🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

If this wasn’t true, then the war would be over and Russia would have no gains.

What fucking bullshit spin is this bullshit? Ukraine is fucking successfully defending itself against Russia, you fucking muppet. Russia, with supposedly the second best military in the world, can’t even fucking win a war in Ukraine, who is somewhere supposedly down in the list?

You are absolutely laughable and pitiful.

Or make Vance do the meetings

And we’re not even talking Bilquis!

uhhh, I’d prefer the casket not be moving if it’s all the same to you…

“May the Force be with you.”

“And also with you.”

I grew up protestant, but I learned that to trigger Catholics and ex-Catholics. :D

I grew up a fundie Southern Baptist but was athiest by around 2000. In 2009 I did an internship with a group that brought up a bunch of Puertoriqueños, who were every one of them truly delightful folks. But I drove across the country in my truck so I’d have transportation, whereas they all flew up from the island, so when one of them wanted to go to church, I ended up driving her, and she wanted me to come hang out in the service, soooooo… sure. How bad could it be?

…It took all I could muster not to leave in the middle. Brought back too many memories. I was glad she didn’t want to go back, because I would have gladly dropped her off, but no way I could handle going in and doing it again. heh

I’m atheist, but I grew up as a fundie Southern Baptist, so these topics are merely a distraction from the pain and suffering of living in this shithole country, but…

Online I am Daychilde. IRL I am Isaac Eiland-Hall. On reddit, my last account was OddDonut[numbers I don’t remember]. Those were three expressions of myself that in some ways were me, but in other ways sparked behaviour in only certain contexts.

While I’m a contrarian by nature, so if you had said “1=1” I might be arguing about how the aspects are different, you said “1=3”, so I find myself replying with ways that those aspects are also still the same being. hehe

Yeah, although sometimes ya do gotta let off a little steam… but you are right.

Does he think

I’m going to stop you there. :)

And even the ones who are not are almost all beholden to our oligarchs and serve at their pleasure.

I’m more than happy not to charge her rent.

…that sounds creepy, but I just mean I’m glad she’s in politics fighting the progressive fight, and I support her. lol

We’ve managed some progress. As much racism is a huge issue and on the increase, overall minorities today are a bit better off. Lynchings are a bit less common; sundown cities far fewer in number. Haven’t seen segregated water fountains or anything like that in a bit. Although there’s certainly still redlining and plenty of inequality…

Women have done even better - as recently as 1974 being unable to open a bank account without husband’s signature. While there’s still plenty of inequality there as well, that situation has improved even more.

I certainly don’t want to minimize the successes, it’s just that the increases in bigotry that we’ve seen in many areas just feels worse because it felt like we were making progress, only to realize that it is truly a slog and struggle.

And sometimes what one of us thinks isn’t true.

True, although I intended there to be no pause between the directives and the start of the shooting, so I think we’re basically in agreement, or close to it. heh

I got back to 1300 alright, but not 1200. But I had a bit of an odd upbringing - our houshold library for some reason had lots of British fiction from the 1700s/1800s and so I got a jump in obscure vocabulary. heh

No, þou ſtupid idiot, he proffered his luſty hens.^[1]

This, but also it was more complicated as well: There were conservative and liberal contingencies in both parties, but after the big flip, conservatives went with or stay with Republicans, and progressives gravitated towards Democrats.

I’m 50, and I grew up after the flip, so it’s weird to think about how it must have been before. I think that’s the only reason things worked out as well as they did after WWII. Somehow we managed to push back against the racists and make some progress (Civil Rights Act, etc.) and even kinda pushed them into the racism closet for a while there. But boy howdy they exploded back out when the Tea Party took off and Obama was elected. But by that point, the Republians had already been working on attacking our democracy for a couple of decades.

The Southern Strategy was one big waterfall moment; another was when the Republicans partnered with evangelicals. I think the first big moment when partisanship really started to show its ugly head was the attack on Clinton and the attempt to impeach. Not that he didn’t abuse his office for blowjobs, but that really was not impeachable - and they didn’t get him for that, they got him on what was really a technicality. But after that, it feels like the gloves came off and partisanship was the primary tool of the Republicans.

Technically… the nazis have always been us. Hitler took huge inspiration from US politics and policies, so to see it come full circle… the call is coming from inside the house!

Worth remembering that the Republican Party isn’t the root cause. Our oligarchs corrupting our democracy is what’s broken it. And a huge part of that is our media - not only propaganda outlets like Fox, but the control by the oligarchs of almost all media is the reason Republicans always get a pass and Democrats get minimized.

And nearly a decade late even then.

Anyone who didn’t see this with the rise of the “tea party” just wasn’t paying attention or was ignorant. Maybe not about us heading toward fascism (especially so quickly), but there was an increase in nazi bullshit even then - but with the rise of the sheer public racism that RUSHED out of the closet… we knew we were fucked.