OptionalI Mean . . .
Tempus FugitEvery Republican presidential since Reagan has dragged us into a war of some sort.
I mean sure they’re hawkish too, but they haven’t started a war since LBJ.
LillyPipHoly cow my man. Do you live on here?
Like, not agreeing with the guy, but if you assume that he didn’t respond to you in an hour because he can’t, as opposed to just having a life, that’s a far more negative reflection on you than him.
Most people aren’t on here every waking hour. And if you are, I genuinely recommend you self reflect and maybe step away from the keyboard a bit.
No, but when I say something controversial, I tend to monitor replies for a short while in case anyone responds.
I don’t tend to troll, but I’d expect a troll to monitor even longer, since otherwise what’s the point?
You also need to factor in update delays. Sometimes its hours before you are notified that someone replied.
😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈Nah, you just sound like a prick.
Personally, I find it distasteful to default to “man” when referring to people that you’re unsure of the pronouns of, especially those that are seemingly female presenting. This is an example in choosing your battles, because nitpicking someone detracts from their point. Pettifogging and such.
Furthermore, I think the number of sentences in your reply is entertaining, for someone criticizing another for spending too much time on this app. Also yes I am indeed pettifogging. =^}
Listen my guy, I definitely don’t read all these dude’s usernames when I post.
But while I’m sure being misgendered is upsetting to any hombres I’ve mistakenly done it to, I feel like there’s a difference between misgendering some bro in real life and over a faceless medium like a message board. Or, as I like to call it, a man-ssage board.
… And yeah, I’m overly wordy. It’s just how I post. Stream of consciousness bby!
FYI the user is Russian:
JackbyDevI didn’t imply it and I sincerely fail to see how my remark on your beloved democrats is relevant to my ethnicity or nationality
I’m not American either, but it’s pretty relevant when you’re in a proxy war with the country you are criticizing.
wonderingwandererThat depends on whether you consider the russian imperialist invasion of a neighboring sovereign nation (Ukraine) to be a proxy war with the US and Western Europe
By the standards of the Nuremberg trials, every president since Eisenhower has been a war criminal. Chomsky wrote a piece on this in 1990, giving brief but convincing arguments for every president individually up till then. The pattern hasn’t stopped since then. Bush needs no argument, I hope. Obama has his explicit protection of the torturers of abu ghraib, the expansion of the drone program which killed thousands (including hundreds of civilians), killed an entire wedding. Biden bombed Yemen, Syria, and others, and of course the genocide. Trump, I hope, needs no argument. Terrorist state.
pelespiritInstead of Gen Z, let’s just say every republican this term. He cheated, but a whole shit ton of people still voted for him. I don’t think he needed to cheat.
Low effort generationalism again.
Never seen it.
If you live long enough you’ll see there are behavioral patterns shaped by time. Not everyone uses generationalism to divide. It is a legitimate classification system.
All generationalism is good for is distraction from the class war.
It is a legitimate classification system.
LOL
My point exactly.
lumpenproletariatHey we lived through Iraq twice!
Jo MiranWhat does this even mean? The proportion of gen z trump voters was way lower than millennial trump voters in 2024
Regardless these arbitrary generational divisions are worse than meaningless
Generations do have voting habits though, someone from gen Z is not voting for the same reason as the boomers. When people from the younger generation make choices that will hurt their future it should be realized and understood so hopefully later elections (heh for the current system) they can understand why some people aren’t in their best interest and things adjusted.
Mean for voters that want the current situation then they’re assholes cause they voted for someone with the worst outcome of the planet and society in mind.
Generations do have voting habits though
What you mean to say is simply that environment influences behavior. “Generations” are just arbitrary buckets that reinforce stereotypes and create division.
washingtonpost.com/…/generation-labels-mean-nothi…
Please don’t say what I meant to say. If I am incorrect i am is all. I think generations have a valid similarity because of the world at the time.
Mean didn’t say the exact generations as said by books but people who grow up in a similar political and economic environment probably are impacted by that situation and that sort of happens, Which is more what I meant.
Meme templates often evolve past their original context. A good example is Spider-Man with his glasses. People use it with Peter putting his glasses on to see clearly, but in the movie he had to take them off because his vision was better without them. But without the context of the scene that’s (mostly) lost. (He looks sort of squinty with the glasses on, but still confused with them off.)
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TropicalDingdongIt’s weird whataboutism propaganda being out out by ABWD/ blue maga
As someone who served in both… yea. We all saw this coming for Iran. Gen Z buying into Trump and maga hurt a lot to watch.
I was three weeks ago old when I learned that college football exists in the USA primarily as a conditioning/selection tool for potential army recruits.
I don’t think that’s the case at all. College football is closer to communities in areas that don’t have bigger professional sports teams and is an extremely achievable goal for a lot of folks who want to play ball and go to school.
I would be sold if you told me that Hollywood was conditioned/incentivized to make movies idolizing the Army
Perhaps I misspoke saying “college” football.
I don’t really see how any of those facts you said are mutually exclusive with what I said.
If you think about football as a career, it’s a goldmine of people who didn’t make the cut and can enlist.
If you think about football’s skill development… it very much aligns with military teamwork etc.
Football selects for people who will follow orders, put themselves in harms way, and focus on the objective.
the-cauldron.com/the-nfl-is-one-giant-military-re…
