@Signatal in many ways I wish it were the 90s...

@Lulz4l1f3 I honestly think that was his crazed brain trying to say something like "she put out a statement" or information or something similar.

@Gladari I don't think they're suggesting that McCarthy himself was around in the 60s but that the Res Scare persisted. It certainly continued to influence large swaths of the American public. The HUAC itself wasn't abolished until 1975!

@QueenOfEverything the conclusions provide a good TLDR.

Worthy analysis.
https://secularhumanism.org/exclusive/trumps-authoritarian-social-movement-a-social-psychological-analysis/

@th3j35t3r this is very cool! Can we get one between the utterly insane MAGA states and the rest of the USA?

@EnochianEntropy 🤣

@Opusworks I think it was more like "this f[ou][rc][mk][ei][rn] president" but the impact is the same.😂

@EnochianEntropy I heard from a little Bart that he was the first to go...

@Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine well I'm sure he'll find good work there fixing AvtoVAZ cars. Hope he stays away from the Ukrainian drone strikes...

@Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine is he a good mechanic?

@TomB @matuzalem I was up late that night in Palo Alto and I called a friend from college around 7:45 EDT. We chatted until about 8:15 when she said she had to go to work. Later that day she called me crying and said I might have saved her life because she would normally have been inside the WTC south tower by around 8:40a. To this day I don't know why I decided to call her since we hadn't been in touch much over the previous 8 years. The universe is brutal and brilliant all at once.

@ps9714 I mean FFS, this society needs to raise better men. Men who are not so easily corrupted by power or enticed by material things. If the threat of getting caught in this post MeToo society is not enough to prevent this, we have to start much earlier with teaching that power must always be used for good, including empowering others.

@FrankCannon @SentinelOfTruth you know what else eats pets whether they're alive or dead? Worms...

@CarmenSlamdiego nah, he and his cult have been saying this for years. The evangelicals got a big part of what they wanted in Dobbs and then realized that it was harder to make Dems into monsters when 80% of America believed in the established lines from Roe.

@janallmac for me, Zionism has always had the same original meaning: Jews have been kicked out of, denigrated, and/or destroyed in every place in the world over the millennia. Much longer than any other group of people. Antisemitism is endemic to the human race. Therefore, the Jews as a people, culture, ethnicity, and religion require a safe, strong, defensible homeland to prevent another genocide which would undoubtedly be successful in its absence. Israel was the only logical location.

@janallmac hate is taught and transmitted. Generational hate is frequently subconscious and the longer it's been around, the more difficult it is to find the original reasons.

@VelvetDuchess it's the sound of the largest Jackson Pollock piece you've ever seen -- made entirely of ketchup...