Does anything ever change?

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skibum609
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"I think I'm so educated and I'm so civilized, 'cause I'm a strict vegetarian, but with the over population and inflation and starvation and the crazy politicians. I don't feel safe in this world no more, I don't wanna die in a nuclear war." The Kinks, Apeman 1970. Same shit, different decade.

"Think of all the hate there is in red China. Then take a look around at Selma, Alabama. Ah, you may leave here for 4 days in space, but when you return its the same old place. The pounding of the drums, the pride and disgrace. You can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace, hate your next-door neighbor but don't forget to say grace. Barry McGuire, Eve of Destruction,1965. Same shit, different decade.

It is written nowhere that humankind will inhabit the earth forever. Skibum 609, I read the newspaper today, 2024. Same shit different decade.

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wallanon
a year ago
In every era of recorded human history people are there. You're making a valid point, but I'm trying to get laid today and distracted so thank goodness the world's oldest profession is also a constant lol.
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twentyfive
a year ago
When I’m gone it’s someone else’s problem.
I refuse to take any responsibility for what happens after I depart this mortal coil.
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gammanu95
a year ago
^That callous, disgusting attitude is the driver for everything that's wrong with the world today.
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gammanu95
a year ago
Life is a gift, but it comes with an obligation, a responsibility, a covenant to leave the world a better place than you were born into. I do and have worked every day to improve the quality of the character of everyone I have ever worked for, alongside, or employed.
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twentyfive
a year ago
^ you’re everything that’s wrong with the world today
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gammanu95
a year ago
To the original post, shit doesn't change because people don't make it change. They don't want the pain or inconvenience of decoupling from China. We should have done that after the Tianenmen Square massacre. :over population and inflation and starvation and the crazy politicians" can be solved with a global one couple on child policy (hell yes, I'm serious), better fiscal regulation, work for welfare programs, and term limits on every office. All of those solutions would require hard work and sacrifice, but not enough people are willing to make the hard decisions. Our current path, as a species, is unsustainable.
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gammanu95
a year ago
We don't care what you think, chester. Go ahead and down vote my comments. That is the only power a demented old boomer has in this world (and its a nil effect, to illustrate your literal and figurative impotence).
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wallanon
a year ago
"All of those solutions would require hard work and sacrifice, but not enough people are willing to make the hard decisions. Our current path, as a species, is unsustainable."

Probably. But berating people on a titty bar website for lacking social responsibility is like barking at a dog.
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ilbbaicnl
a year ago
As another song said, life is a highway, for each human, and for humankind. What's on the other side of the horizon could be very bad or very good. Because of breakthroughs in agriculture, any famine nowadays is generally due to war, not actual lack of food. Our biggest longevity problems now are due to us being able to get as much as we want of the food that we crave, and not having to do much exercise. But, we can hope for breakthroughs to address those problems.

As far as the US goes, I think it will be a better place when we Boomers and Gen X die off. The younguns are less hateful generally. They may like their $5 coffee and avocado toast. But they don't seem to be so obsessed with showy brands and living in a 3,000 square foot house, even if it means others have to be in the street.

If we could invent a really life-like sex doll, and give one to every 13-year-old boy, crime would drop precipitously. Most crime comes from teenage boys seeing that anti-social guys get the most pussy.
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skibum609
a year ago
The young'uns are less hateful? Lmao. Do you mean those marching in the streets supporting the extermination of Jews? Those young people? Those elite Ivy Leaguers? Young people, especially progressives are the most bigoted, hateful, unreasonable people on earth. When Boomers and generation X die off, we will become a shithole country based on the San Francisco, NYC, Chicago young persons model. Youngsters aren't impressed with showy brands? Did you bust a gut laughing as you posted that? 68% of Boomers contribute to their children's expenses. When they die off who is going to pay for the 311 mental health days every young person needs a year? The average young person couldn't raise a geranium. The pussy that anti-social guys get you can rent for $100. Young people = failures.
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gammanu95
a year ago
Maybe, wallanon, but this is where skibum posted it, so this is where I answer it. Furthermore, is frequenting titty bars socially irresponsible? If you bbfscip (actually, if you bareback anything with a sex worker), feed drugs to strippers, or willingly patronize dancers or clubs involved in human trafficking, then yes. But if you want grab a beer and watch the NFL playoff game while surrounded by T&A, I would say that's harmless.enough.
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skibum609
a year ago
If you sit and watch football surrounded by T&A then you are doing God's work. By supporting strippers we are making sure children have a roof over their head, food on the table and clothes on their backs.
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ilbbaicnl
a year ago
@ski so founder pays you $10 a post, and you support your kids with that?

The younguns are like what Tucker Carlson tells you they are. He really did you (and the world) a disservice when he got you to pull your head out of your ass, so he could brainwash you with his mindless ranting.

San Francisco could solve its homelessness problem by putting them all on buses to Texas. But, not everyone is willing to be a total asshat.
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ilbbaicnl
a year ago
The non-constructive, self-important berating of people for not being more constructive is humorously ironic. And made more humorously ironic by doing it on a titty bar website.
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wld4tatas
a year ago
>I do and have worked every day to improve the quality of the character of everyone I have ever worked for, alongside, or employed.

LOL and yet online you're a keyboard warrior with a nasty and malicious attitude to people with differing political views. If your online persona is a reflection of the real you, I'll have to flag your post as virtue-signaling bs.

BTW, Happy New Year !
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motorhead
a year ago
We are the Martians that escaped a nuclear holocaust. And history is repeating itself

https://youtube.com/shorts/ulN4vMruC2w?s…
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gammanu95
a year ago
When I was younger I sometimes wondered if Venus had the first advanced civilization that destroyed itself by climate change and pollution.
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wallanon
a year ago
How did you find this video lol?
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drewcareypnw
a year ago
“We don't care what you think, chester”

We who? Is there a mouse in your pocket?
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JamesSD
a year ago
People really aren't as worried about overpopulation as much as they were. There's concern about the pollution that comes with it, but we clearly have the land and technology to feed way more people than currently are on the planet, and a lot of modern economies are more worried about population decline.
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rickthelion
a year ago
Libby ape (or whatever the fuck his name is) said “The non-constructive, self-important berating of people for not being more constructive is humorously ironic. And made more humorously ironic by doing it on a titty bar website.”

Right you are Libby. Perhaps we should promote you to honorary rick.

The issue, you see, is that Skifredo likes to stir the pot. He’s a troll. He just wants to post this shit to get people all agitated and then he sits back and laughs. Well, actually… and I know you don’t want to think about this… the truth is that Fredo posts this shit and jacks off. I mean really, this rick doesn’t want to think about Fredo jackin’ but that is exactly what Skifredo does after he posts a thread like this.

My rickvice is to simply point and laugh at Skifredo. He fancies himself a deep thinking philosopher who knows how to manipulate others, but he’s really just a fourth rate divorce lawyer that went to the worst law school in the country. He can’t live with the fact that he’s actually kind of a joke. Treat him that way. Then the Fredo healing will begin and he will start jackin’ it to porno instead of sad political posts on a titty club website. ROAR!!!
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Mate27
a year ago
^ it’s why my favorite title for him is SkiDumb. Post after post reflects his inferiority complex, the furthest fro being a Rick.
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twentyfive
a year ago
^ Mates with his mom is the slow kid you have to have compassion for, he tries to be one of the guys but fails constantly.
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Studme53
a year ago
There’s always going to be problems. But, on average and around the world, this is actually the best time in human history to be alive.
Read Steven Pinker to get a sense of how good we have it right now.
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blahblahblah23
a year ago
I wish the population would decline in California and Florida.🤣
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twentyfive
a year ago
^ Us Floridians feel the same way
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ilbbaicnl
a year ago
I can't be a rick because rickdugan would resign his rick commission.
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