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23 Aug 2016, 8:11 pm

we need to stop being the world's policeman/bully- send 'em home!



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26 Aug 2016, 3:57 pm

In future elections in cities with a large homeless population, the people should elect leaders who understand the needs of the homeless instead of turning their backs. Portland city leaders are an example of those who refuse to do anything about issues that need solutions to them.


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26 Aug 2016, 4:02 pm

as soon as a bully anywhere in school is located, he or she needs to be extracted from the student population and put in some other place.



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26 Aug 2016, 4:04 pm

auntblabby wrote:
as soon as a bully anywhere in school is located, he or she needs to be extracted from the student population and put in some other place.


I agree.


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26 Aug 2016, 4:08 pm

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I hate military hero worship, I think most people in uniform are pompous, vile, self-serving scumbags. The institution itself hasn't contributed anything of value to the world in a very long time and deserves way less funding.


My grandfather was in the military and saw combat and he would tell you that its people like you that causes people to have PTSD and shell shock. It does something to a man when they sacrifice so much to get spit on when they return home. I respect your opinion but its an absolute horrible one and has very bad consequences if you make it known to our soldiers.


Things were different for your grandpa, nowadays troops get non-stop praise, they spend a year or so touring a country they'll never have to live in, then they come home heroes for life. I've seen my share of NCOs huddled together tough-talking lower enlisted while they actually worked; I'd see those same lower enlisted start to emulate that kind of behavior, talking down to people and lamenting the old-school army they were never in. I've seen them bully people just for not drinking, or being gay(committed suicide), or listening to classical music. Saw a guy who was beside himself with pride because he shot an old man who was too senile to notice the warning sign (had his confirmed kill). I've seen them on FB ridiculing teenagers for wanting safe spaces, while wanting empathy for PTSD. Nothing they did actually made this country a better place, and the way they do things is just vile, I stand by that.


In other words, not much different than people who spent their entire life as civilians.


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26 Aug 2016, 4:21 pm

a lot of ex-GIs hired as cops treat us civilians [at least the working and underclass] in a similar manner as the insurgents they dealt with while they were active-duty.



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26 Aug 2016, 5:21 pm

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a lot of ex-GIs hired as cops treat us civilians [at least the working and underclass] in a similar manner as the insurgents they dealt with while they were active-duty.


And?


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26 Aug 2016, 5:25 pm

the American middle class self-righteously supports an abusive law enforcement establishment that hassles the lower classes.



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26 Aug 2016, 5:28 pm

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the American middle class self-righteously supports an abusive law enforcement establishment that hassles the lower classes.


I don't doubt it.

I'm wondering what that has to do with veteran. Do police officers who weren't veterans treat the lower classes substantially better?


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26 Aug 2016, 5:33 pm

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auntblabby wrote:
the American middle class self-righteously supports an abusive law enforcement establishment that hassles the lower classes.


I don't doubt it. I'm wondering what that has to do with veteran. Do police officers who weren't veterans treat the lower classes substantially better?

the people I talk to in my group would say that at least they would not likely be as prejudiced against us or suspicious/paranoid about our motives.



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26 Aug 2016, 10:19 pm

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In other words, not much different than people who spent their entire life as civilians.


Civilians aren't told over and over again that they're blameless heroes.


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27 Aug 2016, 12:45 pm

Brats who don't watch where they are going in the street because they are playing Pokemon Go should be hanged, drawn and quartered, slowly submerged feet first in boiling acid, subjected to Lingchi and scaphism, put in a Brazen bull and grounded for 2 full weeksrebuked for putting themselves and others at risk of traffic accidents...

f*****g jackass, dumbass as*holes...



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27 Aug 2016, 3:31 pm

I am anti-war, but pro-soldier. Need I say more?


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28 Aug 2016, 11:27 am

MDD123 wrote:
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In other words, not much different than people who spent their entire life as civilians.


Civilians aren't told over and over again that they're blameless heroes.


No, they just walk around thinking they're special and entitled to things despite not actually having gone anywhere, done anything, or accomplished squat.


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28 Aug 2016, 11:34 am

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In other words, not much different than people who spent their entire life as civilians.


Civilians aren't told over and over again that they're blameless heroes.


No, they just walk around thinking they're special and entitled to things despite not actually having gone anywhere, done anything, or accomplished squat.

So, all civilians are worthless and all soldiers are the greatest thing since sliced bread???



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In other words, not much different than people who spent their entire life as civilians.


Civilians aren't told over and over again that they're blameless heroes.


No, they just walk around thinking they're special and entitled to things despite not actually having gone anywhere, done anything, or accomplished squat.

So, all civilians are worthless and all soldiers are the greatest thing since sliced bread???


Feel free to quote me where I said anything of the sort.

Oh, and the military isn't just made-up of "soldiers."


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