Our local paper had a column called The Vent several years ago. It was all right for a while, but they canned it after a couple years because they couldn’t filter the huge amount of obscenities and other crap.
Of course, you ignore the Declaration of Independence and the writings leading up to the Constitution. We don’t have a theocracy, but denying the influence of God in the founding documents is silly.
Evidently, you don’t read much besides the sports section. It has happened.
Look for an article in the NY Sun “outrage-as-scooter-riding-teens-could-face-10-year-prison-terms-for-leaving-scuff-marks-on-gay-pride-crosswalk”. There are a bunch of other articles about it as well. Now the scooter people are rigging the scooters to stop if they are about to run over the sacred crosswalk.
Of course, it’s fine for cars to take over a bridge for their acrobatics, with maybe one arrest. But don’t desecrate the sacred crosswalk.
Why paint a crosswalk that cars will desecrate hundreds of times a day?
I didn’t think enlistment was discouraged in the book. It was required if you wanted to vote, and those who didn’t enlist were sort of thought to be a little wimpy. Once you joined, you’d better behave, even though they didn’t chase you just because you went AWOL.
The movies are all junk. No nuance, just kill bugs.
Remember, watch the politics, or this will end up in a not-good place.