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15·9 hours agoFor years, I stayed away from watching “Gone with The Wind” because people told me it was racist and pro-Confederate propaganda.
It finally was on a free cable channel, so I watched it.
It was racist, and pro-Confederate propaganda.
It was also a great movie.
I didn’t become pro-Confederate after watching it, the same way I didn’t go on a shooting spree after watching ‘Taxi Driver.’
You can donate to any candidate in any election.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quantum-physics-imaginary-numbers-math-reality
Nontechnical article explaining the concept.
48·1 day agoAs with so many things, you can blame Ronald Reagan.
Prior to Reagan, there was a thing called "the Fairness Doctrine.’ A company could only own two local radio stations [AM and FM] and one VHF television station. If a station ran an editorial, they had to allow the opposition equal time for rebuttal. And half hour commercials like “The Transformers” and “GI Joe” were not allowed.
9·1 day agoFrom the science fiction novel “The Syndic.”
Polo, except with jeeps firing .50 caliber machine guns. You have a metal ball about the size of a truck tire and a field about 2 miles long.
Blame Nixon.
His 1968 campaign was a classic example of ‘Something For Everybody.’ He told the hippies that he was going to end the Vietnam War and appealed to the Right with attack dog Spiro Agnew. He also knew that a lot of Southern folks were unhappy with the Civil Rights Act, so he gave them a ton of dog whistles.
Before Nixon, the GOP had a sizeable Liberal Wing. By 1980 those guys were gone.
25·2 days agoThe problem is that I can’t just explain to the technically uneducated people that I changed mail providers. How should I go about doing this?
Speaking as a nontech person, I can assure you that none of us care in the slightest.
Just give us the new address and we’ll change it. We might curse you for making us do the work, but probably we’ll feel like badasses when we do it in only three hours.
Saw a “Veterans For Trump” sign.
Didn’t ask why they love a guy who compared his tomcatting to actually going to Vietnam.
What’s funny about the whole RINO thing is that St. Ronald Reagan himself said that the Eleventh Commandment was that no GOP should trash talk another. Ronnie said he wanted a ‘big tent’ where all Conservative voices could be heard.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eleventh_Commandment_(Ronald_Reagan)
Weiner was a creep. I live in New York and no one wanted him to fight. Everyone wanted him gone ASAP.
He fought the only way he knew how; by lying.
At the time, a lot of people wanted Al to push back. I’m glad he didn’t because sometimes you have to lose a battle to win a war.
Wonderful. I can remember 2012, [when dinosaurs walked the Earth] and all election disputes could be covered by a retired school teacher with a clip board. Thank God we have armed military taking over!
Back in 1960, the US minimum wage was $1.00/hour and the price of the average home was $11,000.00 In those days.
note =if you feel the need to say that houses are bigger today, or we have better technology, please add how inflation was the driver that made that stuff happen.
Never forget, Al Franken resigned when old pictures of him goofing around came out.
As always, Trump’s people manage to outdo everyone.
“Anti-woke” water is a thing, and it doesn’t need no stinking vodka to make people stupid.
2·3 days agoIf a Red Hat did me a good turn, I’d certainly try to do him a favor in return.
Trump just spits on them and they keep lapping it up.
No one on the Left has as much contempt for Trump’s base as Trump does.
Trump had a lottery to raise money; the big prize was dinner at the White House with Trump himself.
Take a wild guess how many MAGoos were feted in the White House?
That’s right. Zero.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/12/13/dinner-with-trump-nrsc/
Are the Commandments on display at any of his properties? Were they on display in the Oval Office when he was in charge? Why do I even bother asking?