Can't believe we're destroying cities and bombing large civilian populations for ___?????____ I don't know, confusing reasons at best.
You can't really quantify it, but a lot of what made America great is that we believed in truth, shot straight, and tried to do the right thing. No longer true.
I think this thread is the best piece of African American History I've seen this Black History Month 2026. Thank you to the author for crafting it. The scope, analysis, and synthesis of the grand narrative of the African experience in American history is inspiring and extremely valuable.
I hope I'm just being alarmist, but I don't think it's much of a stretch to imagine a successful and deadly Iranian attack in this illegal war prompting tRump to order a nuclear attack on Tehran. Ask yourself what you'd do if that happened?
I think this thread is the best piece of African American History I've seen this Black History Month 2026. Thank you to the author for crafting it. The scope, analysis, and synthesis of the grand narrative of the African experience in American history is inspiring and extremely valuable.
Orwell would be proud. (Of how right he got it so long ago.)
"It was the war of a naive generation."
A photo of a book, the world of yesterday by Stefan Zweig. The text reads “incurring Kaiser Wilhelm's accusation of being men with no fatherland. It was the war of a naive generation, and the greatest danger of all in it was the still intact belief of the nations in the justice of their own cause alone. Gradually, in those first weeks of the war in 1914, it became impossible to have a reasonable conversation with anyone. The kindest and most friendly acquaintances seemed to be drunk on the smell of blood. Friends whom I had always known as inveterate individualists, even intellectual anarchists, became rabid patriots overnight, and from patriotism they moved on to an insatiable desire to annex land. Every conversation ended either in such stupid phrases as, "If you don't know how to hate then you don't know how to love properly either"or in outright suspicion. Friends with whom I had never quarrelled in years accused me to my face of being no true Austrian any more and said I should go over to France or Belgium. They even cautiously suggested that opinions such as my view that war was a crime ought to be brought to the notice of the authorities, for 'defeatists'—a word recently coined in France-were committing the worst of crimes against the fatherland. All I could do was withdraw into myself and keep quiet while everyone else persisted in a feverish state of turmoil. It was not easy. For even life in exile-as I have come to know
“Gradually, in those first weeks of the war in 1914, it became impossible to have a reasonable conversation with anyone. The kindest and most friendly acquaintances seemed to be drunk on the smell of blood.” From Stefan Zweig in The World of Yesterday
Bombing for peace, huh? Doubt that'll work.
Completely agree. And it isn't going to be easy. The last time fascism advanced this far 60-80 million people died and large portions of Europe and Asia were devastated before the jack-booted aggressors were put down.
I thought murder was a sin according to their myth. ("Thou shalt not kill") Oh wait, they don't really believe that. If there's one thing the MAGA era has shown, all their morality is really situational bs. I realized how full of it they were when DJT said "two" Corinthians and they still loved him.
* that they can't have them
It's so extremely hypocritical that we (the U.S.) have a huge arsenal of nuclear weapons and yet we get to tell other countries that can't have them and will be destroyed if they try to get them.
It's time for 67 senators to stand up and do the right thing; save the idea that is "America" and ensure that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth".
If they do, the fascists will go after them hard, but history will call them heroes.
It's time for 67 senators to stand up and do the right thing; save the idea that is "America" and ensure that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth".
If they do, the fascists will go after them hard, but history will call them heroes.
It's time for 67 senators to stand up and do the right thing; save the idea that is "America" and ensure that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth".
If they do, the fascists will go after them hard, but history will call them heroes.
Great powers are great until they aren't any more.
Lies, corruption, racism, and a lack of long-term vision weaken a country.
Reality matters and ruling from some mythical fantasyland that never really existed is dangerous in the complex real world.
Just saying.
It was required reading for members of the Black Panther Party.
Everybody who said Dumpf and the GOP would end the endless wars, just got played as fools. Congratulations, he used you like a bunch of lame, dim-witted marks.
Of course it wasn't really about ending war--they're the ones who launched the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
An excellent critique of so much that is currently wrong in higher ed ...
Sounds like a great book. Congratulations.
Very true. And as students, the univ should serve them, although historically, especially in revenue producing sports, universities haven't always done the best job. But as athletes they are more like employees who do serve (as in generate revenue and build the university's brand) the school.
It's not just that white is in the title, it's also because white flight was a tactic used to maintain racial segregation even after Jim Crow was outlawed. The right likes to claim that racism isn't a thing anymore, or even that whites are now the victims. Kruse's seminal work exposes that lie.
Good point. And college athletes, like every other American, should be free to sell their services to the highest bidder in a free market.
I always love a good quotation and my all-time favorite quote is from Paine. I've mentioned this before, but it's just so relevant today:
"The time hath found us." Thomas Paine, COMMON SENSE, 1776.
Great point, and one of the things that ensures Orwell and 1984's continuing (if not, increasing) relevance today.
it's fine to criticize the Democratic Party, as long as we remember that the main problem is the GOP and especially its MAGA base.
I see so many leftist who seem obsessed with hating the Dems. We have to remember that, for better or worse, we have a 2-party system. Focus on defeating the bad one.
Some say that racism isn't a thing anymore (looking at you Supreme Court) & I was shocked when I saw this live, but in retrospect 50s-style Jim Crow racism in Texas comes as no surprise.
Name the rogue trooper at a minimum. An apology might offer a chance to grow.
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Totally agree with you about wasting two spots on outmatched teams. But, I've actually been surprised that recent changes have increased the number of competitive programs. Tulane is better than they've been in my lifetime; SMU, Stanford, Duke, TXTech, & many others have improved significantly.
We learned more from a three-minute record baby than we ever learned in school.
--Bruce Springsteen, "No Surrender"
I needed money because I had none. I fought the law and the law won.
--The Clash, I Fought the Law
