re: So surreal being born in mid-80s, seeing the US in its prime and now watching it implode

Posted by Billy Mays

Member since Jan 2009

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Posted on 5/30/20 at 2:46 pm to LSUTigersVCURams

Cable news has sickened your perspective and Twitter is not real life.

It will be ok.

Posted by kojak

Member since Apr 2020

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Posted on 5/30/20 at 2:47 pm to red sox fan 13

There are protesting in New Orleans, now. Just takes a couple actors to instigate.

Also, its clear nobody cares that the bad cop is facing justice. So what is the goal?

Posted by davyjones

NELA

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Posted on 5/30/20 at 2:48 pm to SEClint

Naw man, I'm talking Styx here. Official house band of the B.R.

Posted by SEClint

New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR

Member since Nov 2006

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Posted on 5/30/20 at 2:50 pm to davyjones

..And I'm talking Mississippi River Styx

Posted by davyjones

NELA

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Posted on 5/30/20 at 3:00 pm to SEClint

We talkin Greek here?

Posted by Tonio

Member since Dec 2019

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Posted on 5/30/20 at 3:11 pm to LSUTigersVCURams

You fricking count. It’s Not “imploding.” These protesters are irrelevant to 99.9% off American lives. And 100% of the people you should give a flying frick about.

Posted by TheIndulger

Member since Sep 2011

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Posted on 5/30/20 at 3:14 pm to LSUTigersVCURams

Yeah dude. You were a child in the 90’s. That’s why the 90’s seemed so great

Posted by VAvolfan

Member since Feb 2010

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Posted on 5/30/20 at 4:00 pm to GreatLakesTiger24

quote:
maybe this will spark a '65-'75 type run in music

Hope some people learned to play a real instrument while couped up for the last two months. Unfortunately everything today is made on a damn computer

This post was edited on 5/30/20 at 4:01 pm

Posted by fightin tigers

Downtown Prairieville

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Posted on 5/30/20 at 4:04 pm to LSUTigersVCURams

Federal government doing military style assaults on civilians

Riots in LA

Highest murder rates the country has ever seen

LSU had Curly Hallman

Oh yeah, that was the pinnacle...

This post was edited on 5/30/20 at 4:06 pm

Posted by SEClint

New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR

Member since Nov 2006

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Posted on 5/30/20 at 10:12 pm to Ronaldo Burgundiaz

quote:
LA riots
Unabomber
Ruby Ridge
Waco Massacre
OKC bombing
Clinton Impeachment
Columbine
Y2K Hysteria
OJ Simpson Trial

We handled all that..Then 9/11 happened and everything really went to shite.

Posted by TT9

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Posted on 5/30/20 at 10:13 pm to Master of Sinanju

quote:
Well the eagle's been flyin' slow
And the flag's been flyin' low
And a lotta people sayin' that America's
fixin' to fall
Well speakin' just for me
And some people from Tennessee
We've got a thing or two to tell you all
This lady may have stumbled
But she ain't never fell
And if the you frickers don't believe that
You can all go straight to hell
We're gonna put her feet back
On the path of righteousness and then
God bless America again

Poli board anthem

Posted by Ross

Member since Oct 2007

47827 posts

Posted on 5/30/20 at 10:14 pm to Coon

quote:
Chill out, Nancy. This too shall pass.

We haven’t even gotten to the true economic fallout of COVID. I don’t mean to also be a doomsdayer, but this country’s current outlook is bleaker than I ever remember

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Posted by genuineLSUtiger

Nashville

Member since Sep 2005

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Posted on 5/30/20 at 10:22 pm to Ross

Yeah, once we slip into Great Depression 2.0 things should really heat up. Mid summer could be troublesome

Posted by SEClint

New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR

Member since Nov 2006

49487 posts

Posted on 5/30/20 at 10:29 pm to TT9

quote:
Poli board anthem

quote:

O I'm a good old rebel,
Now that's just what I am.
And for this Yankee nation
I do not care a damn.
I'm glad I fought against it,
I only wish we'd won,
And I don't want no pardon
For anything I done.
I hate the Constitution,
This great republic too,
I hate the Freedmans' Buro,
In uniforms of blue.
I hates the nasty eagle,
With all his braggs and fuss,
The lyin' thievin' Yankees,
I hate 'em worse and worse.
I hate the Yankees nation
And everything they do,
I hates the Declaration,
Of Independence, too.
I hate the glorious Union-
'Tis dripping with our blood-
I hate their striped banner,
I fought it all I could..
I followed old man Robert
For four year near about,
Got wounded in three places
And starved at Point Lookout
I got the rheumatism
A campin' in the snow,
But I killed a chance o'Yankees
I'd like to kill some mo'.
Three hundred thousand Yankees
Is still in Southern dust,
We got three hundred thousand
Before they conquered us.
They died of Southern fever
And Southern steel and shot,
I wish they was three million
Instead of what we got.
I can't take up my musket
And fight 'em now no more,
But I ain't going to love 'em,
Now that is for damn sure,
And I don't want no pardon
For what I was and am.
I won't be reconstructed,
And I do not give a damn.

This post was edited on 5/30/20 at 10:30 pm

Posted by mattfromnj

New Jersey

Member since Mar 2020

609 posts

Posted on 5/30/20 at 10:33 pm to Ross

quote:
We haven’t even gotten to the true economic fallout of COVID. I don’t mean to also be a doomsdayer, but this country’s current outlook is bleaker than I ever remember

Yeah I don't get the people on here dismissing the OP. I understand that this will likely not lead to some sort of civil war or anything but we're facing what will likely the be the worst economy since the 1930s combined with the worst social unrest since the 1960s, in an election year, and with the worst pandemic since 1918 all occurring at once. The idea that there's nothing to worry about at all seems a little too optimistic for me.