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gulliver

(14,083 posts)
15. They won't be learning anything in school
Sat May 23, 2026, 12:10 PM
Yesterday

... and the only thing they'll be asking me is if I need a blanket. And I'll respond with my usual response to that question, "Who are you, Dear?"

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I won't pretend to understand it The Blue Flower Yesterday #1
Evil people took over the country. dem4decades Yesterday #2
Well, I probably won't have to, but I would refer to it as our "Period of Intense Shame' hlthe2b Yesterday #3
They are living it right along side us... MiHale Yesterday #4
allow what to happen? rampartd Yesterday #5
There have been many equally shameful periods of American history, we seem to have short memories. sop Yesterday #6
The same way it continues to let it happen -- by refusing to dismantle the white supremacy this country is built on. WhiskeyGrinder Yesterday #7
I have neither so I won't be faced with that problem, which is a good thing Ocelot II Yesterday #8
We allowed the Fox Propaganda Network to go unchecked and we weren't ready to handle social media Chasstev365 Yesterday #9
And some people are gullible, unfortunately, True Dough Yesterday #10
In Chinese Renew Deal Yesterday #11
Will our plutocracy be gone then? Mysterian Yesterday #12
Our ancestors killed the Nazis abroad but we were too scared to send the modern domestic ones screaming down to hell. Efilroft Sul Yesterday #13
Assuming things get better, I'll say, "It was a time of multiple, grand, society-wide psychoses." Intractable Yesterday #14
They won't be learning anything in school gulliver Yesterday #15
Are schools teaching about 2016 in History classes now? muriel_volestrangler Yesterday #16
When I was in high school in the early '90s, True Dough Yesterday #19
I didn't study anything under 30 years ago when I was at school muriel_volestrangler Yesterday #20
America is an internal combustion engine burning corrupted gasoline. Midnight Writer Yesterday #17
Because almost 40% of eligible voters stayed at home and even though they saw what was coming.... A HERETIC I AM Yesterday #18
I'd try and explain it akin to the rise of Hitler sakabatou Yesterday #21
Like the Inclosure Acts, there was a lot of common property that a few individuals fenced off meadowlander Yesterday #22
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