@grey4626 The matter rests entirely with the Iranian people. Rise up now or rise up in the dark with no water for anyone to drink.
But rise up you must. Freedom is not free. We can't do this part for you.
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Ralph Judkins
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Ralph Judkins
@TSRNsa
Math Teacher, former voice of the San Antonio Gunslingers of the Indoor Football League, National Arena League, occasional activist.✝️🔙🔜🇺🇸🏴
San Antonio, TX Se unió Temmuz 2014
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Iran, you inbred theocratic cockroaches, it’s time to purse those fanatical lips and kiss the fucking ring.
President Trump has just drawn the line in the sand with the clarity of a JDAM strike:
talk to the adults now emerging from your collapsing regime, or watch every electric plant, every oil well, every desalination facility that keeps your parched shithole alive reduced to glowing rubble in a single, merciless night of American retribution.
Forty-seven years of your parasitic jihad...embassy sieges, hostage-taking, proxy slaughter through Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, and every other Iranian-funded death cult...ends here.
The bill is due.
Pay it, or bleed out on the altar of your own apocalyptic delusions.
But you won’t, will you?
Because you never learn.
Psychologically, you’re wired for it:
a messianic death cult sustained by 1979’s revolutionary fever dream, convinced that Allah’s favor and Russian/Chinese patronage will somehow trump geography, economics, and raw firepower.
You choke the Strait of Hormuz like a junkie guarding his last vein...twenty percent of the planet’s oil lifeline...thinking it gives you leverage.
Newsflash, you strategically illiterate goatfuckers:
the U.S. Fifth Fleet, carrier strike groups, and hypersonic-ready arsenal were built precisely to turn that chokepoint into your graveyard.
One carrier battle group and a handful of B-2s can sever your jugular in hours while the global economy barely hiccups.
We own the skies, the seas, the satellites, and the will you’ve spent decades proving you lack.
You’ve studied every American withdrawal, every half-hearted deal, and convinced yourselves the Great Satan is soft.
Wrong.
Trump isn’t Bush, isn’t Obama, isn’t Biden.
He’s the return of maximum pressure with zero tolerance for your proxy games or your nuclear theater.
Israel has already demonstrated the precision;
America stands ready to deliver the scale.
Your regime’s internal fractures...the protests, the collapsing economy, the quiet concessions already leaking out...prove the psychology is cracking.
The mullahs’ grip is slipping because their people are starving while the Revolutionary Guard fattens itself on smuggling and terror dividends.
So pucker up, Tehran.
Kiss the ring.
Submit, negotiate, or die screaming in the dark when the lights go out for good.
The choice is yours, but history and geography have already written the epitaph if you choose wrong.
Again.
And frankly, I am thoroughly enjoying watching you get what you've given for 47 fucking years.
Pigs.
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@_andrewkemp @asanwal I teach AI as part of algorithm. 1. Prompt AI to explain problem. 2. Prompt AI to create a similar problem for student. 3. Student solves, gives AI answer. 4. AI critiques. Go to 2 if necessary.
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@asanwal The reason is that the GPT was set up to provide the answer; a bespoke agent with Socratic or scaffolded tutor behaviours built in, that encourages thinking, would be an appropriate comparison.
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Wharton researchers gave nearly 1,000 high school math students access to ChatGPT during practice problems
Result: chatGPT is the perfect trap.
Look at the red bars.
Students with ChatGPT crushed their practice sessions.
The basic ChatGPT group solved more problems and those on the "tutor" version did even more.
Now look at the gray bars. That's the exam.
No AI allowed.
The ChatGPT group scored 17% worse than kids who practiced with zero technology.
And the fancy tutor version?
No better than working alone.
The researchers called AI a "crutch."
When they analyzed what students actually typed into ChatGPT, most of them just wrote - “What’s the answer?”
The kicker: students who used ChatGPT believed it hadn't hurt their learning.
They were confidently wrong.
This is the AI trap in education.
Outsourcing your thinking.
Of course, lots of half-baked AI literacy curricula being rolled out in schools now
Let’s of course ignore that basic literacy (the ability to read) is possible for <50% of 8th graders
Source: Bastani et al. (2025), "Generative AI Can Harm Learning," PNAS
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@ryanstudiesai @SoLInTheWild I refer to them as anger charts. No one notices.
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I was recently in a “PD” on being trauma-informed and the presenters said if your walls are bare and the room is cold and sterile students will not feel safe or welcome.
Next, they advised us to put up posters for anything and everything students may need to reference or know during the day.
Finally, they recommended having every student bring in a family picture to hang up. I have over 100 students.
As an act of defiance and civil disobedience, I proceeded to go to my room and take down one of my few remaining posters.
James A. Furey@JamesAFurey
People hate when I say it, but it's true: If your classroom looks like the Pinterest board of a Ms. Rachel wannabe, it is distracting to the students. This is particularly true for the kids with ADHD. Treating your room as an outlet for your personal expression is a selfish and immature thing to do which actually has negative impact on your students.
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@SetantaADV It was an unclear compliment. You're teaching healthy educated skepticism. Carry on.
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Not going to boost this guy’s numbers, but holy crap are these people either stupid, lazy, or both. This guy is talking about Delta and marines, and shows a photo of British SAS, and our guys, at the beginning of the war.
The last war, around 25 years ago.
Of course people are just lapping it up.
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@JTAlexander_ @Snz_BTC Is the 10 day a message to motivate the people to revolt or we make a deal with their currently living rulers?
The proximity of ground troops is a promise to help the Iranian rebelion's cause much like the French did for us.
Thoughts?
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The Principlists are not a monolithic party and the Reformers are a not-insignificant faction themselves. Virtually everyone in the Majles has done time in the military, but the Artesh is not the Sepah and mere history of serving in Sepah does not make someone “the IRGC.” (If it did, there wouldn’t be any opposition to the Velayat at all.)
The IRGC is a specific organization, which people can join, desert, be loyal to, or be opposed to. It’s not just a broad category of allegiance to lump people into.
Calling everything under the Velayat “IRGC” is clumsy itself, but then using that as a basis for acting like my assessment jumps off the rails because I draw a specific distinction just comes off as nitpicking for its own sake.
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Major notes from the week on Iran:
1) The USS Tripoli settled in at Diego Garcia on March 23 and that's the last position I've heard it confirmed. Diego Garcia to Hormuz is 5-7 days.
2) The IDF/USA Force has achieved the ability to hit the entirety of Iran, demonstrated by striking targets on the far side of the country.
3) The report about IRGC lowering its minimum age is kinda fake news. The IRGC has a very long history of using children in human wave attacks, as minesweepers, and suicide bombers. You can look this up, they're quite proud of their child martyrs.
What this announcement does indicate is that they will probably be kidnapping children to conscript and/or hold as hostages to prevent rebellion and desertion.
"Habibi, you love working for the IRGC so much, why doesn't your sweet little Muhammad join up with us, too? He'll stay here in the barracks to make sure you show up to your shift."
We should probably expect some tearjerking story about how the U.S. or Israel killed a bunch of kids while trying to bomb an IRGC post.
4) The Strait of Hormuz is subject to the loosest blockade in the history of naval warfare, which is actually just pretty interesting academically. I won't get too deep into that rabbit hole, but the Schrodinger's Strait is neither open nor closed until a particular ship is observed and the wave function collapses.
Major Assessments:
The additional ordered deployments and keeping Tripoli at Diego Garcia indicates that we're building up a significant force. Alarmists will see this build up and conclude that we're preparing for a major land operation, but I very much doubt it.
It will look very real; that's the whole point. And while Trump doesn't exactly bluff, he absolutely does misdirect.
My assessment from Monday remains pretty steady—I believe from the context that we have some counterparts in the Iranian Republican Government that are consolidating their own political power against the IRGC and Clerics.
The extension of the deadline and this build up are a Sword of Damocles. The looming threat it poses keeps the pressure on the Iranian Republicans to get their business sorted, and pressure on the individuals within the IRGC to consider desertion or defection (to the Republicans/Reformers.
In the meantime, the Combined Force will likely keep pounding the IRGC.
J.T. Alexander@JTAlexander_
Major notes from the weekend on Iran: 1) Combined Force strikes started hitting IRGC Ground Forces units in the Kurdish regions. 2) We have confirmed that IRGC members are at least two cycles behind on pay. 3) *Coincidentally,* I'm sure, the IRGC Ground Forces Commander went on a tour visiting these forces. In combination, these three notes indicate a high risk of desertion throughout the IRGC. 4) Separately, we have the attack on Diego Garcia that, frankly, justifies the war in and of itself. The base itself isn't terribly significant, its not that "Iran can get Diego Garcia! We have to go to war!" The issue is that Iran constantly lies about everything to do with its nuclear program. Taqiyya. They've issued fatwas against nuclear weapons, then simultaneously enrich uranium to levels only usable in weapons while developing long-range ballistic missiles. "Its for medical purposes!" No, it wasn't, and it couldn't be. Uranium enriched to this degree has no medical uses. "Its for self-defense!" Then why were you hiding a long range ballistic missile capable of delivering a nuclear weapon to London? The fact they were developing these weapons while consistently lying about it, in the face of all the world being united against their acquisition of the weapons, combined with all of their past acts of terrorism and piracy, absolutely justifies this war. 5) On Negotiations: These are being played very close to the chest, but here's what I've been able to gather... Witkoff and Kushner are keeping lines of communication open with non-IRGC elements of the Iranian State—if I had to guess, I'd expect officials within the Republican Government. If not Pezeshkian himself, then probably people with access to him. It seems abundantly clear that the situation in Iran is at this point A Tale of Two Cities. One is an IRGC-Cleric alliance propping up the corpse of the Velayat-e Faqih. The other is the Republican-Reform alliance propping up the still in-tact organs of state outside of the IRGC's control. We are almost certainly negotiating with one of these 'cities,' and not the other. This is what I expected would be the prelude to final resolution. The existing power structures in Iran will continue to pull support away from, and rallying support against, the IRGC. At this point, it appears the plan is to reach a pre-negotiated settlement with the Republican-Reform Government while hammering the IRGC on all available fronts and enabling a fairly smooth transition of power. Mass uprising is probably now the backup plan, with total dismantling of Iran's infrastructure the backup to the backup plan.
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@lutheranpeasant Great post.
The enemy is really good at their job. Especially when we seem to do the hard parts all on our own.
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For churches in the West, the great idol is self. We worship the idea that we are the only generation. We are the only ones to whom the Gospel has been preached. The only ones who have ever worshiped. The only ones who have ever thought about God. The only ones who have thought about human nature.
We are not just ahistorical, but anti-historical, intentionally cutting ourselves off from the past, and making no provision for the future. We live as though the church begins and ends with us, all to make room for the idolization of self we have created.
𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️@sola_chad
What’s a golden calf being worshipped in today’s churches?
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@Omni_Mythical @codym1917 Our ear is always out to people who make sounds we like.
Problem is we've heard so many liars it's hard to recognize a true help. So we demand ridiculous levels of proof and trust now.
Ex Continental Army types felt betrayed by the Continental Congress. On it goes.
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@TSRNsa @codym1917 Speak... just keep an ear out.
Some of us got some skillz m8
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Real talk:
If you are not a veteran of Vietnam, the Cold War, ODS, post ODS, or the GWOT, your opinion on how we will fight in Iran means jack and shit to me. You had your chance to experience the life and have no conceptual idea of how America conducts ground based maneuver warfare.
Just shut the fuck up already.
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@Omni_Mythical @codym1917 I'm the only one to reply.
Not surprised.
Just sometimes what they say rings to hollow with the core values that we have to speak out against it.
Just sayin'.
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@codym1917 mmm
i feel ya
but i disagree...
you'd be surprised at the strategic minds hidden in the public sector just waiting to be utilized.
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@EVincelette33 @codym1917 Yes, the right to bitch is inalienable to the Soldier.
When they stop is when it's time to worry about what they are thinking or up to.
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Non GWOT Vet weighing in, do we at least get to bitch about the fact that this is possibly turning into a boots on the ground war, which we sure as shit didn't vote for? And how about the tone deaf tweeting from the WH, can we call that out for what it is? Or do y'all actually like that shit?
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@codym1917 @ZacharyKane19 If the US issue CBRNE pro-mask doesn't stop a virus, neither does a M94 surgical.
Get bent, fear mongers. You almost won. Were it me, your consolation prize would be life in a cell or a one way trip to the rifle range.
But I'm just a dumb cold war to GWOT vet.
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@ZacharyKane19 You sound triple vaxxed and quadruple boosted.
I can easily read and decipher medical reports whereas you have no idea how to implement actions on contact or initiate section and platoon fire commands.
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@grey4626 This to the Iranian people:
Rise up in 10 days or your government stays. We have Marines in coastal and 82ABN everywhere else to join in the fun and make sure you win. But go now.
Freedom isnt free. You earn it, not just wake up in it. Do you want it?
Let us know soon.
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Trump stared those Iranian cockroaches dead in the eye and spelled it out with the cold precision of a man who has stared down worse:
Don’t. Be. Fucking. Stupid.
He even handed them a ten-day lifeline...a deliberate operational pause until April 6, a window for the mullahs and their IRGC death cult to swallow their pride, sit at the table, and pretend they still mattered on the world stage.
A strategic breather born of calculated mercy, not weakness.
They chose stupidity.
Of course they did.
That’s what hubris does to a regime marinated in decades of apocalyptic theology, proxy blood money, and the delusional fantasy that the West would always flinch first.
Psychologically, they’re wired for it...a brittle theocracy that mistakes restraint for fear and asymmetric terror for strength.
They couldn’t resist one last spasm of defiance:
more missiles, more threats to the Strait, more theater for their captive population while the adults were trying to talk.
Classic miscalculation.
They read Trump’s pause as hesitation.
They read Israeli patience as paralysis. They were wrong on every count.
Now the lights are going out across Iran. Not metaphorically...literally.
Precision-guided ordnance has already begun carving out the electrical arteries that keep their war machine breathing:
power plants, high-voltage substations, transmission hubs.
This isn’t scattershot revenge.
This is textbook strategic infrastructure decapitation...the kind of surgical, cascading warfare that turns a modern nation into a pre-industrial blackout zone overnight.
Air defenses go dark. Missile command nets collapse. Nuclear sites lose cooling pumps and monitoring grids.
Hospitals, water plants, refineries, the whole fragile apparatus of their oil-funded aggression seizes in the dark.
No power means no coordination, no resupply, no projection.
Their “Axis of Resistance” proxies...Hezbollah, the Houthis, every rented terrorist they’ve armed...just watched their sugar daddy get neutered in real time.
Geopolitically, the map just redrew itself.
The Strait of Hormuz they loved to wave around like a dagger is now a corridor of their own making...one they can no longer control or threaten.
Oil markets will scream, but Tehran will scream louder in the silence of a nation plunged into stone-age darkness.
Militarily, it’s masterful:
turning their overextended ambitions and hardened bunkers into irrelevant relics while the real strike packages keep inbound.
This is what fuck-around-and-find-out looks like when the adults finally stop warning and start ending threats.
No mercy.
No power. Only consequences.
The regime just earned their entire country a one-way ticket to the blackout.
And they have no one to blame but the suicidal stupidity they’ve worshipped for forty years.
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Massive hits in Iran now
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@rogerioperdiz @SandyofCthulhu So may I do it for you?
Even today, the question "Who would win in a fight between..." has only one right answer.
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If we exclude all the non fighters (life threatening fights) we only have 5 options 🤔 So Chuck, Bruce, Mike, Ali and Van Damme.
Now we need to consider the ones that fight out of a ring as in the ring and we end up with just Chuck, Bruce and Mike...
Bruce wouldn't turn is back to a fight, Mike caused many... but you know Chuck Norris had the speed, the strength and the attitude.
Without any Chuck Norris saying I say he would win.
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Mohammed Ali has a pretty good shot at it I’d say. He’s fast and tough. My karate instructor back in the 70s told me that one of the toughest opponents for a martial artist was a skilled boxer, because they could really take a hit and keep on coming, plus a boxer’s own punches were devastating.
Declaration of Memes@LibertyCappy
Who wins?
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@unseen1_unseen @CrumblingEmpir1 Because the plan has easily foreseeable contingencies just like that one, yhat were foreseen and planned for. We aren't led by incompetents now.
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I actually listened to Trump's first speech at the start of hostilities on Feb 28th with Iran and because of that I know the operation is going as planned and ahead of schedule. He told the American people exactly what was to come.
He told the American people the objective:
"eliminating eminent threats from the Iranian regime"
And why there was a need for this objective:
" Its menacing activities directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas, and our allies throughout the world."
Because:
"they attempted to rebuild their nuclear program and to continue developing long-range missiles that can now threaten our very good friends and allies in Europe, our troops stationed overseas, and could soon reach the American homeland. "
Trump also told the American people exactly how they were going to accomplish that objective:
"We're going to destroy their missiles and raise their missile industry to the ground.......We're going to annihilate their Navy. We're going to ensure that the region's terrorist proxies can no longer destabilize the region or the world and attack our forces....And we will ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon. "
Trump then explained the cost of this mission to America:
"The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties."
And to the Iranian regime:
"To the members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the armed forces, and all of the police, I say tonight that you must lay down your weapons and have complete immunity, or in the alternative, face certain death."
He also explained his hope for a permanent resolution:
"When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance for generations.
For many years, you have asked for America's help, but you never got it. No president was willing to do what I am willing to do tonight. Now you have a president who is giving you what you want, so let's see how you respond. America is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force. Now is the time to seize control of destiny..."
Now you can listen to the lying legacy media, the podcast idiots, or get trapped in the fog of war as Trump and the US military seeks to accomplish their objectives or you can see that for the vast majority of actions over the last several weeks things are going as planned and, so far, for every reaction by Iran to counter the US and Israel onslaught, the US and Israel military have had answers and have continued to push their advantages.
As of now, things are going very well for the US and Israel and very poorly for what's left of the Iranian regime. IMO, we are much closer to the end of the operation than the beginning.
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@MrMrk84 @AnnCoulter Ann may be laughing herself to tears. Good call.
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@MrMrk84 @AnnCoulter Hold on now. He has a point. MS NOW is a credible source for misinformation.
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@SorrentinoSean @ssgtwrightusmc Navy oil bunkers are not generally exposed all day every day to direct sunlight? Or in ground being baked by the heat of the sun?
I'd think Navy oil is on a ship. In seaworthy containers. Army/Marines have nothing like that.
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@TSRNsa @ssgtwrightusmc I am probably showing my ignorance, but when I was in the Navy, all diesel fuel had to have a flashpoint of 140°F. JP-8, US Army diesel fuel has a flashpoint of almost 101° minimum. I have a hard time believing that you could get it to explode.
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One evening in our base camp while in Ramadi, Iraq, I had a Cpl that literally blew himself up.
Our camp had 2 large generators, about the size of a Greyhound bus, being fueled by some diesel fuel cells (4'×4'×8') in size that basically fed power to the whole camp with several smaller generators being in use also.
One job assigned was to have someone check the fuel cells every 4 hours, and request a fuel truck if needed to refill them.
One night in June of 2005 at around 2000hrs (8pm), it was my Cpl turn to walk around and check the fuel cells.
He puts on his helmet and vest, grabs his rifle and a radio to call us if we need to send a fuel truck out if needed.
It hasn't been more than 5 minutes that have gone by when he left the COC, we all heard this loud "BOOM".
Everyone in the COC thought we were getting incoming fire because it was so loud.
When we were about to walk out back of the COC, here comes my Cpl walking inside slowly, arms hanging by his sides instead of swinging and then says " I'm so stupid, I'm so stupid" and we asked him what in the hell happened.
He tells us that he forgot to bring his flashlight with him, so instead of coming back to get his flashlight, he decided to use his lighter to look inside the fuel cell and all he remembers was seeing a BIG flash of light.
He was Medevac out to that night with 2nd and 3rd degree burns on his left arm and his face, all of his eyebrows and lashes gone.
On his way back to the states, he was in military hospital in Germany; where the Commandant of the Marine Corps (General Hagee) was visiting the wounded and stumbled upon my Cpl.
The Commandant asked him what happened to him, and my Cpl told the Commandant exactly what happened.
The Commandant looks right at him, laughing and says " You are one dumb SOB" and gave my Cpl his challenge coin.
What made this story even funnier was knowing that my Cpl was from Texas, and if anyone would know about oil and gas would be a Texan.
That night, we had to check that fuel cell to make sure that it was still save to use.
There used to be this heavy round plate on top of it that you slid over to fill it up with fuel and to check the fuel levels
Never could find that lid anywhere.
My best guess, thousands of Iraqis saw a UFO that night.
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@lanechanged @ChrisMartin1961 @Liberalibrarian Climate action is a boomer thing, late stage hippie. 1970's?
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I think it basically boils down to younger gens seeing that its mostly Boomers in charge of things & with everything being so shitty & unaffordable now, Boomers naturally will draw the most heat. I'm Gen X & the only complaint i really have about Boomers is that it feels like they failed us on climate action.
But these generational divides are a lot like the class war to me- ENCOURAGED by the elites to displace blame for the awfulness we ALL experience now. Like a distraction from the things we should actually be analyzing.
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I’m seeing, yet again, this surge of hatred for the Boomer generation. I’m a late season Boomer, born in 1961; I’ve worked for nearly 50 years, have been in the same profession for 37 years, I’ve routinely worked 45-60 hours a week.
I don’t get why we are so vilified.
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@ChrisMartin1961 @CitiesSuck As the generation you raised, allow me to say, "Yeah, Dad, I know."
And I'm only 6 years younger than you. Boomers suck. You took it all for you and paid nothing forward.
And made us listen to you do it.
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@CitiesSuck I fucking don’t CARE. Grow the fuck up!
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@infantrydort "No shit, there I was, for the fourth time in a week..."
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There’s likely a servicemember in the U.S. military directly responsible for sinking more than one ship in the last month.
That same servicemember is probably thinking about the fact that nobody will believe them if they told the story back home.
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