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I just heard a version of "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" where they replaced "a pistol that shoots" with "a trumpet that shoots."

They politically corrected an already politically correct Christmas song. There will never be enough revisions to keep up with the demands of modern sensibilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAT5wl3RjYk

No surprises are found with this "we need to raise our birth rates" in South Korea. But what really makes me roll my eyes is when one of the women states "we should have policies like those in many European countries to solve this issue."

Oh, the countries that also have a below replacement rate? Yes, that is the solution. And many of those countries only have slightly higher birth rates due to immigrant populations in many ways. So no, that is not the solution.

@WashedOutGundamPilot @sickburnbro not saying that all young generation members are bad, but that the bad ones are not really seen as bad in their eyes. And they cannot imagine that anyone in their family could possibly have anything impure about them. Even when it should be known that the cultural landscape the younger generation grew up with often poisons the well and corrupts the youth while the family has diminished influence.

@WashedOutGundamPilot @sickburnbro it seems far too many people in the older generations are blind to the world around them, as they will never personally encounter younger generations unfiltered. Whenever there is a family gathering, the teen to young adults of the family are on their best behavior and hide the worst aspects of themselves. And given the rose tinted goggles that the older generations have, they will be less likely to see how bad the worst family members are.

I vooted too. Yes my individual vote does not matter in the grand scheme of things such as the federal government, but it does matter for more local races and measures. The more local the issue, the more important the vote.

But no one should have voting as their only hope and plan in life. If you are looking for election results to save you, you are already doomed.

@Mongoliaboo @Wopu "But just think how much worse it would be if we didn't have the Department of Education!"

That is unfortunately how they think. They assert that their sacred cows are necessary while attacking those who would even suggest doing without. This same woman is the type that opposes homeschooling in spite of data showing how homeschooled kids outperform public school kids in academics.

@nomebullyyou Fair enough. Though I would have to wonder if they would really stay movitated to make the changes permanent. Because it is very easy to just stop at any point and revert back to your previous health/weight when your original motivation is no longer there.

@nomebullyyou When untrained men are still stronger than the women who consistently lifts weights, you know for sure that the "patriarchy" is not going to be taken down physically.

Biology is not fair.

@Eiswald the first one has good merit, and probably the only one really needed. College just makes it so that women delay marriage and children so they can "focus on my career" even if they hate working. Women are also more likely than men to get a useless degree, so it is an even bigger waste.

But this sort of policy can never happen with the Big GAE telling everyone country under their thumb that feminism and butt sex are the highest priorities.

I need to remember that Trump winning is not going to truly solve our biggest problems. The United States still has exorbitant debt, too much welfare spending, and an empire they cannot maintain, as well as many other issues. At best we just have more time to prepare for the bad times.