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March 06, 2024, 11:55 AM
TRIO
I showed this to a coworker. He didn't get the reference! He is 35 years old. A recent Trump convert
March 06, 2024, 12:15 PM
erj_pilot
PASig...I'm not the brightest bulb in the fixture sometimes, but yes...I got it in .006 seconds. It shouldn't take a Rhodes Scholar to make the connection. JSMH.......
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
March 06, 2024, 12:17 PM
PASig
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Originally posted by TRIO: I showed this to a coworker. He didn't get the reference! He is 35 years old. A recent Trump convert
I showed it to a friend of mine too, age 48-49 and he too didn't get it. I got it within .003 seconds.
A little baffling that someone would not pick up on that pretty fast?
March 06, 2024, 12:18 PM
BigSwede
Standing where over a million were unloaded
March 06, 2024, 12:25 PM
chellim1
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Originally posted by TRIO: I showed this to a coworker. He didn't get the reference! He is 35 years old. A recent Trump convert
History is lost on soooo many people. I think intentionally. They are being dumbed down.
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
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March 06, 2024, 12:37 PM
mojojojo
I get the reference and meaning. But while at OCS at Quantico in the 80s we were frequently transported for training from the base out into the boondocks and back in cattle cars. And we all had ARs.
So, for me at least, the sticker doesn't really apply I guess.
Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew.
March 06, 2024, 12:38 PM
Russ59
I too understood the reference immediately. Those who don't are likely to ask "where's the first class section?" when mounting the cattle car.
P229
March 06, 2024, 01:12 PM
wishfull thinker
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Originally posted by mojojojo: I get the reference and meaning. But while at OCS at Quantico in the 80s we were frequently transported for training from the base out into the boondocks and back in cattle cars. And we all had ARs.
So, for me at least, the sticker doesn't really apply I guess.
The next edition will have a little asterisk down at the bottom that says "unless you want to " Better?
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March 06, 2024, 01:16 PM
mojojojo
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Originally posted by wishfull thinker: [The next edition will have a little asterisk down at the bottom that says "unless you want to " Better?
Yeah. That'd be great! But actually the asterisk should say "unless you were a Marine at OCS in the 80s, then you had to unless you wanted to walk 20+ miles"
Thanks!
Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew.
March 06, 2024, 01:20 PM
darthfuster
No. We don’t. And no one else will have to either as long as I have ammunition.
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier
March 06, 2024, 01:33 PM
ensigmatic
quote:
Originally posted by chellim1:
quote:
Originally posted by TRIO: I showed this to a coworker. He didn't get the reference! He is 35 years old. A recent Trump convert
History is lost on soooo many people. I think intentionally. They are being dumbed down.
It sure seems that way, doesn't it?
I've probably told this story here before, but...
A few years back a couple young men approached me while I was out mowing the lawn. When I found they were campaigning for one-or-another Democrat I politely told them "I won't waste your time. I wouldn't vote for a Democrat on a bet, and I'm a liberal." They were obviously taken aback. One asked why. "Well, because today's Democrat party supports <this>, <that>, and <this other thing>."
They seemed confused, so I explained.
One of the points upon which they were confused was the Electoral College. Not only did they not understand why it was originally created and why it was still relevant, but they also didn't understand it was in the U.S. Constitution and what it would take to eliminate it.
After explaining a couple other things like the above I said "You didn't appear to know these things." They admitted they hadn't. "I learned this stuff in high school, 50 years ago."
They were college freshmen.
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
March 06, 2024, 01:46 PM
wishfull thinker
quote:
Originally posted by mojojojo:
quote:
Originally posted by wishfull thinker: [The next edition will have a little asterisk down at the bottom that says "unless you want to " Better?
Yeah. That'd be great! But actually the asterisk should say "unless you were a Marine at OCS in the 80s, then you had to unless you wanted to walk 20+ miles"
Thanks!
Yeah, better.
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March 06, 2024, 02:28 PM
SIG4EVA
Amen!
SIG556 Classic P220 Carry SAS Gen 2 SAO SP2022 9mm German Triple Serial P938 SAS P365 FDE P322 FDE
Psalm 118:24 "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it"
March 06, 2024, 03:59 PM
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March 06, 2024, 04:09 PM
SigSentry
Planet P reminder. I want that sticker.
March 06, 2024, 06:57 PM
Gustofer
quote:
Originally posted by chellim1:
quote:
Originally posted by TRIO: I showed this to a coworker. He didn't get the reference! He is 35 years old. A recent Trump convert
History is lost on soooo many people. I think intentionally. They are being dumbed down.
I'll bet they know all about black history month, though. And the "INSURRECTION!!!!!".
________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton.
March 06, 2024, 07:02 PM
Rey HRH
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Originally posted by TRIO: I showed this to a coworker. He didn't get the reference! He is 35 years old. A recent Trump convert
It took me a few seconds to make the connection.
At first I thought it was a put down to AR owners. Then I thought it was a snooty AR owner not wanting to go economy or cattle car from my POV.
Then it hit me. Just like the time I was wondering why the ball I was looking at kept getting bigger.
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
March 06, 2024, 07:09 PM
BillyBonesNY
Guess he didn’t know many JDL members. Growing up, I knew many survivors. They would never speak of what they’d been through… some only children at the time.
And many didn’t go into the cattle cars as well. Good friend of the family, Tanja (rest her soul) was a Hungarian Jew and fierce partisan. I will not mention full names, she was tough.
She only opened up, explained the things they had done when we sat getting drunk on dandelion wine one afternoon on the farm.
She was there to pick up some string beans we had planted. Somehow that turned into derailing trains and killing Germans… as well as sneaking up to the “cattle cars” and offering food… all the while being shot at.
It shouldn't take a Rhodes Scholar to make the connection. JSMH.......
