The irony is that one of the few things the USA does better than other countries is disability accommodation. (At least for now.)

You’re right.

And the big social media platforms will censor any information about it. We already saw with January 6th that Americans are perfectly happy to just ignore what they can see with their own two eyes, so I suspect, it won’t be too heavy a lift for them to step over dead bodies in the streets as long as the smell isn’t too much.

I try to make it a point not to use the word ‘detention’ since it’s so purposefully sanitized.

I’ll add it to my list. Thank you for the recommendation.

You’re not wrong.

Having read a lot of history on the subject, the hope I do have is in the thousands who resisted the Nazis and Russians in small ways. Most of their names are forgotten (or fake, as is the way with resistance), but their stories survived because many of the people they helped told those stories after the war. Not everyone can be a Schindler or a Winton, but there are going to be more than a few who find a way to help people where needed as things get worse.

Sadly, yes.

I think here in the States we’re a 9/11-style event away from happily embracing totalitarianism.

I’m currently reading Hitler’s First Victims and while I knew Nazism was gaining power in the early 1930’s, I didn’t actually know that the systemic murder of Jews began this early, nor that anyone in the legal apparatus at the time tried to stop it, so this was heartening in a way even though they didn’t ultimately succeed.

There are a lot of parallels with what’s happening now under Donald Trump, particularly the intentional destruction of the rule of law, which made the establishment of Dachau and the kidnapping indefinite imprisonment and murder of Jewish political prisoners possible.

Jesus.

Yeah, sounds wild, until you realize that the police are a civic religion and the Federal Government 100% supports this kind of activity. Hell, everyone involved in Uvalde got reelected.

God, no.

I love my peace and wouldn’t trade it for anyone.

Leonardo’s mind was a glorious place.

100% the guy I’d have dinner with if I could go back in time.

I suppose, if you’re looking to make it more convenient, you could cook things in bulk and then freeze portions of it for later consumption.

It’s pretty impressive.

Objectively cooler than Bruce Springsteen.

Good old Duterte.

Bummer that they’re not taking him up for one of his signature helicopter rides.

Marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries. This guy must have been really badly-behaved.

Two wives?

That must be unbearable.

HA, needed that laugh. Thanks.

I had ‘be excellent to each other’ stenciled on my very first ipod.

Shouldn’t it be ‘tmrw’?