So talking to my son last night and we got into a mini argument about this country's history.

I was talking about George Washington and how he was a great man and all the great things he did. Then my son comes back with, he wasn't so great, he was a slave owner, blah blah blah. I was like shit, wtf. So only based on pride, i defended old George. But after like an hour or arguing, I came to agree w/ my son's view of GW. I had to concede since history doesn't lie.

He went on further to kill Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and many many others.

I remember when I went to school, our fore fathers and others who built this country were taught in all glory and did nothing wrong. They walked on water and were the ultimate heros.

But sadly, everything's been destroyed. Yes, what I describe above was more myth than reality. but don't we sort of need myth in our culture? All our hero's from Daniel Boone to Lincoln to FDR did some really bad stuff. Do we really need to teach our kids now all the bad stuff? Can't we just do it like the old days and teach only the good stuff? If we don't have our own hero's, where are we headed.


Caveat - one story I always thought was bs was Custer's last stand. Back when I was a kid, the teachers taught it like Custer was a military genius and how the battle of little bighorn was so glorious and a heroic fight. When the teacher said Custer fought with only 200 men vs 2000 Indians, I thought Custer must have been one of the biggest idiots that ever lived. But then I thought I'm just a kid, what do I know, I guess the teacher is right he was a glorious battle.

At least my son has to give me that one!

You are MY Hero

Fucking LIVING THE DREAM in Hawaii..


Banging women that may have a drug problem...

Other than Watergate, Nixon was a great president.

Tell your son to throw off the shackles of white guilt and embrace being a red blooded American male.

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Too late for that. He's those ultra liberal types. He hates Trump w/ a passion too.

speaking of red blooded american males :

Do you remember back in ol' U.S of A. (Wo-oh-oh)
When everybody drove a Chevrolet (Wo-oh-oh)
Whatever happened to the boy next door,
Suntanned, crewcut, all-American Male?

I think they're all dead. Maybe some live in Iowa. But that's about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpsmHfDqsl8

Blind belief in only the good being true is the reason the country is in the position it's in today.

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hahaha ya that's sadly true.

We all need a hero.

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On the bright side, today’s liberals will be seen as monsters for enslaving animals as pets and eating plants.

Never had em in the first place. I like to actually you know, know my heroes.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

who would've figured the Communists would have actually won the Cold War after all?

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

your son sounds like a real snowflake douchebag.


Terrible parenting on your part.

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Veritas Vos Liberabit!

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Be careful because pride can be seen as problematic.

You may be defending George on merit but all I see is "WHITE PRIDE WORLDWIDE!"

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Weaknesses aside, those were three pretty amazing people. They actually had foresight.

Moral relativism wins again!

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

agreed

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

You can still respect the founding fathers while recognizing they weren't squeaky clean angels.

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Correct. No one in the history of Earth was perfect.

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Yes and no

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Sure, maybe they used butter to lube up and fuck a chick in the ass in the back of a Volkswagen but that doesn't make them bad people.

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Incorrect. Reader is perfect.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

That they may have been otherwise guys' wives or slaves does though.

The Adams' didn't have that problem, so there is that for the group

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Except for the one guy .... but naturally the Jews still nailed him for something.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

True heroes sport mustaches.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

The founding fathers are still heroes.

They did what they had to do to build a society from scratch.

If you scrutinize and take anyone's life out of context you can make them out to be a bad person.

With hindsight, it may sound cold to say, but the fact is, in that day, slavery was like the iphone - it was just a quick way to get things done. Oppression was part of the times. Shit, people legally dueled to the death out on the streets for simple matters of humiliation. These days, that is not the case, so why do we spend time comparing past actions to modern day standards? Why aren't we up Italian peoples' butts for all the people the Roman Empire enslaved, oppressed, and crucified, etc.? Because we understand that they rocked sandals 24/7 back then. That's why.

Its all part of the agenda - i.e. make them pay instead of making myself better, which takes hard work. It is a lament, and lamenting is for lazy losers.

Winners get up, dust themselves off, and move on.

Just be a good person who works hard, and don't worry what's going on in the next guy's cubicle - or hundreds of years ago.

Nobody's coming to bring things back to that era, but if that era didn't happen, none of us would be here enjoying our iphones!

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I like thinking big. . . If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
-Donald J. Trump, BPE

Coach is a horrible human being in a lot of ways. However, he is a fantastic human being in a lot of ways as well and he brought us a Super Bowl. Put all his actions on the scales and I think he comes out OK.

I think this is a mature approach.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

It appears we also lost an "e".