I always thought jabroni was a derogatory term for an italian. Learn something new every day
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 12:06 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > I had to look it up: > ja·bro·ni > /jəˈbrōnē/ > *noun* > INFORMAL•US > > 1. a foolish or contemptible person. > "get it together, you jabronis" > > > *From:* Adam Moffett > *Sent:* Monday, April 20, 2020 11:01 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Virus > > > All the news about WW2 came from the government. > > Perhaps it would have gone differently if you had a bunch of bobble heads > on TV giving a play by play and giving their personal commentary. > > In Vietnam they embedded reporters with the troops, and that dramatically > affected how the war was seen, but even then the news cycle was days and > weeks long. There was time to produce a more clear eyed picture before > something was printed. > > Now every jabroni on Twitter counts as a news source. This is a related > problem to the politician problem. Rumor, conjecture, and inference are > co-mingled with the facts and treated with the same weight. With enough > circular references they *become* facts. Multiple sets of facts exist > which can't all be true, but nobody has the time or expertise to thoroughly > check everything. So we're forced to go about our day doing our jobs and > simply choosing which expert testimony to believe. Then the politician not > only has to consider what to say to get elected, but has to choose which > set of shared facts his voters will believe more. > > I think it's likely that none of us is working from a perfect set of facts > at this point. Our politicians included. > > > On 4/20/2020 12:37 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Just contrasting the current situation to what I know about WWII. > Everyone seemed to get behind the war effort irrespective of politics. > I came of age during Vietnam. So we had the polar opposite of that in > those years. > > *From:* Adam Moffett > *Sent:* Monday, April 20, 2020 10:24 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Virus > > > The funny thing is when you talk about politicizing a crisis, everyone > thinks you're talking about someone else but not them. It's everyone and > it always will be. > > Every elected person has to address every situation with the mentality of > "what will voters want me to do?". Or perhaps, "what do I want voters to > think I'm doing?" If they didn't do that they wouldn't be re-elected. We > all, in theory, want our politicians to do the right thing and tell the > truth about it, but in reality they're going to do what they think their > voters want, or if they can't then they'll try to tell them what they want > to hear. We can't expect anything other than politics from politicians. > When someone gets a job by winning a popularity contest they're going to be > somewhat narcissistic to begin with. The ones who keep the job the longest > are the ones with the most narcissistic tendencies because they'll have the > greatest skill at deflecting, equivocating, and outright BS'ing. > > I hope this doesn't count as a lent issue. I'm not naming any persons or > parties and it's more of an indictment of electoral processes in general. > The problem of course is that every other method is worse. > > > On 4/20/2020 11:16 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > I am normally pretty optimistic, so feeling a bit cynical this morning: > > If aliens landed in a mars attacks style, if would become partisan > politics before they even left the spacecraft. > > If Jesus appeared walking across the sea, helping fishermen gather a > catch, PETA and Greenpeace would be filing injections. > > *From:* Jaime Solorza > *Sent:* Monday, April 20, 2020 8:56 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Virus > > Didn't your governor procure PPE stuff in stealth mode to keep FEMAs hands > from stealing these supplies? That doesn't inept to me, Steve. > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 6:02 AM Matt Hoppes < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> This is correct, there have been a few were accidents, and other deaths >> related to usual activities. >> >> On Apr 20, 2020, at 7:53 AM, Jeff Broadwick - Lists <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> I’ll be interested to see the overall death rates for the US during this >> time. I suspect that they will be down from their usual levels, overall, >> even with the virus. >> >> Jeff Broadwick >> CTIconnect >> 312-205-2519 Office >> 574-220-7826 Cell >> [email protected] >> >> On Apr 19, 2020, at 7:21 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> >> Sobering to see that we have passed the number of the US servicemen >> deaths in the Korean war and will probably pass Vietnam before we are >> done. 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