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domiobrien

Full Moon July 21/22

Jul 22, 2024 02:07

Wide awake under the Full Moon. Biden is no longer in the race; he can go full Dark Brandon. Trump isn't happy. J D Vance by any of his names isn't from Appalachia; neither was his mother; his grandparents left there when they were young for a middle-class union job and 4 bedroom house in a nice neighborhood in Ohio well away from hillbilly ( Read more... )

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Those book reports fairlyobscure July 22 2024, 14:38:46 UTC

Funny, my book reports on four Tolkien books never mentioned a problem with Tolkien, his politics, or his religion.

Ghostwriters on the net!

Wanna trash Dylan next?

https://youtu.be/92cF_KCH7TU?feature=shared

Willie nelson and Johnny cash fairlyobscure July 22 2024, 14:50:17 UTC

https://youtu.be/nOWjX4BpC24?feature=shared

Re: Those book reports domiobrien July 22 2024, 14:55:58 UTC

No problems with Tolkien, but Vance is an orc in the service of the Dark Lord. The US has no Left, which is one of its problems. Bernie Sanders and AOC are advocates of most of what Eisenhower's Republican platform called for. Biden is a conservative who has been gradually nudged centrist. Harris is a centrist. Trump and Vance (by any of his various names) are fascists.

Revisionist foolishness fairlyobscure July 22 2024, 18:24:59 UTC

Children are being sterilized

There was a time when Americans agreed that was wrong.

Yes, there is a left. There are eugenic activities, including preemptive genocide, in the disproportionate demographics of the babies lost

Changing the meaning of words is like rebuilding the tower of Babel. It keeps people from communicating and understanding one another.

Children can not be taught that the world is doomed, it messes with their happiness and will to live.

Children should have the same pleasure in reading that previous generations did, but are being denied literacy. Children need math skills, so they won't fall for false stats and can grow to recognize untruths and incompetence in reporting (sometimes due to ignorance of the journalists, rather than malice).

Re: Revisionist foolishness domiobrien July 22 2024, 19:15:59 UTC

Nonsense. People were routinely being sterilized from the early 1900's on for eugenic reasons, many of them based on race and social class. People were deliberately kept illiterate and innumerate here in the US until well after I graduated from high school, and the Red states have been dumbing down education in recent years all over again. Maternal and infant mortality are way up in Red states, where there is no comprehensive sex education and no access to reproductive health care. Rural counties increasingly lack OB/GYNs, maternity hospitals, and midwives. Book banning is a right-wing ploy to keep people ignorant and passive. "All the Marching Morons" was all too prophetic. You probably don't remember meeting Ike, but I do. In those days Republicans supported public health, infrastructure, public education including colleges and universities, roads and highways, a strong social safety net, rural electrification and hydropower, NATO, and public and community services. Ike was the last sane Republican president. Every one since has ( ... )

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