Animal Farm (1954)
We have a historic film here. In general I assume everyone is familiar with the story of Animal Farm, so I won’t waste a lot of time there. Besides, you are about to see a pretty faithful adaptation if you have never actually read the book. What makes this film interesting is the film’s origin story, which was told fairly well in the trivia section of IMDB:
The CIA obtained the film rights to “Animal Farm” from George Orwell‘s widow, Sonia Orwell, after his death and covertly funded the production as anti-Communist propaganda.
The head of the CIA operation to obtain the film rights was none other than E. Howard Hunt, later famous as US President Richard Nixon‘s Watergate burglar. As part of the deal, Sonia Orwell requested that she get to meet her idol, Clark Gable; this was arranged.
Not every film has that kind of back story! And it gets better!
A large portion of the budget ($300,000 out of a cost of over $500,000) was supplied by the US Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Policy Coordination, through one of its shell corporations, Touchstone Inc.
That Touchstone? No supposedly a different Touchstone that had absolutely nothing to do with Disney, I mean the Disney Touchstone didn’t start until the 1980s….. Makes you think.
Now a lot of you will have read Animal Farm, and may notice the ending is a bit different. Redemptive, is all I will say so as not to spoil anything. Orwell was not known for that, and his original ending was just as bleak as the entire story. I suppose you have to have some way to fill the movie theater seats on an otherwise quite depressing topic. But how often do you see a film, whose rights were bought by the CIA? Oh, wait… Probably a lot nowadays. Contemplate this on the Tree of Woe as you watch this excellent version of Animal Farm.
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary until you hear the pigs in the barn squealing about “two legs bad.” In that case you might want to nip that in the bud.
My vacation starts next week, I have two weeks’ off. I am going to try to bust a move and make sure you all have content for the next two Thursdays. It will definitely be stuff from the request hopper. I just couldn’t resist posting this considering what a crap job the newest version of Animal Farm turned out to be..
Huh, widescreen animation.
It’s a nice copy.
Looks fantastic.
Disney is totally in with the feds.
Now a lot of you will have read Animal Farm, and may notice the ending is a bit different. Redemptive, is all I will say so as not to spoil anything.
It’s been years since I read Animal Farm. I don’t remember much of the book. Oh well.
Diving in!
The pigs are the politburo and Boxer is the proletariat. The book reflects the reality of how that turned out.
But I do remember watching this when I was a kid.
Some animals were, in fact, more equal than others.
Also, you’ve given me an excuse to post this, so deal with it.
For a moment, I thought that was actually going to be a documentary about The Postal Service narrated by Clark Gable.
Unrelated, but not for nothing: I’ve always thought So Says I by The Shins tells substantially the same story as Animal Farm, condensed into a 3 minute pop tune.
👍 love that album
Mazel tov! Enjoy it.
This. Enjoy the vacation
This movie is bullshit. Everyone knows sheep and cattle don’t mix.
Sheep go to heaven 🎶🎶
That’s elephants and pigs.
That’s splicing DNA not ranching!
I heard this is just an elaborate metaphor for a bunch of animals living on a farm.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Prequel to Animal House?
Or maybe Animal Crossing
Didn’t they add non-binary animals or something?
From ded thred, re leaving Joe to die on the stage
“Free at last! Thank god almighty, free at last!”
TLDW – Do the rabbits find a new warren?
I just couldn’t resist posting this considering what a crap job the newest version of Animal Farm turned out to be..
Hey. It’s up to almost $6 million after almost a month.
I’m delighted it’s taking a pounding at the box office.
STEVE SMITH POUND FILM IN BOX OFFICE….
My beer is empty. What do I do?
Whiskey?
This is the correct answer.
Order another.
Send an orphan to the store.
OT…
But why would you want him to? He obviously has none.
“Wait, you mean so he’s, like… actually a Muslim?” *shocked pikachu face*
Part of his job is attending crap like this whether he supports it or not.
His refusal in this one instance – hell, he campaigned on it – speaks volumes.
“The mayor was elected to lead all of us. He has decided that some of us are not worth his time. That is his right. It is also our right to remember it.” That seems like the right response.
But they still probably voted for him and would do so again.
This is fine.
All OnlyFans?
Ha!
Obviously we need more immigration to revitalize the economy.
The anti natalists continue to get their way.
They can add one more man to that number. Actually, at least 2 as there was another guy at orientation yesterday.
👍
You go girl! I mean… MW.
Congrats!
Today was Day 1 in the Receiving Dept at Meijer, for me. Unbelievably chill, but hard work. Will be sore.
Biggest surprise? The trucks have accordion rollers to get boxes out, but with motors to zip ’em out! (Only one truck, today. Organized and full pallets, instead, all waiting in rows.)
I sense a budding workplace romance….
WTF???
Once again the patriarchy manages to oppress the woman, keeping them in the house to do all the unpaid labor.
Per the article, the jobs being created are in healthcare and education. So jobs with a predominately female workforce. Seems like the ledge ought to be about nonexistent growth in private sector jobs.
One of my takeaways – women are more likely to work in careers that are propped up by government spending and that are essentially recession proof. Healthcare and education were mentioned.
Since it was asked in the latest Hat n Hair post:
Chinese morse code works by assigning each character a 4-digit code. The code is based on what kind of stroke is found at each corner of a character.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-corner_method
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_telegraph_code
Vietnamese, like Chinese, is a tonal language with many homophones, yet a modified Latin alphabet works well enough for them.
Things like this explain why the Chinese did not develop an alphabet early on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZB4EIjUlfc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den
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“Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den” (traditional Chinese: 施氏食獅史; simplified Chinese: 施氏食狮史; lit. ’The Story of Mr. Shi Eating Lions’) is a short narrative poem written in Literary Chinese, with two versions composed of 92 and 94 Chinese characters respectively, which are all pronounced shi ([ʂɻ̩]) when read in Standard Mandarin, with only the tones differing.[1]
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He was a lion poet and he didn’t know it?
Was he lying, or did he show it?
Related.
https://kanjialive.com/214-traditional-kanji-radicals/
In the pre electronic days you looked up the component parts of the characters and where it was located.
Chinese learners still do. Every learner’s dictionary has this list at the front.
Asian writing is retarded.
Let me put another way. If you knew a European language and learned another, learning to write it would be easy. If you knew all three Japanese scripts, learning Chinese, Korean, any those Indian scripts, etc. would be PITA and take years
Language is a helluva way to communicate
Gonna give a fucking big high five to King Sejong for literally creating hangul, top-down devised and implemented, so Koreans had a written language. He expressly created it, and was designed, to be easy for everyone to learn.
He deserves the reverence he gets over there, and from me. Him and Washington should have a drink.
Meanwhile the Chinese are proud that their writing is irrational and painful to learn. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hey now, if not for Chinese, what sort of tattoos would morons and douchebags get?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQvpQZtOPaU
“Our extremely complicated writing system impresses stupid people”
-Confucius
Oh yeah, only criminals have tattoos in China and Japan. Tattoos were a punishment and a warning.
Latin and Russian, if I’m anything to go by.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2026-05-28/firefighter-soup-poisoning-camp-zama-japan-21803234.html
That makes zero sense.
Miso sorry.
amusing
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The publisher Jonathan Cape, who had initially accepted Animal Farm, subsequently rejected the book after an official at the British Ministry of Information warned him off[65] – although the civil servant who it is assumed gave the order was later found to be a Soviet spy.[66]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Publication
Not sure what that “although” is doing in there.
That was a redemptive ending. And unbelievable. All the animals united to overthrow the pigs? Huh.
Thanks RJ!
You are welcome, have a good night!
In real life, the “pigs” of the USSR were overthrown, at least for a while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z77JFw2D6f8
From the ded thred re: Orthodox Church (this is opening up more than I otherwise might to anyone other than my wife), because in general, this is a group of people I trust and often admire)
It’s been a long time since I’ve been to church. At least 30 years (not counting weddings, funerals, and such). I grew up Southern Baptist, and was baptized when I was 14 or so. After a score of years at university (between undergrad and graduate school I was immersed in the academy from 94-09) I actively turned away from the church. Even before starting university I had already dismissed Southern Baptist as a valid avenue for me, and, as it’s wont to do, a university education fooled me into accepting its moral systems in place of one based in Christianity, leading me to abandon the church altogether. Over the last several years, we’ll call it a decade or so, I’ve slowly come to realize that what I really need in my life is a moral framework that’s on more solid ground than that laid out by 19th century German philosophers and counterculture professors at Harvard and Yale making up postmodern theory as they went along, validating each other no matter the implications. Over the last several years I’ve felt broken; like something is missing, and I’ve come to realize that the systems the academy substituted for my Christian upbringing are at the root. It’s a morally bankrupt framework of shitty ideas, and I need to remedy that in order to gain more clarity. I’ve suffered 2 heart attacks and sacrificed a career (and the ability to feel like that I’m a provider for my family) so that I could be a stay-at-home parent. It was the best choice for me to make because it benefitted my family (my wife and her 5 languages was far more marketable in the job market than I was), but I also know that men are not wired for that, and that sacrifice has left me less than whole. I need to fix that.
I’m not interested in Catholicism. Recents popes have gone the way of so many Protestant denominations with their acceptance of what is clear immorality. Its foundation has been rotted out. I also never really accepted the station of the pope living in a golden palace while preaching the nobility of poverty. It never sat right. Knowing the church has many dirty little secrets dating back 1500 years also leads me to think it’s based in a framework that isn’t wholly authentic. It’s religion by committee.
Likewise, Protestantism seems made up. These churches date back only a few hundred years, and nowhere in Christian doctrine does it say that Martin Luther, et al would build the church. It was a backlash against Catholicism, which didn’t sit right with them for many reasons I’d agree with even now. But there is no thread to the original church, and, as noted, so many denominations have become morally bankrupt. Trans pastors. Rainbow sashes. Clear denials of biblical doctrine in favor of modern political acceptance. All of it bullshit.
But as I’ve been discovering orthodox Christianity, it greatly appeals to me in many ways. The continuous doctrine from the founding of Christianity through today provides the sort of moral foundation I’m craving in my life. A single thread that can be traced all the way back to the apostles. The sort of moral foundation that is bedded in doctrine, and not politics or more modern revolutions within the church.
I’ve been searching for a local church, of which there are a small handful. I’m not sure of the differences, though from what I understand all Eastern Orthodox churches align doctrinally, but differ culturally in practice. My wife is 1/2 Greek and was baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church as a little girl, and she’s graciously volunteered to be by my side during this journey, so I think I’m leaning that way. It doesn’t hurt that the priest of this particular church has a background story not terribly dissimilar to mine. There is also an Antiochian Orthodox Church that is of interest to me, though I know little about it and what the differences might be.
I’m highly considering a pilgrimage to Athos in the next year or 18 months as a means to help reset myself in silence and reverence at the spiritual center of Orthodox Christianity, going to monasteries that are over a millennium old and that have remained largely unchanged in that time. A trip to perhaps help find those missing pieces and help put myself back together.
I hope you do. I am trying to do better myself, thought not with such big steps.
When you get there, can you validate if my STEVE SMITH jokes are a sin or just merely humorous?
Weirdly, there is a big Greek Orthodox Church a couple blocks from me in my little university town where literally all of the other churches are of the “Trans pastors. Rainbow sashes” sort.
The alternatives here are the trans pastors, rainbow sashes type (also a university town), or fire and brimstone snake handling shit from the holler. No thanks to both of those fantasy worlds.
not local, but still cool
Russia’s Warhammer church, featuring steel from melted WW2 Panzers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JQCuzIuIXw
an Orthodox chant for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xaj8QSJZ0E
That church is…interesting.
Thanks for the chant. Despite not being orthodox, I’ve long been interested in religious chant. Gregorian chant was huge for me in my late teens and early 20s, along with Palestrina, etc.
BREAKING: Ken Shultz found Jesus.
You aren’t alone. There seems to be a surge in converts to orthodoxy.
It is the most traditional path, eschewing modernism.
Good luck.
Modernism is built on a foundation of sand. It’s ever-shifting and completely unstable, yet most of the west has accepted it as inevitable. I don’t think it is. Assuming the west isn’t completely overrun by the caliphate, in a thousand years modernism will be long dead, replaced with something else, while the Orthodox Church will remain largely the same just as it has for the last 2000 years. There is a certain clarity there that acts as a compass that’s true.
Not to piss on your parade, and Orthodox churches have a lot to recommend them, but literally every denomination claims a continuous doctrine leading back to Christ. The harsh reality is that it took about a century and a half for the early church to even flesh out its doctrines, with heresies being claimed at every turn. It was another century and a half before something resembling a unified statement of belief came out of the first council of Nicea. Point being, don’t just go by what it says on the tin. Study the scriptures, the doctrines, the controversies, and the heresies. Afterwards, there will likely not be any one single denomination that you go “Yep, this checks all the boxes,” so venture into a few different communities. Get a feel for the leadership and the laity. Find the one that’s the least intolerable. Don’t be afraid to ask questions, and IMO, prioritize a community that doesn’t pretend to have every answer.
Above all, remember that Christianity is far less about moral doctrine, tradition, and institutions than it is about redemption and restoration. Christ didn’t come to establish an institution that would last 2,000 years. If he wanted to build a lasting institution based on a well defined moral doctrine, he could have simply straightforwardly fulfilled the Messianic prophecies and established his global kingdom from the temple in Jerusalem. Instead he lived fewer than 40 years and left his message with a bunch of illiterate fisherman, who subsequently turned it over to a reformed Hellenistic Pharisee who’d never looked into Christ’s eyes — and that’s where we get the institutions and doctrines that eventually became the church. Don’t over-complicate it. Christ’s message is one of personal redemption that allows you the privilege of coming before a perfect god in your imperfect state and receiving mercy. That’s it.
Amen Pat.
Sure. All of that is true.
But despite any particular sect “not being about” traditions or moral systems, it seems to me that orthodox nevertheless embodies those things in a way the others don’t. It’s those traditions that help lead people to redemption, and that’s what draws me to it.
We are unchurched.
Annoyed by all the things you have said.
Tired of the fluff and apostasy.
We consider ourselves to be Protestants.
I’m kind of sort of on the same spiritual journey. Strict rationalism, for want of a better description, is not feeding my soul. I’ve become somewhat active in my local Chabad.
On the one hand, I’m getting the undiluted version of Judaism. On the other hand, I’m confronting teachings of the Bible that give me pause. I doubt I’ll ever reach a firm resolution but I do feel closer to something larger and more profound than me.
I too and struggling to unshackle myself from the modernism that initially had me turn my back on god to begin with. Once something has been so hammered in, it’s hard to shake, and 15 years of study, the latter half being deep study, has embedded certain ways of thinking. Those nails will be hard to uproot.
I suspect religious faith is difficult for most thinking people, simply because it’s so easy to see that if there weren’t a god, it would make perfect sense to invent one. It can seem all too convenient. On the other hand, there’s something about the metaphysical that so resonates with our psychology that even if one rejects religion, they often end up substituting it for something substantially similar. I just recently read The God That Failed, and it’s a perfect set of case studies into how intelligent, rational people got sucked into Marxist ideology.
See: climate change freaks, diversity freaks, those who believe the only way to be moral is to be without belief in god.
The modern framework that states “men can transmogrify into women” is no less a religious belief than subscribing to miraculous conception. The belief that climate change will end in a world of fire unless we repent and eschew all fossil fuels and thrust all of us back into bug eating peasants is no less religious than the belief in Revelations.
Crichton called it a long time ago. Environmentalism is Christianity for secular urban liberals.
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Well, just look at the beliefs. If you look carefully, you see that environmentalism is in fact a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths.
There’s an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there’s a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge, and as a result of our actions there is a judgment day coming for us all.
We are all energy sinners, doomed to die, unless we seek salvation, which is now called sustainability.
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https://spreadgreatideas.org/speeches/michael-crichton-environmentalism-is-a-religion/
“feel closer to something larger and more profound than me.”
Ive felt that too, in Cascadia as the embers of my camp fire were dying down, as if there were a presence behind me
Christianity shouldn’t be the popularity contest it has become. Nevermind it smacks of the nerd who craves acceptance and will do anything tonget it. Having been raised Catholic, I think your critiques of the Catholic Church are spot on, but there is a contingent of the Catholic Church that is trying to back back to what it should be. Regardless, I think you are seeking a good path going Greek Orthodox and wish you nothing but the best in your spiritual journey.
I am a Christian now, due in no small part to my wife and and the example of you fine Glibs (and that includes Glibs of other faiths and agnostic/atheist, truly). Raised Catholic (like military service and lawyering, seem to be well above the averages around here) but I turned away as a teenager, knowing better. I felt that longing and missing part. I still feel like I’m starting out (my wife describes herself as a student, which I too like) and not sure where I’ll end up. I do think about formal churching but not there yet. Catholicism still resonates with me, someways more strongly than before I left but I do have issues with much of the direction and the last two popes.
I believe Hayekexplosives was Orthdox or Orthodox leaning? Maybe another glib?
As a kid, we focused on the sort of obligation and appointment style worship (it’s Sunday morning, time for mass. Ok that’s out of the way, now pancakes). I feel now that there was a missing of the richness and everyday quality of faith, or even good instruction on how to pray. Two realizations, for me, is that the Bible is living. It’s not a 2000+ year old dead letter but speaks here and now. Second is seeing that the parables aren’t what I saw them as a child as simple morality tales.
Having tried several different religions I just couldn’t identify with any.
I imagine that’s true for a lot of people.
If you don’t mind me asking, which ones?
Lutheran, Catholicism, Southern Baptist
I went to a Baptist school, we had to have a semester of religion for each two semesters of school, I had 2 semesters of Southern Baptist.
Fourscore…you tried the same religion with different management styles.
#meneither
Though I didn’t really try – my mom did for us. And on that note I can plausibly claim to be a Catholic.
But I no longer call myself an atheist so there is that.
I prefer non-believer, doesn’t sound so antagonistic.
I don’t know that I ever considered myself an atheist. Agnostic, sure, but, as someone on TOS called himself, I did consider myself for a long time to be an apatheist. Someone who was indifferent to the existence of god, believing that if there is a god, surely he had more important things to do than judge particular points of doctrine. If I were to be judged, it would be my actions and how I treat people that would act as the barometer. But this outlook has left me unsatisfied and searching for more.
I have an early memory of one of mom’s boyfriends, the Italian one who got us all baptized Catholic when I was around 6 years old, grilling me about my belief in God. I think I said “no”. He turned out to be a violent asshole we had to escape when I was around 10 which didn’t help things.
Prior to that I guess my family was probably some form of non-practicing Protestant. Germans on one side, English on the other.
My background is strict Southern Baptist. Though my parents weren’t very strict, it was of the “dancing might lead to sex” sort from my grandparents. The sort that will throw you in the back of a box truck at church camp to simulate hell, while all your friends were inside the hall enjoying a party.
Yep. ‘Raised’ Catholic by Mom til I was ~15, but the simplest way for me to explain: I’ve never *felt* anything. No Belief of any sort. The history, the architecture, the cultures. All interesting and fundamentally *human.* (Not the time for the pros/ cons of all.) But it’s not within me.
A bit of me is kinda jealous. I’m not sure either way, about the jealousy. I’m happy for those who find (peaceful) solace in their faith.
I wish you the best, MW. From what you said, I absolutely understand why you’re leaning Orthodox. In a non-kidnappy way, I hope you can take your wife.
No, no, no, MW! It’s that premarital sex might lead to dancing.
I like learning about different religions, but I’m not much of a joiner.
I disliked church for the same reasons I disliked school. It was a great relief to be done with both.
Among my prized possessions are a Buddhist monk squeak toy and a wooden Buddha statue from Indonesia. Both are gifts from my mom during my late teen Oriental phase.
She also got me Life of Brian as an Xmas gift one year. I’m glad religion never drove a wedge between us.
Rationalistic pantheism or deism (same diff) would be my ideal belief system if I hadn’t been inculcated in Christianity, but since I was, I haven’t ever been able to fully shake it. I believe in a creator god of some sort, even if that ends up being nothing more than the universe itself — if it really is just a chaotic, self-creating, self-sustaining system experiencing itself subjectively through billions of consciousnesses constituted from its own matter, then it’s taken on substantially every characteristic we’d ascribe to a god anyway. Christianity is tough for me because deep down where I live, I just don’t resonate with the idea of a personal god. If it turns out to be the one true religion, the best I’ll be able to say on judgment day is “I tried” and hope that my sincerity counts for something.
I forget the comedian’s name, but his joke about atheism was:
You believe the universe came from nothing and nothing happens after you die? OK, so after you die, you merge with your creator?
random religion joke
Hell has open borders. Heaven has a gate and an immigration policy.
Deism is favorable to me. I recognize that shit is just too perfect in a world of imperfections for intelligence to emerge. There are mammals here who beat us by eons and still do what they do from eons ago.
It’s interesting this movie is described as propaganda. It’s an accurate, allegorical tale about Communism with a capital C. There’s nothing false about it.
When you consider who does the describing, it’ll make more sense.
Indeed. I am still trying to hunt down some older version of this, that was 3 1/2 hours long. Some cartoon version in B&W. It came out the year the book was released. IMDB has info on it, but nobody else does.
Meh, I’d say it’s a fair descriptor. The term has become loaded with negative connotations, but in the strictest sense it just means the deliberate spread of information by an interested party. The USG decided to pay for an adaptation of an anti-Communist allegory and distribute it.
RJ – missed your post last week – slowly reading through stuff at work again now that things are a bit slower in the Med.
Delta Space Mission and Son of the Stars were released on bluray a few years ago by Deaf Crocodile. Picked them both up, but still haven’t watched SotS. They’ve also released a lot of other old Euro animation like Cat City, Bubble Bath, and some collections of Soviet animations – very interesting to see on the whole – just a lot different from most western or asian stuff from the same period. Definitely worth it.
Nice. As a personal observation I liked Son of the Stars more than Delta Space Mission.
Also Cat City is on TUBI, the exact Deaf Crocodile release. I saw it a few days ago when I was choking down some potential post candidates.
Cat City is a lot of fun. Also picked up Felidae a while back.
Vinegar Syndrome has also been releasing more animation stuff (Deaf Crocodile moved on from them and is doing their own website sales and via diabolikdvd.com now).
Also heard good things about the Euro animation that won an Oscar a year or two back – Flow I think. I’ll probably pick it up. I have a few other Quay brothers stop motion related things on preorder. If you haven’t seen it yet, Del Toro’s Pinocchio was excellent – on netflix and released on Bluray by criterion.
The non-materialist messages of Christianity, Buddhism, and other ascetic traditions appeal to me.
Luke 9:3
Take nothing for the journey but the staff.
Live simply & travel light
Norse mythology and stoic philosophy helped me cultivate courage and patience.
I like some nasheeds and other Islamic music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mZaCwLdrwA
@rhy from before: “There have been plenty but it’s an uphill battle against a party full of racist grifters determined to keep them “in their place”.”
Yes, but for people to actually listen. As always, hope’s there, Chapelle’d be perfect. This is why illiteracy (and baby factories) are promoted. It’s really fucking evil.
ALSO! I can’t find a legit quote or is it an aphorism: “If we pass [the Civil Rights Act,] we’ll have the niggers voting for us for 200 years.”
Someone in JFK’s cabinet. May have been LBJ. A (legit) ‘reputable source’ would help much.
It was LBJ.
Supposedly apocryphal but certainly believable because accurate.
It was supposedly uttered in a private meeting, but there are definitely well documented instances of him having used the word as a matter of habit. He was definitely a racist, and a shrewd politician.
He definitely said this:
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“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don’t move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there’ll be no way of stopping them, we’ll lose the filibuster and there’ll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It’ll be Reconstruction all over again. [Said to Senator Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957]”
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And of course the “we need to give them just enough” has turned the black community into what it is today. Largely in poverty, living in ghettos, only able to sustain themselves with government handouts, while welfare systems have completely incentivized the black family to be a thing of the past.
QUIET, YOU!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlKL_EpnSp8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmZq7PkrKsk
Thanks all, particularly Derp. I hate when evil fucks win with their evil ways. The subjugation committed by those most ‘dedicated to saving’ the people they stomp, all while getting the riches and praise. Elected for making it worse. It’s maddening. “But it’s a soothing stomp!”
LBJ, here. Said here before, but absolutely true: Fucking Osama bin Laden. Lived another decade. And totally won.
Cruella winning displeases me.
“Cop who had loud sex with judge in chambers ID’d as deputy chief with Atlanta police”
Ya may just love the headline, but “loud sex, steamy affair, citing a person familiar with the situation. salacious situation…”
Just how “familiar” are we talkin’ ’bout?
“Ross, 58, and Collier had sex in “chambers and during business hours” that was loud enough that court staff could hear moans and kissing sounds, according to a judicial complaint that was later confirmed by a judicial committee…
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Buried: a secret extramarital relationship with a prominent officer of a large law enforcement agency in the judge’s district,
They were cheating?! Well, I never!!
Morning, Glibs.
I seem to be running out of vacation days until I have to go back to work.
Good morning, U, Ted’S., and Sean. (No idea what you’re saying down there, dude.)
Morning, GT.
How goes your Friday morning?
Not too bad, but I may have to replace or supplement my current bed pillow, which is L-shaped to provide a place to rest my right arm when sleeping on my left side. Unfortunately, though it helps my right shoulder, I’ve lately begun waking up with a stiff, sore neck. 😣
All pillows eventually wear out. Some last better than others.
Oh, lovely, a boondoggle
Now, most rational people would tap out here. But the idiocy gets far more malevolent:
So, it seems, entirely tax dollars.
Sure. What person with an income high enough not to have to live in a development like this would actively choose to? Rhywun?
Fuck no. Line up everyone behind this project against the wall and bill their families for the bullets, at a rate of $10 Billion/Bullet
You don’t want to live in a place run by our enlightened experts like Albany?
No
That’s a lot of fancy words to say “We’re building a new ghetto.”
Nah…
“permanently stabilized, ensuring residents can put roots down”
Hm. You might be on to something.
Basically, the NYC model. When commies like Mamdani say they are going to build “affordable housing”, this is exactly what they are talking about. Keep the poor poor, invite rich suckers to pat themselves on the back for subsidizing them… and the middle class can get fucked.
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https://www.dw.com/en/russian-drone-crashes-into-romania-apartment-building/a-77338487
Wow. Also shows how useless their defenses are.
Not that any other country would likely do better. They tracked until it crashed. No idea what kind of drone, but it didn’t seem loaded with HE.
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