I’m sure those family members could have provided care just as good as that provided by EMS. Plus: those family pay their(EMS) salaries. /s
We’ve been taking in everybody’s assholes since the dust bowl. A few get kicked back and everybody shrieks like a shrill little bitch. Suck it up Karen.
Signed,
A 3rd Generation Californian
33 years ago, a 29 year old fighter pilot wrote an article saying women shouldn’t be in combat. A SJW has complained and the pilot turned Sr VP has been pushed out.
I would be willing to bet that the SJW won’t ever contribute as much to Boeing (or the nation) as the VP. I also would not trust that SJW if it were my business. And what kind of loser takes time out of his or her life to dig up something like that? How about you get to know the man first to see what kind of person he is (rather than judge him by who he may have been when he was less than half his current age)? How about you ask him about the article face to face?
I wonder if Boeing had backed him and said it was 33 years ago, people should be allowed to grow and change and improve, if that complainer could have sued because the pilot’s mere presence caused pain and suffering.
Because l agree with your post in its entirety, l wonder how far this movement is going. Even if shut down in the near term, how many producers are pushed out while pursuing an intellectually bankrupt ideal.
Boeing is just another on the long list of faceless multi nationals that are determining social mores, taking the place of what was formally determined by family, faiths, and even government. I aways hated the term paradigm shift, but this seems like it.
Probably a little longer that “Occupy” and the “Tea Party”; with a few more reforms than came out of those two (some of which probably needed to occur)…but beyond that, there will be no “revolution” like the far left and the right are screaming.
Why? Because “true” revolutions come out of true suffering…
As one poster once said…the toilet water in the U.S. is cleaner than the water that a lot of the World drinks.
There are no marauding mobs chopping people up in the street with machetes, and breaking into their homes under the darkness of night doing the same.
Relatives don’t suddenly disappear to never to be seen again, or to be killed on site because of who they are or what they believe.
There is no mass starvation, famine and drought wiping out thousands, from infants to adults.
We don’t wake up to the sounds of mortars, attack helicopters…or feel the concussion of bombs dropped from planes we can’t even hear or see…or if shot or wounded are simply left to die in the street…
After a protest…many probably stop at a Subway or Pizza Hut…go home and take a nice warm shower in clean, warm water…binge watch their favorite show…and have a sound nights sleep.
You guys are smart. You get my point.
Believe me, folks…we in the West and in the U.S. have our problems, no question. And not everyone has it easy by a long shot…and we have citizens who suffer each and every day of their Lives… But we are not faced AS A NATION and PEOPLE with Lives that lead to revolution.
Flame away
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I dare you to post that on social media!
Actually agree with quite a bit of this. I think a lot of unrest everywhere is also because of lack of outlets. I mean we don’t have sports, movies, theme parks, restaurants, etc. A lot of people have suddenly had a shit ton of free time and are now spending it all frothing on the internet. I mentioned my towns Facebook news section going from anyone seen my dog to pure political fury. Grown men threatening to kick each other’s asses (and death threats) over mask memes in a county where I don’t think a single store denies entry without a mask and it’s not punishable by fine. But share why you should wear a mask or why a mask is a tool designed to turn you into a zombie and it’s bedlam. A lot of people not working with the usual distractions all shut down are acting like it’s time for civil war or something.
I get your point and I agree. This is not a flame.
However, here is the other side. After burning, destroying, and looting many small businesses, which probably took the owners 30 years to turn a profit, after causing 50 million dollars in damage in American cities that your tax money will pay to rebuild, after injuring over 150 cops, after voting to remove police from schools and not giving a fuck about a student’s safety, after numerous accounts of vandalism, after burning fast food restaurants, Target’s, and drug stores in poor areas that will never be rebuilt. etc.
Then they take a warm shower and eat a pizza from a place they didn’t burn down. You know, I agree with, that is probably the truth.
So, you have to ask yourself this: What are these people? What morals do they have? What kind of person seeks to destroy but terrorists? What person thinks destruction is the answer to anything?
Because we have a rule of law, a justice system and police. Attack the very systems that allow you to take a warm shower and sleep at night.
This post was not to attack you in any way, you have always been professional with your comments. You know far more more than me when it comes to politics and always read you comments when I can.
The examples you wrote are all true, but, only because we have a system of laws and the Constitution. Both, IMHO, are being slowly destroyed.
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No they don’t. See North Korea, Zimbabwe, the USSR… People who are really suffering are preocupied with their physical survival which takes up all of their energy and resources and do not revolt.
Real revolutions are instigated by (upper) middle class types who usually feel slighted or marginalized in the existing political system and want to reset the system and acquire a larger share of the spoils.
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Thanks for the compliments, @idaho…the same to you.
And I agree with you. This “Great Experiment”…that the World has never seen…that includes a Constitution (unparalleled in Human History); a system of Laws; and might I add, a public, private and governmental system of checks and balances …all serve to protect us from ourselves.
They also often shield us from the pain and misery seen in so much of the World.
Is the system begin destroyed? I tend to look at it more as being “strained and tested”, than being destroyed.
(Again…thank you for the compliments, @idaho…and for your service to this Great Country we call home…)
It depends on how you look at it. It has been a huge success for Marxists like BLM. They are winning. I believe the author of White Fragility makes 12,000 dollars for a two hour session of anti-bias training. And she is being hired. White Privilege is not just a theory and is taught as a fact. All of the BLM, intersectional, Marxist, critical race theory, LGBTQXXX (the extremist element) agenda is becoming more legitimate in spite of a lack of science or even fact behind much of what they push. The protests were a diversion while they dig themselves deeper like ticks in academia and politics.
The one thing we can probably count on is that they will end up eating their own as they get more power since they all need to out woke one another.
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Most definitely this, @zecarlo.
And as I have been thinking about this; I really think that there comes a “saturation point” where there will be a “Have you no sense of decency, Senator McCarthy?” moment directed at these Marxist and pseudo-revolutionaries. Fighting for basic Civil Rights afforded to all citizens is one thing…a lot of the bullshit they are pushing is another.
I think that it will just be a matter of time before (as you say) they begin to eat their own and more and more of the American People wake up to their true agenda.
This is a question that the media should be asking. I see two elements: the organized Marxists like BLM who have a clear agenda and who have been gaining more and more influence in academia. This is even before BLM existed. You already had Marxism, critical race theory, intersectional(ism), etc., establishing themselves and they were an influence on BLM. It’s as if you once had MLK being the major influence on young, future activists but now those people are influenced by the Marxist professors in the sociology classes they took.
The other element is the white, suburban kids who have shown a propensity for violence and destruction that is not only directed at things but at people. They chant about being against racism and violence yet dehumanize all police with slogans like ACAB. They don’t see their hypocrisy. There was a video of a protester insulting the cops, telling them that most don’t have college educations. What? She (he?) was judging people based on education? I thought they were egalitarians, not elitists. On a side note, I could imagine a cop telling her/him that, “if it makes you feel any better, the person who serves my coffee every morning has a college degree.”
These white people have beaten and even killed people. Where does that rage and violence come from? It’s as though they are even angrier than the black people protesting. Then you have the self-loathing when you hear white people say, kill whitey or that all white people are evil and racist. What is going on in suburbia that it is producing these mentally, emotional and often physically weak young people? They are examples of white fragility. What is going on that it is producing young people capable of extreme violence?
I believe we are seeing the results of what parenting started becoming in the 80s. I always thought the number one rule of parenting was to not create a future asshole who would be unleashed on society. You learned morals and values in the home and community and the schools taught things like the three Rs while enforcing those same values. Some parents started believing that their kids were special and by extension they were special. Bugs have babies so procreation is not really that special. The big shift was that parenting (and now it’s in the schools as well) went from teaching values and morals and how to be a good person to focusing on social and emotional health. Parents used to tell kids to finish their dinner because other kids were starving. It sounds trite but there are some important messages in it. Children’s feelings became the most important thing. Accountability and personal responsibility are almost oppressive ideas. Then they grow up and go into the world and find out no one cares how you feel, you need to be able to provide some value to others. You will be held accountable. Your truth is not as important as your boss’s. Thus, the need for society to change to work for them, so they won’t have to work.
Some of these “kids” have been arrested as police and the feds are going through video evidence. Part of me hopes their families go bankrupt hiring attorneys to defend their shitty kids.
And the fact that they have no problems hurting others shows that they were never taught to genuinely care about others and can easily dehumanize anyone they have an issue with. Parents have raised little vegan Nazis.
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Mentioned upthread about attacking the stop lights of our society, that have tradionally been followed voluntarily - rule of law, justice, etc.
Those things help stifle the inevitable strongman that crops up in every type of system of governance. Curious how every system including socialism, default to a chosen few that turn into ‘benevolent dictators’.
That is why l think this collection of movements should be crushed, before they utilize our own political system to overwhelm totally.
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It’s no coincidence that they target the young. Someone older and better educated can see through their nonsensical rhetoric. Have any of the three BLM founders actually debated someone in a public forum? Imagine one of them arguing with Thomas Sowell, Neil DeGrasse Tyson or, if he were alive, Christopher Hitchens (RIP). They make an effort to avoid any opposition and want their beliefs treated as established facts which negates debate.You don’t believe their “facts”; you are a racist.
So they teach (indoctrinate) young people by coming up with new definitions for existing words and create new terms for things (micro-assault, anti-racism, cultural appropriation, epistemic violence, positionality). It is Orwellian in nature. Here is the definition for antiracism to illustrate that point:
The opposite of “racist” isn’t “not racist.” It is “anti-racist.” What’s the difference? One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist, or racial equality as an antiracist. One either believes problems are rooted in groups of people, as a racist, or locates the roots of problems in power and policies, as an anti-racist. One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an antiracist. There is no in-between safe space of “not racist.” The claim of “not racist” neutrality is a mask for racism. This may seem harsh, but it’s important at the outset that we apply one of the core principles of antiracism, which is to return the word “racist” itself back to its proper usage. “Racist” is not—as Richard Spencer argues—a pejorative. It is not the worst word in the English language; it is not the equivalent of a slur. It is descriptive, and the only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it—and then dismantle it.
It gets better:
The identification of racism against non-white people in any situation is always possible and rarely, if ever, falsifiable because it does not have to be intentional or conscious (see also, impact versus intent). For example, if a black customer and a white customer entered a store at the same time, and the white sales assistant approached the white customer to offer help first, this could be identified as racism because it prioritized the white person’s needs (see also, centering). However, if the sales assistant approached the black customer first, this could also be identified as racism because it could be read as indicating a distrust of black people and unwillingness to have them browse the shelves unsupervised. The shop assistant’s perception of her own motivations are irrelevant, and, to be a conscientious antiracist, she would need to admit her racism and pledge to do better.
And yes, our kids are being taught this.
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What are some examples of true revolutions?
DAMN, @zecarlo!
You should write a book on parenting that 1) has only one page and 2) has this emblazoned on that one page.
BOOM! DONE! All you need to know!
(Love it!)
Not getting into an argument on this point, @NickViar.
History has numerous examples if you choose to research it.
