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Excellent father. Recovering politics and government guy. Suffering baseball fan. Here for history, Star Trek, and ridiculous takes on current events.
- It's all a very intentional gaslighting project. No matter what happens now, gender is irretrievably a part of the public discourse about our society. Conservatives tried and failed to change the topic. Now they've decided to shift the focus inside the topic.
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View full threadAbsolutely. There has always been a reactionary force of women against women's rights. I have never quite understood the angle but I imagine it's something like "we have a good life, let's not fuck it up by biting the hand that feeds."
- The role of white women in sustaining both slavery and Jim Crow is deeply fascinating (and disturbing). They both fed the enduring racist argument about “protecting” white women from from Black men, as well as taking on a leading role when necessary, almost in defiance of their gender roles.
- Bill Hader is developing a Jonestown series for HBO. Sign me up. This will be something.
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View full threadHe would nail it. But it does make me wonder who he would have in mind… Walton Goggins? 🤯
- He kinda looks like Jones too. Goggins would be great, but I think it’s got to be Bill.
- Oh hell yes.
- He’s producing, writing, and directing the thing. I am praying he’s going to play Jim Jones.
- Niece just called Dr H to ask if Quiznos was a real thing after being introduced to the franchise via its weird commercials. They were weird but you have to admit they provided some brand recognition.
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View full threadClub Sandwich is my "kitchen barometer". If a pub/resto/diner/eatery can make a decent Club sandwich, chances are pretty good everything else on the menu is relatively edible. Places that get weird with it, or manage to fuck it up? Huge red flag.
- McCalister’s makes a decent club. It’s basic, but gets the job done.
- We really need to get less het up about what people choose as their 'favourite' war movie. Loved Dunkirk? Good for you. Gatekeeping in any guise is a shit look, as is the obsession with the 'top-trumpification' of history. #Skystorians #HistBookChat www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
- Speaking only for myself, I don’t get it. Filmmakers are in the business of storytelling. They will never let a little thing like known facts get in the way of a good story. You can either accept this or don’t watch. Either way, it’s not a good look for history nerds.
- #OTD in 1863, as rumors of impending battle filter through the ranks of Gen. James B. McPherson’s U.S. XVII Corps, near Raymond, MS, Pvt. Osborn Oldroyd of the 20th Ohio Infantry shares a veteran infantryman’s perspective in his diary entry for May 11, 1863:
