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Yeah, guilty as charged. Much less so now than I used to be, but still have big gaps - especially around Asia. But I never went to high school much less Harvard.
I play globle and worldle every day and it has helped immensely. I now know waaaaaaaaaay more African and Asian countries than I used to know.
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Yeah, guilty as charged. Much less so now than I used to be, but still have big gaps - especially around Asia. But I never went to high school much less Harvard.
I play globle and worldle every day and it has helped immensely. I now know waaaaaaaaaay more African and Asian countries than I used to know.
I've always been a bit of a geography buff. Well, OK, A BIG Geography Buff.

Worldle is the first game I start after I get my coffee.
This Globle game is quickly getting its grip, too.

Do you ever play with the "Where Taken" things that are attached to Worldle?
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The Repugs are giving the Crats a run for the money, in the contest of who can be more moronic.
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The Repugs are giving the Crats a run for the money, in the contest of who can be more moronic.
Oh, no. They they are far out in the lead on that front.
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Nah. Until the Pugs start trying to shove the transgender bullshit down our collective throats, the commie fags are winning.
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Yeah, guilty as charged. Much less so now than I used to be, but still have big gaps - especially around Asia. But I never went to high school much less Harvard.
I play globle and worldle every day and it has helped immensely. I now know waaaaaaaaaay more African and Asian countries than I used to know.
I've always been a bit of a geography buff. Well, OK, A BIG Geography Buff.

Worldle is the first game I start after I get my coffee.
This Globle game is quickly getting its grip, too.

Do you ever play with the "Where Taken" things that are attached to Worldle?
I do the bonus rounds, like surrounding countries, capital, etc... but don't know what you mean by "Where Taken" things?
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I do the bonus rounds, like surrounding countries, capital, etc... but don't know what you mean by "Where Taken" things?
https://wheretaken.teuteuf.fr/
They post a photo of somewhere in the world, and you get to guess where it is.
Like Globle, but they give distance and direction hints
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Gina Carano, with the help of Elon Musk (of course) torches whatever career she had left. I feel bad for her at this point, as she's being used by others and will be discarded when they're done. With this lawsuit no one legit is ever going to hire her again for fear that she will sue them if they drop her character.

ETOnlineAccording to court documents obtained by ET, Carano claims she was targeted, harassed, publicly humiliated, defamed and ultimately fired from her role in the Star Wars TV series because she made political statements on X that "did not align with what they believed was an acceptable viewpoint."

Carano went on to claim that she was discriminated because Disney and Lucasfilm targeted her differently from her male co-stars "who also made public, political statements on social media." She claims those male co-stars were "not disciplined, let alone terminated." Carano, who played Cara Dune, was fired in February 2021. She was later dropped by her talent agency, UTA.
This is all going to be thrown out for various reasons including that she wasn't fired, she just wasn't rehired. She seems to think she had some sort of ongoing contract with Disney that they are breaking, when she did not. Which the article even states later,
ETOnlineFollowing her February 2021 firing, a Lucasfilm spokesperson told ET, "Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future. Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable."


Gina Carano Files Lawsuit With Elon Musk's Help Against Disney and Lucasfilm Over 'The Mandalorian' Firing | Entertainment Tonight
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Here's an interesting read.



The Left Lives on Fake History/

I will refrain from offering any comment or opinion for the moment. Except perhaps to query, What, exactly, is "Fake History?"
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The Left Lives on Fake History/

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Any account of an occurrence by No. 45.
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The Left Lives on Fake History/

I will refrain from offering any comment or opinion for the moment. Except perhaps to query, What, exactly, is "Fake History?"
Any account of an occurrence by No. 45.
Nope
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Fake history is history that makes old white men jerking off to how amazing they are feel suddenly flaccid and embarrassed. The solution is to shout 'Woke Regime!' several times till the penis becomes erect again.
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There are several other works referenced in this piece, that are behind pay walls, but look like they offer some fairly relevant background.

I can only say that History is actually apolitical. It is what it is, as my friend George often points out.
Whatever politically motivated notions we come up with are equally irrelevant to the actual facts of History.
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I can imagine that as a theoretical thing, but I don't think it's a thing we have a way to observe in practice. Any attempt to describe things will end up with terms that imply stances on political issues.

You can't say someone was "murdered" without having imposed a political view on events.
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Gina Carano, with the help of Elon Musk (of course) torches whatever career she had left. I feel bad for her at this point, as she's being used by others and will be discarded when they're done. With this lawsuit no one legit is ever going to hire her again for fear that she will sue them if they drop her character.
I don’t see the point in feeling bad for her. She is a bigot, yes she is being used, but she has also made at least some right wing grift money, though hopefully she got upfront and not backend money on her Shapiro film that grossed 13000 dollars.

And she can get money from her fellow bigots for years to come.
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Random thought.

I have yet really to grasp what "Woke" actually means.
But after a couple of years of observing the people who tend to consider it an insult, I've decided that it must be a good thing.
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lol @ socialist Disney. The Mouse is one of the biggest capitalist success stories in US history.
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lol @ socialist Disney. The Mouse is one of the biggest capitalist success stories in US history.
Apparently right-wingers have their own definition of "socialist" that is as accurate as their definition of "woke."
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You certainly picked the right thread for this shit.
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In October 1947, during the post-war Red Scare, American filmmaker Walt Disney testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Disney provided HUAC with information about union activity at his studios, as well as specific individuals he believed to be communists:




Investigator: “Do you have any people in your studio at the present time that you believe are Communist or Fascist, employed there?”

Disney: “No, at the present time I feel that everybody in my studio is 100 percent American.”

Investigator: “Have you had at any time, in your opinion, in the past, have you at any time in the past had any Communists employed at your studio?”

Disney: “Yes, in the past I had some people that I definitely feel were Communists.”

Investigator: “As a matter of fact, Mr Disney, you experienced a strike at your studio, did you not?”

Disney: “Yes.”

Investigator: “And is it your opinion that that strike was instituted by members of the Communist Party to serve their purposes?"

Walt then goes on to opine that anyone wanting a fair days pay, equal pay for women, must be a gd commie.

Yup woke Disney
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Walt Disney was not woke.

Unless you consider antisemitism a woke thing.
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Left leaning publications are beginning to tout a decline in the "MAGA Magic".
They celebrate the small victories like Trump's Mugshot, and the findings of the new York Court.

Yes, there are chinks in the MAGA Armor, some can be exploited, and any small victory can boost the spirits of the left,

The MAGA Aesthetic Is Beginning to Rot
"or headline writers and Beltway pundits, the takeaway from last week’s State of the Union address was clear: Despite ongoing speculation about President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, he delivered a pugnacious, energetic, and policy-driven speech, which served as the unofficial debut of his 2024 reelection pitch. But beyond the forensic attention devoted to Biden’s delivery from the podium, there was another pronounced theme amid the SOTU pageantry: the corresponding enfeeblement of the MAGA aesthetic, which played such a central role in Donald Trump’s surprise election to the presidency in 2016."

But let's not relax the pressure. Keep working.

The Stupid is strong with those people, and they're not finished by a long shot.

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