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Jack Nessan:
--- Quote from: Lance Payette on September 13, 2025, 02:57:20 PM ---This is a truth that I have been preaching for at least two decades. With all of the benefits that the internet and cellphones have brought to life, I believe the net effect has been FANTASTICALLY negative. If I may name drop, I remember Dick Kleindienst shaking his head way back in 1995 and saying, "People have no idea what they are unleashing." Brains are physically being altered, patterns of thinking are being altered, opportunities for those with mental illnesses and sociopathic tendencies to bond and vent are everywhere. I am not someone who typically thinks in terms of "demons," but it almost seems supernatural.
I was in high school and college throughout the turbulent sixties. Yes, there was anger and violence, but NOTHING like we see today. I didn't spend one minute in fear for my safety or wondering if someone around me was dangerous. I had plinking guns in my dorm room and no one gave it a second thought. There has literally been an explosion that I can only attribute to the internet and the rise of social media. I have never had a Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Anything Else account, but I have seen those things destroy relationships in my own family as members become obsessed with their like-thinking social media "friends" at the expense of real relationships.
Take the transgender phenomenon. I spent at least the first 60 years of my life without ever encountering someone confused about his or her gender. I lived in dorms, worked in journalism, practiced law. I had a couple of very good gay friends. But I never heard ONE WORD about gender confusion. I believe the entire "transgender" phenomenon is an artificial construct, almost entirely a product of the internet and social media (and, of course, an educational system that bears no relationship to the one in which I was educated for 19 years). And that's just one example.
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This is an interesting subject.
These things have always been there. Nazi death camps were not an internet invention. All the European countries disliked the Jews and immigrants leading up to WW II. The perfect storm brought it all to a head. We just were never looking for all this hate in our own society and maybe we should be.
Transgender? Look no farther than Bruce Jenner or Dr Renee Richards. Both products of the 60's and 70's. Another individual I know comes to mind, was married with children, waits until he is in his sixties to become a female and now is a homosexual married to a different woman. He was not a product of the internet.
My friend was a Border Patrol Agent in San Diego in the late 80’s and 90’s They had cells just for the transgenders coming from Mexico. Six were in the cell while I was there.
Disaffected people tend to find each other. How else do you explain Neo Nazis and the like still functioning today. They formed way before the internet. The internet is a problem but not as moral numbing as video games promoting violence. If memory serves during Janet Reno’s time, she tried to reign in violent video games with no success.
The sin of the internet and cell phones seems to be removing personal interaction to the point that people do not know how to speak to or interact with each other. If anything, the youth do not seem to be able to see the American dream anymore and instead want to blame someone or everyone else.
Jarrett Smith:
--- Quote from: Tom Graves on September 13, 2025, 06:17:41 AM ---Dear Schicklgruber, I mean Smith,
What's wrong with despising someone?
It's better than hating them, right?
Haven't you ever despised anyone -- or have you just "disagreed with his (or her) conduct"?
It would take me a long time to tell you all the reasons I despise The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx").
Let this suffice for starters.
(Sorry it's from a news source you hate, I mean despise.)
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9reO3QnUA
What "misinformation" have I posted here, Schicklgruber, I mean Smith?
-- Tom
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//www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiUizn19p7o
Tom Graves:
--- Quote from: Lance Payette on September 13, 2025, 03:10:56 PM ---If I were in the grip of the sort of mania that possesses you, I could probably find reasons to despise every President in my lifetime. Because I'm not, I don't despise any of them. Tom's problem is Tom, not Donald Trump. Your KGB Bogeyman mania seems to have reached a near-pathological level, to the extent that you are compelled to drag Trump into the web even though it's patently absurd. Would I be shocked if The Donald had dealings with Russian "businessmen" 41 years ago? Hell, no, nor would I care. Do I think he was knowingly "laundering money for the Russian Mafia" 41 years ago or is doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin today because the tentacles of the KGB are everywhere? Uh, no. These are the sorts of things people who need help go around saying.
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Dear Lance,
Funny you didn't mention The Traitorous Orange Bird's (rhymes with "Xxxx's") making fun of the handicapped journalist during the 2016 campaign.
Do you believe his statement that he wasn't making fun of him but just pantomiming the act of "groveling"?
If not, do you still adore him because what he did was "no worse than 'Sleepy Joe's' calling someone a 'son of a [you-know-what]'"?
-- Tom
Royell Storing:
--- Quote from: Lance Payette on September 13, 2025, 02:57:20 PM ---This is a truth that I have been preaching for at least two decades. With all of the benefits that the internet and cellphones have brought to life, I believe the net effect has been FANTASTICALLY negative. If I may name drop, I remember Dick Kleindienst shaking his head way back in 1995 and saying, "People have no idea what they are unleashing." Brains are physically being altered, patterns of thinking are being altered, opportunities for those with mental illnesses and sociopathic tendencies to bond and vent are everywhere. I am not someone who typically thinks in terms of "demons," but it almost seems supernatural.
I was in high school and college throughout the turbulent sixties. Yes, there was anger and violence, but NOTHING like we see today. I didn't spend one minute in fear for my safety or wondering if someone around me was dangerous. I had plinking guns in my dorm room and no one gave it a second thought. There has literally been an explosion that I can only attribute to the internet and the rise of social media. I have never had a Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Anything Else account, but I have seen those things destroy relationships in my own family as members become obsessed with their like-thinking social media "friends" at the expense of real relationships.
Take the transgender phenomenon. I spent at least the first 60 years of my life without ever encountering someone confused about his or her gender. I lived in dorms, worked in journalism, practiced law. I had a couple of very good gay friends. But I never heard ONE WORD about gender confusion. I believe the entire "transgender" phenomenon is an artificial construct, almost entirely a product of the internet and social media (and, of course, an educational system that bears no relationship to the one in which I was educated for 19 years). And that's just one example.
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In the 60's, women Burned their bra's, and men Burned their draft cards. Hippies? They smoked their Mary Jane. You'd get an occasional "march", and maybe somebody chaining themselves to the administration front door. That's it. This stuff going on today traces back to everything mentioned by Payette, Plus the total mayhem featured on today"s Video Games. I also believe the lyrics of Rap Songs also influences this current "conduct". I shudder to think of the "discussion" between that Father and Son to turn himself in. Basically saying goodbye for life. Maybe eternity.
Steve M. Galbraith:
Are people not aware of the riots and protests we had in the 1960s and 1970s? After King's assassination? The 1968 Democratic convention? The weekly bombings and violent protests? The Weather Underground bombings? Campuses shut down? Kent State?
The idea that it was just bra burning is simply wrong.
This is the nation's capital after the assassination of Dr. King - "Everything was on fire":
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