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What was his position on the recent Miss Alabama and Miss Maryland woke selections?

Given that he’s LRC’s resident anti+Semite, my guess is that he agrees with you. But that’s just a guess.

I have no idea what religion they align with. I just know that you both are haters.

You are the biggest grudge holding lunatic on this thread.

https://x.com/parabellum2021/status/1799106828032434359?s=61

:-)

Odd, I don't recall ever saying anything about you posting about burning sage.

Just another lie of yours?

I am indifferent. I could not care less. It wouldn't bother me if pagents went the way of the Dodo. And no, I don't think they are sexist. I just think they are stupid beyond belief. So, if a man wins, or a donkey or a 500 pound woman, I just don't give a rat's ass.

What grudge would that be, pray tell.

Alright, but it does represent the decline in American society, and that was the point to begin with. Like believing the Roaring Kitty thing is investing, or not an aberration, not a blemish on free markets. You are kidding yourself if you believe either is normal. Weird stuff comes to this country daily, and we deserve all of it.

What represents the decline of America is posters like you who use a racist term, and when it is pointed out to you by another poster, you resort to using it again.

So, if you're looking for the problem, go find a mirror.

But it is encouraging at least that you seem to be concerned about not seeing the country decline.

Blacks use the same word in the same manner. The fact you aren’t alarmed by real issues, like millions of Black babies aborted over the last two decades, and the promotion of minority dependency by the Democratic Party, shows how out of touch you are. Perhaps a purging of the woke mind virus will help you see things more clearly. As for the American decay, it is well beyond saving by our are stupid and corrupted politicians.

Igy you lived through the awfulness of the 1970s turning into the much better 1980s...you saw firsthand the weirdness and sickness of the 1970s...yet you think that America of 2024 can't renew itself again.

I'd argue that the 1970s were worse in just about any possible category you could come up with than the current state of America. And we survived the 1970s, thrived in the aftermath, and have become even more powerful a nation.

The benefit we gain from age is supposed to give us perspective like that, from living through good times and bad. What we are living in today is unquestionably 'good times.' Except for the very bad politics I'd guess. And the music is terrible these days, yes.

I'd hope that you would see that you feel better about the terrible 1970s because you were a young man then and the changes and weirdness were your generation's doing so you didn't see it bad as it was.

But I guarantee the 70-year-olds in the 1970s were grousing like you are grousing now. They were proved wrong. Which could be a lesson to learn, right?

You're not black. You using the term therefore renders you a racist. And it is abundantly clear that you don't care.

The point is simply that some are offended by the use of the term and you insist on using it.

The rest of your diatribe seems only to suggest that you somehow link your insistence on using offensive terms with your blind campaign against some who would be offended by you doing so.

The key word there is "think".

Igy's posts do not reflect any thinking. I don't mean that to offend. And I don't mean that Igy is unintelligent - not capable of thinking. I simply mean that Igy's posts are all about his feelings, not about rational arguments or thinking.

Igy's posts could easily be summarized as simply:

"Get off my lawn!"

No thinking involved.

Thanks agip.

I don’t feel the 1970s were that bad. In fact it was easier to do things then. I was in already in college for the first draft, lottery number 19. So, if not in college I would have been drafted, retained my 2S status until my graduation in 1973. I met my wife in 1972, asked her out for the first time after I returned from competing in the Olympic Trials, probably the best track meet in history. That same summer I campaigned for George McGovern, someone that actually understood the horrors of war as a B-24 pilot. I was in a minority of McGovern voters while at Oklahoma State. Following graduation I was hired at Northrop Aircraft, first in the Material Division, and earned a promotion to the Marketing Department as a Senior Contract Analyst. In 1974 my wife and I got married, and we will celebrate our 50th anniversary in August. I quite Northrop in 1975, and spent six months living a dream of just being a running bum in Lake Tahoe.

Then I decided I wanted to be a coach, went to graduate school while my wife worked full time at a health insurance agency. I graduated in June 1977 and took my first coaching job at New Mexico Junior College. We packed our bags and moved 1,000 miles east for the promise of $100 a month. In 1979, head coach Larry Heidebrecht and I coached the team that won the NJCAA Indoor and Outdoor National titles. That fall, I became head coach at Barton County Community College and we bought our first house for $14,500. The 1970s were good to me.

Of course my daily comforts are better today than at that time, but there is a trade off. The military industrial complex has become a greater force of evil. Technology has been a great benefit, but also has increased perversion, loss of community, government and elite powers to manipulate. The financialization of America has created waste, materialism over production, and a wilting away of values, and of course $35 Trillion in debt. Something is amiss, America has the highest obesity rate in the world, same with homelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, and the sad decline of American cities.

My wife and I went back to our hometown of Santa Monica in 2017. It had declined so much, and it has only gotten worse, says friends who still live there. One has to be careful when going to walk his dog from homeless vagrant criminals. We will likely never return. I tell this story, I met my wife when she worked at Foster’s Freeze (like a Dairy Queen), on Pico Boulevard across from the track at Santa Monica College, The owner was a WW II Navy Veteran. Ran a tight ship, the place was spotless. The American flag went up every day, and I asked my wife for a date one day when she was taking the flag down. So, I decide to take her to lunch there in 2017. The place was filthy, graffiti everywhere, marginal food, and the staff could not speak proper English.

Many important things related to quality of life are not better. Our leaders are drunk with power. The have sold America off for 30 pieces of silver. As far as music of the 1970s, most it I could do without. I can’t stand it when they are playing 1970s oldies. I prefer the too often drunk Morgan Wallen, or less so Luke Combs.

Igy

bad post

You might disagree with Igy but he's putting up interpretation of the current place the country and markets are in. He only gets things factually wrong when he throws around the terms 'communist' 'socialist' etc.

but almost everything he writes is analysis. Whether you agree or not. And analysis implies thinking of course.

I think you are totally hooked into woke nonsense. Normal people are no longer intimated by your weak racist claims.

That is baloney, I can say whatever I want, whenever I want. Your political correctness has ruined the most simplest things in life, like comedy, for example. You are a cultural turd in the punchbowl.