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Out of curiosity, why does this trigger people so much that they have to show their outrage online?
I've never quite got that.
Who do you mean? The people commenting on it?
Not the comments as such but the "angst' it seems to cause to the people it doesn't involve?
I maybe misreading the "angst" though
If they go full retard, we are fucked.
How so? I see things like this and then look at my everyday life and never see it impacted. To me it is always only read.
I do get the kid thing though but to me I just see that is change in the same way change is never really liked by the older of those having to change
There's definitely an element of people being against change as they don't like any change. Lots of things in the west have changed for the better - gay rights for example - despite opposition from some.
But with companies like Google, the philosophy behind what they espouse can be particularly damaging to society as it extremely pernicious. It's essentially the same philosophy that drove Stalin and Mao which led to people's rights being taken away (free speech etc), and the enslavement and deaths of many millions of people.
Could that happen again in western countries? I don't know, but I'm not really willing to find out by letting these ideas spread again, we've done the 'Marxist' experiment in various forms already and paid for it dearly. We've got the best system going in the history of humanity, and I will oppose anyone that wants to tear that down.
I hear that, but I'm not concerned about it.
To me, it just seems that there is always something new that comes up the that causes angst which then causes angst by those that are against the original angst.
Rinse and repeat
We live in a time of faux outrage, that's for sure. So I can see how you come to that conclusion, the internet has certainly brought all the idiots to the surface and shined a light on them.
I find the Google situation today fascinating, in that it shows how this line of thinking doesn't work in the long term.
Probably more concerning to me is the direction our Universities are heading. Two things there - one they are indoctrinating a lot of students into a radical left wing ideology. Those students then go out into the real world and instead of contributing they just cause trouble. Secondly, because of this the Universities are losing credibility at a rate of knots as it gets exposed, to the point that if they don't arrest the situation I can see many of them collapsing - that (in my opinion) is a very bad thing for society.
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@no-quarter said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@no-quarter said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@kirwan said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@baron-silas-greenback said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
Out of curiosity, why does this trigger people so much that they have to show their outrage online?
I've never quite got that.
Who do you mean? The people commenting on it?
Not the comments as such but the "angst' it seems to cause to the people it doesn't involve?
I maybe misreading the "angst" though
If they go full retard, we are fucked.
How so? I see things like this and then look at my everyday life and never see it impacted. To me it is always only read.
I do get the kid thing though but to me I just see that is change in the same way change is never really liked by the older of those having to change
There's definitely an element of people being against change as they don't like any change. Lots of things in the west have changed for the better - gay rights for example - despite opposition from some.
But with companies like Google, the philosophy behind what they espouse can be particularly damaging to society as it extremely pernicious. It's essentially the same philosophy that drove Stalin and Mao which led to people's rights being taken away (free speech etc), and the enslavement and deaths of many millions of people.
Could that happen again in western countries? I don't know, but I'm not really willing to find out by letting these ideas spread again, we've done the 'Marxist' experiment in various forms already and paid for it dearly. We've got the best system going in the history of humanity, and I will oppose anyone that wants to tear that down.
I hear that, but I'm not concerned about it.
To me, it just seems that there is always something new that comes up the that causes angst which then causes angst by those that are against the original angst.
Rinse and repeat
Probably more concerning to me is the direction our Universities are heading. Two things there - one they are indoctrinating a lot of students into a radical left wing ideology. Those students then go out into the real world and instead of contributing they just cause trouble. Secondly, because of this the Universities are losing credibility at a rate of knots as it gets exposed, to the point that if they don't arrest the situation I can see many of them collapsing - that (in my opinion) is a very bad thing for society.
Now I am playing devils advocate a bit (previously I wasn't)
A very bad thing for our current society, yes, I agree, but for future society, if the majority want that?
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@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@no-quarter said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@no-quarter said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@kirwan said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@baron-silas-greenback said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
Out of curiosity, why does this trigger people so much that they have to show their outrage online?
I've never quite got that.
Who do you mean? The people commenting on it?
Not the comments as such but the "angst' it seems to cause to the people it doesn't involve?
I maybe misreading the "angst" though
If they go full retard, we are fucked.
How so? I see things like this and then look at my everyday life and never see it impacted. To me it is always only read.
I do get the kid thing though but to me I just see that is change in the same way change is never really liked by the older of those having to change
There's definitely an element of people being against change as they don't like any change. Lots of things in the west have changed for the better - gay rights for example - despite opposition from some.
But with companies like Google, the philosophy behind what they espouse can be particularly damaging to society as it extremely pernicious. It's essentially the same philosophy that drove Stalin and Mao which led to people's rights being taken away (free speech etc), and the enslavement and deaths of many millions of people.
Could that happen again in western countries? I don't know, but I'm not really willing to find out by letting these ideas spread again, we've done the 'Marxist' experiment in various forms already and paid for it dearly. We've got the best system going in the history of humanity, and I will oppose anyone that wants to tear that down.
I hear that, but I'm not concerned about it.
To me, it just seems that there is always something new that comes up the that causes angst which then causes angst by those that are against the original angst.
Rinse and repeat
Probably more concerning to me is the direction our Universities are heading. Two things there - one they are indoctrinating a lot of students into a radical left wing ideology. Those students then go out into the real world and instead of contributing they just cause trouble. Secondly, because of this the Universities are losing credibility at a rate of knots as it gets exposed, to the point that if they don't arrest the situation I can see many of them collapsing - that (in my opinion) is a very bad thing for society.
Now I am playing devils advocate a bit (previously I wasn't)
A very bad thing for our current society, yes, I agree, but for future society, if the majority want that?
because this ideology has been proven time and time again to lead to the deaths of millions and the collapse of society.
i.e Stalin and Mao -
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@no-quarter said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@no-quarter said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@kirwan said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@baron-silas-greenback said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
Out of curiosity, why does this trigger people so much that they have to show their outrage online?
I've never quite got that.
Who do you mean? The people commenting on it?
Not the comments as such but the "angst' it seems to cause to the people it doesn't involve?
I maybe misreading the "angst" though
If they go full retard, we are fucked.
How so? I see things like this and then look at my everyday life and never see it impacted. To me it is always only read.
I do get the kid thing though but to me I just see that is change in the same way change is never really liked by the older of those having to change
There's definitely an element of people being against change as they don't like any change. Lots of things in the west have changed for the better - gay rights for example - despite opposition from some.
But with companies like Google, the philosophy behind what they espouse can be particularly damaging to society as it extremely pernicious. It's essentially the same philosophy that drove Stalin and Mao which led to people's rights being taken away (free speech etc), and the enslavement and deaths of many millions of people.
Could that happen again in western countries? I don't know, but I'm not really willing to find out by letting these ideas spread again, we've done the 'Marxist' experiment in various forms already and paid for it dearly. We've got the best system going in the history of humanity, and I will oppose anyone that wants to tear that down.
I hear that, but I'm not concerned about it.
To me, it just seems that there is always something new that comes up the that causes angst which then causes angst by those that are against the original angst.
Rinse and repeat
Probably more concerning to me is the direction our Universities are heading. Two things there - one they are indoctrinating a lot of students into a radical left wing ideology. Those students then go out into the real world and instead of contributing they just cause trouble. Secondly, because of this the Universities are losing credibility at a rate of knots as it gets exposed, to the point that if they don't arrest the situation I can see many of them collapsing - that (in my opinion) is a very bad thing for society.
Now I am playing devils advocate a bit (previously I wasn't)
A very bad thing for our current society, yes, I agree, but for future society, if the majority want that?
Hah, yes, well I guess that depends on what replaces them. Fair point though, might not be a bad thing at all...
(edit - assume you were talking about Universities collapsing, rather than the radical left ideas becoming mainstream?).
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@baron-silas-greenback said in Google / other tech firms:
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@no-quarter said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@no-quarter said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@kirwan said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@baron-silas-greenback said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
Out of curiosity, why does this trigger people so much that they have to show their outrage online?
I've never quite got that.
Who do you mean? The people commenting on it?
Not the comments as such but the "angst' it seems to cause to the people it doesn't involve?
I maybe misreading the "angst" though
If they go full retard, we are fucked.
How so? I see things like this and then look at my everyday life and never see it impacted. To me it is always only read.
I do get the kid thing though but to me I just see that is change in the same way change is never really liked by the older of those having to change
There's definitely an element of people being against change as they don't like any change. Lots of things in the west have changed for the better - gay rights for example - despite opposition from some.
But with companies like Google, the philosophy behind what they espouse can be particularly damaging to society as it extremely pernicious. It's essentially the same philosophy that drove Stalin and Mao which led to people's rights being taken away (free speech etc), and the enslavement and deaths of many millions of people.
Could that happen again in western countries? I don't know, but I'm not really willing to find out by letting these ideas spread again, we've done the 'Marxist' experiment in various forms already and paid for it dearly. We've got the best system going in the history of humanity, and I will oppose anyone that wants to tear that down.
I hear that, but I'm not concerned about it.
To me, it just seems that there is always something new that comes up the that causes angst which then causes angst by those that are against the original angst.
Rinse and repeat
Probably more concerning to me is the direction our Universities are heading. Two things there - one they are indoctrinating a lot of students into a radical left wing ideology. Those students then go out into the real world and instead of contributing they just cause trouble. Secondly, because of this the Universities are losing credibility at a rate of knots as it gets exposed, to the point that if they don't arrest the situation I can see many of them collapsing - that (in my opinion) is a very bad thing for society.
Now I am playing devils advocate a bit (previously I wasn't)
A very bad thing for our current society, yes, I agree, but for future society, if the majority want that?
because this ideology has been proven time and time again to lead to the deaths of millions and the collapse of society.
i.e Stalin and MaoHa! I just read that earlier in the thread and had forgotten by the time I wrote the above.
I hear you.
If I can keep playing DA for sake of curiosity, if it didn't lead to utter want for genocide, i.e. we (they) found a way to live by these terms, which we don't currently like, is it a bad thing?
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@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@baron-silas-greenback said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@no-quarter said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@no-quarter said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@kirwan said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@baron-silas-greenback said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
Out of curiosity, why does this trigger people so much that they have to show their outrage online?
I've never quite got that.
Who do you mean? The people commenting on it?
Not the comments as such but the "angst' it seems to cause to the people it doesn't involve?
I maybe misreading the "angst" though
If they go full retard, we are fucked.
How so? I see things like this and then look at my everyday life and never see it impacted. To me it is always only read.
I do get the kid thing though but to me I just see that is change in the same way change is never really liked by the older of those having to change
There's definitely an element of people being against change as they don't like any change. Lots of things in the west have changed for the better - gay rights for example - despite opposition from some.
But with companies like Google, the philosophy behind what they espouse can be particularly damaging to society as it extremely pernicious. It's essentially the same philosophy that drove Stalin and Mao which led to people's rights being taken away (free speech etc), and the enslavement and deaths of many millions of people.
Could that happen again in western countries? I don't know, but I'm not really willing to find out by letting these ideas spread again, we've done the 'Marxist' experiment in various forms already and paid for it dearly. We've got the best system going in the history of humanity, and I will oppose anyone that wants to tear that down.
I hear that, but I'm not concerned about it.
To me, it just seems that there is always something new that comes up the that causes angst which then causes angst by those that are against the original angst.
Rinse and repeat
Probably more concerning to me is the direction our Universities are heading. Two things there - one they are indoctrinating a lot of students into a radical left wing ideology. Those students then go out into the real world and instead of contributing they just cause trouble. Secondly, because of this the Universities are losing credibility at a rate of knots as it gets exposed, to the point that if they don't arrest the situation I can see many of them collapsing - that (in my opinion) is a very bad thing for society.
Now I am playing devils advocate a bit (previously I wasn't)
A very bad thing for our current society, yes, I agree, but for future society, if the majority want that?
because this ideology has been proven time and time again to lead to the deaths of millions and the collapse of society.
i.e Stalin and MaoHa! I just read that earlier in the thread and had forgotten by the time I wrote the above.
I hear you.
If I can keep playing DA for sake of curiosity, if it didn't lead to utter want for genocide, i.e. we (they) found a way to live by these terms, which we don't currently like, is it a bad thing?
Nope, and history has proven it to be so, part of me often just wonders if we are just the old generation whinging about the 'youth of today'. But some times history shows the 'youth of today' do grow up to be complete fuckwits who destroy countries/civilizations and kill millions.
I think my baseline for 'goodness' is freedom of the individual from tyranny and freedom of speech. If you are moving away from that, you are heading towards dark places.
And I genuinely think we are getting closer to tyranny, -
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
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@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
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@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@no-quarter said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@kirwan said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@baron-silas-greenback said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
Out of curiosity, why does this trigger people so much that they have to show their outrage online?
I've never quite got that.
Who do you mean? The people commenting on it?
Not the comments as such but the "angst' it seems to cause to the people it doesn't involve?
I maybe misreading the "angst" though
If they go full retard, we are fucked.
How so? I see things like this and then look at my everyday life and never see it impacted. To me it is always only read.
I do get the kid thing though but to me I just see that is change in the same way change is never really liked by the older of those having to change
There's definitely an element of people being against change as they don't like any change. Lots of things in the west have changed for the better - gay rights for example - despite opposition from some.
But with companies like Google, the philosophy behind what they espouse can be particularly damaging to society as it extremely pernicious. It's essentially the same philosophy that drove Stalin and Mao which led to people's rights being taken away (free speech etc), and the enslavement and deaths of many millions of people.
Could that happen again in western countries? I don't know, but I'm not really willing to find out by letting these ideas spread again, we've done the 'Marxist' experiment in various forms already and paid for it dearly. We've got the best system going in the history of humanity, and I will oppose anyone that wants to tear that down.
I hear that, but I'm not concerned about it.
To me, it just seems that there is always something new that comes up the that causes angst which then causes angst by those that are against the original angst.
Rinse and repeat
Probably more concerning to me is the direction our Universities are heading. Two things there - one they are indoctrinating a lot of students into a radical left wing ideology. Those students then go out into the real world and instead of contributing they just cause trouble. Secondly, because of this the Universities are losing credibility at a rate of knots as it gets exposed, to the point that if they don't arrest the situation I can see many of them collapsing - that (in my opinion) is a very bad thing for society.
Now I am playing devils advocate a bit (previously I wasn't)
A very bad thing for our current society, yes, I agree, but for future society, if the majority want that?
because this ideology has been proven time and time again to lead to the deaths of millions and the collapse of society.
i.e Stalin and MaoHa! I just read that earlier in the thread and had forgotten by the time I wrote the above.
I hear you.
If I can keep playing DA for sake of curiosity, if it didn't lead to utter want for genocide, i.e. we (they) found a way to live by these terms, which we don't currently like, is it a bad thing?
No, if it worked then that would be fine. And in theory it might sound quite nice, everyone is equal etc. But it doesn't work, that has been proven beyond all doubt with the worst possible consequences. So we shouldn't keep trying to make it work when we already have a system that (mostly) does. I guess the question for these people is: how many more millions of people are you willing to sacrifice to try and achieve your Utopian version of the world? For me, the answer is obviously none.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback @No-Quarter
More I think about it after reading your posts, I tend to agree.
I am thinking as a collective and that doesn't work for humans as people will find power through deceit.
Circling back to the original post, do you think this is a sound bite in time that will be quickly dismissed/forgotten or are you genuinely worried for your kids? What I mean, do you not think this will sort it self out by right decisions at right levels eventually?
I can be more selfish and not care as much as it won't really affect me (or you) in our lifetimes significantly.
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The difference between the old and the new generations is a fair point. Socrates was bitching about the young generation way back in ancient farking Greece.
But in this case, it isn't a rebellion against strict social norms or censorship. It's the opposite in fact. And all these young people are doing is regurgitating the bullshit fed to them by their much older, greyhaired professors. It's not original thought and it's not progressive in the positive sense.
For all the slander and vitriol directed at "old white men" it should be remembered that "old white men" also made the decisions that led to the positive changes we have seen in society over the past 50 or so years. It was also "old white men" who founded, developed and nurtured the systems that have created the best living standards and nation states in the history of the planet. Systems which, despite having been created by evil, patriarchal white men, are now seen as the holy grail for tens (probably hundreds) of millions of people of all different ages, colours and creeds.
So I think that while youthful rebellion can bring positive change, that certainly isn't always the case and certainly doesn't apply to things like intersectionality and the SJW culture, not to mention this dangerous enfatuation with "real socialism".
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@baron-silas-greenback said in Google / other tech firms:
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@baron-silas-greenback said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@no-quarter said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@no-quarter said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@kirwan said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@baron-silas-greenback said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
Out of curiosity, why does this trigger people so much that they have to show their outrage online?
I've never quite got that.
Who do you mean? The people commenting on it?
Not the comments as such but the "angst' it seems to cause to the people it doesn't involve?
I maybe misreading the "angst" though
If they go full retard, we are fucked.
How so? I see things like this and then look at my everyday life and never see it impacted. To me it is always only read.
I do get the kid thing though but to me I just see that is change in the same way change is never really liked by the older of those having to change
There's definitely an element of people being against change as they don't like any change. Lots of things in the west have changed for the better - gay rights for example - despite opposition from some.
But with companies like Google, the philosophy behind what they espouse can be particularly damaging to society as it extremely pernicious. It's essentially the same philosophy that drove Stalin and Mao which led to people's rights being taken away (free speech etc), and the enslavement and deaths of many millions of people.
Could that happen again in western countries? I don't know, but I'm not really willing to find out by letting these ideas spread again, we've done the 'Marxist' experiment in various forms already and paid for it dearly. We've got the best system going in the history of humanity, and I will oppose anyone that wants to tear that down.
I hear that, but I'm not concerned about it.
To me, it just seems that there is always something new that comes up the that causes angst which then causes angst by those that are against the original angst.
Rinse and repeat
Probably more concerning to me is the direction our Universities are heading. Two things there - one they are indoctrinating a lot of students into a radical left wing ideology. Those students then go out into the real world and instead of contributing they just cause trouble. Secondly, because of this the Universities are losing credibility at a rate of knots as it gets exposed, to the point that if they don't arrest the situation I can see many of them collapsing - that (in my opinion) is a very bad thing for society.
Now I am playing devils advocate a bit (previously I wasn't)
A very bad thing for our current society, yes, I agree, but for future society, if the majority want that?
because this ideology has been proven time and time again to lead to the deaths of millions and the collapse of society.
i.e Stalin and MaoHa! I just read that earlier in the thread and had forgotten by the time I wrote the above.
I hear you.
If I can keep playing DA for sake of curiosity, if it didn't lead to utter want for genocide, i.e. we (they) found a way to live by these terms, which we don't currently like, is it a bad thing?
Nope, and history has proven it to be so, part of me often just wonders if we are just the old generation whinging about the 'youth of today'. But some times history shows the 'youth of today' do grow up to be complete fuckwits who destroy countries/civilizations and kill millions.
I think my baseline for 'goodness' is freedom of the individual from tyranny and freedom of speech. If you are moving away from that, you are heading towards dark places.
And I genuinely think we are getting closer to tyranny,Well, you're definitely a grumpy old bastard. But in this case the wife and I are millennial's and are right with you, so not just old people whinging
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@jegga unfortunately I doubt I will get to that as I only fern at work and can't watch that in the office.
I have heard many times that, that bloke Rogen is reasonably good/funny
No worries, he is pretty funny and interesting unless he’s talking about dope and then he is tedious .
I normally listen to podcasts in my ute on the way to and from work . I’m really surprised Radio is still a thing these days.
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@no-quarter you’re a millennial? You guys are as irritating as halfbacks.
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@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback @No-Quarter
More I think about it after reading your posts, I tend to agree.
I am thinking as a collective and that doesn't work for humans as people will find power through deceit.
Circling back to the original post, do you think this is a sound bite in time that will be quickly dismissed/forgotten or are you genuinely worried for your kids? What I mean, do you not think this will sort it self out by right decisions at right levels eventually?
I can be more selfish and not care as much as it won't really affect me (or you) in our lifetimes significantly.
This particular soundbite will probably be forgotten by tomorrow, but it's part of a wider picture.
I think you have a good attitude to this overall. Without a doubt all of the political stuff would be causing increased anxiety and depression among a lot of people that get deep into it. It's important to remember that social media ≠ real life 99% of the time.
Nice to have you join into the debate in the Politics forum though, instead of just moderating it while shaking your head.
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@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback @No-Quarter
More I think about it after reading your posts, I tend to agree.
I am thinking as a collective and that doesn't work for humans as people will find power through deceit.
Circling back to the original post, do you think this is a sound bite in time that will be quickly dismissed/forgotten or are you genuinely worried for your kids? What I mean, do you not think this will sort it self out by right decisions at right levels eventually?
I can be more selfish and not care as much as it won't really affect me (or you) in our lifetimes significantly.
I think you have a good attitude to this overall. Without a doubt all of the political stuff would be causing increased anxiety and depression among a lot of people that get deep into it. It's important to remember that social media ≠ real life 99% of the time.
This is the biggest thing for me. I genuinely feel sorry for those that feel so affected by politics (especially NZ politics)
For me in the past 30 years, not one elected government has made me feel worse/better off. I've never woken up thinking I need to change or will be changed by a current government, even though I only ever vote one way.
Yet I see some be full of angst by govt decisions that will never have impact on them but it is just because the govt has made that decision. It's those people/freinds I pity
I tend not to moderate Politics forum unless something is flagged.
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@jegga said in Google / other tech firms:
@no-quarter you’re a millennial? You guys are as irritating as halfbacks.
Harsh... but fair.
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@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@no-quarter said in Google / other tech firms:
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@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
@baron-silas-greenback said in Google / other tech firms:
@hooroo said in Google / other tech firms:
Out of curiosity, why does this trigger people so much that they have to show their outrage online?
I've never quite got that.
Who do you mean? The people commenting on it?
Not the comments as such but the "angst' it seems to cause to the people it doesn't involve?
I maybe misreading the "angst" though
If they go full retard, we are fucked.
How so? I see things like this and then look at my everyday life and never see it impacted. To me it is always only read.
I do get the kid thing though but to me I just see that is change in the same way change is never really liked by the older of those having to change
There's definitely an element of people being against change as they don't like any change. Lots of things in the west have changed for the better - gay rights for example - despite opposition from some.
But with companies like Google, the philosophy behind what they espouse can be particularly damaging to society as it extremely pernicious. It's essentially the same philosophy that drove Stalin and Mao which led to people's rights being taken away (free speech etc), and the enslavement and deaths of many millions of people.
Could that happen again in western countries? I don't know, but I'm not really willing to find out by letting these ideas spread again, we've done the 'Marxist' experiment in various forms already and paid for it dearly. We've got the best system going in the history of humanity, and I will oppose anyone that wants to tear that down.
I hear that, but I'm not concerned about it.
To me, it just seems that there is always something new that comes up the that causes angst which then causes angst by those that are against the original angst.
Rinse and repeat
Probably more concerning to me is the direction our Universities are heading. Two things there - one they are indoctrinating a lot of students into a radical left wing ideology. Those students then go out into the real world and instead of contributing they just cause trouble. Secondly, because of this the Universities are losing credibility at a rate of knots as it gets exposed, to the point that if they don't arrest the situation I can see many of them collapsing - that (in my opinion) is a very bad thing for society.
Now I am playing devils advocate a bit (previously I wasn't)
A very bad thing for our current society, yes, I agree, but for future society, if the majority want that?
because this ideology has been proven time and time again to lead to the deaths of millions and the collapse of society.
i.e Stalin and MaoHa! I just read that earlier in the thread and had forgotten by the time I wrote the above.
I hear you.
If I can keep playing DA for sake of curiosity, if it didn't lead to utter want for genocide, i.e. we (they) found a way to live by these terms, which we don't currently like, is it a bad thing?
Nope, and history has proven it to be so, part of me often just wonders if we are just the old generation whinging about the 'youth of today'. But some times history shows the 'youth of today' do grow up to be complete fuckwits who destroy countries/civilizations and kill millions.
I think my baseline for 'goodness' is freedom of the individual from tyranny and freedom of speech. If you are moving away from that, you are heading towards dark places.
And I genuinely think we are getting closer to tyranny,Well, you're definitely a grumpy old bastard. But in this case the wife and I are millennial's and are right with you, so not just old people whinging
You're a millennial?
You're dead to me now.
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Out of curiosity, why does this trigger people so much that they have to show their outrage online?
I've never quite got that.
Who do you mean? The people commenting on it?
Not the comments as such but the "angst' it seems to cause to the people it doesn't involve?
I maybe misreading the "angst" though
If they go full retard, we are fucked.
How so? I see things like this and then look at my everyday life and never see it impacted. To me it is always only read.
I do get the kid thing though but to me I just see that is change in the same way change is never really liked by the older of those having to change
There's definitely an element of people being against change as they don't like any change. Lots of things in the west have changed for the better - gay rights for example - despite opposition from some.
But with companies like Google, the philosophy behind what they espouse can be particularly damaging to society as it extremely pernicious. It's essentially the same philosophy that drove Stalin and Mao which led to people's rights being taken away (free speech etc), and the enslavement and deaths of many millions of people.
Could that happen again in western countries? I don't know, but I'm not really willing to find out by letting these ideas spread again, we've done the 'Marxist' experiment in various forms already and paid for it dearly. We've got the best system going in the history of humanity, and I will oppose anyone that wants to tear that down.
I hear that, but I'm not concerned about it.
To me, it just seems that there is always something new that comes up the that causes angst which then causes angst by those that are against the original angst.
Rinse and repeat
Probably more concerning to me is the direction our Universities are heading. Two things there - one they are indoctrinating a lot of students into a radical left wing ideology. Those students then go out into the real world and instead of contributing they just cause trouble. Secondly, because of this the Universities are losing credibility at a rate of knots as it gets exposed, to the point that if they don't arrest the situation I can see many of them collapsing - that (in my opinion) is a very bad thing for society.
Now I am playing devils advocate a bit (previously I wasn't)
A very bad thing for our current society, yes, I agree, but for future society, if the majority want that?
because this ideology has been proven time and time again to lead to the deaths of millions and the collapse of society.
i.e Stalin and MaoHa! I just read that earlier in the thread and had forgotten by the time I wrote the above.
I hear you.
If I can keep playing DA for sake of curiosity, if it didn't lead to utter want for genocide, i.e. we (they) found a way to live by these terms, which we don't currently like, is it a bad thing?
Nope, and history has proven it to be so, part of me often just wonders if we are just the old generation whinging about the 'youth of today'. But some times history shows the 'youth of today' do grow up to be complete fuckwits who destroy countries/civilizations and kill millions.
I think my baseline for 'goodness' is freedom of the individual from tyranny and freedom of speech. If you are moving away from that, you are heading towards dark places.
And I genuinely think we are getting closer to tyranny,Well, you're definitely a grumpy old bastard. But in this case the wife and I are millennial's and are right with you, so not just old people whinging
You're a millennial?
You're dead to me now.
This article has some good insights into why you curmudgeonly old bastards hate my generation.
"What it boils down is that many millennials, the ones that many hate, believe that the best thing that has ever happened to them hasn't happened yet. For older generations, many believe that their best days are behind them. And this is why so many hate millennials"
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@no-quarter you’re a millennial? You guys are as irritating as halfbacks.
True. But I had him pegged as a grumpy old bastard like me, which is a bit weird. Just goes to show that you can't trust anyone on t'interweb.
As for this:
"What it boils down is that many millennials, the ones that many hate, believe that the best thing that has ever happened to them hasn't happened yet. For older generations, many believe that their best days are behind them. And this is why so many hate millennials"Nah. I just like being a grumpy old fluffybunny.