I was being snide. I just thought it’s a little on the rich side to use imagery of the greatest generation on their way into battle to illustrate a point about ‘kids these days’ not knowing what real hardship is etc..
Yes, I figured you were. What's so rich about that? I think that makes a very salient point. And it's not just kids.
To be clear, there are many young people today who would be first in line were this to ever happen again. I know that. But those aren't the ones I'm talking about, are they?
I just think that the criticisms you're leveling at others, may just as easily be directed at a keyboard warrior like yourself.
For example, the whole rejection of collectivism with the pandemic response shows a self-centered preciousness that was totally foreign to those young men who signed up when their country needed them. They didn’t say, “well, actually I’ve been doing my own research online and there’s a Swedish doctor who says that WW2 isn’t as dangerous as people are making out”. No, they understood that there are times when all need to move in one direction, regardless of our own misgivings. We can go over the details and reflect later, but for now, shut up and fall in because we don’t know how bad things could get. The freedom convoy was really a kind of meltdown from a bunch of spoiled selfish snowflakes when you think about it.
You can call it collectivism if you want, but in this country it was mainly an attempt to divide us and win an election. Not the same thing.
The points you're making here might be valid except for the fact that a good part of this much maligned research that people were doing was actually research that had already been done by legitimate experts, just not the experts that the government liked. This is what the Freedom Convoy was about. It's not a coincidence that many provinces dropped their ridiculous mandates right around the time that protest ended. Pretty amazing for a bunch of snowflakes. We've been through this already though, haven't we?
The way that your country (specifically )was 'divided' in order to win an election, was that the authorities there followed what virtually every other nation on earth was doing? That seems like an odd way to divide people. Could it be that there is just a segment of your country that will cry out 'persecution' at the drop of a hat?
I didn't realize you were a veteran, Ken
And what brought you to this realization?
In fact, I'm not a veteran at all. Still curious what makes you think I am though.
I was being snide. I just thought it’s a little on the rich side to use imagery of the greatest generation on their way into battle to illustrate a point about ‘kids these days’ not knowing what real hardship is etc..
Yes, I figured you were. What's so rich about that? I think that makes a very salient point. And it's not just kids.
To be clear, there are many young people today who would be first in line were this to ever happen again. I know that. But those aren't the ones I'm talking about, are they?
I just think that the criticisms you're leveling at others, may just as easily be directed at a keyboard warrior like yourself.
For example, the whole rejection of collectivism with the pandemic response shows a self-centered preciousness that was totally foreign to those young men who signed up when their country needed them. They didn’t say, “well, actually I’ve been doing my own research online and there’s a Swedish doctor who says that WW2 isn’t as dangerous as people are making out”. No, they understood that there are times when all need to move in one direction, regardless of our own misgivings. We can go over the details and reflect later, but for now, shut up and fall in because we don’t know how bad things could get. The freedom convoy was really a kind of meltdown from a bunch of spoiled selfish snowflakes when you think about it.
You can call it collectivism if you want, but in this country it was mainly an attempt to divide us and win an election. Not the same thing.
The points you're making here might be valid except for the fact that a good part of this much maligned research that people were doing was actually research that had already been done by legitimate experts, just not the experts that the government liked. This is what the Freedom Convoy was about. It's not a coincidence that many provinces dropped their ridiculous mandates right around the time that protest ended. Pretty amazing for a bunch of snowflakes. We've been through this already though, haven't we?
The way that your country (specifically )was 'divided' in order to win an election, was that the authorities there followed what virtually every other nation on earth was doing? That seems like an odd way to divide people. Could it be that there is just a segment of your country that will cry out 'persecution' at the drop of a hat?