Perpetual children. Grown men riding skateboards in backwards baseball caps, playing LEGOS, still obsessed with Harry Potter, living at home jerking off to porn. But yes, they know the way the world should work.
There's nothing wrong with having hobbies, like collecting Legos or being interested in a book series. That's fine. We all need a hobby to relieve some stress from time to time. But mature adults know how to manage their lives and take care of their families.
Yeah, I've been down that road a lot and found some people really liked to pick out certain interests particularly if you're someone like myself who's happily single. I've had several people try to tell me to grow up and I need to be out at the clubs trying to hook up, etc. because they focus on certain aspects and interests. I've got a couple of those fancy Lego sets I built on display (of American monuments no less), I spend more time when I'm home playing video games than watching TV. Short guy with glasses that usually gets considered "baby faced" or taken for 10+ years younger than my age. I don't really like bars or the whole drinking culture and don't want anything to do with weed/drugs. Oh the travesty of these things! I've lost or turned away potential friends because they just can't get past this mindset that they need to somehow "fix" me. I also like watching sports, travel, working on my house, work on cars and have more tools than I could count. I just bought a gun I'm going to try my hand at shooting now. I've been employed consistently for nearly 20 years, have a house, pay all my bills, don't live paycheck to paycheck, don't have a criminal record, and haven't knocked up a bunch of women and abandoned them.
So yeah, I'm with you. Judge people on how they take care of their lives and responsibilities and not just pick on hobbies and interests that are supposedly immature or silly.
If you ever build Mt. Rushmore don't forget to add Pres Trump. 😉
You sound like a great cup of coffee...just right. Of course it has to be a cup of Black Mountain Rifle coffee, not Folgers as they have stepped off into the great leftist divide.
Haha that would be a nice add. I'm going there for real later this year so maybe I can try to edit it into a picture.
And there's some Black Rifle Coffee in the pantry. I'm by no means a coffee conisseur but it's good enough to me. I like the packaging as much as the coffee.
I'm 36 and i have a few friends who are still liberal. The one guy is truly lost. Spends his time posting furry porn on twitter and drawing it. His wife is even worse. They both are on meds for depression and god knows worse. I would say theres a little something wrong with the guy.
I know a guy like this. We like to joke that there was lead in the tattoo ink. Spends all his time drawing furry shit and complaining how the evils of capitalism have kept people like him down.
Teachers in Canada are the best example. Government funded. Average salary is $88,000 a year. Work less than 9 months a year. Enormous pensions and benefits.
Do they complain about not being paid enough, never take into account their benefits or that they don't work year round, and act like martyrs doing it for the children like they do here in the States? Drives me nuts, to be honest.
My fiance worked as a teacher for two years out of school. We both see it as a huge waste of money. I don't necessarily think we should remove public education, but I honestly think the public school system is more wasteful than the military.
My mom homeschooled us, so I don't get on bored with teacher hero worship. Or extracurriculars being the end all be all. But I am thankful for teachers and schools and the system where we live. I do wish they had a more realistic outlook on their jobs because I have zero sympathy for their complaints unless it has to do with curriculum or classroom management.
I have sympathy for them dealing with administrators. Some of them are tyrannical and pretty much just exist to deflect blame from the district to the teachers.
Makes sense though 30 seems off. I've usually heard 20 or 25.
I was pretty liberal when I was young. "Why can't we just help people?" and all that utopian stuff. Luckily I went to a based high school and easily ignored all the typical crap that infests universities these days.
Not really. It fails to understand that conservativism has a heart, but that heart understands the real world. It also ignores that liberals aren't driven by compassion but by a need to validate their existence and success by placing them over others via helping them. Liberals are the ultimate expression of "I'm okay, you're not okay."
Yeah, it's really just pointing out the common trend of people wanting to be liberal when they're young but at some point moving to conservatism as they mature. The age thing is arbitrary. My transition period was about 24 or so (although, if I'd been honest with myself, I always had trouble buying a lot of things the left was selling).
I'm a New York Native. I'm older. I've been a conservative since the age of 12.
Here's what changed me. At the age of 12, I campaigned for Democrat liberal George McGovern.
Then I saw that all the rich white liberal kids in my public school elementary school had been brainwashed by their parents to support forced busing and integration.
But the next year, all of those rich kids were in white private schools after graduation. Me and my middle class friends had to go to the local forcibly integrated junior high school, which had become all black and hispanic. White kids were hunted targets.
Can't put a price on not having your kids live in physical fear for their safety every day at school because schools refuse to control their black and hispanic kids who have been conditions by their parents to be racist as fuck.
That's not what is important. What is important is that the kids of the rich had been bought a little time to live privileged lives insulated from social problems - at the expense of the white lower and middle classes.
It's more like - middle class whites were to be sacrificed so that upper class whites could buy time to be insulated from the violent menace of the ghettos.
Look up the judge who instituted forced busing in South Boston ( which used to be lower-middle-class Irish in the 1970s ). He was a wealthy patrician from a wealthy all-white small town in Massachusetts.
Yep. The white liberals are the same in St. Louis. They all live in >90 percent white neighborhoods and when blacks start moving into their neighborhood they move to successful conservative suburbs and take their stupidity with them.
They started all that forced integration and busing shit just as I was about to start elementary school.
My parents got me and my 11-years-older sister into a private Christian school that same year. Had they not done that, I would have ended up being bussed from a fairly good elementary to one of the worst ones in town. It was a significant sacrifice for them because we were not rich by any means, but to this day I thank them for it.
In later years I got into an argument with my mom about school, and I still remember her words: "If we didn't care about you and your education, we'd buy you a $10 switchblade and send you to XXXXXX (shitty dangerous public high school in the city where I grew up).
There were newspaper headlines in the 30's about "freak weather" due to climate change. Nothing about modern "climate change" is original, just different actors.
Not totally on point, but related to your post. I was just talking to my wife about why South Park is timeless and so good (minus the last couple seasons). They don’t predict the future, they’ve just lived through all the bs before and because history repeats itself, their content is relatable and classic. Same in real life — people who have been through the stuff of the last week or worse before will never fall for the communist left’s tactics because they know better.
It’s not just that, when you get older you build a life, earn a good living have some kids etc. You know what responsibility is and what it means to care about something besides yourself. When you’re a 20 something dumbass in moms basement its fun to “fight the power” and fuck shit up
I always say it’s why Democrat’s are so keen on the young vote. Career politicians have lied to people and given empty promises for decades, yet every election cycle they promise change and prosperity for all. Once you live thru 3-4+ of these cycles you see it’s bull shit. However, young people are experiencing the lies for the first time and they believe them.
IMO every dem policy can pretty much be summed up as “sounds good, doesn’t work”. Gets the young vote because it sounds good, but they don’t realize yet why it won’t work.
Not all though. My father and I have never been on the same page, even as a child. I knew something was wrong with him but couldn’t tell what. I loved him anyhow and have spent my whole life trying to understand what was up. In some ways I blame him for wasting my childhood, forcing forcing a little kid to deal with things that shouldn’t fill a child’s mind. But I made my way past it and managed to have a relationship regardless. It wasn’t until Trump was elected that it became clear. He was a Democrat, acontrol freak liberal. That was what was so illogical to me my whole life I just didn’t know why. The only thing that pulled me from that darkness was the pure truth, the slow and steady administration of the red pill. He today at 82 is the same person as he was always, unhappy and a control freak, lost in his mental gymnastics, twisting truth to fit his distorted world view.
The other part is we were grounded in principles. We understood the WHY of the Declaration and the BoR.
Much of this is the result of 2+ generations of crappy public education.
Civics became social studies... Jefferson is just a slave owner who impregnated his female slave... the American Revolution was about slavery... yadda yadda.
Judeo-Christian values have been usurped.
So, yes... the older you are more you've seen... but also the more likely you're grounded in real libertarian (small L) values and not collectivism.
Agreed. As a younger person myself, I never understood why young liberals with 0 life experience think they know better than the "ok boomers" who have lived through it all and know what life is really like. Fucking retards. I hate young people.
have lived through it all and know what life is really like
My super liberal parents use this argument on me all the time. The difference is they haven't used any of their "experience" to better themselves or the community around them. They're both welfare leeches and I have more now at 36 (career, home, family) than they've had in their entire lives.
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Most of the older people I know are liberals. They were hippies and think they are still part of some kind of revolution. In their nice big homes, they are smug and think they are part of the "movement".
In reality, anitifa hates them and wants them dead and gone.
Most every one hates us and wants us gone. "Patience young grasshopper." Your wishes will soon be fulfilled, Then it will be your time to be hated if you get my drift.
You describe my parents to a tee. They think Trump is the source of every problem, won't go a day without watching Rachel Maddow, are very well off financially, and think commenting on social media and donating to their favorite politicians means they're doing something meaningful.
Its not just that. I was very liberal up UNTIL i got a real job, i got married, I had a fuck ton of children lol. I became VERY conservative when i had something more than myself worth defending. My paycheck, my wife, my kids, our house ect.
I'm a centrist, but I've moved substantially from the left in recent years. That's also about the time I grew up and realized the world isn't sunshine and rainbows.
I can't understand liberals over 30. It's like they're blind and deaf.
Perpetual children. Grown men riding skateboards in backwards baseball caps, playing LEGOS, still obsessed with Harry Potter, living at home jerking off to porn. But yes, they know the way the world should work.
There's nothing wrong with having hobbies, like collecting Legos or being interested in a book series. That's fine. We all need a hobby to relieve some stress from time to time. But mature adults know how to manage their lives and take care of their families.
Perfectly said. That is the common thread tying all the boomer lefties I know: their personal lives are a train wreck. Every. Single. One.
Yeah, I've been down that road a lot and found some people really liked to pick out certain interests particularly if you're someone like myself who's happily single. I've had several people try to tell me to grow up and I need to be out at the clubs trying to hook up, etc. because they focus on certain aspects and interests. I've got a couple of those fancy Lego sets I built on display (of American monuments no less), I spend more time when I'm home playing video games than watching TV. Short guy with glasses that usually gets considered "baby faced" or taken for 10+ years younger than my age. I don't really like bars or the whole drinking culture and don't want anything to do with weed/drugs. Oh the travesty of these things! I've lost or turned away potential friends because they just can't get past this mindset that they need to somehow "fix" me. I also like watching sports, travel, working on my house, work on cars and have more tools than I could count. I just bought a gun I'm going to try my hand at shooting now. I've been employed consistently for nearly 20 years, have a house, pay all my bills, don't live paycheck to paycheck, don't have a criminal record, and haven't knocked up a bunch of women and abandoned them.
So yeah, I'm with you. Judge people on how they take care of their lives and responsibilities and not just pick on hobbies and interests that are supposedly immature or silly.
If you ever build Mt. Rushmore don't forget to add Pres Trump. 😉
You sound like a great cup of coffee...just right. Of course it has to be a cup of Black Mountain Rifle coffee, not Folgers as they have stepped off into the great leftist divide.
Haha that would be a nice add. I'm going there for real later this year so maybe I can try to edit it into a picture.
And there's some Black Rifle Coffee in the pantry. I'm by no means a coffee conisseur but it's good enough to me. I like the packaging as much as the coffee.
Children aren't evil like liberals
hey, you got nothing on grown up Lego enthusiasts
I'm 36 and i have a few friends who are still liberal. The one guy is truly lost. Spends his time posting furry porn on twitter and drawing it. His wife is even worse. They both are on meds for depression and god knows worse. I would say theres a little something wrong with the guy.
I know a guy like this. We like to joke that there was lead in the tattoo ink. Spends all his time drawing furry shit and complaining how the evils of capitalism have kept people like him down.
Teachers in Canada are the best example. Government funded. Average salary is $88,000 a year. Work less than 9 months a year. Enormous pensions and benefits.
Vote 100% liberal.
Do they complain about not being paid enough, never take into account their benefits or that they don't work year round, and act like martyrs doing it for the children like they do here in the States? Drives me nuts, to be honest.
Yep, to a greater extent than here in the US. They regularly hold kids hostage by striking to demand more pay. City always caves to them.
Left that shithole as fast as I could...
Yes, yes, yes, and double yes.
My fiance worked as a teacher for two years out of school. We both see it as a huge waste of money. I don't necessarily think we should remove public education, but I honestly think the public school system is more wasteful than the military.
Interesting!
My mom homeschooled us, so I don't get on bored with teacher hero worship. Or extracurriculars being the end all be all. But I am thankful for teachers and schools and the system where we live. I do wish they had a more realistic outlook on their jobs because I have zero sympathy for their complaints unless it has to do with curriculum or classroom management.
I have sympathy for them dealing with administrators. Some of them are tyrannical and pretty much just exist to deflect blame from the district to the teachers.
Exactly this. They are Utopians. They have terrible coping with the fact that things really are often what they seem.
I'm 23 so I guess I have no heart
I'd rather have a brain anyway
Ive always hated that saying.
Makes sense though 30 seems off. I've usually heard 20 or 25.
I was pretty liberal when I was young. "Why can't we just help people?" and all that utopian stuff. Luckily I went to a based high school and easily ignored all the typical crap that infests universities these days.
I understand why many people are liberal when theyre young, i just dont like the insinuation that youre some heartless sociopath if youre not.
I get it, my older kid is pragmatic & logical but my younger is emotional. She’d totally be a libtard if we were.
Not really. It fails to understand that conservativism has a heart, but that heart understands the real world. It also ignores that liberals aren't driven by compassion but by a need to validate their existence and success by placing them over others via helping them. Liberals are the ultimate expression of "I'm okay, you're not okay."
Yeah, it's really just pointing out the common trend of people wanting to be liberal when they're young but at some point moving to conservatism as they mature. The age thing is arbitrary. My transition period was about 24 or so (although, if I'd been honest with myself, I always had trouble buying a lot of things the left was selling).
Imagine being extremely rich, disconnected, insulted from all things negative, and feeling EXTREMELY guilty about that.
I'm a New York Native. I'm older. I've been a conservative since the age of 12.
Here's what changed me. At the age of 12, I campaigned for Democrat liberal George McGovern.
Then I saw that all the rich white liberal kids in my public school elementary school had been brainwashed by their parents to support forced busing and integration.
But the next year, all of those rich kids were in white private schools after graduation. Me and my middle class friends had to go to the local forcibly integrated junior high school, which had become all black and hispanic. White kids were hunted targets.
I saw the hypocrisy first-hand at the age of 12.
You know something is wrong with the public school system when some parents send their kids to a $35,000 kindergarten school
Just elitists doing elitist things. Those with money have always sought to give their kids as many advantages as possible (whether they work or not).
Which is fine, you spend your money the way you want to. But what I don't like is how they force everyone to do one thing while they do another.
Can't put a price on not having your kids live in physical fear for their safety every day at school because schools refuse to control their black and hispanic kids who have been conditions by their parents to be racist as fuck.
Certtainly. No chance I'd raise a child in the NYC public school system.
That's not what is important. What is important is that the kids of the rich had been bought a little time to live privileged lives insulated from social problems - at the expense of the white lower and middle classes.
It's more like - middle class whites were to be sacrificed so that upper class whites could buy time to be insulated from the violent menace of the ghettos.
Look up the judge who instituted forced busing in South Boston ( which used to be lower-middle-class Irish in the 1970s ). He was a wealthy patrician from a wealthy all-white small town in Massachusetts.
Yep. The white liberals are the same in St. Louis. They all live in >90 percent white neighborhoods and when blacks start moving into their neighborhood they move to successful conservative suburbs and take their stupidity with them.
My in-laws are big-mouthed progressives. They love to virtue-signal about black oppression, yet they have never worked with or lived near blacks.
Their entire lives are devoted to avoiding any kind of contact with non-white, non-progressives.
They started all that forced integration and busing shit just as I was about to start elementary school.
My parents got me and my 11-years-older sister into a private Christian school that same year. Had they not done that, I would have ended up being bussed from a fairly good elementary to one of the worst ones in town. It was a significant sacrifice for them because we were not rich by any means, but to this day I thank them for it.
In later years I got into an argument with my mom about school, and I still remember her words: "If we didn't care about you and your education, we'd buy you a $10 switchblade and send you to XXXXXX (shitty dangerous public high school in the city where I grew up).
Fuck busing.
I had some kid pull a gun on me in the "diverse" junior high school I was forced into. Dozens of other similar incidents I witnessed.
It's the same with climate change and everything else the left is pedaling. We have lived long enough to see all of this before.
We were headed for another ice age when I was in Jr. High.
I remember being taught that in 1976.
There were newspaper headlines in the 30's about "freak weather" due to climate change. Nothing about modern "climate change" is original, just different actors.
Exactly. The same sh-t gets recycled every 10 years.
Great post.
Not totally on point, but related to your post. I was just talking to my wife about why South Park is timeless and so good (minus the last couple seasons). They don’t predict the future, they’ve just lived through all the bs before and because history repeats itself, their content is relatable and classic. Same in real life — people who have been through the stuff of the last week or worse before will never fall for the communist left’s tactics because they know better.
That's why they call it the Thin Blue Line. Emphasis on thin. It can evaporate when chaos starts.
Or, when it starts biting everyone, do you give it a biscuit and tell everyone to pet it?
We can generally refer to the things liberals do as "costly experiments".
Older people have seen, and perhaps even tried, those experiments earlier in their lives.
It’s not just that, when you get older you build a life, earn a good living have some kids etc. You know what responsibility is and what it means to care about something besides yourself. When you’re a 20 something dumbass in moms basement its fun to “fight the power” and fuck shit up
I always say it’s why Democrat’s are so keen on the young vote. Career politicians have lied to people and given empty promises for decades, yet every election cycle they promise change and prosperity for all. Once you live thru 3-4+ of these cycles you see it’s bull shit. However, young people are experiencing the lies for the first time and they believe them.
IMO every dem policy can pretty much be summed up as “sounds good, doesn’t work”. Gets the young vote because it sounds good, but they don’t realize yet why it won’t work.
thats exactly why they do this though. for power. the means dont matter to them. case in point with the riots..
Why do you think democrat governors and mayors ordered people WITH Chinese wuflu into nursing homes?
Obviously because they thunk all older people are Democrats. ROTFLOL.
Not all though. My father and I have never been on the same page, even as a child. I knew something was wrong with him but couldn’t tell what. I loved him anyhow and have spent my whole life trying to understand what was up. In some ways I blame him for wasting my childhood, forcing forcing a little kid to deal with things that shouldn’t fill a child’s mind. But I made my way past it and managed to have a relationship regardless. It wasn’t until Trump was elected that it became clear. He was a Democrat, acontrol freak liberal. That was what was so illogical to me my whole life I just didn’t know why. The only thing that pulled me from that darkness was the pure truth, the slow and steady administration of the red pill. He today at 82 is the same person as he was always, unhappy and a control freak, lost in his mental gymnastics, twisting truth to fit his distorted world view.
Partly.
The other part is we were grounded in principles. We understood the WHY of the Declaration and the BoR.
Much of this is the result of 2+ generations of crappy public education.
Civics became social studies... Jefferson is just a slave owner who impregnated his female slave... the American Revolution was about slavery... yadda yadda.
Judeo-Christian values have been usurped.
So, yes... the older you are more you've seen... but also the more likely you're grounded in real libertarian (small L) values and not collectivism.
Agreed. As a younger person myself, I never understood why young liberals with 0 life experience think they know better than the "ok boomers" who have lived through it all and know what life is really like. Fucking retards. I hate young people.
My super liberal parents use this argument on me all the time. The difference is they haven't used any of their "experience" to better themselves or the community around them. They're both welfare leeches and I have more now at 36 (career, home, family) than they've had in their entire lives.
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Most of the older people I know are liberals. They were hippies and think they are still part of some kind of revolution. In their nice big homes, they are smug and think they are part of the "movement".
In reality, anitifa hates them and wants them dead and gone.
Most every one hates us and wants us gone. "Patience young grasshopper." Your wishes will soon be fulfilled, Then it will be your time to be hated if you get my drift.
You describe my parents to a tee. They think Trump is the source of every problem, won't go a day without watching Rachel Maddow, are very well off financially, and think commenting on social media and donating to their favorite politicians means they're doing something meaningful.
Conservatism is so-called because the intent is to conserve the wisdom learned from those who came before.
Yup once you go conservative you don’t go back!
Eventually most people have their little warm and fuzzy liberal heart broken by the left.
Of course some live their whole lives never wising up to it, but most people realize the left wants them dead and come alive.
Thats why the liberals did their best to kill them off
Its not just that. I was very liberal up UNTIL i got a real job, i got married, I had a fuck ton of children lol. I became VERY conservative when i had something more than myself worth defending. My paycheck, my wife, my kids, our house ect.
I'm a centrist, but I've moved substantially from the left in recent years. That's also about the time I grew up and realized the world isn't sunshine and rainbows.
nO iTs bEcAusE yOu gUYs aRe bOomERs
Yep! Can confirm!
Los Angeles is filled with liberals and they keep having riots. Democrats don't learn.
I’m only 33 but I became a conservative back in university (through some GREAT conservative professors). I owe a lot to them.
Exactly this.
I've been conservative since i was in 8th grade. I read a lot of history books and saw how the democrat party was becoming more and more communist.
Liberals don't have leadership