Culture Wars

[NickM]

13 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

I wonder what MAHA stands for in her world?

[Murph]

1 hour ago, NickM said:

I wonder what MAHA stands for in her world?

Anything a communist disagrees with I suspect.  

[sunday]

Make America Hitler's Abode?

[NickM]

6 hours ago, sunday said:

Make America Hitler's Abode?

Make America Hell Again? I value my brain  cells==I assume Weir is 'bolshy'?

[sunday]

For her, more or less the same. Heaven also starts with "h".

[Rick]

A long held belief that college is way, way over hyped.

 https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/mike-rowe-warns-troubling-trend-among-working-age-men-says-trades-answer

[Wobbly Head]

7 hours ago, Rick said:

A long held belief that college is way, way over hyped.

 https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/mike-rowe-warns-troubling-trend-among-working-age-men-says-trades-answer

Well in Canada tradesman wages have overtaken university graduates wages by $3000 per year on average $63000 to $60000 . Even non IT electronics jobs are in high demand. 

 I got headhunted for my latest electronics job which earns more than if I worked as an electrician and I don't have to lug bundles of conduit about.

[Ivanhoe]

https://modernity.news/2025/05/08/statues-of-random-fat-black-women-popping-up-worldwide/
 

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While it is not allowed to have statues of Thomas Jefferson or Teddy Roosevelt, among others, in New York City, a 12 ft bronze statue of a random fat black woman just standing there is certainly permitted.

The new statue in Times Square is named Grounded in the Stars. The puropse of it, according to it’s creator Thomas J Price, is to be a “stark contrast” to two statues in Duffy Square of Father Francis Duffy and George M. Cohan, and a way of “disrupting traditional ideas” of what a “triumphant figure” is.

 

I left the typo in, for fun.

 

[Ivanhoe]

[Murph]

Interesting.  What is in the bag with the white powder?

 

[seahawk]

Colombian Milk Powder..

[Murph]

Odd this.  What are the odds?

[Ivanhoe]

Microsoft is (more or less) encouraging sex change operations, and "puberty blockers" for toddlers;

 

[Murph]

When you look at the soy boy latte sipper gamma males, and  then read this, where did masculinity go?:

 

[Rick]

3 hours ago, Murph said:

When you look at the soy boy latte sipper gamma males, and  then read this, where did masculinity go?:

 

When I read about this man, I thought of John 15:13.

[Murph]

Very true.

[Ivanhoe]

6 hours ago, Murph said:

When you look at the soy boy latte sipper gamma males, and  then read this, where did masculinity go?:

 

Single mothers, daycare, female-dominated misandrist public school systems.

[17thfabn]

I'm not big on bashing younger generations.

I'm a baby boomer. I know plenty of baby boomers that are lazy pieces of dirt. And I know plenty of baby boomers that are hard working salt of the earth types.

And the same with younger people. 

I would bet the majority of U.S. Army Rangers and Navy SEALS are under 30. 

NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!

[Rick]

6 hours ago, 17thfabn said:

I'm not big on bashing younger generations.

I'm a baby boomer. I know plenty of baby boomers that are lazy pieces of dirt. And I know plenty of baby boomers that are hard working salt of the earth types.

And the same with younger people. 

I would bet the majority of U.S. Army Rangers and Navy SEALS are under 30. 

NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!

[Stuart Galbraith]

One of the pieces reputedly found in Pompei was the worlds 'Oh Mores, Oh Temps!' Meaning 'Oh the morals, oh the times!' Which tell you mankind has spent 2000 years at least looking down on the younger generation. And yet somehow society doesnt collapse.

Ive always personally had a downer on the expression 'The Greatest Generation' about WW2. They were undeniably great, no doubt, but equally werent the guys what fought in WW1 or faced down Napoleon? They faced hardships that even the WW2 generation would struggle to have matched. It doesnt make later generations inferior, just different.

[Ivanhoe]

Just what we needed;

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/13/expert-highlights-illegal-alien-gangs-threat-to-rural-americans-n4939753

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A South American gang with many illegal alien members that cropped up to rival the infamous Tren de Aragua is victimizing vulnerable rural Americans, warns crime expert Robert Charles.

 

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Anti-Tren, according to Charles, is an example of an offshoot surpassing the original’s violence. “With MS-13, they had various tests and things that they went through, and there were offshoots there that became more violent than the original group.” He elucidated for Fox News, “They are also doing violence in an environment which they’re taking advantage of people. They’re taking advantage of the homeless. They’re taking advantage of rural America.”

Unfortunately, rural communities are too often an easy target for gang criminals (though Anti-Tren is also an issue in New York City), Charles stated. That’s the case in his home state of Maine: “We don’t have the infrastructure in a very rural state to put patrols up through the northern part of the state and, frankly, to even keep drugs from coming in and the gangs from coming here.” 

 

Bolding mine.

Tragically funny that a state where the per capita income is about $68k can't afford to hire some "Staties" and post them at the border. At some point Customs and Border Patrol need to shift some more assets from the southern border to the north.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPCPI

Of course, one might wonder about the law enforcement, or lack thereof, on the Canadian side.

 

[17thfabn]

2 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

Just what we needed;

Bolding mine.

Tragically funny that a state where the per capita income is about $68k can't afford to hire some "Staties" and post them at the border. At some point Customs and Border Patrol need to shift some more assets from the southern border to the north.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPCPI

Of course, one might wonder about the law enforcement, or lack thereof, on the Canadian side.

I could see the local sheriff deputizing some of the local good old boys. There should be a good number of veterans among the locals up north. 

If the government doesn't step up and take care of the problems it opens the door to vigilantly action.

[17thfabn]

6 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

One of the pieces reputedly found in Pompei was the worlds 'Oh Mores, Oh Temps!' Meaning 'Oh the morals, oh the times!' Which tell you mankind has spent 2000 years at least looking down on the younger generation. And yet somehow society doesnt collapse.

Ive always personally had a downer on the expression 'The Greatest Generation' about WW2. They were undeniably great, no doubt, but equally werent the guys what fought in WW1 or faced down Napoleon? They faced hardships that even the WW2 generation would struggle to have matched. It doesnt make later generations inferior, just different.

Talking about generations in the U.S.

In the last election, Trump was among the first of the baby boom generation born in 1946. Having nothing to do with the 2024 election Bill Clinton was also born in 1946, the beginning of the baby boom.

Hamala Harris and her running mate, "White dudes for Harris", Tim Walz were both born in 1946, the last year of the baby boom.

Among the Republican & Democrat presidential and vice presidential candidates NONE where from generation X the baby bust generation.

JD Vance was born in 1984 is generation Y, the millennials.

In a heart warming tale, I a baby boomer went to a Foo Fighters concert last year with my generation X wife, generation Y niece, and generation Z son, daughter and great niece.  

Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders and Wolfgang Van Halen were opening acts.

A great time was had by all. Multi-generational happiness. 

[Murph]

This:

[JWB]

I don't understand why so many people believe the baby boom started in in 1946. The birth rate started going up in 1940. By 1962 the birth rat started to plunge: