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May 14, 2023, 3:43 PM

Is this the worst you have ever witnessed America being? The reason I say 50 or older is because I'm 52 myself and don't remember things this bad since the Carter administration.

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May 14, 2023, 3:52 PM



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there is no bigger disability in life than a


May 14, 2023, 6:09 PM

bad attitude.

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May 15, 2023, 9:50 PM


bad attitude.


If disliking you is considered having a bad attitude then I'm guilty as charged. I just get so tired of your endless nonsense on the football board. You could be a great person in real life but from what I read in your posts I don't care to find out.

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May 14, 2023, 4:30 PM

What specifically is the "worst" to which you refer? What (in your mind) is "this bad."

I mean, January 6 was clearly one of the lowest days in the history of the country.
But 9/11 was right down there, too.
In my lifetime, the economy was way worse in the Ford and Carter years.
Watergate was a terrible thing to live through.
And the thing I most remember about Vietnam is Walter Cronkite giving the daily body counts on the evening news, which wasn't great.

OTOH, while our economy has been better, it is doing better than our western peers. I think a lot of the people who are complaining about our current (for lack of a better term) "living conditions" are really soft people who have never been asked to make sacrifices. High gas prices? I guess they didn't live through the oil embargo.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is terrible, but the world is standing up to Putin and I think we see genuine reasons for optimism.

I hate that there are people in this country who don't welcome diversity and that they have been emboldened through the Trump years. I'm sure they think think it is worst. As LBJ said, “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” But I am confident those people are on the losing side of history and that our nation is better than them.

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May 14, 2023, 4:36 PM



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May 14, 2023, 4:41 PM

Oh, you are exactly that type of person, so I'm sure you don't like reading those words. Truth hurts.

A fifty-year-old doesn't remember the 1973 oil embargo. They wouldn't have been a year old.

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May 14, 2023, 5:11 PM



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May 14, 2023, 5:44 PM

I'm just sick of all these Liberal agendas being thrust upon us. I really hope DeSantis runs and gets elected. I think he would be a great President.

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May 14, 2023, 6:41 PM

So the real point of your post is that you are really angry and hope other people as angry as you about some vague "liberal agenda?"

Buck up, buttercup.

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May 14, 2023, 6:45 PM [ in reply to Re: ? For anyone 50 or older ]

T3Tiger® said:

Don’t worry bro. Nobody’s gonna take your birthing person status away. Pretty sure Germans don’t need to lecture anyone on human rights…especially those who benefited half their lives and college years living in a state that they now continually bash.




I'm American. I have German ancestry. (And I also am not to scared to use my name as my ID.) But is that really how weak you are to make a lame attempt to go there? Do you think you get points for lame ad hominems?

I actually don't bash South Carolina constantly, if at all - tell lies like that to make you feel better about yourself. Now I make no bones about bashing scared little MAGAts, whether they are in S.C., CT, or anywhere else.

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T3Tiger® said:

Don’t worry bro. Nobody’s gonna take your birthing person status away. Pretty sure Germans don’t need to lecture anyone on human rights…especially those who benefited half their lives and college years living in a state that they now continually bash.




I'm American. I have German ancestry. (And I also am not to scared to use my name as my ID.) But is that really how weak you are to make a lame attempt to go there? Do you think you get points for lame ad hominems?

I actually don't bash South Carolina constantly, if at all - tell lies like that to make you feel better about yourself. Now I make no bones about bashing scared little MAGAts, whether they are in S.C., CT, or anywhere else.


Living proof that more horses’ rear ends are in Conn than horses.

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May 14, 2023, 7:47 PM

T3Tiger® said:

Lol you literally started with an attack.

“Oh, you are exactly that type of person, so I'm sure you don't like reading those words. Truth hurts.”



The truth hurts. You were the one so easily triggered by my observation.

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May 14, 2023, 8:10 PM



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May 14, 2023, 9:18 PM

You think that "you were so easily triggered by my first reply" is "venom."

I don't believe for a second that you are 50+ given your childish comments.

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May 14, 2023, 9:39 PM



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Re: ? For anyone 50 or older … very long answer

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May 14, 2023, 9:28 PM [ in reply to Re: ? For anyone 50 or older ]

To respond to your first post, point by point:

What specifically is the "worst" to which you refer? What (in your mind) is "this bad."

“I mean, January 6 was clearly one of the lowest days in the history of the country.”

This was terrible, but not for the superficial reason that you espouse.
(*) DJT advised both Mayor of DC (Bowser) and Spkr of House (Pelosi) to call in the National Guard in advance of the J6 protests. Both Bowser & Pelosi refused.
(?) Does this look like a Trump led ‘insurrectionist’ activity to the brainwashed anti-Trump hoards?

(*). Recently released video footage of J6 shows the clearly identified (& armed) Ray Epps inside the barrier, exhorting the J6 crowd to go inside the Capitol Bldg. Yet the DOJ refused to hold Mr. Epps in custody on the alleged grounds of an ongoing investigation. Yeah, sure.

(*). Quickly arrested J6 protester Jacob Chansley, a guy on tape (video clip that wasn’t revealed on grounds of … wait for it, wait for it … “national security” grounds) who did nothing violent was immediately taken into custody on the grounds of being as the “face” of the J6 ‘insurrection.’ As soon as the newly seated Republican led House got release of the video, the sham arrest and incarceration of Mr. Chansley was exposed and he was released.
(?). Notice the difference in prosecutorial and ‘right to a speedy fair trial’ there was between Epps and Chansley? This whole J6 deal smells like another federal govt contrivance along the lines of Russia gate, the fraudulent attempt to indict Trump for pursuing Biden w. respect to Biden’s corrupt dealings in the Ukraine (re. false testimony against Trump as per Colonel Vindmann), the ‘golden shower’ fraud, the Trump fake rape case of E.Jean Carroll in which various laws were changed simply so that prosecution of Trump could be jiggered to be within the statute of limitations … and in which the rape allegation was determined to be false.

(***). Yes, the J6 deal was terrible, but only because the Federal Government had criminally conspired … again … to concoct a ‘crisis’ which they had fraudulently on Trump. The lefty narrative about the cause of J6 problems is wrong; the federal govt arranged for this … absolutely horrible.

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“But 9/11 was right down there, too.”
(*). Agreed, 9/11 was bad.

“In my lifetime, the economy was way worse in the Ford and Carter years.”
(*). Democrats controlled Congress (Senate and House) during both the Nixon and Ford presidencies. Nixon inherited LBJ’s Vietnam War; as the false economic benefits of war spending from the LBJ regime wound down, the economy slowed as money was allocated to paying the bill for the war while taxation rates remained high. Both Ford and Carter regimes suffered from this … along with the usual economic suffering when Democrats are in charge of Congress.
(***). For the immediate present, I agree with you in that the 1970s were a worse overall economic time than what we’re experiencing at this moment.
(!!!). If the inversion of the federal bond rate yield curve keeps getting steeper, then Biden might just be setting the table for years of grinding stagflation that eclipses that of the 1970s.

“Watergate was a terrible thing to live through.”
(*). Watergate is child’s play when compared to the Biden regimes weaponization of the USA’s bureaucracy against the political opponents to and critics of the Democrat party. Yet, today’s brainwashed lefties refuse to even contemplate the huge extent of the Biden admin’s weaponization of the bureaucracy vs the (relatively tiny) weaponization of the bureaucracy under Nikon’s presidency.

“And the thing I most remember about Vietnam is Walter Cronkite giving the daily body counts on the evening news, which wasn't great.”
(*). The USA armed forces killed Vietcong forces during the Tet offensive at a ratio of ~ 10 Vietcong for each 1 US soldier. The USA was employing the ‘go big’ war tactic that G.W.Bush failed to do against Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora. Yet, Cronkite, the articulate but militarily ignorant evening news personality giant, spoke of the part which scared him and lacked the knowledge to articulate the other side of the story. Not to say that the US should have been in that war in the first place, but Cronkite misinformed Americans as to the overall news story. Cronkite’s unwitting ‘talent’ in setting a low bar for TV ‘journalism’ indeed was terrible for the USA, and so I am in agreement with this part of your post.

“OTOH, while our economy has been better, it is doing better than our western peers. I think a lot of the people who are complaining about our current (for lack of a better term) "living conditions" are really soft people who have never been asked to make sacrifices. High gas prices? I guess they didn't live through the oil embargo.”
(*). Biden’s profligate use of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a means of artificially reducing fuel prices, along with coincidentally reducing federal gasoline taxes with gasoline tax cuts from the States, was for base political advantage. He ‘spent’ oil reserves that other administrations paid for.
(*). Now that Biden’s plan to depress the economy so that prices might fall, then maybe his anti-inflation plan will work.
(?). Will the benefit to America be worth the pain? I doubt that the trade off will be a net positive for America.

“The Russian invasion of Ukraine is terrible, but the world is standing up to Putin and I think we see genuine reasons for optimism.”
(*). Nervous about Biden’s handling of this (why does Biden ignore a key economic lever through which to hurt Russia, I.e., encourage the ramping up of USA natural gas production -&- subsequent big new exports to the EU?).
(?) Why won’t Biden be brave enough to ask his ‘green energy’ constituency to buck up and endure the flooding of the global markets with cheap nat gas to really hit Russia hard?

“I hate that there are people in this country who don't welcome diversity and that they have been emboldened through the Trump years. I'm sure they think think it is worst. As LBJ said, “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” But I am confident those people are on the losing side of history and that our nation is better than them.”
(*). This is pure B.S. The USA has long ago gotten past the ‘institutional racism’ (a term which is wildly abused by leftists of today) and encourages everyone to compete on the basis of merit alone in accordance with the equal opportunity for all philosophy. Arbitrarily changing the definition of ‘minority’ from its original broad definition to the exclusion of South Asians, East Asians, and North Africans from today’s definition of ‘minority’ illustrates the hypocrisy of the left’s ‘diversity’ narrative.

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May 14, 2023, 9:03 PM [ in reply to Re: ? For anyone 50 or older ]

grimm you are a joke of a person

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White men are extremely triggered and threatened that now

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May 14, 2023, 10:30 PM [ in reply to Re: ? For anyone 50 or older ]

marginalized groups are starting to catch up to them with legal rights and economic equity.

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May 14, 2023, 10:55 PM



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yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


May 14, 2023, 11:17 PM

sure.

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May 14, 2023, 11:28 PM



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I'm not sure of your point but I have no interest in seeing


May 14, 2023, 11:34 PM

you try to make it, so no need.

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May 14, 2023, 11:56 PM



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I'd have one if it merited one.***

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Oh yesssss … look around (open eyes first)

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May 14, 2023, 11:48 PM [ in reply to yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ]

Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Condoleeza Rice, Glenn Loury, Carol Swain … etc etc etc are among black people who have achieved tremendous intellectual acclaim by applying themselves properly (I.e., working hard and being disciplined into postponing short term gratification in order to reap the much greater long term rewards that are associated with professional excellence).

In other words, these leaders of America just so happened to follow the formula of doing the work themselves. None of that ‘I’m a victim of an unfair society; therefore I won’t apply myself towards a goal of acquiring professional skills’ excuse B.S.

If more lefties worked in a private sector job in which competition from other companies is stiff, then they’d recognize that employers are more than willing to hire skilled employees of any demographic. Blacks and Hispanics … and everyone else PLEASE apply.

Systemic racism? That (intentionally spoken without a meaningful definition) phrase is simply a race baiting expression that lefties hope will discourage ‘under represented minorities’ from taking charge of their own lives and becoming the next generation of the Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Condoleeza Rice, Glenn Loury, Carol Swain, Ben Carson type achievers.

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I have read your post.***


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White men? Nah, it’s the pub ed groups, URM, LGBTQ = ETS

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May 14, 2023, 11:33 PM [ in reply to White men are extremely triggered and threatened that now ]

If it’s the white men that are prone to ETS (extreme triggered syndrome), then why is it that the ‘under represented minorities,’ public education employee groups, and LGBTQ crowd are the ones that march and protest all of the time?

LGBTQ crowd are fighting to normalize aberrant education of children; since that ‘right’ has not yet been fully realized, I get it that the LGBTQ crowd recognizes that they have not (yet) achieved their goals to increase the percentage of sad people into hormonal or surgically altering themselves. So the LGBTQ crowd, easily triggered over public resistance to their agenda, has some justification in being perpetually triggered and in therefore having their embarrassing parades all the time.

As for the easily triggered public education employee organizations, they get furious when asked to justify keeping secrets from the parents of school kids. And this triggers them? In the comments part of one of the recent school violence articles, one teacher inserted … without any prompting from the article itself or other posters in the comments section … frustration with the public for accusing teachers of being groomers. Darn, she triggered herself into an outburst. ETS in its most basic form.

As for the ‘underrepresented minorities (URM),’ why do they … after decades of embracing MLK’s objective for society to measure a person by his/her merit instead of by his/her outward physical characteristics … suddenly decide to have ETS when anyone suggests that quotas based on outward physical characteristics should be de-emphasized and true merit based characteristics be prioritized?

Nah, it’s not the stereotype boogie man of lefties … the dreaded white male … that suffers from ETS.

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I have read your post.***

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May 14, 2023, 11:36 PM



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May 14, 2023, 11:49 PM

You are a gentleman and a scholar.

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Most of the time.***

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May 15, 2023, 5:34 PM [ in reply to Re: ? For anyone 50 or older ]


What specifically is the "worst" to which you refer? What (in your mind) is "this bad."

I mean, January 6 was clearly one of the lowest days in the history of the country.
But 9/11 was right down there, too.
In my lifetime, the economy was way worse in the Ford and Carter years.
Watergate was a terrible thing to live through.
And the thing I most remember about Vietnam is Walter Cronkite giving the daily body counts on the evening news, which wasn't great.

OTOH, while our economy has been better, it is doing better than our western peers. I think a lot of the people who are complaining about our current (for lack of a better term) "living conditions" are really soft people who have never been asked to make sacrifices. High gas prices? I guess they didn't live through the oil embargo.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is terrible, but the world is standing up to Putin and I think we see genuine reasons for optimism.

I hate that there are people in this country who don't welcome diversity and that they have been emboldened through the Trump years. I'm sure they think think it is worst. As LBJ said, “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” But I am confident those people are on the losing side of history and that our nation is better than them.


Please, do not ever compare January sixth with 9-11. Do Not ever compare the two in the same breath.

Ever!

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Economically? Great Recession and early 80s when Volker laid down the law.

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May 14, 2023, 6:50 PM

Societal? If the Nixon tapes are to be believed - the conservative movement did not enjoy civil protest and hippies and other things - in Nixon’s mind a lot of lawlessness and divergence from societal norms.

there has always been societal tension and global tension. Cold War baby! But like Lee Greenwood’s one hit wonder, I’m still proud to be an American.

I think as we get older, for many of us, everything looks and feels shittier. No matter what. Thats why old old people are mean. Their world keeps changing and they don’t like it.

I prefer they way I felt/thought of things under Regan - but then again that was me ages 11 through 19.

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May 14, 2023, 7:00 PM

I haven't seen it this bad as far as partisanship, and how literally every aspect of our lives becoming political, is concerned. Have seen worse economies and actually remember fearing nuclear annihilation growing up due to what all was happening in the world, and certainly nothing going on these days remotely compares to that, not even Jan 6th. I do agree with the sentiment above that we now cause most of our own problems, whereas in the past they were more externally initiated. For example, theres no good reason not to have control of our borders. This causes a myriad of social issues that we are ill equipped to handle. Literally every other first world country on the planet has enforced borders but we (both parties) just decided over the course of the last couple of decades to ignore or, at best, only make a token effort at border enforcement. If we, as a country want to allow millions a year to just walk in then we should pass legislation changing the laws to allow this to happen legally. The fact that never happens tells you our elected representatives know how unpopular this would be so they just stick their head in the sand instead. Totally self inflicted. I could go on and on but its the same old story over and over.

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I haven't seen it this bad as far as partisanship, and how literally every aspect of our lives becoming political, is concerned.



When you have one side denying election results and storming the Capitol to attempt to prevent the peaceful transition of power, you will unfortunately have some partisanship. But go ahead and continue to support the person who inspired the insurrection and complain about partisanship.

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No.

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May 14, 2023, 7:46 PM

Go touch some grass and look around. Real life is so much better than what FOX or Twitter is telling you.

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May 14, 2023, 8:39 PM

Pod world vs. real world.

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May 14, 2023, 9:11 PM [ in reply to No. ]

Translation: if you ignore the fundamental transformation the idiot libbies are attempting to do to the USA, it's still an okay place.

If you believe the USA can provide the freedom we have had in the last 50 years for the next 50 you are sadly mistaken. Between the dumbing down of the education system, the debt, the certainty of the dollar not being the world reserve currency sometime soon, the soaring corruption condoned by the left, etc. the trajectory we are on is a bad one. Much worse than ever before because of the combination of circumstances.

Easy times make weak men. That's what we have with the left - a bunch of no morals, no balls, wussies who have no idea how to check the oil in their car much less change it. Spoiled brats who have been taught grievance culture - everyone is a victim. And with social media, the game has changed. People can get dumb much faster than before.

FJB

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It's not a secret why you're so fond of the 1950s.

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May 14, 2023, 10:28 PM

But hey. At least you and AOC have something in common -- you're both miserable in spite of the unlimited prosperity and freedom around you.

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Re: It's not a secret why you're so fond of the 1950s.

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May 15, 2023, 12:05 AM

The freedoms are eroding quickly. This happens when the government can weaponization the bureaucracy against political opponents and private citizens who are critical of govt policies.

Where was Merrick Garland and the FBI to support federal law that citizens are forbidden to protest at the homes of SCOTUS judges? Contrary to Federal law, Garland ordered that no protestor was to be charged. Pure lawlessness with impunity.

Federal bureaucracy contrives ‘crimes’ by Trump but then does back-flips to avoid investigating Hunter’s laptop.

This kind of disease spreads rapidly. Only the fools who have deluded themselves into believing that ‘my side will never go after me’ are not concerned about this mortal threat to a functioning system of governmental checks and balances.

My goodness America needs to wake up, think, and make the restoration of an unbiased judicial system as America’s absolutely highest priority.

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What freedoms do you believe are being eroded quickly?***

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Crickets....he has nothing.***

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But seriously. If you think today is worse than 50 years ago

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May 14, 2023, 10:58 PM

log offline and spend a night reflecting about it.

Do we have greater economic opportunity and mobility? Without question.
Do we have more freedom? Without question.
Are we more aware of injustice, racism, sexism, etc. and having now having public conversations about it rather than pretending it doesn't exist? Without question.

People that wax poetic about the 1950s are just cherry picking Norman Rockwell mag covers and wanting to apply that to the whole era. The 1950s weren't some high point of economic or social idealism, except maybe if you're a white man who dreams about a submissive wife and a neighborhood without "the others." (And watch the crowd that gets triggered by that last sentence; they're telling on themselves.)

The people that are unhappiest today are people that are threatened by growing equity that heretofore has advantaged them, or people who are constantly doom-scrolling about "libs." If you think your children are threatened by a dragqueen story hour that's never taken place in your town and you've only read about it on the news, you're a crazy person, or just a bad parent whose kids little respect your opinion that they're more susceptible to negative cultural influences.

Every generation has thought the country is going to hell in a handbasket, when really things just keep getting better. You'd realize it if you unplugged from sources that peddle doom and gloom.

NC_Tiger can't, which is why he peddles racism and anger on here daily.

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Re: But seriously. If you think today is worse than 50 years ago

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May 14, 2023, 11:12 PM

If you think there is a white supremacist on every corner or that Christians are forcing their beliefs on you - also cuckoo.

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Yep. Cuts both ways.

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May 14, 2023, 11:15 PM

Hence my comment to NC_Tiger about what he has in common with AOC. Progressives and conservative populists are in a race to the bottom about who is most miserable and paranoid.

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Re: Yep. Cuts both ways.

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May 14, 2023, 11:22 PM

I seriously think there are people who want to be miserable depending on which political party has the most power.

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Just a way for miserable people to find more excuses to be

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May 14, 2023, 11:32 PM

miserable. How can a person be miserable when you can meet a random dude online and within a short window be getting beers with him and the fams on a beautiful day at a craft brewery.

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Re: Just a way for miserable people to find more excuses to be

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May 14, 2023, 11:49 PM

At least most of the miserable people don't hang out in the spots I do.

And the "you" in my response above was meant in a general way, not specifically.

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Duh. I only hang with happy people. ;)

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May 15, 2023, 12:00 AM

Cause nobody gonna kill my vibe.

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I disagree

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May 14, 2023, 11:16 PM [ in reply to But seriously. If you think today is worse than 50 years ago ]



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My points stand unrefuted.

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May 14, 2023, 11:30 PM

If you think it's 24/7 of people telling you everything that's wrong, turn off the internet (including TigerNet) and TV, and spend a week unplugged. This mentality just doesn't exist in the real world outside of Beltway politics.

And you are wrong about the state of the world. Mexico still has cartels, but drug war violence in Latin and South America is largely gone, and those countries have both stabilized and become refuges of American ex-pats. The European bloc of pro-West countries grows larger and larger, and we're witnessing a historic moment of Europe actually standing up to, and defeating, Soviet-style aggression. China is taking notice. This is opposed to, say, Germany just coming off the extermination of 6 million people because of their religion, Stalin in the USSR, Pol Pot in Cambodia, and just a whole bunch of crap everywhere else. The Middle East is liberalizing (comparatively), and the Iranian people are fighting for the rights stripped from them in the Revolution. I'm sorry, to say the world is somehow worsening is wildly inaccurate.

And entertainment is vastly superior. That's not even up for debate. HBO alone has more talent and better quality that almost anything Hollywood has produced for decades. And that's kind of the point. Who needs a handful of "super stars" when absurdly talented people can be found from independently produced films and shows up through streaming blockbusters. You have more access to more entertainment and talent than ever before in human history, and the barrier to entry for talented but unconnected people to breakout has never been lower.

I'm telling you. If you're miserable right now, that's on you.

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Re: My points stand unrefuted.


May 14, 2023, 11:53 PM



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Even if you are correct and not merely arguing personal

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May 14, 2023, 11:59 PM

nostalgia, objectively you'd still be wrong.

Vastly greater access to a wider variety of entertainment is objectively better. You even have better access to all those 80s greatest hits you love so much, instantly on your 70" TV that costs a fraction of what you used to pay for TVs, as opposed to having to run out to Blockbuster and hope they have it in stock and you don't have a late or rewind fee to pay.

It is objectively better you can stream virtually any song, from any band, of any era, on your phone and in your car without commercials or worrying about losing the signal going under a tunnel or in a parking garage because you can put 3 billion songs on your device.

And the quality of EVERYTHING is immensely better. You really want to go watch Tiger football on an 80s era TV, using 80s era transmission? Assuming it would even be televised in your area.

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Let me summarize:


May 15, 2023, 12:04 AM

Entertainment is better overall quality and infinitely more accessible, and you get it at a fraction of the price you used to pay. Even if you don't like said entertainment, you can't argue against the above.

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Re: Even if you are correct and not merely arguing personal


May 15, 2023, 12:16 AM [ in reply to Even if you are correct and not merely arguing personal ]



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Yes, technology, but that translates into:

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image/sound quality. cost. access. and, in spite of your personal opinion, better entertainment value.

So, basically, all the things.


EDIT: I'm going stop here. I can't argue against a personal opinion. I can only say that this is exactly what I talked about -- each generation thinks the next generation is doing it all wrong.

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Re: But seriously. If you think today is worse than 50 years ago

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May 15, 2023, 12:25 AM [ in reply to But seriously. If you think today is worse than 50 years ago ]

Much of what you say about today … 2023 … is true.

The biggest tinder box is financial.

Much of the EU countries, the UK, and also Japan are at the edge of their financial death spirals.

When the cost of paying the interest on sovereign debt exceeds the revenues which a country gets from taxes, they have reached the precipice of their financial death spiral.

The USA saved Japan (I forget if it was 2021 or 2022) by agreeing to a currency swap of $ for Yen. This was a short term break for Japan. Japan still has too many lovely … but unaffordable social safety nets … to keep them away from peering back down into the financial death spiral abyss again in the not-too-distant future.

(*). The fun times that are still available when traveling to Europe or Japan will change when those on the brink of the financial death spiral countries are forced to make the hard (translation: politically undesirable) decisions to cut back on publicly funded ‘good stuff.’

(***). Enjoy the good times overseas while they last. I suspect that most of us will live long enough to witness times that are not nearly as fun as today.

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Yeah. I'm not saying everything is aces...


May 15, 2023, 12:31 AM

but even financially...how does this compare to the way these places were five decades ago? Or, would you argue, in spite of the financial mess and upcoming rebalance, everyone worldwide has a better standard of living than they once did?

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Re: But seriously. If you think today is worse than 50 years ago


May 15, 2023, 12:40 AM [ in reply to Re: But seriously. If you think today is worse than 50 years ago ]



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Re: But seriously. If you think today is worse than 50 years ago

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May 15, 2023, 4:11 PM

LOL - my folks wouldn't buy a Japanese car because Pearl Harbor!

(It is probably a good thing that they haven't been around to see me buy Hondas.)

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How old are you?


May 15, 2023, 6:24 PM [ in reply to But seriously. If you think today is worse than 50 years ago ]

You sure don't seem too wise for someone over 50

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May 15, 2023, 9:30 PM



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May 15, 2023, 9:13 PM [ in reply to But seriously. If you think today is worse than 50 years ago ]

...except maybe if you're a white man who dreams about a submissive wife and a neighborhood without "the others." (And watch the crowd that gets triggered by that last sentence; they're telling on themselves.)

Um, I'm not sure if you've paid attention to who occupies this board, buuuuut...

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