If we can't mention politics, let's add Virtue Signaling news/opinions

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Anyone wonder who or what has brought on this dismaying behavior which wasn't present a few years back. People always have had different views but never so strong and nasty as in the present and near past.

Personally, I think we've gone past the point of decency among a large part of the population and although my remaining lifetime is quite short, I don't expect to see this once relatively peaceful society return to it's prior state, especially when we have some of our leaders encouraging violent behavior as a method of gaining or holding power in the country.

I, personally, disagree with much of what goes on about us but it is abhorrent to think of any form of violence to form the country in an image that suits me.
 

Possibly I posted this already at some point in some thread ... I came up with a way to get religion, sex, and politics into one sentence...

Bill Clinton is a Baptist, isn't he?

There, all three taboo subjects have been expressed. Let the fun begin... :ROFLMAO:

Tony
 
DaveA said:
Anyone wonder who or what has brought on this dismaying behavior which wasn't present a few years back. People always have had different views but never so strong and nasty as in the present and near past.

Personally, I think we've gone past the point of decency among a large part of the population and although my remaining lifetime is quite short, I don't expect to see this once relatively peaceful society return to it's prior state, especially when we have some of our leaders encouraging violent behavior as a method of gaining or holding power in the country.

I, personally, disagree with much of what goes on about us but it is abhorrent to think of any form of violence to form the country in an image that suits me.
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My guess is that it is a nasty combination of "me first" and political correctness run amok. Everybody seems to have some sort of "movement" and either others are for it or against it with no middle ground.

Tony
 
tbeltrans said:
I had to look up to find out what the phrase means. Who makes this stuff up and why?

Tony
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It's just a new term for the self-righteous "my view is the correct view" on an issue. It's often do as I say, not as I do. Virtue signalers who don't live what they preach (esp common in the celebrity and political crowd) are pretty much the same as televangelists scoring hookers after the sermon ...hypocrites.
 
Shalimar said:
Frankly, even the phrase “virtue signalling“ makes me tense. I fear it will provoke division among us. The term itself has been inextricably linked over time with some very unpleasant political and socio-economic verbal wars. Check the media in assorted countries.
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Provoke division among us? It would be hard to get more divided than we are in the US. However, this is another topic I'm going to skip in the interest of lowering my blood pressure.
 
Nathan said:
Get a Facebook account Paco Dennis, there are billions of people you can bicker with and have lose-lose pointless arguments with there.
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I stay away from all the social media industries. I posted this because before I joined I noticed some conversations evolved into name calling, divisive innuendos, and defensive remarks based on personal biases. I am not interested at all in this stuff and have searched for quite awhile to see if any forums in America stay with the facts (if one can wade through all the mass media to get a glimpse of it). Everyone has personal biases and that is where they should remain (personal not advertised) because we are in a time where if we continue to keep dividing and fighting with each other over who is right and who is wrong we can never move forward and make progress towards a more civil society that can work together. Just because we are the elders in our society doesn't give us a pass to proudly defend our personal biases. Virtue signaling is itself another way of doing this and it is automatically divisive.
 
rgp said:
You sound like Rodney King ...;)

IMO, truth of the matter is ..... I really do not think mankind was meant to get along. How many meliena have guns been around ? & not just for hunting, cannon , catapult, fencing, walls, etc & so-on. Boxing , mixed-martial arts . All are weapons. If we were all meant to get along, we would have never gone passed weapons for hunting.

As for stirring the pot ....... most everyone wants their side to be heard , and believes their side is correct.
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You NEED some pain meds ........ ( badly)
 
I never heard the term "virtue signaling" before now. I also had to look it up. Sounds to me like a synonym for boasting.

What would be an example of "selfish virtue signaling" vs "selfless virtue signaling?"
 
Sunny said:
I never heard the term "virtue signaling" before now. I also had to look it up. Sounds to me like a synonym for boasting.

What would be an example of "selfish virtue signaling" vs "selfless virtue signaling?"
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Selfish...Boasting about oneself. selfless...Boasting about a righteous "cause".
 
Shalimar said:
I do, and the 33% THC stuff I put in my ceramic cat pipe, or in my brownies 😁🪅🪂
i love living large in Bonglandia
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I have a Medical Marijuana Card. I can only micro dose with a mix of 3 parts CBD x 1 part THC. Usually the pot is around 17% THC. If I smoked more than that I would be wasted. Like everything...the proverbial saying "Different strokes for different folks". :)
 
Paco Dennis said:
I stay away from all the social media industries. I posted this because before I joined I noticed some conversations evolved into name calling, divisive innuendos, and defensive remarks based on personal biases. I am not interested at all in this stuff and have searched for quite awhile to see if any forums in America stay with the facts (if one can wade through all the mass media to get a glimpse of it). Everyone has personal biases and that is where they should remain (personal not advertised) because we are in a time where if we continue to keep dividing and fighting with each other over who is right and who is wrong we can never move forward and make progress towards a more civil society that can work together. Just because we are the elders in our society doesn't give us a pass to proudly defend our personal biases. Virtue signaling is itself another way of doing this and it is automatically divisive.
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In reference to your statement about finding forums that “stick with the facts”, that seems to me to counteract the reason for having a forum in the first place. I enjoy forums because we can share different opinions with each other, saying what we believe, think, or feel about any thread topic.
If all we want to do is read facts, then just get the encyclopedia and be done with it, or even quote articles that deal in facts.
If I want to know about what is in ketchup, I can look it up and find out the facts; but if I want to know whether people like ketchup on their foods (as an easy example), then we have to get into the area of opinions, and that is why forums are a great place to express our variety of opinions.

Rudeness and name calling is a whole different thing than sharing opinions, and people should not be criticized or condemned just because we have different opinions or beliefs.

I have a Facebook account, and I love it; but I do not get in any kind of arguments on there. I belong to facebook groups about topics that interest me, and I look forward to reading (and sometimes sharing) on those facebook groups every day.

I think that it is like the old story about the man who moved to a new town and asked what the people were like in that town. The longtime elderly resident then asked him what the people were like in the town where he moved from, and then said that he would find about the same kind of people in this town.
What we seek after, we find.
Look for friends, find friends, look for arguments, find arguments.
 

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