Posts by Canecittadino@mastodon.world
(DIR) Post #AUB7VeFkdGLVFg4RBA by Canecittadino@mastodon.world
2023-03-31T15:11:43Z
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@KimPerales @Jwomack He thinks he’s the President of the Confederate State of Florida. Will somebody please remind him about Appomattox?
(DIR) Post #AUeTyWZMRT4EOhw4VE by Canecittadino@mastodon.world
2023-04-14T18:37:32Z
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@lowqualityfacts I’m guessing you’ve no pressing need for unsolicited questions, but this morning I found myself asking if Harlan Crow is a direct descendent of James Crow, and thought to consult my favorite purveyor of low quality facts for the answer. Alas….
(DIR) Post #AUeUA6gGWNDHa2giwq by Canecittadino@mastodon.world
2023-04-14T19:12:10Z
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@lowqualityfacts Knew I could count on you! 😁
(DIR) Post #AVMaIlthyFIeRnRrHs by Canecittadino@mastodon.world
2023-05-06T01:48:09Z
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@lowqualityfacts Too late!
(DIR) Post #AVhCWKi41AVOALNoxM by Canecittadino@mastodon.world
2023-05-15T20:09:43Z
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@Heterokromia @yogthos @cstross Why do I get the feeling that in an age where your toothbrush spies on you, where even the mightiest can be caught with their genitals in unseemly positions in unseemly places, where media gotcha engines have finally lapsed into a coma after getting everybody who can possibly be gotten, we’ll see a mighty uprising of tolerance? After all, didn’t someone righteously god-fearing once tell us that we’re all sinners in the hands of a bespoke surveillance algorithm?
(DIR) Post #AlCPGUtmlbuzlYzEwa by Canecittadino@mastodon.world
2024-08-21T17:50:51Z
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@ActionRetro @georgeeyong Back in the day, my NT cursing resulted from trying to find and install a scanner driver that would work on our new Gateway 2000 while the rest of my team-on-a-deadline stood around and chewed their fingernails. God (or somebody) bless those chonky guys on YouTube who endure every sort of cursedness so we don’t have to. (Where were they in 1994, when I really needed them?)
(DIR) Post #AlEZ8KgWFJgBd4RlGS by Canecittadino@mastodon.world
2024-08-22T18:51:04Z
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@interfluidity The problem with your analysis lies in the “morally cohesive” part. From the Declaration’s “merciless Indian savages” to the Constitution’s 3/5 compromise, it’s clear that “morally cohesive” was never a term that could be applied honestly to the USA. Our founders, like today’s eternally earnest Democrats, believed they’d done the best they could under the circumstances, and sadly, we’ve been putting lipstick on that pig ever since. We should be more honest with ourselves.
(DIR) Post #AlEbNYGQF1mtzoco0e by Canecittadino@mastodon.world
2024-08-22T19:16:17Z
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@interfluidity Maybe, but, IMNSHO opinion, this is arguable at best. At the risk of besmirching my atheist credentials, I’m tempted to characterize our current political and social agony as the “wages of sin,” meaning for the original sins of genocide, slavery, and Marx’s primitive accumulation. In some sense, as real as it is ironic, we’re getting what we deserve. Denying that we deserve it seems to me to be adding yet another pecadillo to the mortal sins for which we’re already being judged.
(DIR) Post #AlEdTULxtSxJVtAz6O by Canecittadino@mastodon.world
2024-08-22T19:39:46Z
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@interfluidity None taken. If you’ll pardon yet another religious reference, you’re preaching to the choir here. I actually found myself laughing at the accuracy of your judgment.In truth, I’m a *very* complete atheist, secular humanist, direct descendent of the Enlightenment, etc., etc. (As though credentials could ever encompass even the humbler parts of reality. /1
(DIR) Post #AlEe2OWlXtPFa2sANM by Canecittadino@mastodon.world
2024-08-22T19:46:04Z
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@interfluidity I view the U.S. as the laboratory of human possibility. Jefferson had warts, so for that matter do I, but like him I see the US as the first place in the world where a continental tabula rasa could permit human beings to experiment with the political limits of rationality. In that sense, and that sense only, the U.S. was, and may yet remain, Madeleine (ugh!) Albright’s “indispensible nation.” This is something we need to work on, with that much I agree completely. /2 END