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This is wild if true.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 Oct 2022, 12:47pm
This is wild if true.
Totally flippin' bananas. Also, kind of underlines that contra maga-induced fever dreams, the Iraq war really was the product of the bush administration specifically, and not an inevitable deep state conspiracy.
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Flex wrote:
14 Oct 2022, 2:54pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 Oct 2022, 12:47pm
This is wild if true.
Totally flippin' bananas. Also, kind of underlines that contra maga-induced fever dreams, the Iraq war really was the product of the bush administration specifically, and not an inevitable deep state conspiracy.
Which was always a tortured denial of Ochem. Invoking the deep state is like saying it's magic.
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Never ever forget, the cruelty is the point: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... g-lawsuit/
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 11:52am
Never ever forget, the cruelty is the point: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... g-lawsuit/
My grandma retired to that city.
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Kory wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 1:59pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 11:52am
Never ever forget, the cruelty is the point: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... g-lawsuit/
My grandma retired to that city.
Hopefully she's on the side of the other nana here?
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 2:18pm
Kory wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 1:59pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 11:52am
Never ever forget, the cruelty is the point: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... g-lawsuit/
My grandma retired to that city.
Hopefully she's on the side of the other nana here?
She died well before I was old enough to ask her about politics, but based on literally the entire rest of my family, I highly doubt it.
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Kory wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 5:46pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 2:18pm
Kory wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 1:59pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 11:52am
Never ever forget, the cruelty is the point: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... g-lawsuit/
My grandma retired to that city.
Hopefully she's on the side of the other nana here?
She died well before I was old enough to ask her about politics, but based on literally the entire rest of my family, I highly doubt it.
Ugh, sorry 'bout that. I don't think I truly appreciate the fact that my family is either social democrats or what we call Red Tories (conservatives with a social conscience). One of my brothers-in-law, ex-military, is the most conservative but in his retirement has been moving steadily leftward, both because of the state of the right these days but also seriously listening to his children's opinions on race and sexuality. He has a hard time fully understanding systemic oppression, but it's not for lack of trying. I quite admire him for his sincere effort to consider these things. So easy to just quit thinking and challenging yourself when you hit retirement.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 5:53pm
Kory wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 5:46pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 2:18pm
Kory wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 1:59pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 11:52am
Never ever forget, the cruelty is the point: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... g-lawsuit/
My grandma retired to that city.
Hopefully she's on the side of the other nana here?
She died well before I was old enough to ask her about politics, but based on literally the entire rest of my family, I highly doubt it.
Ugh, sorry 'bout that. I don't think I truly appreciate the fact that my family is either social democrats or what we call Red Tories (conservatives with a social conscience). One of my brothers-in-law, ex-military, is the most conservative but in his retirement has been moving steadily leftward, both because of the state of the right these days but also seriously listening to his children's opinions on race and sexuality. He has a hard time fully understanding systemic oppression, but it's not for lack of trying. I quite admire him for his sincere effort to consider these things. So easy to just quit thinking and challenging yourself when you hit retirement.
My dad is an excellent example of this. He just sits around at home and complains about Mexicans and pronouns and China instead of going into the world and getting his opinions through actual experience.
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Kory wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 7:55pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 5:53pm
Kory wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 5:46pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 2:18pm
Kory wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 1:59pm


My grandma retired to that city.
Hopefully she's on the side of the other nana here?
She died well before I was old enough to ask her about politics, but based on literally the entire rest of my family, I highly doubt it.
Ugh, sorry 'bout that. I don't think I truly appreciate the fact that my family is either social democrats or what we call Red Tories (conservatives with a social conscience). One of my brothers-in-law, ex-military, is the most conservative but in his retirement has been moving steadily leftward, both because of the state of the right these days but also seriously listening to his children's opinions on race and sexuality. He has a hard time fully understanding systemic oppression, but it's not for lack of trying. I quite admire him for his sincere effort to consider these things. So easy to just quit thinking and challenging yourself when you hit retirement.
My dad is an excellent example of this. He just sits around at home and complains about Mexicans and pronouns and China instead of going into the world and getting his opinions through actual experience.
It's like the counter-point to the common perception that history started the moment you were born—everything else is irrelevant ancient crap—is that when you hit middle-age or retirement that history ceases. The thing that makes me saddest about people is a lack of curiosity. The world is a place of contradiction and strangeness—how can you not be curious?
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I can see why a goofball boomer would be ill served by not paying attention to the present butif you came up in the Blessed Decade why would you waste time learning about anything that came after Nu Metal was charting?
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Flex wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 8:18pm
I can see why a goofball boomer would be ill served by not paying attention to the present butif you came up in the Blessed Decade why would you waste time learning about anything that came after Nu Metal was charting?
Goddammit, Ho … … … Jesus Christ.
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The vote count for the midterm elections is going to be an absolute shitshow.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
27 Oct 2022, 12:09pm


The vote count for the midterm elections is going to be an absolute shitshow.
I hate people.

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 8:13pm
Kory wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 7:55pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 5:53pm
Kory wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 5:46pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
26 Oct 2022, 2:18pm


Hopefully she's on the side of the other nana here?
She died well before I was old enough to ask her about politics, but based on literally the entire rest of my family, I highly doubt it.
Ugh, sorry 'bout that. I don't think I truly appreciate the fact that my family is either social democrats or what we call Red Tories (conservatives with a social conscience). One of my brothers-in-law, ex-military, is the most conservative but in his retirement has been moving steadily leftward, both because of the state of the right these days but also seriously listening to his children's opinions on race and sexuality. He has a hard time fully understanding systemic oppression, but it's not for lack of trying. I quite admire him for his sincere effort to consider these things. So easy to just quit thinking and challenging yourself when you hit retirement.
My dad is an excellent example of this. He just sits around at home and complains about Mexicans and pronouns and China instead of going into the world and getting his opinions through actual experience.
It's like the counter-point to the common perception that history started the moment you were born—everything else is irrelevant ancient crap—is that when you hit middle-age or retirement that history ceases. The thing that makes me saddest about people is a lack of curiosity. The world is a place of contradiction and strangeness—how can you not be curious?
Because it's way easier to just take at face value the claims from your news source that people who aren't like you are making it hard for you to live. You've worked hard to get to retirement age, now it's time to do literally nothing.
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