DagwoodIII
@DagwoodIII@piefed.social
- Comment on Dear Russia, your compromat on the US president is passing its expiration date. Soon everyone who will believe will just assume and anything that isn't sourced will be called AI. 1 day ago:
This is an actual thing already.
Their take is that the Bible shows how God used weak men to do his work. If King David could kill Bathsheba’s husband and Lot could sleep with his daughters, then Trump is fine being who he is. It’s God’s plan and not for us to say…
- Comment on Why isn’t "Democrats would never get away with this" seen as a problem for the left?” 2 days ago:
Clinton had a massive tech boom. That’s pretty much the only reason he survived.
- Comment on Why isn’t "Democrats would never get away with this" seen as a problem for the left?” 2 days ago:
Completely forgetting the Iran Crisis.
The hostages were on TV ever night. There was massive pressure on Carter to free them.
Reagan did a back door deal with Iran, and the hostages were released the day he was inaugurated. Then Reagan became Iran’s worst enemy.
- Comment on Why isn’t "Democrats would never get away with this" seen as a problem for the left?” 3 days ago:
The Left is weaker. Period.
Ronald Reagan went after the unions and the GOP never stopped. The Unions used to do a lot of the groundwork for the Dems; things like getting petitions signed and monitoring voting. The Churches do that job for the GOP because ‘Right To Life.’
The Right has a fantastic ground game in US politics. They drive old folks to the polls on election day, put signs on lawns and in store windows, and send dozens of letters to any media outlet.
Another thing the Left does badly is break up into tiny splinter groups instead of uniting. In one town you’ll have one group pushing for bike lanes, and another angry about the schools, and a third with another agenda.
- Comment on What do other languages use for "magic" words; or names and titles in fantasy and sci-fi novels or cinema? 4 days ago:
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Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny.
The backstory is that Earth sent out colonizing ships to distant planets. The passengers were kept in suspended animation, while the crews were allowed to clone new bodies and transfer their minds.
This particular planet was colonized mostly by Hindus. After developing super powers to help conquer the hostile native fauna, the crew has declared themselves Gods. They use the Hindu pantheon.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/lord-of-light-roger-zelazny/c41678bf1dbdd1a7
- Comment on a thought about authors 4 days ago:
click the link
- Comment on a thought about authors 5 days ago:
“The League of Frightened Men” by Rex Stout.
One of the earliest, and best, of the Nero Wolfe mysteries.
As a young man, an author was crippled in a hazing accident. While he’s gone on to become a successful writer, many of his classmates feel he is planning vengeance.
They see hints and clues to his evil intentions in the books he writes.
Fun read and an interesting look at the times it was written in.
- Comment on I'm surprised trump hasn't attempted to appoint his car to Senate yet. 6 days ago:
I saw a picture of Trump, Melania and son Barron from when the kid was about 5 [?]
The little boy was wearing a business suit and his toy was a pedal car in the shape of a Mercedes limo.
It was one of the creepiest things I’d ever seen.
- Comment on Celebrating anti-intellectualism is the biggest danger to humanity 1 week ago:
Back in the day, the Nazis worked long and hard to subvert the will of countries they were planning on invading.
There are many tentacles in any takeover, and getting people to mistrust the current system is one of them.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 week ago:
That’s an unexpected bonus from living in a multicultural area.
The Asian and South American places serve truly hot food. The posers know not to ask for it ‘extra spicy.’
- Comment on Why do pro athelets get paid millions upon millions of dollars but will be taken off field for something minor? My coach always said walk it off or tough it out. How come its not the same in leagues? 1 week ago:
I’ve yet to see a cybertruck within 1,000 meters of an active job site.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 week ago:
Yes, people in my culture often speak about the foods they enjoy.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 week ago:
I once saw a post where the guy said he was from Minnesota and he thought ketchup was too spicy.
I wanted to burn the heretic.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Look up ‘Baby Doc.’
Papa Doc ran Haiti as his personal fiefdom for decades. His son thought he had what it took to keep the tradition alive.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Is ‘empty’ a synonym for ‘thirsty?”
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/524810162828202040/
Cause in this picture, she really, really looks thirsty
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Melania Trump has entered the chat.
- Comment on Everything is awful because the people who went to business school figured out how to fuck us over as hard as possible. 1 week ago:
Blame Reagan.
A big part of deregulating banks back in the 1980s was shifting away from expensive manufacturing to cheap financial services. Instead of investing in bringing US factories back, Reagan’s polices sent the actual work overseas and left management here.
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a medical historian, but he must have been of some use, otherwise we’d have never heard of him.
Just because a lot of his work has been supplanted doesn’t mean he should be condemned
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 2 weeks ago:
Freud was a pioneer with no technology to help him.
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 2 weeks ago:
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The 7% Solution. Drs. Freud and Watson team up to help Sherlock Holmes overcome his cocaine addiction.
Fun movie, directed by the author of the original novel.
- Comment on Dude's rock 2 weeks ago:
I can’t remember the exact name, but there’s a common process with ongoing characters where the writers find themselves making their toughest characters nicer over time.
Both Wolverine and Jack Reacher were presented as unapproachable loners at first, and both mellowed considerably over time.
Rorschach was ‘lucky’ because he got to die a noble death before being forced to become civilized.
- Comment on Dude's rock 2 weeks ago:
Alan Moore talks about how he created Rorschach to be the most disgusting character imaginable. A total loser with no friends and a twisted view of the world.
He says he’s tired of all the fan boys who come up to him and tell him how Rorschach is them!
- Comment on Leftists should stop trying to change the world, and use those new skills, knowledge and strengths (after trying to wake Liberals up) to survive the accelerating US collapse. Be selfish. Make moves. 2 weeks ago:
What do you think the ‘collapse’ will look like?
There’s a whole lot of nuclear and conventional weapons out there.
The Soviet Empire went down in the calmest way possible, and there were genocidal wars all over the former SSRs.
The idea that the 0.01% don’t have plans is place is naïve.
- Comment on Are people with High functioning autism allowed to become police officers? 2 weeks ago:
Why would you want to be a police officer?
Most of the job is dealing with distraught people and finding a way to get them to cooperate with you.
- Comment on YSK about Project 100,000, when the US conscripted people with mental disabilities to be used as cannon fodder in Vietnam, suffering triple the casualties of other soldiers 2 weeks ago:
You learn something new every day.
Thanks.
- Comment on YSK about Project 100,000, when the US conscripted people with mental disabilities to be used as cannon fodder in Vietnam, suffering triple the casualties of other soldiers 2 weeks ago:
I never heard that. They’d have had normal sized women and it’s more likely that they’d plan around the building than to rely on little people. Remember that the US was building thousands of planes and ships and needing extra small folks would have created a massive bottleneck.
I did a quick search and nothing came up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovitz_family
Family of ‘dwarves’ who survived the concentration camps.
- Comment on YSK about Project 100,000, when the US conscripted people with mental disabilities to be used as cannon fodder in Vietnam, suffering triple the casualties of other soldiers 2 weeks ago:
The basic flaw of you thinking is that there was ever a “reason” the US entered that war.
There wasn’t one. There was just lots of justifications for why te US had to stay in it.
- Comment on YSK about Project 100,000, when the US conscripted people with mental disabilities to be used as cannon fodder in Vietnam, suffering triple the casualties of other soldiers 2 weeks ago:
Please don’t use the “US is evil” argument to justify not knowing history.
- Comment on YSK about Project 100,000, when the US conscripted people with mental disabilities to be used as cannon fodder in Vietnam, suffering triple the casualties of other soldiers 2 weeks ago:
The reality is worse.
The US was almost totally focused on the Soviet threat after WW2. The US wanted France as a strong ally, so the French coerced the Americans to pick up the torch in Vietnam and help the South beat the North. Eisenhower and Kennedy gave the South ‘military advisors’ but didn’t want to fully commit. Then LBJ became President.
Johnson believed that he could win the War with a massive buildup. His plan backfired, and the US went from having a small force committed to a large force stuck in a quagmire. Johnson didn’t want to raise taxes for the War, so he printed money, which lead to inflation.
Nixon got elected as a ‘peace candidate.’ He then doubled down on LBJ’s policies of a big War paid for with paper money. Nixon knew the War was unwinnable; he planned on keeping it going until 1976 when he was out of office.
The inflationary spending was starting to hurt the US economy when the OPEC Oil Embargo hit. That made everything in the US much more expensive. It was so bad under Ford that families that used to be able to do well with one job needed Mom to get a job too.
Jimmy Carter’s man, Paul Volker, won the war on inflation, but people only saw results after Carter was out. Reagan got the credit for Volker’s plan, but Reagan had his own inflationary program ready to go.
In 1964, before the War ramped up, ‘middle class’ was one Union job supporting a family of four with enough money to send the kids to college and have some luxuries. In those days, $1 million was a vast fortune. By 1993, when George Bush Sr. was done, ‘middle class’ was two incomes to keep a household going. In 1993, $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.
- Comment on YSK about Project 100,000, when the US conscripted people with mental disabilities to be used as cannon fodder in Vietnam, suffering triple the casualties of other soldiers 2 weeks ago:
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I’ll take this opportunity to tout a favorite graphic novel.
Big Man Plans.’ A slightly off kilter officer recruits a 4-F little person to be a tunnel rat in Vietnam. Then it gets kinda weird…