HorthyMiklosKatonaja
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HorthyMiklosKatonaja
12d ago
How about, after the shocking victory at First Manassas, just blasting north and rolling into an unprepared Washington DC? Having the White House surrounded by graycoats might have gotten Honest Abe to rethink a few things.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
12d ago
After the Spanish-American war, the US was already an empire.
1968-69 seems to have been the breaking point, with the endless Vietnam war and the rise of the counterculture, "The Population Bomb" and the environmentalist movement. New speculative fiction (the "New Wave") suddenly became a lot more pessimistic and a lot less fun to read. Air and water pollution was supposed to be on the verge of killing all the plants and wild animals. In contrast, I see deer in my backyard every day now (when they were an extraordinarily rare sight until the turn of the millennium), and even foxes occasionally. In the lower-density areas nearby, there have even been black bears. And the vegetation grows quickly enough that it's become a real nuisance, blocking even the view of the sky from indoors!
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
26d ago
Any non-Muslim who attends Free Palestine rallies and chants "From the river to the sea!" qualifies in my book.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
26d ago
when anti-Trump types used to use the phrase "Our Democracy."
They don't, still? I see a ton of similar phrasing on Reddit and such. I know they've long since memoryholed Project 2025 since none of their apocalyptic dooming actually came true.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
26d ago
Aren't futurists supposed to be optimistic? Like, isn't that pretty much a requirement for the job?
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
26d ago
Bettelheim's "refrigerator mother" theory of the cause of autism/Aspergers?
There was a L&O SVU episode a couple of decades back about a couple who were keeping an impoverished third-world woman as a slave.
The show had the couple be white. Every single instance of this scenario I've heard about has the "owners" the same ethnicity as the slave, but wealthy. Can't have Third World immigrants be portrayed as the bad guys, though, not even rich ones!
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