presentgood.bsky.social
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Sure, that's the white sprepesists hoping a race war will ensue.
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Please a comma after "petty". Otherwise it's just "eats shoots and leaves". Else 9/10.
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Because meritocracy = a white cis male criming at will.
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Is that a big enough boat?
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Replacing 'Deutschland Uber Alles' with 'Israel Uber Alles' is silly because it's the 'Uber Alles' part that's the problem.
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It's rubes. All the way down.
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There should not have been an asterisk in anyway attached to the word 'bitch'. 9 out of 10.
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For long trips, I once used a AAA trip-tick, but didn't like it because a lot of the context of where I was traveling was omitted. Rand McNally US after that. If spending time in a city or town not therein detailed I'd get a local map.
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I've only once used GPS (in a rental car) a few decades back. It was an unknown city. I found that by navigating by GPS, I was far less able to recreate the trip a second time. I turned it off and learned a few main routes instead. Got on swimmingly.
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While teaching me to drive, my father would randomly call out: "Which way is north?" It gave me a constant compass in my driving head so if I missed a turn I could easily take the next one and navigate back (in a gridded locality). Also main roads were beacons of orientation.
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Investigating the investigators is a thing you do to stop investigations
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So sick of costs being paid by the public and profits being claimed by private 'individuals' that I no longer have enough saliva to spit.
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Exactly how much did his 'meritocracy=a-white-man(me)-winning' campaign cost all of the parties? And how will he repay? They get to never re-enter society and they get to pay at least 50% of future earnings either passive or direct until that debt is paid.
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So. Exactly how much did his 'meritocracy=a-white-male-(me)-winning' cost all of the parties involved?
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Four Seasons Fast Food.
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BLAZING SADDLES.
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BLAZING SADDLES. What else is there? In what kinda world do you even have to ask this question? No, really, who are you, even?
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Thanks. I can't afford that. Please explain why I can't afford that. As a bonus point, please explain why the affluent folks who could afford this, won't.
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Also C'ville is tiny: I knew I liked you, but didn't really know how much. I'm an admirer, you're a doer.
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Spoiler: there are no civil rights under T.
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The seven degrees of separation are quite tricky.
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Pretty sure this is already restored because of expressed outrage. Express your outrage.
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Sidebar: a friend had an acting master class with Cleavon Little and got the final Q in the Q&A; her question: "Is it true what they say about your people?" Also Madeline Kahn's mother volunteered at Live Arts and a mini-dress MK crocheted was worn in their production of 'La Cage Aux Folles'.
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My favorite movie ever. Less than a decade after the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act, it was Richard Pryor and Mel Brooks tapping their watches and asking, "Where the fuck is my equality?".
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With, what, four or five US representatives who have died since the November election, I have begun calling it a mortocracy.
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Didn't LBJ already tell us this?
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
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I fucked up once, in my job, I apologized and my French boss totally taught me the meaning of the Gallic shrug. There is no vigorous with that shrug: it's totally slow and passive and calm and devastating.
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Well, Snook kneecapped it.
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India Walton.
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Close it down.
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Anthony Trollope had a servant he paid five quid extra a year to ensure he was at his writing desk (with a cup of coffee) at 5am every day.
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I'm watching WWII documentaries & films rather than the news. At least we (sorta) won that time.
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I did. I thought it was going to be to house women, either just out of jail or just out of foster care (yes, I understand the similarities). Instead I'm housing otherwise homeless folks because that's where I've landed. Six otherwise homeless folks at present. It's quite easy.
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I noted this earlier and inwardly rejoiced. Never much liked UVA and then read 'Democracy in Chains' and dislike turned to loathing.
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The white moderate: MLK's nemesis.
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To me the great irony is that in the 70's no one was arguing that states couldn't legislate clean air and water, but now 'something must be done to California that stops them from legislating clean air and water'.
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It was a pragmatic move: multiple states were enacting conflicting laws and big business wanted just one set of rules that was consistent across states. It was to streamline things for them and they actively advocated for it.
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@sallylhudson.bsky.social
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I was struck by the film's profound caring and compassion; from the framing of caring enough to speak to school children decades after while being compassionate enough to not out a great uncle for being a collaborator to caring enough to keep the cyanide/last bullet handy to prevent capture.
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You monster! You couldn't even open that for him so he could sleep inside the box!
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Art isn't only visual.
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Old enough to have had measles (and mumps and chicken pox), but avoided small pox, German measles, and polio because of vaccines. This is insane. Send these people to an old-time cemetery to see all the tiny graves we used to have in abundance.
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"Deleted" *snort*
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And how much snow is there now?