Recruiting forum off topic thread (no politics, covid, or hot button issues)

[Glitch]

Queen Elizabeth was a uniting force for the entire country. Tell me who in the US can do that. I'll wait.

Peyton Manning.

 

[BigSteve09]

Queen Elizabeth was a uniting force for the entire country. Tell me who in the US can do that. I'll wait.

The Rock

 

[drvenner]

Josh Heupel

Winner, winner.

 

[drvenner]

No one. We are a Republic governed by many people with all different opinions. That’s why…

Agree, but having a different opinion should not equal the fractured state we find ourselves in right now.

 

[drvenner]

Everywhere has problems. But we still live in the best country on earth and we take our Freedom for granted so much.

Absolutely no arguments here. There is no better place to live, for sure.

 

[drvenner]

Bringing 67 million people (I’m sure not all were united) versus bringing 329 million people together…. It’s not the same.

This is also true. My point was that we need to be more unified but we are becoming more divisive with each other by the day.

 

[TitanicVolz]

Absolutely no arguments here. There is no better place to live, for sure.

I'm not from Canada but I've always said you really don't hear much about them.Their never in the news,half there education system isn't gun downed yearly,free Healthcare or whatever they have.I don't know much about Canada and they may royally suck azz but just seems they mind there own business...Please don't roast me over Canda haha

 

[Glitch]

This is also true. My point was that we need to be more unified but we are becoming more divisive with each other by the day.

We are not! I'll fight you for thinking that we are becoming more divisive!

 

[drvenner]

I'm not from Canada but I've always said you really don't hear much about them.Their never in the news,half there education system isn't gun downed yearly,free Healthcare or whatever they have.I don't know much about Canada and they may royally suck azz but just seems they mind there own business...Please don't roast me over Canda haha

I will just say that French Canadians are among the most arrogant SOBs on the planet. And, from what I can see, they have absolutely nothing to be arrogant about.

 

[drvenner]

We are not! I'll fight you for thinking that we are becoming more divisive!

I know you are but what am I?

 

[Devo182]

I will just say that French Canadians are among the most arrogant SOBs on the planet. And, from what I can see, they have absolutely nothing to be arrogant about.

The whole French Connection.

But the anglophone Canadians/Canada is pretty awesome and nice. Pleasant...I think that describes them well. There's good reason it's easier to travel abroad as a "Canadian"...

 

[TitanicVolz]

I will just say that French Canadians are among the most arrogant SOBs on the planet. And, from what I can see, they have absolutely nothing to be arrogant about.

Yea if I've heard anything it's those frenchies are pricks..

 

[Adam2014]

Queen Elizabeth was a uniting force for the entire country. Tell me who in the US can do that. I'll wait.

Dolly Parton. There, I win.

 

[Devo182]

Queen Elizabeth was a uniting force for the entire country. Tell me who in the US can do that. I'll wait.

So basically she was a regulating agent with immense instituational knowledge...

Some might call her a deep state operative here

But fr our judicial...legislative branches...executive committee members that can last over time, etc all provide stabilizing factors and institutional knowledge.

It's a different form, but I don't see the queen's function as unique and worse-yet she was maybe 10% of pragmatic use and 90% just a royal/celebrity.

Furthermore, look at the larger structure. Ok, maybe the queen (just 1 individual) provides some stabilizing factor and source of institutional knowledge, but what about all the other dozen+ family members? The system, as a whole, is a complete drain. Plus the concept itself is just silly and degrading to any thinking individual.

They aren't special...people just buy their BS. Not us as Americans of course

 

[SSVol]

So basically she was a regulating agent with immense instituational knowledge...

Some might call her a deep state operative here

But fr our judicial...legislative branches...executive committee members that can last over time, etc all provide stabilizing factors and institutional knowledge.

It's a different form, but I don't see the queen's function as unique and worse-yet she was maybe 10% of pragmatic use and 90% just a royal/celebrity.

Furthermore, look at the larger structure. Ok, maybe the queen (just 1 individual) provides some stabilizing factor and source of institutional knowledge, but what about all the other dozen+ family members? The system, as a whole, is a complete drain. Plus the concept itself is just silly and degrading to any thinking individual.

They aren't special...people just buy their BS. Not us as Americans of course

Nothing more American than telling cultures 10 times our age they govern wrong!

 

[SugarCC]

I'm not from Canada but I've always said you really don't hear much about them.Their never in the news,half there education system isn't gun downed yearly,free Healthcare or whatever they have.I don't know much about Canada and they may royally suck azz but just seems they mind there own business...Please don't roast me over Canda haha

When are people going to learn that NOTHING is "free"?

 

[ugg]

Queen Elizabeth was a uniting force for the entire country. Tell me who in the US can do that. I'll wait.

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

Agree, but having a different opinion should not equal the fractured state we find ourselves in right now.

It’s insane. I have no idea what the answer is. I just worry about my family and what I can control.

 

[Devo182]

Nothing more American than telling cultures 10 times our age they govern wrong!

Chip tip cheerio ya old bloke

 

[NMVol]

Nothing more American than telling cultures 10 times our age they govern wrong!

Cultural time only assures that the cultural clowns are more ironic.

 

[SSVol]

Cultural time only assures that the cultural clowns are more ironic.

I don't know. We've got a fairly strong ironic clown game here in the US.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Queen Elizabeth was a uniting force for the entire country. Tell me who in the US can do that. I'll wait.

Marilyn Monroe. . .

 

[Weezer]

This is also true. My point was that we need to be more unified but we are becoming more divisive with each other by the day.

A divided people are easier to control than a united people.

 

[Orangeredblooded]

A divided people are easier to control than a united people.

Off topic, the racial divide, the have and have nots. Blue vs red polical parties, etc. are classic examples.

 

[bluegrasser]

This is also true. My point was that we need to be more unified but we are becoming more divisive with each other by the day.

I have often thought that we need a good solid 3rd party in this country. The professional politicians who exist in the bloated forms of the current two parties are incentivized to push as hard as they can to the extremes of either side just for re-election purposes.

We need a party that pulls a little bit from the Democrats, a little bit from the Republicans, and captures the spirit of the Vols. I bet that would get a majority of the country behind it, who are after all, more in the middle on most actual issues than their identified parties declare to be.