blitzen

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[–] blitzen 0 points 40 minutes ago

History is written by the teenagers? Hardly.

[–] blitzen 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Your metric of “does anybody care?” being what teenagers know is really not relevant. Teenagers know jack all about anything.

[–] blitzen 9 points 1 hour ago

In a just world, they should feel that capitulating to Trump’s agenda would be actual suicide.

[–] blitzen 5 points 1 hour ago

They should be equally as afraid of enabling Trump. That’s where we come in.

[–] blitzen 1 points 1 hour ago (4 children)

If not for portraits on money, would we all easily remember what Washington, Lincoln, et. al. looked like?

I’m sure part or maybe most of the reason the titans of industry ‘s portraits don’t live in most of our memories is because there were much fewer photographs of them taken. I’m sure I have an order of magnitude more photographs of my child on my phone, then existed any photographs of Rockefeller.

[–] blitzen 35 points 17 hours ago (10 children)

We remember Rockefeller and Carnegie because of the public works they funded. If Bezos and Musk and Zuckerberg want to be remembered, build some libraries.

[–] blitzen 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most EVs, and especially Teslas, are prime offenders. It’s like the focused them specifically to blind oncoming drivers. Which would be selfishly on-brand for Tesla.

[–] blitzen 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

He does. That’s why it’s fun to point out that it’s wrong.

[–] blitzen 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I get the point this is making, but do we even import any apples?

[–] blitzen 5 points 6 days ago

Is was by P Doody

[–] blitzen 48 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I bet every one of the three in ten have at some point called themselves a constitutionalist.

[–] blitzen 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I just upgraded six months early to avoid any potential tariffs.

 
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