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Everyone has a junk drawer somewhere, don't they? I sure do. I find them to be useful things. You might not have much use for the little things you put inside, but they're sometimes indispensable.
I consider random thoughts indispensible to discussion, to the organization of one's own thoughts and to the germination of new ideas. Thusly, I find it a shame when the catch-all threads, an inevitability of human nature and the minds that drive it, are closed for meandering too far from their own stated purpose, their own titles, for the sake of a largely arbitrary rule.
As some of you regulars here in the basement might guess, I'm far less interested in rules than the average person. Maybe the powers that be here will have difficulty in closing a thread with such an amorphous and ambiguous title as this.
As the creator of this gloriously confused thread, I hereby declare it has no stated rules, if I have such authority. If I don't, who says so? This thread has no rules, remember?
To kick things off, I offer this. Do I think this is earthshattering? No, I don't. I don't think it even warrants it's own thread. I suspect this effort will go largely nowhere.
However, I also think BLM has, at least, not overlooked what so many Americans often do. One can rail against the Republican Party for its ongoing efforts to turn our democracy into some kind of authoritarian plutocracy, as I often have, but I think it's important to remember the outsized role corporations, having so thoroughly bribed our politicians and particularly Republicans, play in our government.
Take a moment to have a good look at our country as it stands before you today and realize this was largely brought to you by corporate America. Think back to all those emails that clogged every American's inbox after George Floyd's death, professing their undying support of the fair and equal treatment of all Americans. Next, read Delta's defense of some of the provisions in Georgia's new election laws. Then, have a Coke and a smile.
I consider random thoughts indispensible to discussion, to the organization of one's own thoughts and to the germination of new ideas. Thusly, I find it a shame when the catch-all threads, an inevitability of human nature and the minds that drive it, are closed for meandering too far from their own stated purpose, their own titles, for the sake of a largely arbitrary rule.
As some of you regulars here in the basement might guess, I'm far less interested in rules than the average person. Maybe the powers that be here will have difficulty in closing a thread with such an amorphous and ambiguous title as this.
As the creator of this gloriously confused thread, I hereby declare it has no stated rules, if I have such authority. If I don't, who says so? This thread has no rules, remember?
To kick things off, I offer this. Do I think this is earthshattering? No, I don't. I don't think it even warrants it's own thread. I suspect this effort will go largely nowhere.
However, I also think BLM has, at least, not overlooked what so many Americans often do. One can rail against the Republican Party for its ongoing efforts to turn our democracy into some kind of authoritarian plutocracy, as I often have, but I think it's important to remember the outsized role corporations, having so thoroughly bribed our politicians and particularly Republicans, play in our government.
Take a moment to have a good look at our country as it stands before you today and realize this was largely brought to you by corporate America. Think back to all those emails that clogged every American's inbox after George Floyd's death, professing their undying support of the fair and equal treatment of all Americans. Next, read Delta's defense of some of the provisions in Georgia's new election laws. Then, have a Coke and a smile.
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