now today was totally great and just and not at all a waste of life. The alternative to military hero worship is accepting how futile it's been and that would pop the poo poo out of our national identity of all conquering, Just And Holy super soldiers.
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May 5, 2019 20:14
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Those Maryland districts are about which you'd expect. People think Sean Hannity is a legitimate news reporter.
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May 5, 2019 20:15
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reminder that sean hannity had to say in court that he's a news entertainer and then promptly not more than week later defended himself on-air as a journalist for something completely unrelated
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sharknado slashfic posted:Those Maryland districts are about which you'd expect. My dream is to encounter him on the street. Mention that he promised to get waterboarded for charity 8+ years ago and so far hasn't followed through. And offer to go buy a towel and some bottled water so he can get it off his conscience. "C'mon, this is for the troops you pussy. You love the troops don't you? You're always saying how much you do"
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Vasudus posted:I've heard this from so, so many old people both in-person and online just reading poo poo like comments on news sites (because sometimes I'm bored at work ok) that there's probably a lot to it. So many boomers lamenting how Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather would never lie to them and so on. Because people back then understood the lines between editorial content and news content, and having sensationalist editorials and reality television on news channels (or even the base concept of a news channel, I guess) was never a factor. Let's not pretend having a media landscape completely dominated by a handful of corporate sources (even more so than it is today, and that's saying something) is all peachy either. Even if those sources were more or less factual, their framing of the conversation is itself editorializing. There was little to no widespread dissent of the idea of the United States as the crusading champion for peace and democracy throughout the Cold War and that is in no small part because of the ways news was presented to the public.
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https://deadspin.com/the-big-wet-president-blames-kentucky-derby-result-on-p-1834535087 I regret to inform you that the president of the United States has taken time out of his day to complain about how the results of a horse race were tainted by "political correctness." Exactly how that makes any sense...your guess is as good as mine.
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What happened with these stupid horses that is making stupid people lose their minds?
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Let's not pretend having a media landscape completely dominated by a handful of corporate sources (even more so than it is today, and that's saying something) is all peachy either. Even if those sources were more or less factual, their framing of the conversation is itself editorializing. There was little to no widespread dissent of the idea of the United States as the crusading champion for peace and democracy throughout the Cold War and that is in no small part because of the ways news was presented to the public. Oh no, certainly not. I'm not trying to paint certain things as necessarily better in the past, but rather as different. And it's the failure to recognize (or unwillingness to resist since they directly benefited) that things have changed.
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Horse racing seems really loving stupid. The kind of thing only rich assholes and gambling addicts would care about.
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A Bad Poster posted:What happened with these stupid horses that is making stupid people lose their minds? The horse that was first across the finish line in the Kentucky derby was disqualified. On the last turn the horse was on the outside ("4 position" I think they said), the horse spooked when the crowd came into view and cut across to a line nearest the rail ("1 position"). One or more horses were "interfered with" which is a euphemism for a collision or a forcing another jockey to take action to prevent one.
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Casimir Radon posted:Horse racing seems really loving stupid. The kind of thing only rich assholes and gambling addicts would care about. They do tend to run in the same circles!  In other news, our brave Israeli super-allies are hard at work shooting brown people again. NYTimes posted:Clashes Between Israel and Gaza Intensify as Death Toll Rises
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A Bad Poster posted:What happened with these stupid horses that is making stupid people lose their minds? The horse that crossed the finish first committed a foul on one of the corners and ran outside of its lane. This caused two other horses to slow down. As a result, that horse was penalized and did not win. The horse that crossed second is now the winner. This horse wasn't slowed down by the first horse going out of its. The two horses that got slowed would have likely been 1 and 2 otherwise.
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May 5, 2019 20:45
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Fuckin Hillary Clinton bringing in her illegal Mexican horses
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