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  1. 2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    No they don’t. They are the largest generation in American history and got absolutely boned in every measurable economic indicator.

    That’s the direction I was hoping this convo would head. When you look at empirical data and demonstrable reality, even if this general perception of the millennials being entitled were correct, it’s important to understand 

    1) What is it they actually feel entitled to?

    2) How are they expressing this entitlement?

    It’d be one thing if they were making $200k per year demanding $500k per year...but that’s not what’s happening.

    Their wages are utter shit, a lot of the ones who graduated college are being strangled by student debt that will never be fully repaid in their lifetime, shit is getting more expensive, the planet is being destroyed, etc. Did these issues face boomers when they were 21-37 years old? No. When they were that age, they were well on their way to taking over a planet that was handed to them on a silver platter.

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    They are the -first- generation to lose jobs, homes, and be denied the opportunity to accrue wealth to the benefit of their own parents. Why shouldn’t they promote themselves? Nobody else will.  

    Nobody else will because that would require an admission of guilt. Humans aren’t particularly good about that in general, but boomers? Fucking forget it.

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    They’ve made more sacrifices for their parents mistakes than any generation since the people who fought World War II, and if this country can ever be made great again it will be them and Gen Z who save it, by remaking it in their own image.

    Could not have said it better.

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  2. 6 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Cause I've seen it first hand. (Some) Millenials  (I've encountered do have an entitled sense of self and worth. I've seen it in the work place first hand. I also recognize they've had a more competitive academic life than folks growing up as boomers had.

    That's not what I asked. I asked why you suppose they're entitled, as in "what drives them to be so entitled that they even eclipse the boomers on this front?"

  3. 1 minute ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Uhh they do enough self promotion, on the entitled side of the equation.They don't need much help from the boomers on that front.

    Even if this was 1/100th as true as you think it is, why do you suppose it is?

  4. 7 hours ago, Monster said:

    Not starting another expensive, atrocity-filled war = loss.  That's how you see things? 

    Hugo and those lusting for blood and bombed out cities shouldn't panic just yet.  Not everyone has given up on manufacturing another destabilizing quagmire in the middle east.   These two guys met earlier today.   One can only imagine what sorts of 'Crisis Initiation' schemes we'll see rolled out in the next few weeks.    Prepare for more "Iranian Aggression".

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    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/world/middleeast/john-bolton-iran-drone.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

     

     

    Those two need to go to the gym and pump each other.

  5. 9 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Looks like the call to Lockheed was made.

     

    Benjamin Netanyahu himself could have a verified live video of him dropping a Palestinian infant from a helicopter hovering over his own home, and this sniveling little dickhead would have his jock-sniffing staff come up with some excuse to justify it...but he's all too ready to accept this shit at face value and to blow the military industrial complex until the fucking cows come home, and immoral liars like Icono will be all too ready to declare him a clairvoyant intellectual with a keen observation of detail. This is so abhorrently predictable.

  6. 4 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    This is the best possible news.

    I wouldn't go that far, but you're right in implying that the US getting any more involved than it did would have been exponentially worse.

    The best possible news would be that the Venezuelan population itself chose to overthrow the government and reconstructed it with people that actually had responsiveness to public attitudes, namely diversifying the economy so that they don't have to live and die by a single commodity and that they remain at arm's length away from powerful states, namely the US and Russia. 

  7. On 6/17/2019 at 3:56 PM, DDD Dad said:

    He is an angry elf.

    I remember shortly after Trump's election, articles were being written by establishment Republican and Democratic "journalists" and commentators (Sam Harris' stupid ass was probably the leading voice of this asinine cause) that blamed "the rise of political correctness by liberals" for it. As in the culture had apparently gotten so PC that people collectively threw a tantrum and voted for the absolute worst political candidate we've ever had (and I say that mindful of the fact that Fred Phelps and David Duke had political campaigns) to this nation's highest office.

    No, those people have always existed. It's just that they used to be considered aberrations in a species of social animals where compassion and sympathy are values to be treasured. If the so-called "liberals" did anything to permit this atrocity to happen, it's that they have preached tolerance so much and for so long that too many of us interpret "be more tolerant" to mean "tolerate everything, including intolerance," and that's where the Alex Joneses of the world can come in and scream and yell about "FIRST AMENDMENT!" whenever their Twitter feeds get snuffed out. That behavior you're seeing in the video? That's Alex Jones being Alex Jones. He wasn't forced into that mindset against his will by college professors and community organizers shaming people for not taking Native American rights seriously. He has that mindset because he's an asshole, and he always has been.

    Alex Jones has never had anything worth a shit to say, but not nearly enough of us have told him and his ilk that. We've been so supportive of their so-called "right to be wrong" that we've forgotten about our right to be right.

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  8. 2 hours ago, Bruh Man said:

    You have to understand that Iran has been planning for this conflict since 1979. They have sophisticated equipment and proxies all over the ME. The moment a bomb lands on Iranian soil, Iran will fire all of their ballistic missiles at Saudi/Emirati/Kuwaiti oil infrastructure & activate their Shia proxies in those countries. That's 20+ million barrels per day lost. The global economy would tank & you're looking at $500/barrel. 

    That’s an interesting dream

  9. 20 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Democracy doesn’t work in the Middle East well because religion gets in the way too much.  They’ll elect a Muslim cleric and boom, full blown theocratic authoritarianism. 

    Democracy doesn’t work there because we (and Europe) historically have not wanted it to and never have. When they dabbled in it, whether it was Mossadegh in Iran, Nasser in Egypt, Atatürk in Turkey, etc, it’s always been stiffly opposed by the West and the primary driver has always been economic conflicts of interests.

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  10. 1 hour ago, Asithappens said:

    Oh, I've never said that what the Israelis are doing (what you call terrorism) is good. Far from it.

    What I've said is:

    1) Israel has a right to defend itself, especially when surrounded by hostile Arab states, some of them calling for Israel to be wiped off the map;

    It has a right to defend itself inside the internationally recognized, legal border. Their right to self-defense immediately terminates when they transgress that border to institute settlement blocs, to build walls to protect said settlement blocs, to install checkpoints in the West Bank, to impose a blockade on Gaza, etc. They have absolutely no right to do any of those things, and any manifestation of those things can never be couched in terms of self defense. A military occupier cannot possess a right of defense inside the territory it occupies, full stop.

    1 hour ago, Asithappens said:

    2) Palestinians basically hate the US. 

    Can you blame them for that?

    1 hour ago, Asithappens said:

    3) The Palestinians are their own worst enemy. It's as if they can't imagine a scenario where they aren't the "persecuted" ones, where they don't have the Israelis to blame. 

    You’re just spewing vulgar propaganda with this nonsense. You know better than that.

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  11. 9 minutes ago, Fozzz said:

    lol the "faltering" deal.  More like, the deal the US unilitarily killed last year.

    That article is also completely devoid of the geopolitical situation there. As I stated, our intelligence has indicated over and over again that if the Iranians are pursuing nuclear weapons, it’s to advance their strategic doctrine of defense/deterrence to a foreign invasion.

    So let’s suppose this announcement is a hint at pursuing nukes. The timeline goes like this:

    -Iran has a defensive doctrine

    -The pursuit of nukes advances that doctrine

    -The Trump Administration repeatedly and overtly announces its intentions to invade after crumbling a deal that was supposed to retard Iranian pursuits of such weaponry

    -Fearful of an invasion from the US (why would they fear that, I wonder quietly to myself), Iran pursues nukes.

     

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  12. 10 minutes ago, Asithappens said:

    Lol, "arbitrary" measures.

    Yeah, why in the world would the Israelis protect themselves from bomb-throwing, rocket-launching Palestinians?

    It's all so arbitrary.

    Expropriating land has jack shit to do with "protecting themselves." You know better than that. 

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