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Not the stereotypical gen x, because they don't whine like that. Hell, he sounds more like an you-don't-understand-me millennial. I grow increasingly tired of having to listen to boomer airline captains complain about how bad the world is and how their kids are turning out liberal when it's the world that their generation created.

Another point to the idea that booster money may be more important to this new era of college football. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Ummm, he sounds like Gen X

Cry me a river. If you are working for an airline you have been making good coin in your last 17-22 years.

Pretty good flyby at Lambeau this week. Not real close up camera but they seemed right on time with fireworks (maybe 1 to 2 seconds late - nitpicking)

I don’t usually mention my Commodores in public until baseball season, but a win over a top 25 team is worth some kudos to them. They’re looking decent so far this year.

Shacked It ViperMan...

Miami is looking stronger than I’d prefer. I bet FSU-Miami play twice this year.

Yeah, still a good team, but not the same caliber since the Lawrence kid got drafted. NIL isn't helping the 'Clemson Way' either... Sent from my SM-S918U using Baseops Network mobile app

I'm not sure what reporting you're looking at, but the shooter apparently was credibly engaged in a homosexual relationship with a same-sex individual who was "transitioning." Seems to me that latent homosexuality and the fact that he wasn't feeling accepted by a social movement that is growing in popularity - or rather rejected by a louder, and increasingly verbal group of right-wing people - is a likely motivating factor for this person taking his feelings and redirecting them outward in an act of extreme violence. Maybe they weren't in a relationship and the shooter was merely acting out of a perception that his friend needed his honor defended. It doesn't really matter. The fact is that people can have whatever upbringing you want, and can turn out poorly - the opposite is true as well. They can be raised by right-wing priests and turn out blue-haired nymphomaniacs. Or they can be raised by left-wing granola bars, and wind up Jehovah's witnesses. You and everyone else understands this. The sad part for all of us is that for a long time - a very long time - this country was getting along and moving in a great direction. Black culture was seemingly becoming less violent. Gays were winning (and have won) increased acceptance throughout all but the most backwater parts of our society. A generation of kids grew up playing together and not really caring about skin color or cultural differences, and so on and so on. Then, for whatever reason, that all seemed to change. I'm not sure why, but things were different. Not "I perceived that things were different," but actually different. Now, we are becoming less "liberal" and far less tolerant. I lament we are becoming less liberal (in the true sense of the word), but I think that becoming far less tolerant is probably good and necessary. I think it is largely due to forces on the Left that demanded ridiculous, insane, and frankly, deranged capitulations. See "men have periods / can become pregnant," "men should be allowed to compete in women's sports," "black people are hunted by cops," "COVID didn't leak from a lab," etc. Those are my priors and I think evidence supports all of them in varying degree. Jan 6th isn't happening dude. Sorry, it just isn't. It's not the Pearl Harbor or September 11th you wish it was. 25 years from now we're not going to be holding "Remember" ceremonies throughout our society. A few token dems might, but they'll be the only ones. In 69 years, we're not going to mark the "passing of the last survivor of the Jan 6th attack on the Capitol," except for maybe some future talking-head on MSNBC. What it was in objective reality was a massive gathering of right-wing individuals (that got wildly out of hand), but which was organized in RESPONSE to actual, government-sanctioned anarchy that was ushered in and actively encouraged by prominent left-wing leadership throughout multiple layers of our government. This includes presidential and vice-presidential candidates. It includes governors. It includes mayors. It includes senators. It includes congressmen and women. With our own eyes, we all saw the chaos begin to unfold starting in the Summer of 2020, and continue through to the election and inauguration of Joe Biden. It was the unstated TACTIC of the Democratic party, implemented in order to undermine Donald Trump. I'm not justifying Jan 6th, but let's also not pretend that it arose randomly and thus points at some underlying reality that the US is a KKK-style right-wing hellscape. That's all in your head dude. It happened because of COVID lock-downs and people getting bored. The dems saw an opportunity to re-focus this boredom into channels that applied pressure on fault lines within their many of their most favored political constituencies. They saw a political opportunity and capitalized on it. A cynical play for sure. You can see them trying the same playbook again, but it's not having quite the same success this time around. Probably because we're not all locked-down with nothing better to do...

Still a boomer.

Clemson 1-2. 🤔

You are entirely missing the point. yes, both sides have fruitcakes but the dem fruitcake are YOUR leaders. The videos I attached have one loon (Maxine Water that I would equate to Meregie Taylor Green, but the others are the leaders of the Democratic Party....the Speaker of the House and the Senate Minority Leader! Break Break There has a been a wave of backlash and firings, some posted here. A friend knows they guy compiling the big database that is tracking 20,000 people who made comments and are being targeted to lose their job. He said nearly half are teachers...the right has been saying for years, the fight has been in the schools and universities. They fired the EA to the Vice Chancellor at my son's college after some incredibly hateful words pots. Something to think about.

I don't care if the guy was trans, straight or gay. He fucked up bad and people celebrated it. Those people are the ones I'm concerned about.

He wasn’t wrong

Well, if grandma said it then done deal. Jeeze, the reporting on this thing has been a merry-go-round of info. Pic for non-boomers

Should have just said the last part "our society is unwell" Looks like the assassin had a male-to-female trans partner...you know, like all Christian dudes. https://nypost.com/2025/09/13/us-news/charlie-kirk-shooter-tyler-robinson-lived-with-transgender-partner/ Sent from my SM-S918U using Baseops Network mobile app

Your link on Mormonism is irrelevant to knowledge of the shooters personal religious beliefs. You’re hardening a narrative around assumptions. This is not a convincing argument and you have zero evidence for your assertion.

So you can't be a progressive if you have conservative parents? The bullets didn't have MAGA forever written on them. Your forecasting history hasn't been great.

If you’re gonna quote historical examples of calls to violence let’s not be disingenuous by slanting it. You know very well these counter examples exist for conservatives calling for violence against the other side or glorifying it exactly the same way. Jan 6 is the easy button here, and you know it, but there are dozens of other examples. Not saying the dems are better, but let’s stop pretending one side is moral. https://www.thedailybeast.com/charlie-kirk-suspects-grandma-says-family-is-all-maga/ https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/were-republicans-for-trump-says-grandmother-of-charlie-kirks-alleged-killer-deepening-the-mystery-around-tyler-robinsons-motive-and-the-groypers-link/amp_articleshow/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism He literally turned himself in to a youth pastor.

Sure thing tough guy. Probably because we have not had as many political assassinations in recent years. Also, Vance and Kirk were good friends. Finally, for close to half the nation, this was a significant emotional event. They tried to kill Trump twice, why should we be surprised. And when they did try to kill Trump, the left questioned if he was even shot instead of trying to calm things down. It is not just the media

Totally agree with brabus.

He was raised Mormon and assumedly in a conservative household (assumption based on religion + father’s LEO career). Regardless it’s irrelevant, because he was radicalized at some point - none of the 18 years in his parents household mattered the second he was on his own and consumed radical information that drastically altered his perceptions and understanding of societal norms. This is a good lesson in how important it is to teach kids at home to be rigorous in critical thought, seek verifiable evidence from multiple sources before deciding something is accurate/true, and sow strong moral fibers in them so that they cannot be easily led astray once outside the parents’ purview/guidance. To that extent, I think you can trace a lot of problems in our society today to failed parenting, completely independent of the household’s political affiliation. Lacking parenting is across the entire political spectrum. I feel horrible for this POS’s parents. I’m sure they are tormented by thoughts of where they went wrong or what they should have done/emphasized that they didn’t.

turns out I'm a Joneser