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People keep talking about how this feels like 2002 redux, and it's true I can't stop hearing this song by The Offspring in my head, but the song is actually from when Reagan was president, 37 years ago.
youtu.be/H4fRVKxf1QI?...
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So bleak!
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It wasn't a date, but on my birthday once we went to a free screening of a new movie, "The House of Sand and Fog," the bleakest film ever made about a real estate dispute. More (trigger warning) suicides than I was expecting.
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oh dang
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The laws also weren't consistently enforced, there were situations where people *could* have been arrested and reenslaved if they didn't self-deport, but it just didn't end up happening. Similarly, sometimes free Black and even enslaved Black people could sue in court, etc.
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Also like, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case, because Scott was "not a citizen," therefore he couldn't sue. But, for decades previously, enslaved "non-citizens" could sue in local courts when they wanted to dispute the legitimacy of their enslavement. Dred Scott was only law for 4 years.
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Muppet.
Or Fred, maybe?
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If a college freshman wrote this in an essay, I feel like the professor's first comment would be, "Which laws are relevant to this situation? What do those laws actually say?" It seems like a good editor would also ask some basic factual questions like that?
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I would have replied to the original post, but it kind of doesn't look like that account cares whether it was real or fake!
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Michael Moore interviewed Terry Nichols' brother in Bowling for Columbine. Though I think he also says in the movie that he thought militia groups were just accountants having fun running around in the woods?
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I remember so many movies and TV shows in the 90s that seemed to reflect some rational fear of the threat; storylines on Law & Order, "Arlington Road," Amerícan Hístory X, that one with Ryan Gosling. Then post 9/11 the media portrayals of domestíc terrorísts were replaced by Islamophobia.
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I was at a public event in December and overheard a (probably very wealthy) homeowner say to his friend, "She was saying he wants to be a dictator! And I said, 'Well, at least that's better than what we have now!'" He did not explain why he thought this, however.
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I feel like if people start calling them "vanity bonnets" they would become less popular?
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He noticed before he knocked me over, since the truck was hitting me at shoulder level, he could at least see my face, but also he was mad at *me* for some reason?
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I am 5'4" a perfectly average height adult woman. Once, a guy driving a tall truck was fully stopped at a red light, then I stepped into the crosswalk in front of him when the Walk Sign came on and he proceeded to accelerate into me while attempting to make a right turn on red, luckily very slowly.
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True! I guess it's not the photographer's fault if someone else posts it in the wrong context.
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The other three photos are credited to Getty Images, Shutterstock, and Reuters, they don't even appear to be photos by WaPo journalists?
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I wanted to ask whichever recent graduate who wrote that if they knew what the Post's own photojournalists were doing on Jan 6 (embedded with Congress, hiding from attackers, etc). But apparently, the person who took the pic of the guy in the J6 hat was also there that day, but outside only(?).
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I had a joke about Homer, but I didn't write it down.
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❤️❤️❤️
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It was even weirder at the time!
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All I remember about this is that Eddie Murphy implied that Scary Spice tricked him, which led to Mel B having a press conference to say no, actually, they were dating at the time and this was his child. I guess that was the British way to handle it!
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I don't speak Spanish, but the one thing he's saying over and over that I can understand is "help me."
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The fact that there's political debate now just makes no sense to me. Any politician or leader now should just be advocating for more funding for all schools as well as programs and training to help kids catch up. Also loosen all those arbitrary restrictions for scholarships, etc. It seems obvious!
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It really was an impossible situation, I'm sure it was hard to be forced to adapt constantly. Thank you for all your work!
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Also "closed" schools were virtual! There was instruction time available (though it couldn't have worked perfectly 100% of the time), kids weren't actually sent home for a year to do nothing.
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I remember seeing people say, "Well, we can't live like this forever, we have to get on with our lives eventually," before 2020 was over. Like, there were a lot of parents who seemed to think it was just time to open up after 6 months, the actual transmission risk just didn't factor in.
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The jar lids are too wide for my tiny hypermobile lady hands and the paper seal inside sometimes gets caught in the threads! Additionally, 7 years ago they blamed their tightening machine for tightening too tightly: www.mic.com/articles/184...
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I had to buy a new jar opener just for a jar of Talenti, because my other one wasn't big enough, nor terrifyingly industrial enough! The metal teeth on the tool sometimes crack the plastic lids, but there is no other way.
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Also like, Lincoln was willing to compromise, but his opponents were willing to start a war, and then they did.
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🎉
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My dad had a surprise pacemaker surgery 6 years ago (which isn't open heart surgery, but it was still pretty scary). He's fine now, though! It's tough and scary, but it is doable!
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Also, this is why there were sugar plantations in the US, right? The US allowed French white sugar planters to resettle in Louisiana & Mississippi as refugees, and they enslaved people there, then in later years people trafficked in from Virginia & Maryland? (A college professor once told me this.)
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There a Representative at a town hall circa 2016 who insisted that, "No one has ever died because they didn't have health insurance," wasn't there? Now it's just, *It's not my job as a US Senator to care whether my constituents die or not.*
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(In one episode, Natasha Lyonne talks to Nick Nolte about guilt and regret! In another, she's friends with Carol Kane!)
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I'm recommending Poker Face to everyone for every reason, to be fair, it's a "comedy," but it does have Ron Perlman! A couple of times! Also mobsters with guns! Occasionally!
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I found it so upsetting that I had to hit pause and switch to the episode from Season 1 where she's hit by a car and buried in the woods. At least I knew how that one ended!
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Season 2 feels far wackier than Season 1! And yet, Katie Holmes trapped in a Hansel and Gretel gingerbread crematorium by Giancarlo Esposito is my favorite horror story this year?
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But also like, by 2014 there were Tumblrs with pdfs of dozens and dozens of anti-racist/feminist/LGBTQ books. I feel like most people on the internet who talked about those subjects weren't taught those things by a college professor, or even a cool TA, though they probably had gone to college.
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Also the Bourne Identity, also Pan's Labyrinth, also regular Labyrinth? I guess if Sigourney Weaver is the Jareth?