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  • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldgrrr
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    2 days ago

    I heard about this book when I was young, and the older I get the realer it becomes.

    “Future Shock” by Alvin Toffler, written circa 1970. The author, a sociologist, predicted that as the world moved from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era many people would be unwilling/unable to deal with the new realities.

    “Conservatives” all over the world are working harder and harder to hold onto the past.






  • WRONG!

    You hype the Dems in public every chance you get.

    The GOP once elected a dead pimp because they don’t care.

    Copilot Search Branding

    Dennis Hof, the Nevada brothel owner and reality TV personality, was posthumously elected to the Nevada State Assembly in November 2018 for the 36th district, even though he died just 21 days earlier on October 16, 2018 Wikipedia+1.

    Hof, who had been a Republican since 2016, ran against Democratic challenger Lesia Romanov in a heavily Republican district that included parts of Nye County and surrounding rural areas BuzzFeed News. He was known for his flamboyant style, his HBO reality series Cathouse, and his self-proclaimed role as the “Trump of Pahrump”



  • Everything you wrote is wrong. Sorry, but I can’t say it any other way.

    First, being racist was the default position for any Western leader in that era. FDR having Black combat troops was a hugely controversial idea. People knew what Churchill had done in India.

    Read ‘The Autobiography of Malcom X.’ There were plenty of Black Americans who believed that the system was perfect. Plenty of colonized peoples thought that ‘the Mother Country’ had done them a favor by civilizing them.


  • I’ve posted this a lot, and I’ll post it again.

    Read up on Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority. Back in the 1970s televangelist Falwell decided to get involved in GOP politics. He had a simple formula; he’d send his people to any local Republican event. If twenty people total had shown up the last time the club picked the new county clerk, Falwell would have fifty there. Those dogcatchers and justices of the peace were soon Congress members and Senators and governors.




  • [off topic?]

    Great classic mystery novel, “Too Many Cooks” by Rex Stout. Nero Wolfe is a 300 pound private detective who hates leaving his Manhattan brownstone. He investigates from his armchair, sending his assistant Archie Goodwin to round up clues and bring him folks to interrogate.

    Wolfe is a famous gourmand and is invited to give a speech on American food to a group of European chefs.

    Interesting novel on many levels.