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59. After reading your post and then the quote, it is quite ironic that he would say such a thing...

Wed Aug 21, 2019, 11:56 PM

Aug 2019

it reminds me of the book "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James Loewen. One of the main points he makes is that in school history is taught as a bunch of inevitable outcomes while discounting the efforts that it took to make change. If I'm not mistaken (which is very possible as it has been years since I read the book and I can't check because it is in storage) Gandhi is one of the examples he uses of how change is made.
After reading the book it kind of ruined some movies for me. My wife loves the movie "The Incredible Mr. Limpet", but then I read "Lies My Teacher Told Me" and "Bloodstained Sea" and I started to wonder if the movie was kind of insulting to all the men who lost their lives in the North Atlantic:

https://www.amazon.com/Bloodstained-Sea-Michael-Walling-2009-04-10/dp/B01K2PCOG0/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=bloodstained+sea&qid=1566449608&s=gateway&sr=8-1

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This does not end well... and that's not fucking funny [View all] maxrandb Aug 2019 OP

If it were only a mere nightmare. Mme. Defarge Aug 2019 #1

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I'm not laughing. Seedersandleechers Aug 2019 #3

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Yes Wawannabe Aug 2019 #23

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No and the Christian right is only going to keep making things worse. Initech Aug 2019 #36

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That's why I can't listen to NPR any more. They're so fucking jaunty. Sugar Smack Aug 2019 #6

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Sometimes i wonder if this was just a test from a higher entity. dem4decades Aug 2019 #7

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You are correct. None of this is funny. Mrs. Overall Aug 2019 #10

One scary man - DJT marieo1 Aug 2019 #11

TrumPutin is a puppet; cut the strings Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2019 #15

I've said it before in a different thread and I'll say it here as well The Liberal Lion Aug 2019 #12

His going peacefully, or not, is entirely up to him, Volaris Aug 2019 #41

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no, it won't. Javaman Aug 2019 #13

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Can't agree more Wawannabe Aug 2019 #22

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I agree. llmart Aug 2019 #25

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"Perhaps we are just the opposite side of the same coin?" elocs Aug 2019 #62

When I despair... Fritz Walter Aug 2019 #34

I despise Gandhi on the basis of that quote FiveGoodMen Aug 2019 #49

After reading your post and then the quote, it is quite ironic that he would say such a thing... rwsanders Aug 2019 #59

There is nothing funny about the current situation Perseus Aug 2019 #35

I couldn't agree more. CanonRay Aug 2019 #37

I didn't think this was funny when Trump announced he was running.... mudstump Aug 2019 #38

Trump was a shitty winner... Wounded Bear Aug 2019 #39

You're preaching to the converted lunatica Aug 2019 #40

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And assuming we CAN overpower Russian meddling and win next year, calimary Aug 2019 #52

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Your wrong on one point grantcart Aug 2019 #55

Precisely. And since he does NOTHING as president, he can easily privatize his rants, tweets, etc. VOX Aug 2019 #64

And hopefully Fox news can interview him from his prison cell!!! US4u2 Aug 2019 #68

I've never laughed. I seem to go back and forth from irate to despair. onecaliberal Aug 2019 #56

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we have to win 2020 by overwhelming numbers jimlup Aug 2019 #60

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