It feels like just about every section/thread of this board is filled with some racial or political grievance. You can't escape it even if you avoid the politics section. It wasn't always this way. Is this what happens with age? Is there an expiration date for this?

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Two weeks.

Mods please move to the Bourbon thread .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

If it lasts more than 4 hours, call a doctor.

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2018
#ExtendLafleur
10 More Wins

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“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”- JD Vance
“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

I blame DRUMPF and Hillary. Things were much better when Joe Lieberman and John McCain just got together to amicably fuck everybody in smoke-filled rooms rather than rancorously calling half the country pieces of shit.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I wouldn't say that the obsession with identity politics is limited to the board. It's become pervasive throughout much of society and generally serves no other purpose than to turn ordinary people against one another and reestablish the supremacy of the ruling classes at a time when their legitimacy has disintegrated.

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That was the point, wasn't it? Thus you have a legitimate bottom up workers revolt in Canada being decried as RACIST! by the powers that be.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

but the BORED was BETTER too years ago???

And YES,,,,,,Your getting OLDER!

American society became polarized along racial lines with Obama's ascent to the presidency. Trump's candidacy and election intensified that polarization. This dynamic is discussed in Michael Tesler's fascinating but flawed book, Most Racial or Post Racial as well as some of his other work.

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The internet is all in on everyone being mad all the time. It eventually made it here.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I don't think that's true. Whole lot of white people voted for Obama, not once, but twice. Obama is still widely respected and beloved.

The American working class expected Obama to be a respite from the Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush years when they got fucked six ways to Sunday and when Obama failed to deliver disappointment turned to rage.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

The internet is all in on everyone being mad all the time. It eventually made it here.

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You know me like that.

What this place needs is a superhappyfun thread.

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That's what the Simpsons quote thread is for. Also the Keats thread. Possibly Cum Town too.

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Covid lockdowns haven't helped either. MANY are on edge.

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How about a superpappyfunthread?

Light 'em up....

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You know me like that.

I have not had fun in Cum Town

Close your mouth.

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2018
#ExtendLafleur
10 More Wins

Fair enough, I don't think I phrased my post above quite as well as I should have. Obama's ascent polarized people according to their political beliefs; and the determining factor in their political beliefs was race. Tesler documents this change quite well in his book, though he doesn't manage to probe the extent to which racial politics are deeply intertwined with other political issues, most notably class precarity felt by working class white people. Many of the discussions on this board--and the identity of several posters on the board--perfectly capture this precarity.

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My aging issue: more pee seems to be coming out than liquid going in. It's like my body is playing a magic trick.

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

When you put the pee in, do you drink it?

It's just the times and I do think there is an expiration date. Everyone is itching for a fight all the time and treating every issue like its a constitutional crisis.

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

Yeah, I feel like the opinion of him started to change after his first term. It was a disappointment for a lot of people.

i blame social media. it's now way to easy to find like minded idiots and too many people share posts/tweets whatever that are full of half truths.

We had that here before anybody else; viewforum.php?f=32

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The movies & tv section is usually pretty positive when KD, HY, or Shakes aren’t posting.

There are safe havens on the board still.

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There has been a fair amount written about the determining factor being those who felt left out economically.

Race was the narrative pushed by a complicit media that keeps the power structure you mentioned earlier from disintegrating.

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