
John Curran
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John Curran
@jac2623
Retired, bad film noir habit, extreme dislike for both political parties. No fishing DMs. Pronouns: Y'all & All Y'all.
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I'm a Boomer and have been aware since the 80's that there are a lot differences between the people I grew up with and the generations that follow us.
I don't remember when I first heard about "safe place" but it was in the context of universities providing them for students who had anxieties. I found the notion of a safe place laughable. The only truly safe place I could imagine is the grave. Living is dangerous in small ways and life-threatening ways and it is so every day we are on the planet.
If I complained to my mom that Bobbie called me a poopy-head, her advice was to ignore him or stop hanging around with Bobby. If I complained that there was nothing to do, she would advise me that she had plenty to keep me busy in the house. I did not want to fold bath towels or dust bookshelves so I wisely left to hang out with other kids.
There are many examples of the differences of the way kids have been raised in the five generations that followed the Boomers. The differences are sometimes be cited as coddling in posts, magazine articles, and books on the subject.
My wife sent me a link to an article she found that is relevant to many discussions we've had over the years on this matter. I see comments in social media that indicate a deep dislike of Boomers. We are called mean, racist, stupid, fascist, and, worst of all, people who have no idea how to use pronouns correctly.
The most important word in the article used to describe the difference between Boomers and succeeding generations is resilience. We learned, not from adults but each other, how to face problems, work out solutions, and move on. All of this life-learning has been taken away from kids and managed by adults in virtually constant supervision. They have grown up in an environment of parents who tell them they are special, teachers who made them give everyone a Valentine card, and universities that restrict freedom of speech and thought. And they call Boomers Fascists.
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𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐌𝐀𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐇𝐀𝐒 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐀 𝐃𝐄𝐂𝐀𝐃𝐄
Bill Maher is not a conservative. He never will be. But he is one of the vanishingly rare liberals willing to say out loud what the left has spent years punishing people for noticing.
His diagnosis of the Democratic Party's collapse is surgical: 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭.
We just watched that play out in real time with John Fetterman — a Democrat willing to say sensible things who is being punished and isolated by his own caucus for it. The pattern Maher is describing is not abstract. It is the operating system of today's Democratic Party.
He runs the list of positions the left demands you accept without debate or you are labelled bad, stupid, and deplorable. Separating sports by biological sex makes no sense. Gender is only a construct. Transing children by self-diagnosis with no age limit and no parental notification. Asylum covering any reason for anyone to enter the country. Homelessness as a lifestyle. Natural immunity doesn't count. Whiteness is toxic. Men in women's prisons. Welcoming the intifada.
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫: if the men's football team played the women's team, it would be a tie.
That last line is not just funny. It is the perfect encapsulation of the entire ideology — a worldview so committed to a predetermined conclusion that it will argue against observable, measurable, biological reality rather than concede a single point. Math is racist. Two plus two equals five. 𝐈𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐛𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬?
Maher's ask is not complicated. Stop introducing radical ideas and then declaring the debate over before it starts. Stop treating disagreement as moral failure. Stop demanding that everyone sprint to catch up with whatever the new orthodoxy is this week or be cancelled for falling behind.
That is not a conservative ask. That is a 𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 ask.
The left used to understand that you win arguments by making them. Somewhere along the way they decided it was faster to just destroy anyone who asked questions. November 2024 was the invoice for that decision. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐭.
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This video from @InspiringPhilos is beyond hilarious, but also is literally how Muslims think they can escape the Islamic dilemma. And if you think hes being sarcastic, watch any one of our debates and see how spot on it is
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Reparations are forbidden under the US Constitution. Crimes are adjudicated against individuals and not their families or descendents. Slavery was not a crime in the US until it was forbidden by the 13th amendment in 1865.
My maternal great-great-great-grandfather, John Robinson, was a doctor in Ohio who volunteered for the Union Army in 1861. He went home in 1865. He was an abolitionist and voted for Lincoln in 1860.
We owe people who fought in the Civil War our respect and gratitude for helping to end slavery, Demanding that I pay reparations is blood libel and a crime under US law.
Dangerous Thoughts@DangerousThinkg
A little truth about slavery & reparations in 45 seconds
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Bernard Lewis laid it out years ago… when things go wrong, you either ask "what did we do wrong?" or "who did this to us?" One builds nations. The other destroys them. The Muslim world chose door number two… and got conspiracy theories, stagnation, and rage.
But here's the part nobody talks about… Lewis warned the West was starting to do the SAME THING. Blame culture. Victimhood. Paranoia. We're catching the disease we used to diagnose. Think of that.
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If the amount of CO2 put into the atmosphere every year by human activity is measured as one astronomical unit(93 million miles), then the amount put in by volcanoes is measured as a parsec. One parsec is 206,225 astronomical units. I exaggerate but not by much.
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More embarrassment for the Climate Scam and its No1 cheerleader Ed Miliband.
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Richard Feynman’s savage takedown of pseudo-science still burns in 2026:
“Social science is an example of a science which is not a science. They follow the forms… but they don’t get any laws. They haven’t found out anything.”
He goes harder:
Experts who “sit at a typewriter and make up” claims — “organic food is better,” “this diet cures everything” — as if it’s settled science, when no rigorous experiments or checks have been done.
Feynman:
“I know what it means to really know something.
How careful you have to be. How easy it is to fool yourself.
I see how they get their information… and I can’t believe that they know.”
The Nobel physicist calls it straight: most of what passes for “expert” opinion is noise dressed up as knowledge.
In an age drowning in TikTok “science,” influencers, and clickbait studies — Feynman’s 1:52 rant feels more relevant than ever.
Who’s the biggest pseudo-expert that grinds your gears right now?
Clip is timeless fire — watch it and feel the clarity.
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I’m going to stop writing an article every week explaining how ‘Islamism’ is simply Islam and instead use this two-minute video from @GadSaad.
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A soul-crushing story of government incompetence laced with commplete disregard for the safety and welfare of the citizens who pay their salaries and retirement plans.
High praise to CAL Matters for publishing things like this.
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