I think you maybe are to blame for the legos down my toilet at the moment … suspiciously similar mindsets.
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Never.
I would never do that; I have too much love for Lego.
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Hey, maybe he has a point! Although I’m sure he’d shit his pants if he found out the truth:
“During the 1950s and early 1960s, the top bracket income tax rate was over 90%–and the economy, middle-class, and stock market boomed.”
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Years ago an individual practicing archery kept sending arrows into my backyard. A quick drive around the block confirmed the culprit lived in the place with the “See Rock City” birdhouse out front.
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Most? I cannot agree with your use of that word. More than before, I’ll go along with.
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Hi, I just came inside and found you here.
I wanted to tell you that if you insist on the complexity of complexities of social issues you eliminate about 97% of people from the discussion, give or take several imaginary percentage points.
But it’s more complex than that.
I’ll say confidently that progressiveism has progressed overall. We can (but will not) debate the +/- % but the real challenge is in the how to +. One specific how to + is remove and avoid constructing barriers.
Oh, God. Was that your backyard? I’m really sorry.
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It is hard to quantify the evil that lurks in the heart of men (and women!)
We don’t have access to the Shadow’s detailed files, but actions do tend to speak louder than mere words.
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I grew up in the South, so while I still find it repugnant, I can actually understand finding that attitude there. After all, cultural indoctrination is something you get everywhere. What gets me, is seeing fools here in Wisconsin zipping around with Confederate flags and those bumper stickers plastered to the back of their vehicles. (Inevitably, over-sized pickup trucks*, of course.) No, they’re not visitors – they have WI plates and everything. I really want to ask if they got lost and can’t find their back to the South, because I’d be happy to buy them a map … but that would involve getting close enough to talk to them.
(* - This is not a dig at people who own trucks. You can own trucks and not be one of these morons, but for some reasons, if you’re into that whole scene, it’s practically a requirement to own one.)
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One of the more encouraging parts of my visit to the US during the Bush years was stumbling across a stereotypical oversized US pickup parked in the woods…with a “Support the Troops: Bring them home” bumper sticker.
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Oh, absolutely! That’s why I make sure to note that I think it’s a one-way association. I used to have a truck myself, albeit one where the current truck of the same model would make my old one look like a toy. I had stickers like “Born Again Pagan” on it … which certainly confused some people.
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I suggest you do some reading. Start with James Baldwin, Malcolm X (his autobiography is excellent), or Ta-Nehisi Coates. Racism and control of the black body never went away. It just got more streamlined, more efficient, more institutional. You can’t fight what you won’t see, and a lot of otherwise very good people won’t see mass-incarceration, ghettos, disproportionate institutional violence, poverty, etc. My mother, who is not yet 70, spent the first twenty years of her life in a world that prohibited ‘black’ from using ‘white’ facilities. Do you believe the racists have died in the last few decades? That their children aren’t overtly racist as well? That they are not in any positions of power? I am not chastising you, far from it. My eyes have only fully opened to this gradually over the last 4-5 years, after a black friend told me that I was a racist whether I knew it or not, because that is the fabric of our culture, and I realized he was probably right, and I decided to grow out of it.
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Just last week, I saw some dingaling riding into Ann Arbor with a large Confederate flag waving out the back of his S10. Ann Arbor. Maybe the jackwagon thought he was being extra rebel-y driving into the bluest spot in Michigan with his giant Flag of Racism.
At least the rest of us got the warning to stay dafuq away.
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