U.S. Politics

Yep. I literally can't think of anything to say. It's just surreal, this slow motion disaster that we've seen coming. I remember being in disbelief when people didn't recognize all the dog whistling rhetoric that's being going on for decades. Now that it's just flat out saying the quiet part aloud, not much seems to have changed. And if it does, it feels like too little too late. It's depressing, frightening and angering. I'm gonna go listen to "Turn Those Clapping Hands Into Angry Balled Fists" by Against Me! and try to muster up the courage to do something.
 
Ah, yes, museums- famously known for relics of the past- should be about the future. Funny enough, if he ever bothered to step foot in a museum, there's plenty of celebrating accomplishments and victories. Lots that chronicle and celebrate human advancements over the years, but that would require not only the ability to read, but to empathize and acknowledge the existence of non-white human beings.

Don't get me wrong- I know there's often a lot wrong with how said museums obtained a lot of their artifacts, but still. They're educational in both content and idea, but hey, an education is perhaps the one thing he never bothered to spend money on. What a pestilent, traitorous, cow-hearted, yeasty codpiece of a man.
 
“When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents but despotic in his ordinary demeanor—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity—to join in the cry of danger to liberty—to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion—to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day—It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.’ The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion.”

- Alexander Hamilton 1755 - 1804
 
You'd think if there were two things we could at least in public all agree on, it'd be that Nazis and slavery were bad, but nope. Not in America.

I mean, most CEOs would love it if they could use slave labor, but FFS at least Bezos and Zuck can PRETEND they don't want to own people. (Pretty sure you get Elon high enough he'll explain his plan for bringing slavery back though, once he gets to Mars.)
 
jonaskane said:
Many of them don't believe any of the things we've always known about slavery. And those that do are all in favor of going right back to it.
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Not to mention a lot of them are from states where there's a pretty big chance their ancestors owned slaves. Same can be said for a large swath of the country, granted, but I think the difference is a lot of folks got over it after they were freed, whereas these idiots obviously didn't.

jonaskane said:
I'm honestly amazed they haven't started using the people they've rounded up as slave labor already.
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Not that we know of. I know a lot of stories come out of places like that, but they can't all. If they somehow haven't already, they're probably just waiting until they can do so without people finding out, or are in such a position of power that nobody can stop them.
 
I heard a thing about Gillian Michaels of all people saying the percentage of Americans who owned slaves back then was remarkably low. But if you consider the North had done away with it, then account for the actual slave population, cut out wives, children, and other family of the slave owners, then the white hands on the plantation who didn't technically own slaves, but absolutely would have were they able to, and also eliminate people in the south who had no connection to plantations, owned no slaves, but still firmly believed it was a good thing, then sure... I get where you reach that number. But I expect more of THAT bullshit.
 
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