christopherdavis67.bsky.social
PhD Historian. Modern America, History of Sport, Desegregation of College Football
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Great video; and, while I'm not near the expert Stoermer is, I would add that it was mainly an assault on older women. 80% of those accused in Salem were women and 2/3's of those women were over the age of 40 - past their childbearing years. Half the men accused were related to accused women.
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The first time I saw ChatGPT(Christmas 2023), I asked it to write a short essay on the Zoot Suit Riots like I sometimes assign in US History II. It wrote an excellent essay, but I fail to see how that makes learning and writing about the topic irrelevant for students.
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"And our plan to remain a growing economy is to take away the healthcare of 14 million people, fire a substantial portion of the federal workforce, impose crippling tariffs on literally all imports, and engage in unprecedented corruption."
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"Moron"? it's your complete lack of respect for other people that gets me. That, in fact, is a very fascist like debate tactic.
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Excellent advice
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I get this same lecture from my doctrinaire Marxist buddy and his party, the Socialist Workers, never gets more than 0.5% of the vote.
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?????
I just thought you were over the top rude and I was defending the other guy. "My party"? I've never voted GOP, but I'm just on the left and my leftist views are as legitimate as yours.
"Whining"? "tone policing" "manners" FU! Actually I'm rebutting what I consider bad political strategy.
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Me neither, but Joe Biden and Michael Kaplan aren't fascists. And, in the winner take all American political system, if you act so irrationally anti-Biden you help the fascists.
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You're rude, and you're not savvy enough to win more than 1% in an American election.
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Some really great panels on tap and my first chance to visit the land of the Quebecois.
#NASSH2025
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And Hamilton had the most elitist worldview among the Framers. At the Constitutional Convention, he argued for a President with near monarchial powers, but financial corruption was beyond the pale for him and all the others.
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I think I do know, or at least I have a few theories. Mainly, because of advances in technology, if you murder someone, you're much more likely to get caught today.
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And this from the party that championed states rights for decades.
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Race and gender don't matter to you only if you're a racist & a sexiest.
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A lot of these oligarchs were born on third base, but think they hit a big league triple.
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One message of Reaganism was that people of color, feminists, and unpatriotic war protestors, where robbing truly deserving whites in an elaborate zero-sum scam orchestrated by inefficient, power-hungry govt bureaucrats.
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Wow! Really great thread dissecting and putting into words our present malaise.
I think this all began in the Reagan era. The world was ultra complex by the late-1970s, but his simplistic message to the white working class torn apart by de-industrialization was that it wasn't their fault.
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Another move that will damage the economy. It will, however, save some super super rich people some tax dollars, which is really the point of many, if not all, of these cuts.
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He sucks as a President and he sucks as a historian.
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This is absolutely true in my case. I grade a lot of community college student writing and, since the advent of AI, I'd say I'm spending 2-3 times as much time grading.
I'm finding AI cheating can be curtailed in the classroom, but is a huge problem with online students.
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Excellent point; and I would argue our side has a much stronger claim on traditional Amer values like liberty, democracy, and the rule of law, especially right now. MAGA is almost exactly what the crafters of the U.S. Constitution tried to protect against.
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Good luck with your week. As i always say, better to be too busy, than not busy enough.
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I hear you. I was told by a far-leftist Sat that basically everything is Biden's fault. Told him I felt like it all came down to racism, ignorance, and stupidity. He said I'd never win over the far right like that. I said call me when your party (Socialist Workers) gets more than 0.5% of the vote.
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The Age of Treason
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The Age of Treason
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And ask them where their kids are going to go (or went) to school. I don't know about these 2 in particular, but I bet most of these people want something a lot better (like a classic liberal arts ed) for their own families.
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Valuable idea for the rest of us as well.
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Crazy amounts of money being paid to even average college cagers. Glad the guys doing the most to sell the product are finally getting a cut. (And university's still avoid paying, lol!) Hopefully, it'll be a big boost for a lot of poor and working-class kids and their families.