Hadn’t heard of this one, thanks. Americans are pros at not learning from history.

I thought this part was particularly funny/familiar:

It was a bill designed to fail in Congress because it was seen by free trade supporters as hurting both industry and farming, but it passed anyway.

Edit: That article lead me to this one, which gave me a good chuckle. How quaint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petticoat_affair

these women, dubbed the “Petticoats”, socially ostracized Secretary of War John Eaton and his wife, Peggy Eaton, over disapproval of the circumstances surrounding the Eatons’ marriage and what they deemed her failure to meet the “moral standards of a Cabinet Wife”.

After further reading about Peggy Eaton’s childhood, kind of a bummer. Also, John Eaton pulled a King David/Bethsheba on her first husband, quite literally… That’s wild.

Once Timberlake told Eaton of his financial troubles, Eaton unsuccessfully attempted to have the Senate pass legislation that would authorize payment of the debts Timberlake had accrued during his Naval service. Eventually, Eaton paid Timberlake’s debts and procured him a lucrative posting to the U.S. Navy’s Mediterranean Squadron; many rumormongers asserted that Eaton aided Timberlake as a means to remove him from Washington, in order for Eaton to socialize with Peggy.

What a shithead. Literally sent him to fight pirates so he could bang the dude’s wife hahah

Also, the costs would still be passed on to consumers even if the production was moved back home, because it will cost more in general. And gotta keep those profit margins up.

You’ve got a couple months…

So how far do we go back then? Because Israel has been causing destruction in Gaza for probably a dozen presidents

Slippery slope is fallacious reasoning. Seems pretty easy to draw a line here, and being a fucking Nazi is beyond it.

concentration camps

Yeah, no.

No, we’ve just seen enough at this point to understand that absolute freedom of speech/expression is a mistake.

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What foolishness? Removing Nazis from civilized society?

Is that what you took away from that comment?

Learn some fucking history, because it’s repeating.

And that’s wrong.

Seems contradictory, no?

Well, they know who you are, and you better believe that you are on several of their lists. So hopefully you will be able to take solace in the fact that you “took the high road” during the last real election this country will ever have, when you’re huddled up in some white person’s basement, hiding from the government.

There is no way for you, or anyone, to know how many people abstained from voting over any one issue, 🤡

I actually had someone tell me a month or so back that genocide is as bad as it gets and you can’t make it worse once it’s genocide

This was a very common argument I saw. Unfortunately, I think there are people who bought it. It’s so ahistorical, and nobody seems to know anything about the conditions in Germany pre-WW2 (or probably most of the atrocities that the Nazis committed).

There are levels to this shit, it’s not just an on/off switch.

It can (and will) absolutely get far far worse in the West Bank.

Palestinians in the West Bank are largely pessimistic about Donald Trump’s re-election, viewing it as unlikely to significantly worsen their already dire situation

Surely they meant “likely”?

There will people who will become billionaires from that volatility.

And they’ll get away with it because no more SEC!

Him and Joe Rogan

For sure… But it seems like a whole different level of indoctrination than just like “being a Christian” or whatever.

Like, you have to be OK with ignoring objective reality. It’s just something I have trouble grasping.