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Yeah, money is a social construct but just watch what happens to me if I stop using it to pay my mortgage...
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When do we start to call regressives the Asleeps?
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They do love telling each other to wake up
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Upsidads posted:When do we start to call regressives the Asleeps? We better watch out when the sleepers have awakened
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There’s a long-dead US political party called the Wide-Awakes, though the current CHUD political and social projects fit more with the Know-Nothings
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HootTheOwl posted:We better watch out when the sleepers have awakened Sleepers rise up
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The system of millions of humans making shelters, growing food, etc?
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Brawnfire posted:The system of millions of humans making shelters, growing food, etc? I mean, it comes off a little too Tyler Durden, but I get where the jpeg is coming from. Unless there's a followup to it that explains how this is something the Democrats masterminded and only them.
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the_steve posted:I mean, it comes off a little too Tyler Durden, but I get where the jpeg is coming from. Something the (((Demon Rats))) masterminded, you mean.
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the_steve posted:I mean, it comes off a little too Tyler Durden, but I get where the jpeg is coming from. It's from a family member who regularly posts anti-trans, anti-immigrant, etc. Big on "Schools need to put god back on the lesson plan". So yeah, on the surface you may agree but you know it stems from hate.
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the_steve posted:I mean, it comes off a little too Tyler Durden, but I get where the jpeg is coming from. I guess if you think government has only been around for 2 generations. Not everyone in Rome was growing their own food or sewing their own clothes either. These systems aren't 2 generations old, they are the backbone of any civilization.
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I get it too but it seems like it rests too much on every individual human needing to be a subsistence farmer. A lot of skills weren't 100% individual but spread out over a community support network, it's just that that network has gotten to the point where offloaded responsibilities are sight unseen. The skills themselves aren't forgotten and are in daily practice, but specialized.
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 This one's funny because the dude posted it about Biden but I'd be willing to bet it's a 3 year old meme...
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Medullah posted:
That joke is probably old enough to draw a pension.
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Medullah posted:It's from a family member who regularly posts anti-trans, anti-immigrant, etc. Big on "Schools need to put god back on the lesson plan". So yeah, on the surface you may agree but you know it stems from hate. How come so many of the "GOD back in schools" crowd fights so hard to block teaching science, history, race, sex and calls it a personal choice for the parents and something that should be learned and controlled by the Mother and Father? What if I take exception to the school telling my son he's going to burn in hell if he turns out to be gay or asks uncomfortable questions about different religions? What if I object to Prager U content being taught to him as abject fact? Isn't it my responsibility, combined with his natural intellectual curiosity and subsequent questions, to determine what we collectively consider God to be and the role of religion in his life either way? Right now, my son is 12 and says he believes in God, to the extent that he can define it, at least. I personally don't believe but we engage in real conversation about the subject and I never tell him he's wrong or that his beliefs are misguided. We just talk. We don't battle over who's right or wrong; at least as the central thesis of the discussions.
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BiggerBoat posted:How come so many of the "GOD back in schools" crowd fights so hard to block teaching science, history, race, sex and calls it a personal choice for the parents and something that should be learned and controlled by the Mother and Father? What if I take exception to the school telling my son he's going to burn in hell if he turns out to be gay or asks uncomfortable questions about different religions? What if I object to Prager U content being taught to him as abject fact? I just barely got back home from church with my daughters and wife and like as one of the few goons who is religious, like I got baptized from Judaism into Christianity it long ago, it’s rough trying to teach that it doesn’t loving matter which or any god one prays to:
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BiggerBoat posted:How come so many of the "GOD back in schools" crowd fights so hard to block teaching science, history, race, sex and calls it a personal choice for the parents and something that should be learned and controlled by the Mother and Father? What if I take exception to the school telling my son he's going to burn in hell if he turns out to be gay or asks uncomfortable questions about different religions? What if I object to Prager U content being taught to him as abject fact? A fair portion of the debate has nothing to do with any actual theological concerns and is based solely in controlling other people, or at least justifying any prejudice they may have towards any Others.
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Plus, many conservatives see it as their duty to make sure that their kids end up as little carbon copies of themselves. It's tough to do that when they're exposed to other ideas, so shutting down their access to said ideas is important. That's what the homeschooling movement is largely about. In private, they readily admit that they're completely pro-indoctrination, as long as they're the ones doing the indoctrination. You don't need to scratch very far under PragerU's surface before they start saying that part loud. Hell, the whole current freakout about kids using different pronouns at school is all about this. They pretend it's some "oh the nefarious teachers unions are whispering trans indoctrination into the ears of our children" scenario, but their entire objection boils down to them being extremely freaked out at the idea that they don't have complete knowledge and control of their kid's self-expression at all times.
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Medullah posted:It's from a family member who regularly posts anti-trans, anti-immigrant, etc. Big on "Schools need to put god back on the lesson plan". So yeah, on the surface you may agree but you know it stems from hate. Well yah its basically trying to say real men farm/do physical work and women belong in the kitchen under the guise of we don't MAKE things anymore. It's toxic masculinity too because its basically saying if you're a real man you'd be making things and not talking about pronouns our pursuing arts and science. I guess if I think about it more, there is a kernel of we need more vocational training which is true but they don't actually care about any of that.
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Mooseontheloose posted:Well yah its basically trying to say real men farm/do physical work and women belong in the kitchen under the guise of we don't MAKE things anymore. It's toxic masculinity too because its basically saying if you're a real man you'd be making things and not talking about pronouns our pursuing arts and science. Right, 100% we need to adjust what public school teaches kids. Basic hone economics, general home repair, etc. If I had learned about compound interest early on I might be retiring early. But no, the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
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"If my children, who are my property, have thoughts that I DON'T LIKE THEN WHAT ABOUT OUR PHREADOME!@!!!!!!"
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Oh man, the fact that the most recent two generations were never "taught how to make things" by their parents is definitely an indictment of them themselves and somehow not an indictment of their parents.
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Goddamn Millennials, demanding participation trophies until we were forced to invent the concept and give them out at every opportunity!
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:Goddamn Millennials, demanding participation trophies until we were forced to invent the concept and give them out at every opportunity! Now try being a zoomer The forty year old millenial college students and us your allies, the tiktok communists who are simultaneously 4 and 30
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In only two generations we have lost the knowledge of how to treat polio and tuberculosis with food & herbs 
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Nenonen posted:In only two generations we have lost the knowledge of how to treat polio and tuberculosis with food & herbs I want to take it the other way if I was confronted with this by someone I knew, and start talking in glowing terms about this desire and how I'm glad they've come around and want to achieve the ambitions of Mao and Pol Pot in creating a self-sufficient society focused on more agrarian living. Not that the people saying this kind of thing actually care about capitalism as anything but a jingoistic buzzword, but they're demanding a departure from a hyperspecialized atomized society that capitalists gladly propagate and profit from and instead demand things that various major Communist Boogeymen drove to institute.
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And no one practices the Mithraic Mysteries anymore! It's so sad what we've lost
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:And no one practices the Mithraic Mysteries anymore! It's so sad what we've lost
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Nebrilos posted:Oh man, the fact that the most recent two generations were never "taught how to make things" by their parents is definitely an indictment of them themselves and somehow not an indictment of their parents. 
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Three generations ago was peak Boomers pretending that woodgrain TV sets and canned food are naturally occurring phenomena.
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I kinda want to make that now I hope that's not sweet jello though eugh
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Guavanaut posted:Three generations ago was peak I like to think I've got a diverse palate, I'll try anything once. The only food I couldn't finish was a plate of aspic my grandma swore up and down was the "the best"  
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 Opposite of what I normally post, I posted this on Facebook and am loving the "so beautiful" and "Blessed" comments I'm getting from my Conservative family members hahahaha.
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There's an interesting Youtube channel I like to follow that has scenes from malls and stores in the '90s - Vampire Robot. Good channel. But in one particular video there's a family watching a movie together in 2002, and every other comment is a variation of carping about cell phones - "this was before everyone was glued to a phone screen!". Probably it's a bunch of bots, but given the early '00s nostalgia it could be people my age who are already doing Boomer rants on social media.
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