Kinda a shame that the ruling generation of Democrats internalized “a racialized, identity-based, hard-left idealistic youth-based uprising is an existential threat not to be indulged”, wonder how that happened
Roasting jacks, devices to automate the turning of meat, as found in public establishments keeping fresh hot meat on immediate offer, were until the spread of clockwork some of the most advanced mechanical devices the general population were likely to encounter in the course of life; at one point they employed wheels run by specially bred dogs.
My going from Garbage to CHVRCHES fandom was totally a matter of going from wanting my heavily produced electro-loop-rock to have vocals by an older, more experienced to a younger, fresher Scottish woman as I aged, wasn’t it?
Ironically, the winning way to deal with Afghanistan was probably to turn the poppy market eastward, cultivate a Chinese opiate market, and fund it by extracting capital that way
Not enough attention given to the parallel that 20th cen western “Buddhism” being adapted to metropole conditions but basically unrecognizable to people still practicing the tradition of the newly incorporated periphery is basically what Christianity was to Rome and Judean monotheism.
was there a day of the rope in the french revolution??? i thought that was like the nazi wet dream in the turner diaries where they lynch everyone who isnt a white nationalist
“les aristocrates à la lanterne” means “the aristocrats to the streetlights”
So one thing about country clubs, Elks Lodges, etc is that their systems are often structured such that your spending on meals, etc. there counts against your dues for the month, so no less than Blue Apron they were a subscription meal service for young professionals who did not have a dedicated food-preparer at home.
Lodges also formed a network of, uh, private public houses, where travelers could find vetted sociality and lodging away from home. (The “motel”, “motor hotel”, is called and iconically looks like that because it only arose with the development of a motorway network; earlier rural travelers, including early car travelers set up tent-and-campfire encampments in empty fields along the way.)
The parking lot has been the scene of two shootings in a year, Fernandez says. The most recent was last month, when two cars pulled up in front of the adjacent, pale green office building, where tenants include a Farmers Insurance office, a dog groomer and an OnlyFans agent. Parked outside the office, the drivers began firing at each other.
Wait what?
Oh and regarding the article subject itself – this area centrally east of the 205 freeway is the new Black Part of Portland, replacing the older concentration in North and inner NE (the turnover not too hostile, there was high homeownership so this cashed out less as evictions than as estate sales and nice nest eggs for heirs)
It was originally built on unincorporated county land not up to the amenity standards (parks, sidewalks etc.) of the city then reluctantly annexed in when it clearly couldn’t pay for sewer upgrades (it was a poor white area at the time).
But it IS in range to all the warehouses by the 205/84 junction, and the airport up by the river and thus some of the best unskilled jobs in Portland. This combination of cheap (substandard) housing in proximity to port and goods-moving jobs is really the same thing as North Portland (around the port) and the old downtown Skid Row (around the working waterfront and rail yards) were in their day.
HELP I ACCIDENTALLY STARTED A PRESIDENTIAL CONSPIRACY
I MADE THIS WEBSITE LIKE 6 YEARS AGO ITS FAKE
EVERYTHING ON IT IS FAKE
I MADE IT ALL UP
AND NOW???????
I DID THIS????? THIS VERIFIED FB WOMAN WANTED TO BELIEVE JAMES BUCHANAN THE 15TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES REALLY RAISED PYGMY GOATS IN THE WHITE HOUSE ROSE GARDEN??????
AND NOW??????????
SOMEONE HAS PUBLISHED IT?????????????????????? IT COSTS REAL MONEY???????????? NONE OF THE FACTS ARE REAL SOMEONE HELP ME
someone made a prezi
someone informed a classroom that James Buchanan was first choice over Sacagawea
I know it’s so bad like how did this happen I just cannot believe
All I can say is that I couldn’t ask for a better representation of the American education system tbh
Okay but like…Gail Collins is not just a “verified Facebook woman”. She’s a columnist for the New York Times.
You literally trolled over a million people.
I A M D Y I N G
oh god, this is fantastic.
history is written by shitposters
Historians are gonna be so confused in a few decades.
Reblogging to encourage skepticism and responsible information sharing, because good grief people.
A World Where Established Orders Were Rendered Superfluous, and In the Absence Of Coordinating Forces, A Congenial Culture Arose From The Free Interplay Of All the World’s Diverse Peoples
What It Was, Apparently:
A World So Hegemonically Dominated by People In a Similar Class and Cultural Position That Our Interests Were Simply Uncritically Adopted as Local Cultural Norms, Which Could Then Be Misread as the Sensibility of the World Entire
So uh I guess it was that second one I was fond of the whole time and saw as our salvation from a broken world?
“Welcome to the Internet, here’s where we talk about libertarianism, and here’s where we talk about computers but also libertarianism.”
The funny thing is this is the exact same arc television, radio, and newspapers went through in their time.
For precedent, consider midcentury nudist/naturist culture, or even compare to other forces downstream of the early 20th century German “Wandervogel” movement, like hippies or liberatory pop-Freudianism!
Coming in a bit short of four decades old, realizing that Darwin is about where those old Ford farm trucks that added a vintage touch to Main Street parades in my youth were.
if you know where to look, 2010s fandom is still alive
I’m sure the 2010s incest vogue might have felt weirder if I ever had siblings, but it just confirms that this is cyclical, like I keep saying there had been one in the 80s, Flowers in the Attic and the Brooke Shields coming of age naked with her cousin on a tropical island Blue Lagoon on. I suspect ASoIaF was originally a ‘90s grimdark Going Meta-Aware critique of genre fantasy, and you were supposed to recognize the Jaime/Cersei psychic-bond twincest as a trope
A tweet like this is such an amazing artifact of online brain poisoning. Like you’re an online neoliberal, and you’re just getting madder and madder at all these leftists you hate always offhandedly mentioning how awful WW1 is, and you wanna be contrarian to anything they think, because they lie and exaggerate stuff all the time.
And at some point you become convinced that like war is actually enjoyable for the soldiers fighting it.
No the worst thing is it’s right, the postwar favor and patronage of (left-leaning) cliques like the Bloomsbury Group substantially is why we think of the war through the eyes of say Wilfred “Dulce et Decorum Est” Owen and not all the ra-ra patriots that got their battlefront poems run in newspapers at the time.
I can’t imagine that the majority feeling among veterans of any war ever fought in human history was “had a good time”.
Even in the most justifiable wars where ra-ra patriotism is in order, the actual experience of the soldiers is not enjoyable.
Like, if you’re just making the relatively minor critique that our historical memory of WW1 seems to focus especially heavily on the horrors of the battlefield compared to like WW2 or the Civil War, and that this is in part due to the influence of anti-war intellectuals, I suppose that might be right.
But A) that seems understandable even for non-nefarious reasons: there’s literally nothing else to talk about, the war was totally pointless and no one really knows what the fuck anyone was actually fighting about, so there’s no real moral invigoration to any of the stories. And the Western Front was also at a huge stalemate for almost the entirety of the war, so again there’s not much to even talk about besides the abject horror of the battles themselves, because the whole war was just “they fought inconclusive battle after inconclusive battle for four straight years, neither side making any progress whatsoever until the very end.” And B) even if your critique is true, this tweet is obviously not lol.
I live in a city where everything was named after the Union because they were so psyched that the Civil War happened (the one that proved those rich planters couldn’t use slavery to take over a country meant for Free White Labor!)
