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TNNurse

(6,927 posts)
Sat May 2, 2020, 09:57 AM May 2020

Want and Need

There are clearly a lot of people in this country who do not understand the difference between want and need.

Just because your "want" is strong or intense, that does not make it a "need".

Lots of very immature adults in this country.

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Want and Need (Original Post) TNNurse May 2020 OP
K & R...for truth...nt Wounded Bear May 2020 #1
Quite the ephinay. Throck May 2020 #2
Lots of snowflakes lives so empty they can't cope without shopping & watching sports. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #3
1+ dustyscamp May 2020 #4
I don't think they have any values or beliefs. catbyte May 2020 #10
We would not have won WWII lame54 May 2020 #5
I'm afraid we would've been an Axis partner. catbyte May 2020 #11
K&R 2naSalit May 2020 #6
+1 llmart May 2020 #7
..I would send a message to find out if she's talked struggle4progress May 2020 #8
Bob does have a way with words. nt crickets May 2020 #13
Raised and trained Traildogbob May 2020 #9
You can't always get what you want .. DemoTex May 2020 #12
Mick....the philosopher of our time. paleotn May 2020 #17
I believe it was Buddha who said, gab13by13 May 2020 #14
K & R warmfeet May 2020 #15
Most white Americans have been pampered since the end of WWII paleotn May 2020 #16
Some Americans haven't matured past the playground stage dlk May 2020 #18
Haircuts and jamming pancakes kairos12 May 2020 #19

dustyscamp

(2,224 posts)
4. 1+
Sat May 2, 2020, 10:54 AM
May 2020

They want minorities to get out or be forced out.
They want women to act like women. If women refuse, they call them a lesbian or feminazi
They want to be rich and famous. If they don't get all that they blame it all on Liberals.
They want us to believe in God if they can't convince us, they tell us to go to hell.
They want guns not just for hunting, but to look like a macho man
If we pass sensible gun laws or try to take it away from them they'll refuse and make 3d printed guns.

Their values and beliefs are a cancer to America.

catbyte

(34,403 posts)
10. I don't think they have any values or beliefs.
Sat May 2, 2020, 11:30 AM
May 2020

Just a twisted sense of entitlement combined with willful ignorance and selfishness.

llmart

(15,540 posts)
7. +1
Sat May 2, 2020, 11:11 AM
May 2020

I've been wondering if many Americans will have the same sort of epiphany you have once this is all over or even while we're still going through it. I wonder if they'll ask themselves why they need to purchase something once again that they were able to live without quite comfortably over the past three months.

My personal opinion is that we'd be a much better society and more content if we'd stop chasing the next shiny doo dad.

struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
8. ..I would send a message to find out if she's talked
Sat May 2, 2020, 11:20 AM
May 2020

but the post office has been stolen and the mailbox is locked ...

Grandpa died last week and now he’s buried in the rocks
but everybody still talks about how badly they were shocked ...

... the senator came down here showing everyone his gun ...

... and now people just get uglier ...

And I say Aw come on now: you know you know about my debutante
and she says Your debutante just knows what you need
but I know what you want
...

.. here I sit so patiently, waiting to find out what price
you have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice ...

Traildogbob

(8,756 posts)
9. Raised and trained
Sat May 2, 2020, 11:23 AM
May 2020

By immature generations that used TV and games to
Occupy them. Spoiled, given everything to keep em quite. Now they own war toys and their tantrums are much more deadly than screaming in a stores. Wait...they are doing that, and spraying virus into faces, for their freedumb. Possibly giving death sentences to others. Can we apply stand your ground tactics when “our” life is threatened? Works for Florida murders. Spreading virus is more life threatening than skittles.

paleotn

(17,931 posts)
16. Most white Americans have been pampered since the end of WWII
Sat May 2, 2020, 12:29 PM
May 2020

Several generations have benefited from the greatest economic expansion in American history. And though the last 25 years have seen the impact of that expansion stall for most of them, they still feel entitled simply because of who they are. White Amurkins. They're soft, pudgy, and completely inflexible in their views on virtually anything. Like small cave fish, they've adapted to a unique environment called "soft Amurka" and can survive no where else. Interestingly, the adaptability once noted as a strength in their ancestors is now completely absent from their genome. And though they don't know it, they're one extinction event away from party's over and living like everyone else. Not badly I don't think, but not like white Amurkins for sure. Another interesting note is in their bubble they're free from the consequences of not taking their precious franchise seriously and wasting it on conspiratorial nuttery. And that nuttery may bring on the extinction event.

dlk

(11,569 posts)
18. Some Americans haven't matured past the playground stage
Sat May 2, 2020, 12:32 PM
May 2020

Time to grow up. In addition to widespread immaturity, there is also a widespread epidemic of mental illness in this country that is no longer as invisible as it once was.

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