In The Battle Against Cancel Culture, It’s Time For A Youth Rebellion<BR>[Buck Throckmorton]

In The Battle Against Cancel Culture, It’s Time For A Youth Rebellion
[Buck Throckmorton]

A recent opinion piece in the New York Post has been flying around, creating spinoff stories on Fox News and elsewhere, about how to fight cancel culture. Cancel Culture Is Out Of Control and Gen-X Is Our Only Hope

If Gen Xers want to spare our own kids having to live in the new East Germany these woke maniacs are trying to build, we can’t go on wearing our sunglasses at night. We have to do something, and we have to do it soon.

However, it really doesn’t say anything about how Gen-X might fight cancel culture – just to fight it. Sadly, those Gen-x-ers who are not already a part of Team Cancel Culture are the ones who have the most to lose because they are in their prime earning years, thus they are least likely to engage in the fight.

What this country needs is a good old-fashioned youth rebellion. Although we all need to play a part in stopping cancel culture, Gen-Z needs to start acting like the youth of all previous generations and stand-up to their elders who have made them stand-down on living their lives.

Dear Gen-Z:

Stop being obedient momma’s boys and teacher’s pets. There is no gold star for being most obedient to the demands of humorless, middle-aged Prius drivers.

Question authority. Until proven otherwise, assume that anyone telling you how to live your life is corrupt and is motivated by self-interest.

Reject credentials. Assume that anyone with a fancy title is a highly skilled networker, but otherwise lacks actual knowledge or skills. This applies to Generals, Public Health Experts, Journalists, PHDs, Ivy Leaguers with lots of initials after their name, etc.

Reject the traditional college experience. (If you must get a degree, you can do so online for a fraction of what the University Industrial Complex charges.) The only part of the traditional “college experience” that still remains is drinking and sex. You can still do that without going $100,000 in debt.

Thumb your nose at uptight bluenoses. The youth of previous generations enjoyed shocking “church ladies.” Well right now this country is overrun with Church Ladies Of The Left shrieking about global warming, and white privilege, and Dr Seuss drawings. Offend them. And enjoy offending them. And just so there’s no confusion, at least 50% of “Church Ladies Of The Left” are actually men.

Reject food pretensions. If you are getting in the habit of only ordering healthy, locally sourced, organic food, you are being groomed to be an insufferable church lady when you hit middle age. Eat whatever you like. You are too young to be acting so pretentious.

Question the nation’s prevailing religious faith, which is now The Sustainable Organic Church of the Carbon Apocalypse. If you eat beef and drive a gas-powered car, you will not have committed a sin, nor will it negatively impact our planet. But the high priests will be offended, and that’s a good thing.

Above all else, when some humorless scold tries to cancel you, just say “No.” When you are asked to apologize for something you said, just say “Hell No.” When you are asked to atone for something you once wore, laugh in their face and phrase “No” however you feel appropriate.

Then get back to partying, rebelling, and offending.

(buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com)

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Posted by: 1st at March 22, 2021 02:44 PM (rxR5g)

2 2nd wow

Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2021 02:44 PM (Cxk7w)

3 "

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 22, 2021 02:45 PM (DjiZK)

4 I'm starting to think of WA state as the "Karen state".

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at March 22, 2021 02:45 PM (5HBd1)

5 Just got here first so you get the honor of fetching thejorde

Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2021 02:45 PM (Cxk7w)

6 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)

7 Good luck with that.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)

8 Who is Gen X - the fortysomethings?

Posted by: kallisto at March 22, 2021 02:46 PM (DJFLF)

9 Gen Z is all about 'reset time' and 'safe spaces.'

If you're waiting for them to 'fix' this, we're fucked.

#WASTF, baby. It's what's for dinner.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)

10 Seems Gen X is the perpetrators of cancel culture to me

Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2021 02:47 PM (Cxk7w)

11 I think the current youth rebellion consists of melting down hedge funds via a reddit community...which is fine, for starters.

Posted by: kallisto at March 22, 2021 02:47 PM (DJFLF)

12 Ooo-ooo, black diamond!

Posted by: Paul Stanley at March 22, 2021 02:47 PM (E+OcO)

13 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at beautiful Chancre del Diablo ranch at March 22, 2021 02:47 PM (dbkIH)

14 Has anyone gotten the otters?

Posted by: kallisto at March 22, 2021 02:47 PM (DJFLF)

15 I'm a Gen X 50 something.

Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 22, 2021 02:47 PM (M+Lyo)

16 Our only hope is our youth? Not exactly Obi Wan Kenobi.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 22, 2021 02:47 PM (VVEnO)

17 Stop being obedient momma's boys and teacher's pets.

March 22, 2021. The day the glorious Maple Syrup on French Toast Rebellion began.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 22, 2021 02:48 PM (DMUuz)

18 X is post baby boom, so like mid or late 60s to 1981 or 1982.

Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021 02:48 PM (icI8A)

19
Let's make "Fuck Off, Karen!" great again!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 22, 2021 02:48 PM (3KcdH)

20 Uh.... I'm a Pepper!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at March 22, 2021 02:48 PM (fupSC)

21 The problem is we need the Fed Gov to step in and support Free Speech, which they are not.

And they are all WAYYYYY F'n Old. Biden, Pelousy, Schumer... 78, 80, 70.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 22, 2021 02:48 PM (oHd/0)

22 Seems Gen X is the perpetrators of cancel culture to me

Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2021 02:47 PM (Cxk7w)

Millenials and Zoomers, mainly, I suspect. Incels who have the most time to spend hanging out with the ultra-woke cancel mobs.

Posted by: 4 at March 22, 2021 02:48 PM (KnJdm)

23 Gen Z is split between the most opposed to all this shit and the biggest cult members. I sadly believe that the latter outnumber the former.

Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021 02:49 PM (icI8A)

24 The problem is that while the youth always have a reputation and alleged tendency toward rebellion, its not ever rebellion, its just following a different group than before. Its not like there were Hippies AND Punks AND Reaganites AND Goth AND Cowboys at any moment. People all tend to go a single path, or a very narrow range of paths, along with others.

Very few people walk a different path, almost all youth go the same "rebellious" path. Its not rebellion against the system or the culture, its rebellion against a certain part of the culture, such as parents.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2021 02:49 PM (KZzsI)

25 Cancel Culture is an exercise in power. Who is going to give that up, especially when there are no bad consequences?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 22, 2021 02:49 PM (E+OcO)

26 Seems Gen X is the perpetrators of cancel culture to me

Its mostly Millennials, with some late Zoomers in college. Gen X is the "leave me alone" silent generation everyone forgets.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2021 02:50 PM (KZzsI)

27 I think Gen X is 1965-1980.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 22, 2021 02:50 PM (uO7Ak)

28 And they are all WAYYYYY F'n Old. Biden, Pelousy, Schumer... 78, 80, 70.
Pelousy even took some time out from botox-ing to go on Italian TV to call Putin a murderer!

Posted by: kallisto at March 22, 2021 02:51 PM (DJFLF)

29 Uh.... I'm a Pepper!
Posted by: Biden's Dog at March 22, 2021 02:48 PM

#MeToo!

Also, my candles are on sale for scents off!

Posted by: Gwenyth P. at March 22, 2021 02:51 PM (DMUuz)

30 Seems Gen X is the perpetrators of cancel culture to me

Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2021 02:47 PM (Cxk7w)

No way. For the most part we are the people who know what's going on but are powerless to stop it. The sane ones in the asylum.

Posted by: ... at March 22, 2021 02:51 PM (uEbPt)

31 The two best words I learned in college were Bull and Shit. Prof told me to put them together and use frequently when confronted by knowitalls.
This is knowledge I've passed on to the kids.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 22, 2021 02:51 PM (axyOa)

32 And they are all WAYYYYY F'n Old. Biden, Pelousy, Schumer... 78, 80, 70.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 22, 2021 02:48 PM (oHd/0)

Like the end of the Soviet Union.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 02:52 PM (y7DUB)

33 "If Gen Xers want to..."
Lots of weight placed on that word "if." Like trying to drive a truck full of leaky dynamite over a log bridge. If they ropes hold.....

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2021 02:52 PM (hku12)

34 I'm Gen X. I have not noticed Gen X being particularly in on cancel culture. But maybe I'm out of touch.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 22, 2021 02:52 PM (H5knJ)

35 34 I'm Gen X. I have not noticed Gen X being particularly in on cancel culture. But maybe I'm out of touch.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 22, 2021 02:52 PM (H5knJ)

orrr... maybe you've already been cancelled? /smile

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 22, 2021 02:53 PM (oHd/0)

36 I don't think Cancel Culture is a generational thing. Seems like more of a mindset (liberal, progressive, Democrat) to me.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 22, 2021 02:53 PM (E+OcO)

37 younger gen x, i don't have time for revolution since im working round the clock to take care of kids and parents. i think we are the stuck in the middle generation right now as well as continue to leave me the hell alone

Posted by: nckate at March 22, 2021 02:53 PM (+6Fup)

38 First time I've sat down today.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 22, 2021 02:53 PM (W2Pud)

39 orrr... maybe you've already been cancelled? /smile
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 22, 2021 02:53 PM (oHd/0)

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Mind. Blown.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 22, 2021 02:53 PM (kTF2Z)

40 "Thumb your nose at uptight bluenoses."

I don't know why you had to bring sailors that have been North of the Artic Circle into this.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 22, 2021 02:54 PM (1ISKN)

41 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2021 02:49 PM (KZzsI)

We need to point out to youth, that the REAL rebels? Were the Founding Fathers.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 22, 2021 02:54 PM (oHd/0)

42
"Thumb your nose at uptight bluenoses."

I don't know why you had to bring sailors that have been North of the Artic Circle into this.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 22, 2021 02:54 PM (1ISKN)
Yeah!

Posted by: Archer at March 22, 2021 02:54 PM (gmo/4)

43 Rebellion now is now conformity.

Just ask 'Rage Against The Machine'.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 22, 2021 02:55 PM (ifmtJ)

44 Yeah, I'm Gen-X, and no way am I risking my job, and my family's well-being on this nonsense.

I'm actually surprised that anyone even remembers Gen-X even exists. We're called the forgotten generation for a reason.

Posted by: Gman at March 22, 2021 02:55 PM (GfWuY)

45 39 orrr... maybe you've already been cancelled? /smile
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 22, 2021 02:53 PM (oHd/0)

Mind. Blown.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 22, 2021 02:53 PM (kTF2Z)

Schrodinger's Cancellation?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 22, 2021 02:55 PM (oHd/0)

46 You can't put the genie back in the bottle. This only ends one way.

Posted by: Only Context at March 22, 2021 02:55 PM (QZ/dC)

47 21 The problem is we need the Fed Gov to step in and support Free Speech, which they are not.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 22, 2021 02:48 PM (oHd/0)
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The problem is you no longer have reliable elections.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at March 22, 2021 02:55 PM (fupSC)

48 "Thumb your nose at uptight bluenoses."

I don't know why you had to bring sailors that have been North of the Artic Circle into this.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 22, 2021 02:54 PM (1ISKN)
Yeah!
Posted by: Archer at March 22, 2021 02:54 PM (gmo/4)

Yup.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 22, 2021 02:56 PM (oHd/0)

49 Be a rebel. Go to church. The real kind. Not the one with the rainbow.

The best way out of a collapse from moral failure, is to rediscover morals. Rediscover the underpinnings of what we used to know as America. As the King James version describes the son who found himself in a pigsty and longed to get out of the muck - "He came to his senses."

Come to your senses and get out of the muck.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 22, 2021 02:56 PM (45fpk)

50 43 Rebellion now is now conformity.

Just ask 'Rage Against The Machine'.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 22, 2021 02:55 PM (ifmtJ)

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"Be an individual! Do everything for the state!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, for one day only, teaming up with Batman at March 22, 2021 02:56 PM (LvTSG)

51 Seems Gen X is the perpetrators of cancel culture to me

Nope. You're nucking futs. Almost everyone I know from my generation wants to be left the hell alone to take care of our own business.

Leave us out of the boomer/millenial/zoomer wars please

Posted by: Gman at March 22, 2021 02:56 PM (GfWuY)

52 Gen X played with their friends outside, learned how to tell stories, know how to engage with humans in a normal and reasonable manner, weren't overmedicated as children, had to go job hunting in person, and didn't have a cell phone until they were an adult. And even then all they could do was talk on it.

Posted by: ... at March 22, 2021 02:56 PM (uEbPt)

53 You want to be counter culture? A rebel? Cool, here's how.

Stay in school
Work hard
Dress appropriately
Go to church
Get married before having kids
Mind your own business

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 22, 2021 02:56 PM (kTF2Z)

54 The problem is the "indoctrinated" have come of age.

Posted by: pahound at March 22, 2021 02:56 PM (KIWeW)

55 Also, my candles are on sale for scents off!
Posted by: Gwenyth P. at March 22, 2021 02:51 PM (DMUuz)
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You have a wicked scents of humor!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at March 22, 2021 02:57 PM (fupSC)

56 huh

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 22, 2021 02:57 PM (yQpMk)

57 Insufferable is right. Busybodies are assholes. Busybodies somehow do not realize this. Cancel the busybodies. They need to realize how much they are despised by the vast majority of people. It is so anti-hippie, as in instead of Do Not Be An Asshole, their mantra is Always Be An Asshole. The Liberal Church Ladies must go. Oh, I am willing to bet a large percentage of them are Evangelical Atheists.

Posted by: I can get behind this movement to cancel people at March 22, 2021 02:57 PM (rxR5g)

58 I'm actually surprised that anyone even remembers Gen-X even exists. We're called the forgotten generation for a reason.
Posted by: Gman at March 22, 2021 02:55 PM (GfWuY)

I was hoping people would forget about us entirely. Tell them we're somewhere else, like Guam.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 22, 2021 02:57 PM (t+qrx)

59 Just ask 'Rage Against The Machine'.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 22, 2021 02:55 PM (ifmtJ)

LOL, fuck those limousine commie poseurs. "Rage Against the Machine brought to you by Capital One" was a thing just last year. Nothing says counterculture like being sponsored by an international mega financial org.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 22, 2021 02:57 PM (DXFDM)

60 I am a Gen X married to a Gen X. We are raising our Gen Z kids to know their pronouns: Fuck. and You.

Heehee!

Posted by: jmel at March 22, 2021 02:58 PM (RWHIh)

61 My nephews are Gen X and really turbo-lib.

My kids are millennials and conservative.

I am a conservative boomer

My husband is "silent generation" from which most of the 60s radicals came from. I don't get how they are "silent".

Posted by: CN at March 22, 2021 02:58 PM (ONvIw)

62 61 My husband is "silent generation" from which most of the 60s radicals came from. I don't get how they are "silent".
Posted by: CN at March 22, 2021 02:58 PM (ONvIw)

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Because the media ignored them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, for one day only, teaming up with Batman at March 22, 2021 02:58 PM (LvTSG)

63 What is the generation born in 1987? Boy928 is pretty based.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 22, 2021 02:59 PM (yQpMk)

64 The problem is the "indoctrinated" have come of age.

Posted by: pahound at March 22, 2021 02:56 PM (KIWeW)

Obama's Kids.

No, really. The 12 year olds who were singing hymnals to Ofuckstick are now 24 and making us pay.

Posted by: ... at March 22, 2021 02:59 PM (uEbPt)

65 Now you tell me! Over 12 years I pissed away $1M partying and chasing poontang. Now, I'm looking to become a ward of the State of Biden.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 22, 2021 02:59 PM (03n3v)

66 Every gen wants to think they are blameless. If Gen Z is the worst - well, who do you think are their parents?

Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021 02:59 PM (icI8A)

67 Gee, why now?
What happened to "There's no such thing as 'cancel culture' it's accountability?"

Oh right, the Left is starting to eat its own.

No Alinsky#4 good and hard.
Cancel culture isn't done until it has cancelled the cancellers, such as Alexi McCammond -- that one really spooked her fellow Lefty journos, huh? LOLGF.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 22, 2021 02:59 PM (bDqIh)

68 Most of GenX has been kept out of power. The few that have made it have been carefully vetted by the Establishment. Look at the Establishment, it is virtually all Silents or Boomers. The guy they just picked to head NASA is in his 70s.

My generation may be slackers. In their defense, we had to put up with the Boomers claiming to have discovered sex, drugs, and everything else. Meanwhile, they dictated the culture and kept saying X is the new 30. What was left other than going "whatever."

Posted by: WiNO at March 22, 2021 02:59 PM (O4X3m)

69 GenX also watched Russia collapse in real time in HS.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 22, 2021 03:00 PM (uO7Ak)

70 Because the media ignored them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, for one day only, teaming up with Batman at March 22, 2021 02:58 PM (LvTSG)

Even Angela Davis is "silent generation", they are way more radical than boomers who are sort of lazy and self-centered.

Posted by: CN at March 22, 2021 03:00 PM (ONvIw)

71 Back in the day, kids would get together and burn their draft cards. Today we need public mask burnings.

P.S. My plan to stick it to the ~~Man~~ Woman has come to naught. I got a juror summons instructing me to wear a mask. I thought the hell with them! I'm not wearing a mask and they put me in jail if they want! Not exactly heading to the hills with my shooting iron but it would be an open and notorious act of defiance. I emailed, as instructed, for a postponement because of a scheduled doctor appointment and added that I would not wear a mask. The jury commissioner, whom I know personally and who knows that I'm not particularly crazy, responded that since I didn't want to wear a mask, she'd postpone for a year.

Once again I'm reduced to bitching ineffectually on the interweb to a bunch of Morons!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 22, 2021 03:00 PM (VVEnO)

72 Rebellion now is now conformity.

Just ask 'Rage Against The Machine'.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 22, 2021 02:55 PM (ifmtJ)
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Yes, Bull on Parade, the Rage Against the Machine athem to Government control of guns. Proving Tom Morello didn't look up the meaning of "irony".

Posted by: Connor MacLeod at March 22, 2021 03:00 PM (FYe3W)

73 If Gen Z is the worst - well, who do you think are their parents?

Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021 02:59 PM (icI8A)

Well I think it's been generally agreed on that Millenials are the worst. Gen Z are the kids of Gen X.

Posted by: ... at March 22, 2021 03:00 PM (uEbPt)

74 We need to point out to youth, that the REAL rebels? Were the Founding Fathers.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 22, 2021 02:54 PM (oHd/0)
They were men who had rebellion embedded in their DNA though. England experienced constant internal turmoil and civil war for centuries. There's really no parallel here in the States. Combative DNA died out long ago...if we're talking about fighting for the Constitution and Liberty, anyway.

Posted by: kallisto at March 22, 2021 03:00 PM (DJFLF)

75 Nurse me too,but don't sit to long, keep moving

Posted by: Skip at March 22, 2021 03:00 PM (Cxk7w)

76 1987 is millennial.

Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021 03:00 PM (icI8A)

77 What is the generation born in 1987? Boy928 is pretty based.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 22, 2021 02:59 PM (yQpMk)

I think those are millennial. Early 1980s is X, mid and later is millennial.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 22, 2021 03:00 PM (t+qrx)

78 Gen Z, at least in my interactions with them, are just as brainwashed as the Millenials when it comes to politics if not worse. Which isn't surprising since they've been indoctrinated for the past ~20 years.

Posted by: Surfperch at March 22, 2021 03:00 PM (ovHX/)

79 orrr... maybe you've already been cancelled? /smile
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 22, 2021 02:53 PM (oHd/0)

Mind. Blown.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 22, 2021 02:53 PM (kTF2Z)

Back in the early days after Floyd George, I had a younger friend of mine, a woman, trying to tell me about the possible positive outcomes. She wasn't being flippant or otherwise stupid, she was expressing hope that maybe there was room for discussion.

I told her that it certainly seemed to be clear to me no one wanted to hear what I have to say, and she had to quietly contemplate that fact. And I think it dawned on her, that yeah, some of us have been pre-cancelled. There's not a damn thing we can do about it either. Time and genetics did it already. So be it.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2021 03:00 PM (oQ94s)

80 My kids watched "The One and Only Ivan" a "based on a true story" movie about a gorilla that was freed from a cruel mall zoo by a stunning and brave little girl who used the local news media to spark protests. Later that night, I read the true story and it turned out that the mall zoo owner had been trying to get the gorilla placed with a zoo for years and years but that it wasn't possible because zoos didn't want male gorillas. So tonight I'm gonna have a talk with the kids about media lies.

Posted by: Xander Crews at March 22, 2021 03:01 PM (MpOGS)

81 I am GenX and what defines us for the most part is we dont make noise, while going about our business.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:01 PM (Zx3Bu)

82 Just ask 'Rage Against The Machine'.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 22, 2021 02:55 PM (ifmtJ)

LOL, fuck those limousine commie poseurs. "Rage Against the Machine brought to you by Capital One" was a thing just last year. Nothing says counterculture like being sponsored by an international mega financial org.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 22, 2021 02:57 PM (DXFDM)

Yup. Makes me laugh. De la Rocha and Dee Snyder all the other 'rebels'. Kneelers, one and all.

I think Johnny Rotten might be the last real punk rebel left.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 22, 2021 03:01 PM (ifmtJ)

83 Do you remember when you could talk to someone who had an attention span of more than 6 seconds?

Posted by: ... at March 22, 2021 03:02 PM (uEbPt)

84 GenX also watched Russia collapse in real time in HS.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 22, 2021 03:00 PM (uO7Ak)

And were the last generation to be likely to just assume they'd die in a nuclear exchange with the USSR, as a given.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 22, 2021 03:02 PM (t+qrx)

85 Gen x is born mid 60s to 1980

Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:02 PM (Zx3Bu)

86 You rang?

Posted by: Satans Retards at March 22, 2021 03:02 PM (rxR5g)

87 GenX also watched Russia collapse in real time in HS.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 22, 2021 03:00 PM (uO7Ak)
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As accomplished by the "Greatest Generation".

After that, two boomers got into office and sold us to China out the backdoor.

Posted by: Axeman at March 22, 2021 03:02 PM (FYe3W)

88 Question the nation's prevailing religious faith, which is now The Sustainable Organic Church of the Carbon Apocalypse.

It's hard to come up with a good term for this superstitious, pseudo-moral hysteria. Doesn't have any relation to the divine, except for a diametrically opposing it. It isn't centralized or codified; it can't be. It changes from moment to moment. It's politics as a proto-religious impulse but rejects reality making actual political choices impossible.

I guess I'll just stick with the term nuFascist.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 22, 2021 03:02 PM (pAjZN)

89 My husband is "silent generation" from which most of the 60s radicals came from. I don't get how they are "silent".
Posted by: CN

The farting alone . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 22, 2021 03:03 PM (VVEnO)

90 I think Gen X is 1965-1980.

It depends, I think you can go back to 1962. The difference in generations is less what generation spawned them than how they behaved and acted when growing up. There was a sudden shift in cultural behavior in youth (around here at least) starting around 1962. It was like all the hippies quit and everyone turned into Alex Keaton from Family Ties. Teachers remarked on it, and were enormously relieved.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2021 03:03 PM (KZzsI)

91 Every gen wants to think they are blameless. If Gen Z is the worst - well, who do you think are their parents?

Yeah, a bunch of latchkey kids crying about how daddy wasn't at any of their little league games went full retard and decided being a good parent was being involved in every aspect of their children's lives full time. When in fact being a latchkey kid was Lord of the Flies writ small, which was in fact outstanding. It should have produced a generation of William Wallaces screaming "Freedom!" But instead we somehow got helicopter parents.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 22, 2021 03:03 PM (H5knJ)

92 Rebellion now is now conformity.

Just ask 'Rage Against The Machine'.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 22, 2021 02:55 PM (ifmtJ)
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Yes, Bull on Parade, the Rage Against the Machine athem to Government control of guns. Proving Tom Morello didn't look up the meaning of "irony".
Posted by: Connor MacLeod at March 22, 2021 03:00 PM (FYe3W)

I still enjoy 'Bulls on Parade' in ways the band wouldn't like.

Fuck yeah we rally 'round the family with a pocket full of shells...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 22, 2021 03:03 PM (ifmtJ)

93 63 What is the generation born in 1987? Boy928 is pretty based.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 22, 2021 02:59 PM (yQpMk)

Millennial. It kind of varies. But between 80-85 is kind of the estuary for Gen X and millennial. 81 and 82 that area and you are graduating in 2000-2001 so that seems like a good thing. I'm born in 82 and just don't have much in common with younger millennials nor a lot with the gen x

Posted by: Buzzion at March 22, 2021 03:03 PM (G2zl5)

94 The two best words I learned in college were Bull and Shit. Prof told me to put them together and use frequently when confronted by knowitalls.
This is knowledge I've passed on to the kids.
Posted by: Diogenes

Knowledge here folks. I would also add "So?" to the list. A. Breitbart used it to great effectiveness.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 22, 2021 03:04 PM (Rvt88)

95 I think Gen X is 1965-1980.

It depends, I think you can go back to 1962. The difference in generations is less what generation spawned them than how they behaved and acted when growing up. There was a sudden shift in cultural behavior in youth (around here at least) starting around 1962. It was like all the hippies quit and everyone turned into Alex Keaton from Family Ties. Teachers remarked on it, and were enormously relieved.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2021 03:03 PM (KZzsI)

I've heard 68 - 88 is Gen 8.
62 is way too early, too close to the baby boom.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 22, 2021 03:04 PM (ifmtJ)

96 Millennial. It kind of varies. But between 80-85 is kind of the estuary for Gen X and millennial. 81 and 82 that area and you are graduating in 2000-2001 so that seems like a good thing. I'm born in 82 and just don't have much in common with younger millennials nor a lot with the gen x
Posted by: Buzzion at March 22, 2021 03:03 PM (G2zl5)

Millennials are basically split between those who remember 9/11 and those who were too young.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 22, 2021 03:05 PM (jOcSX)

97 No, goddammit!

I said HANSEL culture!

Posted by: Gretel at March 22, 2021 03:05 PM (n/szn)

98 I don't identify as a Boomer. I'm trans-gener.

Posted by: Axeman at March 22, 2021 03:05 PM (FYe3W)

99 The most rebellious thing you can do nowadays is get married, have lots of kids, and be right-wing.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 22, 2021 03:06 PM (jOcSX)

100 Extremely powerful and prevalent propaganda might be the root of cancel culture. Faction building, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, yay! Now I have more friends! How to crush that? Ignorant, weak losers thrive on this shit. And there are a lot of them out there. Shame the hell out of them. Call them what they are, I guess. Losers.
Weak. Brainwashed. Sad!

Posted by: An observation at March 22, 2021 03:06 PM (rxR5g)

101 The difference in generations is less what generation spawned them than how they behaved and acted when growing up.

There's definitely elements of what generation spawned them. For me, the most reliable X/Millenial cutoff is "were you allowed to play outside unsupervised?". X is yes, Millenials are a hard no. A lot of Millenials freak out about Stranger Things showing kids just riding around town on their bikes with no adults.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 22, 2021 03:06 PM (ZGrMX)

102 My neighbors on one side are a young couple. Her dad owns the house and is their landlord. They are both 25ish so right at the GenZ/Millenial line. Good peeps as far as I can tell. I mean yeah the dude wears skinny jeans but other than that I like him a lot.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:06 PM (Zx3Bu)

103 Good letter to Gen Z, Ace. May they save our future from ourselves.

I think one goal of modern cancel/SJW/woke culture is to get the next generations conditioned before it's too late to be able to rebel. Chain them before they realize the chains are there.

I'm reading Mistborn, and there is a race of creatures called Kandra. The first generations want to control the others and keep everyone in line. Without being too spoilery, one of the POV Kandra is from a generation that was not conditioned properly to behave and be submissive. We are presented with the idea that being conditioned is a bad thing. We root for the Kandra trying to do what it can to rebel, and get the next generations to rethink their conditioning.

Brandon Sanderson might be a lefty, but despite that, all good fiction that stirs the soul has a conservative bent to it. And the idea of free will and individual liberty is, in our modern era, a defiantly conservative one.

Posted by: LizLem at March 22, 2021 03:06 PM (Rbfr/)

104 Should have called the band Rage Against American Democracy. That's the Left in a nutshell.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2021 03:06 PM (5t7Yo)

105 In polite disagreement with the cob, the suggestions are bad. It's 60's/70's rewarmed leftovers. Rebelling for the sake of rebelling is stupid and got us into this mess. We need a positive solution that says the other side is trash.

- Christianity (the traditional kind)
- Intact families
- No to alternative families, lifestyles, etc.
- Pro-life
- no to social media, develop real life relationships
- responsibility for yourself and you neighbors

Posted by: WiNO at March 22, 2021 03:06 PM (O4X3m)

106 Anyway, I think when it comes to radicalism, we boomers get bum rap. Even the rock and roll druggie "rebels" were "silent", including Joplin and Hendrix.

Posted by: CN at March 22, 2021 03:06 PM (ONvIw)

107 William Shatner (Captain Kirk) turns 90!

Posted by: SMOD at March 22, 2021 03:07 PM (3aI0K)

108 Find any vegan or animal rights rally in your area, and attend. While conspicuously chowing down on a huge cheeseburger or large container of retail fried chicken. Popeyes, KFC, Church's.. won't matter, just make sure the branding and contents are clearly seen.

Smoke a large cigar right at the boundary of such places that ought to allow them, but don't. Public parks are notorious now for this. But that sidewalk that borders the park? Go on a stroll and smoke tour there.

Have lots of fun at very possible moment, smile a lot, and be helpful to WORTHY people around you. Let the church ladies change their own damn tire though, while you point and laugh. Tell them "for YOU, chivalry is dead. because YOU killed it." You get the drift. Never stop fucking with what few brains they possess. TORMENT THEM.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 22, 2021 03:07 PM (QzJWU)

109 All the cutoffs are arbitrary, anyway. If you're born in 1983, you might technically be a millennial, but you probably don't have a lot in common with the people born in 1997 or so.

Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021 03:07 PM (icI8A)

110 I still enjoy 'Bulls on Parade' in ways the band wouldn't like.

The Paolo's lady friends, they are quite - how you say? - enthusiastic about bulls on parade.

Posted by: Paolo at March 22, 2021 03:07 PM (2JVJo)

111 Should have called the band Rage Against American Democracy. That's the Left in a nutshell.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2021 03:06 PM (5t7Yo)
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Rage Against What We Rage Against, Now Please Submit to the Machine, You White Supremacist Bastards.

Posted by: Axeman at March 22, 2021 03:08 PM (FYe3W)

112 Paris says NON to lockdown: Streets and parks are packed with people enjoying the spring sunshine despite draconian new Covid restrictions

Posted by: SMOD at March 22, 2021 03:08 PM (3aI0K)

113 Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 22, 2021 03:03 PM (H5knJ)

Thanks for your advice on the other thread about jury service. How on earth would I know if any witness was being coached off screen?

Posted by: CN at March 22, 2021 03:08 PM (ONvIw)

114 Cancel mobs are comprised of bullies. Who is more likely to be a bully, a Z , a millennial or an X?

Posted by: Javems at March 22, 2021 03:08 PM (8SSHh)

115 I mentioned this before but the "Red Rocker" was on XM radio telling folks it's ok to rebel but now what is needed is to do the right thing and mask up.

Hahaha....Wonder what Sammy will say when it's time to load the box cars.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 22, 2021 03:09 PM (vQkRp)

116 Do you remember a time before the internet? If yes you are GenX. If no you are a Millenial.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:09 PM (Zx3Bu)

117 Dear GenZ,

Have you SEEN the world the retards you're listening to built?

Have you SEEN how miserable most of those dumbshits are?

Then WHY on Earth are you LISTENING TO THESE IDIOTS?

You can do so, so much better. Start by looking at the things those numbskulls are telling you to reject.

Literally doing the opposite of what they tell you will make you much, much happier.

Yours in WTF,

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: No Blood for Congress! at March 22, 2021 03:09 PM (OUMaO)

118 114: A boomer. We were not told not to enforce "pecking orders".

Posted by: CN at March 22, 2021 03:09 PM (ONvIw)

119 The question being, ace, is whether the young crowd sees the country as worth fighting for ( and whether they have any spine in them). Courage now seems increasingly found only in a mob, whether street or social media. A future fight will involve individual courage, and I see little of that now.

Posted by: kraken at March 22, 2021 03:09 PM (bCLt0)

120 There's definitely elements of what generation spawned them. For me, the most reliable X/Millenial cutoff is "were you allowed to play outside unsupervised?". X is yes, Millenials are a hard no. A lot of Millenials freak out about Stranger Things showing kids just riding around town on their bikes with no adults.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 22, 2021 03:06 PM (ZGrMX)

Ha, I like that. My parents would have been arrested long ago for all the time I spent outside unsupervised. Growing up, I'd ride my bike with friends down to the general store to buy candy (about 2 miles), and we rode our bikes to school (probably sixth grade) a couple times (closer to 3 miles). AND! Only a quarter mile of that actually had a sidewalk. The horror!

Posted by: Mainah at March 22, 2021 03:09 PM (B+qrE)

121 William Shatner (Captain Kirk) turns 90!
Posted by: SMOD

And still banging green alien chicks.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 22, 2021 03:09 PM (VVEnO)

122 I remember watching the Berlin Wall go down. It had a profound effect on me.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 22, 2021 03:09 PM (W2Pud)

123 I was hoping people would forget about us entirely. Tell them we're somewhere else, like Guam.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 22, 2021 02:57 PM (t+qrx)

Be careful not to tip it over, please!

Posted by: InCali at March 22, 2021 03:10 PM (MBmq2)

124 William Shatner (Captain Kirk) turns 90!
Posted by: SMOD at March 22, 2021 03:07 PM (3aI0K)
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Kirk is like -300-ish.

Fun fact: They gave Kirk the same birthday as Shatner.

Of course, I don't know anything else about Star Wars, so don't call me a geek.

Posted by: Axeman at March 22, 2021 03:10 PM (FYe3W)

125 Cancel mobs are comprised of bullies. Who is more likely to be a bully, a Z , a millennial or an X?

Millennials. They were, as I said above, the first generation not allowed to play outside unsupervised due to the rise of helicopter parenting. That fucks you up in ways we're just now starting to recognize.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 22, 2021 03:10 PM (ZGrMX)

126 Granted it's a skewed sample because of my industry - and a generalization - but all the early to late 20 year olds I come in contact with now are arrogant little pricks who know better than you and do not understand the word "no".

This is a marked shift which I'd say occurred in roughly 2012 or 2013. Like, the people I met before that in that age range were generally well behaved, like a rational human being.

It was very noticeable when these people started popping up. They have an unmistakable air about them, as if you are the scummiest piece of shit under their shoe they've ever run across. But they fake politeness like a skilled politician, and it's 10x as infuriating.

Posted by: ... at March 22, 2021 03:10 PM (uEbPt)

127 All the cutoffs are arbitrary, anyway.

Someone tell this guy to shut up already. We have to protect our phony-baloney jobs!

Posted by: social "scientists" at March 22, 2021 03:10 PM (h5TKJ)

128 Unilateralism now = "rebellion". Check out my bad ink and piercings, while we vandalize and attend expensive private colleges with endowments equal to the corporations we decry.

Posted by: pahound at March 22, 2021 03:10 PM (KIWeW)

129 109

Yeah generations being 15-20 years long will always have that. A boomer born in 1946 doesnt have much in common with one born in 1963.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:11 PM (Zx3Bu)

130 Do you remember a time before the internet?

Heck, I remember a time before color TV.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 22, 2021 03:11 PM (45fpk)

131 William Shatner (Captain Kirk) turns 90!
Posted by: SMOD at March 22, 2021 03:07 PM (3aI0K)

Anyone who needs you to put Cap Kirk in parentheses doesn't deserve to know.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2021 03:11 PM (oQ94s)

132 Millennials are basically split between those who remember 9/11 and those who were too young.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 22, 2021 03:05 PM (jOcSX)

I boil it down to technological proficiency. Older millennials went from getting vcrs to dvds. To having antenna tv to getting cable and seeing massive satellites to dish and directv on every roof. From no computer in the house to having a laptop and then a computer in your pocket. From no internet to dial up to high speed WiFi. And we were the little bastards figuring it all out and explaining it to our parents. Younger ones can use the tech but they never had to figure out how it worked or go through 3+ generations of its evolution.

Posted by: Buzzion at March 22, 2021 03:11 PM (G2zl5)

133 All the cutoffs are arbitrary, anyway.

Someone tell this guy to shut up already. We have to protect our phony-baloney jobs!
Posted by: social "scientists" at March 22, 2021 03:10 PM (h5TKJ)
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Harrumph

Posted by: The Guy Who Finally Chimes in with His Harrumph at March 22, 2021 03:11 PM (FYe3W)

134
Beer and wine have been with man since practically the beginning. Certain hallucinogens, too.

But science gifted us with hard liquor maybe 700-900 years ago. And we're still cursed by our relative inability to manage its implications, even in a very modern context.

Mass media? It's only a touch more than a century old now, it's already disrupted our entire history and set it on a new course, and interactive mass media is so new that nobody has had time to catch up to its implications yet.

I doubt that Gen Z has the ability to execute a culture war any more than we did, but "best of luck," kids.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 22, 2021 03:11 PM (Uh2oA)

135 I'm pretty solidly millennial and was allowed to play outside unsupervised. My folks let me bike to Blockbuster. But we lived in a well-off neighborhood where almost everybody had kids, so it had that sort of old fashioned community feel where people look out for their neighbor's kids.

It wasn't really that long ago, just 25 or 30 years, but it seems so impossible now. It just wouldn't happen.

Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021 03:12 PM (icI8A)

136 The 29 year old tennis pro I hit with is conservative. He does like Ben Shapiro though so he's questionable.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2021 03:12 PM (5t7Yo)

137
Have lots of fun at very possible moment, smile a lot, and be helpful to WORTHY people around you. Let the church ladies change their own damn tire though, while you point and laugh. Tell them "for YOU, chivalry is dead. because YOU killed it." You get the drift. Never stop fucking with what few brains they possess. TORMENT THEM.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 22, 2021 03:07 PM (QzJWU)

This guy.

He gets it.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:12 PM (Zz0t1)

138 I remember watching the Berlin Wall go down. It had a profound effect on me.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 22, 2021 03:09 PM (W2Pud)

I remember seeing it, but was too young to appreciate the meaning. That hit me out of nowhere about ten years after, while I was waiting for a safe gap in traffic to walk across a street.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 22, 2021 03:13 PM (t+qrx)

139
I remember watching the Berlin Wall go down. It had a profound effect on me.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I have told people far younger than me -- scouts -- that the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall were two things that I never thought I'd see in my lifetime and both events were wondrous occurrences.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 22, 2021 03:13 PM (pNxlR)

140 T.J. Hooker did other stuff?

Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021 03:13 PM (icI8A)

141 The most rebellious thing you can do nowadays is get married, have lots of kids, and be right-wing.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 22, 2021 03:06 PM (jOcSX)

That and PIV - but I guess that's assumed.

Posted by: ... at March 22, 2021 03:13 PM (uEbPt)

142 Yeah generations being 15-20 years long will always have that. A boomer born in 1946 doesnt have much in common with one born in 1963.
Posted by: Joe XiDen

This. I've always believed there is a group born between 58 and 63 that were post boomer.

Posted by: Beartooth at March 22, 2021 03:13 PM (ZN7T5)

143 I've been noting that we edge ever closer to the O'Brien standard of "truth".

Nothing is true unless the state says it.

It's just amazing how the generation that is most responsible for iconoclastic "think for yourself" sloganeering is *so* responsible for this as well.

Posted by: Axeman at March 22, 2021 03:13 PM (FYe3W)

144 Knowledge here folks. I would also add "So?" to the list. A. Breitbart used it to great effectiveness.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 22, 2021 03:04 PM (Rvt8

"You're racist, sexist, Islamophobic, homophobic, ignorant, uneducated, bigoted, ... etc."

"Yeah, OK. What else you got?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 22, 2021 03:14 PM (YqDXo)

145 T.J. Hooker did other stuff?
Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021 03:13 PM (icI8A)
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Butt stuff?

Posted by: Axeman at March 22, 2021 03:14 PM (FYe3W)

146 Nice to see that Buck is using protonmail.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 22, 2021 03:14 PM (/XOcP)

147 Had a conversation with a woman yesterday over the impossibility that Keysone Pipepline required 38 permant jobs.

A 2,000 mile long pipline with 32 pumping stations operated by an average of 20 persons each. She finally understood that she is being lied to and manipulated.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at March 22, 2021 03:14 PM (n/szn)

148 A personal gripe - I hate anybody that acts like they're some sort of special, sophisticated genius because they like music from an earlier generation. "OMG Im such an old soul I loooove ABBA I was born at the wrong time1!!"

Everyone likes pop culture from earlier generations. It doesn't make you special.

Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021 03:14 PM (icI8A)

149 I remember watching the Berlin Wall go down. It had a profound effect on me.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 22, 2021 03:09 PM (W2Pud)
I as well, and David Hasselhoff. I finally got a chance to visit Checkpoint Charlie about 10 years ago with my daughter.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 22, 2021 03:14 PM (DjiZK)

150 All the cutoffs are arbitrary, anyway.
Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021 03:07 PM (icI8A)

For X'ers, the cutoffs were mandatory, as were the Nike Air shoes and slap bracelets.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 22, 2021 03:15 PM (t+qrx)

151 The generational cutoff numbers are really not gospel. I see exceptions every day to them. But we do like to pigeonhole.

Posted by: kraken at March 22, 2021 03:15 PM (bCLt0)

152 "Until proven otherwise, assume that anyone telling you how to live your life is corrupt and is motivated by self-interest."

You then spend the rest of the time telling them how to live their life.

Posted by: toddg at March 22, 2021 03:15 PM (B3RQo)

153 That and PIV - but I guess that's assumed.
Posted by: ... at March 22, 2021 03:13 PM (uEbPt)

Unless you're one hell of an accurate shot.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 22, 2021 03:15 PM (jOcSX)

154 Man of Steel.

Kathryn Watson
@kathrynw5
The White House has already called a lid for the day at 1:13 p.m. Biden has a closed press event with Senate Dems later today.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 22, 2021 03:15 PM (VVEnO)

155 I remember watching the Berlin Wall go down. It had a profound effect on me.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 22, 2021 03:09 PM (W2Pud)
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Got me hot too.

Posted by: Great Wall of China at March 22, 2021 03:15 PM (FYe3W)

156 Doesn't really matter what gen you came from. If you were raised by pussies, chances are, so are you.

Waiting for anyone else to create change is just pissing in the wind.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at March 22, 2021 03:16 PM (jvt6t)

157 130 Do you remember a time before the internet?

Heck, I remember a time before color TV.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 22, 2021 03:11 PM (45fpk)

We got our first TV when I was in the 5th grade. We go two channels.

Posted by: Javems at March 22, 2021 03:16 PM (8SSHh)

158 If Zach De La Rocha ever tells me not to listen to his music I believe I'd know what to say - something along the lines of, Fuck you I won't do what you told me.

Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021 03:16 PM (icI8A)

159
Got me hot too.
Posted by: Great Wall of China at March 22, 2021 03:15 PM (FYe3W)

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See... now that's a joke.

*doffs cap*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 22, 2021 03:17 PM (Uh2oA)

160 I boil it down to technological proficiency. Older millennials went from getting vcrs to dvds. To having antenna tv to getting cable and seeing massive satellites to dish and directv on every roof. From no computer in the house to having a laptop and then a computer in your pocket. From no internet to dial up to high speed WiFi. And we were the little bastards figuring it all out and explaining it to our parents. Younger ones can use the tech but they never had to figure out how it worked or go through 3+ generations of its evolution.
Posted by: Buzzion at March 22, 2021 03:11 PM (G2zl5)

Young 'uns will never know the joys of trying to peel off three layers of stickers to open up the case for a new CD.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 22, 2021 03:17 PM (jOcSX)

161 I admit I'm not up on everything I should be outrages about, but where did the sudden surge of anti Asian hate come from. Was there an attack on Asians somewhere? Is it because of the chyna flu and we are blaming them so people are going after them? I just have suddenly been bombarded with Fight against Asian Hate!!!

Posted by: Megthered at March 22, 2021 03:17 PM (SM/op)

162 There are always outliers but stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 22, 2021 03:17 PM (yQpMk)

163 "You then spend the rest of the time telling them how to live their life.
Posted by: toddg at March 22, 2021 03:15 PM (B3RQo)"

Anyone EXCEPT me. I mean cmon, that's implied.

Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021 03:17 PM (icI8A)

164 I remember watching the Berlin Wall go down. It had a profound effect on me.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 22, 2021 03:09 PM (W2Pud)

I remember seeing it, but was too young to appreciate the meaning. That hit me out of nowhere about ten years after, while I was waiting for a safe gap in traffic to walk across a street.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 22, 2021 03:13 PM (t+qrx)

I was stationed in Germany at the time, near the Czechoslovakian border. We were expecting E. German refugees, and they never came.

The lesson I learned is that people will revert to form, they'll go back to the familiar, as often as not, even if the familiar sux.

Change rarely happens all at once, and sometimes we can't even see it when it comes. Which is one reason why I'm hopeful regarding this New World Order we face now. They want to change how humans live, and humans have NEVER really been very good at doing that.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2021 03:17 PM (oQ94s)

165 Nothing about questioning authority. We are dealing with really fucked up Cartman's.

Posted by: Puddin Head at March 22, 2021 03:18 PM (xTpJJ)

166 >>>Heck, I remember a time before color TV.<
>Was that before cable or satellite?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 22, 2021 03:18 PM (03n3v)

167 Granted it's a skewed sample because of my industry -
and a generalization - but all the early to late 20 year olds I come in
contact with now are arrogant little pricks who know better than you
and do not understand the word "no".
Posted by: ... at March 22, 2021 03:10 PM (uEbPt)
You know what they need to be taught? "Thank you." I never hear it come out of their mouths.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 22, 2021 03:18 PM (Zn4uo)

168
I'm born in 82 and just don't have much in common with younger millennials nor a lot with the gen x
Posted by: Buzzion

Tragically, you were young(ish) when you passed on, then?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 22, 2021 03:18 PM (pNxlR)

169 I just have suddenly been bombarded with Fight against Asian Hate!!!
Posted by: Megthered at March 22, 2021 03:17 PM (SM/op)

Burn down the Ivys!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 22, 2021 03:18 PM (yQpMk)

170 I think Johnny Rotten might be the last real punk rebel left.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 22, 2021 03:01 PM (ifmtJ)

True. Not really punk but Morrissey's red-pilled.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 22, 2021 03:18 PM (Bmy3R)

171 154 Man of Steel.

Kathryn Watson
@kathrynw5
The White House has already called a lid for the day at 1:13 p.m. Biden has a closed press event with Senate Dems later today.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 22, 2021 03:15 PM (VVEnO)

=======

How are press events closed unless the press is in Biden's pocket?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, for one day only, teaming up with Batman at March 22, 2021 03:18 PM (LvTSG)

172 In 8th grade I got my first computer which was a glorified word processor. Then 15 years later I had a smart phone with 100X more processing power. I also remember it was a big deal when we got our first VCR and touch tone phone. That is howI define GenX. Did you come of age during that 15ish years where we went from analog to digital?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:18 PM (Zx3Bu)

173 Do you remember a time before the internet?

Heck, I remember a time before color TV.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 22, 2021 03:11 PM (45fpk)

We got our first TV when I was in the 5th grade. We go two channels.
Posted by: Javems

Heck, I remember when F Troop went from Black and White to Color!

Posted by: Beartooth at March 22, 2021 03:18 PM (ZN7T5)

174 I remember watching the Berlin Wall go down. It had a profound effect on me.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 22, 2021 03:09 PM (W2Pud)

I was on staff duty at Brigade HQ in Germany when it happened. Pretty wild. I had been in Berlin just months before that.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Skwerls Snowboarding on my Roof at March 22, 2021 03:18 PM (x8Wzq)

175 Was that before cable or satellite?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 22, 2021 03:18 PM (03n3v)

Does Telstar count?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 22, 2021 03:19 PM (Zn4uo)

176 Brave doesn't want to load AoSHQ, says it can't verify certificate no hue etc.

Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 22, 2021 03:19 PM (FFFtY)

177 Posted by: Megthered at March 22, 2021 03:17 PM (SM/op)

You live in a fake world where 99% of everything is made up in a smoky backroom, and almost anything true you hear has been reverse engineered to fit in with the other 99%.

Posted by: ... at March 22, 2021 03:19 PM (uEbPt)

178 I remember watching the Berlin Wall go down. It had a profound effect on me.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 22, 2021 03:09 PM (W2Pud)

My grandfather passed in the early 2000's and we went to his house and the family split up his vast amount of tools. My brother had his big Stihl chainsaw, but it didn't run and he didn't have time to work with it.

I had a need, so I got it and got it running again. Then I noticed the bar. On it, it had the Made In stamp on it. Made in West Germany. I need to take that bar off and preserve it. When's the last time you saw something with "Made in West Germany" stamped on it?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)

179 We got our first TV when I was in the 5th grade. We go two channels.
Posted by: Javems at March 22, 2021 03:16 PM (8SSHh)

Every year they put the Wizard of Oz on tv, and I never knew that Oz was in color, because we only had a black and white tv.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at March 22, 2021 03:19 PM (okGHj)

180 @ 154- what are they going to do; spoon-feed him Gerber's because Jill (Dr. Jill) needs a break?

Posted by: pahound at March 22, 2021 03:19 PM (KIWeW)

181 I mean everybody probably feels this way, but I do feel like I was born at an interesting time. My parents didn't own a computer when I was born. The video game industry had just barely recovered from the 1983 crash. Car phones were still a thing. Pagers were very much a thing. The internet was only for absolute nerds posting on BBS's or super tech savvy business peeps.

Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021 03:19 PM (icI8A)

182 Heck, I remember when F Troop went from Black and White to Color!

Posted by: Beartooth at March 22, 2021 03:18 PM (ZN7T5)

and Rat Patrol

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 22, 2021 03:20 PM (DjiZK)

183 139
I remember watching the Berlin Wall go down. It had a profound effect on me.

Posted by: nurse ratched

I have told people far younger than me -- scouts -- that the
collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall were two
things that I never thought I'd see in my lifetime and both events were
wondrous occurrences.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 22, 2021 03:13 PM (pNxlR)

Same here.

Posted by: Javems at March 22, 2021 03:20 PM (8SSHh)

184 I had a need, so I got it and got it running again. Then I noticed the bar. On it, it had the Made In stamp on it. Made in West Germany. I need to take that bar off and preserve it. When's the last time you saw something with "Made in West Germany" stamped on it?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)

My Pfaff sewing machine did. But I replaced it with an even older Singer made in the US of A.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at March 22, 2021 03:20 PM (okGHj)

185 We got six channels, but 3 of them were Canadian.

Mr. Dressup didn't really add much to the childhood pantheon of TV favorites.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 22, 2021 03:20 PM (Bmy3R)

186 Do you remember when you could talk to someone who had an attention span of more than 6 seconds?
Posted by: ... at March 22, 2021

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Huh?

Posted by: Millennial at March 22, 2021 03:20 PM (/XOcP)

187 Wow buzzion really was very young when he passed away.

Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021 03:21 PM (icI8A)

188 Heck, I remember a time before color TV.
Posted by: grammie winger

We had to change channels by hand like cavemen!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 22, 2021 03:21 PM (VVEnO)

189 I remember watching the Berlin Wall go down. It had a profound effect on me.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 22, 2021 03:09 PM (W2Pud)

I remember seeing it, but was too young to appreciate the meaning. That hit me out of nowhere about ten years after, while I was waiting for a safe gap in traffic to walk across a street.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 22, 2021 03:13 PM (t+qrx)

The dumbasses in the State Department were taken completely by surprise. Top.Men.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:21 PM (y7DUB)

190 I admit I'm not up on everything I should be
outrages about, but where did the sudden surge of anti Asian hate come
from. Was there an attack on Asians somewhere? Is it because of the
chyna flu and we are blaming them so people are going after them? I just
have suddenly been bombarded with Fight against Asian Hate!!!

Posted by: Megthered at March 22, 2021 03:17 PM (SM/op)

The Democrats had a bad exit poll, most likely. It told them they were losing a key victim group, so they had to gin up something to peel them away from the white super straights. Did you know the flags are all at half staff today?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 22, 2021 03:22 PM (Zn4uo)

191 For X'ers, the cutoffs were mandatory, as were the Nike Air shoes and slap bracelets.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 22, 2021 03:15 PM (t+qrx)

Hmmm, when I was a kid all our shorts were cutoffs, so when I was in a position to buy my own, hemmed leg holes were mandatory.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2021 03:22 PM (oQ94s)

192 Old 911s say Made in West Germany. Which I always thought was kinda cool.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:22 PM (Zx3Bu)

193 >>> A personal gripe - I hate anybody that acts like they're some sort of special, sophisticated genius because they like music from an earlier generation. "OMG Im such an old soul I loooove ABBA I was born at the wrong time1!!"

My boyfriend's teenager loves '90s rock music. It's adorable to me that he loves the songs I grew up with. I love his little 90s punk soul.

Very hard to see groups like Rage Against the Machine and Green Day completely sell out to modern Woke culture.

Old and busted: "Now you do what they told ya" as mocking the order
The new wokeness: "Now you do what they told ya" as an order

Posted by: LizLem at March 22, 2021 03:22 PM (Rbfr/)

194 Heck, I remember when F Troop went from Black and White to Color!

Posted by: Beartooth at March 22, 2021 03:18 PM (ZN7T5)

and Rat Patrol
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 22, 2021

***

I was aware that they had, and Man From U.N.C.L.E., and that Star Trek was always in color, only because TV Guide listed them that way.

Posted by: Millennial at March 22, 2021 03:22 PM (/XOcP)

195 True. Not really punk but Morrissey's red-pilled.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 22, 2021 03:18 PM (Bmy3R)
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Now he whines for our side?

Posted by: Axeman at March 22, 2021 03:22 PM (FYe3W)

196 Then again, Canadian TV meant Hockey Night in Canada plus Women's Curling! I take it back, Canadian TV was pretty good to have. Even if it was all fuzzy and you had to keep adjusting the rabbit ears.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 22, 2021 03:22 PM (Bmy3R)

197 We had to change channels by hand like cavemen!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 22, 2021 03:21 PM (VVEnO)

with pliers, because the knob broke off.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 22, 2021 03:22 PM (DjiZK)

198 The dumbasses in the State Department were taken completely by surprise. Top.Men.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:21 PM (y7DUB)
And the intelligence community.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 22, 2021 03:22 PM (Zn4uo)

199 Now he whines for our side?
Posted by: Axeman at March 22, 2021 03:22 PM (FYe3W)

I am red-pilled and I need to be loved - just like everybody else does...

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 22, 2021 03:23 PM (Bmy3R)

200 "My boyfriend's teenager loves '90s rock music. It's adorable to me that he loves the songs I grew up with. I love his little 90s punk soul.

Posted by: LizLem at March 22, 2021 03:22 PM (Rbfr/)"

I mean, he should, it's awesome

Too bad the grunge spirit died, because it was very live and let live

Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021 03:23 PM (icI8A)

201 with pliers, because the knob broke off.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 22, 2021 03:22 PM (DjiZK)

This. And there was a piece of cardboard wedged in to keep the UHF dial on the right channel.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 22, 2021 03:23 PM (Zn4uo)

202 I'm old enough to have seen both the invention and obsolescence of the compact disk.

Posted by: Roy at March 22, 2021 03:23 PM (jAVWB)

203 I also remember, vividly, the disappointment some of my older teammates had when the US boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.

When The USSR invaded Afghanistan.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 22, 2021 03:23 PM (W2Pud)

204
Every year they put the Wizard of Oz on tv, and I never knew that Oz was in color, because we only had a black and white tv.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at March 22, 2021

***

Same here. The only episode of U.N.C.L.E. I ever saw in color until 1985 was the one View-Master put on its reels.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 22, 2021 03:24 PM (/XOcP)

205 203 I also remember, vividly, the disappointment some of my older teammates had when the US boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.

When The USSR invaded Afghanistan.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 22, 2021 03:23 PM (W2Pud)

=========

This is obviously wrong. Everyone knows that only America ever had imperialistic ambitions. Maybe England, too, but I need to read some tweets about it to make sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, for one day only, teaming up with Batman at March 22, 2021 03:24 PM (LvTSG)

206 According to the public service announcement commercial Anti-Asian hate crimes are up 1900 % just in NYC.

You know , the place that's a hotbed of white supremacy.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2021 03:25 PM (5t7Yo)

207 Wow buzzion really was very young when he passed away.
Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021 03:21 PM (icI8A)

Like possessing the One Ring, the Dead no longer grow, they just ... continue.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 22, 2021 03:25 PM (yQpMk)

208 Did you come of age during that 15ish years where we went from analog to digital?
Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:18 PM (Zx3Bu)

My first computer was a Commodore 64 (wasn't mine but I could use it), and the first audio medium I was ever allowed to use was audio cassette (because my parents figured I'd scratch records). The computer I'm using right now is actually a parallel array of enormous creepy pulsating brains with Jacob's Ladder traveling arcs and shit, and the only music I've heard in the last ten years is terrifying but alarmingly-compelling "tekeli-li" hooting that comes echoing down the distant passages and tunnels of my subterranean lair at odd intervals.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 22, 2021 03:25 PM (t+qrx)

209 >>>203 I also remember, vividly, the disappointment some of my older teammates had when the US boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.

"Not my finest hour" - Jimmah Carter
"Hold my beer" - Joe Biden

Posted by: Roy at March 22, 2021 03:25 PM (jAVWB)

210 I definitely still have a pre-digital picture taking sensibility. I take very few phone pics - I basically treat it the same way I would have an old disposable, with only so many exposures left.

And it's far more satisfying going through old actual photo albums than it is just looking at old digital pictures.

Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021 03:26 PM (icI8A)

211 I think there is too much variation in the access to technology and the internet from 1980 to the early 90's to lump everyone into one generation nationwide.

I grew up in Indiana, and my childhood access to tech was wildly different from my second cousins in the LA area.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at March 22, 2021 03:26 PM (6/LtX)

212 I have noticed where I ski all the lifties who are young dudes in their late teens and early 20s play a lot of 80s and 90s music. Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Smashibg Pumpkins type stuff.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:26 PM (Zx3Bu)

213 206 According to the public service announcement commercial Anti-Asian hate crimes are up 1900 % just in NYC.

You know , the place that's a hotbed of white supremacy.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2021 03:25 PM (5t7Yo)

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So it went from 1 to 20?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, for one day only, teaming up with Batman at March 22, 2021 03:26 PM (LvTSG)

214 In a way, I miss having West and East Germany, because it was an object lesson in capitalism versus socialism. Same people, same country, two systems. North and South Korea. Hong Kong/Taiwan and Mainland China.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 22, 2021 03:26 PM (Zn4uo)

215 64 at
Obama's Kids.

No, really. The 12 year olds who were singing hymnals to Ofuckstick are now 24 and making us pay.

A very sound theory, at. I think many of those that voted for him are the type as well.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at March 22, 2021 03:26 PM (rxR5g)

216 for about 20 years now I've been yelling to the wind that if young people want to rebel, the clear path is to become more conservative. But they don't want to actually rebel. They want to be trendy and flip off their parents by shocking them.

Its not about rebellion but about being considered "cool" and "edgy"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2021 03:26 PM (KZzsI)

217 I was on staff duty at Brigade HQ in Germany when it happened. Pretty wild. I had been in Berlin just months before that.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Skwerls Snowboarding on my Roof at March 22, 2021 03:18 PM (x8Wzq)

They had us unloading trucks with cots and blankets and whatever else, I don't remember exactly.

The funny thing is, we were a tiny little post, pretty far from Berlin, and so for us to have gotten refugees, they would have had to truck them in.

Think about that for a moment. You're an East German, you cross into the FRG, and you're going to get on a military truck, to be taken miles away to some military post elsewhere in the country?

Really? Who thought this was going to work? Who thought that was a good idea?

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2021 03:26 PM (oQ94s)

218 Posted by: nurse ratched at March 22, 2021 03:23 PM (W2Pud)

And then The USSR returned the favor in 1984.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2021 03:26 PM (5t7Yo)

219 My first computer was a Commodore 64 (wasn't mine
but I could use it), and the first audio medium I was ever allowed to
use was audio cassette (because my parents figured I'd scratch records).
The computer I'm using right now is actually a parallel array of
enormous creepy pulsating brains with Jacob's Ladder traveling arcs and
shit, and the only music I've heard in the last ten years is terrifying
but alarmingly-compelling "tekeli-li" hooting that comes echoing down
the distant passages and tunnels of my subterranean lair at odd
intervals.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 22, 2021 03:25 PM (t+qrx)

Buddy of mine got an Amiga in high school, mind blowing graphics.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 22, 2021 03:27 PM (DjiZK)

220 I just have suddenly been bombarded with Fight against Asian Hate!!!
Posted by: Megthered at March 22, 2021

***

We're not seeing much hate, to tell you the truth.

Posted by: Pr0n Stars Asa Akira & Jackie Lin at March 22, 2021 03:27 PM (/XOcP)

221 Young 'uns will never know the joys of trying to peel off three layers of stickers to open up the case for a new CD.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 22, 2021 03:17 PM (jOcSX)

Ah yes, you mean the luxury that came AFTER the era of seeing if the sun melted the cassettes you left in the car, which was AFTER having to shim an 8 track with a matchbook. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 22, 2021 03:27 PM (9Om/r)

222
Personally, the Berlin Wall getting dropped is one of my earliest memories.

I knew it was important - my parents talked about it, and then I went to day care, I hit on my little friend Renee for awhile, and I went to nap time. I woke up earlier than usual, and the staff was chattering about the Wall out in the stairwell, so I figured out it was a Big Deal.

But the end of the USSR was a bigger deal in my memory, even though it's an afterthought to historians. I was a couple years older by then, and I never saw my old man cry before. Not even when he peeled his face off on a manhole cover riding his bike.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 22, 2021 03:27 PM (Uh2oA)

223 202 I'm old enough to have seen both the invention and obsolescence of the compact disk.
Posted by: Roy at March 22, 2021 03:23 PM (jAVWB)

Yeah that's another 3+ evolutionary shift for old millennial vs young millennial. From cassettes and record to CDs to mp3 digital files.

Posted by: Buzzion at March 22, 2021 03:27 PM (G2zl5)

224 206 According to the public service announcement commercial Anti-Asian hate crimes are up 1900 % just in NYC.

You know , the place that's a hotbed of white supremacy.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2021 03:25 PM (5t7Yo)

So how can we tell the white assailants are causing this much mayhem when they keep photographing black folks for the record? So confusing.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at March 22, 2021 03:27 PM (okGHj)

225 208 My first computer was a Commodore 64

Hadn't had one for 5 minutes before my little brother and his friends were trading pirated games on floppy disks!

I remember the Super Bowl game where you could pit any of the then-Super Bowl winners against each other. The 1983 49ers were the latest champs on the game LOL.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 22, 2021 03:28 PM (Bmy3R)

226 I'm old enough to have seen both the invention and obsolescence of the compact disk.
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They got me a bunch of times for the same album. 8 Track, cassette, cd's and now back to albums again.

Posted by: dartist at March 22, 2021 03:28 PM (+ya+t)

227 The Democrats had a bad exit poll, most likely. It told them they were losing a key victim group, so they had to gin up something to peel them away from the white super straights. Did you know the flags are all at half staff today?
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 22, 2021 03:22 PM (Zn4uo)

I saw the flags at half staff but I have no idea why. I try to stay away from the news. I will pop in here a couple of times a day to see what fresh hell is happening. Some shops I use and some IG accounts were all "Stop Asian Hate!!" and I wondered if BLMtifa were going after asians now or because of the chyna flu.

Posted by: megthered at March 22, 2021 03:28 PM (SM/op)

228 Generational politics such as Baby Boomer are simply a spin on the fact that different generations have different rites of passage which can produce some commonalities among that generation. But, certain ahistoric trends have made the age cohorts more cohesive and self aware.

One of the driving forces during the last century or so has been the movement of children almost entirely out of the workforce and into age pegged education thus narrowing social experiences outside of one's cohort. But, until very recently in world history, most families, other than the very rich, had children that worked and as a result, often were socialized into the adult world at a relatively young age. Youth, due to the high mortality rate for both adults and children and periodic economic disruptions, were also not sheltered from life's unpleasant features. Thus, we get both a narcissistic sense of self from our 'generation' and sharper delineations about who is in and out of our particular generation and us v. them type arguments.

Posted by: whig at March 22, 2021 03:28 PM (pO7gM)

229 Anybody else here watch Techmoan's vids on various audio recording media?

The new format wars of the late 90's/early 00's were really interesting, especially since nobody really won. Well - digital won.

Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021 03:28 PM (icI8A)

230
Buddy of mine got an Amiga in high school, mind blowing graphics.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 22, 2021 03:27 PM (DjiZK)

Guy in my dorm had one. We ran a BBS and did "illegal" TV broadcasts of movies to the TV Room once a week from it.

It was quite the machine back then.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)

231 In a way, I miss having West and East Germany, because it was an object lesson in capitalism versus socialism. Same people, same country, two systems. North and South Korea. Hong Kong/Taiwan and Mainland China.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 22, 2021 03:26 PM (Zn4uo)

Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.

Posted by: Sheila Jackson Lee, omega-class hypergenius at March 22, 2021 03:29 PM (t+qrx)

232 Charlie Wilson's War

In the 1980s U.S.Rep. Charlie Wilson, Texas socialite Joanne Herring, and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos form an unlikely alliance to boost funding for Afghan freedom fighters in their war against...
Release date: December 10, 2007
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Charlie says I'll do it if I can shoot the first helo.

Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 22, 2021 03:29 PM (FFFtY)

233 Did you ever subscribe to a service that gave you 12 CDs for a cent? Then you are GenX.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:29 PM (Zx3Bu)

234 Wait what? The CD is obsolete?

Why has no one told me this?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 22, 2021 03:30 PM (yQpMk)

235 212 I have noticed where I ski all the lifties who are young dudes in their late teens and early 20s play a lot of 80s and 90s music. Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Smashibg Pumpkins type stuff.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:26 PM (Zx3Bu)

Every time I am assaulted by current music on the radio, I ask myself how in hell we got from soul and funk and rock and roll to this whiny untalented bullshit.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at March 22, 2021 03:30 PM (okGHj)

236 Did you ever subscribe to a service that gave you 12 CDs for a cent? Then you are GenX.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021

***

Remember Columbia Record Club? Then you're a boomer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 22, 2021 03:30 PM (/XOcP)

237 >We had to change channels by hand like cavemen!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 22, 2021 03:21 PM (VVEnO)

Not only that, you had to get up and walk across the room to be that caveman.

And if you turned the dial too fast, Dad would go nuts - Are you trying to break it? Do you think money grows on trees?

Posted by: all doubt removed at March 22, 2021 03:31 PM (S2eH9)

238 We had a B&W TV on a rolling cart. If any of us got a bad report card, my dad would very dramatically roll the cart into a closet, where it stayed until report cards came out again.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 22, 2021 03:31 PM (sWM8x)

239 >>> I admit I'm not up on everything I should be outrages about, but where did the sudden surge of anti Asian hate come from. Was there an attack on Asians somewhere?

I don't know why the surge in Asian hate crimes is happening--anti-china flu backlash or something greater--but I do know that the left is capitalizing on the fear it brings.

Asians are successful and buck the narrative of White Supremacism = why you can't succeed, so they are losing the Woke Olympics. Some are realizing the race quotas in school will hurt their kids' chances at success. So they are at the precipice of maybe leaving the democrat hivemind. I think the media narrative push of the Asian hate crimes might be to drive them back on again.

Dinesh on his podcast broke out the stats and showed it's not all white KKK people doing it.

Posted by: LizLem at March 22, 2021 03:31 PM (Rbfr/)

240 230

I ran a BBS too. It was popular with the local nerds. It was a lot of fun running it. And even back hen in its infancy every discussion turned into a hate fest with some random topic causing people to go apeshit on each other on an anonymous BBS.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:31 PM (Zx3Bu)

241 According to the public service announcement commercial Anti-Asian hate crimes are up 1900 % just in NYC.

This sounds like one of those "some kid did a study" bullcrap stats but whatever. Asians have forever been the one ethnic group everyone could rip on without consequence or shaming -- even here.

My problem is that this isn't about protecting asians, its about silencing criticism of China.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2021 03:31 PM (KZzsI)

242 233 Did you ever subscribe to a service that gave you 12 CDs for a cent? Then you are GenX.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021

The bigger question is are you still getting charged for it today?

Posted by: Buzzion at March 22, 2021 03:31 PM (G2zl5)

243 216 for about 20 years now I've been yelling to the wind that if young people want to rebel, the clear path is to become more conservative. But they don't want to actually rebel. They want to be trendy and flip off their parents by shocking them.

Its not about rebellion but about being considered "cool" and "edgy"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March

I've tried engaging my nieces in the same manner. I've told them, "anyone can be a slut. Anyone can be disgruntled and fill their bodies with fishing tackle, tattoos and dress like whores and act like assholes. That's easy. But not everyone can by the opposite. It takes a special person to buck the trend of being an attention whore."

Have they listened? I dunno. But they're all nice girls who aren't pregnant, they're all set to graduate from college with degrees in math and science. Meh, there's a tat here and there, and a nose piercing, but, wth.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 22, 2021 03:31 PM (W2Pud)

244 I'm old enough to remember 12 Vinyl Albums for a cent.

My mom would sometimes let me pick some out. I'd go with really cool cover art if I couldn't find enough others I wanted. That's how I discovered Robin Trower. Picked out a couple just based on the cool optical-illusion covers.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 22, 2021 03:31 PM (Bmy3R)

245
Remember Columbia Record Club? Then you're a boomer.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 22, 2021 03:30 PM (/XOcP)

I remember this, as my brother was a member until he figured out that he had to pay for the "tape of the month" every month, or pay to send it back within 10 days.

Neither one of us are boomers.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)

246 225 208 My first computer was a Commodore 64

Hadn't had one for 5 minutes before my little brother and his friends were trading pirated games on floppy disks!

I remember the Super Bowl game where you could pit any of the
then-Super Bowl winners against each other. The 1983 49ers were the
latest champs on the game LOL.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 22, 2021 03:28 PM (Bmy3R)

TI-99/4A was mine. With the speech synthesizer.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 22, 2021 03:32 PM (N39Ws)

247 We had to change channels by hand like cavemen!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 22, 2021 03:21 PM (VVEnO)

Not only that, you had to get up and walk across the room to be that caveman.

And if you turned the dial too fast, Dad would go nuts - Are you trying to break it? Do you think money grows on trees?
Posted by: all doubt removed at March 22, 2021

***

And when the picture tube (but not the sound) went out, the TV repair guy would come out to your house, take your set away for surgery, and leave you a loaner.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 22, 2021 03:32 PM (/XOcP)

248 237 >We had to change channels by hand like cavemen!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 22, 2021 03:21 PM (VVEnO)

Not only that, you had to get up and walk across the room to be that caveman.

And if you turned the dial too fast, Dad would go nuts - Are you trying to break it? Do you think money grows on trees?
Posted by: all doubt removed at March 22, 2021 03:31 PM (S2eH9)

You had to move your TV tray without spilling anything before you got up to change it, too.

Posted by: Roy at March 22, 2021 03:32 PM (jAVWB)

249 But, they had records and tapes, you just had to pick what format you wanted.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:32 PM (Zz0t1)

250 Charlie says I'll do it if I can shoot the first helo.

Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 22, 2021 03:29 PM (FFFtY)
In 1989 we had a visiting Soviet delegation at Fort Bragg. After a mass tactical airdrop, we took them to the south end of Sicily Drop Zone, flew a drone over, and shot a missile at it. They all pointed up and yelled, "Stinger!" Heh.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 22, 2021 03:32 PM (Zn4uo)

251 I have noticed where I ski all the lifties who are young dudes in their
late teens and early 20s play a lot of 80s and 90s music. Bon Jovi, Def
Leppard, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Smashibg Pumpkins type stuff.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:26 PM (Zx3Bu)

Mission Ridge Ski Area in WA had retro weekend this past weekend. Hot pink stretch pants and mullets. It was awesome.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 22, 2021 03:32 PM (DjiZK)

252 They've set boomers at too wide a tolerance.
Cut off at 1960 is still 15 years.
And 1960 was a heck of lot different than '45 or 6.

Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 22, 2021 03:33 PM (FFFtY)

253 I just have suddenly been bombarded with Fight against Asian Hate!!!
Posted by: Megthered

Mrs. Wrecks was watching Good Morning America, I think, and it was all over there.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 22, 2021 03:33 PM (VVEnO)

254 Hadn't had one for 5 minutes before my little brother and his friends were trading pirated games on floppy disks!
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 22, 2021 03:28 PM (Bmy3R)

And downloading same over a 300 baud modem with an acoustic coupler holding the phone handset.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 22, 2021 03:33 PM (t+qrx)

255 The Democrats had a bad exit poll, most likely

What happened is that Dems are unhappy with how merit-based admissions work: too many Asians of all stripes, not enough Blacks and Hispanics. So they began talking and enacting blatant discrimination against Asians, who noticed and started getting red-pilled because education is a life/death issue for lots of Asians. So Dems are now trying to invent a reason why Asians should hate whitey, instead of the specific whiteys who are actually persecuting them, and keep voting Dem.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 22, 2021 03:33 PM (H5knJ)

256 Remember Columbia Record Club? Then you're a boomer.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 22, 2021 03:30 PM (/XOcP)

I remember this, as my brother was a member until he figured out that he had to pay for the "tape of the month" every month, or pay to send it back within 10 days.

Neither one of us are boomers.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021

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My family and I weren't members, but I used to see the detailed ads with song and album listings in magazines, including TV Guide.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 22, 2021 03:34 PM (/XOcP)

257 And when the picture tube (but not the sound) went
out, the TV repair guy would come out to your house, take your set away
for surgery, and leave you a loaner.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 22, 2021 03:32 PM (/XOcP)

I remember the tube tester machine at the grocery store where you would take your tubes to see which one was burned out (if you couldn't tell from the black ring around the bottom).

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 22, 2021 03:34 PM (Zn4uo)

258 197 We had to change channels by hand like cavemen!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 22, 2021 03:21 PM (VVEnO)

with pliers, because the knob broke off.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 22, 2021 03:22 PM (DjiZK)
Course if the TV went on the blink we could head down to the hardware store to get the requisite tubes to fix it. So we had that going for us.

Posted by: Javems at March 22, 2021 03:34 PM (8SSHh)

259 My retired Marine/AF blue collar working father got the Commodore 64 when it first came out. I remember being fascinated with the program to organize recipes.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2021 03:34 PM (5t7Yo)

260 Heh

Posted by: Javems at March 22, 2021 03:35 PM (8SSHh)

261 Twitter had some nobody going after Andy Ngo, saying "For a guy from Malaysia, you sure do post a lot about this country". Seems he had him confused with Ian Miles Cheong. Lots of amusing comments about all Asians looking alike.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at March 22, 2021 03:35 PM (5HBd1)

262 Cassettes were never very good, which makes sense - the basic tech for the magnetic tape recording material went back decades. There were a couple formats in the 50s and 60s that were basically just cassettes, they just got muscled out by vinyl.

Later tapes got a bit better - Type 2 and higher tapes with Dolby could have pretty good fidelity and very little hiss.

Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021 03:35 PM (icI8A)

263
And downloading same over a 300 baud modem with an acoustic coupler holding the phone handset.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 22, 2021 03:33 PM (t+qrx)

There was a kid in my elementary school that had one of those and self-declared his nickname to be "Modulator Demodulator."

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

264 I remember the tube tester machine at the grocery store where you would take your tubes to see which one was burned out (if you couldn't tell from the black ring around the bottom).
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 22, 2021

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Pipe tobacco in pouches, like Sir Walter Raleigh, plus Dr. Grabow pipes and pipe cleaners, in every grocery and drugstore.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 22, 2021 03:35 PM (/XOcP)

265 According to the public service announcement commercial Anti-Asian hate crimes are up 1900 % just in NYC.

You know , the place that's a hotbed of white supremacy.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2021 03:25 PM (5t7Yo)

Here's how this works. In January, there is no Anti-Asian Hate Crime Task Force. In February, it is formed, but it's only Sgt. Wang, and he doesn't even have an office yet. But he gets one case to cross his desk.

In March they now have 43 detectives on the task force, and they've made 19 cases.

Thus, 1900% increase.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2021 03:36 PM (oQ94s)

266 Sony were great at releasing new media types (minidisc, memory stick) which went into the market and died.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 22, 2021 03:36 PM (E+OcO)

267 A lot of these "fight back" posts and calls for activism are short in the "how" department. Thanks for making the effort to bridge that gap.

Posted by: McLurkerson at March 22, 2021 03:36 PM (wNDOJ)

268 I remember a TV show called Operation Repo. It was like Penthouse Letters but instead of sex you have cars.

Now we have Operation Border disappearing and reappearing act. It is like Penthouse Letters but more bondage and government spawn.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at March 22, 2021 03:36 PM (/yxci)

269
All I can say about these Gen Z kids is, they've got a low bar to clear. The Boomers weren't that great, and neither have been the ensuing "two" "generations."

All they really have to do is not be a bunch of pandering sissies and they'll have this thing nailed down.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 22, 2021 03:36 PM (Uh2oA)

270 ... interactive mass media is so new that nobody has had time to catch up to its implications yet. ...
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 22, 2021 03:11 PM (Uh2oA)
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This is an important point, but I think you might be understating it. What you call "interactive mass media" is indeed a brand new form of communication Man has never had before. We've never had the technical capability. It is a fourth form and it is brand new.

We started with one-on-one. This is the oldest form of communication (conversation) and we're very good at it. We moved to one-on-many (lecture or speech). This is probably right around as old. We're very good at this, too. Then came many-on-one (letter-writing campaigns, protests and similar). This is relatively new and we're not very good at dealing with it. Now we have many-on-many. This is the new form of intermediated communication between many parties simultaneously. No one knows how this works yet and if we can actually deal with it. It is enormously popular and no one even knows how to ask questions about it yet.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 22, 2021 03:36 PM (Jsjd7)

271 Born in 1967, we had rotary dial phone, TV antenna that got us 3 channels and one extra if the weather was good. We got up and walked to the set to change the channel. We didn't watch TV during the day, we were outside playing in the creek, playing with lawn darts, hula hoops, pogo sticks, bicycles. We played in the forest around the house. We played outside at night! Hide and seek was enhanced with an extra feature. Jump out of your hiding place, screaming, scare the bejesus out of whoever was hunting and run for "base". We caught fireflies and crickets and lizards, even a few small garter snakes. Mom would look at our catch and say, " that's nice now take it outside " If we weren't playing, we were in school. No AC just open windows. Teachers could and did teach facts and give discipline. The principal had a big wooden paddle for extreme situations. She used it!
My brothers and Hubbymayhem all served in the Army. Thing One walked the wall in Berlin as MP. I was visiting Thing Two in Ktown when they removed check point Charlie. Wish I could have been in Berlin for that.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at March 22, 2021 03:36 PM (Vxu+H)

272 The Dems need their "victims". Asians were being othered for being "too smart" at elite colleges. Now they're being threatened because of the Chinese flu, by "white- supremicists". Like the Arab beatdowns post 9/11. Most likely not happening-but the left lives on fear and victimhood.

Posted by: pahound at March 22, 2021 03:36 PM (KIWeW)

273 Anyone remember the pfs: series of "office" type applications?

pfs:Write and others?

Then there was Lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)

274 Anti Asian crimes surging? Here's my theory. It's happening to the more lower income middle Asians. The ones that live in the urban areas and perhaps own some businesses. And now suddenly the cops have stopped patrolling those locations so much.

Posted by: Buzzion at March 22, 2021 03:37 PM (G2zl5)

275 Pipe tobacco in pouches, like Sir Walter Raleigh, plus Dr. Grabow pipes and pipe cleaners, in every grocery and drugstore.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 22, 2021 03:35 PM (/XOcP)

"Do you have Prince Albert in a can?"

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 22, 2021 03:37 PM (Zn4uo)

276 They listen to old stuff because the new stuff is
C R A P.

Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 22, 2021 03:37 PM (FFFtY)

277 When's the last time you saw something with "Made in West Germany" stamped on it?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)

I doubt most people alive today even know that things were stamped with "Made in West Germany".

Posted by: Surfperch at March 22, 2021 03:37 PM (ovHX/)

278 My retired Marine/AF blue collar working father got
the Commodore 64 when it first came out. I remember being fascinated
with the program to organize recipes.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2021 03:34 PM (5t7Yo)

Commodore 64, Elite. Spent many a night playing that genre-making entry in gaming history.

Posted by: 4 at March 22, 2021 03:37 PM (KnJdm)

279 On LinkedIn today is all about Asian hate and how to stop it. Someone posted that they were traumatized because someone Once COMPLIMENTED her on how well she spoke English. But you see this snowflake was born in America so raaaaaacism. I am literally shaking for her and the pain she suffered.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:37 PM (Zx3Bu)

280 >>> Mission Ridge Ski Area in WA had retro weekend this past weekend. Hot pink stretch pants and mullets. It was awesome. Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 22, 2021 03:32 PM (DjiZK)

That sounds Awesome! They should have had a fake contest to see who can ski the K-12... on one ski!

Posted by: LizLem at March 22, 2021 03:37 PM (Rbfr/)

281 Then there was Lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)

Supercalc, FTW.

Posted by: 4 at March 22, 2021 03:37 PM (KnJdm)

282
I just have suddenly been bombarded with Fight against Asian Hate!!!
Posted by: Megthered

That's fake, fake, fake, fakeity-fake.

The authentic appeals come from Fight Against White Adjacent Hate!!!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 22, 2021 03:38 PM (pNxlR)

283 I remember hacking into cable by simply connecting the proper resistor contraption made in a plastic cool whip container.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2021 03:38 PM (5t7Yo)

284 I have a couple of Sony Clies (their Palm Pilot). They had some very innovative devices. Unfortunately they used their "memory stick" which does not hold up as well as an SD card. And they were a bit more fragile than the ones Palm made.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at March 22, 2021 03:38 PM (5HBd1)

285
Later tapes got a bit better - Type 2 and higher tapes with Dolby could have pretty good fidelity and very little hiss.
Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021

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My fellow Trek fan had an early big-cassette unit -- it was basically 2 small, 3-inch reels enclosed in a plastic case. The unit was not much smaller than a coffeemaker today. Recording sound quality was awful, but he recorded Trek episodes anyway.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 22, 2021 03:38 PM (/XOcP)

286 279 On LinkedIn today is all about Asian hate and how to stop it. Someone posted that they were traumatized because someone Once COMPLIMENTED her on how well she spoke English. But you see this snowflake was born in America so raaaaaacism. I am literally shaking for her and the pain she suffered.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:37 PM (Zx3Bu)

=========

"Did he then murder you? I'm failing to see how this is something you should hold onto for years instead of just forgetting."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, for one day only, teaming up with Batman at March 22, 2021 03:38 PM (LvTSG)

287 I remember the first TV show I watched in color at a friend's house.

Pure rapture. Batman, and the orange flame coming out of the back of the Batmobile during the intro is still hard-wired into my brainpan.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 22, 2021 03:38 PM (w9Wax)

288 I had a buddy who used to drive around in a ghetto cruiser with and 8-track, a massive box of tapes and house speakers in the back seat. But you folks are old!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 22, 2021 03:38 PM (03n3v)

289 That sounds Awesome! They should have had a fake contest to see who can ski the K-12... on one ski!

Posted by: LizLem at March 22, 2021 03:37 PM (Rbfr/)

There were a couple of Lane Meyer's on the hill that day.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 22, 2021 03:39 PM (DjiZK)

290 My dad was a self-employed accountant , so we had an early computer in our house since spreadsheets were about the first truly useful business application, and made accountant's lives so much easier. No more of those stacks of green ledger books!

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 22, 2021 03:39 PM (Bmy3R)

291 When's the last time you saw something with "Made in West Germany" stamped on it?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)
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Last thing I can remember is in 2009. I worked in a TV station and we had an analogue, mechanical timer (it was a kitchen timer, I think) that we set to track program length and go off when we had to start prepping things like rolling the ending credits. It was made in West Germany and we were still using it because it still worked well.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 22, 2021 03:39 PM (Jsjd7)

292 Every baby boomer that voted for Biden/Harris should be stripped of their franchise and be forever barred from voting. Many boomers are indolent lazy thinkers from the 60's and 70's. I'm ashamed to be a boomer. Lazy group of condescending mal-thinkers.

Posted by: hugh janus at March 22, 2021 03:39 PM (u+hAv)

293 Doctor, can you make me brown?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at March 22, 2021 03:39 PM (/yxci)

294 "Do you have Prince Albert in a can?"
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 22, 2021

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It's hard to find the stuff online, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 22, 2021 03:39 PM (/XOcP)

295 Wait what? The CD is obsolete?

Why has no one told me this?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 22, 2021 03:30 PM (yQpMk)

CDs are obsolete, similarly to how firewood and horses are obsolete.

Sure, you may not need them now.....

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2021 03:39 PM (oQ94s)

296 As soon as IBM bought Lotus 1-2-3, I said, "Well, it's going to die now." IBM couldn't sell software if they paid people to take it. OS/2 was so much better than Windows but it had IBM for a salesman.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 22, 2021 03:39 PM (E+OcO)

297 Elgin Baylor dead at 86. One of the greats from when the NBA was worth watching.

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at March 22, 2021 03:39 PM (lnmC5)

298 >>>Now we have many-on-many. This is the new form of intermediated communication between many parties simultaneously. No one knows how this works yet and if we can actually deal with it. It is enormously popular and no one even knows how to ask questions about it yet.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 22, 2021 03:36 PM (Jsjd7)
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Sounds like anarchy.

Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 22, 2021 03:40 PM (FFFtY)

299 Rage Is The Machine.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist (bofa/deez) at March 22, 2021 03:40 PM (OssQ4)

300 house speakers in the back seat
Those were mostly in custom vans with plush carpet.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 22, 2021 03:40 PM (Zn4uo)

301 >>I'm ashamed to be a boomer. Lazy group of condescending mal-thinkers.
Posted by: hugh janus at March 22, 2021 03:39 PM (u+hAv)

Hard to think, when you are spending all your time trying to find a vaccine shot.

Posted by: Roy at March 22, 2021 03:40 PM (jAVWB)

302 299 Rage Is The Machine.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist (bofa/deez) at March 22, 2021 03:40 PM (OssQ4)

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Rage For the Machine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, for one day only, teaming up with Batman at March 22, 2021 03:40 PM (LvTSG)

303 Sony were great at releasing new media types (minidisc, memory stick) which went into the market and died.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 22, 2021 03:36 PM (E+OcO)

They tend to stick around in niche markets, I think. Live theater audio used minidisc for cues when I was involved with that in the late 1990s.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 22, 2021 03:40 PM (t+qrx)

304 There is no increase in hate crimes against Asians. The Atlanta shooter had a sex addiction, allegedly, and was tired of paying for it, so he shot some Asians and white women.

Liberal institutions have been discriminating and hating on Asians for decades, so I'm not sure why they're suddenly saying there's this massive uptick in attacks. It's just as invisible as all the backlash against muslhams every time they go out and commit a terrorist act in America.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

305 Raging Boner for the Machine

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 22, 2021 03:41 PM (Bmy3R)

306 My dad was a self-employed accountant , so we had an early computer in our house since spreadsheets were about the first truly useful business application, and made accountant's lives so much easier. No more of those stacks of green ledger books!
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 22, 2021 03:39 PM (Bmy3R)
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PCs existed for a while before spreadsheets hit the market with VisiCalc, but they were virtually pointless to own. Hobbyists and enthusiasts bought them in part in order to figure how to make them *do* something.

Then VisiCalc happened and a massive market emerged essentially overnight. To many people, it immediately became reason enough to buy a PC.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 22, 2021 03:41 PM (Jsjd7)

307 As someone said, the generation cut-offs are arbitrary.
I was born in '62 and I have little in common with someone born in 1946--or 1956, for that matter. Yeah, I like classic rock, but that's it.

I never felt like a Boomer. Boomers went to Vietnam.
Or Woodstock.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 22, 2021 03:41 PM (HrMC1)

308 And use social media.
the thread about Biden Voters Taking their Ls and What was the Breaking Point on Woke do a lot of good, by making dissenters feel not so alone

Posted by: President-Elect pj at March 22, 2021 03:41 PM (G1dq6)

309 What happened is that Dems are unhappy with how merit-based admissions work: too many Asians of all stripes, not enough Blacks and Hispanics. So they began talking and enacting blatant discrimination against Asians, who noticed and started getting red-pilled because education is a life/death issue for lots of Asians. So Dems are now trying to invent a reason why Asians should hate whitey, instead of the specific whiteys who are actually persecuting them, and keep voting Dem. bear with asymmetrical balls at March 22, 2021 03:33 PM (H5knJ)

So the dems want the asians to be the new blacks. But I thought the illegals from south of the border were going to be the new blacks. I can't imagine the blacks are very happy with any of this, but they continue to vote dem and keep their hands out. I can't imagine the asian population will go along with being told what to do and how to vote. They place a huge emphasis on education and critical thinking, something the dems don't like on their plantation.

Posted by: megthered at March 22, 2021 03:41 PM (SM/op)

310 =========

Rage For the Machine.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, for one day only, teaming up with Batman at March 22, 2021 03:40 PM (LvTSG)

Rage Against Those Against the Machine

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

311 This generational stuff has always been a marketing ploy. Please show me another generation where the oldest could be the parent of the youngest.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at March 22, 2021 03:41 PM (5HBd1)

312 When's the last time you saw something with "Made in West Germany" stamped on it?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)

Speaking of CDs, I have some that were stamped "Made In West Germany" on them. Because I bought them there. I was impressed there were record stores in the country that stocked music you couldn't find in the U.S., let alone that stupid idiotic PX.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2021 03:41 PM (oQ94s)

313 One of the unexpected consequences of Asian hate crimes increasing... apparently the Asians communities are quickly getting redpilled on the beauty of their second amendment rights. Some gun shop owner in NYC area said his top buyers recently have all been Asians.

Roof top Koreans FTW.

Posted by: LizLem at March 22, 2021 03:42 PM (Rbfr/)

314 Rage Is The Machine.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist (bofa/deez) at March 22, 2021 03:40 PM (OssQ4)
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Rage For the Machine.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, for one day only, teaming up with Batman at March 22, 2021

***

Hissy Fit Against the Machine

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 22, 2021 03:42 PM (/XOcP)

315 That sounds Awesome! They should have had a fake contest to see who can ski the K-12... on one ski!
Posted by: LizLem at March 22, 2021 03:37 PM (Rbfr/)

Go that way, real fast.

Then turn.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Skwerls Snowboarding on my Roof at March 22, 2021 03:42 PM (x8Wzq)

316 house speakers in the back seat
Those were mostly in custom vans with plush carpet.

And prog rock album covers airbrushed on the side.

Posted by: Dr. Krieger at March 22, 2021 03:42 PM (h5TKJ)

317 I wish I had kept my old skis and ski jackets. 207 cm Rossignols with hot pink and black jacket. Helmet? Lol. What helmet?

Good times, good times.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:42 PM (Zx3Bu)

318 Hissy Fit Against the Machine

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 22, 2021 03:42 PM (/XOcP)

Cancel Those Against the Machine

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 22, 2021 03:43 PM (DjiZK)

319 Infantile Whinge Against The Machine.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist (bofa/deez) at March 22, 2021 03:43 PM (OssQ4)

320 I never felt like a Boomer. Boomers went to Vietnam.
Or Woodstock.
Posted by: JoeF. at March 22, 2021

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Rarely both.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 22, 2021 03:43 PM (/XOcP)

321
When's the last time you saw something with "Made in West Germany" stamped on it?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)

I doubt most people alive today even know that things were stamped with "Made in West Germany".

Posted by: Surfperch at March 22, 2021 03:37 PM (ovHX/)
I have a violin made a few years after the war which had an old pack of strings that included "american sector" on the label.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 22, 2021 03:43 PM (9Om/r)

322 Sounds like anarchy.
Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 22, 2021 03:40 PM (FFFtY)
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Sort of. It might become that. The major platforms are trying to avoid anarchy (that is what their heavy-handed and essentially Left-arbitrary "moderation" is), while some are openly embracing it (Gab). No one knows yet. Moderation is problematic. No moderation may well be anarchic. Is one preferable to the other? Does one work while the other collapses? Is either survivable?

No one knows. It is far too new.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 22, 2021 03:43 PM (Jsjd7)

323 Rage Against My Dad

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Skwerls Snowboarding on my Roof at March 22, 2021 03:43 PM (x8Wzq)

324 Then there was Lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)

Then they developed that unwieldy space hog, Symphony. After excel they pivoted to Lotus Notes.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:43 PM (y7DUB)

325 Rage For the Machine.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, for one day only, teaming up with Batman at March 22, 2021 03:40 PM (LvTSG)
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Rage In The Machine

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 22, 2021 03:44 PM (Jsjd7)

326 I divide people into two groups: Those who were alive to watch The Beatles' first appearance on Ed Sullivan, and those who live wretched lives having missed it.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 22, 2021 03:44 PM (45fpk)

327 Then they developed that unwieldy space hog, Symphony. After excel they pivoted to Lotus Notes.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:43 PM (y7DUB)
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And then used Notes for E-Mail (and not well) instead of its actual purpose as a database.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 22, 2021 03:44 PM (Jsjd7)

328 Vote Democrat. Because we don't believe in merit.

Posted by: DNC Commercial You'll Never Hear at March 22, 2021 03:44 PM (FYe3W)

329 Wait what? The CD is obsolete?

Why has no one told me this?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 22, 2021 03:30 PM (yQpMk)

CDs are still manufactured and sold and legacy rockers like Dylan and Neil Young--as well as deceased Jazz greats like Miles and Coltrane--still put out massive, multi-disc sets, but the Music Industry is pushing CDs out in favor of Vinyl--the opposite of what they were doing in the '80's--because vinyl has a much higher PROFIT MARGIN.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 22, 2021 03:44 PM (HrMC1)

330 Show On The Doll Where The Machine Touched Me.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist (bofa/deez) at March 22, 2021 03:44 PM (OssQ4)

331 The Boomers weren't that great

Ahem... I'm right here and still alive.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 22, 2021 03:44 PM (3H9h1)

332 Rage Astride The Machine

Posted by: Broseidon at March 22, 2021 03:45 PM (icI8A)

333 OS/2 was so much better than Windows but it had IBM for a salesman.

Don't discount Bill Gates going full Mafioso on the PC makers.

It's funny how he's now become a shitty Bond villain who flunked out of Evil Medical School.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 22, 2021 03:45 PM (ZGrMX)

334 Curl up in a Fetal Position Against the Machine

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 22, 2021 03:45 PM (w9Wax)

335 296 As soon as IBM bought Lotus 1-2-3, I said, "Well, it's going to die now." IBM couldn't sell software if they paid people to take it. OS/2 was so much better than Windows but it had IBM for a salesman.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 22, 2021 03:39 PM (E+OcO)
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There was a hot chick at every Computer Outlet on a riser demonstrating how cool Windows was.

Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 22, 2021 03:45 PM (FFFtY)

336 I divide people into two groups: Those who were alive to watch The Beatles' first appearance on Ed Sullivan, and those who live wretched lives having missed it.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 22, 2021 03:44 PM (45fpk)
++++
Allan Sherman - Pop Hates the Beatles
https://youtu.be/Jj-2Tcuzy0I

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 22, 2021 03:45 PM (Jsjd7)

337 Hissy Fit Against the Machine

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 22, 2021 03:42 PM (/XOcP)

House Workers for the Big House.

Posted by: 4 at March 22, 2021 03:45 PM (KnJdm)

338 Rage Against Getting a Job

Posted by: JoeF. at March 22, 2021 03:45 PM (HrMC1)

339 @Breaking911

#BREAKING: Biden team prepping MASSIVE new spending proposal to pay for universal pre-k, free community college, climate & 'equality' measures, plus more:

https://tinyurl.com/yz7q6fzq

Posted by: Tami at March 22, 2021 03:45 PM (cF8AT)

340 297 Elgin Baylor dead at 86. One of the greats from when the NBA was worth watching.
Posted by: Shooter McGavin at March 22, 2021 03:39 PM (lnmC5)

Back when they still played basketball, instead of thugball with traveling.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at March 22, 2021 03:46 PM (okGHj)

341 "Helen Keller, you know the terrorist guy"
https://tinyurl.com/edtd4se7

Posted by: Javems at March 22, 2021 03:46 PM (8SSHh)

342 Meh, there's a tat here and there, and a nose piercing, but, wth.

I am not a girl nor a parent, so take this with a grain of salt but, from obervation, I think its harder for girls to fight the crowd. Guys can look pretty goofy or out of trend and other guys won't make them miserable and crush their hopes and spirit every single opportunity for it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2021 03:46 PM (KZzsI)

343 CDs are still manufactured and sold and legacy
rockers like Dylan and Neil Young--as well as deceased Jazz greats like
Miles and Coltrane--still put out massive, multi-disc sets, but the
Music Industry is pushing CDs out in favor of Vinyl--the opposite of
what they were doing in the '80's--because vinyl has a much higher
PROFIT MARGIN.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 22, 2021 03:44 PM (HrMC1)

In the local Walmart this weekend, they in fact have a vinyl section now.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 22, 2021 03:46 PM (DjiZK)

344 @Breaking911
#BREAKING: Biden team prepping MASSIVE new spending proposal to pay for universal pre-k, free community college, climate & 'equality' measures, plus more:

https://tinyurl.com/yz7q6fzq
Posted by: Tami at March 22, 2021 03:45 PM (cF8AT)
++++
Sure. Go full red. Rid the band-aid off.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 22, 2021 03:46 PM (Jsjd7)

345 CDs are still manufactured and sold and legacy rockers like Dylan and Neil Young--as well as deceased Jazz greats like Miles and Coltrane--still put out massive, multi-disc sets, but the Music Industry is pushing CDs out in favor of Vinyl--the opposite of what they were doing in the '80's--because vinyl has a much higher PROFIT MARGIN.
Posted by: JoeF. at March 22, 2021 03:44 PM (HrMC1)

I still buy CDs regularly, almost none of them are put out by major labels.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2021 03:46 PM (oQ94s)

346 I divide people into two groups: Those who were alive to watch The Beatles' first appearance on Ed Sullivan, and those who live wretched lives having missed it.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 22, 2021

***

I was old enough, but couldn't get my parents to watch. But I'd heard the Beatles before that on Top 40 radio at night on my little 10-transistor; does that count?

(I thought the name was spelled "Beetles," like a lot of us.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 22, 2021 03:46 PM (/XOcP)

347 OS/2 was so much better than Windows but it had IBM for a salesman.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 22, 2021 03:39 PM (E+OcO)

THIS!

OS2/Warp! was the network version. It managed memory like a beast. You could open DOS windows in different versions and they each had their own memory carved out so they were independent of each other.

It really was solid shit back then.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

348
uptight bluenoses

-----

Those nosy parkers and lounge lizards, too.

23 skidoo

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 22, 2021 03:47 PM (4ndFy)

349
Elgin Baylor dead at 86. One of the greats from when the NBA was worth watching.

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at March 22, 2021 03:39 PM

another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 22, 2021 03:47 PM (FPEPu)

350 Idiot with a knife decides to test a cop's resolve.

https://youtu.be/NKJbge7SIYo

Posted by: bonhomme at March 22, 2021 03:47 PM (YYlyE)

351 @Breaking911

#BREAKING: Biden team prepping MASSIVE new spending proposal to pay for universal pre-k, free community college, climate & 'equality' measures, plus more:

https://tinyurl.com/yz7q6fzq
Posted by: Tami at March 22, 2021 03:45 PM (cF8AT)

We're a socialist country now!!!!

yay.....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)

352 Wait what? The CD is obsolete?

Well, to zoomers. They think anything that you cannot do on a phone is obsolete. Millennials think record players are the pinnacle of audiophile perfection (LOL). The older generations are just fine with DVDs and CDs and are suspicious and untrusting of streaming and digital versions because they're so easily changed/deleted/banned.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2021 03:47 PM (KZzsI)

353 Noodus alienari

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 22, 2021 03:47 PM (/XOcP)

354
Remember Columbia Record Club? Then you're a boomer.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I got 12 Edison cylinders for a ha'penny.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 22, 2021 03:47 PM (63Dwl)

355 CDs are still manufactured and sold and legacy rockers like Dylan and Neil Young--as well as deceased Jazz greats like Miles and Coltrane--still put out massive, multi-disc sets, but the Music Industry is pushing CDs out in favor of Vinyl--the opposite of what they were doing in the '80's--because vinyl has a much higher PROFIT MARGIN.
Posted by: JoeF. at March 22, 2021 03:44 PM (HrMC1)
++++
Lots of new CDs are available, too (I mean, from contemporary artists). Downside: Amazon has the best (and sometimes only) selection. I love CDs and I buy them (I don't like paying for digital delivery). In my new house, I finally have space to put them all on shelves instead of in boxes. It kicks ass.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 22, 2021 03:47 PM (Jsjd7)

356 I need to take that bar off and preserve it. When's the last time you saw something with "Made in West Germany" stamped on it?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt

Interesting. We got a gizmo in the lab at work that says "Made in W. Germany". Probably made in the early 1960's. And still works fine. Needed to be taken apart and old lubricant cleaned out a few years ago, but still good.

Posted by: Pete Rose, Baseball legend not in the Hall of Fame at March 22, 2021 03:48 PM (vcOmj)

357 I was old enough, but couldn't get my parents to watch. But I'd heard the Beatles before that on Top 40 radio at night on my little 10-transistor; does that count?

(I thought the name was spelled "Beetles," like a lot of us.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I'm so old that I remember hs girls hiding radios in their beehive hairdos.

Lawn. Get off.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 22, 2021 03:48 PM (Rvt88)

358 @DailyCaller

"Do you have plans to visit the border?"

VP HARRIS: "Not today" *laughs*

Video: https://tinyurl.com/yhp3v7v2

Posted by: Tami at March 22, 2021 03:48 PM (cF8AT)

359 I was old enough, but couldn't get my parents to watch. But I'd heard
the Beatles before that on Top 40 radio at night on my little
10-transistor; does that count?

You get half-credit. Ok maybe a third.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 22, 2021 03:48 PM (45fpk)

360 Free Community College? WTF? Its basically free now.

Posted by: Puddin Head at March 22, 2021 03:48 PM (xTpJJ)

361 OS2/Warp! was the network version. It managed memory like a beast. You could open DOS windows in different versions and they each had their own memory carved out so they were independent of each other.

It really was solid shit back then.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)
---
If it had your drivers.

I *really* wanted to try it. Sat on the shelf.

Posted by: DNC Commercial You'll Never Hear at March 22, 2021 03:48 PM (FYe3W)

362 How much does community college cost? Cant be more than a few hundred bucks a semester. If you cant figure out a way to earn that much you really should not waste your time attending.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:48 PM (Zx3Bu)

363 Speaking of CDs, I have some that were stamped "Made In West Germany" on them. Because I bought them there. I was impressed there were record stores in the country that stocked music you couldn't find in the U.S., let alone that stupid idiotic PX.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2021 03:41 PM (oQ94s)

I have some ECM cds I bought here with that stamped on them, which was odd because they'd been marketed here otherwise for a while without the stamp.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:48 PM (y7DUB)

364 Cancel culture only has teeth when real life businesses act upon it. To be sure, no one at Ford Motor Company or Amazon or whatever cares what an anonymous green hair on Twitter says.

What cancel culture is, is the enforcement arm of major corporations to enforce social agendas they themselves hold and give them the cover fire to purge free-thinking conservatives.

Thus, going to war with the CC Warriors themselves will not effect any change. They will simply create a new hash. The enemy is the corporate oligarchy. The resistance then, is to put the corporatocracy in an untenable position.

If every accountant at a major accounting firm stands up and says "Trannies aren't real women", they must choose to fire them all en masse or allow that free-think. That is why the next step is government enforcement of speech code, which is being shepherded through Congress as we speak. This will put legal teeth to the corporate silencing.

Not only will you be fired, you'll be not be able to be rehired by anyone else for a civil rights violation. And the court will not strike this down You will be forced to bend the knee.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 22, 2021 03:48 PM (3d1uK)

365 About ignoring people with lots of initials after their name, have you ever noticed that human resources "professionals" invariably have a whole string of different initials after their names? Impressive.

Lord, those people get on my nerves.

Furious George, ASAp, SpERG, WTf, DnA, RsVP

Posted by: Furious George at March 22, 2021 03:49 PM (9vQJW)

366 #BREAKING: Biden team prepping MASSIVE new spending proposal to pay for universal pre-k, free community college, climate & 'equality' measures, plus more:

https://tinyurl.com/yz7q6fzq
Posted by: Tami at March 22, 2021 03:45 PM (cF8AT)

It'll be cute when it passes the Senate 51-49, with all the Dems voting for, and one Republican joining.

Flip a coin as to which one.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2021 03:49 PM (oQ94s)

367 Also, regarding MS marketing superiority, I was at the 1995 Winter Consumer Electronics Show where they had their big marketing blitz for Microsoft Bob, which was orchestrated by Melinda Gates. You could feel the embarrassment coming in waves from the marketers and actors who were there trying to push it.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 22, 2021 03:49 PM (ZGrMX)

368 So the dems want the asians to be the new blacks.
But I thought the illegals from south of the border were going to be the
new blacks. I can't imagine the blacks are very happy with any of this,
but they continue to vote dem and keep their hands out. I can't imagine
the asian population will go along with being told what to do and how
to vote. They place a huge emphasis on education and critical thinking,
something the dems don't like on their plantation.

Posted by: megthered at March 22, 2021 03:41 PM (SM/op)
I have long awaited the War of the Fellow Travelers. Any coalition that includes both the LGBTQQIAXYZ's and the Muslims is inherently unstable, but it has managed to hold together so far.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 22, 2021 03:49 PM (Zn4uo)

369 I divide people into two groups: Those who were alive to watch The Beatles' first appearance on Ed Sullivan, and those who live wretched lives having missed it.
Posted by: grammie winger

Yeah baby. Those were hot times!
And Mick Jagger and the Stones on Ed, and the Doors, and on, and on...and Topo Gigo.

Posted by: Pete Rose, Baseball legend not in the Hall of Fame at March 22, 2021 03:49 PM (vcOmj)

370 (I thought the name was spelled "Beetles," like a lot of us.

Its a fun little throwaway movie, but That Thing You Do has a bunch of bits on names like that. Like the "Heardsmen" and their manager telling the Oneders have to change their name because people will think its pronounced "oh-nee-ders"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2021 03:49 PM (KZzsI)

371 I am not a girl nor a parent, so take this with a grain of salt but, from obervation, I think its harder for girls to fight the crowd. Guys can look pretty goofy or out of trend and other guys won't make them miserable and crush their hopes and spirit every single opportunity for it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2021 03:46 PM (KZzsI)

Maybe, but I never had an issue with that. Stupid is as stupid does, and some of those bitches were seriously stupid.

No, I didn't have Farrah Fawcett hair. No, I didn't have huge shoulder pads. No, I haven't dyed my hair purple, or gotten a bunch of ugly ass tattoos.

At some point, you have to wonder who these girls are showing off for, and you know damned well it isn't boys.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at March 22, 2021 03:49 PM (okGHj)

372 I remember Kulats. There were a thing for about a year.

Posted by: Puddin Head at March 22, 2021 03:50 PM (xTpJJ)

373 The proto-, or early Gen X'ers like me--got to witness the excesses of the late '60's/early '70's hedonistic lifestyle of cheap weed, free love in the back of Chevy Vans with wild paint jobs, cheap rent, cheap beer and great music , thinking that's how it was going to be when WE reached the right age.

Nope.

We got preppies, AIDS and coke

Posted by: JoeF. at March 22, 2021 03:50 PM (HrMC1)

374
This generational stuff has always been a marketing ploy. Please show me another generation where the oldest could be the parent of the youngest.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at March 22, 2021 03:41 PM (5HBd1)

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Bingo. The whole "Generation This or That" is total horseshit devised by media advertisers. It's a total crock. It's the way to make knockoff products from the youth culture and sell them to old folks who are to obtuse to know they're old.

The only way to isolate a given "generation" is in hindsight, and it's usually centered around a group of definitional historical figures of wildly varying ages. You can't make generational, definitional changes in your lifetime without your parents and grandparents, and children of your own. The whole concept is silly.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 22, 2021 03:50 PM (Uh2oA)

375 Sure. Go full red. Rid the band-aid off.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 22, 2021 03:46 PM (Jsjd7)

lol. My exact same sentiment. Perhaps the GOPe can get some good failure theater out of it, too.

Posted by: 4 at March 22, 2021 03:50 PM (KnJdm)

376 I still buy CDs regularly, almost none of them are put out by major labels.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2021 03:46 PM (oQ94s)

Seems like most of my CDs have either the Nuclear Blast, or the Metal Blade labels. Shocking, I know. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 22, 2021 03:50 PM (9Om/r)

377 I wasn't born yet when the Beatles were on Ed Sullystone. We got Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 22, 2021 03:50 PM (Bmy3R)

378 Idiot with a knife decides to test a cop's resolve.

https://youtu.be/NKJbge7SIYo
Posted by: bonhomme at March 22, 2021 03:47 PM (YYlyE)

Suicide by cop......Terrible.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:50 PM (Zz0t1)

379 Meh, there's a tat here and there, and a nose piercing, but, wth.

I am not a girl nor a parent, so take this with a grain of salt but,
from obervation, I think its harder for girls to fight the crowd. Guys
can look pretty goofy or out of trend and other guys won't make them
miserable and crush their hopes and spirit every single opportunity for
it.

I'm a guy, but I think this is very true. That is why most Karen's are, in fact, Karen's and wine moms are mostly moms.

Posted by: Archer at March 22, 2021 03:51 PM (gmo/4)

380 Remember Columbia Record Club? Then you're a boomer.

Was a thing into the 90s, but they had CDs by then

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2021 03:51 PM (KZzsI)

381 Wait what? The CD is obsolete?

Why has no one told me this?

Find your song on YouTube, use an MP3 ripper, now you have a high quality digital copy of that song that won't get scratched or lost, put it on your phone and listen to it any time any where.

If you do manage to lose your copy, rip it again.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 22, 2021 03:51 PM (YYlyE)

382 >>> The Boomers weren't that great

I don't have a problem with Boomers, especially the ones here with their heads on right. I have issue with the Boomers that rebelled against the man by living no consequence, no responsibility lives as hippies, sold out to the man to become corporate yuppies, retired with golden parachutes, and then tell us younger generations to conform to the man. What happened to "don't trust anyone under 30?"

Posted by: LizLem at March 22, 2021 03:51 PM (Rbfr/)

383 Nope.

We got preppies, AIDS and coke

Posted by: JoeF. at March 22, 2021 03:50 PM (HrMC1)

And New Coke.

Posted by: 4 at March 22, 2021 03:51 PM (KnJdm)

384 Universal pre k is just about adding more teacher union members.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:51 PM (Zx3Bu)

385 The proto-, or early Gen X'ers like me--got to
witness the excesses of the late '60's/early '70's hedonistic lifestyle
of cheap weed, free love in the back of Chevy Vans with wild paint
jobs, cheap rent, cheap beer and great music , thinking that's how it
was going to be when WE reached the right age.

Nope.

We got preppies, AIDS and coke

Posted by: JoeF. at March 22, 2021 03:50 PM (HrMC1)

Man, no shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 22, 2021 03:51 PM (9Om/r)

386 Universal pre k is just about adding more teacher union members.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:51 PM (Zx3Bu)

.....

Also getting kids out of the hands of their parents quicker.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 22, 2021 03:52 PM (3d1uK)

387 For some reason the NBA never hyped up what a strong forward badass Elgin Baylor was, probably because he could never get over the hump with Jerry West against the Celtics. And after they finally won it with Wilt, Baylor came off the bench.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 03:52 PM (y7DUB)

388 After excel they pivoted to Lotus Notes.

Or, as those of us who had to use it dubbed it, "Blows Goats".

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Serving all Americans, even the Neanderthals. at March 22, 2021 03:52 PM (SchxB)

389 Maybe I will take some bullshit courses at the local CC like cooking lessons. If the gubmt is throwing trillions around might as well get in on some of it.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:53 PM (Zx3Bu)

390 #BREAKING: Biden team prepping MASSIVE new spending
proposal to pay for universal pre-k, free community college, climate
'equality' measures, plus more:

https://tinyurl.com/yz7q6fzq

Posted by: Tami at March 22, 2021 03:45 PM (cF8AT)
They're trying to keep the Bernie Bros on the farm. It won't go anywhere. Even Democrats in the House from purple districts know it's suicide.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 22, 2021 03:53 PM (Zn4uo)

391 384 Universal pre k is just about adding more teacher union members.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:51 PM (Zx3Bu)

And ripping kids from their families. Don't forget that little nugget.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at March 22, 2021 03:53 PM (okGHj)

392 It'll be cute when it passes the Senate 51-49, with all the Dems voting for, and one Republican joining.

Flip a coin as to which one.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2021 03:49 PM (oQ94s)

Mitt Romney
45s

I'm proud to join my colleagues on the other side of the aisle in passing this far-reaching plan to educate all Americans in the 21st century.
Education is number one job of legislators and President Biden's plan ensures that our students will keep up with the rest of the world....

Posted by: JoeF. at March 22, 2021 03:54 PM (HrMC1)

393 339 @Breaking911

#BREAKING: Biden team prepping MASSIVE new spending proposal to pay for universal pre-k, free community college, climate & 'equality' measures, plus more: https://tinyurl.com/yz7q6fzq
Posted by: Tami at March 22, 2021 03:45 PM (F8AT)
--------------------

Give your children to meeeee
Bring your children to meeeee
I will cherish them, I will train them

You have important work to do
Go to work and
Give you children to meeeeee.

Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 22, 2021 03:54 PM (FFFtY)

394 They're trying to push all the spending through under Biden, so Harris gets the "rewards". Kinda like Joe was a moderate. I think the left is in panic mode because Joe is failing way sooner then they thought (or hoped). And its pretty much obvious.

Posted by: pahound at March 22, 2021 03:54 PM (KIWeW)

395 Pixy is picky today
there must have been a
troll run

Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 22, 2021 03:54 PM (FFFtY)

396 >>> #BREAKING: Biden team prepping MASSIVE new spending proposal to pay for universal pre-k, free community college, climate & 'equality' measures

And then they will try and blame Trump for the MASSIVE inflation that comes from printing endless money for their pet wet dreams.

Posted by: LizLem at March 22, 2021 03:55 PM (Rbfr/)

397 The GOP will negotiate only 95% of community college is paid by federal dollars and universal pre k will only be mandatory in 56 of the 57 states. And call it a great victory for conservatism.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:55 PM (Zx3Bu)

398 They're trying to push all the spending through under Biden, so Harris gets the "rewards". Kinda like Joe was a moderate. I think the left is in panic mode because Joe is failing way sooner then they thought (or hoped). And its pretty much obvious.
Posted by: pahound at March 22, 2021 03:54 PM (KIWeW)

This. They want to push this through because once Harris takes over, the Senate is 50-50 and they can't risk the GOP holding fast to prevent a new VP from being chosen (or worse, demanding a Republican). They're going to push everything through at once, if anything fails then so be it, and then hustle Joe off the stage.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 22, 2021 03:56 PM (jOcSX)

399 Do Democrats really fear election backlash at this point?

I wouldn't.

They just stole the presidential election with absolutely no ramifications except for those that say they stole the election, who are now on a government watch list as a White Supremacist.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 22, 2021 03:56 PM (3d1uK)

400 Semi - unseriously....

The Revolt Against the Beatles is perfectly understandable.
I grew up with them and they were seminal to me and people my age and older. But....they're gone. They broke up in what...1969 or 1970? They went their own ways...but I still loathe Paul McCartney.

I would resent having everyone say HOW GREAT they are, 50 years on. They were a band, and they lived their day and died.
As was Cream, a little while before that, but people still like Eric Clapton.

The Stones have hung on too long. They're a joke. Watching a 75 year old man strut around a stage like a chicken on meth, just no.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative ....Living on the prison planet at March 22, 2021 03:56 PM (vcOmj)

401 As of now an American or illegal alien in America can get free housing, food, education, transportation, health care, phone and soon to be college.

Which begs the question, why work?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 03:57 PM (Zx3Bu)

402 Sort of. It might become that. The major platforms are trying to avoid anarchy (that is what their heavy-handed and essentially Left-arbitrary "moderation" is), while some are openly embracing it (Gab). No one knows yet. Moderation is problematic. No moderation may well be anarchic. Is one preferable to the other? Does one work while the other collapses? Is either survivable?

No one knows. It is far too new.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Quite the contrary, it's self-organizing. You can see the online tribes form, shift, and war against each other in real time. Once again, the youngsters are recapitulating 10,000 of human social and cultural development, just like happened with Occupy.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: No Blood for Congress! at March 22, 2021 03:58 PM (OUMaO)

403 I have zero use for the Beatles until Rubber Soul/Revolver

Yeah, I said it.

"Love, love me do, you know I love you, I'll always be true..." fucking gag me. Worst lyrics ever written.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 22, 2021 03:59 PM (Bmy3R)

404 Boomers really hang on to their music and put the stars of their youth on pedestals. Like ok the stones had some good stuff. But jeezus man it was just a rock band. They didnt cure cancer.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 04:00 PM (Zx3Bu)

405 The Revolt Against the Beatles is perfectly understandable.
I grew up with them and they were seminal to me and people my age and older. But....they're gone. They broke up in what...1969 or 1970? They went their own ways...but I still loathe Paul McCartney.

Every time I hear him interviewed about how American yutes didn't appreciate R and B musicians, my thoughts turn to wood chippers.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 22, 2021 04:01 PM (y7DUB)

406 They didnt cure cancer.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at March 22, 2021 04:00 PM (Zx3Bu)

The hells you say.....

Posted by: Keith Richards at March 22, 2021 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)

407 My son is a 20 year old rockstar in his cover band. They play nothing but music from the 60s, 70s, 80s and few newer ones. Its amazes me that he likes the same stuff I liked and there is a very strong market for it. I really can't name a 'new current' song. I don't think anyone can.

Posted by: Puddin Head at March 22, 2021 04:03 PM (xTpJJ)

408
No one knows yet. Moderation is problematic. No moderation may well be anarchic. Is one preferable to the other? Does one work while the other collapses? Is either survivable?

No one knows. It is far too new.

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People have a way of digging and surviving, so I bet will do that. But I have my doubts, beyond that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 22, 2021 04:07 PM (Uh2oA)

409 "Why work?"

Yeah, good question!

All those years of fulltime grind and sticking to a budget. All the taxes torn from my paychecks-- if I could've kept just *half* of what they deducted, oh what a different, better life it could've been.

Looking at all the perks of being on the dole, why would anyone want to wrk?

Posted by: JQ at March 22, 2021 04:10 PM (09wCi)

410 "What this country needs is a good old-fashioned youth rebellion"

So your prescription for the creation of systems that crush individuals that step out of line, is to ask them to step out of line? Yeah, no, that's not going to work. The choice here is surrender or burn it all down, and that was a deliberate construction on the part of the moonbats because they knew they could push things a long ways before people would be willing to burn it down.

The time for a youth rebellion against leftist bullshit was in the 70's. That ship sailed a loooonnnnng time ago.

Posted by: somedood at March 22, 2021 04:11 PM (yVPr3)

411 More hilariousness of the Modern Wokie. They believe they are 60s style revolutionary hippies by aligning with big corporations, establishment media, universities, billionaires, and politicians over 75.

Posted by: azjaeger at March 22, 2021 04:14 PM (3/XaG)

412
One thing that annoys me is the 20somethings who look down on us old farts as hopelessly inept with technology because we aren't on Instagram or whatever the latest trendy social media platform is. But when they can't get on the internet because the router needs to be reset or because they ran over the ethernet cable with the vacuum cleaner, they flap their arms cluelessly while screaming FIX IT I DON'T KNOW WHATS WRONG FIX IT I'M GOING TO DIE IF I DON'T HAVE INTERNET FIX IT.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 22, 2021 04:20 PM (n+4am)

413 Stop being obedient momma's boys and teacher's pets. There is no gold star for being most obedient to the demands of humorless, middle-aged Prius drivers.

Also, as another Moron once brilliantly put it in a comment... There's no silver medal for coming in second in the Woke Olympics.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 22, 2021 04:21 PM (H3MF8)

414 And if "No" doesn't work, try "Fuck off and die."

"You can still do that without going $100,000 in debt."

You can certainly do college without going $100,000 into debt. Your state college will not cost you that much; if you can't get scholarships to it then maybe you should reconsider college. Also, there's the option of doing the first two years at your local community college, being sure to work with the Guidance office to ensure that the 4 year school you transfer to will accept the credits of the courses you took. At the end of the day your diploma will say "4 year school" not "2 years at community college and 2 years here".

Not to mention that there are several ways to make a fine living in the skilled trades. You'll work with your hands more, but you may find that more fulfilling and even more your style. And when your H.S. buddies are just leaving college you'll be 4 years into your career making $40K or $50K/year and NO DEBT AT ALL. The trades are CRYING for people who are willing to work and have the aptitude to be trained.

Posted by: RonF at March 22, 2021 04:26 PM (TzAHL)

415 People don't go to Community College because they can't afford it.

Right.

Posted by: Desultory joe at March 22, 2021 04:28 PM (L9P9s)

416 Insufferable is right. Busybodies are assholes. Busybodies somehow do not realize this. Cancel the busybodies. They need to realize how much they are despised by the vast majority of people. It is so anti-hippie, as in instead of Do Not Be An Asshole, their mantra is Always Be An Asshole. The Liberal Church Ladies must go. Oh, I am willing to bet a large percentage of them are Evangelical Atheists.
Posted by: I can get behind this movement to cancel people at March 22, 2021 02:57 PM (rxR5g)

It was a TV trope in the 60s about the nosy neighbor that everyone wished would go away.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 22, 2021 04:43 PM (eoQWY)

417 "However, it really doesn't say anything about how Gen-X might fight cancel culture - just to fight it."

In other words "It was published in conservative media."

Posted by: Joe at March 22, 2021 04:45 PM (tE3qu)

418 We had to change channels by hand like cavemen!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 22, 2021 03:21 PM (VVEnO)

Not only that, you had to get up and walk across the room to be that caveman.

And if you turned the dial too fast, Dad would go nuts - Are you trying to break it? Do you think money grows on trees?
Posted by: all doubt removed at March 22, 2021 03:31 PM (S2eH9)

We just stationed a younger brother or sister by the TV for channel switching.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 22, 2021 04:53 PM (eoQWY)

419 According to the public service announcement commercial Anti-Asian hate crimes are up 1900 % just in NYC.

This sounds like one of those "some kid did a study" bullcrap stats but whatever. Asians have forever been the one ethnic group everyone could rip on without consequence or shaming -- even here.

My problem is that this isn't about protecting asians, its about silencing criticism of China.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 22, 2021 03:31 PM (KZzsI)

Its worse than that - too keep up the campaign they will have to generate crimes against Asians.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 22, 2021 04:56 PM (eoQWY)

420 I used to wonder how in the last half, say, of the Roman empire there were essentially no new books, histories, or the like and everyone either used the old classics or appended extensions to the older books to bring them up to date, aping the style of the older works. That was pretty much it until 1500.

The last 20 years in music, arts, and history has shown how that can happen.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 22, 2021 05:06 PM (eoQWY)

421 Remember: If some leftist turd accuses you of a "micro-aggression"...
offer them your most sincere "micro-apology"...
Try to do it with a straight face (difficult, I know).

Posted by: anon at March 23, 2021 10:08 AM (r860C)

422 "Dear Gen-Z:

Stop being obedient momma's boys and teacher's pets. There is no gold star for being most obedient to the demands of humorless, middle-aged Prius drivers.

Question authority. Until proven otherwise, assume that anyone telling you how to live your life is corrupt and is motivated by self-interest."

The natural and logical endpoint of this thinking is for them to go full-blown Hitlerist nazi. Anybody the establishment hates this much can't be all bad, amirite?

Posted by: rold at March 23, 2021 12:15 PM (r+Jbq)

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In The Battle Against Cancel Culture, It’s Time For A Youth Rebellion
[Buck Throckmorton]