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Science gets verbed occasionally these days, for what it's worth. Telepathy, less so.

Good point, honestly I'd like to know what historians think about all this.  Supposedly they help us avoid making the same mistakes...  with the strength of all our past experiences.  I'd like to see what they've come up with.

I'm not sure how exactly to search for that right now, so I'm asking for good examples.

Most of the time I've noticed much being said by historians, it's been variously shrill chittering about fascism and whatnot. Holy shit stop doing what you're doing kinda' stuff.

Hmm, thank you for the replies. I hadn't considered the baby boomer angle, but I also see it here in Australia where there is a certain group of folks who do the same thing.
It feels like the climate in America is getting really toxic. Have you guys noticed that or does it just seem especially bad because I'm a foreigner and not used to the way Americas have their discourse?

Honestly, it's better in some ways than it was a couple decades ago. A good deal of today's shit wouldn't have caused as much of a problem because racist WASP was the default and casual bigoted slurs and dog whistling for KKK types was basically not considered worth censure in a lot of places. We're at something of a peak shitheel at the moment, but part of the reason they're screeching so loudly is because they (the general morass of ideologies behind it) are fucking losing, their base is dying and they're constantly finding out they're reaching the point their bullshit isn't welcome in polite society even obliquely anymore (not that being welcome necessarily stops them).

Add on the (FTFE) media angle going out of its way to magnify everything for profit and it's easy to come to the conclusion everything is particularly terrible when it's arguably more that the terribleness is changing, and in some ways is only so seemingly loud because we've stopped goddamn ignoring it.

... all that said, the right's stochastic terrorism efforts have indeed been louder later, and Trump's rhetoric has emboldened some terrible people to feel like they're okay to spew their hateful shit all over the place. So you're not entirely wrong that shit has been more toxic over the last few years in particular.

Sweet fucking hell Ree the ameripol problem, beyond whatever degree the stochastic terrorism efforts of our right wing got loose our borders, is that the president of the United States of fucking America mimicked the language of a terrorist that murdered over four dozen civilians.

Save a little love for me, club des belugas. Vocals on point, instrumentation dirty in the best of ways.

Finally got around to checking out the lyrics to rum & coca cola to find out what an 'ankydalah' was.

Which is to say it wasn't. The lyrics are 'yankee dollar' and it turns out on top of the booze it's a song about prostitution. Catchy tune, though.

_{i swear to the non-existent gods one day i'm going to learn to just stop looking this stuff up}

Ran into one of those a few days ago. Turns out if you hit the stop button part way through the load, you can stop the notice from loading and continue reading. The shit design of news sites isn't limited to just the layout, I guess...

... yeah, pretty much.