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PatSeg

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51. Yeah, around 1980

Thu Oct 12, 2017, 07:39 PM

Oct 2017

That was a time that I recall as being very superficial and materialistic, with a B-rate actor in the White House. There wasn't a strong "nationalism" drumbeat yet, but it was starting. It became full blown after 9/11 when no one could question anything without being accused of being unpatriotic.

But it is all in the eye of the beholder. My parents' generation would have called the 1960s and 1970s "backsliding", whereas my generation considered it progress.

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Heartbreaking Lyft ride this evening. [View all] MyNameGoesHere Oct 2017 OP

Heard the same from my Neighbor Wellstone ruled Oct 2017 #1

Then there's this possibility: maybe this entire humiliation will bring us down to earth and stop us mahina Oct 2017 #2

I hope you are right. but.. for arguments sake,., pangaia Oct 2017 #10

+1 happy feet Oct 2017 #37

+100,000 PoiBoy Oct 2017 #44

I love my country madokie Oct 2017 #3

Not a lot of countries you would like, I think. Given the criteria. AtheistCrusader Oct 2017 #4

Plenty of them MyNameGoesHere Oct 2017 #8

Whenever I say anything to my German friend about USA's Corvo Bianco Oct 2017 #16

Within the scope of the OP, Germany doesn't shine either. AtheistCrusader Oct 2017 #21

There are people displaced by natural disasters, and poverty, the world over. AtheistCrusader Oct 2017 #17

I can name a few that would certainly be a hell of a lot better then living here.. pangaia Oct 2017 #11

Try again. AtheistCrusader Oct 2017 #18

My reply was more to places I might rather live than here.. pangaia Oct 2017 #20

My original objection that you replied to was specific to the criteria of elderly/poverty. AtheistCrusader Oct 2017 #22

Don't worry MyNameGoesHere Oct 2017 #28

Not sure what you mean. AtheistCrusader Oct 2017 #29

Not the US...Republicans. They and their shitty courts have pretty much shredded the safety net. Demsrule86 Oct 2017 #34

I don't believe in MyNameGoesHere Oct 2017 #47

Why play games? Why not just speak your mind? AtheistCrusader Oct 2017 #48

No, it certainly isn't. BobTheSubgenius Oct 2017 #25

I know one DownriverDem Oct 2017 #35

Somewhat. AtheistCrusader Oct 2017 #38

Well, you'd certainly never get someone like Donald Trump there... brooklynite Oct 2017 #45

a whack job mayor is totally equivalent shanny Oct 2017 #49

These things have happened since the beginning of time. Honeycombe8 Oct 2017 #5

He didn't say and I wasn't about to MyNameGoesHere Oct 2017 #27

Good for you. I remember a Katrina survivor who ended up near Dallas... Honeycombe8 Oct 2017 #30

Well said. JayhawkSD Oct 2017 #40

What concerns me the most is that it sounds like PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2017 #6

GPS is shit near Wacker drive MyNameGoesHere Oct 2017 #7

Okay. I didn't know. Thanks for clarifying. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2017 #9

Tell me about it! nt Guy Whitey Corngood Oct 2017 #12

Poor guy, my heart goes out to him. smirkymonkey Oct 2017 #13

This country sucks. Corvo Bianco Oct 2017 #14

I feel ya LittleGirl Oct 2017 #15

It's not the Ship of State that's gone bad ... Jopin Klobe Oct 2017 #19

As sea levels rise, this displacement will become the norm. roamer65 Oct 2017 #23

Yep. And we are making no up plans to deal with it. n/t progressoid Oct 2017 #39

In a few years it will be a driverless car grantcart Oct 2017 #24

We went from "Hope And Change" to "Go Fuck Yourself". It's very sad. Initech Oct 2017 #26

After being an experimental animal under this nation exposed me to radiation Stargazer99 Oct 2017 #31

Easy. You don't vote or you vote for a sTrumpet. raven mad Oct 2017 #32

I don't like this country anymore either. Certainly NOT proud to be an American. SammyWinstonJack Oct 2017 #33

It pains me to admit, but I have seriously considered leaving JDC Oct 2017 #36

If you're in the medical field, sciences, a teacher,it's fairly easy to get a job in other countries Sunlei Oct 2017 #41

Perhaps our downfall goes back to when PatSeg Oct 2017 #42

It wasn't nationalism Lokilooney Oct 2017 #50

Yeah, around 1980 PatSeg Oct 2017 #51

We have to start thinking of living in ways to pool our resources now lunatica Oct 2017 #43

the hook in America is fear KT2000 Oct 2017 #46

I hope you tipped him many times above the cost of the fare nm MichMan Oct 2017 #52