Posted: 10/15/15 at 1:13pm
FindingNamo said: "There's not much of a public sphere anymore. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with people posting whatever they want on Facebook, using it in whichever way suits their personal needs.
If I don't want to see the stupidity of a relative who forwards easily researchable and debunkable facts about Obama, I can take her out of my feed. No harm no fowl."
^ THIS!
Posted: 10/15/15 at 1:14pm
Oh I know. And I agree with you. It is still mind-blowing how stupid people can be. And to me it says so much about their current lives that they feel they have to say the same crap over and over. The worst is when they don't keep it on their page and come on mine with their garbage.
Updated On: 10/15/15 at 01:14 PM
Posted: 10/15/15 at 1:23pm
DAME said: "Oh I know. And I agree with you. It is still mind-blowing how stupid people can be. And to me it says so much about their current lives that they feel they have to say the same crap over and over. The worst is when they don't keep it on their page and come on mine with their garbage. "
Mi'ja, it sounds to me like you need to unfollow some people so their crap doesn't show up on your news feed.
Updated On: 10/15/15 at 01:23 PM
Posted: 10/15/15 at 2:23pm
OMG. I thought about the correct spelling of "foul" and still spelled it with a "w".
Talk about stupid.
Posted: 10/15/15 at 3:34pm
FindingNamo said: "OMG. I thought about the correct spelling of "foul" and still spelled it with a "w".
Talk about stupid.
We forgive you Namo. You're allowed a slip up or two. We got your back.
Posted: 10/15/15 at 3:41pm
You should have saved "no harm, no fowl" for the Chick-fil-A thread.
Posted: 10/15/15 at 3:42pm
#missedopportunites
Posted: 10/15/15 at 4:12pm
I personally haven't learned much that's new about what's revealed by my friends. Seems they don't get very personal on fb. But I do unfollow people with too many statuses. And I've unfriended a total of 3 people in all these years.
I like fb because it's such an easy way to keep up with my friends and relatives. And I like photos.
Posted: 10/15/15 at 5:33pm
I sign into FB each morning to determine who has a birthday, send them well wishes, and bounce. I find BWW far more interesting than FB.
Posted: 10/15/15 at 5:53pm
I think I am going to experiment and take the app off my phone.
Posted: 10/19/15 at 1:50pm
I thought Bill Mahr had a real good point this past Friday night .. He asked the democrats that if you order the Fish.. but get the chicken.. to please not be a baby and eat the fish. I just thought it was funny and aimed right at the Bernie Sanders supporters that can't just be happy with being positive about their candidate but have to lower themselves to the level of Republicans and bash Hillary. ( something Bernie himself doesn't do). I mention this because it reflects a lot of the garbage people are posting on FB.
Updated On: 10/19/15 at 01:50 PM
Posted: 10/19/15 at 2:18pm
This election is still close to a year away. It is sad to see the mud slinging going on within the party. Mostly on social media where people just re post things for volume.
Updated On: 10/19/15 at 02:18 PM
Posted: 10/19/15 at 2:20pm
And the "feel the Bern" thing is getting obnoxious. And I am not saying I wouldn't vote for him if he was our candidate.
Posted: 10/19/15 at 2:41pm
An interesting take on the general toxicity of politics in today's Wall Street journal. The writer puts the blame on the debilitating effects of a lack of economic growth.
The author (who is a conservative) blames the "sour civic mood" that is getting behind Trump and Sanders on "heightened anxiety about income inequality"--something you used to only hear the left complain about.
All told, the average annual growth rate over the last 14 years has been less than half of its previous postwar average—an anemic 1.7%. Even the stagflation of the 1970s wasn’t nearly so bad, and it was bookended by strong growth in the 1960s and 1980s.
This difference between 3.7% and 1.7% may not sound like much, but it implies trillions of dollars in unrealized growth. The middle class has felt its absence keenly. Average real wages and salaries for private-sector workers have barely improved over the last decade. And the Census Bureau recently noted that the median American male worker has seen no real wage growth in 40 years.
The slowdown has hit the working class especially hard. The employment level for those without college degrees has fallen much faster than for those with colleges degrees, and job losses have been particularly acute in manufacturing and construction.
All this suggests an economic bifurcation reminiscent of “A Tale of Two Cities”: Those on the higher end of the socioeconomic scale are doing all right, but those on the lower end cannot get the sorts of jobs that let prior generations rise into the middle class.
WALL STREET JOURNAL: The Politics of Distrust
Posted: 10/19/15 at 5:09pm
PJ is right; this nationwide malais can be directly based at the lousy economic outlook. You think the Bernie and Trump whiners are done? They haven't even started; wait until all those seniors realize their COLA for Social security, etc. isn't going up this year for the first time since the 1970's. Aye-aye-aye!
Posted: 10/19/15 at 10:28pm
The seniors will discover that they can't live on their diminished retirement funds around the same time the millennials realize they don't make enough to buy homes and raise families.
It will be ugly.
(Unless we elect Hillary Clinton as president.)
Posted: 10/19/15 at 10:52pm
There was an interesting read in the WaPo a couple days ago about well-heeled boomers competing with millennials for urban housing stock. See http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/millennials-top-competition-for-condos-might-be-their-parents/2015/10/17/928dfb58-6b8e-11e5-b31c-d80d62b53e28_story.html
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