I have never felt more correct
zifnab25
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Who you think you're hurting
Who you're actually hurting
There was a sizable community of Germans living in the US at the time, so its certainly possible that this intended to differentiate the Wicked Foreigners from our Righteous Domestics. But also, a lot of German communities and families changed their names and abandoned their cultural touchstones to avoid looking too German during the first war. So, idk.
This was sandwiched between the Chinese Immigration (Exclusion) Acts of 1885 and 1923, so there was definitely an abundance of anti-East Asian sentiment, particularly out west.
Gotta say, as someone who has been a foster parent in Texas for the last three years... shit is fucked up, yo. The policies of the state have absolutely nothing to do with the welfare of the kids. They're routinely removed from homes, shuffled around between foster families, and then deposited right back where they started with little rhyme or reason. The turnover rate of the state workforce is obscene - the average agent has been on the job for 9 months - and the workload is absurd - 60+ hr weeks are standard - beside a meager $10-20/hr salary. The folks who thrive in this system tend to be ones who attach themselves to the governor's current favorite nominees and focus their energies entirely on minimizing the cost per child.
There's a rich body of people who genuinely want to participate in the system and help children, but the burnout on our end is ugly as well. Having some bureaucrat deposit an infant on your doorstep and snarl at you if it looks like you're getting attached is galling. Getting calls at odd hours announcing that the baby is going to be moved - actually she's not, no actually she is! - rubs nerves raw. Having people pick through your house, making arbitrary demands about safety and care and best practices (we were required to post a list of the child's rights in the bedroom of an illiterate 3-year-old, then chewed out for giving her a hair cut), then wisking the kid off to a single parent living in a rented trailer at the end of it...
Good on Bale for at least getting his hands in on this mess and sparing someone. But it all just feels like Schindler's List. Knowing you provide everything you have to give to a handful of people while a river of suffering flows just outside your front door is... disheartening.
Very popular in WW1 to call the German army a nation of Huns.
I might begin to take "tactical voting" seriously if it was - in fact - a tactical maneuver and not just a handful of Facebook Liberals announcing "I'm going to vote for Nikki Haley to cause chaos and confusion!" ThatsNotHowAnyOfThisWorks.jpg
Say what you will about Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" in 2008, but it had a nationally syndicated radio host behind it. The modern liberals only appear to have the ability to cope and seethe.
I'm old enough to remember conservatives making a big deal about the "Draw Mohammad" contest, because they wanted to stick it to the those snowflake Muslims.
But drawing a picture of a European Settler was over the line, for some reason.
Curious.
Classic liberal
Finally getting into the Beetles in 2024 and y'all I don't think McCartney is that good also where's John Lenon at these days?
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