I don’t think people realize that we already did and it’s the zombie.
Zombies as the undead, decomposing, flesh eating, shambling horde we all know them as is only like 50 years old. The viral, running versions are only like 25 years old
70 years ago, people like this were raging about having to let black students into their whites-only schools. 125 years ago, they were raging about the Irish and the Italians being permitted to live here. 175 years ago, they were running riot in Kansas to make it a slave state.
It does show how hollow and fake the entire “YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT’S COMING. YOU JUST CROSSED THE LINE. WE ARE DONE BEING NICE. YOU CAN ONLY PUSH SO FAR.” thing is when they perform the whole act over something that’s been the law for their whole lives.
This remains an utterly ridiculous conspiracy theory. The Manchurian Candidate was a work of fiction. Russians can just pay Americans to do their spying. Hell, there are plenty of dual citizens *living in Russia* who can give birth there and pass American citizenship by blood.
I am genuinely so upset about this. I remember my parents telling me how cool and unifying the bicentennial was, and I even collected the special quarters as a kid
now, Trump ruined my chance to experience something similar and turned the entire thing into trashy MAGAslop.
it should probably be a bigger story that there was a normal bipartisan America 250 organization but then Trump decided to launch his own competing right wing grift version and ruined everything
Musk got on stage with a CHAINSAW. He bragged about feeding USAID into a woodchipper! You can't then claim to be "deeply troubled" when people express anger about the stuff Musk openly bragged about doing!!!!!
feel like I'm taking crazy pills here
My hot take is that the main fault of the Bronx fires is bad insurance law
The state should have simply not keep offering low fire insurance rates in an area where 80% of the housing stock has burned down in 10 years
The way we used to get wool from wild sheep was by waiting until they naturally shed, and either picking out the fleece by hand or collecting it from bushes as it was caught. Humans bred sheep to no longer shed to have a continuous source of wool. Now we *have* to shear them.
Tbh I find it fascinating that some people aren't really aware of how domestication works? Like the guys asking how sheep survive in the wild without a human to shear them. They don't, we made them that way.
One thing I like about the Roman Republic is that it's so much more about systems than individuals. Their institutions were an assembly line that mass produced Not-Quite-Great Men of History.
Once again: it was state legislatures themselves that led the push to ratify the 17th Amendment, because legislatively appointing senators was such an utterly broken, corrupt, nonfunctional system that some states went without representation at all for years at a time.