Oh yeah. Here in the US it the fastest growing cottage industry.
Small batch, craft stupidity. Its the future of stupid! 
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Nah, if I were to show you what some people post in my local forums, youâd think that chick is smart. Itâs just not the funny kind of stupidity. Itâs the âlose your faith in humanityâ kind.
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I got that in spades.
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The interaction between Randy and Sharon is fantastic
Food for thought:
Amazing power to decide on what history to ignore.
San Francisco school board votes to rename schools honoring Washington, Lincoln, Feinstein, others*.Replacing signage at the 44 schools will cost more than $400,000, a report says, plus other related costs*
Not even revered former presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson are safe from âcancel culture,â it appears.
The American icons were among a list of historical figures whose names will be removed from San Franciscoâs public schools following a 6-1 vote by the school board Tuesday, according to multiple reports.
*Washington and Jefferson were both slave owners and Lincoln, who ended slavery, became controversial because critics claim he oppressed indigenous people. *
The presidents were among a long list of men and women whose namesake schools will soon be renamed. Others on the list include Francis Scott Key, who wrote the words to the national anthem, former presidents William McKinley, James Garfield, James Monroe, and Herbert Hoover, Revolutionary War hero Paul Revere and author Robert Louis Stevenson, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Even an elementary school named for current U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., will be changed over allegations that she replaced a damaged Confederate flag outside of City Hall when she was the cityâs mayor in 1986, according to Courthouse News. She didnât replace the flag after it was pulled down a second time.
Historical figures have come under a sharp focus since anti-racism protests swept the country last summer, with some protesters ripping down Confederate statues but a lot those of figures like Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and others they deemed offensive.
Replacing signage at the 44 schools will cost more than $400,000, according to the Courthouse News. The price tag could also go up to around ols t$1 million for schools get new activity uniforms, repaint gymnasium floors, etc., according to the Chronicle. The district is facing a budget deficit.
While the board focused on renaming the schools in the Tuesday meeting, it did not discuss reopening schools from coronavirus shutdowns.
Other critics complained the panel that reviewed the appropriateness of school names used little input from historians and didnât put the figures into a historical context or weigh their contributions with their failings.
Others argued the research process was thin, relying on selective sources and using websites like Wikipedia to back up claims.
in the case of Roosevelt Middle School, it wasnât clear if the board knew which former President Roosevelt it was named for, but decided to have it removed anyway.
Board member Mark Sanchez, however, called the decision a âmoral message.â
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I think we should just use GPS coordinates to refer to anything. 78.673827/30.649853 Elementary School.
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Anyone who has some problem with Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, etc., should give all of their money and property to an indigenous or black person. Itâs easy to judge and condemn people who are long dead while you currently benefit from their âatrocities.â Itâs like tearing down a statue of Columbus; Iâm sure heâs upset about that but my question is: how does that stop the shootings in Chicago or improve the literacy of urban kids?
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You know a group is oppressed when it (or others on their behalf) can wipe away a nationâs history.
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Itâs abominable. We should not and must not view history through our modern lens, unless we are so self righteous that we are comfortable with future centuriesâ peopleâs viewing US through that same lens (and we shouldnât be).
People can be great and flawed at the same time. In fact thatâs the ONLY way they can be, since none of us are remotely perfect.
Itâs like people canât hold two competing thoughts in their head at once.
Yeah letâs see them put their personal money where their talk is. Fat chance.
It is completely absurd.
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Thatâs how you know they are oppressed; itâs just who the oppressors are. In this case people wanting to waste 400K (and you know that it will end up costing more) on something to make themselves feel better and give the appearance of caring rather than use that money on the actual students to improve their chances of success in the real world. Who really benefits? The sign makers.
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Itâs âLook! I made a poopy!â culture. Except that itâs being done by adults who donât realize theyâre just idiots and the novelty and pride in their âaccomplishmentâ should have worn off 35 years or 40 years ago.
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Imagine if Italians decided to remove all of the ancient Roman buildings and ruins because the Romans were âbadâ people. Or if it was decided to wipe out any remains of ancient Egypt because they had slavery. How about destroying any Aztec remains because they practiced human sacrifice, were empire builders and âgaspâ, owned slaves. Wait, they lost in the end and that makes them the good guys. Because the logic for these fragile virtual signalers is that it isnât about the terrible things you do but whether or not you are the winner.
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Nailed it. That and most donât want to question their own assumptionsâŠtheyâre not humble enough for that rabbit holeâŠ
Iâm really dumbfounded how you arenât the modern day Mark Twain. Start writing dude.
Just devilâs advocate - is there anyone who thinks the Aztecs were the good guys?
Thanks.
Iâm too cynical for my own good, and instead of just bruising an ego or two here and there I take gouges.
Mark Twain is like Jesus. He happened at his own place and time in history.
There is no place for him in this one. People would hate him.
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Mark Twain - Super Racist, duhâŠ
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Relative to the colonizers?
BTW
My hometown just renamed the 2 high schools, which were in process of being rebuilt. Nameplates were replaced and that alone was 1/2 mil iirc. Uniforms, signage, etc extra like zecarlo mentioned.
All on complaint from a 2 year immigrant from Africa. Of course she was the figurehead, but why quibble
Is anyone watching the GameStop short squeeze? This is the zaniest shit Iâve ever seen.
Weaponised autism has cost hedge funds about 5 billion dollars.
These guys have done more to harm wall street in a week than occupy did in a year.
Go get âem, chaps.
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It is an interesting concept that someone would buy stock not with the intention of making money, but out of spite.