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Labor Unions Join Wall Street Occupiers for "Mass Rally'

Non-conformists unite! Grab the nearest Apple product and spread the word about the evils of corporatism!
 
Subjective example #2: Graduated last year. A teacher who wants to coach basketball at the college level. He can't find a job. Won't even apply for other positions. Lives at home with mom and dad who pay many of his living expenses as he holds out for his dream job. None of this "entry-level" crap for him. Hell, that's everybody's dream job. He's disallusioned. Ya' think??

even before the latest recession, we saw the increasing expansion of adolescence into what we consider "adulthood". across human history, a 26 year old has been considered a fully independent adult, likely raising multiple children, but now he's a child himself? fully thirteen percent of American "men" age 25-34 lived with their parents, and the wide majority of 25 year olds weren't married.

furthermore, 18-34 year olds spend more time playing video games than minors. Nielson ran a study and found out that roughly half of all men in that age group racked up an average of two hours and forty three minutes of gaming every day.

the Jesuits used to say "give us a boy until seven and we will show you the man"; now we say "give us a boy and we will make sure you never see the man".
 
Oh my the terrible evil labor unions marching in solidarity with other protesting the end to wall street corruption! How absurd!
What could a socialist possibly have in common with any American the believes in the Constitution? Nothing. You sit there addressing all these issues in this country, when you basically would like to distroy our way of life.
 
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What could a socialist possibly have in common with any American the believes in the Constitution? Nothing. You sit there addressing all these issues in this country, when you basically would like to distroy our way of life.

Only after profiting from it...
 
What could a socialist possibly have in common with any American the believes in the Constitution? Nothing. You sit there addressing all these issues in this country, when you basically would like to distroy our way of life.

Can a socialist be a citizen of the United States? If so he/she has the same 1st Amendment rights that any citizen has. Would you have questioned his right to an opinion if he was a republican?
 
What could a socialist possibly have in common with any American the believes in the Constitution? Nothing. You sit there addressing all these issues in this country, when you basically would like to distroy our way of life.

I am a Social-Democrat. does this go for me as well?
 
even before the latest recession, we saw the increasing expansion of adolescence into what we consider "adulthood". across human history, a 26 year old has been considered a fully independent adult, likely raising multiple children, but now he's a child himself? fully thirteen percent of American "men" age 25-34 lived with their parents, and the wide majority of 25 year olds weren't married.

furthermore, 18-34 year olds spend more time playing video games than minors. Nielson ran a study and found out that roughly half of all men in that age group racked up an average of two hours and forty three minutes of gaming every day.

the Jesuits used to say "give us a boy until seven and we will show you the man"; now we say "give us a boy and we will make sure you never see the man".

Do you think any conservatives fit the profile you present or is it just others
 
Can a socialist be a citizen of the United States? If so he/she has the same 1st Amendment rights that any citizen has. Would you have questioned his right to an opinion if he was a republican?

I had many a Republican question MY right to exist, all because I opposed the war in Iraq. Got into an argument over that war one night at a gig I was playing. He called me a Communist, so I kicked his ass. True story.
 
:shrug: i'm getting ready to get on a plane to the Philippines, suffice to say I lack my full library.

however, the stuff is just a google search away, if you actually care to look into it:



and so on and so forth. even Boo (and we don't agree on much) will confirm this for you, if not, there are plenty of employer survey's which back it up. our generation expects to be considered awesome and be rewarded just for showing up.

I saw no statistics comparing the narcissism of the boomer generation and our generation. I don't know who the "millennial" are (what age group are they supposed to be?) and the researcher did not provide any study to back up his claim that it's the parent who are at fault. He said the cause is complicated and then produce a "hunch".

And why should I search anything for you, when it's not my claim and I don't know what you have in your mind to make you claim that our generation is narcissistic and expect to be praised just for showing up as a result of the Boomer generation? Whether Boo agrees with you or not has no impact here.

Do you see yourself as narcissistic and expect to be praised just for showing up and that's why you generalise this personal opinion of yourself to a whole generation?
 
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Do you think any conservatives fit the profile you present or is it just others

I'm sure plenty of them do. human nature is an equal opportunity offender :)
 
Can a socialist be a citizen of the United States? If so he/she has the same 1st Amendment rights that any citizen has. Would you have questioned his right to an opinion if he was a republican?

Any American can be a Socialist, Nazi, Fascist, racist and so on. They still have their First Amendments rights, but that doesn't their opinions need be respected.
 
I had many a Republican question MY right to exist, all because I opposed the war in Iraq. Got into an argument over that war one night at a gig I was playing. He called me a Communist, so I kicked his ass. True story.

War is bad, huh?

The Leftists always try to justify their violence, whether its 'kicking ass' over a political debate, smashing buildings and businesses or creating public disturbances and blocking thoroughfares. And yet they still want the mantle of "Peace" and the interest of the public good identified with them.

Their tired act has been going on far too long. They're still stuck in the 60's, still consider themselves rebels against "The Man". and have become nothing more than boring and tiresome hypocrites.
 
War is bad, huh?

The Leftists always try to justify their violence, whether its 'kicking ass' over a political debate, smashing buildings and businesses or creating public disturbances and blocking thoroughfares. And yet they still want the mantle of "Peace" and the interest of the public good identified with them.

Their tired act has been going on far too long. They're still stuck in the 60's, still consider themselves rebels against "The Man". and have become nothing more than boring and tiresome hypocrites.

Just because he is anti-war means he cannot stand up for himself? Talk about a non-sequitur.
 
Social Democrats support the increase in the misery index since social democrats want to spread their misery equally to everyone else

The United States Misery Index By Year

Thanks for that. Now it's easy to see why they don't openly admit to having an organized political party but instead prefer to operate by stealth, likely through the "Democrat" part of their name,.
 
War is bad, huh?

Bad? Yes always. It's sometimes necessary though. Nobody can explain why we have been in Afghanistan for 10 years though.
 
Bad? Yes always. It's sometimes necessary though. Nobody can explain why we have been in Afghanistan for 10 years though.

sure i can
because we have not latched onto the thing we can point to to say "we win"
... and then leave

it "worked" in viet nam
 
Bad? Yes always. It's sometimes necessary though. Nobody can explain why we have been in Afghanistan for 10 years though.

Because the will to win a war isn't there. We are now more worried abut casualties and "winning hearts and minds" than actually getting the other side to clearly realize that any provocation will mean death and destruction on a scale of which they never dreamed. The enemy is prepared to wait, and the majority of the democracies don't have the balls to fight over any lengthy period of time. We just want it all to go away somehow so we can get back to 'normal'. They know that as well as we do.
 
Because the will to win a war isn't there. We are now more worried abut casualties and "winning hearts and minds" than actually getting the other side to clearly realize that any provocation will mean death and destruction on a scale of which they never dreamed. The enemy is prepared to wait, and the majority of the democracies don't have the balls to fight over any lengthy period of time. We just want it all to go away somehow so we can get back to 'normal'. They know that as well as we do.

So yeah.....the war is bad.
 
Because the will to win a war isn't there. We are now more worried abut casualties and "winning hearts and minds" than actually getting the other side to clearly realize that any provocation will mean death and destruction on a scale of which they never dreamed. The enemy is prepared to wait, and the majority of the democracies don't have the balls to fight over any lengthy period of time. We just want it all to go away somehow so we can get back to 'normal'. They know that as well as we do.

Yeah lets nuke em, it isn't enough that sadam and bin laden are both dead we gotta punish them for another ten or fifthteen years
 
Punish whom?

I don't know, do you? I thought we should have been flying the mission accomplished banner by now, Sadam is gone along with his non existant WMD and Bin Laden is swimming with the fishes,lets bring the troops home have a tciker tape parade for them and focus on securing our borders, What do you think?
 
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