Is America in Decline?-A Culture Wars Discussion

[Jezcoe]

@TheRedComet

We keep the good things and throw away the bad things.

What is considered to be good and from era are we talking about?

[Samm]

@WuWei

That’s not what “disenfranchise” means.

You are right.

The disenfranchisement was in the dismissal. They could come along for the ride, but they had to sit in the back and keep their mouths shut. Fundamental change requires compliance of the masses whether they want to change or not.

[Jezcoe]

@TheRedComet

Speaking of the first idea that gets thrown away.

What’s wrong with kids having mementoes of being on a team and playing sports?

Kids know who wins and loses… they aren’t dumb.

Having a souvenir of being on a team is one of the weird culture war complaints.

[Samm]

Well, your last sentence is right.

[Jezcoe]

@Samm

Well, your last sentence is right.

Which side?

The side that burned the country down when they lost an election?

[Samm]

@Jezcoe

@Samm

@Jezcoe

@Samm

@Jezcoe

@Samm

@Jezcoe

Remember when Glenn Beck was promoting Bircher weirdos like W Cleon Skousen?

Yeah… me too.

Glenn Beck is your source?

Glenn Beck was highly influential in the Tea Party. He was their guy. He was Alex Jones with sanity.

C’mon man. He’s about as credible as Kieth Olbermann.

He was a major figure in the Tea Party.

I was here for it.

I remember

That has nothing to do with his credibility.

His credibility didn’t matter back then.

He was listened to and followed.

There was even a major 9/12 Tea party thing that he put together.

Glenn Beck was very influential seeing the Obama administration and he used that influence to spread the nonsense of old Bircher weirdos.

You over-estimate your enemies. Beck’s influence is very limited (and made fun of even by conservatives.) And he while he may espouse much of the same philosophy if the Birchers, he isn’t one.

Get a new theory. This one is badly outdated.

[Jezcoe]

@Samm

You over-estimate your enemies. Beck’s influence is very limited (and made fun of even by conservatives.) And he while he may espouse much of the same philosophy if the Birchers, he isn’t one.

Get a new theory. This one is badly outdated

I was here for it. I saw it happen. Glenn Beck was the dude. He was at the time the highest rated show on Fox News.

During his show he was introducing his audience to Bircher weirdos.

A few years later… the Bircher weirdos win the party with the help of the Dominionists

This isn’t ancient history.

We all watched it happen in real time.

[Samm]

@Jezcoe

@Samm

Well, your last sentence is right.

Which side?

The side that burned the country down when they lost an election?

Your side … Obviously.

[Jezcoe]

@Samm

@Jezcoe

@Samm

Well, your last sentence is right.

Which side?

The side that burned the country down when they lost an election?

Your side … Obviously.

I am not a vampire so I wasn’t alive in 1865.

I was on no side

[Samm]

@Jezcoe

@Samm

You over-estimate your enemies. Beck’s influence is very limited (and made fun of even by conservatives.) And he while he may espouse much of the same philosophy if the Birchers, he isn’t one.

Get a new theory. This one is badly outdated

I was here for it. I saw it happen. Glenn Beck was the dude. He was at the time the highest rated show on Fox News.

During his show he was introducing his audience to Bircher weirdos.

A few years later… the Bircher weirdos win the party with the help of the Dominionists

This isn’t ancient history.

We all watched it happen in real time.

I’ve been here over twenty years. Beck was about the Tea Party, not the Birchers. While many former Birchers may have been part of the Tea Party Movement, as an organization bearing political influence, they have not been a factor for decades. And in fact, their influence was never dominant. They have always been politically peripheral.

You still haven’t revealed where you got that nonsense.

[Samm]

@Jezcoe

@Samm

@Jezcoe

@Samm

Well, your last sentence is right.

Which side?

The side that burned the country down when they lost an election?

Your side … Obviously.

I am not a vampire so I wasn’t alive in 1865.

I was on no side

You are now. And it’s your side that is to blame for the decline of society.

[Zippy]

@gooddad409

You Know America is in decline when people even think about allowing Drag “queens” into schools to prance around and try to corrupt the thinking of our young children.

I remember bringing up such things during the whole homosexual “marriage “ debate. I would say that lowering the bar on marriage would serve to bring out every type of perversion expecting the same. To which without fail I was called a “conspiracy theorist “.

Yet here we are.

[PurpnGold]

@Samm

@PurpnGold

@WuWei

@PurpnGold

@WuWei

Why aren’t women hired first and exclusively if they’re doing the same work for less?

Because they are women?

In a capitalist system? Pure profit driven? That makes zero sense.

Discrimination doesn’t exist? Are you new?

Are you new? Discrimination against women in favor of men in hiring or promotion is illegal. Discrimination against men in favor of hiring or promoting women is not. The term they use to justify the former is “underutilized.”

Both are illegal.

[PurpnGold]

@Samm

@PurpnGold

@WuWei

Why are you hiring males?

I hire the best out of the candidates that meet the basic qualifications.

My last hire was a white male. My previous hire before that was an Hispanic woman.

Maintaining the balance, huh.

Do you have a computer algorithm to do that, or do you just wing it?

Nope. Both were the most qualified based on resume and interview loop.

[Samm]

@PurpnGold

@Samm

@PurpnGold

@WuWei

@PurpnGold

@WuWei

Why aren’t women hired first and exclusively if they’re doing the same work for less?

Because they are women?

In a capitalist system? Pure profit driven? That makes zero sense.

Discrimination doesn’t exist? Are you new?

Are you new? Discrimination against women in favor of men in hiring or promotion is illegal. Discrimination against men in favor of hiring or promoting women is not. The term they use to justify the former is “underutilized.”

Both are illegal.

But only one is ever prosecuted.

[Samm]

@PurpnGold

@Samm

@PurpnGold

@WuWei

Why are you hiring males?

I hire the best out of the candidates that meet the basic qualifications.

My last hire was a white male. My previous hire before that was an Hispanic woman.

Maintaining the balance, huh.

Do you have a computer algorithm to do that, or do you just wing it?

Nope. Both were the most qualified based on resume and interview loop.

So just lucky for you that another “best qualified” white male didn’t come along, huh.

[WuWei]

@Jezcoe

He wasn’t wrong.

Outstanding!

[WuWei]

@Jezcoe

That speech was an economic one.

You know better than that. Stop gaslighting.

[WuWei]

You don’t have kids.

[WuWei]

@Jezcoe

Having a souvenir of being on a team is one of the weird culture war complaints.

A trophy is a souvenir of winning. A team picture is a souvenir of being on the team.