#32751 2021-08-16 01:59:54

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#32752 2021-08-16 12:17:03

But soft, tis fair amnesia come to visit.
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#32753 2021-08-16 15:51:44

Baywolfe wrote:

But soft, tis fair amnesia come to visit.
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Both parties are deeply complicit in this debacle. Ever since 1948, and the Palestinian partition. It mutates. From the attack by Israel on the USS Liberty, Reagan's little Beirut excursion, the CIA funding the Wahabist to help the Afghans (that we liked) against the Russians... The list goes on.  We financed Osama Bin Laden, from mid 80's on, until he bit the hand that fed him.  We put in Saddam, and we took him out. Kaddafi, the same.

So, let's not play party politics with this, it should be a moment of realization the our Gov't is distributing wealth to various corporations with the ongoing conflicts. We all know this. Who gives a shit about the kids we send over to be chopped up, or the multitudes of civilians killed by our bombers, drones etc, right?

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#32754 2021-08-16 19:05:51

SpacePuppy wrote:

Baywolfe wrote:

But soft, tis fair amnesia come to visit.
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Both parties are deeply complicit in this debacle. Ever since 1948, and the Palestinian partition. It mutates. From the attack by Israel on the USS Liberty, Reagan's little Beirut excursion, the CIA funding the Wahabist to help the Afghans (that we liked) against the Russians... The list goes on.  We financed Osama Bin Laden, from mid 80's on, until he bit the hand that fed him.  We put in Saddam, and we took him out. Kaddafi, the same.

So, let's not play party politics with this, it should be a moment of realization the our Gov't is distributing wealth to various corporations with the ongoing conflicts. We all know this. Who gives a shit about the kids we send over to be chopped up, or the multitudes of civilians killed by our bombers, drones etc, right?

Everybody with any sense knew how this was always going to end.  Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Iraq, Iran, {all the CIA Black Ops} and now Afghanistan.  I've called this a senseless waste of American lives to anybody that would listen.  But, it's a fucking joke and I'm going to treat it like one.  Party got nothing to do with it because I don't belong to one.  (Refusing to join any party that would have me as a member).

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#32755 2021-08-18 13:51:00

This is hilarious:
"You know, I'm something of a Republican myself":
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#32756 2021-08-18 14:19:22

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#32757 2021-08-18 16:46:42

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#32758 2021-08-19 07:30:19

Nature can be so full of truth:  the San Francisco Garter Snake

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#32759 2021-08-19 18:20:34

Leon Trotsky was a revolutionary Soviet politician and Marxist theorist who was assassinated by an NKVD (Soviet secret police) agent on this day in 1940 in Mexico City, where he had been writing and organizing in exile
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#32760 2021-08-21 13:07:37

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#32761 2021-08-21 16:16:33

Ah Golden Days Of Misspent Youth...

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#32762 2021-08-21 16:17:21

Ah, Conservative Values...
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#32763 2021-08-21 17:26:27

On this day in 1831, Nat Turner, a slave preacher in Southampton County, Virginia, initiated a rebellion in which groups of slaves went house to house in the area, liberating the enslaved and killing their masters.
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#32764 2021-08-24 15:26:04

Howard Zinn, born on this day in 1922, was an American historian, playwright, civil rights activist, and socialist thinker most known for his work "A People's History of the United States", originally published in 1980.

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#32765 2021-08-24 15:39:13

So, when people make noises about "politics ain't what it used to be" I look at what the reality is here in the Portland Metro Area.  The day this occurred, our quiet street which has become a freeway due to road repairs on the main thoroughfare(s), you know a detour... a motorcyclist buzzed down the road with a 20 mile an hour speed limit going close to 50. He was clad in ProudBoy colors, and was armed with a shield and what looked like a couple of baseball bats as well.  The week before, a Trump Parade... went down the street. 

So, if I ever come across as being a bit paranoid, I think you can cut me some slack because of what is happening right out my front door.  I have told my son not to go to the demos due to people like this below:

"Portland Proud Boy aiming at photographer Mark Peterson on August 22, 2021" He shot at several people, missing them thankfully. The police who seem to have an inordinate toleration for these miscreants, let him out of jail hours later, with stripped down charges.  I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't give him his gun back.

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#32766 2021-08-24 16:47:40

Yep the usual suspects.

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Tiny has a big day out.

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Always been a town with miscreants, I have to rely on friends to gauge it now as everything seems to have grown as the city grew. I was around a bit for the skinheads in the Hawthorne and the rise of cold pill meth for the everyman.

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#32767 2021-08-24 17:46:37

The town has great political history in many respects, union organizing etc.. Yet the truth is, Oregon is highly racist, even having an exclusion clause for Blacks in the original papers for the State. This of course went out the window with the importation of workers during WW2... Georgia-Pacific and the ship building. 

No longer live in Portland, but to the south of it in Clackamas. When you come through again, give me a nudge.

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#32768 2021-08-24 19:11:12

Yeah, I lived in the black hood for a while and it was really small and beseiged by gentrification. Never met a black person at all when living in the southern Jackson County.

What was that black Portland neighborhood that was wiped out in a day by the flood?

Vanport I believe.  Had it been converted after WW2 to a immigrant and black hood and had hopes in the 50s of self organizing and raising up through education opertunities being built within?

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#32769 2021-08-24 19:20:00

Yeah Vanport. The Grateful Dead wrote a song about the people there , Wake of the Flood. And named their albulm the same,

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How Oregon’s Second Largest City Vanished in a Day

Portland's whiteness is often treated more as joke than a blemish on its reputation, but its lack of diversity (in a city of some 600,000 residents, just 6 percent are black*) stems from its racist history, of which Vanport is an integral chapter. When Oregon was admitted to the United States in 1859, it was the only state whose state constitution explicitly forbade black people from living, working or owning property within its borders. Until 1926, it was illegal for black people to even move into the state. Its lack of diversity fed a vicious cycle: whites looking to escape the South after the end of the Civil War flocked to Oregon, which billed itself as a sort of pristine utopia, where land was plentiful and diversity was scarce. In the early 1900s, Oregon was a hotbed of Ku Klux Klan activity, boasting over 14,000 members (9,000 of whom lived in Portland)

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#32770 2021-08-25 18:43:17

On this day in 1921, August 25th.... the first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain took place. More than 10,000 armed workers battled with state forces, making it the largest post-Civil War uprising, and the largest labor uprising in U.S. history.

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#32772 2021-08-26 12:45:05

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#32773 2021-08-26 17:58:58

Thanks for this. I live in NC and never heard of him until now.

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#32774 2021-08-27 13:23:11

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#32775 2021-08-27 13:25:59

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

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#32776 2021-08-27 13:37:42

Seems like it's working just fine to me.

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#32777 2021-08-27 14:42:30

A Nation Of Toddlers:
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#32778 2021-08-27 15:42:17

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#32779 2021-08-28 12:09:46

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#32780 2021-08-29 13:41:14

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#32781 2021-08-29 16:17:12

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#32782 2021-08-29 16:28:57

The US Government gave the Taliban more equipment than they have soldiers - five times over.
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#32783 2021-08-30 18:39:10

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#32784 2021-08-30 22:36:48

Here is the last U.S. service member leaving Afghanistan after 20 years of war Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue, commander of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, boarding a C-17 at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Aug. 30...

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#32785 2021-08-31 06:33:33

I was going to post a goofy picture.  But this one above needs to be left alone for a bit.

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#32786 2021-09-01 20:10:13

So I couldn't hold out any longer.  Sue me.  https://www.jaspersnoek.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/z0x6woohlzoy.png

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#32787 2021-09-02 01:54:23

Prove Me Wrong:
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#32788 2021-09-02 01:55:26

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#32789 2021-09-02 02:00:54

And then she publishes it, and claims victimhood.  Perfection.
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#32790 2021-09-02 10:22:52

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#32791 2021-09-02 15:52:47

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#32792 2021-09-02 22:22:42

Heaven or Hell?
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#32793 2021-09-02 22:24:32

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#32794 2021-09-02 22:28:53

Moebius?
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#32795 2021-09-03 09:39:48

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#32796 2021-09-03 09:59:02

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#32797 2021-09-03 10:06:35

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#32798 2021-09-06 15:58:49

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#32799 2021-09-06 16:00:32

Up yours, Karen:
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