JohnRedHorn

First, it's all based on a book written nearly 50 years after the fact based on stories by a bunch of brave men who are trying to remember details at an advanced age. There's a reason human eye witness testimony is almost always a shoddy piece of evidence in a trial. They aren't lying, but over the years stories change and a more favorable version of the events tends to form as time passes. They couldn't even all agree on Sobel. Some of E company saw him as worthless while others said they wouldn't be alive today if he hadn't been so hard and demanding of them at that time. Also, the guy I quoted was making his wild assumption based on this movie which only followed this small handful of men. I know there were tons of great stories of heroism to be told but this account didnt recall them. Point is people then were a mix of good, bad, brave, cowardly, determined, and lazy just like people of every generation since. Human nature is to endulge in a reverence for fictionalized nostalgia as more snd more time passes. That's why there are always the "good ol' days" which in many instances weren't always so good.

Trump's people now floating out idea of removing troops from South Korea to "save money". Yeah he throws away a trillion plus in future corporate tax revenue, hikes up the defense budget to ungodly levels to fuel more waste while flooding more American soldiers to die on hostile foreign ground they dont belong on, but we can't keep soldiers in a key strategic allies' land because he wants to save money? He's either being played or he's actively sabotaging America's global influence. https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/05/31/615517016/would-the-u-s-withdraw-troops-from-south-korea

I think this current generation of kids is the first in a long time, maybe over 100 years, to not have things better than their parents. Being a kid now has to be worse than being one in the 80s and 90s for most Americans. The future 30 year outlook financially for the country is a lot worse now than it was in 1990 as well.

Ha you're crazy. You're looking back at a whole generation of American men and judge them by a fictionalized cinema account of a small handful of them. There were a whole lot more extreme violent racists and wife beaters than there were those like Major Winters. Also way to insult all of the veterans from Vietnam and the past 17 years who aren't fighting for a just cause but because they are ordered to do so. That has to be much tougher to swallow knowing you really have no business being there yet still having a job to do. Go tell people like Carlos Hathcock that they arent as good as WW2 vets.

Two things: Earl Campbell and Stanley's BBQ

Trump is just the most viscerally repugnant face of the decades long policy of the republican party to gain power by making thr shittiest of white people believe they are superior to even the best of non whites simply because of their white skin. The republicans sold their soul for cheap pandering to both the top wealthy elite whites (we will always do your bidding) and the poorest of garbage whites (we will constantly tell you how superior you are to everyone who is not white) at the same time.

In a weird stories about E company file there's Sobel (Schwimmer) who after the war got married to a blonde catholic broad that his family would never accept, had a few kids, and tried to commit suicide in 1970 but the bullet just passed behind his eyes severing his optical nerves leaving him blind. He was then dumped and abandoned by his wife (and kids he worked to pay for their college) in a VA hospital where he languished for 17 years before dying of malnourishment.

Well he did take a bullet to the head and walk away

Nixon? I like Livingston as much as anyone but all Nixon did was follow Winters around. Havent seen it in years but who was the sargeant or lieutenant that froze on the battlefield? That was one of my favorite episodes, the guy that took up the slack and received a field promotion was a bad ass.

The only one that comes close is the former USSR, but they eventually collapsed after their grand ambitions led to financial ruin. The others are/were small country civil war issues of infighting that arent wrecking havoc on many parts of the world the way we do. Hell, even as evil as Putin is modern day Russia hasnt terrorized the world with violence the way we do. They now use a lot more subtle and psychological ways to influence. We're the biggest blood thirsty barbarians of the modern day, and no amount of standing for national anthems or spouting off propaganda can change that fact.

The evil we bring in the middle east on a 17 year and counting continuous war. The evil we perpetrate on Asia with the Vietnam/Korea debacles and continuous threat of nuclear war. The evil we bestow on people in our own borders. We're not at full Nazi genocide level yet but name a world power that has destroyed more lives within and outside it's own borders in the last 70 years.

Did you click the link or read Hugo's tweet? Our government is separating children from their mothers then just losing track of them to be harmed or done with whatever anyone wants. That's on a strong path towards Holocaust activity because it's treating humans as non human. Our government is that evil and we are shamed into supporting it with political propaganda.

It's like we're in a twilight zone episode where after WW2 we got so smug and ignorant feasting on pro US propaganda that we dont realize we've replaced Hitler as the biggest evil monster in the world.

I don't know why yo, but I believe him.

But he's been a whiny bitch ass quitter much longer.

"Trump wanted to cancel before North Korea could" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/inside-summit-collapse-trump-wanted-cancel-n-korean-leader-could-n877291 This is exactly what Kim and Xi wanted to happen and knew Trump would do because he's a giant tantrum throwing toddler who has to always be first to something. Now any negotiating leverage he had is gone as he can no longer force Kim to be the bad guy who canceled the summit. To the world and Moon it looks like the US doesn't want to seriously negotiate for Korean peace.

Whoever it was that said Kim was playing Trump to make America the bad guy and squeeze America out of political influence in the Korean peninsula was spot on. You can see every trap DPRK lays and watch this admin walk into them. No way Moon or anyone in South Korea thinks the US can be trusted.

Nobody cares about the constitution anymore, just like nobody cares about responsible fiscal spending. It's all about what I want and fuck you if you get in the way. No negotiation. No compromise. Just use whatever narrative fits your opinion and reject whatever doesn't. We're one step away from political killings and assassinations because fuck civility just give me what I want now.

If that was satirical then bravo. If not then wtf? Duh, the US is the only civilized western society that has easy access to guns and a majority of gun owners who are irresponsible and don't keep their guns locked in a gun safe whenever not in use. You dont have to take away guns, you just start charging whoever the legal owner of any gun that is used in a crime with that crime. If dumb ass daddy of this kid was up for capital murder and the death penalty alongside his kid then we'd either see a lot of people deciding to not own guns or we'd get rid of irresponsible gun owners by making felons out of them.

They had a nobody specials teams garbage linebacker pull a rifle on some rednecks at a 4th festival last year and didnt even cut him. They arent cutting Williams unless he gets accused of beating a woman. How's that for Jerry Jones' faux patriotism. Pulling weapons on people at municipal 4th of july celebrations is just fine but take one knee to pray during an anthem...

Republicans witch hunted Bill Clinton for years with Starr and Whitewater and got nothing. Mueller has been investigating for one single year on an investigation that is 100 times as large and has returned numerous indictments on people high up in the trump campaign. Yet republicans are crying witch hunt. GTFO you treasonous thugs.

I think a lot of people dislike the idea of people running the governement and making decisions that effect millions of lives based on what an extraterrestrial being in the sky who watches over them tells them to do. The problem is that extraterrestrial being has never once manifested itself to society as a whole to explain it's wishes. What you end up with is a group of people justifying whatever action they choose to take by filtering it through the mental lens of "this is what God tells me to do." Anyone should be able to see how that is extremely flawed thinking and can cause major problems yet it is what republicans do.

The catholic religion has broken off into so many sub categories based on political squabbles over the centuries that I can't believe much of it even ties back into the word of Jesus at this point. There are few exceptions but for the vast majority it's become a social club where the words themselves are not to be heeded and the example of Christ is not to be followed.

I have 3 kids and 8 grandkids and if something is heavy or needs carrying I take care of it, but I'll be damned if I'm going to be carrying their cell phones and trivial shit around. If my sons asked me to carry their wallet and phone for them I'd tell them I didn't raise you to be a lazy ass and carry it yourself. Same goes for the daughter. If you dont want to pay the price of carrying it don't bring it. The only exceptions were when the grand kids were babies and the kids had to lug 30 lbs of field gear around everywhere. That situation required help.