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@lpdahl2@sfba.social

Remember: climate change is a hoax invented by the Jinese, to destroy our greatness.

β€œAbout me” update: Always a square peg in a round hole world. Introvert. Intrigued by much, expert in nothing. From Sacramento, California. Radio announcer/producer before most alive today were born. Worked in California state government. Budding photographer (so much to learn, but I’m hungry). Will someday feel I can call myself an artist. Politically Left/Democrat. Non-theist interested in Buddhism. Loves: Jazz, film, genealogy research. Flirting with haiku. And more…
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Do you remember Joan Baez? She's waving at Trump.πŸ˜‚

@bryan

In my job, one of my responsibilities is to ask the question "How could this all go horribly wrong?" and make sure steps are taken to prevent that from happening.
That's not a question you want to ask about most situations in life. Take my word for it.

One of the occupational hazards of being an urban planner is that you’re constantly being critical of the built environment around you.

While out and about, all I think about is access management plans, lack of pedestrian and bicycle facilities, crappy or non-existent transit facilities, single-use buildings in multi-use zones, disappointment in the lack of residential density, Americans’ distaste for residential density, unchecked code violations in wealthy neighborhoods, low quality building materials, huge parking lots, impervious surfaces and flood plains, crappy landscaping, HOAs and restrictive covenants, unsafe routes to school, lack of healthy food options, poor parks and other green spaces, NIMBYs, and on and on.

Sometimes I wish I would’ve gone into something a little more micro, like landscaping or plumbing.

What is the past tense of gatekeeping? Is it gatekept? It cannot be gatekeeped. I refuse to accept that.

Normally, I spend a fair amount of time making Sunday dinner. Which may or may not be eaten by the rest of the family who has been laying around like sloths with tape worms all day... So, today I just ate a bunch of snacks and will not be cooking dinner. Ball is in your court, family. Gonna go binge something on Netflix.

@Danetteb @StillIRise1963

Nearly everyone in german was a Nazi at that time!

I'm glad that I hadn't to wear this shitty brown Uniform of Hitlerjugend.

I saw this Uniform in real life when on vacation to Chicago. There was a propaganda booth of the NSDAP-AO in downtown Chicago.

It happened I stumbled and ruined their table...

Booty and Butt mean the same thing.

Dial and Call can mean basically the same thing.

Butt Dial and Booty Call definitely do not mean the same thing.

#EnglishIsHard

If this is the year you finally started to pay attention, well, then you aren’t really talking about the history of fascism, but about the history of when it finally started bothering you enough that you could no longer ignore it.

And you’re probably white, too.

Like, it was in 2012 that Golden Dawn in Greece got 7% of the vote, well before they entered the European Parliament in 2019.

Fascism got Trump elected, in 2016, and, if you weren’t so busy calling those of us who were warning you well before that β€˜alarmist’, that might have gone differently.

Fascism killed Heather Heyer in Charslottesville, in 2017.

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Our Western narrative around the defeat of fascism is incomplete at best, and actively misleading at its worst. It is a myth we tell ourselves, a history written by victors who themselves were no better. They just happened to be on the side that won.

Look up General Patton. Look up Winston Churchill. Look up the histories of the people who were freed from the camps, and then put right back in.

If your history of fascism puts its current resurgence in 2023, you’re either being ignorant, or dishonest.

I have receipts that go back way further than that, and it’s not just me. The alarm has been sounding for ages now.

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