As promised, the second Trump administration has quickly rolled out a slew of policies and executive orders that the president says are all aimed at “Making America Great Again.” This takes on different forms, including Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency quickly laying off thousands of workers at various federal agencies, and President Donald Trump pausing all funding for Ukraine.
The 20’s gonna 20!
It’s easier for history to repeat itself after you’ve gutted public education.
This quote in an article from 2012 by Katie Billotte has always stuck with me.
This war on the liberal arts is born from the same desire that produces voter ID laws: a desire to limit democratic participation. The goal of a liberal arts education was never primarily direct economic benefit for the recipient or even the sort of personal/spiritual development about which many like to wax lyrically. The purpose of a liberal arts education was always meant to be a political education. The Latin ars liberalis refers to the skills required of a free man – that is the skills of a citizen. The Latin word ars and its Greek equivalent techne do not mean art in a modern sense. Instead the word refers to a craft or a skill. Thus, history, rhetoric and literature were seen as the skills a citizen needed for his job: governing.
Before Jan went off the deep end and seemingly started to realign himself entirely (I think he may legit have a mental disorder), he wrote a pretty good piece on the concept of liberal/liberalism and how it related to freedom and education:
https://www.scribd.com/document/59477947/Definition-of-Liberal-by-Jan-Irvin
TLDR? /s
The greatest depression.
Making America Great Again rears its ugly, alien, Lovecraftian head to make us all lose our minds and sanity in the face of unfathomable horrors.
Trump is a daily Teapot Dome scandal.
I think they meant “1930’s Germany and today’s political climate”
The article is worth a read. A lot of Americans don’t realize how much of Nazi Germany ideas had inspiration from and solid support in America.
WW2 provided two incredibly powerful antidotes.
- The US was one of the only industrialized nations not bombed to shit, giving us an economic advantage never before seen.
- the victory over the nazis gave us a shared narrative. A clean and easy story of the good of the allies overcoming the evil of the axis.
For a few generations this carried us. But we shouldn’t forget history, Hitler looked to our eugenics programs for inspiration, not the other way round.
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I have a vague feeling you use the alignment of the stars as advice
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LMFAO. 🎯 take a joke fella.
I did. My jokes in return just got deleted by the moderators. Apparently they didn’t find “you’d have made a good Nazi” and “Elon Musk will give you a brown shirt if you call him Iron Man” that funny.
Turnabout’s fair play. Don’t pretend like it’s not just because my jokes also had a point.
You wanna make jokes about someone, they should get to make jokes about you.
Maybe its because my joke didn’t imply that you would be willing to murder millions of people because someone told you to, but thats just a hunch.
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the copium LOL
