Reconstruction was a mistake. Land should've been seized and given to newly freed people; 40 acres and a mule, etc. That they were allowed to keep any honor or dignity has led to a romanticized and mythologized past that didn't exist.
I remember the last time a couple broods lined up and cicadas were everywhere. It was sometime in the 90s, maybe 95 or 96; my brother and I took some acid and went down into this national forest. I remember standing around talking and turning the headlights on for some reason and several cicadas were all over both of us. We played it off like it wasn't freaky as hell but I still remember it 20+ years later.
Yeah this shouldn't be surprising at all. Democrats fall in love (or don't vote), Republicans fall in line (and vote every time).
You can see the in-fighting here in the fediverse already. The hardcore leftists saying they "can't support genocide" and getting mad at progressives for not being left enough. The right wing machine has been pushing the country to the right since 1970 and the "left" (what exists of it) was caught completely unaware and is only waking up now.
Well we should probably keep those kids from listening to his racist rants or watching his sex tape or watching his horrible reality tv show then. Wouldn't want "the children" to learn he's a piece of shit or something I guess?
We'd hoped lemmy would be able to have an actual conversation but it seems like a lot of the pedantic "well akshually" terminal-online redditards came along. It's useless trying to argue with them, they're incapable of nuance and reality due to a lack of life experience.
What kid is even looking up the Hulk Hogan these days though, dudes like 70 and hasn't been relevant in the 21st century. Him being racist shouldn't surprise anyone.
Nah they said they were all domestic terrorists at CPAC 2022. No reason not to take them at their word.
They're domestic terrorists seeking to install theocratic rule in the U.S. in complete disregard of democracy. They should be dragged into the street and dealt with like the fundamentalists and terrorists they are.
They can be used to quit smoking cigarettes completely and then you can ween yourself off the vape a little easier (ymmv).
So even if vapes were worse than cigarettes (surely they're not), in the long run it'd still be better for you if you were trying to quit.