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What I am saying is that, that was literally how I and other people were taught history in the 1990s. We were basically taught a form of history to be obedient to the state/society's institutions etc. and not question it. I am not a kid now so I don't know how it is taught in 2025. But we had to re-educate ourselves in history as adults. We didn't have such evolved internet and free thinking in those days. The way the mainstream media currently discusses about history/frames history is a reflection of our public school system's conception of reality. Overall that influencer compared historical education to Nazi Germany/North Korea...the reality is that we are not as distant from them as we think.

Taylor's "Tortured poets society" grew on me. I quite like it.. I don't know how her team/she manages to be so productive. She released an album while touring all the time, stops and then releases another one in a few months.. This new album looks like a tone shift to upbeat/pop based on the photos. Like the 'Lover' album. The way they do things is that she switches from light to dark, dark to light to mix things up.

He surely doesn't know too much about history... I attended a higher end public school, I recall one of my history teachers complaining about the flaws of the curriculum they were forced to teach by regulations. We were taught a white washed/triumphant/supremacist/propagandized version of American version of history in the 1990s that seems almost laughable today.

Her 'Tortured Poets" album grew on me and I ended up liking it. TBH I am not sure how she is able to create an album while touring. This new album appears to be a change in tone, like "Lover". Probably more pop oriented.

^ Taylor is a money printing machine.. she toured like crazy for 2 yrs and managed to release an album at the same time. After finishing she releases another one after a few months.

I saw a commercial with Lindsay Lohan for Verizon referring to her 'glow up'. Obviously due to her new movie she had a charm campaign going on. TBH in motion it is quite obvious that she is really prematurely aged from the drug abuse. Her voice has deepened a lot. She has cosmetic work done like a lot of rich 50 years old but in video you can see that she is facially like a 50 year old woman behind the procedures and the thick makeup.

what does that mean?

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This is a new win for inflation/scamming record: Overall it's getting harder and harder to buy a sandwich for lunch that isn't $15 - 20. Eating out has seen maybe a 60% inflation since 2019

If you drive to DC you will see all these 'hoods'- mostly black people live there so I guess that's what Trump is after. Or he would use the national guard against potential protests in the capital (which is a sad reversal of Jan 6th)

DC is actually filled with poverty and crime. there are armed soldiers walking around NYC's transit system or patrolling certain areas from time to time too. (always has been).

China is going to do a parade on Sept 3. I suppose Putin will be seated next to Xi.

he had to eat a crate of white rice to win the prize money lol

https://www.reddit.com/r/Walshfamilysnark/ The Walsh family was huge on youtube a few years ago with millions of followers. Presented themselves as an awesome wholesome family with great looking kids. Seemed desperate to become really famous. Turns out things have gotten really weird. The family show collapsed, their followings/earnings are in decline. The father divorced the mother- the mother is now with a woman (this happens and it is always odd to me) and does onlyfans. Claudia married a youtube star, doesn't work as a nurse. Her siblings seems to be MIA for the most part and struggling.

her mom..

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The problem with Civil War scenario is that half of American electorate don't even vote/are non-political and don't care. (complete apathy) . Also the Red State/Blue State divide is more like rural/small town vs. the Cities. The middle class suburbs tend to go either way. So the "red" vs "blue" is more like red counties vs blue counties, and political sides are really quite mixed throughout the US. Not only that but they are inconsistent. Also despite massive gun ownership, Americans are in reality, cowards. We are brainwashed consumers not warriors. Just look at the way we fight our wars it is obvious. We also live in the 'century of the self', an obsession with ourselves, our own happiness and radical individualism. A real warrior does not have these types of values, in fact the opposite. This country has 340 million people and can't even recruit enough people for the Army despite throwing huge benefits at them. Overall there idea of a civil war is a really odd one to me. I can't imagine it ever happening because there aren't clear sides. If the civil war was say, black vs white people it would be easier.. The collapse in the belief/authority of institutions was the strongest after the American people found out that Bush lied to them about Iraq. 2007-2008 great recession destroyed any belief that the American dream was even real and it was widely known by then that the US was a negative trajectory. Combined that with the internet and things escalated from there. So without the total collapse in the belief in institutions/authority then there wouldn't be MAGA at all. It is very hard to win back credibility and trust after decades of eroding this. It may take decades to rebuild it, or a miracle. But that is a tale for our great-grandchilden LOL.

An upcoming Putin-Trump meeting. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trump-putin-meet-discuss-ukraine-peace-deal-alaska-2025-08-09/