now telegram is going to insert random information about South African White genocide to every conversation. or it will be in every recommended reply at least.

Deportation is a legal process. These people have not been deported because they have not gone through a legal process.

uhh no. comparing our actual life experience today with the actual life experiences of our parents and grandparents is the only way to know if we’re doing better, the same, or worse.

your argument is the argument of the domestic abuser and the authoritarian government and the rapacious theologian.

“be grateful for what you have” or “it could be worse” is shitty advice.

“The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class”

https://youtu.be/akVL7QY0S8A

Elizabeth Warren a long time ago told us what was coming, and it’s either here or nearly here.

Alright I’m gonna try this hereditary math…

So these kids will have the same dad, making them at least half siblings.

Their moms are sisters making them first cousins.

So what are they like 3/4 siblings…?

I’m not sure I follow.

I’m starting from the assumption that OP genuinely wants to talk to women without being creepy (for lack of a better term), presuming that comes from his intrinsic association between “talking to a woman” and “attempting to establish a romantic relationship with that woman.”

That’s a thought that’s undesirable and presumably persistent. Sort of the definition of “intrusive.”

I’m aware that the pop psych understanding of the phrase is specifically about violent or violence associated thoughts but those are the ones more people have and that probably are more disturbing than annoying.

When your parents say, “did you talk to any of them,” they mean did you strike up a conversation with a woman with no presumption of potential romantic outcome.

When you say it, it seems like you’re assuming there’s a potential for a romantic outcome in every conversation between heterosexual men and women.

Your goal should be to strike up a conversation with a woman about random topics of interest, including very shallow ones, with no expectation that you’re evaluating her as a potential mate, and she’s not evaluating you.

Yes, we’re all subject to intrusive thoughts so from time to time, you’ll fail at this goal and start thinking about a romantic path. That’s fine. Just acknowledge it to yourself and endeavor to do better.

It will probably take time and practice. Give yourself grace to try and fail and learn. You’ll know you’re succeeding when you realize you had a conversation with a woman without her gender being a consequential thought in your mind.

The same federal laws from Reconstruction applied across the whole country. Except there were “creative” legislators, executives, lawyers, and citizen organizations in the South that found loopholesto exploit. Most people in the North didn’t do that (obviously there were exceptions).

Add to that the violent, murderous rampages that occurred against successful black people and neighborhoods, and “Reconstruction” was very complex in its implementation.

People know what 60 Minutes is.

They don’t know what Skydance is, and definitely don’t care about it (that’s not necessarily ‘good’).

They sort of know what Paramount is, from movie title sequences, but they don’t care about it more than any other movie production company. (Again that’s not necessarily ‘good.’)

Going public like this is a great answer to Trump’s bullying.

The owners would last 10 days, especially if the duration was announced ahead of time. Maybe a general strike that had no end date, once it went 3 months or so, would have the desired effect.

Going Luigi on a bunch of them would be faster, more effective, with stronger effects that lasted longer. Probably fewer total deaths.