• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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        9 hours ago

        Spy magazine ran a great cartoon back in the early '90s which I can’t find anywhere online. It was captioned “Clarence Thomas greets the day” and it showed him bending down on his front porch to pick up the newspaper with a negro stable boy lawn statue next to him.

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        18 hours ago

        Reality really is stranger than fiction sometimes.

        Society tends to repeat on approximately 80-100 year cycles. Just long enough for the generations affected by bullshit to lose their voices and die.

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          18 hours ago

          Society tends to repeat on approximately 80-100 year cycles.

          American society. And it’s been closely shown to hold since when America attacked Canada, of all places.

          Other countries have their own cycles. Consider the 11-year Canada goose purge cycle that affects your friends to the north. It’s not spoken of but, like seal clubbing, a periodic culling is required to prevent them invading and burning the Library of Parliament and goosey sanchez-ing the last copy of the Declaration upon Dependence. It’s a little backward up there.