The Left had two chances to get Bernie Sanders nominated. In 2020 he did better in the caucus states [where the DNC would be able to exert more control of the outcome]. The Left failed both times. Maybe we should stop looking at the Dems and get our act together. FYI I contributed to Bernie both cycles.

Sure it is, but I feel you

So, this whole thing has been about your feelings?

Whatever.

If we can split the vote the Left has a chance of moving ahead.

I’ve been hoping for a war between the MAGoos and the old guard RNC for almost a decade.

I once read a novel from the 1970s. There were a couple of thugs who were arguing over who’d had more STIs. It was a simpler, happier time.

Here’s the main reason I worry about people taking direct action.

So, this isn’t a thread about direct action?

Because gunning someone down seems pretty direct to me.

Think about this. Public sex clubs like ‘Plato’s Retreat’ and gay bath houses were mainstream in the 1970s. Bette Midler got her start performing at a gay bath house. There were porn theaters catering to couples all over the place. AIDS came along and threw everything back fifty years.

Here’s the main reason I worry about people taking direct action.

Blackwater et al.

If you think that companies run and staffed by ex-CIA operatives don’t have a plan to capitalize on civil unrest, you haven’t been paying attention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRA8LsMNqTQ

Michelle Wolf on the idea of ‘having it all’

No. Guess I’ll have to start paying her more attention.

Sometimes I wonder about how many songs the average person would know throughout history. An ancient Roman would be exposed to songs from the entire Empire, while a 1000 AD English farmer might only hear a few dozen in their whole life time.

Since this is a comedy thread, I’ll paraphrase John Cleese.

The great thing about anger is that it really works. It makes you physically stronger and less likely to feel pain. If you’re angry all the time you aren’t worrying about things because you’ve got a target to go after.

I’ll throw in another comedy classic.

The musical “The Music Man” is about a conman who gets the whole town in an uproar over a pool table.

I like the joke where the woman says that women won’t be taken seriously until they commit half the murders…

And she’s getting damned tired of doing her part to bring up the average.

Saw it a few days ago on Youtube. Glad I remembered her name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRA8LsMNqTQ

Michelle Wolf on the idea of ‘having it all’

They’ve actually done studies proving that.

She’s a long time favorite.

Not going to argue.

I will point you at a book you might not have read.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-proud-tower-a-portrait-of-the-world-before-the-war-1890-1914-barbara-w-tuchman-s-great-war-series-barbara-w-tuchman/1417915?ean=9780345405012

Great book about pre-WW1 Europe and the tensions that made people think that ‘maybe a little bloodshed will calm everything down and let us get back to normal.’

Check the history of comedy.

Mel Brooks ‘The Producers’ movie had two gay men. Bugs Bunny was in drag in the 1940’s. “Some Like It Hot” came out in the 1950s. Heck, pretty much any Hollywood movie made before the Hays Code would have had gay gags.

Milton Berle was the King of Comedy and he did drag for years.

The Pythons didn’t invent anything

I don’t agree.

Individuals and their actions matter.

Look at what this thread is about. We wouldn’t be talking if the shooter hadn’t acted.

The state of healthcare in the US is exactly the same as it was yesterday. But the discussion has changed dramatically

The tensions between the USSR and the West were as bad as the ones pre-WW1. Individual actions kept things from going into all out war.