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TNET: Dabo Swinney releases statement after reported passing of former player

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Feb 10, 2023, 7:49 AM

 
Dabo Swinney releases statement after reported passing of former player

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Unfortunately, when I read “tragic” and “passed away”

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Feb 10, 2023, 8:14 AM

With no other explanation, it is always suicide. I did a quick Google search and there is a Reddit thread confirming this.

This country has a serious problem with children and young adults, committing suicide. It has become an epidemic. And it is because of the societal and cultural changes that have happened over the last 30 years, along with the obesity, epidemic, and other cultural problems. This is undeniable, and even academics on the left have written about this in detail. Yet sadly, we have progressives on this forum, Clemson graduates, that attack conservatives and libertarians every day and support every bit of the insane, cultural and political forces that are the primary cause of this! This is happening because of the attack on faith and family in this country. And it’s ironic because the black community and the Hispanic and Latino communities are actually far more evangelical than white conservative Christians. But those are the attack and it’s called a western cultural thing that has to be destroyed along with the patriarchy, which is absolute nonsense. Congratulations! This is what you have done to America! This epidemic, the obesity epidemic, what’s happening with children in this country today, especially young girls, and teenage girls, this is what you have created. Congratulations again!

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I don't think the jump in suicide is something that can be

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Feb 10, 2023, 8:23 AM

pinned to the political spectrum. The most logical theory I have read is the explosion of social media. In a broad-brush statement, it creates a fantasy world where so many feel they cannot measure up. It increases feelings of social isolation. Depression is a horrible thing.

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Feb 10, 2023, 8:46 AM

Very much agree .

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Let me help you connect the dots.

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Feb 10, 2023, 8:58 AM [ in reply to I don't think the jump in suicide is something that can be ]

Why are children feeling that way? Social media does not create that. It amplifies it. There is an epidemic of suicide and mental health issues and other crazy things in our society over the last 30 years. It was happening before smart phones and social media but that amplified it exponentially. But there has been an exponential jump over the last 30 years before that.

It is directly tied to the decline of the family and culture in America. That is directly tied to a far left wing culture war as well as big government policies. Obesity is an epidemic that didn’t exist 40 years ago. Do you think people just suddenly started getting fat for no reason?

The Food system has changed. A Food system that was crippled during Covid because only four or five corporations control food in America today and the government created that. The government controls what goes in your mouth and that is absolutely because of big government policies from the left and crony capitalism. The nanny state.

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Feb 10, 2023, 11:41 AM

There is nothing excellent about this post. It is opinion. No facts. Possibly conspiratorial.

"It is directly tied to the decline of the family and culture in America. That is directly tied to a far left wing culture war as well as big government policies." This is BS. Conjecture.

The far right wing agenda cares more about guns than women. They care more about fetuses than children. They want to have government dictate what people can read and teach. They are limiting access to women's health and are dictating what women can do with their bodies.

Is that the small government that you folks are touting?

The hypocrisy of you rightwingers befuddles me, but does not surprise me.

Surveying the political landscape, it also seems that liberals are in fact more successful than conservatives at forming healthy families. Sociologists go to Trump country if they want to study family breakdown. Meanwhile, tony upper-middle-class progressives are marrying, buying adorable craftsman bungalows, and raising highly accomplished children. How can you accuse the latter group of being anti-family, even as the people of the heartland unite and conservatives idolize a man who was a serial adulterer?

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Both of you are wrong***

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Re: Both of you are wrong***

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Feb 10, 2023, 10:26 PM

First, bringing the serial adulterer, pedophile, Clinton Into this discussion is not relevant.

After a friend committed suicide, a grief counselor told us that a normal mind does not consider suicide or murder as a solution to personal problems. But others consider suicide or murder as rational solutions to personal problems.

I don’t know the details in this circumstance, but we can pray for his family.

Definitely tragic! 🙏

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Feb 10, 2023, 12:41 PM [ in reply to Re: Let me help you connect the dots. ]

And your sick party is more concerned with letting boys pee in front of girls than it is about the girls themselves.

As far as abortion goes, when will your murderous party realize that abortion is totally unnecessary. There are condoms, IUDs, spermicides, birth control pills, the rhythm method, tying of tubes and myriad other means of birth control available. There are too many ways to prevent pregnancy for MILLIONS of women to become pregnant against their wishes other than sheer laziness and irresponsibility.

But of course your party was never known for its brains. That is why a dumb jackazz is your party’s symbol. It symbolizes everyone of you left wing nuts perfectly.

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Feb 10, 2023, 2:14 PM

Any of yall think think the left or right side of the governments are doing the right things are delusional. The right is just as bad as the left.

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Feb 15, 2023, 12:45 PM [ in reply to Re: Let me help you connect the dots. ]


And your sick party is more concerned with letting boys pee in front of girls than it is about the girls themselves.

As far as abortion goes, when will your murderous party realize that abortion is totally unnecessary. There are condoms, IUDs, spermicides, birth control pills, the rhythm method, tying of tubes and myriad other means of birth control available. There are too many ways to prevent pregnancy for MILLIONS of women to become pregnant against their wishes other than sheer laziness and irresponsibility.

But of course your party was never known for its brains. That is why a dumb jackazz is your party’s symbol. It symbolizes everyone of you left wing nuts perfectly.



First, people on the left aren't the ones who are obsessed with the transgendered. We believe (as they say on the nifty Bitter Southerner website) y'all means all.

I don't understand the fetus fetishists.

Conservatives aren't exactly defending the rights to access to contraceptives.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/21/texas-congress-contraception/


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You are brainwashed

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Feb 19, 2023, 3:11 PM

It is the left us obsessed with this. What the right is doing is a reaction to the left to prevent children from being harmed and there are tons of transgendered people that are now the transitioning. They are telling you how much harm is being done by the left and social media and people buying into this woke ########.

Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Sam, Harris, Brett, Weinstein, and dozens of other lifelong Democrats progressives. Thought leaders are telling the left their bat #### crazy at the moment. Bill Maher talks about this and he hates conservative Christians, Republicans, etc.

It’s actually the Republicans about 15 years ago that first started talking about the transgender issue and they were following Europe’s lead by saying transgender children should be allowed in schools and go to the principals office all the teachers lounge to go to the bathroom. Exactly how the Europeans handle it. Because the Republicans realized this was going to be next on the hit list for the bat #### crazy cultural Marxism of the left. But the Democrats being bat #### crazy as they are said oh no we can’t have these children go to the principals office or the teachers lounge because it’ll make them feel bad because they make them think they’re weird and different and it hurt their feelings. Guess what they are weird and different and freaks. And actually 99.99% of them aren’t transgendered. If they’re an elementary school it’s being pushed by their parents and teachers. If they’re a little bit older and teenagers it’s coming from social media. Because there are people that are transgendered, but they make up about 1/10 of 1% of the population. What’s going on right now is the left pushing this and social media. And the Republicans recognized it and tried to get ahead of it. But the Democrats think the feelings of one child is more important than an entire school full of children. Of course, when it comes to everybody else, it’s about the group. The left only cares about individuals when it comes to transgender children. Because the left or hypocrites, they are the epitome of hypocrisy and bad ideas.

The left is on the wrong side of history of virtually everything at the moment. Everything that comes from cultural Marxism and critical theory which emerged from France in the 1960s as part of the post modernist movement. Every ounce of that is on the wrong side of history. And it’s destroying western culture and even more importantly, children and young women exponentially. And it’s why we have so many more mass shootings and a crisis among young boys in young men today. The left is evil and morally bankrupt! And that’s not an opinion that’s an objective truth, that even millions on the left are saying, including leading, thought leaders, and academics and social critics that are lifelong Democrats!

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Feb 10, 2023, 12:44 PM [ in reply to Re: Let me help you connect the dots. ]

sadmba said:

There is nothing excellent about this post. It is opinion. No facts. Possibly conspiratorial.

"It is directly tied to the decline of the family and culture in America. That is directly tied to a far left wing culture war as well as big government policies." This is BS. Conjecture.

The far right wing agenda cares more about guns than women. They care more about fetuses than children. They want to have government dictate what people can read and teach. They are limiting access to women's health and are dictating what women can do with their bodies.

Is that the small government that you folks are touting?

The hypocrisy of you rightwingers befuddles me, but does not surprise me.

Surveying the political landscape, it also seems that liberals are in fact more successful than conservatives at forming healthy families. Sociologists go to Trump country if they want to study family breakdown. Meanwhile, tony upper-middle-class progressives are marrying, buying adorable craftsman bungalows, and raising highly accomplished children. How can you accuse the latter group of being anti-family, even as the people of the heartland unite and conservatives idolize a man who was a serial adulterer?


A liberal calling anyone a hypocrite is hilarious. Befuddled understandable. The whole party would befuddle a person. Don’t give us any BS about caring for anyone. The left votes to kill the unborn for God’s sake. Even there is cases that it might be deemed necessary that number sits at below 5 percent right now. Hypocrisy is the left. Illegal immigration telling us we need a vaccine but let anybody in the country. Bidet’s policies has ballooned inflation because the Dems always feel printing more money is the answer to all the countries issues. Voters like you are responsible for all this mess. Most of the party has gone woke and can’t figure out which sex they are. If being right wing is hypocrisy then count me in as the biggest one because I will never vote for a party that has become unrecognizable.
Onto the guns:
If the guns from law abiding citizens was a problem you would know it. And not sure if you currently see which cities are a shizz show right now concerning the highest murder rates in this nation. Yes it is the states with the strictest gun laws. What the left seems to be lost on is the need for guns for protection because the criminals will have guns regardless of the law.

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Feb 10, 2023, 1:17 PM [ in reply to Re: Let me help you connect the dots. ]

Yea the Biden family seems real functional. What part of the lefts policies protect families. You kill the unborn then discourage those on welfare to get married because it would nix their need for assistance. Most of those that vote for the left on government assistance can’t even tell you who their dad is.

A lot of you need to actually study Trump’s policies and compare it to the current shizz show we are living through now.

Left did nothing but try to smear the guy and absolutely found nothing of any substance, and give me a break on insurrection and actually talk to some people that were actually there. They try to paint a few thousand people as a representation of all right wingers. Laughable but with what the left has to offer you have to cling to something I guess.

Didn’t Hillary pay to have that whole Russian hoax orchestrated because she knew she couldn’t win? I guess so because none of it was true.

Some of you sound like the “View” is where you get your education on our current events.

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Feb 10, 2023, 1:54 PM [ in reply to Re: Let me help you connect the dots. ]

What flavor do you prefer?

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Feb 10, 2023, 2:27 PM [ in reply to Re: Let me help you connect the dots. ]

1. "conspiracy theory" is how the left now silences anyone who disagrees with them. It's another way of saying what you think or believe is stupid and shut up
2. Fetuses are children. You were a fetus and I was a fetus. In 1972, we didn't have the science to show us that this "glob of cells" at 16 weeks after conception had eyes and ears and a heartbeat as well as a response to painful stimuli. We now do know these things and the ability of these children to survive outside of the womb is becoming earlier and earlier. We perform surgical procedures on these children/fetuses in the womb because they are people who deserve care. It isn't about what we do to the bodies of women, it is what we do to the bodies of these children.
I know this is a very difficult subject, and this isn't intended to be hateful or judgmental

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Feb 15, 2023, 12:48 PM

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1. "conspiracy theory" is how the left now silences anyone who disagrees with them. It's another way of saying what you think or believe is stupid and shut up
2. Fetuses are children. You were a fetus and I was a fetus. In 1972, we didn't have the science to show us that this "glob of cells" at 16 weeks after conception had eyes and ears and a heartbeat as well as a response to painful stimuli. We now do know these things and the ability of these children to survive outside of the womb is becoming earlier and earlier. We perform surgical procedures on these children/fetuses in the womb because they are people who deserve care. It isn't about what we do to the bodies of women, it is what we do to the bodies of these children.
I know this is a very difficult subject, and this isn't intended to be hateful or judgmental



Fetuses are fetuses. Children are Children.

The increased ability of medical science to keep a fetus's heart beating outside of the womb doesn't change it's level of cognition.

If you don't want an abortion, nobody is going to make you get one.

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And they pretend to be much more upset

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Feb 10, 2023, 4:57 PM [ in reply to Re: Let me help you connect the dots. ]

About a Chinese balloon than they are about their own MAGAS running crazy in the capital, resulting in lost lives and Congress members of both parties running for safety. They supported a man that encouraged a coup attempt on our democracy.
And they get on sports boards and politicize the death of a young person. They are sick and turn anything and everything into a conspiracy and blame it on the left.
Tried to make something out of the balloon that Biden had shot down, until they found out that three of them flew over while Trump was president and nothing was done. So they shut the #### up about that . The op here is a sick son of a ##### for turning the young man's death into political hogwash, which has lead to this thread.

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My God, you are brainwashed.


Feb 19, 2023, 3:04 PM [ in reply to Re: Let me help you connect the dots. ]

The data proves the exact opposite. Polling and studies have proven conservatives are happier than liberals. Less divorce. More children. Because of family and faith as a value.

Millions and millions of Democrats voted for Trump. Tulsi Gabbard left the democratic party because of how bat #### crazy they have become. Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, and a few other independent journalist that are lifelong Democrats and progressives will tell you that you were out to lunch and brainwashed. I can give you dozens of names of lifelong Democrats progressives that are academic thought leaders some of them women many of them black at sound like conservatives today and people like you and the media are calling them right wing nut jobs when they are lifelong Democrats and progressive. They’re just not brainwashed idiots. Go watch on YouTube , the new rule segment at the end of Bill Maher‘s show for the past two years. He hates Republicans conservatives Christians, but he has been slamming the Democrats for the last two years because of how insane and bat #### crazy the left has become in this country. We have the society we have today because of the left because of cultural Marxism Because of the assault by the left on family and faith. You are so brainwashed you don’t even realize how wrong you are despite the data, the facts, the science, that history. And Tulsi, Gabbard, and millions of Democrats and dozens and dozens of high profile left-wing fat leaders are saying the exact same things I am. In fact, I get almost all of my news and information from left-wing sources. Unlike you I don’t live in an echo chamber. I’m not brainwashed by propaganda lies and ########!

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Feb 10, 2023, 1:04 PM [ in reply to Let me help you connect the dots. ]

Again yes the family unit in this country is a mess.

My wife teaches school and the stories I could tell you about some parents and the kids would blow your mind.

The really young ones I do not blame because they do not know any better. I will just say a lot of these kids do not have a chance.

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Feb 10, 2023, 1:42 PM [ in reply to Let me help you connect the dots. ]

You are really reaching. I don't think I even buy your premise that suicide increased exponentially in the past 30 years compared to the 30 before that. Show me the data. Once we see that we can start talking about causes.

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This is a great point, imo, and combine that with the lack

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Feb 10, 2023, 8:59 AM [ in reply to I don't think the jump in suicide is something that can be ]

of God and faith and family - it has become a deadly poison.


Great point - appreciate your post.

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Brad Brownell: Only Larry freaking Shyatt has a WORSE overall winning percentage among Clemson basketball coaches since 1975. Let that sink in. It's Larry Shyatt & then Brad Brownell.


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Feb 14, 2023, 12:09 PM [ in reply to I don't think the jump in suicide is something that can be ]

First, condolences to this young man's family and friends, and to all the others posting here that have lost someone close to them.

I agree that social media, and bullying, plays a part in this, but I read a perspective recently that goes a little deeper. Kids and young adults don't know how to fail. Specifically, they don't know how to "learn" from those failures.

I'm in my mid 50s, and I "failed" a lot growing up...at school, in sports, at home, at church, while dating, at job hunting, and many others areas of my younger life. I failed a class at Clemson. In my professional life, I failed the professional engineering exam twice before I finally passed it.

But, I learned from most, if not all, of them. Failure taught me to practice harder, think before I spoke, listen more, study harder, and in general WORK HARDER.

There are people that face some horrible circumstances every day, and for those my comments above seem fairly hollow. For them, I am truly sorry. For the overwhelming majority of everyone else, I wish we could help people understand that failing (in whatever) is okay, and use it as a way to get better at whatever you're trying to do.

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Feb 14, 2023, 12:58 PM [ in reply to I don't think the jump in suicide is something that can be ]

Yep--social media

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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
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It's far more than that

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Feb 10, 2023, 8:28 AM [ in reply to Unfortunately, when I read “tragic” and “passed away” ]

It's expectations drawn from social media and media in general.

It's how medicated many of our children are - one med can help one problem but can cause 2 or 3 others, which sometimes require other meds, and so on.

It's the bully/coward culture that has developed online where people somehow think that typing and posting something negative isn't as bad as saying something negative directly to that person (which is stupid - I'd rather you say something insulting directly to me than post it on social media for hundreds, thousand, millions, to see and have it done "behind my back" without the balls to even look me in the eye).

It's the decline in the respect for human life.

But most of all it's the abject refusal of culture and society anymore to recognize that we are ALL created in GOD's image and are HIS children, and loved so much by Him that He gave His life for each of us. But instead we're told that we have to find our own worth and make our own identity, gender, lifestyle, etc. It's literally killing our kids and that is indeed tragic.

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I’m sorry but stop with the online bully stuff.

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Feb 10, 2023, 9:02 AM

If you’re being bullied online, it’s because you’re an idiot. All you have to do is hit block. But these idiot kids see bullying as attention like anything else. You can’t bully me online because I simply won’t engage or I will block you. But when I used to get bullied on the playground when I was little, I couldn’t avoid that. When people like you say this, it’s just dumb. You can only get bullied online if you let it happen. Bullying in person you cannot stop. And I hate to break it to you but words are not bullying unless it’s from like a parent or an adult that has power over you. Other kids other people that don’t have power over you cannot harm you with words. Society has forgotten that old phrase, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never harm me. Anyone that thinks words are violence, unless coming from a parent or a teacher or a coach over an extended period of time, again someone with real power over you, but other than that, if you think words are harmful, you need your head examined.

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Feb 10, 2023, 11:17 AM

Wow, I can't tell you how absolutely ignorant your posts on this thread seem as well as so many others you've injected your "opinion" as being somehow factual. And please stop blaming "the left wing liberal media and government" for basically anything and everything negative in our society. When it comes to mental health related issues in our youth, it is painfully obvious you're not a health care professional that speacializes in working with children, adolescents and young adults (like my wife). My older brother took his life over 30 years ago at age 15 so I've made it one of my missions in life to be educated on mental health issues to better understand why he and others would result to such. As a father of two young adult children with brains that work very differently, I can tell you the mental health of our youth is more than complicated. Please get educated before spouting off about things you obviously don't know much about.

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Feb 10, 2023, 12:57 PM

tigster said:

Wow, I can't tell you how absolutely ignorant your posts on this thread seem as well as so many others you've injected your "opinion" as being somehow factual. And please stop blaming "the left wing liberal media and government" for basically anything and everything negative in our society. When it comes to mental health related issues in our youth, it is painfully obvious you're not a health care professional that speacializes in working with children, adolescents and young adults (like my wife). My older brother took his life over 30 years ago at age 15 so I've made it one of my missions in life to be educated on mental health issues to better understand why he and others would result to such. As a father of two young adult children with brains that work very differently, I can tell you the mental health of our youth is more than complicated. Please get educated before spouting off about things you obviously don't know much about.


I believe you may need to educated. What policies have been introduced that could be considered good in the last 2 years. The left needs to shoulder much of the blame.

Abortion, illegal immigration is currently a mess, inflation is bad and getting worse. Kids possibly being persuaded to take medications to alter their sex. Left does nothing but try to control its constituents.
They basically give a segment of their constituents just enough to get by with no incentive to better themselves. I call it keeping the poor… poor. What percentage of folks do you believe rose out of poverty because of the government.

The left tries to act like they are smarter than everyone else but which blue states are flourishing with their failed policies. There is a reason New York and Cali are hemmoraging people. Can’t afford to live there. Hard to feel sorry for them because they keep voting for the same stupidity.

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Feb 10, 2023, 1:44 PM [ in reply to Re: I’m sorry but stop with the online bully stuff. ]

First: I am sorry about your brother. That must be incredibly for you and your folks.

Second: Great post.

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Feb 11, 2023, 10:18 PM [ in reply to Re: I’m sorry but stop with the online bully stuff. ]

tigster said:

Wow, I can't tell you how absolutely ignorant your posts on this thread seem as well as so many others you've injected your "opinion" as being somehow factual. And please stop blaming "the left wing liberal media and government" for basically anything and everything negative in our society. When it comes to mental health related issues in our youth, it is painfully obvious you're not a health care professional that speacializes in working with children, adolescents and young adults (like my wife). My older brother took his life over 30 years ago at age 15 so I've made it one of my missions in life to be educated on mental health issues to better understand why he and others would result to such. As a father of two young adult children with brains that work very differently, I can tell you the mental health of our youth is more than complicated. Please get educated before spouting off about things you obviously don't know much about.


I have lived the nightmare. My teenage daughter has had 4 suicide attempts. In her case it stems from mental illness. She becomes highly emotional and illogical when she is being punished or disciplined (like for stealing my credit cards, stealing and wrecking cars, threatening me with a knife, threatening others, fighting, expulsions from school - it goes on and on with maybe 40 visits from police and a few arrests and some jail time). Anyway, her cell phone never leaves her ear. She is bombarded with chat room banter, threats by her or against her, bullying, rap music, and endless video nonsense that over time becomes an altered state of reality. She initiates changes to her life through the use of subliminals. It's a toxic brew of internet jibber jabber and social media influence that guides her decision making. I am 100% certain that her life would be in a better place if cell phones and social media did not exist. It is very real and at my age it is impossible to police without triggering another outburst and possible suicide attempt. She just turned 18 and will need to leave my home if she cannot abide by a few simple rules as it has impacted my health and well being. My only takeaway is that phone time needs to be limited to a couple hours per day and the phone should be turned off during meals and before bedtime (she has "slept" with her phone for years which of course leads to lack of sleep. I was never able to successfully enforce disciplinary rules once the teenage years began and DSS said with her condition that I was not allowed to spank her (on the back of her legs) under any circumstance. Don't need any suggestions just stating that social media is a huge problem for brains that are not fully developed.

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Feb 12, 2023, 2:53 PM

Sorry for your daughters life challenges.

Help her find the Lord, because DSS or counseling will never solve her problems.
80% of the professional counselors are worse off than their patients.

Good luck!

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Feb 10, 2023, 11:47 AM [ in reply to I’m sorry but stop with the online bully stuff. ]

When I read this I laughed, and I laughed only bc in my entire life I've never bought anything a bully was selling face to face, and I just can't imagine anybody behind a keyboard putting any fear in me, they would have wasted every second they used to type it out. What people need to believe is that 1 out of 100 bully threats, they are trying to sell you a wolf ticket, and 99 of them wouldn't bust a grape!!!

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Feb 10, 2023, 1:00 PM [ in reply to I’m sorry but stop with the online bully stuff. ]

Girl on the news I was reading this morning committed suicide. Found out she was being bullied at school and on social media. Very sad.

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Feb 10, 2023, 2:50 PM [ in reply to I’m sorry but stop with the online bully stuff. ]

,You can block bullies but you can’t easily stop them from spreading information about you to others, criticizing or demeaning you. Also, there are many traps online where the one being bullied is extorted or else the bully will publish something terribly embarrassing. For athletes in the public eye, I am sure the pressure is greater and you feel like a failure every time someone makes a derogatory comment about you.

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Nice ramble....

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Feb 10, 2023, 8:33 AM [ in reply to Unfortunately, when I read “tragic” and “passed away” ]

Where do I begin...you're trying to blame obesity and suicide on the "attack of faith and family"?

First off, the obesity argument falls apart when you look at the most obese states in America are also in the most religious states, which contradicts your argument.

As far as suicide, there have been many studies done on the rising rates of suicide in this country and it's got more to do with social media (younger people) and the lack of means (older).

Neither of these things have anything to do with religion but nice try.

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Religion causes obesity because of all the

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Feb 10, 2023, 8:37 AM

covered dish suppers. My grandma's 4,000 calorie bowl of lima beans (used at least two ham bones) was a delicious way to die.

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lol

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Feb 10, 2023, 8:37 AM [ in reply to Nice ramble.... ]

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Re: Nice ramble....

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Feb 10, 2023, 8:44 AM [ in reply to Nice ramble.... ]

Actually, you proved his point. We have followed all of the asinine wokeness and equality that is being touted as the solution. Society was definitely more anchored when the majority had a belief in God. Now, no morals, no concern for decency and selfishness on scale mankind hasn't seen until now.

And I travel all over the USA, The most obese cities I've traveled was Minneapolis. I dare say they are a religious bastion.

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Re: Nice ramble....

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Feb 10, 2023, 9:40 AM

Nice try. I guess you haven't travelled to the 3rd world country located in the SE US - looking at you MS. West Va is right there with them. SC rounds out the top 10. Lots of red states in that Top 10 list. Economics is the main driver of these results if you are budget limited. Cheap food is usually quite bad for you.

Mississippi
40.8%
West Virginia
39.7%
Arkansas
37.4%
Oklahoma
36.8%
Kentucky
36.5%
Tennessee
36.5%
Alabama
36.1%
Michigan
36.0%
Louisiana
35.9%
South Carolina
35.4%

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You must not realize that this country was not founded

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Feb 13, 2023, 11:48 PM [ in reply to Re: Nice ramble.... ]

on morals but on societal norms. The Constitution PROHIBITS the establishment of religion, which means that you be any kind of religious zealot that you want.
Having morals means that you treat others as you treat yourself, not declare another human being as subhuman, or the weaker sex or unworthy of basic human rights. This country has been lead by MEN that perpetuated the ideals of others being beneath them while subjugating them as such from the beginning until this very day...
The government was never set up to legislate according to morals, and society has lived up to that ideal for just as long as the government has been established. But the critical issue is the people that have operated as government, because government does not exist without people... so you people can declare morality as a failure but it is you people who are actually the failure, ALL of you...

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Actually, you’re not digging deep enough and not paying attention.

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Feb 10, 2023, 8:45 AM [ in reply to Nice ramble.... ]

The states you’re talking about lead in obesity, because they have the largest population of minorities who are affected the most by obesity. As well as the health issues associated with that.

And this is directly traced back to the government. I have been doing keto and intermittent fasting for over a year now and I’ve done tons of research and the obesity epidemic was directly created by the federal government and their policies. Policies that support HFCS, policies that have led to four or five food companies controlling the food in America so we no longer get good, healthy, local food, but highly processed food by major international corporations, things like the food pyramid, which is actually upside down.

And yes, social media is a big part of this but that also has to do with the destruction of the family over the last 40 years, which again is directly related to government policies, as well as a culture war being pushed by the left.

So I hate to break it to you, but all of this can be directly tied to big government policies, the nanny state, the government saying you can do drugs, and all kinds of other things, but you don’t have a choice where you get your food. You are what you eat.

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HFCS has the same effect as sugar. No better. No worse.


Feb 10, 2023, 10:58 AM

It's a simple carbohydrate...that's all.

What else are you against....seed oils? LOL

Enough with the conspiracy BS attacking American farmers.

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Feb 10, 2023, 1:21 PM [ in reply to Actually, you’re not digging deep enough and not paying attention. ]


The states you’re talking about lead in obesity, because they have the largest population of minorities who are affected the most by obesity. As well as the health issues associated with that.

And this is directly traced back to the government. I have been doing keto and intermittent fasting for over a year now and I’ve done tons of research and the obesity epidemic was directly created by the federal government and their policies. Policies that support HFCS, policies that have led to four or five food companies controlling the food in America so we no longer get good, healthy, local food, but highly processed food by major international corporations, things like the food pyramid, which is actually upside down.

And yes, social media is a big part of this but that also has to do with the destruction of the family over the last 40 years, which again is directly related to government policies, as well as a culture war being pushed by the left.

So I hate to break it to you, but all of this can be directly tied to big government policies, the nanny state, the government saying you can do drugs, and all kinds of other things, but you don’t have a choice where you get your food. You are what you eat.


You can’t talk logically with people who think things in the blue states are going well.

Most southerners eat the good stuff and I find to be happier people as well

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That’s not what I said, and you know it.

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Feb 10, 2023, 8:51 AM [ in reply to Nice ramble.... ]

I also talked about the culture war. And I hate to break it to you, but there is a direct line between the obesity, epidemic and big government policies. The food pyramid. High fructose corn syrup being in everything today. The fact that our food system is now controlled by four or five multinational conglomerate. The nanny state. Google search of the prime act. Get online and learn about why we have been eating the way we have been eating the last 30 or 40 years and who controls this and where it comes from. It’s a big government from the left, wanting to control everything about our lives.

I can’t buy the food I want from a local farmer because of the USDA and Democrats saying they have to protect me. But we can do drugs. Legally now, little children are dictating to adults who are stupidly, because of a culture war, letting them cut off healthy body parts, and a lot of this is because of the failing family, because of the culture war. And big government.

You folks simply are blindly going through life and don’t understand what’s happening around us and why America is in the shape it is today and why we have the problems today. It is big government coming from the left. It is cultural Marxism coming from the left. And again, even left-wing academics have written books about this. There is a direct correlation.

I suggest you get the book by Jonathan Haidt titled the coddling of the American mind. He used to be a pretty far left academic until he spent a little bit of time outside of America and started seeing the trends that are happening in America over the last 15 years, including social media, which he writes a lot about. Now he is heterodox and a centrist. Because he has seen it’s his party. It’s the Democrats is the left that have led to most of this. And there are plenty of other left-wing academics that I’ve been moving more and more to the center because they see the damage being done by big government and the culture war coming almost exclusively from the left. The far left!

Even Bill Maher has gotten red pilled over the past year or two and randomly condemns the nut jobs on the far left creating these problems.

And it’s not that social media is causing these problems, it’s that social media amplifies these problems. Kids especially young girls and women that get on social media and have that brain rotted. They already had problems and issues. That’s why you people are missing. And these problems and issues are coming from the rot and the decline of our society because of the attack from the far left. Again, this has been documented by many academics, including those on the left.

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I agree with you but you are pi$$ing in the wind trying to

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Feb 10, 2023, 10:08 AM

Explain what should be common sense to folks who want to be willfully ignorant.

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Re: That’s not what I said, and you know it.

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Re: That’s not what I said, and you know it.


Feb 15, 2023, 1:07 PM [ in reply to That’s not what I said, and you know it. ]

While I agree with some of nutrition points, I think your ire is misplaced in a big way.

Yes the Department of Agriculture has policies, and the federal government administers SNAP, but states largely control food programs through schools.

I think Big Ag is a problem in the country (centralizing food supply and distribution) but it isn't like the GOP has done anything but protect Big Ag. And don't get me going on the ranchers who get to graze on public lands at little cost. The knucklehead in Arizona who didn't want to pay his grazing fees? I can guaran-dam-tee he isn't voting for Democrats.

And I'm not sure why you are having trouble getting healthy, locally grown food, but I live in deep blue Connecticut, in New England, and we still have winter farmers markets going all over the place and in the summer they are all over the place. We're a tiny state in New England and (just looked) we have 100 farmers markets. Nobody is telling me that I can't by X at the market. What are you having trouble finding, because it doesn't make any sense to me. Is "cultural marxism" preventing you from buying tomatoes in season?

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Re: Nice ramble....


Feb 10, 2023, 1:08 PM [ in reply to Nice ramble.... ]

I love your post @Pacific Beach Tiger but I will just have to agree to disagree. Religion is a broad stroke.

I believe in my creator but religion does not mean that all people believe the same thing.

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Re: Unfortunately, when I read “tragic” and “passed away”

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Feb 10, 2023, 8:45 AM [ in reply to Unfortunately, when I read “tragic” and “passed away” ]

Dumbest post I’ve read in a while. You also need to work on your use of commas.

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Re: Unfortunately, when I read “tragic” and “passed away”


Feb 10, 2023, 8:45 AM [ in reply to Unfortunately, when I read “tragic” and “passed away” ]

Partially agree...

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Yikes. You are a gigantic asshowl

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Feb 10, 2023, 9:30 AM [ in reply to Unfortunately, when I read “tragic” and “passed away” ]

And that’s putting it mildly.

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This is the dumbest and most inappropriate post I have ever

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Feb 10, 2023, 10:54 AM [ in reply to Unfortunately, when I read “tragic” and “passed away” ]

seen on tigernet.

Ts and Ps for Kaleb's family. And for Lowcountry's family.

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my little brother commited suicide and none of that

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Feb 10, 2023, 11:08 AM [ in reply to Unfortunately, when I read “tragic” and “passed away” ]

applied to him.

We were raised Irish Catholic and suicide was #1 no no.

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Boy you definitely had to reach to bring

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Feb 10, 2023, 12:12 PM [ in reply to Unfortunately, when I read “tragic” and “passed away” ]

Politics in this discussion. Sorry but there is no political ideaology that solves this

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Feb 10, 2023, 1:01 PM [ in reply to Unfortunately, when I read “tragic” and “passed away” ]


With no other explanation, it is always suicide. I did a quick Google search and there is a Reddit thread confirming this.

This country has a serious problem with children and young adults, committing suicide. It has become an epidemic. And it is because of the societal and cultural changes that have happened over the last 30 years, along with the obesity, epidemic, and other cultural problems. This is undeniable, and even academics on the left have written about this in detail. Yet sadly, we have progressives on this forum, Clemson graduates, that attack conservatives and libertarians every day and support every bit of the insane, cultural and political forces that are the primary cause of this! This is happening because of the attack on faith and family in this country. And it’s ironic because the black community and the Hispanic and Latino communities are actually far more evangelical than white conservative Christians. But those are the attack and it’s called a western cultural thing that has to be destroyed along with the patriarchy, which is absolute nonsense. Congratulations! This is what you have done to America! This epidemic, the obesity epidemic, what’s happening with children in this country today, especially young girls, and teenage girls, this is what you have created. Congratulations again!


Finally someone with common sense. Great read and thanks for sharing!

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Re: Unfortunately, when I read “tragic” and “passed away”

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Feb 10, 2023, 1:03 PM [ in reply to Unfortunately, when I read “tragic” and “passed away” ]

The replies to this post make me want to tragically pass away.

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Re: Unfortunately, when I read “tragic” and “passed away”


Feb 11, 2023, 1:03 AM [ in reply to Unfortunately, when I read “tragic” and “passed away” ]

This thread went south immediately because of the idiot MAGAs that make this site a dumber place to hang out every day…people that are too stupid to form their own opinions or think critically or logically. Basically, Fox News parrots.

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Feb 14, 2023, 1:15 PM [ in reply to Unfortunately, when I read “tragic” and “passed away” ]

It's a bit disrespectful to this young man to turn his death into a political discussion. While social media can and has played a part in the deaths of young people, no one here knows Kaleb's story. Rest in peace, Kaleb.

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My soapbox

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Feb 10, 2023, 8:39 AM

I have a family member currently battling a mental health issue. This young man is a college graduate and has never done a drop of alcohol or any drugs. He also exercised and ate a very healthy diet.

I am his advocate and have been navigating his healthcare. He has heath insurance and access to the best healthcare available. The problem is availability. I am having to search high and low for available help for him. I feel so sorry for people that are sick and don’t have someone helping them. Forty years ago, we had psychiatric hospitals. These hospitals are gone because of money. The one here in Augusta was torn down for a heart care tower. The psych beds at the medical college are no longer open. The one in Aiken is a shell of itself.

There are mentally ill patients stuck in ER beds with no access to a psychiatrist. Roughly half of the people in jail are there because they are mentally ill and have no where to go.

Mental health problems can hit anyone at anytime. I am sick of politicians from both parties using health care as a buzzword and doing nothing.

Covid made matters worse. Our youth are really struggling because of the lockdowns. School age kids are needing more help than normal further stressing the system.

That is my soapbox for the day. Please get involved and hold our elected leaders accountable. I don’t care what letter they have behind their name. They have all dropped the ball.

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It’s not simply availability. These issues were not a problem 30 years ago.


Feb 10, 2023, 8:41 AM

These issues were not epidemic 30 years ago. People didn’t need help. This is because of big government and a culture war. Anyone that denies that is not living in reality.

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You’re not even close to reality, Low. Big government and

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Feb 10, 2023, 10:33 AM

culture war? Are you serious? Push yourself away from the table where people use the term “woke” with too much frequency and stop blaming others. Your mentality is as much to blame as any other factor and if you want to help the do it. If you want to blame then keep it to your self, it’s not helpful.

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Re: It’s not simply availability. These issues were not a problem 30 years ago.

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Feb 10, 2023, 11:00 AM [ in reply to It’s not simply availability. These issues were not a problem 30 years ago. ]

This guy likely also thinks there weren't gay and trans people until 30 years ago.

You don't think people dealt with mental illness and depression up until the last 30 years? No, they would just drink themselves to death, beat their wives, take pills to numb the pain, and live a miserable life because they thought they were the only ones that felt that way

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Re: My soapbox

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Feb 10, 2023, 8:55 AM [ in reply to My soapbox ]

In getting on my mental health soapbox, I failed to send condolences to this family. I am wondering if CTE is involved.

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Re: My soapbox

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Feb 10, 2023, 10:38 AM

When troubleshooting, one must first narrow down the search. Let's try this...
1st instill the fear of God for actions that are not in the best interest of human kind. Notice I did not say anything about faith in God. People do not need to have faith to fear repercussions for their actions. If the government wants to have control, then fine. Control the freaking people. Put their a$$es in jail and leave them there. No cash bonds and signature bonds are bull$hit.
Once these turds learn that they cannot loot, burn, riot and lay down in the middle of the of the interstate all in the name of some POS who should have been locked up to begin with.
Now that criminals have been dealt with severely, we may now turn our attention to the others. And of course, the numbers will be significantly less. Btw, if some poor mentally ill person is in jail for hurting someone else, tough $hit. Too late to help them. They hurt someone. Let them get help once they have served their time. See.....troubleshooting.

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Re: My soapbox

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Feb 10, 2023, 11:18 AM [ in reply to My soapbox ]

I agree, the op's post is very disrespectful.

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Condolences to Kaleb’s family and friends.***

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Re: Condolences to Kaleb’s family and friends.***


Feb 10, 2023, 6:19 PM

My prayers are with Kaleb and his family

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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney releases statement after reported passing of former player

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Feb 10, 2023, 11:00 AM

Extremely sad. prayers to his friends and family.

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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney releases statement after reported passing of former player

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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney releases statement after reported passing of former player


Feb 10, 2023, 12:29 PM

There should be no stigma attached to Mental Health. Unfortunately, there is, and some folks are afraid to admit they need help or are afraid to get help due to the stigma of having Mental Health issues.

Our Country can and should do better to help those with Mental Health issues.


I truly hope this young man can now rest in peace. I hope his family and friends can cope with their tragic loss.

If you need help, please get help. There is no shame in needing help. All of us need help from time to time.

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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney releases statement after reported passing of former player

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Feb 10, 2023, 1:23 PM

Sad to hear that. Prayers for his family and friends.

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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney releases statement after reported passing of former player


Feb 10, 2023, 2:08 PM

Have they released manor of death for that former athlete?

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Passing of former player: A.Dingle and now Kaleb Boateng


Feb 10, 2023, 4:50 PM

How tragic … Adrian Dingle passes away recently (at a young age) and now Kaleb Boateng (very young age).

Of course, regardless of the cause of death, this is just terrible for anyone … but especially so when young people are taken.

Since there is plenty of speculation that Mr. Boateng may be a suicide, has there been any light shed re: A.Dingle’s passing?

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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney releases statement after reported passing of former player

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Feb 10, 2023, 7:05 PM

It’s really sad that this tragedy had dissolved into political squabbling. Some people just think the other side of isle is responsible for all that they don’t like

RIP to this young man, and condolences to his loved ones

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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney releases statement after reported passing of former player


Feb 10, 2023, 8:04 PM

I didn’t ready anything in this article about the sad 70+ year old men that you all keep idolizing in all of your posts.

The fact that any of you actually think that we care what you think about anything that is happening outside of the four walls you call home is the problem.

Stop talking at people! Ask questions about how people are doing, what they think, what you can do to help!

Shut up and listen before you speak.

Your opinions don’t help…they hurt. People want to be heard not preached too.

Can we just keep these posts to Clemson Sports. I’m am about to drop my membership. You people!!!

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Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney releases statement after reported passing of former player

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Feb 10, 2023, 8:53 PM

This thread just went south when government and politics were brought into it. It should have been about the tragedy of this young man’s death. I feel horrible for him and his family. There is no doubt in my mind that social media may have contributed to his death. It’s very prevalent for people his age. We also don’t know about his home life or drug issues or any mental health issues he may have struggled with.

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Clot shot! Sadly, it could also be because another young


Feb 12, 2023, 6:23 PM

Person with less chance of Dying from Covid than being eaten by a Great White Shark in Kansas, was forced to take the deadly MRNA “so called” vaccine.

Just saying folks…

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