Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Still deeply offended towards the attitudes that the ex-military and elderly shouldn't be assisted.

Firemen and policemen have it pretty good once they retire. (my nephew, and brother in law are firemen and one of my best friends is a cop). The pension plans for those jobs in most cases are pretty damn sweet compared to the VAST majority of most folks. And you can retire a lot earlier and still get full benefits.

Never, ever once attended a lecture. Maybe that's why my input is so obtuse?

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Well it depends on if you want to be entertained or educated. The work phase is assessment and something must be taught before it can be assessed. If students aren't learning during a competent lecture they're either stupid or lazy. Discussions feel nice and look good because there's naturally high engagement. Unless it's free it shouldn't be an equalitarian situation. The professor is being paid supposedly because he knows the content. Unless the students are being formally assessed they should be listening and asking questions only.

Originally Posted by Frownland

Lectures are derived from before books were mass produced, where professors would dictate books for the class to copy. These days they can assign a reading and stick to more constructive approaches for class and cut the fat. If students aren't learning from a competent reading source and need it to be said out loud for them to understand it, they're either stupid or lazy.

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I hate America's tender hearted obsession with babying military veterans. I never asked anyone to get involved in this bull****. Why would I feel grateful to people who do **** I'm against?

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

I don't know about grateful, but I have respect for someone who willingly walked into a firefight for something they believed in, even if I don't respect the cause itself.

Originally Posted by Frownland

This just in: Batlord respects ISIS.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by elphenor

I'd vote for Trump

Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Just to clarify, your position is: I feel differently about certain societal norms, therefore I take the events which helped mold those norms for granted? Have you ever considered that I don't take them for granted and just came to a different conclusion about what the appropriate response should be?

What is my mentality exactly? I'd never mistreat them, but my reason for doing so is not because they are vets. I wouldn't mistreat them because they are human beings. I wouldn't be a dick to Hitler either. I don't believe in treating people poorly. Those that I don't like I won't go out of my way to help or interact with, but I'd never treat anyone differently from the expectations I hold myself accountable to when interacting with society. (That's a lie actually, sometimes I'm a dick online when playing video games, but it's mostly caused by people playing team games and then refusing to work cooperatively or intentionally throwing games in competitive modes/piss poor selfish attitudes. I do try to keep myself calm and collected, but sometimes I just hate people on the internet.)

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Nobody's talking about pensions. They're talking about senior citizen drinks at Burger King, which is kind of pointless and doesn't particularly help anyone. I'm all for Medicaid and Social Security and more services for ex-military, but a discount for a movie is basically just a supposed reward from a company that doesn't even care.

A reward should be for someone worth rewarding, and while plenty of the elderly and the military are perfectly non-****ty people as far as people go, you never know which one's a sex offender, murderer, neo-Nazi, or dog fighter. The government owes the military for being their service, and the elderly for paying so much into the system, but a discount from a business should go to people who aren't scum.

Originally Posted by Frownland

What if the average lifespan became 110? It would be difficult to continue starting financial assistance for the elderly at 65.

Originally Posted by elphenor

I wouldn't assume it would be mostly the impoverished especially since you have to have a high school diploma to enlist

But it's a disproportionate amount along with the great number of middle class who find they have no opportunity post high school

Originally Posted by RoxyRollah

IMO I don't know jack-**** though so don't listen to me.

Originally Posted by Franco Pepe Kalle

The problem is that most police officers in America are psychopaths.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

You're a terrible dictionary.