samappleton.bsky.social
Dallas suburbs. Passionate apathetic.
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I was watching a 1956 version of 1984 and while the Two Minutes Hate reminds me of DonOld rallies, the most salient point with regard to the current regime was:
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If you follow up, please let me know.
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Very nice! My mom was from Ipswich and my brother was born in Danvers.
I love Essex County.
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I'm a descendant of 3 victims and nephew of 2 more so I'm tuned in to likes like yours. 🤓
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Oh. Sounds like a fun read.
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There were no witches in Salem.
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Uh huh ...
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The Salem victims were hanged, pressed or died in jail.
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As the descendant of victims, Tituba presents a sympathy paradox for me. She was in a bad place and doing things that would be innocuous in most Puritan Massachusetts Bay households, but what could have been snuffed out quickly spread when she made accusations against 10 others.
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Have you been to the Parsonage Archaeological site? J found the leaf filled hole to be underwhelming in and of itself, but the fact that it was ground zero for the hysteria was very meaningful for me.
I'm directly descended from Mary Estey, Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse and Edward Putnam.
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How do you know you have a Salem ancestor? DNA? Because autosomal kits are only good back 5 generations or so and don't identify ancestors.
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She perfectly captures his whinyness.
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If the answer to the Salem question is anything other than Salem, it's wrong. Salem Village was ground zero and initial examinations were held there, but the trials themselves were held in Salem Town.
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The Salem victims were hanged and 6 of the 20 executed were men.
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I'm descended from Mary Estey, Susannah Martin and Rebecca Nurse and that trope is like nails on a chalkboard for me.
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Steph, that the B-2s are stationed at Whitman AFB isn't a state secret. The official AF website even shows them off.
www.whiteman.af.mil
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🤣🤣🤣
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I wish I had the chutzpah to just lie like that. Unfortunately I'm burdened with scruples and a sense of shame.
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Uh huh. 🤣🤣🤡
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Now you're just embarrassing yourself.
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If the answer isn't The Lion Sleeps Tonight, you're wrong.
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Direct Commissions have been a thing for quite a while. It's usually someone with expertise like a lawyer, doctor or a scientist.
This is pure cronyism.
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The deniers are going to take the two year window as a prediction and in 2027 claim that the world was supposed to end so global warming is a hoax.
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DEI!Woke! Pronouns! They think men can have babies...
Oh sorry. Once you start with MAGgot madness, it's hard to stop.
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You misspelled public urinal.
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Jody, my security company hired a bunch of CFNI students in the early 90s, ostensibly because they were more ethical or something.
All of them were gone within a year for various reasons like peeing off the roof.
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I've been memeing DonOld's quotes.
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As soon as I read Love and Rockets my internal juke box started playing the chorus.
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Very nice. Rebecca is my grandmother and Sarah is my aunt.
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Who's your Salem ancestor. I have a bunch.
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At their heart, they were basically the same.
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Roger, my 11th ggf, doesn't represent a witch. He's the founder of Salem.
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.. was purely about men hating women is ahistorical and does a severe disservice to my grandmothers and grandaunts who were accused and executed.
And my uncle by marriage John Proctor.
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...and girls were all men, as were those who prosecuted them, including my uncle Samuel Sewall, and those who judged them including 10 of my ggfs and ggus who served as jurors.
Still 30% of those accused, 30% of those executed and 20 % who died in jail were men. To act like the Salem hysteria...
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Now you're getting into an issue entirely germane to your point and an interesting one.
Every accusation was filed by a man (that I recall) because only they had legal status even if the source of the accusations was a goodwife or a teen or tween girl.
Those who recorded the testimony of women...
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Please, no. I was all on me. 😎