Go West Young Man!

That’s commie talk! Everyone knows the Railroad was built by hard working, freeberty loving Americans (and a handful of Chinese immigrants, maybe. Only a little.)

It’s the old folk too. Most Boomers got soft after the sixties and never reclaimed their spines.

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You know it’s true.

Wait. Is the ground around the swing sets covered with rubberized mats? Do the steps up to the top of the slide have sure-grip coatings on them? (Did the city even allow for a slide to be installed?) Safety swing seats? With plastic coating the chains at least 6 feet up? And that playground had better not have a jungle gym with monkey bars!!

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:rofl: that’s funny.

Yep.

I have a better one in a book.

Our enemy changed, and so did our men. You can’t win a world war with cowboys.

It’s December 8th, 1941. Do you need rebels who refuse to obey blackout and radio silence? Or do you need smart, cooperative men who will pool their skills to make the greatest war machine on the planet?

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We would have defeated the Japanese much sooner if people back then were devoted more individualism than the collective good.

Know who did emphasize the collective over the individual back then? The Japanese. And they LOST.

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We have turn from the “lets roll” strength after 9/11 to “lets roll up into a ball” and hide with this virus. It’s sad really. :frowning_face:

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You’ve used that already in another thread…

Yeah, it’s funny how ridiculously dangerous our playgrounds were. That has been a very welcome change.

it means that culturally we have moved light years away from a pioneering spirit. OBVIOUSLY

If the kids can’t get tetanus, are they even playing?

you make a good point but you seem to ignore the transcontinental railroad was started in 1862 under Lincoln which the OP mentioned as a progressive. so not near as clever a comment as you intended.

Why would we want to?

Yeah, why are we taking Comanche land?

And yet cowboys and rednecks have won every war we’ve ever fought.

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yeah man, why work?

good question, I am sure there were never tribal wars until Europeans brought war culture to the indians

man did you see the size of the wave the Al Qaeda fighters used in Afghanistan.