As an aside, can someone give me the history on that rockwell painting of the guy standing up? I know it's pre-pearl harbor and used as a means to engender support for entering the war, but I don't get what the image is supposed to represent? Is his standing up to speak a metaphor for the US standing up to speak on behalf of western europe and our allies abroad?

nevermind, answered my own question.
 

 

Four Freedoms war bonds poster featuring an image designed by Norman Rockwell in 1943. The poster shows a man standing to speak at a town meeting, symbolizing the freedom speech. It is one of a four-poster series using Rockwell's paintings, which were inspired by President Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms. He described these in his 1941 State of the Union Address (also called the Four Freedoms Speech): freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. The United States entered World War II in December 1941, following the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Office of War Information (OWI) was established in June 1942, to control the message and imagery of government information about the war. This office controlled the design and distribution of war information to the American public in print, radio, and film media, and commissioned work from leading artists. Rockwell created a series of sketches about the Four Freedoms to support the war effort, but no one in Washington was interested in using them initially. The paintings were later published by the Saturday Evening Post beginning on February 26, 1943, and then reprinted, with permission, by the OWI. The OWI launched a nationwide tour with the paintings, raising $130 million dollars in war bond sales. They also offered the posters for sale in three different sizes, and four million sets of the posters were printed.

14 minutes ago, Bill said:

I used to think that antisemitism and racism were just these fringe losers, but with the internet giving everyone a voice I'm starting to realize that the losers weren't as fringe as I thought they were.

Yeah. They were silenced all these years. 2016 gave those roaches a reason to emerge from the baseboards.

1 hour ago, Alphagrand said:

I think any sane person knows the moment Trump can cash out, he will abandon that platform and run back to his buddy Elon's domain and spout his nonsense to a large audience -- thereby collapsing that fraudulent stock for anyone else dumb enough to have invested.

It's been kind of comical that he hasn't been able to use X because it would completely crater his remaining stock value -- and it may cost him this election -- even though there are 1,000 other things that make him unelectable.

If Trump actually had a brain he'd have worked out with Musk how to make his posts sync to both platforms simultaneously.  

He's been tweeting for weeks now. 

Maybe they can tell the parole board they only broke the law by a whisker

 

We do a little government controlling the means of production. 

53 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

This is the inevitable result when you fire the content moderation team under the guise of "free speech". Elon the super genius!

 

I just spent 10 minutes down the twitter rabbit hole. What a freaking cesspool. They make our resident bigoted Trumpbots seem moderate by comparison. 

57 minutes ago, Bill said:

What kills me is that Threads could have just carbon copied Twitter and called it a day, but they made the lamest app they could and it's just populated by the worst blue hair takes you've ever seen.

 

You go on Twitter and it's all "the jews did this".  Then you go on Threads, and it's all "the jews did this", but from the opposite direction.

 

I used to think that antisemitism and racism were just these fringe losers, but with the internet giving everyone a voice I'm starting to realize that the losers weren't as fringe as I thought they were.

Basically in the 90's people were ashamed of their bigoted views, or at least knew those views weren't socially acceptable. Then the internet and social media emboldened them and made them realize they weren't alone. Then Trump normalized it and took racism mainstream. I'm surprised how much I see it in gamer culture. 

50 minutes ago, Paul852 said:

I'd say 2016 all but confirmed that.

Yeah in 2016 I went from "I can't believe so many people like Trump even though he's a bigoted Ahole" to "Ohhhhh so many people like Trump BECAUSE he's a bigoted Ahole". 

10 minutes ago, VanHammersly said:

We do a little government controlling the means of production. 

We need the communism to defeats the communism. 

 

21 minutes ago, Gannan said:

Yeah in 2016 I went from "I can't believe so many people like Trump even though he's a bigoted Ahole" to "Ohhhhh so many people like Trump BECAUSE he's a bigoted Ahole". 

My brother-in-law works in higher education as a VP of Diversity, and he is African-American. After Trump won in 2016, we were chatting and I told him I was sorry that I didn't realize how many racists are still out there.

26 minutes ago, Gannan said:

We need the communism to defeats the communism. 

Literal communism.  Not the red scare variety.

4 hours ago, Alpha_TATEr said:

procus just shifted away from laura loomer. 

Loomer is too woke

20 hours ago, lynched1 said:

Picture of Health

bow down and lick

36 minutes ago, Gannan said:

Basically in the 90's people were ashamed of their bigoted views, or at least knew those views weren't socially acceptable. Then the internet and social media emboldened them and made them realize they weren't alone. Then Trump normalized it and took racism mainstream. I'm surprised how much I see it in gamer culture. 

I blame the incarceration rate.  Yes minorities are jailed more by ratio but whites get jailed a f'ing shite ton too in the US.  That's where this white power dwelled and reformed and survived and eventually rose again.  The incarceration rate and of course, Mcnabb.

4 minutes ago, dawkins4prez said:

Literal communism.  Not the red scare variety.

I just noticed your signature  

That's pretty good

23 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

My brother-in-law works in higher education as a VP of Diversity, and he is African-American. After Trump won in 2016, we were chatting and I told him I was sorry that I didn't realize how many racists are still out there.

I don’t think it’s going to get any better if/when a Black (and Indian) woman wins this time around. 

Biden has hit Russia with more sanctions because of their interference in our elections.

 

1 hour ago, vikas83 said:

My brother-in-law works in higher education as a VP of Diversity, and he is African-American. After Trump won in 2016, we were chatting and I told him I was sorry that I didn't realize how many racists are still out there.

stunning and brave. 

All the rubes in here have been regurgitating Russian propaganda. Even Putin knows who the gullible idiots are.

https://themindshield.com/boebert-destroyed-in-debate-with-democratic-opponent/

1 hour ago, Gannan said:

Basically in the 90's people were ashamed of their bigoted views, or at least knew those views weren't socially acceptable. Then the internet and social media emboldened them and made them realize they weren't alone. Then Trump normalized it and took racism mainstream. I'm surprised how much I see it in gamer culture. 

There's this greentext of it.  Can't find it but the gist of it is:

Then:

Want to F a toaster.

WTF man that's weird.

Be normal.

 

Now:

Want to F a toaster.

Find online community of 10,000 people that also want to F a toaster.

Coming down to PA, NV and GA.