For a quick moment, imagine you were born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.
When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet.
When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish.
At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening.
As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A child in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents survived through everything listed above.
Perspective is an amazing thing. With so much going on right now and 2024 just beginning, let's try to put things in perspective, knowing that we can handle it all. There has never been a storm in world history that has lasted forever. This too shall pass.
Perhaps they need the content so much that they just turn a blind eye to it?
I don't think the mods would do something like that. Mods have the say so here regardless and i wouldn't cast doubt on their judgement, though it doesn't account for the issue of sourcing which is highly important. Its no shame to Oldpatriot, i just want to make sure we have verifiable material, because many more eyes are on this board than we realize, and we have to be very careful.
Except a moderator basically said just that right below this post.
Said what? If you're trying to score a gotcha it's not going to work. You're being cynical. I'm referring to the content itself not being sourced, that wasn't addressed.
People get posts removed for not having source content. There's special treatment going on
Said that they were turning a blind eye because the person we're talking about is a long time and frequent contributer.
I feel like the conversation has broken down somewhere. I don't know why you would think what I posted was some sort of trap for a "Gotcha" moment.
You were asking why that person continually got away with not sourcing their martial.
I replied that the mods might value his contributions to the board (long time history of frequently posting material) and were willing to turn a blind eye to what they thought was a minor issue.
You said you didn't think that was it.
I provided a quote from a mod that suggested that was exactly it.
You then claim I'm cynical and trying to trap you in some Gotcha trap.
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