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Today (Saturday) is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
and the United States FINALLY remembered, officially.
Today (Sunday) is ANZAC Day.
Another day, another disgruntled Trumpican, one who lives in a fantasy world. He doesn't need a trip to Disney to grieve a loss of the good ol' white days. All he needs is a mirror.
Disney World superfan says company’s 'woke' decisions ruining guest experience
My Sunday sermon…and the sage-equivlent you'll need after reading the above article!
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Preach on, brother!
Victimhood seems to be taking over the Trumplican© Party as the status du jour. Of course, if I were taking it in the chops with increasing frequency like the Orange Horde is experiencing, I might feel like a victim, too.
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How inclusive can you be while portraying a duck, a mouse or a flying elephant?
All theme and amusement parks have histories of sexism and racism. They all exploit their workers, too. They mirror the laws and cultural mores of their times and places.
One of my earliest summer jobs was at the old Elitch Gardens, rolling hot dogs and cotton candy for the munificent sum of $2.50 an hour. Girls could only work concessions. Boys operated the rides. It was company policy. People regularly broke bones at the Fun House. No rides were handicapped-accessible. The KkK rode the ferris wheel in robes in an intimidating display in Cañon City in 1926.
In terms of content and imagined journeys for viewers and riders, Elitch’s and Disney all have reflected their societies. The crows in “Dumbo” were racially stereotyped. Walt Disney himself was an unapologetic bigot. The “Song of the South” on the Jungle ride celebrated a society built on forced labor. Girls were princesses to be rescued, never heroes. Heroes were white males. Gay folk were invisible.
Still, these places also reflect the best hopes and aspirations of their societies, too. I remember the “It’s a small world” ride, the earworm song and multicultural singing robots in the old Disney World. ( OK, they were kinda creepy, too). But Van BosKerck would probably call that a display of “Woke Globalism” today.
The World’s Fair celebrated globalism, envisioned urban planning and a more egalitarian society. Van BosKerck would have hated it.
And the point of visiting a theme park is to have fun, spend time with your friends and loved ones, spend money, eat junk food, get sick and terrified and thrilled on rides, have near-death experiences on roller coasters, and incidentally, reflect on one’s world and imagine a better one.
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Just one day into her race for California Gov., Caitlin Jenner has won the political imbecile of the year award.
She fired off a Trumpian tweet accusing Gov. Gavin Newsome of appointing District Attorneys who are soft on crime.
Ahh, DAs in California, like Colorado, are directly elected by voters.
This campaign is a slow-motion train wreck.
She needs to choose Paris Hilton as her running mate…to make her campaign even less relevant.
Pass the popcorn, this is gonna be entertaining.
Sadly, the stoopid runs through this extended family. I remember Kim Kardashian publicly contemplating running for mayor of Glendale, until she found out Glendale…doesn't have a mayor.
Geeks and Nerds of the Intertubes, please help. Dave T8, looking at you. And Psuedonymous, if you're around still.
Just before Trump left office, huge amounts of ip addresses suddenly became available. They are owned by the Pentagon, but registered to an obscure Florida company. Washington Post had the story.
What I want to know: Is this an ominous predictor of takeover by Russian hackers? Is it bizniz as usual on the Internet? Good guys or bad guys or neither?
Internet language makes my eyes glaze over. The same thing happened with Erik M's story about the latest GOP conspiracy theories. When he talked about "smoothing it with a polynomial", the article was over for me. The difference is, I know they're lying because of the context: Grand Junction, GOP, Sheronna Bishop, etc. I think even Boebert mentioned the "algorithms" as a reason why Biden didn't win the election. So I won't even try to understand that story because I already know they're lying.
But help me out with the suddenly available Pentagon IP addresses.
I'm with you. I need to know whether to worry about the ip addresses or not.