The Viet Nam War was is why 18 year olds got the vote.  They were old enough to be drafted, fight and die, therefore they got the right to vote and drink.  It was a national tide that swept the nation.  I remember.  We were gonna get the right to vote, even if we had to burn down the country to get it.  The war brought about change, not Kennedy. 

The drinking age has since rissen to 21 again, maybe we should do the same with the voting age.  The war is over and there is no draft. 

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Edit:  I don't need a history book to tell me that, I lived it.  Is that how the new revisionist history books explain how 18 year olds got the right to vote, because of only Kennedy ?

Since learning here of Beaker's white-supremacist views — which have been posted somewhere, I'm sure — I have thought some on the subject.

I'm not so bothered by his expressed bias on the basis of gender — expression which I've not yet found, though I'm sure it's there, somewhere — or his inhumane attitudes towards the disabled (also displayed via a post somewhere, I feel certain).   But this recently acquired knowledge of Beaker's negative views on people of color particularly upsets me, since, as I've said before, my own family is such a mixed-race bag:

I'm taking lester's comments as sarc, and in jest - poking at something Brandon wrote downthread.  lester and I go waaay back - in a good way.  Not sure if he recalls the incident in question, but I sure do. 

If the meaning of his words are actually meant to be what they are on their face, that would surprise me.

Or what?  Are you gonna use big words on me?  Are you gonna send me a PM that will cause me to go to the fridge and get a cold beer?

Grow up already.

What do you care about what I have to say to B?  Grow up already. 

Seriously, STFU. Go get yourself a bowl of popcorn and sit a spell.

What do you care about what I have to say to B?  Grow up already. 

 JrzyTmata wrote:And those ones are already skinned, ready for cookin'.   Jes' hows I like 'em!

How would you like it if some tool started maligning your character by pulling stuff straight out of his ass?  Wanna be on the receiving end of that?  No?  Then how about you just STFU.

Brandon,

Just to address this latest personal attack - and these fallacious charges of yours —

Please explain to the class:

1) why you are unable to cite anything I have written that supports your comments about my views on race, disability, gender, immigration, etc.  Feel free to request any of your fellow like-minded folk to chime in and support your views and affirm they have seen something,somewhere that I have written on these topics - supporting your accusations, of course.

2) where you get the charge of "white-supremacist" from and why you feel you are justified in attaching it to me.  Show your work.

3) and lastly, as you look at my upload history here on RP, and my top rated tunes, please explain how your charge that my supposed dislike for people of color, those with disabilities,  and of course women, are reflected in the music I have personally selected as my favorites.  Surely there must be some glaring omissions you can point to.

Your response here is required.  Failing to respond is not an option.  You will also receive these comments by PM.

You now have the choice of proving your charges or publicly retracting them.  Choose one.

Govern yourself accordingly dude.

awww. you said kittehs. you really like them.

Ok. That's it. This thread has turned into just another yakalot site. Next thing you know and we will have kittehs showing up.

Ok. That's it. This thread has turned into just another yakalot site. Next thing you know and we will have kittehs showing up.

on topic...


Kitler