What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it?
My latest web search what is the particulars of Nelson Mandela‘s, and Adolf Hitler‘s arrest and incarceration so that I could write Yesterdays post equivocation.
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(the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.)
Dwain Northey (Gen X)
Saw a truck today flying a Trump 2024 Flag with a large painted sign on the back and side of the truck that said, ‘Mandela was arrested too’.
So now the RedHat minions are trying to draw a comparison line between Nelson Mandela and DJT. Do these morons know that Hitler was also incarcerated… I think there is more of a through line in that historical comparison than Mandela.
While it is true that Mandela was part of a rebellion against the Apartheid South African regime, but he wasn’t sitting in Government at the time. Trump do to his narcistic compulsion to never admit defeat tried every angle to circumvent the will of the people in a fare election to the point of inciting a mob of his followers to storm the capitol to overthrow counting and certification of state electors.
When the Nazi party attempted to seize power in the Bavarian capital of Munich in November 1923, a number of Adolf Hitler’s brown-shirted ruffians were killed or injured when the right-wing marchers were confronted by troops loyal to the government. With the outbreak of violence, rumors swirled that Hitler himself had been killed during the abortive Beer Hall Putsch.
Mandela’s aim was to incite revolt. In the early 1950s, the ANC and the South African Indian Congress launched a nonviolent operation of strikes and protests called the Defiance Campaign against the unjust laws of apartheid.
Still drawing a clearer line from Hitler to Trump. Hitler severed 9 months in jail and wrote Mien Kompf, Mandela was sentenced to life and served 27 years. According to accounts Hitler’s time behind bars was a holiday. I honestly don’t see Donny Dumbass serving a minute behind bars because our system of ‘blind justice’ has a severe problem putting rich white men behind bars.
Please trying to deify this Orange Menace making something he never was or ever will be, he is and always has been a Bully that always got his way… his biggest mistake was running for President and winning because otherwise no one would have given two shits about his criminality, He could have faded into obscurity as TV game show host and a wannabe mogul and the world would have be a much better place in that time line.
Thanks for tolerating another Rant…
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What TV shows did you watch as a kid?
Grew up in the 70s and we moved around a lot because my dad was military so mostly Saturday morning cartoons was the only thing I remember from my childhood.
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What’s your favorite time of day?
My favorite time of day is early early morning, just before dawn it’s always darkest before the light.
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Don’t follow a recipe, something sounds good and I wing it.
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Excited (?)
Dwain Northey (Gen X)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excited
There are numerous synonyms for excited and I have been pondering every possible permutation of the word trying to answer the question posted today. I can honestly say that I haven’t felt at all that particular emotion, if that’s what excitement is, in a very long time. So long in fact that it is hard for me to even remember ever being excited.
The truth is that something that most of us may have felt excitement or elation for in the past may now be a sour memory. I am sure we all have our own personal examples. So, I can’t sincerely answer the question… can say that I am not depressed, no need to worry about that. Do I need counseling, well probably.
At this moment in time, I am in the words of ‘Pink Floyd’ Comfortably Numb.
Song by Pink Floyd
Hello? (Hello? Hello? Hello?)
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone home?
Come on now
I hear you’re feeling down
Well I can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again
Relax
I’ll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I’ve got that feeling once again
I can’t explain you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numbI have become comfortably numb
Okay (okay, okay, okay)
Just a little pinprick
There’ll be no more, ah
But you may feel a little sick
Can you stand up?
I do believe it’s working, good
That’ll keep you going through the show
Come on it’s time to goThere is no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re saying
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
I have become comfortably numbHope I didn’t bum anyone out.
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Dwain Northey (Gen X)
The euphoric vison of the perfect future utopia I am afraid to say is not something that I can envision. The dystopian hellscape of Mad Max or Blade Runner I don’t see either but the path that humanity is on the dystopian predictions are a more likely scenario if we don’t collectively come to our senses.
The ideal city of the future would be one of abundance not scarcity, homelessness would not be a problem because instead of destroying previously used centers of commerce, i.e. shopping malls, would be converted into low cost if not free housing for those in need. These converted malls would provide shelter and the innumerable restaurants that discard food everyday would provide that, what was to be discarded, food to these centers that already have a food court because that was something that the mall already had.
There would still be Capitalism but those that have would not have millions of times more than every other citizen. There are currently countries that mandate that the CEO of a corporation can only make a certain percentage greater than the median salary in the company. For instance, if the median employee of a corporation makes $100k annually the CEO can’t be paid more than $1 million dollars annually… that is one thousand times the amount of others in the company. Yes, that still makes the COE rich. Currently there are a handful of people on the planet that control 75% or more of the monetary wealth worldwide, that is obscene considering the number living in abject poverty.
There will never be the perfect city of the future we can strive for better and there has to be equity of everyone. I get it this a dream that many have had, Martin Luther King Jr., Gandi, John Lennon… hopefully one day we will wake up and make it a reality.
Imagine (John Lennon)
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only skyImagine all the people
Livin’ for today
AhImagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, tooImagine all the people
Livin’ life in peace
YouYou may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as oneImagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of manImagine all the people
Sharing all the world
YouYou may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as oneThanks again for suffering through my rant.
Esoteric Meandering Shouting Into the Void 
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