Our Parasitic Generation

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1 hour ago, Didba said:

It's true. Some of us just want equal rights for all citizens, healthcare/tuition reform, and legalized marijuana.  That doesn't make us extremists.

No , it doesn’t.

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5 hours ago, Didba said:

It's true. Some of us just want equal rights for all citizens, healthcare/tuition reform, and legalized marijuana.  That doesn't make us extremists.

All I want is money out of the political process.  Campaign finance reform, end to paid lobbying, no graft of any kind, minimal privatization of government functions.  The rest will take care of itself.

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On 12/12/2022 at 1:54 PM, CoffeeTiger said:

I was speaking more generally and historically how you respond to posts on the political forum. a quick one sentence jab is how you mostly communicate on here. You never even offer any commentary on  the things you post. You just throw up a link and maybe a one sentence quote like in this topic. 

But I'll repeat my assertion that the article was based not on facts or statistics but on standard culture war greviances that it's hard to argue against, because they hold no basis in reality anyway. 

The national debt is nothing new. It's just Democrats are in charge now, so Conservatives become fiscal hounds until the Republicans take over again and it goes back in the drawer. 

The military is short on recruits because of economic and societal conditions, not because of politics or wokness, like Republican politicians claim. 

https://www.armytimes.com/news/2022/09/15/test-scores-drop-disqualification-rates-rise-at-army-recruiting-shops/

There is no substantial change in numbers of people becoming interested in joining the military...problem is that potential recruits are more out of shape, testing lower, and hooked on drugs more than they used to be. The military is typically (not always) dependent on lower class, conservative individuals right out of high school with no real career plans. That group is becoming harder to recruit and so of course they are going to look to more under represented demographics and try to become more accepting of other classes of people

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That "lethal terrorist" was going to be released in 7 years when he finished his 25 year sentence anyway. The politicization of the military is a myth and is not the reason for a shortage of recruits. 

 

IE: "Conservatives are victimized by the FBI and media" no proof of that

IE: "White Conservatives are being victimized by racial equality" No proof of that.

I'd say the much bigger humiliation is the trillions of dollars, thousands of lives, and decades that our military and leadership wasted in such an obviously fruitless endeavor. That's what is humiliating....not the eventual withdrawal. 

 

Short term shortages of basic goods have always been a thing. inflation and gas prices are starting to recede and are nothing even close to some of the economic issues the US has faced in decades past...this isn't anything new. The vast majority of the US population are having no issues procuring baby formula or anti-biotics. 

Violent Crime in our cities was VASTLY higher in the early and mid 1900's when we were far from a progressive/liberal society.... Crime is a problem, but pretending like it's a new, liberal problem that America has never seen before is...again...completely contrary to reality. 

Maybe If you were a white straight man in the 1920s......but that's what modern Conservatives long for after all...going back to a time where white men ruled above all other demographics and controlled all the land, all the money, all the politics, and all the power. That's what people like Victor David Hanson really want to go back to. Their reality and worldview is only seen through one viewpoint and one set of experiences for one demographic and they don't care about anyone else.  

 

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15 hours ago, icanthearyou said:

All I want is money out of the political process.  Campaign finance reform, end to paid lobbying, no graft of any kind, minimal privatization of government functions.  The rest will take care of itself.

We'd be far better off as a country with public funding of election campaigns.

https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/reform-money-politics/public-campaign-financing

https://reclaimtheamericandream.org/brief-public/

 

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3 hours ago, PUB78 said:

 

Yes, we white people are truly the victims.  We have never hurt anyone and yet,,, we continue to be called racists.  We will overcome.

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3 hours ago, PUB78 said:

 

(Only not it your case.)