1945 v 2016

[Brett327]

Discorse and Debate is what I was referring to Sir, Not your D&D's. Now adays only the S.F. Folsom Street Fair Participants played Dungeons and Dragons as kids. It's not a pretty result.

When I was in the service, even the folks that we totally disagreed with most, were still hugged (virtually) at the end of the debate and were assured that we still loved them. I'm not seeing' 'da luv amongst the team members here lately.

Hey Brett- You know what drove me from the left? When I interned at KPFA 94.1 my senior year in Berkeley. I was an AP and Reuters Wire Copy editor/summarizer and I saw how skewed the left truly was. They forced me to re-write basic stories, time after time until they were skewed so far left, that they lost their factual base. All relevant facts were habitually and strategically skewed against the right! It was beyond the outer limits of rational journalism. I'm talking flat out lies. I saw what Reagan and his minions were spewing at the time and it was far more middle ground than what the left was spewing. Thus the switching of political teams.

I'm not sure what any of this really means. Since WWII, we've had a succession of both left and right leaning administrations. Shit happens and society evolves for better or worse. If you're basing your world view on what reality looked like almost 100 years ago, you're setting yourselves up for disappointment.

 

[HAL Pilot]

...blah, blah, blah...

Yup, you got me all figured out....guess I'll go crawl into my safe space....

 

[Brett327]

guess I'll go crawl into my safe space....

I think that's what we've all been patiently waiting for.

 

[zippy]

I'm pretty sure we can all sift through the list and provide anecdotal examples of elements of truth in most of it. I'm sure the list makes some people uncomfortable because of that, or maybe it was the swipe at their commander and chief at the end.

Sure we're more PC now, or at least are supposed to be, but treating people like human beings even though they're different from you isn't a bad thing.

But if you're banging in the wadi, you're probably not using a condom...

 

[RobLyman]

I'm pretty sure we can all sift through the list and provide anecdotal examples of elements of truth in most of it. I'm sure the list makes some people uncomfortable because of that, or maybe it was the swipe at their commander and chief at the end.

Sure we're more PC now, or at least are supposed to be, but treating people like human beings even though they're different from you isn't a bad thing.

But if you're banging in the wadi, you're probably not using a condom...

I had a novel I was about to post, but your post pretty much sums it up. Here is the short version...

"Tell me, Future Boy, who's President of the United States in 1985?"

"Ronald Reagan."

"Ronald Reagan? The actor?"

later on...

"No wonder your president has to be an actor, he's gotta look good on television."

That part of Back to the Future came to mind as I thought about why our leaders need to be politicians.

 

[HAL Pilot]

I think that's what we've all been patiently waiting for.

The poster child for that list speaks. My "don't give a fuck" quotient could not be higher.

 

[mad dog]

Dungeons & Dragons?

Dunkin' & Donuts.

 

[llnick2001]

And mad dog wins the thread.

 

[Randy Daytona]

1945 - we had older generations we could look up to.

2016 - we have pathetic, bitter, misogynist assholes like you, who have nothing better to do than complain on the Internet about a generation that collectively has more combat experience than you could dream about while jerking off in the shower after that Thai hooker said "no." So we move out and take care of business with our white, black, brown, yellow, male, female, gay, straight, cis, and trans shipmates . . . because that's what wins wars you never fought, old man.

Unfortunately I have to ask, what wars have we won since Desert Storm? And what is cis?

 

[sevenhelmet]

An old man, angry at how the world has changed, using a new medium to chuck spears at people with his pithy comments. How original.

One honest question: If you don't GAF what anyone else thinks, why bother posting it in the first place?

 

[GroundPounder]

Cis refers to people whose gender identity is in conformity to the gender assigned at birth.

Not sure where " cis " comes from, but that's what it means. My organization have recently had two people switch gender, I've had a crash course on the topic.

We had one go each way. M to F, and F to M.

 

[HAL Pilot]

An old man, angry at how the world has changed, using a new medium to chuck spears at people with his pithy comments. How original.

One honest question: If you don't GAF what anyone else thinks, why bother posting it in the first place?

I'm not that old or angry.

I've been using the internet and message boards long before you.

Outside a select few, I don't GAF what people think about me or my attitudes. I do GAF about what is going on in the country and world.

I also enjoy watching people like you lose their shit every time someone doesn't agree with you or think like you.

 

[squorch2]

ITT:

 

[IRfly]

 

[HAL Pilot]

I'm not that old or angry.

I've been using the internet and message boards long before you.

Outside a select few, I don't GAF what people think about me or my attitudes. I do GAF about what is going on in the country and world.

I also enjoy watching people like you lose their shit every time someone doesn't agree with you or think like you.

Last edited by a moderator: Today at 11:32 AM

Why do my post get edited by a moderator and not others? The reason stated was "name calling". Yet nittany03 can call me a "pathetic, bitter, misogynist asshole" and RadicalDude make a personal attack against me saying " sitting on your increasingly fat ass, punching numbers into an FMS and leering at flight attendants" but they aren't edited...

Not the first time this has happened and I doubt it will be the last. Definitely a double standard on here.