It’s been done for the death of every president since Kennedy. It’s also a national day of mourning.That sucks, really no reason for them to do this at all. I’m not in a rush for anything but it’s still disappointing to see.
You can’t imagine why someone is disappointed in the fact that their personal mail is being delayed because of the death of a politician they likely don’t even remember being in office?Master Roshi" pid='33105' dateline='1544111904:
It’s been done for the death of every president since Kennedy. It’s also a national day of mourning.That sucks, really no reason for them to do this at all. I’m not in a rush for anything but it’s still disappointing to see.
I can’t imagine why you think it’s disappointing.
A day of mourning is a reminder that the top executive represents the United States - the reason we have lots of conveniences on a national level. Like freedom for example.VLhUSTNv" pid='33111' dateline='1544114423:
You can’t imagine why someone is disappointed in the fact that their personal mail is being delayed because of the death of a politician they likely don’t even remember being in office?Master Roshi" pid='33105' dateline='1544111904:
It’s been done for the death of every president since Kennedy. It’s also a national day of mourning.That sucks, really no reason for them to do this at all. I’m not in a rush for anything but it’s still disappointing to see.
I can’t imagine why you think it’s disappointing.
Just seems kind of pointless. Everyone else went to work, why inconvenience people on such a national level?
You’re right. Who knows how much freedom we might have lost if the mail had been delivered. A close call for sure.JPelle" pid='33127' dateline='1544125613:
A day of mourning is a reminder that the top executive represents the United States - the reason we have lots of conveniences on a national level. Like freedom for example.VLhUSTNv" pid='33111' dateline='1544114423:
You can’t imagine why someone is disappointed in the fact that their personal mail is being delayed because of the death of a politician they likely don’t even remember being in office?Master Roshi" pid='33105' dateline='1544111904:
It’s been done for the death of every president since Kennedy. It’s also a national day of mourning.That sucks, really no reason for them to do this at all. I’m not in a rush for anything but it’s still disappointing to see.
I can’t imagine why you think it’s disappointing.
Just seems kind of pointless. Everyone else went to work, why inconvenience people on such a national level?
I put it that way to set a tone. I know exactly why it happened, but I didn’t really want to get into the politics.VLhUSTNv" pid='33111' dateline='1544114423:
You can’t imagine why someone is disappointed in the fact that their personal mail is being delayed because of the death of a politician they likely don’t even remember being in office?Master Roshi" pid='33105' dateline='1544111904:
It’s been done for the death of every president since Kennedy. It’s also a national day of mourning.That sucks, really no reason for them to do this at all. I’m not in a rush for anything but it’s still disappointing to see.
I can’t imagine why you think it’s disappointing.
Just seems kind of pointless. Everyone else went to work, why inconvenience people on such a national level?
VLhUSTNv" pid='33191' dateline='1544160797:strongr007" pid='33135' dateline='1544130346:
You’re right. Who knows how much freedom we might have lost if the mail had been delivered. A close call for sure.JPelle" pid='33127' dateline='1544125613:
A day of mourning is a reminder that the top executive represents the United States - the reason we have lots of conveniences on a national level. Like freedom for example.VLhUSTNv" pid='33111' dateline='1544114423:
You can’t imagine why someone is disappointed in the fact that their personal mail is being delayed because of the death of a politician they likely don’t even remember being in office?Master Roshi" pid='33105' dateline='1544111904:
It’s been done for the death of every president since Kennedy. It’s also a national day of mourning.That sucks, really no reason for them to do this at all. I’m not in a rush for anything but it’s still disappointing to see.
I can’t imagine why you think it’s disappointing.
Just seems kind of pointless. Everyone else went to work, why inconvenience people on such a national level?
Very well saidJPelle" pid='33127' dateline='1544125613:
I put it that way to set a tone. I know exactly why it happened, but I didn’t really want to get into the politics.VLhUSTNv" pid='33111' dateline='1544114423:
You can’t imagine why someone is disappointed in the fact that their personal mail is being delayed because of the death of a politician they likely don’t even remember being in office?Master Roshi" pid='33105' dateline='1544111904:
It’s been done for the death of every president since Kennedy. It’s also a national day of mourning.That sucks, really no reason for them to do this at all. I’m not in a rush for anything but it’s still disappointing to see.
I can’t imagine why you think it’s disappointing.
Just seems kind of pointless. Everyone else went to work, why inconvenience people on such a national level?
I didn’t care for George HW Bush, but his death marks the finalization of a chapter in American history, as is the case with the death of any American president. For four years, he was the face of America to the world. That still carries weight, but as time goes on we’ve become less cohesive as a nation, so rather than being a nation of immigrants or a nation of citizens, we all do our own thing in our own little isolated household ad hoc nation-states and on Independence Day and Memorial Day we come together to pay lip service to the giants on whose shoulders we stand (but mostly to get drunk), who busted their ass so that we may have the luxury of being so arrogant.
If you believe in the broader values of America and have a working understanding of what running a healthy nation involves, you’ll understand where I’m coming from. If you believe it was all a happy accident driven by natural resources and oceanic isolation, and that there’s nothing special about this experiment held together with spit and duct tape and collective belief, then yeah this feels like an inconvenience. You ever wonder why Europeans constantly mock how obnoxious Americans are about patriotism? It’s because they have no national pride themselves. They’ve had it beaten out of them. To be clear, they have plenty to be proud of but to listen to their own rhetoric you’d think their biggest accomplishments of the past 20 years are either the subjugation of their national interests to a supernational body that could give a fuck about their own unique contexts and just wants to make life easier for giant multinational corporations, who themselves are dehumanizing in the interest of economic enrichment, OR the unfettered ability to consensually jam my dick in another man’s ass. There’s a reason Europe has no Facebook, no Google, no Apple. The best they have is fucking Spotify. All these things Americans bother with that suggest a modicum of pride in something beyond themselves aggregates to a desire to be a part of it and make it better, and to have their own piece of it. We’re going from that to “what’s in it for me?” and it’s depressing as hell for those that dare to see beyond the year of their birth.
This shouldn’t be read as a lecture. It’s an indictment of all the people who bothered to teach you to think this way, and now enjoy the poisonous fruits of their shortsighted labor, and a morally bankrupt political class bereft of leadership. It’s a love letter to a country that feels like it’s dying before my very eyes - one that took in my family and now votes like every other mediocre parliamentary democracy. It’s also a small rant against those mediocres who also beg America to shelter them from Chinese and Russian aggression when they’re not belittling America for not being more like them.
I’m disappointed because I don’t like that my mail was stopped for a war criminal. If it was a president worth respecting, sure, but this isn’t one of those instances. I can appreciate the ideals in your later post, but I don’t at all agree with his views and would rather mourn for the lives he was responsible for taking.Master Roshi" pid='33105' dateline='1544111904:
It’s been done for the death of every president since Kennedy. It’s also a national day of mourning.That sucks, really no reason for them to do this at all. I’m not in a rush for anything but it’s still disappointing to see.
I can’t imagine why you think it’s disappointing.