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Media used to report the news instead of an agenda. Times have changed

Howdy Dammit said:

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Media used to report the news instead of an agenda.

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lol. yeah propaganda is a new development. hope you aren't a history major, kiddo.

Cramp00 said:

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Howdy Dammit said:

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Media used to report the news instead of an agenda.

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lol. yeah propaganda is a new development. hope you aren't a history major, kiddo.

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You'd think the access we have to information would make agendas much more difficult. Man is that not the case.

We used to have to drive on streets, but now we have flying cars. No, wait. That's ""The Jetsons."

Dukes or Hazzard was on prime time tv and nobody got offended at the General Lee

Member when guys and girls knew they were guys and girls without having a "he/him/his" or "she/her/hers" button on their shirts?

I member

When Wham! was popular

Progressive women used to think they wanted to fight for their rights and be equal.

Now progressive women cheer on mentally challenged men who pretend to be women after self-chosen mutilation.

It is a strange world, I tell ya. Times have changed.

The small computer in your hand you're using to read this.

"Your mom" jokes are no longer allowed on TexAgs.

Pretty much everything in Texas was closed on Sunday.

People used to eat at home. Fast food pretty much didn't exist. There were drive ins and burger joints, but you had to wait for your food to be cooked.

Grocery stores closed at 6pm. It you missed the closing time, you would go next door to your neighbors and 'borrow a cup of sugar', or whatever. People were more connected out of necessity.

Howdy Dammit said:

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Media used to report the news instead of an agenda. Times have changed

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Not as new as you think. Back in the days of 3 over the air networks, 2 big newspapers, and 2 major news wire organizations, there was plenty of agenda driven democratic propaganda. We just didn't have other ways of getting the information to know we were being misled. Having cable news channels with a different ideological slant and internet blogs pulled the veil back on it, but it was far from new when they showed us that it was happening.

When I got out of the Marine Corps just after the 1st Gulf War, I met a guy who had just graduated from Stanford and he was telling me how my 5 year old daughter was in the 'last generation who knows a computer, a TV, and a telephone as 3 different things'. I laughed it off at the time, but damned if he wasn't spot on. Sure, those items still exist separately, but look around; pretty much everybody uses a phone for all the functions that were done separately on those devices.

Right now in my own living room, my wife, 2 daughters and even me are all looking at our phones while the Olympics are running on the TV, but we are only glancing occasionally.

rwtxag83 said:

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Pretty much everything in Texas was closed on Sunday.

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I remember going out to the mall parking lot on Sundays and riding a skateboard with a windsurfer mast attached to the deck. Very few places to do something like that these days...

Milk being delivered to your house
Having your gas pumped for you, oil checked, and windshield cleaned when you just needed gas.
White tube socks to just under your knee.
Pay phones were a dime.
45's on your record player.
The long coiled phone cord you would stretch into the next room to try and talk to your girlfriend.
Nobody wore seat belts. Even kids.
You might get beat up but not shot or killed.
Rifles in the racks of trucks in the school parking lot.

AgOutsideAustin said:

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Milk being delivered to your house
Having your gas pumped for you, oil checked, and windshield cleaned when you just needed gas.
White tube socks to just under your knee.
Pay phones were a dime.
45's on your record player.
The long coiled phone cord you would stretch into the next room to try and talk to your girlfriend.
Nobody wore seat belts. Even kids.
You might get beat up but not shot or killed.
Rifles in the racks of trucks in the school parking lot.

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The long coiled phone cord was a serious status symbol back in the day. We had one that was 16 feet!

The Cure made you more depressed.

Howdy Dammit said:

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Cramp00 said:

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Howdy Dammit said:

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Media used to report the news instead of an agenda.

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lol. yeah propaganda is a new development. hope you aren't a history major, kiddo.

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You'd think the access we have to information would make agendas much more difficult. Man is that not the case.

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You have even more access to misinformation, so if anything I'd think it's easier.

AgOutsideAustin said:

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Milk being delivered to your house
Having your gas pumped for you, oil checked, and windshield cleaned when you just needed gas.
White tube socks to just under your knee.
Pay phones were a dime.
45's on your record player.
The long coiled phone cord you would stretch into the next room to try and talk to your girlfriend.
Nobody wore seat belts. Even kids.
You might get beat up but not shot or killed.
Rifles in the racks of trucks in the school parking lot.

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Put a couple of chords and some rhyming to it, and you have a hit country song.

I remember when it was easier to tell which gender someone is than it was to tell where they stood politically. Now political identity is most prominent and gender is increasingly hazy.

*Walking to someone's house just to visit & it not being weird.
*Paper Maps.... or hand drawn directions.
*Memorizing phone numbers
*Men and kids taking care of their own lawns
*Being pumped for the Sunday paper sports section.

Loony Tunes and Little Rascals on early Saturday morning

Scrambled pornography was enough to do get the deed done.

Beer Baron said:

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Scrambled pornography was enough to do get the deed done.

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If you squint enough anything looks like boobs

Works for other things as well!

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Oh wait, have they changed ?