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[hashtag46]

homeless guy addressing some young protesters
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renard was right.
Those protesters look like privileged mostly white college kids.

I would add by paraphrasing eyer:
"Privileged kids who were raised to believe in Unicorns Fartland,", with no life experience of their own and who never experienced a day of hardship in their lives,
to be able to judge how real life works.

I was one of their kids too when I was younger, and I fell flat on my face after I migrated and experienced real life.
Hopefully someone will turn around the direction where the US and the entire world is heading, cause the second "2008" - like crash is almost a given.

 

[sr71plt]

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Those protesters look like privileged mostly white college kids.

Apparently you wouldn't know a white privileged kid from an aardvark.

For starters, I don't see a single smart phone. And two of the kids have Trump hair.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Apparently you wouldn't know a white privileged kid from an aardvark.

For starters, I don't see a single smart phone. And two of the kids have Trump hair.

I thought all white people were inherently privileged oppressors just because they were born white.....not that you or anyone else can actually ID or specify what that privilege is beyond the idea that is just exists hiding everywhere oppressing POC and Womenz.

 

[hashtag46]

Apparently you wouldn't know a white privileged kid from an aardvark.

For starters, I don't see a single smart phone. And two of the kids have Trump hair.

I wasn't necessarily referring to money.
Just look at their facial expressions and how they chose a pointless demonstration instead of organizing themselves more cleverly, like BLM does.


I'm listening to a fascinating audiobook "The Fourth Turning" in which two historians commented on the repetitive generational patterns (each generation comprising roughly 20 years out of an 80 years old cycle).
That the mood of every generation and the way in which they react to crises reflects mainly the way in which the previous generation raised them.

From what I read and saw online, It looks like you guys raised indulgently a generation of idealistic millenials, who know that things are heading the wrong way but react in a way that is too idealistic and out of touch with reality.

Australian millenials are not like that tho.

On one hand they are just as easy going and non-judgmental and tolerant of diversity as their american counterparts are.

But their parents were less narcissistic and individualistic than american Xers appear to be, and have a more cut-throat "accept responsibility and own your shit,and stop blaming it on anyone else and bend to authority's will" approach to life.
So they are far more pragmatic and have this "keep a stiff upper lip and swallow it and work hard" mentality.

 

[renard_ruse]

The aerial shots I've seen look very unimpressive. They've been reporting hotel vacancies all week, and plenty of places to park today. Not like most inaugurals.

I'm sure we'll be hearing later how it was the biggest ever, but it's not like Orange Julius hasn't lied about size before.

There were hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters. Of course, it wasn't like Obama's 08, when people thought it was "historic" because they considered him black.

If a dick measuring contest over whether there were x number more or x less makes you feel better, fine. Lots of people showed up, lots more watched on TV and on the internet.

 

[renard_ruse]

renard was right...

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[hashtag46]

Oh yes.

I don't agree with your often ethnocentric even racist views, but you often bring other interesting and informative things to the table. Just like with the "Assad's view on things threads" and so many others.

Even if I don't have the background or knowledge to be able zo judge the "he's right or wrong" aspect of your threads,
you certainly stimulated me and made me read things that I wouldn't have otherwise.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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Well...eat that "dick measure." And that's with a significantly warmer temperature to suffer a speech through. Cuz if Cheetos Shitstain's draw had matched either one of Bam's record turnouts, all y'all slobbin' on that knob would be swimming in a happy lake of your own baloney-bopped jizz right now.

Didn't get a mandate for his shit and he never will. Bottom line. That went in the official record books, so...I dunno what to tell ya, meng. Just enjoy your turn to DJ an almost empty club for four years and better luck for your velvet rope queue next lineup!

 

[Conager]

Who needs a mandate when you can erase nearly all of eight years, certainly every jot and tittle of the last six, with a pen and a phone because your predecessor didn't bother to enshrine much of his legacy into actual law?

There was that ONE disasterpiece of signature leguslation. Yeah. . .about that. . .

Stay tuned.

He'll still have those record crowds and that "historic" label to crow about, so there is that.

<insert meaningless skiddlydeeboopdebop language>

<insert self-congratulatory gifs>

 

[BotanyBoy]

Didn't get a mandate for his shit and he never will. Bottom line. That went in the official record books, so...I dunno what to tell ya, meng.

What?

LOL how did he not get a mandate?

Did you miss the part where he won the election or something?

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Who needs a mandate when you can erase nearly all of eight years, certainly every jot and tittle of the last six, with a pen and a phone because your predecessor didn't bother to enshrine much of his legacy into actual law?

There was that ONE disasterpiece of signature leguslation. Yeah. . .about that. . .

Stay tuned.

He'll still have those record crowds and that "historic" label to crow about, so there is that.

<insert meaningless skiddlydeeboopdebop language>

<insert self-congratulatory gifs>

What?

LOL how did he not get a mandate?

Did you miss the part where he won the election or something?

Electoral win only don't mean no mandate, bih.

That club he's spinning at is pretty easy to get into with no line at the door, ain't it?

<insert more would-be AAVE slang for moto-Que to update his dog-eared Negro Whisperer Playbook with>

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[Conager]

What?

LOL how did he not get a mandate?

Did you miss the part where he won the election or something?

Apparently, one only gets a "mandate" if one gets a couple of percentage points in the meaningless popular vote tally owing entirely to a racially motivated segment of society that shows up to vote for you, and only you, then goes back to complete disinterest in politics. Because "historic."

I've noticed something that's distinctly missing in the Post Obama era analysis. Not even people on the left are bemoaning the loss of his "leadership." They certainly miss the appeal he had in bringing voters to the polls but that's it. That's entirely it.

They hate Trump they hate everything Trump stands for but no one saying gosh if we just had Obama in charge, all of these problems would go away. If Clinton had been elected, Obama still would have been nothing more than a historical footnote. Sad.

 

[hashtag46]

homeless guy addressing some young protesters
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I just noticed:

LMFAO!

Look at all the big words and slogans that these 20 years old kids keep carrying around;

"We don't want Russia!"
"We want (or don't want) socialism!"

When I bet that, like most people, these kids have no idea where Russia is specifically placed on the geopolitical map, nor do they understand what Trump's angle is re his external politics platform,
and they have no idea what socialism entails.

Hell, we grown - ass people struggle to come at a consensus as to what true socialism might be, whereas these kids have already figured out the answer.


They look so ridiculous.

 

[sr71plt]

So, you're saying that, at twenty, you were still a kid and clueless? I sort of believe that.

 

[EternalFantasy]

Thanks, looked her up. Her pictures made me think of an old cross eyed siamese cat I had years ago.

You mean doe-eyed?

Chicks with Siamese cat eyes can be lethal

 

[Aquagal]

No. doe eyed is when someone has large innocent eyes like Audrey Hepburn. Abigail Blunt's were not big. Small, close set...almost crossed.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Electoral win only don't mean no mandate, bih.

What exactly are you talking about?

By every relevant definition of the term and in accordance with US laws as set forth in the Constitution it is THE mandate, there is no other with regard to the office of the President of these United States of M'uricuh.

 

[hashtag46]

So, you're saying that, at twenty, you were still a kid and clueless? I sort of believe that.

But also a bit true, unfortunately.

homeless guy addressing some young protesters
http://imgur.com/u2aJ8hS.jpg

I can't get enough of these HILLARIOUS pictures!

They look like the type of millenials who plan things in this sort of way:
"This weekend I'm gonna dye my hair and get that cool nose piercing, and then I'm going to attend this cool march with cool progressive signs that was organised at my dorm."
Instead of doing things in a more mature way like liaising with certain organizations or adults who know what they're talking about.

There's a similar trend going on in the dystopian genre ("The Hunger games", "Divergent" etc.) nowadays, which are flooded by the "Teenagers are saving the world" sort of thing. And those books and movies are selling by millions!

 

[pete]

But also a bit true, unfortunately.


I can't get enough of these HILLARIOUS pictures!

They look like the type of millenials who plan things in this sort of way:
"This weekend I'm gonna dye my hair and get that cool nose piercing, and then I'm going to attend this cool march with cool progressive signs that was organised at my dorm."
Instead of doing things in a more mature way like liaising with certain organizations or adults who know what they're talking about.

There's a similar trend going on in the dystopian genre ("The Hunger games", "Divergent" etc.) nowadays, which are flooded by the "Teenagers are saving the world" sort of thing. And those books and movies are selling by millions!

this was actually a very interesting little scene - these kids (who struck me more as high schoolers than college coeds) crossed the street full of enthusiasm and smiles, but when the homeless dude stepped up to them they froze. the first thing he asked them was "why are you here, what are y'all protesting?" they were all stark quiet, thunderstruck. he then went on about how he doesn't have a home, how he sleeps at the bus stop they all just walked by, how hasn't been respected by the pedestrian control cops who told him to pull his pants up, etc.
the kids had no response, and didn't seem to even understand what was happening.

culture shock.

 

[hashtag46]

this was actually a very interesting little scene - these kids (who struck me more as high schoolers than college coeds) crossed the street full of enthusiasm and smiles, but when the homeless dude stepped up to them they froze. the first thing he asked them was "why are you here, what are y'all protesting?" they were all stark quiet, thunderstruck. he then went on about how he doesn't have a home, how he sleeps at the bus stop they all just walked by, how hasn't been respected by the pedestrian control cops who told him to pull his pants up, etc.
the kids had no response, and didn't seem to even understand what was happening.

culture shock.

Indeed. That scene was so emblematic.
The nice part about it was that, notwithstanding the cluelessness and goofinness, they all seemed like nice kids.

 

[Emerson40]

this was actually a very interesting little scene - these kids (who struck me more as high schoolers than college coeds) crossed the street full of enthusiasm and smiles, but when the homeless dude stepped up to them they froze. the first thing he asked them was "why are you here, what are y'all protesting?" they were all stark quiet, thunderstruck. he then went on about how he doesn't have a home, how he sleeps at the bus stop they all just walked by, how hasn't been respected by the pedestrian control cops who told him to pull his pants up, etc.
the kids had no response, and didn't seem to even understand what was happening.

culture shock.

Worlds collide.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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a "mandate"

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[pete]

Indeed. That scene was so emblematic.
The nice part about it was that, notwithstanding the cluelessness and goofinness, they all seemed like nice kids.

it was nice that they stopped and listened to him.
ignoring or being nasty to the homeless isn't cool.

 

[BotanyBoy]

a "mandate"

Oh.....I see the problem now......you don't know what that word means.

Seems Sam Grittner doesn't understand the concept of the silent majority and your boy Pollock seems to not have any sort of clue how our democratic processes work.


What a fantastic display of ignorance, arguably the best of the week.