DagwoodIII

To paraphrase Marilyn Monroe.

“If you aren’t willing to penguin on Arbor Day, you don’t deserve to penguin on Halloween.”

Right to insult like ‘wanker?’

Great way to build a strong organization.

How about now we stop and organise? I don’t like the taste of boots.

Those folks were organizing, you are the one trying to insult them by implying they weren’t.

And if you think I misunderstood what you wrote you could be humble and accept it and delete your comment. You could accept the idea that you didn’t write clearly. I mean, you did misspell ‘organise.’ Maybe you made some other mistakes? Isn’t that possible?

So, in your mind escaped slave Frederick Douglas was a bootlicker?

Bayard Ruskin? WW2 partisans?

Please make your explanation as elaborate as possible.

History time.

Back in the day, runaway slave Frederick Douglas backed Abe Lincoln for President over a candidate who was for total abolition of slavery. Lincoln was open to abolition, and Douglas decided that it was better to have the ear of a sitting President over backing someone who had no chance of winning.

Bayard Ruskin was MLK’s right hand man. Ruskin was invaluable in the Civil Rights battle. Ruskin was gay, and decided that it would be counter-productive to push of LGBT rights in the 1960s.

During WW2, Communists happily accepted aid from racist america and colonial England because they knew Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany were much worse.

Questions?

[off topic?] .

https://thrillingdetective.com/2018/10/30/philip-st-ives/

Philip [Raymond in the movie] St. Ives is an ex-newspaperman who has become a professional go-between, acting as a middle man between the police and the underworld. Insurance companies would rather pay half the value of a policy to the crooks than all the money to the victims, and the victims [usually] want what was stolen back.

The movie is pretty good, and the stories are excellent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_gin

Bathtub gin was the phrase used during Prohibition.

“Bathtub” is a holdover, like bootleg.

Car services.

Because if you have money to get stupid, you have money to be smart.

It’s cute that you think there was a time when you had freedom and anonymity.

J. Edgar Hoover was building files on people starting in the Emma Goldman era.

The Apple TV show “Severance” is mind fucking presented as entertainment.

It imagines a process whereby you can be made to forget all your personal history. Employers use it so they can have workers who don’t care about anything except the company and their jobs. At the end of the day the ‘original you’ comes back for 16 hours.

I can think of some other science fiction that deals with the same idea.