@Shadow298 rewatching S1 now with my son since he wasn't old enough when it started. Looking forward to S2!

@docnad This is not the flight you're looking for...

@MrGoat you stuck in '85 presently? I've got a DeLorean can bring you back...🤣

@Dogofalltrees Maher has had some insightful (and funny) commentary over the years but in the end he's an opportunist pretending to be a relevant pundit.

@MrGoat discovered Parr in 1985 while looking for Naughty, Naughty before St Elmo's Fire. What a great first album.

@Notokay @AnnetteTRemain not that it's a competition but more than half my grandparents friends and family in their generation were killed by the Nazis, including my grandfather's cousin who was gunned down with her baby and his mother who launched herself at the man in grief and rage. My grandfather himself twice escaped attempts to send him to camps, once by bribing an officer with a worthless briefcase, crawling out a bathroom window, and jumping under a personnel truck. He died of cancer.

@AnnetteTRemain and there is the little matter of 12M+ directly killed by Stalin through executions, famine, and Gulag conditions. Probably 25M+ via war-related policies and the indirect consequences of his paranoid governance.

@AnnetteTRemain it's impossible to know what would have happened had Hungary tried to remain neutral or join the allies. It was extremely perilous for eastern countries. One thing I do know is that all of my relatives who survived stated that the Soviet allied govt was unequivocally worse than the Nazis (counterintuitive I know). They stripped the country of most of its private businesses and terrorized the population on a regular basis. My grandfather was picked up twice and held for days.

@AnnetteTRemain didn't know about his history but just read some of it. As with everything, Hungarian history during that time is complicated. For example, there's something to be said about Horthy's govt resisting deportations all the way until 1944. That in fact probably saved part of my family (and smarts on my grandfather and great grandmother's part). We know that Hungary primarily joined the Axis to regain territory and prestige lost in WWI. But fascism was already afoot. /1

@AnnetteTRemain or are you talking about during the war?

@AnnetteTRemain I don't know this guy but my mom was there too at roughly 14 years old. My grandfather was imprisoned during the revolt, my grandmother was sent to the countryside, and my mom and aunt fled to Vienna. I do know that there were still some far right factions and Nazi sympathizers but they were a tiny minority after 11 years. The saddest part about that period is that it may have been for nothing. Hungary eventually returned to fascism under Orban. The lessons are forgotten...

@jdtasker can't be true that it's the same as not knowing yourself or your enemy. I think you will go back and forth, succumbing to your own blind spots and flaws.

@TheNewsOwl stumped so far but working on it...most words I've thought of fit 3 but not 4...

@jdtasker what if you know the enemy but not yourself?

I'm done trying to explain to people that BlueSky was initiated primarily by Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter, who left the social network after claiming they were making the same mistakes as Twitter. It looks decent right now as a mass alternative to the galactic dumpster fire. But nobody should be under any illusion that things won't eventually devolve due to human nature and malign influence. This despite having become popular w/marginalized groups during beta and being a public benefit corp.

@Cartephilia never knew about these, thanks! The French at the bottom roughly translates to:

He ate some bread. Oh heal him good doctor!

@wolfwoman so the solution was to simply go out and say "Trump says he'll break the system and bring you something new but we all know that he didn't do that last time and he's only in it for himself. If you vote for Democrats, we'll start changing Washington to work for you. Joe Biden and I have already started to do this but it's a long slog." It should be noted that in many ways, this is the message of the progressive left and populism of Bernie.

@elbutterfield unfortunately they've turned it into an almost no-win situation. They run the "flood the zone with shit" and "always triple down on outrageous lies" playbook so that everyone becomes exhausted, gives up, and lets them do whatever they want.

@EdgeOErin not many of them from what I can find. Mohammed Deif, head of Hamas' "military wing" (as if there should be a legitimate distinction between any "arm" of a terrorist group) was named alongside Gallant and Netanyahu. The ICC is not able to issue such warrants against Lebanese, Syrian, or Iranian leaders because they have not ratified the Rome Statute. Israel hasn't either but since the "State of Palestine" joined the ICC, the body considers all the territories its jurisdiction.

@EdgeOErin do you know if they've issued warrants for the leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah, PIJ, Fatah, Iran, Boko Haram, the Houthis, Russia, or Sudan? Just wondering.