Just call everybody comrade, seems simple.
The Demise of the Polite Society: Et Tu WSJ?
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Philadelphians have had a preferred pronoun for as long as I can remember.
"Yo!" works for everything.
not really. I encounter that kind of mentality a lot more with people my age. What I have encountered is that kids now have a lot more exposure to a lot more things. And they're actually a lot more used to people not agreeing with them. It's again the people my age that I see acting like disagreeing with them is this horrible terrible bad thing to do. Now doesn't mean the kids aren't opinionated but who isn't these days. But it's got nothing to do with taught but conditioned. You can find anyone to agree with you these days if you look online. And any thing seems to have the real fanatics. Or in other words no matter what you think right or wrong you can find people to confirm it. For example we all seem to think PAD is a normal thing including me.
@anotherbob I only get pipe acquisition disorder with clay pipes!
Yep. If it’s from “Patricia” and we actually have real interaction and you sound like James Earl Jones I guarantee the “stock” PC sig won’t have mattered.
To be honest I am jealous of your access to clays. I don't want to order them. I like buying them in stores. It's not a big enough purchase to make online and you don't know when you'll need another one.
I guess that the select sample (college aged kids) that I have a lot of interaction with is somewhat skewed.
I do see that they are a lot nicer to each other, though.
The worst thing I've seen though is that 18 year olds seems to have so much more anxiety and issues like that. Though that's from a small sample so....
It's my experience as well. And many have drastically reduced social skills
I like that. I used to work with a bike messenger who called everyone "coach." That way he didn't have to remember anyone's name.
I think he’s speaking of the 1964 War of Aggression in which some states were forced to abide by that pesky “certain inalienable rights” thingy.
In researching my family tree on both sides every male aged 13 to 65 joined the United States cavalry when the rebels fired on Sumpter.
They didn’t fight to save the Union, they fought that all people have the right to live free, and besides if they hadn’t they’d have not had any sweethearts or wives for long.
There’s a long list of graves I still decorate, including the son in law of Jacob Dixon:
Nathan Beason (1827-1863) - Find a Grave Memorial
Nathaniel Beason was the son of Nathan and Sarah (Turner) Beason. He married Malina Dixon on 24 June 1847 in Cedar County, Missouri. She was the daughter of Jacob and Nancy(Darby) Dixon. To this union seven children were born Nancy, William, James, Zimiri, Jacob, Andrew and Nathan. Nathan joined...
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Nathaniel Beason was the son of Nathan and Sarah (Turner) Beason. He married Malina Dixon on 24 June 1847 in Cedar County, Missouri. She was the daughter of Jacob and Nancy(Darby) Dixon.
To this union seven children were born Nancy, William, James, Zimiri, Jacob, Andrew and Nathan.
Nathan joined the Union Army in the fall of 1861 during the Civil War. According to the Adjutant General's Office, Nathan had been home on leave and on 19 April, 1863 was returning to camp with a group when they were captured by guerrillas in Dallas County, Missouri. He was murdered in Cedar County, Missouri on April 22, 1863 by gunshot. He was 36 years old.
He was buried in a mass grave in Cedar County, Missouri. Malinda did not want him buried there so two of her brothers retrieved his body. He was buried in Tinker Cemetery the same cemetery as their two sons and her parents.
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My Daddy sometimes referred to this field as the Old Dixon place. Tinker Cemetery is just over the hill, by Bug Tussle.
The old time Christians (only) were pacifist until, suddenly they weren’t.
They would not kneel before God or man, nor suffer it be done to others if in their power to prevent it.
Pop quiz question. Which one is worth more today? The green back or the blue back?
One of the more, ahem, "entertaining" things to witness is people complaining about young people being too easily offended, even when it doesn't make sense to lodge that complaint.
Honestly: do you think anyone, let alone the kind of young people who care about genderfluid language, actually read the newspapers? And if they do, they would choose the WSJ, an apologetically pro-financier rag owned by Rupert Murdoch?
No. The people who read the WSJ are older Gen Xers and Boomers. And what do older Gen Xers and Boomers easily get offended by? Young people. From Plato to today, there is nothing that gets old people foaming at the mouth so quickly as young people. So, the WSJ is throwing out some thinly-veiled ragebait, knowing their audience will bite. They can't cave to degenerate young people, because they don't have any degenerate young subscribers to cave to in the first place. They do have plenty of old people who are told relentlessly how frivolous and soft their children and grandchildren are, however, and that is to whom they are virtue signaling.
I'm 36, so I'm not sure if I count as being a youngin', but I can assure you, no one of any importance below the age of 35 gives two tugs of a dead dog's dick if a newspaper uses honorifics. They don't even read newspapers!
The whole "people get offended too easily" thing is so overblown that it has comically become real in its most ironic sense. *grandpasimpsonyellingatclouds.jpeg
Honestly: do you think anyone, let alone the kind of young people who care about genderfluid language, actually read the newspapers? And if they do, they would choose the WSJ, an apologetically pro-financier rag owned by Rupert Murdoch?
No. The people who read the WSJ are older Gen Xers and Boomers. And what do older Gen Xers and Boomers easily get offended by? Young people. From Plato to today, there is nothing that gets old people foaming at the mouth so quickly as young people. So, the WSJ is throwing out some thinly-veiled ragebait, knowing their audience will bite. They can't cave to degenerate young people, because they don't have any degenerate young subscribers to cave to in the first place. They do have plenty of old people who are told relentlessly how frivolous and soft their children and grandchildren are, however, and that is to whom they are virtue signaling.
I'm 36, so I'm not sure if I count as being a youngin', but I can assure you, no one of any importance below the age of 35 gives two tugs of a dead dog's dick if a newspaper uses honorifics. They don't even read newspapers!
The whole "people get offended too easily" thing is so overblown that it has comically become real in its most ironic sense. *grandpasimpsonyellingatclouds.jpeg
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I refuse to participate in the current stupidity sweeping certain parts of our over educated, over credentialed, out of touch intelligentsia of modern America.
Being raised in the south, honorifics are part of a polite, considerate, and happy society.
The neutering of language and discourse is damned to a well deserved failure.
I defy the DEI commissars, and all their like.
Being raised in the south, honorifics are part of a polite, considerate, and happy society.
The neutering of language and discourse is damned to a well deserved failure.
I defy the DEI commissars, and all their like.
Alternatively, it could be a move to try and attract said demographic. A lot of organizations want and make moves to try to capture that group of people in the attempt to convert into paid customers.
You're absolutely correct that this has nothing to do with catering to young people, which is the same point I'm always making.
But your idea that it's being done to outrage their readership is even more ridiculous. Whatever's left of their readership is mostly very pro-establishment...which means they already agree with this type of horseshit anyway.
The entire "woke" agenda, which includes far more than "gender fluid language"... such as the climate change/carbon reduction fraud, the bio-fascism movement, and worst of all, the unspeakable crime of performing sex change operations on pre-pubescent children, is all a top-down, coordinated agenda across the western world...coming from "the real owners" as Carlin dubbed them.
They don't care if they lose money in the short term doing it...the long term agenda is much more important to them.
But if this has to be explained to anyone at this point, they're probably never going to understand what's going on anyway.
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