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  1. 6 hours ago, Macanudo said:

    Barely fictionalized.  And while we venerate Easy Company, there were dozens upon dozens of companies just like them.   Go ask the Marines on Guadalcanal.   Or the soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division.   Or troopers from the 2nd Armored.  Or....   Yeah, small handful my ass.

    First, it's all based on a book written nearly 50 years after the fact based on stories by a bunch of brave men who are trying to remember details at an advanced age. There's a reason human eye witness testimony is almost always a shoddy piece of evidence in a trial. They aren't lying, but over the years stories change and a more favorable version of the events tends to form as time passes. They couldn't even all agree on Sobel. Some of E company saw him as worthless while others said they wouldn't be alive today if he hadn't been so hard and demanding of them at that time. 

     Also, the guy I quoted was making his wild assumption based on this movie which only followed this small handful of men. I know there were tons of great stories of heroism to be told but this account didnt recall them. 

    Point is people then were a mix of good, bad, brave, cowardly, determined, and lazy just like people of every generation since. Human nature is to endulge in a reverence for fictionalized nostalgia as more snd more time passes. That's why there are always the "good ol' days" which in many instances weren't always so good.

  2. Trump's people now floating out idea of removing troops from South Korea to "save money". Yeah he throws away a trillion plus in future corporate tax revenue, hikes up the defense budget to ungodly levels to fuel more waste while flooding more American soldiers to die on hostile foreign ground they dont belong on, but we can't keep soldiers in a key strategic allies' land because he wants to save money? 

    He's either being played or he's actively sabotaging America's global influence.

     

    https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/05/31/615517016/would-the-u-s-withdraw-troops-from-south-korea

  3. I think this current generation of kids is the first in a long time, maybe over 100 years, to not have things better than their parents. Being a kid now has to be worse than being one in the 80s and 90s for most Americans. The future 30 year outlook financially for the country is a lot worse now than it was in 1990 as well. 

  4. 23 hours ago, Snake Diggity said:

    Next to Its A Wonderful Life, Band of Brothers has had more emotional impact on me than any piece of art in existence.  It’s perfect.  I’m not a get off my lawn guy, but they don’t make men like those guys anymore, not even the guys we celebrate from Iraq etc.  I think it takes a lot of things to come together to create a generation of people like that, and it hasn’t happened since. Hopefully it will again someday and hopefully they’ll be Americans.

    Ha you're crazy. You're looking back at a whole generation of American men and judge them by a fictionalized cinema account of a small handful of them. 

    There were a whole lot more extreme violent racists and wife beaters than there were those like Major Winters. 

    Also way to insult all of the veterans from Vietnam and the past 17 years who aren't fighting for a just cause but because they are ordered to do so. That has to be much tougher to swallow knowing you really have no business being there yet still having a job to do. 

    Go tell people like Carlos Hathcock that they arent as good as WW2 vets. 

  5. Trump is just the most viscerally repugnant face of the decades long policy of the republican party to gain power by making thr shittiest of white people believe they are superior to even the best of non whites simply because of their white skin. The republicans sold their soul for cheap pandering to both the top wealthy elite whites (we will always do your bidding) and the poorest of garbage whites (we will constantly tell you how superior you are to everyone who is not white) at the same time. 

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  6. In a weird stories about E company file there's Sobel (Schwimmer) who after the war got married to a blonde catholic broad that his family would never accept, had a few kids, and tried to commit suicide in 1970 but the bullet just passed behind his eyes severing his optical nerves leaving him blind. He was then dumped and abandoned by his wife (and kids he worked to pay for their college) in a VA hospital where he languished for 17 years before dying of malnourishment.

  7. 3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Is it marathoning somewhere?  I keep thinking that upon my umpteenth re-viewing, it will become stale, but it never does.  I have never been a big Speirs fanboi.  I read the book(s) first, and he was kind of portrayed as a psycho.

    Lewis Nixon is my favorite character after Major Dick.

    Nixon? I like Livingston as much as anyone but all Nixon did was follow Winters around. 

    Havent seen it in years but who was the sargeant or lieutenant that froze on the battlefield? That was one of my favorite episodes, the guy that took up the slack and received a field promotion was a bad ass. 

  8. 53 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

    Without researching but just based on guesstimates I'd throw out the following for consideration:

    USSR/Russia

    Serbia/Bosnia

    Rwanda

    and probably a handful of others.

    The only one that comes close is the former USSR, but they eventually collapsed after their grand ambitions led to financial ruin. The others are/were small country civil war issues of infighting that arent wrecking havoc on many parts of the world the way we do. Hell, even as evil as Putin is modern day Russia hasnt terrorized the world with violence the way we do. They now use a lot more subtle and psychological ways to influence. We're the biggest blood thirsty barbarians of the modern day, and no amount of standing for national anthems or spouting off propaganda can change that fact. 

  9. 1 minute ago, Mojo Hand said:

    Yes, I read it.  It's terrible.  It also doesn't make us the biggest evil monster in the world since Hitler.

    The evil we bring in the middle east on a 17 year and counting continuous war. The evil we perpetrate on Asia with the Vietnam/Korea debacles and continuous threat of nuclear war. The evil we bestow on people in our own borders. 

    We're not at full Nazi genocide level yet but name a world power that has destroyed more lives within and outside it's own borders in the last 70 years. 

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  10. Just now, Mojo Hand said:

    We have our problems, but that isn't even remotely true. 

    Did you click the link or read Hugo's tweet? Our government is separating children from their mothers then just losing track of them to be harmed or done with whatever anyone wants. That's on a strong path towards Holocaust activity because it's treating humans as non human. Our government is that evil and we are shamed into supporting it with political propaganda. 

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  11. "Trump wanted to cancel before North Korea could"

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/inside-summit-collapse-trump-wanted-cancel-n-korean-leader-could-n877291

    This is exactly what Kim and Xi wanted to happen and knew Trump would do because he's a giant tantrum throwing toddler who has to always be first to something. Now any negotiating leverage he had is gone as he can no longer force Kim to be the bad guy who canceled the summit. To the world and Moon it looks like the US doesn't want to seriously negotiate for Korean peace. 

  12. Whoever it was that said Kim was playing Trump to make America the bad guy and squeeze America out of political influence in the Korean peninsula was spot on. You can see every trap DPRK lays and watch this admin walk into them. No way Moon or anyone in South Korea thinks the US can be trusted. 

  13. 2 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

     

    It's because "the right to bear arms is part of what makes America great" has been ingrained into the psyche of a large portion of our population.  My conservative mother has repeated that phrase numerous times, despite the fact that our family never once went hunting, never went to the shooting range, and never had a firearm in the house stronger than a BB gun until after I left for college.  I am NOT saying that gun owners do not have a right to bear arms, but it is strange just how important that amendment has become in the minds of a huge portion of the population.  It's meant to be a statement that we all nod along to like "no excessive bail," but millions of people have instead formed their entire identities around it.  And now we are too far gone to discuss, as a nation, a reasonable solution to a solvable problem.

    And most of these same people who cite the Bill of Rights when claiming that having guns is a God-given right have absolutely no issues when the President of our goddamn country attacks the free press on a daily basis.

    Nobody cares about the constitution anymore, just like nobody cares about responsible fiscal spending. It's all about what I want and fuck you if you get in the way. No negotiation. No compromise. Just use whatever narrative fits your opinion and reject whatever doesn't. We're one step away from political killings and assassinations because fuck civility just give me what I want now.  

  14. 1 hour ago, GW Hayduke said:

    I think that is an important question. Why does the US have such a high refequency of mass shootings?

    I would add that another important, and actually IMO more important, question is why does the US have such a drastically higher rate of overall firearm-related violence when compared to other first world countries?

    The reason I think this question is more important is because it reflects a much larger amount of harm/death, e.g., mass shootings are not that common when compared to other instances of gun violence.

    If that was satirical then bravo. If not then wtf? 

    Duh, the US is the only civilized western society that has easy access to guns and a majority of gun owners who are irresponsible and don't keep their guns locked in a gun safe whenever not in use. 

    You dont have to take away guns, you just start charging whoever the legal owner of any gun that is used in a crime with that crime. If dumb ass daddy of this kid was up for capital murder and the death penalty alongside his kid then we'd either see a lot of people deciding to not own guns or we'd get rid of irresponsible gun owners by making felons out of them. 

  15. 6 hours ago, DougO said:

    Terrance has always seemed like a good low-key kind of dude. I don't know if his story checks out, maybe he panicked a bit. But I doubt the Cowboys are going to use this to ditch him.

    They had a nobody specials teams garbage linebacker pull a rifle on some rednecks at a 4th festival last year and didnt even cut him. They arent cutting Williams unless he gets accused of beating a woman. 

    How's that for Jerry Jones' faux patriotism. Pulling weapons on people at municipal 4th of july celebrations is just fine but take one knee to pray during an anthem...

  16. Republicans witch hunted Bill Clinton for years with Starr and Whitewater and got nothing. 

    Mueller has been investigating for one single year on an investigation that is 100 times as large and has returned numerous indictments on people high up in the trump campaign. Yet republicans are crying witch hunt. 

    GTFO you treasonous thugs. 

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  17. I think a lot of people dislike the idea of people running the governement and making decisions that effect millions of lives based on what an extraterrestrial being in the sky who watches over them tells them to do. 

    The problem is that extraterrestrial being has never once manifested itself to society as a whole to explain it's wishes. What you end up with is a group of people justifying whatever action they choose to take by filtering it through the mental lens of "this is what God tells me to do." Anyone should be able to see how that is extremely flawed thinking and can cause major problems yet it is what republicans do. 

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    4 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    There have been multiple studies showing the correlation between support for Trump and white racial grievance.  And there is plenty of obvious correlation between support for Trump and white evangelical Christians.    And with a number of high-profile white evangelical Trump supporters (e.g., Robert Jeffress), their white nationalism is manifest.

    And let's be real honest here--most of the mainline protestant churches split over the issue of race/civil rights/slavery.  Along the way, the "southern" brand of those churches--whether it be Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist--became far more "evangelical" (at least as we understand the term in common parlance).  So the notion that evangelical churches are closely tied to racism has a serious historical foundation.

    So while there are plenty of people who go to evangelical churches who don't have a racist bone in their body, I think it's absurd to ignore the correlation.

    The catholic religion has broken off into so many sub categories based on political squabbles over the centuries that I can't believe much of it even ties back into the word of Jesus at this point. There are few exceptions but for the vast majority it's become a social club where the words themselves are not to be heeded and the example of Christ is not to be followed. 

  19. 2 hours ago, El Diablo said:

    How many kids and grandkids you got? Yeah, that's what I thought. 

    I have 3 kids and 8 grandkids and if something is heavy or needs carrying I take care of it, but I'll be damned if I'm going to be carrying their cell phones and trivial shit around. 

    If my sons asked me to carry their wallet and phone for them I'd tell them I didn't raise you to be a lazy ass and carry it yourself. Same goes for the daughter. If you dont want to pay the price of carrying it don't bring it. The only exceptions were when the grand kids were babies and the kids had to lug 30 lbs of field gear around everywhere. That situation required help. 

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