anyone else sickened by our society?

t@intshredder

t@intshredder

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Padawanbater2 said:
I completely disagree with this. America was at it's peak, imo, during the 1950's and early 1960's, right after WW2, when nobody else was around to compete.

Opportunity was literally everywhere. And that's the thing that most people, most older people these days just can't seem to realize.

Life was easier for people in those days, it is going to be harder for someone today to stabilize their financial and economic future in a more hostile financial and economic environment.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but it sounds to me like you're telling people how easy it was to live in the time in which they themselves lived. It also sounds like you're saying that only the younger people of today now know about the opportunities available in the 50s and early 60s. That's some flawed logic.
Also pleeeeaaasssseeee don't try speak for our entire generation when you claim that "it is going to be harder for someone today to stabilize their financial and economic future in a more hostile financial and economic environment.".
It might be hard for the slackers but if you are willing to tough it out in these "hostile" economic environments ...it's easy to have a stable financial situation AND future.
Gimme a break with this "poor us" nonsense. :roll:
If you want to have wealth - work for it. :peace:
 
Padawanbater2

Padawanbater2

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t@intshredder said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but it sounds to me like you're telling people how easy it was to live in the time in which they themselves lived. It also sounds like you're saying that only the younger people of today now know about the opportunities available in the 50s and early 60s. That's some flawed logic.
Also pleeeeaaasssseeee don't try speak for our entire generation when you claim that "it is going to be harder for someone today to stabilize their financial and economic future in a more hostile financial and economic environment.".
It might be hard for the slackers but if you are willing to tough it out in these "hostile" economic environments ...it's easy to have a stable financial situation AND future.
Gimme a break with this "poor us" nonsense. :roll:
If you want to have wealth - work for it. :peace:
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Look at any graph/chart of economic growth/economic opportunity in the United States' in recent history. Why do they call them "the greatest generation"? It's just my opinion, but it's backed up by fact, the United States had a booming economy right after WW2, and that's the only point I was making about the 1950's and early 1960's, opportunity was much more prevalent then than now, especially right now, according to the experts, we just got out of a pretty serious recession, how can you even argue with that? The point was directed at Magnificient, and he agreed as well; "You are right about America having prime opportunities during the 50s.".

"it's easy to have a stable financial situation AND future."

Dude, you must be kidding me right now. It has nothing to do with "being a slacker". It has everything to do with opportunity. Not to mention you have no idea of everyone elses economic or financial situation, how could you even make such a statement?

How exactly is it easy? Most people in our country barely make enough money to pay for basic essential expenses and maybe have a little bit left over to put away for savings. A lot of others don't, and many more go hungry a lot of the time, 48 million Americans according to a recent study I saw. It might be easier if you were born into wealth or were in some kind of position of power, which could be anything from a police officer to a politician, but it's definitely not "easy" for most Americans to raise a notch on the economic class.

Take your own advice and...

"pleeeeaaasssseeee don't try speak for our entire generation"
 
Magnificient

Magnificient

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Padawanbater2 said:
You are pointing out small, insignificant things. Look at the big picture.

How much is our country in debt?

How many people die on battlefields because of American politics?

How many people are harassed because of a plant?

How significant has a high school diploma or associates degree become?

How secure are our borders?

How science savvy are our elected officials, especially on really important issues, like climate change?

I mean fuck, this list could go on for days...

The things that matter, the important things are all pretty much getting worse from where I sit. Maybe it's because there's more stupid people... I've thought about that. Majority opinion has a huge influence and retards tend to teach their retard babies the same stuff they themselves became retarded from learning, so you get this cycle of retardation spread throughout the gene pool, and they're not capable of figuring out what's in their own best interest.

You ever see the movie idiocracy?






...people think that movie is satire.
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As I mentioned earlier, there are negative variables that I'd like to change. The big picture, in my opinion, is the overall picture. The things you mentioned above are eternal factors: our boarders have never been secured, we have never been out of a state of war, high school diplomas were more valuable to all previous generations down the line, our government has always been composed of prime idiots. All of these are eternal factors that we can't do anything about.

The question was about society, a variation of the word social, one persons ability to relate to another, the integration of all races in a mulit-racial population etc. So even though we have a cloud of those eternal negatives over us, our society is still better now than at any time in the past and continues to get better every year.

I believe I saw that movie that you mentioned, or a big part of it. I don't care much for SciFi, but I do watch some of it. I'm more into action/adventure and romance. Among my favorite movies has been Romancing the Stone and Oh Brother, where art thou. Both of those were comedy-type romance movies.
 
gumball

gumball

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society is bad because we let pieces of paper like constitutions, bibles, korans run our lives. that and we all allow slavery on a daily basis. thiis slavery is not a race thing. everyone ruled by the government is allowing themselves to be a slave to this very entity.

what is sad is even if there was another civil war, which there will be (it will be world war 3 because it will bleed from our soil onto all others), then we would fall into the same type of situation. why, because humans are lazy ignant fucks, ME INCLUDED.

sorry fellows, been drinking a little and came across a little brash. but these are my prophecies, and i do believe them all to be true. logn live death!!!
 
blazin256

blazin256

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our constitution is being raped. and how can you even compare the constitution to the bible and koran anyway?
 
blazin256

blazin256

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and the constitution wasn't meant to run our lives it was meant to run the government. but clearly it is the government running things now.
 
gumball

gumball

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blazin256 said:
our constitution is being raped. and how can you even compare the constitution to the bible and koran anyway?
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i didnt compare them, but different people each let these objects run their lives. just because it is written on paper doesnt mean it should be.
 
gumball

gumball

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blazin256 said:
and the constitution wasn't meant to run our lives it was meant to run the government. but clearly it is the government running things now.
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but they hold the constitution in front of them like a shield, and each side plays it to their favor. life grows sad everyday
 
Magnificient

Magnificient

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blazin256 said:
i have no idea what your talking about but wont engage it anymore cause i know your drinking.
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I think I understand what he means: You can attribute a huge majority of the world's troubles to misguided religions. I love the American constitution, I just wish we had a government that would show it some respect. I used to do a little drinking myself. Maybe that's why I understood him.
 
kingofqueen

kingofqueen

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I agree th 50-60's seem to be the golden days . A MAN work an honest job and live comfortably while his wife stayed home , own a house and car no problem ,the cost of living then seemed was well matched to earnings .

Now an average to below average family which accounts for a LARGE percentage of the population , both spouses have to work their ass off just to scape by and pay the rent/bills and most OWN NOTHING all financed or paying rent .What happened ? GREEDY GOVERNMENT has run this country to the ground . Have you seen on the news latly where our education in public schools is ranked ? We are buried by other countrys education systems .

I think we would be better off if ppl would become more self sustainable , stop relying on corporations to supply your food sources ,stop relying on fast food , grow your own vegetables , turn off the TV and video games pick up a book and learn something.
I,d say 90% of our population would not know how to survive if say some reason we lost our power grid for months or longer , it would be mass hysteria because we are WEAKENED by fast food, and retail marketing , do you know how to supply yourself with food , can and preserve food, make your own soap candles ? More people should learn to be self sustainable quite giving your HARD earned money to greedy corporations . They take advantage of us as does our government . Look at Mcdonalds a corporate monster . Take there dollar menu all geared toward getting you to spend your money cheap food right , Now let,s say your homeless and all you can do is beg for money then places like Mcdonalds are great right cheap meal for the underprivilaged and homeless , well I just saw on the news where some chains are xing the dollar menu making it where you have to spend atleast 3 dollars , and they did this SOLELY to keep the homeless and bumms out of the stores .Man what the hell A big company like that forcing homeless away remember that when you wheel up to the golden arches next time .

Time for REVOLUTION !
 
Magnificient

Magnificient

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kingofqueen said:
I agree th 50-60's seem to be the golden days . A MAN work an honest job and live comfortably while his wife stayed home , own a house and car no problem ,the cost of living then seemed was well matched to earnings .

Now an average to below average family which accounts for a LARGE percentage of the population , both spouses have to work their ass off just to scape by and pay the rent/bills and most OWN NOTHING all financed or paying rent .What happened ? GREEDY GOVERNMENT has run this country to the ground . Have you seen on the news latly where our education in public schools is ranked ? We are buried by other countrys education systems .

I think we would be better off if ppl would become more self sustainable , stop relying on corporations to supply your food sources ,stop relying on fast food , grow your own vegetables , turn off the TV and video games pick up a book and learn something.
I,d say 90% of our population would not know how to survive if say some reason we lost our power grid for months or longer , it would be mass hysteria because we are WEAKENED by fast food, and retail marketing , do you know how to supply yourself with food , can and preserve food, make your own soap candles ? More people should learn to be self sustainable quite giving your HARD earned money to greedy corporations . They take advantage of us as does our government . Look at Mcdonalds a corporate monster . Take there dollar menu all geared toward getting you to spend your money cheap food right , Now let,s say your homeless and all you can do is beg for money then places like Mcdonalds are great right cheap meal for the underprivilaged and homeless , well I just saw on the news where some chains are xing the dollar menu making it where you have to spend atleast 3 dollars , and they did this SOLELY to keep the homeless and bumms out of the stores .Man what the hell A big company like that forcing homeless away remember that when you wheel up to the golden arches next time .

Time for REVOLUTION !
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You have to keep in mind that the 50s and 60s were golden years only to middle class whites, during those years non-whites were still not able to walk down the street without getting something thrown at them, spit upon, or cursed by every white that went by, non-whites were not able to vote safely, doors to employment opportunities were closed as were educational opportunities. If we were talking about whites only, then yes, those were the good old days. Society, however, involves the whole population and not just our race and class. All we really accomplished during the good old days, socially, was to greatly alienate and enrage all other races. It would not take much today to cause all the blacks to riot. Rodney King would be a good example there, one small group of policemen beat him, but all whites were hated for it. Many whites were injured and sometimes killed, millions of dollars in damage was done, and Reagan even had to send in military forces. Rodney King actually had nothing to do with those riots, every black already had the rage brought up to them from the good old days and Rodney King was only the fuse.
 
juleswinnfield

juleswinnfield

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Revolution? America or even the world in general needs more than just a revolution, people are too lazy.

In alot of ways I hope the conspiracy fuckers are right.
 
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