The flip side is true, though, right. There was a dotcom bubble but also there was a beanie babies bubble
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Tfw you realize you’ve been talking up the bartender’s girlfriend this whole fucking time
Its head is out, gotta pull it the rest of the way, take the caul off, and slap it til it starts breathing
A friend of mine says something to the effect that what was so radicalizing for everyday people about WWI was the demonstrated knowledge that the hereditary rich and powerful would look them in the eye, shake their hand, and then feed them into the meat grinder headfirst to maintain their power
Anyway thinking about that for no reason watching college classmates of mine destroy the world
Hochschild says something like 2,000 killed, 8,000 wounded during that time
thousands, probably! killed for a war that had literally already ended! you really get why the early 20th century caused people to way overestimate how down the masses would be for violent revolution for decades after when you read about shit like that. I'd be burning down the fucking capital too.
John Skiles Skinner@skiles.blue · 15h agoThe thing that fucked me up about WWI was learning that, after pre-setting armistice for a dramatic time ("the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month"), they kept up the slaughter until that moment. Knowingly throwing away thousands of lives after the war's outcome was already determined.
Imagine a world where I knew that my doctor would take my insurance because they all literally have to before I went and we tried to charge it
Lev Mirov@thelionmachine.bsky.social · 19h agoI know Medicare has big problems to solve but imagine a healthcare system where my doctor would pick the medication I need based on my medical situation and not based on whether my insurance will pay for it
I know Medicare has big problems to solve but imagine a healthcare system where my doctor would pick the medication I need based on my medical situation and not based on whether my insurance will pay for it
Of all the Sam Hill segregationists to come to Jesus
Ghoulish Bambino@parasouthern.bsky.social · 17h agoAllegedly Wallace appointed a record number of black people to public office in his final term as governor but maybe he would have been mad about them being elected. Apparently he made up with the students he tried to prevent from attending U of Alabama. www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
I would just mention that Wallace later repented of his racist views in many deeply personal ways, directly with members of the black community, and in his final term in office appointed more black folks to government positions than anyone before him. So, *that* Wallace might actually be pleased!
like, genuinely, "the governor of georgia is a black woman democrat who won by carrying the old strongholds of the klan" is something that would break the brain of someone even 20 years ago. bush got 57% in georgia in 2004!
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Sage Deviant 🏳️⚧️@trans.bsky.social · 2d agothis is just polyamory. sex is sometimes one of the quests. other activities include: gardening, carpentry, goth show, gender criminality, rock climb, & book club
if you can break the back of reactionary politics in mississippi you can do it anywhere.
had to look up where Keesler is, and oof, yeah. when I lived in St. Louis, I worked for a Black woman whose family made a point of sending her and her sisters back to the family farm in Mississippi every summer to make sure they understood what they'd left.
My grandfather did his basic training in Mississippi during segregation. What stuck with him was how black people would step out of the way and look down if a white person walked by, how they had to show deference because of the possibly horrific consequences of even a look being misinterpreted.
A friend of mine commented that if he hadn’t been shot, MLK would have been 98 in January. There’s a small but not impossible chance he would have been alive to see a black man be sworn into the Senate from Mississippi. I hope he’s sharing in the joy, somewhere
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h agoit’s an honor just to bear witness to the amount of Black joy in the US right now.
💯, and it's not exclusive to sex. There is a series of thresholds where the status and power conferred by increasing levels of wealth neutralize certain forms of back pressure against anti-social behavior that turns out to be load bearing for a well-functioning society.
This is actually true. One of the goals of the conservative fight against sex ed in schools is that ignorance about sex, the body and consent makes victims of abuse less likely to report it. Yeah. Sit with all the implications of that one for a while
Crowsa Luxemburg@quendergeer.bsky.social · yesterdayif we make sure children never find out what sex is they won't even realise when noel fielding sticks his hand up their skirt
It’s all the same fight. We fight everywhere, for everyone, all the time, because the alternative is losing slowly and then a lot.
the first time as ironies of automation, the second time as farces of automation
Step 1: get elected by promising constituents you’ll do the things they’d like you to do to improve everyone’s lives Step 2: do the things Step 3: tell people—in social media vids or posts—about and how you did the things Step 4: landslide next election