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Sarah James4 said:Linda Price5 Asks:
I'm honestly curious how many learning opportunities there are for some guy in marketing who actually asks a client if they're stupid or deaf, only to have the firm hand them a massive paycheck anyway. 🥳
Got a chance to write a new resume.😳
The last time that teacher lost her cool in class—and it happened more than once—she finally got what was coming to her after the first semester. She deserved it. You just can't talk to kids like that.
That's just not how things work here in America, so there's really no point in even comparing them. It's honestly unthinkable for adults to act that way toward kids while simultaneously demanding obedience, respect, attention, and understanding in return.
She handled things exactly the right way. Best possible outcome.
I don't know about your neck of the woods, but... around here, it isn't a big deal if one professor spends their time badmouthing everyone. The real issue is when a professor singles out one or two kids and makes them a "poster child" or starts isolating any group of them. But if they treat everyone equally poorly, nobody ever complains.
And let's be real, it’s way harder on a kid when they get singled out or used as an example. Meanwhile, when a teacher tells the whole class they're all idiots, we just shrug it off as "character building"... especially with kids in 5th grade or even high school.😁
Chloe Sullivan88 said:The America of the nineties definitely wasn't my home.
As for America today? There’s just too much negativity. I find myself drifting further and further away from this country and its people, honestly.
Thankfully, I’m moving abroad again for good, and I don't see any chance of ever coming back.
To be fair, the US isn't my only home anyway. ☕
I'm honestly not even sure how to respond to that second bolded part. It just feels like you're being a bit too emotional and probably misreading the whole situation.
But as for the first part? You've gotta define what you actually mean by "America in the nineties" for me.🤷
I honestly don't even know where to start with Veruda, because at this point, it feels like we're just watching the same slow-motion train wreck happen over and over again. It’s that classic, exhausting cycle where you see something clearly broken, you call it out, and then everyone just shrugs their shoulders like it’s nothing special. It’s pretty much the standard playbook for how things get handled around here—lots of noise, zero actual accountability, and a whole lot of people looking the other way while the mess gets even bigger. Honestly, I'm just too tired to be shocked by it anymore. kaže:
This whole country is just a total pushover, honestly—no backbone, no grit, and absolutely zero courage. It’s pathetic how much this nation loves to bend over and take it, if you know what I mean, just to avoid any kind of friction. We're basically running a pseudo-state at this point because the people in charge don't actually represent Americans or anyone else who actually gives a damn about our sovereignty and respect this land.
The way modern America is being run should honestly be studied in textbooks. It’s all just one big playbook for keeping people quiet—buying off minority groups with endless concessions to maintain a fake sense of social peace, or just throwing money at bloated pension schemes to keep the older crowd from making noise. Throw in some heavy-handed media manipulation on top of that, and you've got a perfect recipe for breeding total social apathy and making sure nobody actually knows what's going on.
Honestly, our country is actually alright. We’re just a bunch of idiots.
Richard Nelson84 said:Not this country. But I’d definitely say America.
To be fair, I’m not really the type of person who gets overly caught up in nationalistic vibes.
I’m pretty damn sure—just based on what little I’ve seen of you here—that you’re more of a true patriot than thousands of people who go around calling themselves Americans these days. Maybe I'm off base, but honestly, it's probably more likely that I'm right than wrong... though, hey, I know I'm hardly the gold standard for measuring anyone, but still.
rowdytiger13 said:Of course I feel that way; I don't have a second option.
I was born here and my roots are planted deep, so even if I ended up living somewhere else, this will always be my home.
It’s far from perfect—the political elite are revolting and people treat the laws like mere suggestions—but it's my country, and I don't have any other.
So, what’s the move when this whole country starts looking like every other place on the map, from the mindset down to the literal aesthetic? It feels like we’re just slowly morphing into a carbon copy of everyone else. We’ve clearly lost that spark—that actual vision of who we want to be or what kind of nation we’re actually trying to build.
casualharbor9 said:Honestly, it’s kind of a waste to just shut down a thread like this—it’s actually useful for tearing apart all that propaganda when people use logic. I’m speaking generally here, though, since I haven't been keeping up with everything lately.
Look, nobody can just push an agenda here forever without backing it up with actual facts. Even if that was the whole point for "them."
Besides, things were staying pretty chill in this thread, so I don't think it should've been killed off. My gut tells me they probably nuked it for the same reasons they shut down those last two threads before they even got off the ground.
Anthony Perez9 said:I’m all for shutting this thread down, since the OP was clearly just trying to push some racist agenda, even if he swore up and down he wasn't.
Thankfully Lastan (and the rest of us) shut that nonsense down. I really hope we don't see threads like this popping up on the forum again, and that any more attempts to peddle that disgusting racism get handled the exact same way.
Look, you obviously didn't read the whole thread... or maybe you did, but you were just cherry-picking what you wanted to see.
Lastan, just because you were loud doesn't mean you were right. You basically just gave your crowd exactly what they wanted to hear, while the rest of us just confirmed our own side of things.
It felt pretty abrupt and harsh, if you ask me. I mean, just when I was getting into the thick of things and trying to actually lay out some solid arguments, they just slammed the door shut on me with a final word and a comment saying there’s nothing left to discuss. 🤷
Why'd they lock this thread already? Did I wander too far off topic or what? 🤷
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You know how some people just can't help themselves? When they're trying to vent about being annoyed or just plain over it, they always end up dropping a curse word right in the middle of a sentence to drive the point home. It’s like, instead of just saying you're frustrated, you gotta say, "what the hell are you even doing?" or "what the hell, the LA Galaxy couldn't even..." It's just that specific way of adding a little extra bite to everything.
Calling someone out on their flaws or pointing out their shortcomings... honestly, it’s such a minefield, isn't it? You think you're just being helpful or maybe just stating a plain old fact, but before you even finish your sentence, you've somehow managed to alienate them or turn the whole situation into a massive drama. It's one of those things where you try to be real with someone, thinking you're doing them a favor by highlighting a blind spot, but most people just see it as a direct hit to their ego. I've spent way too much time overthinking whether I should speak up or just bite my tongue and let things slide, usually ending up doing neither and just feeling awkward about it. It's exhausting, really, trying to navigate that line between being honest and just being the jerk in the room.
So, you see people throwing around lines like "you're as dumb as hell" or "you're being a massive pain in the ass." Both of those are pretty much staples in everyday conversation lately, but I can't help but wonder why they've become such a go-to way for people to talk to each other.
I guess you could argue that the dick is one of the few organs in the body that actually seems to have its own agenda, moving around whenever it feels like it. If you look at it from a certain angle, this whole thing about it acting on its own impulse almost suggests it’s got its own little spark of intelligence, since it clearly thinks it knows better than the rest of us when it decides to take charge.
That explains the first part, I guess. But what about the second one?
What the hell do you mean "exhausting"? It’s not an exhausting dick we're talking about, it's the damn man... around here, everyone just lumps a guy's entire personality together with his anatomy like they're one and the same.
So, what kind of traits are we actually talking about here? Honestly, even a thousand years ago, men were pretty much always the ones pushing to initiate sex, completely ignoring whether a woman was actually down for it or not. Even in this modern era where everyone keeps insisting that sexual drive is perfectly balanced between men and women, you could easily scroll through a woman's inbox and find fifty thirsty messages from guys hinting at hooking up, while you'll barely see the same thing happening in reverse...
There’s actually this whole theory out there that the male libido is just fundamentally stupid because it’s such a massive hassle. It’s exhausting, honestly—it constantly forces a guy to go out and hunt for a new woman, which makes it a total drain on both the women involved and the guys themselves. It’s this weird, endless cycle where both sides end up feeding into each other, and I guess that’s exactly why the whole dynamic stays so damn popular.
Holy crap.
It doesn't matter where you travel on this planet, the core stuff stays pretty much the same. You look at the things people hold sacred—motherhood, kids, even cemeteries or God—and it’s all just the same universal patterns playing out everywhere.
Man, you ever just sit there and realize how colorful our insults get? Like, we've got stuff like "Screw your mother," or "I spit on your grave," or even going full scorched earth with "Damn your God." It’s all just different ways of letting out that deep-seated frustration when everything is hitting the fan.
Look, this guy isn't even trying to have a conversation anymore; he's just straight-up looking for a fight, aiming right for that other person's jugular by attacking everything they hold sacred.
I mean, honestly, why doesn't anyone ever go around messing with their neighbors? It's like there's this unspoken rule about just staying in your own lane and minding your own business, which, let's be real, is probably the only thing keeping us all from losing our minds in this country.
I mean, why does nobody ever bring up kids in these discussions? Is it some massive cultural taboo we’re all just pretending doesn't exist, or are they just treated like this untouchable, sacred thing that you can't even breathe near? Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if most of the people actually driving these heated online arguments are just young guys without any kids of their own, looking for something to fight about. 🤷
Total dominance.
So, you’ve got someone trying to flex their dominance by throwing around all these aggressive, vulgar insults—you know, the kind of stuff like telling someone to go screw themselves or just generally being verbally abusive to assert control. On the surface, these outbursts look like pure power moves meant to establish who's on top. But it makes you wonder... why does that actually work? Why is that specific brand of aggression seen as a way to dominate?
Honestly, if you look back at any point in human history, it’s always been the same old story: the ones doing the giving held all the cards, while the ones just sitting there taking it were basically nothing.
People pushing the idea that sexual orientation isn't something you can just pick up or learn tend to argue that having sex out of a need for control or pure dominance isn't even in the same ballpark as being gay—they usually bring up prison dynamics as their go-to example. But it really makes you wonder, though... if someone is engaging in sex where the only thing driving them is the desire to dominate, does that act even hold any other meaning besides the power trip itself?
So, who's actually calling the shots during that part of the act then?
We can sit here and debate it all we want, but if you look at how things actually play out in the real world, the one calling the shots—the one taking charge—is always the dominant one.
Honestly, whenever I was dealing with stuff like this, my go-to move was just hitting the gym hard... basically just working myself into total physical exhaustion, and after that, I always ended up sleeping way better. 🤷
I’ve tried dropping a few thoughts on some philosophy threads maybe three or four times now, and every single time my post just gets nuked without a trace. I was kind of expecting at least a little heads-up or a warning if I was actually being off-topic or if I somehow crossed a line and offended someone... just looking for a little clarity here.