How ironic is this post when the entire slogan of mega is going backwards in time to a place where we were supposedly great in the past. What year was it? |
Um, the point was that the era we’re living in is extremely peaceful and comfortable compared to those eras and literally any era in human history. Do you just have no sense of self awareness or no knowledge of history? |
Whatever you do, do it for the chitlins. |
Yeah does it have anything to do with the pursuit of knowledge science, technology and how much progress we've made since then? And now we vote in someone who intends to blow all that up and we're supposed to think we're in the greatest of times. |
These are not difficult times! Get over yourself and read a book about any other time in human history and thank God you live in the here and now. |
Elon Musk is literally one of the greatest force for technological change in our lifetimes. He’s running the government according to people like you. Care to square how illogical your point is? |
1984 |
Create a victory garden
Learn food preservation techniques Learn how to repair things Take a stop the bleed course and basic first aid Stop buying stuff you don't need |
I get your point but shouldn’t we also learn from history so it doesn’t repeat itself? |
Elon Musk is a nepo baby who co-created one good idea back in the 90s and has been riding on other people's coattails ever since. Ask any Tesla or SpaceX engineer and they'll tell you the companies thrive despite his "leadership," not because of it. There are entire teams at his companies dedicated to cleaning up his messes because he comes in completely ignorant of the projects, demands nonsensical changes, and leaves, congratulating himself all the way for "fixing" the thing he just broke. Just look at his signature projects - "Full Self Driving" that will never come to fruition simply because Musk insisted on using cameras instead of the industry-standard LIDAR. The Cybertruck that costs twice as much as promised and is riddled with manufacturing defects. Completely tanking Twitter. Everything he personally oversees is garbage. He's an utter moron completely convinced of his own superiority. |
Please get back to me when your SS/Medicare accounts are zeroed out and your relatives have been evicted from a nursing home because Medicaid LTC was also zeroed out. We are in the 1%, but damn if I subscribe to this “sin of empathy” nonsense. I’ve spent good chunks of my life in urban areas in developing countries around the world. I have ZERO interest in living in cement block compound ringed at the top with broken glass and razor wire. If you want to live in a failed state, then, please, go do so. |
It's like they didn't hear the stories of relatives who were around in the US pre 1940s, not to mention failed states / developing countries. Living in a rural house, with a pump in the kitchen for water, no electricity, growing all their own food, never ever taking a vacation, using an outhouse, no public utilities. They traded with neighbors for different types of food. Son had a potentially treatable cancer, but in Oklahoma you just died from it as a teenager. My grandparents who lived in a larger urban area lived in one room in their parents house,with their two kids (one of my parents) and it took all the money from all the grandparents, all aunts and uncles, to pay for all their combined bills for the one house. If you were lucky and smart, sometimes the parents allowed you to stay inside school and graduate from high school, instead of going to work or getting married after you finished 8th grade. All my ancestors were white, btw, in case any facists are wondering. Based on what I learned from my grandparents, the skills that may prove useful are: Growing your own food, as much as you can, so you won't starve. Learning how to repair your clothing and linens, so you don't have to buy more. Clothing is also fabric and can be recycled into many things. Learn to stay healthy and fit without spending much money: garden, go for walks, do body weight exercises. Learning how to take care of your possessions, so you don't buy more. Budgeting for every expense and calculating how much of your time it will cost to buy that new thing. Learning how to stay away from advertising and how it affects you emotionally, so you are not driven to buy more stuff. Teach them to buy items that will last longer in many cases. Emphasizing learning or trades, because no one can take away that knowledge in your head, even though everything else can be taken away or lost due to economic collapse. |
I guess I'm curious how would you have prepared your children for the nuclear carnage of the Truman era?
...The witch hunts of the Eisenhower era? ...The brutal and multiple assassinations of elected leaders and the threat of nuclear apocalypse in the Kennedy era? ...The bloody quagmire of the LBJ era? ...The undermining of public trust in the Nixon era? ...The utter malaise of the Carter era? ...The pure greed of the Reagan era? I could go on. What is it exactly that you expect from this imperfect country, and what exactly makes you special in this particular period of American upheaval? Nothing. raise your kids accordingly, and with a strong compass, and life will go on. |
If you don't see the unique threat Trump poses to the American way of life you are beyond help. |
Well the undermining of public trust for Nixon ended with him leaving office. God willing we will have the same result with this undermining of the public trust. |