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[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

They Killed Cursive So You’d Need a Translator to Read Your Own History

Two generations now. That’s what we’ve manufactured.

You Can Thank Progressive Ideologue Randi Weingarten and the American Federation of Teachers

In 2010, cursive was quietly stripped from Common Core. No debate. No vote. Just gone — replaced by keyboarding and test prep. Fast forward to today, and the results are exactly what any thinking person would have predicted.

Drew Gilpin Faust — former Harvard president, not exactly a conspiracy theorist — walked into her Civil War seminar and discovered two-thirds of her Harvard undergraduates couldn’t read cursive. Two-thirds. At Harvard. One student admitted he’d reshaped his entire senior thesis to avoid sources with handwriting. Another abandoned Virginia Woolf because she couldn’t read Woolf’s letters.

Let that sink in. The elite are being graduated illiterate in their own language’s written form.

What’s actually been accomplished here?

- The Declaration of Independence is now a foreign document to most Americans under 30. They can’t read it. They depend on someone else’s transcription — someone else’s framing.

- Grandma’s letters from the war. Mom has to translate the birthday card. The direct, unmediated connection to your own bloodline? Severed.

- Original manuscripts, land deeds, family Bibles, journals, contracts. All of it now requires a credentialed interpreter — a new priesthood of specialists who tell you what your history says.

Faust herself spelled out the implication with brutal clarity: “Just imagine if you had some contract that you had signed and you couldn’t read it and someone told you, well, this is what’s in the contract. And then later you might find that it was something else.”

That’s not a bug. That’s the feature.

When a population can’t independently access primary sources, history becomes whatever the gatekeepers decide it is. The past isn’t discovered — it’s assigned. And a person who needs permission to read their own inheritance is a person who’s been quietly, thoroughly disempowered.

The technocrats will tell you it was just pragmatic modernization. Nothing to see here. Just optimizing the curriculum for the 21st-century economy.

Funny how the “optimizations” always seem to produce citizens more dependent, more disconnected, and easier to manage.

Teach your kids cursive. Buy the workbook. Spend twenty minutes a day. Not because it’s charming or vintage — but because a people who can’t read their own founding documents in the original hand are no longer a free people. They’re tenants in their own civilization, renting access to a past that was stolen from them one curriculum meeting at a time.

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The Hunting Party (1971)

The good: the performances. Oliver Reed sounds odd with an American accent. He gives his usual excellent intense performance. On the flip side nobody does a mean son of a bitch (yet a chicken who snipes rather than a fair fight) better than Gene Hackman. Candace Bergen doesn’t have a lot to work with but she’s ok. Mitchell Ryan is fantastic as Doc the second in command.
The bad: the direction. This is a mostly tv director that decided to make a more Peckinpah than Peckinpah type film. However his staging is nowhere near as good. Some scenes being downright clunky.
The ugly: the script, all the characters but Bergen, and the actual killing of a cow mixed with Hackman spousal raping of Bergen right at the start.
There is no deep meaning here. There is only a bastard hunting down other bastards. Reed is the “good guy” but even he is a bad man - kidnapping and also raping Bergen. Reed and Bergen are the only characters that show even minimal growth as it turns out Reed is nicer to her than her husband is and they have a blossoming relationship. Hackman doesn’t care as he wants them both dead because she will have been “ruined”.
There is one fantastically staged scene involving Reed, Bergen, and Ryan with peaches. It’s funny and moving. There is no more fun after that and it’s bookended with them having a gut wrenchingly sad scene near the end.
It’s a brutal and nihilistic film.

[Gossip Goblin @Gossip_Goblin]

Pomegranate - out now!

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@memeslich @DiscussingFilm Hell yeah give me a Kickers Inc movie. 😂

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13 Frightened Girls (1963)

This is a very confusing movie. The title has zero to do with the content which is a spy thriller meets Disney. It can’t decide if it’s a cute kids movie or an actual adult spy thriller so the tone is all over the place. Deadly serious to silly with cartoon music - you get whiplash.
It’s watchable but only because of the natural charm of Kathy Dunn. Certainly not from watching the mayor in Jaws be debonair.

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@AKNewsNow She knows what she did. Leave the bear alone.

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@David_Da_Boss Or… hear me out… it’s just bad writing which is why no one can figure out what’s going on.

[Marvel Mania @Sksj002]

Dr. Doom specially waited for Daredevil to be in jail before starting his conquest

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@Polymarket That’s of course totally not legal but go for it dude!

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@SenRandPaul Unless he leaves in handcuffs it’s all just a show. And we all know he’s not leaving in handcuffs and nothing will come of any of it. It’s a total waste of time.

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@MarvelExrth616 All the leaks have said he’s Nomad

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Savage Flowers (2025)

This is dumb. The main girl is so mean and the new girl, instead of killing her in her sleep or beating the shit out of her, lets her run the house and ruin the house including killing her protectors. Then the rest of the girls don't kill her (or just ignore her) either even though she's clearly detrimental to their well being.
Mean Girls meets Lord of the Flies kinda sorta. But it's so preposterous that it doesn't work.

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@Laufeyson4eva The leaks already said he’s Nomad.

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@JustJenRX And I’m sure she was released with no penalty. Seems to be the pattern now.

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@__0HOUR1_ They’ve been like that for at least a year (at least in the Atlanta area). This is old news. Our high trust society is going away - isn’t that lovely?

[Casey Krol @CaseyKrol]

The Crusades were a response to 400+ years of Muslim aggression against Europe and Christians ✝️

Looks like history might repeat itself.

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@philthatremains Spraueeght

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@ReturnOfKappy

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@qualitylearnc Maybe they’ll fall into an acidic mud pot.