This is more of a general answer as fascism seems to be gaining more ground globally. A book published in 1997 “The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy” theorized roughly every 80 years (or about a human life span) we face a crisis related to a critical mass of people losing the knowledge and shared values from the previous generations. Imagine the perspective of a Revolutionary War veteran who fought under General Washington to help forge the United States, who would be understandably upset to hear any mention of a Civil War between states, which didn’t start until 82 years later.

We are losing that collective memory now both in the U.S. and abroad; the remaining World War II veterans are in no position to punch these fascists when they see a swastika flown at a rally. Unless we vote in numbers large enough to throw the MAGA movement into the dustbin of history, in the future we can expect younger Trump acolytes to take root in the same vacuum of thought.

From a recent article

”With these words Biden addressed the bitter irony that haunted the commemoration ceremonies. While D-Day occurred eight decades ago, America is now just five months from an election that could bring to power a man and a movement who embody and celebrate the twisted authoritarian values of the enemies we sought to defeat so long ago. Fascism has not gone away. The tactics of the Nazis to employ racism and demagoguery to divide society and enable their seizure of power and their gutting of democratic institutions currently are the playbook of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.”

Sounds like he’s gonna need someone he trusts dearly to pee in a cup for him.

“Ivanka, I need your pee. This time it’s definitely not a sex thing.”

If you don’t need realtime parity, I’ve had no issues on my media server running mismatched drives pooled via MergerFS with SnapRAID doing scheduled parity.

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Roughly a quarter of General Aviation traffic (which is primarily piston single-engine aircraft) is flight training, 30% is personal use, and the other 45% is commerce. I’m hoping we can increase adoption of unleaded alternatives since I don’t see most of those flights going away.

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In addition, the only party with a serious bill proposed to expand Social Security is the Democrats, which would be paid for by raising the cap where taxes are currently paid on only the first $147,000 of earnings. Republicans plan to sunset and privatize all of our benefits, throwing the elderly into poverty just so Wall Street can skim a few billion off the top.

More likely he didn’t exist other than as an itinerant preacher. It would be weird for the son of the creator of the universe to redo party tricks already attributed to previous gods.

Why is it so difficult for Russians to make agitprop without sounding like Google translate? Go back to clown college.

I bought an $800 half stack guitar amplifier in 2009 and rarely play with the volume above 1, let alone play shows with it. But it looks neat.

When a campaign hires staffers like Stephen Miller, and the candidate has said neo-nazis and white supremacists are fine people, that right there is likely the reason.

“pinching pennies” implies more control over the situation than “stagnant wages, rent, student loans, etc. have made meals for one person over ten dollars a rare luxury”

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Nobody even notices at Wal-Mart

I imagine Trump was bewildered by any questions about succession, that doesn’t come into play when offing those deemed disloyal. When he learned rioters were being turned away because their weapons couldn’t go through magnetometer screening he told aides, “They’re not here to hurt me. Take the fucking mags away.”

I’m finally getting around to this one, and so many who called this a Nothing-burger . . . are still doing that despite all evidence. After Trump called Putin smart for invading Ukraine, and to this day not having a single bad word in his mouth for a murderous authoritarian. The clown can muster insults for dead/captured service members, those with disabilities, anyone he deems weaker than him, anyone who crossed him without adequate leverage. This book helps answer the looming question, of what leverage Putin has on Trump to gag the normal flow of verbal diarrhea.

Parents of my ex ran a few MLM companies, it’s a cycle of hyping some miracle health cure with gullibility as the actual product until everyone has burned through their family and friend relationships, then starting over with a new company. Attended a few of their events and there was a heavy prosperity gospel vibe, giving away Bentleys and Lambos to the top reps, showing videos of the company jet they could earn trips on. At one point my mother-in-law told me they were spending $30k per month for the landscaping team at their mansion which I don’t know if it was true, but seems absurdly irresponsible. Then again what do I know I don’t have a house with an elevator, so it could be a typical expense.

Weird that I see this while listening to a podcast about wild pigs on the Auckland Islands. Googling made me realize NZ isn’t north of Australia like I’d remembered

I wouldn’t want to sleep in the same zipcode as that choad.