If you haven’t already, please, go home tonight and read Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains.” There will never be a better day on which to do it. It’s not long, and I won’t spoil why but it’s one of the most haunting stories ever written.
"kill them with kindness"
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A daily reminder that an immigrant didn’t steal your wages or take away your pension, a billionaire did.
Over the last 50 years, $79 trillion has been stolen from the bottom 90% by the top 1% while billionaires pay a lower tax rate than a truck driver, teacher or nurse.
This is how fascism comes to America. It’s the endless events, day after day, until one day you wake up in a different country. Anti-immigrant rhetoric, censorship, attacks on universities, masked terror squads murdering people in the streets, enemy lists, denaturalization, camps
A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.
@makutyre@ReviewsPossum@interesting_aIl Both are words, but mean different things. 😊
Twinge: a sudden feeling/sharp pain
Tinge: slight/small amount of something, (usually in reference to a color or taste)