Saw a car a big bumper sticker today: “Raising Lions, Not Sheep”

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Anonymous wrote:“A Lion doesn’t concern himself with the opinions of the sheep.”

Exactly. The sheep all silently follow their cult leader. No questions allowed, OR ELSE!!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Sheep are dumb and are followers (have you ever heard the expression ""sheeple"? People who don't use their brain and just follow the crowd).

Lions are strong, strategic, fighters

America does not have lions. Lions came from other continents!! It is an endorsement of immigrants!!

Mountain lions throughout America

The mountain lion aka puma, panther, cougar are as related to the lion subspecies as the domestic cat.
So not lions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is pretty clearly one of those sentiments about raising strong kids, rather than meek kids. I'm not sure what there is to be confused about? I'd avoid talking to the parents, unless you want to hear about how boys aren't "alpha males" anymore and "wokeness" has ruined the next generation.

Haven’t you heard that testosterone levels are plummeting?

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Anonymous wrote:Literally any sane human being would agree with the sentiment of this bumper sticker (?), but we are overrun with absolute sissies where you’re scared to even admit it’s better for a kid to be tough and a leader than an ineffectual conformist.

We are so absolutely screwed as a civilization.

+10000

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Anonymous wrote:Coulda been worse. I once saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.

Huh. I must be younger than you. I once saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac.

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Totally missed the basic reference

PP was referencing the later cover version of that song…

+1. The Ataris. Great cover.

Thanks for the reference! I had no idea there was a cover. Great cover version, too! (Now I need to Google "Black Flag.")

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Anonymous wrote:Coulda been worse. I once saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.

Huh. I must be younger than you. I once saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac.

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Totally missed the basic reference

DP. Right back at ya, sparky.

Love it when someone is both smug and wrong at the same time!

NP. Sorry, claiming a cover has same cultural currency is a huge stretch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Coulda been worse. I once saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.

A little voice inside my head said, "Don't look back, you can never look back."

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Anonymous wrote:Coulda been worse. I once saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.

Huh. I must be younger than you. I once saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac.

m

Totally missed the basic reference

DP. Right back at ya, sparky.

Love it when someone is both smug and wrong at the same time!

You love it? You sound very small and petty.

[Anonymous]

Oh Jesus I can’t believe these responses.

It means they are Trumpsters. It’s a common phrase that started amongst Trumpsters during COVID.

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Anonymous wrote:Literally any sane human being would agree with the sentiment of this bumper sticker (?), but we are overrun with absolute sissies where you’re scared to even admit it’s better for a kid to be tough and a leader than an ineffectual conformist.

We are so absolutely screwed as a civilization.

Are these the only possible animals we can raise our children to emulate?

Can't we raise, I don't know... possums? They are pretty crafty problem solvers (although they do like to rummage through my garbage.) Or hummingbirds? Ants? Beavers? Worker bees?

Or loons. Stone cold assassins. https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/animals/2020/05/why-did-a-loon-stab-a-bald-eagle-through-the-heart

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Anonymous wrote:This is pretty clearly one of those sentiments about raising strong kids, rather than meek kids. I'm not sure what there is to be confused about? I'd avoid talking to the parents, unless you want to hear about how boys aren't "alpha males" anymore and "wokeness" has ruined the next generation.

Haven’t you heard that testosterone levels are plummeting?

Yup. Alex Jones told me our water is turning frogs gay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is pretty clearly one of those sentiments about raising strong kids, rather than meek kids. I'm not sure what there is to be confused about? I'd avoid talking to the parents, unless you want to hear about how boys aren't "alpha males" anymore and "wokeness" has ruined the next generation.

Haven’t you heard that testosterone levels are plummeting?

Yup. Alex Jones told me our water is turning frogs gay.

That would make them Achilles not Paris, wouldn’t it?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh Jesus I can’t believe these responses.

It means they are Trumpsters. It’s a common phrase that started amongst Trumpsters during COVID.

It's an appeal to anxieties that "kids these days" are too soft. This is one of those evergreen things. You go back, generation after generation, and the older generation is always saying that the younger generation has it too easy and they're going to make the country weak. I mean, the Greeks were talking about the feminine cosmopolitanism of the Persians; not like the hard masculinity of the rural Greeks.

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Anonymous wrote:Literally any sane human being would agree with the sentiment of this bumper sticker (?), but we are overrun with absolute sissies where you’re scared to even admit it’s better for a kid to be tough and a leader than an ineffectual conformist.

We are so absolutely screwed as a civilization.

+1

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Literally any sane human being would agree with the sentiment of this bumper sticker (?), but we are overrun with absolute sissies where you’re scared to even admit it’s better for a kid to be tough and a leader than an ineffectual conformist.

We are so absolutely screwed as a civilization.

Are these the only possible animals we can raise our children to emulate?

Can't we raise, I don't know... possums? They are pretty crafty problem solvers (although they do like to rummage through my garbage.) Or hummingbirds? Ants? Beavers? Worker bees?

Or loons. Stone cold assassins. https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/animals/2020/05/why-did-a-loon-stab-a-bald-eagle-through-the-heart

Reminds me of this fantastic old Cracked listicle:
"Six Animals that Just Don't Give a F**k"
https://www.cracked.com/article_18860_6-animals-that-just-dont-give-f2340k.html

"It's common knowledge that the mongoose and the snake are mortal enemies. And you'd think that statement is one-sided: On the one hand, you've got the very emblem of evil and sin -- a scaled, wriggling tube of poison, fangs and death. On the other hand you've got what looks like a cross between a rat and Prince Charles.

If they allowed bets on interspecies rivalries, we'd lay our money square on the snake, every time. And we would lose that money, for one very simple reason: because the mongoose isn't fighting snakes for food, or for territory, or for survival -- it's fighting snakes because f**k snakes."