Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "David Hoffman" channel.

  1. I'm beginning to suspect he's not the nice guy we were all led to believe.
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  2. Damien Holland Only those who thought they could do mindless, low skill work forever have stagnated. They own it, it's their own fault. There is more opportunity than ever in the USA, you just need to acquire a skill in demand and then 6 figures per yr. are readily available. Take responsibility for yourself for a change instead of sniveling and blaming external factors. NO ONE OWES you a job. Create your own darn job if you don't like what's being offered.
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  3.  @garverzello8085  I sent a college engineering homework in on FAX across the country for $10 and it was a hit in the engineering office because they had never seen it done before for homework....that was around 1990.
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  4. I was there and this doesn't impress me as smart. This was the common rhetoric at the time--regardless of accuracy or not this is not particularly thoughtful in the moment...typical banter regurgitated endlessly like other things are today. But it is very interesting. Leaded gasoline seems to show up in slow mental acuity. They had damn good reason for cynicism, anger, uncertainty and doubt.
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  5. I just think this is an exceptionally high level discussion for YT. But I always see the bright side of life. :D
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  6. We had bigger things to protest back then but a lot of it went off the rails too: weekly domestic eco-terrorist attacks on infrastructure (Edward Abby)...not as bad as industrial polluted rivers catching on fire and such maybe, that happened too back then, all young American 'men' had to consider the lottery, aka. draft into a senseless meat grinder in Vietnam... self righteous stealing/looting, monthly airliner hijackings, far higher serious crime rate. Our blood lead levels were much higher back then.
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  7. Yeah they weren't such great times except the definition of "the good ol' days" is when we were young.
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  8.  @ajbala5979  That doesn't always work either. We certainly had that attitude prior to WW2 and it almost got us eliminated as we were unprepared when it came to us I would point out 9/11 but that was backlash against our intrusions into other nations affairs, however after the fact we had to respond.
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  9.  @rd._874  Religion you mean, particularly evil Abrahamic ones.
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  10.  @guthrie1181  The TOXIC aspects of our civilization YES.
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  11.  @guthrie1181  Slavery was correctly justified via the Bible. Holly wars like the Vietnam atrocity. Unconstitutional crap like "In God We Trust" and "One Nation Under God" thanks to Eisenhower in the 1950's. Opposition to birth control and general misogyny even forcing young girl rape victims to birth a rapists child sometimes....on and on and on....
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  12.  @guthrie1181  The serious crime rate is half what it was 20 plus yr.s ago in the USA, the more secular a society get's the better it is in every way. YOU might be less happy but that's your problem and another failure of your toxic religion. The Bible endorses slavery, maybe you should read the goddamned evil text. The anti-communist hysteria was NOT about fear of an economic system it was because they were "godless commies", I remember it well. So we murdered 2 or 3 million innocent Asians and wasted the lives of 100's of thousands of good American men. Why be so lazy as to acquire your morality from some Bronze Age barbarians when secular methods are vastly superior?? We don't even allow stoning a child to death for misbehaving slightly or murdering your daughter for not being a virgin on her wedding night and all the endless horrific mandates in the horrific Bible. High time for humanity to out grow dogma entirely. All religions are potentially toxic and most manifest as such. It's NOT helpful to believe that you can commit almost any conceivable crime and be forgiven as long as "you accept JeezAss" as your savior. No wonder theocracies create hell on Earth just like when the Vatican ran Europe--pure HELL they propagated and would today if they had their way.
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  13. Lot MORE wrong back then. Need I list some examples?
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  14.  JimboParadox  Also we have selective memories and have to work at recalling the nasty parts for some reason. I could rattle off a litany of deficiencies of those decades compared to today that few think of.
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  15. This story is as old as the war itself, nothing new here but good info for those who somehow missed this half century old "news".
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  16. For all the "kids" today: This is what I grew up with, NO you haven't seen the worst times in America by a long shot, but we lived, hiked in the mountains, worked hard and vacationed, thrived as best we could just the same in more dangerous times, but much better than the decades before the '60's. We had couple easy decades prior to 2008/2020, did you expect that to be normal?
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  17. @Unpredictable Axolotl The comments, I should have clarified. Granted I see a lot of childish threads on YT.
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  18. @Unpredictable Axolotl Glad I'm not the only one who does that on occasion. :D
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  19. Remember folks--this was when leaded gasoline was still common hence the slow mental response times.
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