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Greetings from Philthydelphia, the FAFO City of Brotherly Sludge. Married American punk. Owned by two cats. Former psychologist, artist and M.Ed. My pronouns are him/daddy. Be kind, people. It's our only defense.
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Doubtful if it would work. How do you tally the effects of gerrymandering, social media misinformation, voter intimidation and voter suppression?
...and what if the GOP knew that which is why they chose those tactics.
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Maybe. But maybe let me oversimplify.
Look up the Milgram experiment.
Many types of people will exonerate themselves from negative effects by "simply following orders."
That makes every officer in LA an extension of Stephen Miller.
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Always was...going back to 1776.
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Just kidding. I did that often enough, too.
You should see some of the things I wrote about...nevermind.
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STOP WRITING ABOUT OUR PAST TOGETHER!
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You should probably not get me going about some of the stuff I'd do during my Nazi-busting punk rock days.
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Why would I mind? All I'm doing is talking about something I used to do for entertainment 30 years ago. I ramble sometimes about my sordid past.
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Also, often we found that it's better to make your shield thin and longer (from shin-to shoulder) than wider. Much easier to handle.
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We would often use simple barn-door style handles to hold on the the shields, but then attach a loop of rope you can easily pass your forearm through. While simple and cheap, it provided pretty good stability.
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Interesting fact, in the SCA garden hose is slit down the center and used on the edge of the plywood shields. Attached using strong cord or lots of duct tape. It prevents injury to the user, and increases the durability of the shield.
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As long as Trump is in office, it is not safe here.
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Philadelphia is strange in a few ways. Often there is either a bar or a church on many corners. We are lucky enough to live a short way from three churches, one Hispanic, one progressive American, one Italian Catholic. The sounds and smells from their festivals are wonderful.
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How fascinating!
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One of my favorite books about this...
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I find the parallels very interesting.
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If only they could ask humans to prove they aren't assholes.
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And without due process, their actions are illegal.
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He's such a piece of filth, he doesn't have a shit, shit has a Trump-dump.
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I think you mean en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British..., not en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia.... Two very different things.
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Or they could read "The Sneeches", "The Terrible Things", and "The Ugly Vegetables" and basically get the same messages.
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A little less conditioning and a little more splitting, psychology wise.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_d...
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Karl might need to read about beer halls in 1923.
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Hey! I've got an idea! How about we let a privileged writer who came from money and who writes for a periodical owned by a billionaire advise liberals and leftists on how to live their lives.
Nothing insincere there.
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As long as coral bleaching is going on from climate change, I don't see how this will work.
Might cause more pollution, though.
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I'm with you. I've been all about this since 1980.
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I'd say the way both Australia and the USA have treated native dwellers and brown people has a few parallels at least.
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The problems you are citing are not coming from "myths" propagated by scientists, educators, librarians or historians.
The root problem comes from politicians and for-profit education corporations.
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As an M.ED. that was in U.S. education, allow me to assure you that you cannot just teach what you want in the way you want. Nott since the GOP started flexing it's influence.
Why do you imagine Felon 47 is trying to get institutes of higher learning to capitulate? They are the last bastions.
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It was OK...but I found authors like Gates and Rather more accessible, while Joseph Ellis is much more poignant.
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Exactly. There were established settlements for almost 3 centuries prior from the Dutch, French, and Spanish. Meanwhile in the English colonies there were rises in immigration from the Germans and Irish. To the point some were worried about collusion with the Hessians.
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Unless you haven't been reading the books, peer reviewed historians have been doing that for at least the last 4 decades.
On the other hand, since the Reagan/Thatcher era (coincidentally about 4 decades ago) politicians limit what public schools can teach.
Maybe address that.
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Trump: I am better than Joe Biden in every way!
youtu.be/U5Mwc12LtRY?...
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Nobody's gonna disagree the colonizers from five centuries ago sucked.
But how does that fact help Californians now?
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The part about the 1629 Cambridge agreement? The part about the Puritans? The part about the Conquistadores who'd been doing this two centuries prior?
The part about Normans colonizing England in 1066?
And what's the solution? Everyone with an Euro-surname sails back to their original country now?
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Gerrymandering. Foreign interference. Voter intimidation. Voter suppression. Voting machines?
I don't think anyone doubts the GOP won by cheating. They just used so many techniques it's embarrassing.
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Who's this "we" she's referencing? 'Cuz I sure didn't ask for this.
Nothing better than a press secretary that doesn't know how to (or doesn't want to) be clear on topics.
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There is an irony in the fact that the same people covering their faces to hide their identity from protesters have tried to have laws concerning people covering their faces for religion.
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Further more this was to enforce a desegregation law from 1963 (not an executive order or administration memo) that the governor was refusing to enact/uphold.
Agreed. Very different situation. Upholding peoples' rights against a law-breaker.
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I have to. My box already has a cat in it.
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The ratification of the constitution was a much longer and complicated process than that...or are you confusing it with the Declaration?
In any case, you (and I'm guessing here, but, oh, well...) seem to be advocating for ideals that didn't exist yet. Maybe we needed more visionaries?
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No...I'm pretty sure everyone was aware, choosearandomname, that you were establishing your own definitions to substantiate your own opinion. Kind of obvious.
No one is stopping you from doing that.
Doesn't seem to be the point of the original post, though.
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The first shots fired in our Revolution were not a battle. Or a military skirmish. British "police" shot at and murdered ordinary people throwing snowballs and calling them names. People that just wanted to do their jobs and live their lives.
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In the 1770 Boston Massacre, fed-up dock workers & merchants began hurling snowballs, road debris, & insults at Redcoats. The Redcoats responded by shooting the colonists. The first person to die for American beliefs, was Crispus Attucks, a free black laborer trying to do his job and live his life.