A Long Hot Summer begins (a dumpster fire chat)

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JennyB wrote:
13 Jun 2020, 12:28pm
A great protest/action passed by my office yesterday, so we decided to put up Black Lives Matter signs in support and set up a table to hand out water to the marchers. It was really great. And I love the irony of a Jewish organization supporting a BLM march on a street named for a Nazi sympathizer (Lindbergh Blvd., which is, aside from the freeways, the main thoroughfare in St. Louis County - I think it's past time to start thinking of renaming this street). It was a great show of community coming together.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/met ... c97.html#1
That's awesome.

Also, how the hell did Lindbergh get a street?
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Flex wrote:
13 Jun 2020, 12:37pm
JennyB wrote:
13 Jun 2020, 12:28pm
A great protest/action passed by my office yesterday, so we decided to put up Black Lives Matter signs in support and set up a table to hand out water to the marchers. It was really great. And I love the irony of a Jewish organization supporting a BLM march on a street named for a Nazi sympathizer (Lindbergh Blvd., which is, aside from the freeways, the main thoroughfare in St. Louis County - I think it's past time to start thinking of renaming this street). It was a great show of community coming together.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/met ... c97.html#1
That's awesome.

Also, how the hell did Lindbergh get a street?
As recently as my own childhood, schools absolutely only taught his flight.
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Wolter wrote:
13 Jun 2020, 2:10pm
Flex wrote:
13 Jun 2020, 12:37pm
JennyB wrote:
13 Jun 2020, 12:28pm
A great protest/action passed by my office yesterday, so we decided to put up Black Lives Matter signs in support and set up a table to hand out water to the marchers. It was really great. And I love the irony of a Jewish organization supporting a BLM march on a street named for a Nazi sympathizer (Lindbergh Blvd., which is, aside from the freeways, the main thoroughfare in St. Louis County - I think it's past time to start thinking of renaming this street). It was a great show of community coming together.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/met ... c97.html#1
That's awesome.

Also, how the hell did Lindbergh get a street?
As recently as my own childhood, schools absolutely only taught his flight.
Yeah certainly pre-internet you weren't too likely to cone across such info.

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JennyB wrote:
13 Jun 2020, 12:28pm
A great protest/action passed by my office yesterday, so we decided to put up Black Lives Matter signs in support and set up a table to hand out water to the marchers. It was really great. And I love the irony of a Jewish organization supporting a BLM march on a street named for a Nazi sympathizer (Lindbergh Blvd., which is, aside from the freeways, the main thoroughfare in St. Louis County - I think it's past time to start thinking of renaming this street). It was a great show of community coming together.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/met ... c97.html#1
There are a lot of streets that need renaming.
In NZ it will be a real problem as just about every town has the same street names that are offensive especially to Maori including Cook / Banks etc.. They took down the statue of Hamilton in Hamilton before it was pulled down but the city is still called Hamilton!!

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All streets should simply be named after all non-racist daredevil dirtbike stuntpeople
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Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
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Flex wrote:
14 Jun 2020, 1:13am
All streets should simply be named after all non-racist daredevil dirtbike stuntpeople
You must be Kidding?

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Flex wrote:
13 Jun 2020, 12:37pm
JennyB wrote:
13 Jun 2020, 12:28pm
A great protest/action passed by my office yesterday, so we decided to put up Black Lives Matter signs in support and set up a table to hand out water to the marchers. It was really great. And I love the irony of a Jewish organization supporting a BLM march on a street named for a Nazi sympathizer (Lindbergh Blvd., which is, aside from the freeways, the main thoroughfare in St. Louis County - I think it's past time to start thinking of renaming this street). It was a great show of community coming together.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/met ... c97.html#1
That's awesome.

Also, how the hell did Lindbergh get a street?
He's still considered a hero here. I don't think most people either know about his Nazi support or they just don't care.
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Wolter wrote:
13 Jun 2020, 2:10pm
Flex wrote:
13 Jun 2020, 12:37pm
JennyB wrote:
13 Jun 2020, 12:28pm
A great protest/action passed by my office yesterday, so we decided to put up Black Lives Matter signs in support and set up a table to hand out water to the marchers. It was really great. And I love the irony of a Jewish organization supporting a BLM march on a street named for a Nazi sympathizer (Lindbergh Blvd., which is, aside from the freeways, the main thoroughfare in St. Louis County - I think it's past time to start thinking of renaming this street). It was a great show of community coming together.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/met ... c97.html#1
That's awesome.

Also, how the hell did Lindbergh get a street?
As recently as my own childhood, schools absolutely only taught his flight.
That and maybe the kidnapping. But never his politics.
Got a Rake? Sure!

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JennyB wrote:
14 Jun 2020, 3:08pm
Wolter wrote:
13 Jun 2020, 2:10pm
Flex wrote:
13 Jun 2020, 12:37pm
JennyB wrote:
13 Jun 2020, 12:28pm
A great protest/action passed by my office yesterday, so we decided to put up Black Lives Matter signs in support and set up a table to hand out water to the marchers. It was really great. And I love the irony of a Jewish organization supporting a BLM march on a street named for a Nazi sympathizer (Lindbergh Blvd., which is, aside from the freeways, the main thoroughfare in St. Louis County - I think it's past time to start thinking of renaming this street). It was a great show of community coming together.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/met ... c97.html#1
That's awesome.

Also, how the hell did Lindbergh get a street?
As recently as my own childhood, schools absolutely only taught his flight.
That and maybe the kidnapping. But never his politics.
Yeah never his politics.

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101Walterton wrote:
14 Jun 2020, 1:50am
Flex wrote:
14 Jun 2020, 1:13am
All streets should simply be named after all non-racist daredevil dirtbike stuntpeople
You must be Kidding?
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101Walterton wrote:
14 Jun 2020, 1:50am
Flex wrote:
14 Jun 2020, 1:13am
All streets should simply be named after all non-racist daredevil dirtbike stuntpeople
You must be Kidding?
Hard to say
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Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead

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Flex wrote:
14 Jun 2020, 4:20pm
101Walterton wrote:
14 Jun 2020, 1:50am
Flex wrote:
14 Jun 2020, 1:13am
All streets should simply be named after all non-racist daredevil dirtbike stuntpeople
You must be Kidding?
Hard to say
That was spooky we posted at exact same time.

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Flex wrote:
14 Jun 2020, 4:20pm
101Walterton wrote:
14 Jun 2020, 1:50am
Flex wrote:
14 Jun 2020, 1:13am
All streets should simply be named after all non-racist daredevil dirtbike stuntpeople
You must be Kidding?
Hard to say
I live on Super Joe Einhorn Drive. I'm inspired whenever I turn onto my street.

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revbob wrote:
14 Jun 2020, 4:12pm
JennyB wrote:
14 Jun 2020, 3:08pm
Wolter wrote:
13 Jun 2020, 2:10pm
Flex wrote:
13 Jun 2020, 12:37pm
JennyB wrote:
13 Jun 2020, 12:28pm
A great protest/action passed by my office yesterday, so we decided to put up Black Lives Matter signs in support and set up a table to hand out water to the marchers. It was really great. And I love the irony of a Jewish organization supporting a BLM march on a street named for a Nazi sympathizer (Lindbergh Blvd., which is, aside from the freeways, the main thoroughfare in St. Louis County - I think it's past time to start thinking of renaming this street). It was a great show of community coming together.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/met ... c97.html#1
That's awesome.

Also, how the hell did Lindbergh get a street?
As recently as my own childhood, schools absolutely only taught his flight.
That and maybe the kidnapping. But never his politics.
Yeah never his politics.
Oh, fun fact: he was apparently my fifth cousin or something like that. Hoo fucking rah.
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BostonBeaneater wrote:
14 Jun 2020, 7:47pm
Flex wrote:
14 Jun 2020, 4:20pm
101Walterton wrote:
14 Jun 2020, 1:50am
Flex wrote:
14 Jun 2020, 1:13am
All streets should simply be named after all non-racist daredevil dirtbike stuntpeople
You must be Kidding?
Hard to say
I live on Super Joe Einhorn Drive. I'm inspired whenever I turn onto my street.

That is one ‘sport’ that has come a ridiculously long way those guys were rubbish including Evel Knievel. You see kids on skateboards doing better things nowadays.

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