Vanity/Veteran Plates = Small Penis?

by **mrswdk** on Mon Jun 08, 2015 12:47 am

2dimes wrote:Ok.
mrswdk wrote:
2dimes wrote:Not just because I'm a free loader but so it is normal to eat free breakfast at school instead of that thing poor kids have to do. If you single out guys for serving based on them meeting you standards it becomes embarrassing.

Only if you live in a society that treats receiving government welfare as something to be ashamed of.

Yup. Looks the same. Now what?

Why did you say that I am 'spitting on veterans'?

by **Quirk** on Mon Jun 08, 2015 12:54 am

Funkyterrance wrote:
Quirk wrote:

If that's your recent pic thank-you! Are you dd free?

Now all you have to do is replace your old one with this considerably more smexy one.

No, that's Doug in the pic. I'm just posting pics of vets now. Here's some getting off a plane in Tibet. We were returning to where they served in WWII. Don't think it was lost on me that our little back and forth took place on June 6th.

by **2dimes** on Mon Jun 08, 2015 1:04 am

mrswdk wrote:
Why did you say that I am 'spitting on veterans'?

Because you suggest that we can decide which veterans deserve a simple, "Thank You for your service." And that some (most?) don't.

I'm not interested in debating what the us should be. Currently it is very much what you said there in my quote. Debatably that is the superior society. How is the unemployment insurance/social security situation where you are?

by **2dimes** on Mon Jun 08, 2015 1:25 am

Funkyterrance wrote:What's with all the thanking, by the way? Do soldiers work pro bono now? Soldiers are taken care of very well these days and can go on to live quite comfortably after their service due to very generous benefits, all provided by working taxpayers. Who's thanking who here?

Move to Somalia. You won't have to pay taxes to pay American soldiers there.

by **mrswdk** on Mon Jun 08, 2015 1:43 am

2dimes wrote:
mrswdk wrote:
Why did you say that I am 'spitting on veterans'?

Because you suggest that we can decide which veterans deserve a simple, "Thank You for your service." And that some (most?) don't.

No I didn't. I said that the US fighting wars in the Middle East and Asia did not help to protect domestic freedoms. That's a totally different statement.

I'm not interested in debating what the us should be. Currently it is very much what you said there in my quote. Debatably that is the superior society. How is the unemployment insurance/social security situation where you are?

What is the superior society? The one which makes people feel ashamed for needing government welfare?

Social welfare is much less generous in China. I suspect even if China's lower level of wealth is taken into account Chinese benefits and social security are still less generous than those in a country like the US.

by **mrswdk** on Mon Jun 08, 2015 1:45 am

2dimes wrote:
Funkyterrance wrote:What's with all the thanking, by the way? Do soldiers work pro bono now? Soldiers are taken care of very well these days and can go on to live quite comfortably after their service due to very generous benefits, all provided by working taxpayers. Who's thanking who here?

Move to Somalia and renounce American citizenship. You won't have to pay taxes to pay American soldiers there.

Fixed that for you. Americans have to pay income tax to the US, even if they live abroad.

by **nietzsche** on Mon Jun 08, 2015 2:02 am

I don't know much about wars or veterans, but I think we're missing a point here. 2dimes suggested it without pointing it out directly:

Whether or not the wars are fair, these guys, for different reasons, enlist and risk their lives. The moment they are deployed, or maybe before, they have to change their beliefs systems in order to survive. They are risking their lives and when it dawns on them surely a difficult psychological change occurs in them. Maybe one guy thought that was the only way to get a degree, another thought it was the right thing to do because his country was in danger. Truth is, something inside them changes, and they have to adapt to it. It becomes, necessarily for survival, a pride and an honour and other things. If it wasn't for this change in their psyche, they would end having worse psychological issues after their service.

When they return, as 2dimes say, maybe some saw action, others only indirectly. But to disrespect them would be bad. It's much different from a guy who adopts a religion or any other belief.

Why question this? Why cause a veteran a tension only because you think, from your pretty couch, that they don't deserve it?

Some veterans lose limbs, others lose friends, and others lose forever interior peace. Why go and press the wound?

An example is like, saying to a 5 year old their recently deceased parents aren't in heaven, they're just gone. As 2dimes say, better to err in the compassionate side.

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You can tell 2dimes got bothered by this thread. Today he was the crankiest he's been forever in CC.

by **mrswdk** on Mon Jun 08, 2015 2:08 am

nietzsche wrote:They are risking their lives and when it dawns on them surely a difficult psychological change occurs in them.

If it doesn't occur to someone that being in the army is dangerous until after they've enlisted then they're probably too stupid to join in the first place.

Judging from dimes' responses to my posts he isn't really reading what I'm saying, the red mist has already descended since earlier in this thread. For the record I have not said anything that suggests I think people should be shown disrespect on account of being ex-soldiers, whether in the US or elsewhere. Then again I also don't think they deserve any special level of respect or favoritism. They're just doing a job, same as anyone else.

by **nietzsche** on Mon Jun 08, 2015 2:12 am

mrswdk wrote:
nietzsche wrote:They are risking their lives and when it dawns on them surely a difficult psychological change occurs in them.

If it doesn't occur to someone that being in the army is dangerous until after they've enlisted then they're probably too stupid to join in the first place.

I am not saying that anyone should show disrespect to ex-soldiers on account of their being ex-soldiers, if that's what 2dimes is getting so PMS-y about.

maybe they are, maybe they were confused, maybe they thought it was going to be easier. But that's not the point. We're not discussing that. A human being is more than intellect.

by **tzor** on Mon Jun 08, 2015 10:20 am

Funkyterrance wrote:"People like you"? "Freaked out"? Care to elaborate?

Well for one thing, you are so freaked out you used a "/" in your starting quote block. :twisted:

Bad quotation use is the first sign of freaking out.

If this keeps up we may have to taser you.

by **Funkyterrance** on Mon Jun 08, 2015 2:13 pm

tzor wrote:
Funkyterrance wrote:"People like you"? "Freaked out"? Care to elaborate?

Well for one thing, you are so freaked out you used a "/" in your starting quote block.

Bad quotation use is the first sign of freaking out.

If this keeps up we may have to taser you.

You're kind of into fascism, aren't you?