I’m sorry. People radicalized because America is boring? This is what we’re doing today? BECAUSE ME AND MY BUDDIES SPENT TWENTY FUCKING YEARS AT WAR! Shit wasn’t boring for us. In fact shit was really really fucking hard and really really fucking far from boring. - ThreadSky

jeremyhammett.bsky.social • 7 days ago

I’m sorry.
People radicalized because America is boring? This is what we’re doing today?

BECAUSE ME AND MY BUDDIES SPENT TWENTY FUCKING YEARS AT WAR!

Shit wasn’t boring for us. In fact shit was really really fucking hard and really really fucking far from boring.

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mourningdoves.bsky.social•7 days ago

jesus i know scores of people who would love the privilege of being bored

jeremyhammett.bsky.social•7 days ago

No shit!

mourningdoves.bsky.social•7 days ago

i haven't been bored since i was like 7 years old and had to stay at my grandma's house during the summer

jeremyhammett.bsky.social•7 days ago

Oh I’ve been terribly bored, on cargo aircraft and in hospitals and jails and the front seat of a patrol car and waiting for a storm to pass.

mourningdoves.bsky.social•7 days ago

yeah but i doubt that never propelled you to support fascism lol

jeremyhammett.bsky.social•7 days ago

Worse.
It compelled me to start writing.

jeremyhammett.bsky.social•7 days ago

All I want to do in life is go fishing with my buddies on the weekend and maybe a backyard barbecue.

ohnono.bsky.social•7 days ago

“May you live in interesting times” is not an aspirational phrase. One look at any random year in history should be enough to understand that boring is the best anyone can ever hope for. Intellectually lazy, morally bankrupt, stupid donkeys.

crosis101.bsky.social•7 days ago

Who’s doing what now?

jeremyhammett.bsky.social•7 days ago

I can try to find you a link to the discussion but holy fucking shit am I livid

crosis101.bsky.social•7 days ago

I would be too…I am radicalized because I know our failings as a country, but authoritarianism isn’t the solution.

jeremyhammett.bsky.social•7 days ago

chriscardsfan.bsky.social•7 days ago

OK. Who the fuck are these people? Maybe it’s the crowd I chose, but everyone I knew who came of age in the late 90’s/early 00’s were super busy with careers, starting families, and mastering bbq. This has to be a subset of affluent white turds.

jeremyhammett.bsky.social•7 days ago

I blame Brooklyn.

chriscardsfan.bsky.social•7 days ago

That tracks. I only seek out my fellow people of the earth. Maybe that’s the difference.

jeremyhammett.bsky.social•7 days ago

It’s not OPs fault and I didn’t read the article but HOLY FUCKING SHIT we are what four years out from the longest war in this nations history it was absolutely not fucking boring for those of us who got abandoned in that meat grinder

crosis101.bsky.social•7 days ago

I had a friend who served, who wasn’t for national service, but who was dismayed that so few civilians actually know anyone who did…that segregation means most people have no idea first or even second had the cost of fighting…

crosis101.bsky.social•7 days ago

I made a friend in Florida that served in the IDF in Beruit in the 80’s. he said “after I was done I traveled the world as penance and just took pictures.” Another guy in the office heard us talking and asked if he wanted to go shooting that weekend. Never felt a wall of ice form that quickly

tamslick.bsky.social•7 days ago

You were at war. America was at the mall.

jeremyhammett.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yea no shit.
Then they got mad when we lost the war they fucking forgot about and now they’re cutting our benefits.

drakesmitha12.bsky.social•7 days ago

It's boring?

There's so much to do, see, and learn. Especially if you have money. Even if you don't, put yourself in a position to be around, talk with interesting people.

That shit rules.

To say nothing of the rest of the world.

It ain't boring, y'all's unsocialized, uncouth asses are boring.

jeremyhammett.bsky.social•7 days ago

Right!

jeremyhammett.bsky.social•7 days ago

Trying to write happy stories about my friends and family I keep running into roadblocks of war and disease and natural disasters and struggle but we’re gonna start worrying that people became Nazis because they were fucking BORED!? I don’t even have the fucking words for how angry right now.

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