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History - questioning the winners and how we arrived at this point

Kepler said:
Somebody out there is extremely witty.

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There are some fun "reviews" out there for prisons.

I was a guest at the King County Bed and Breakfast in 2001.

Not the most welcoming place I have ever visited. Both the bed and the breakfast were well under par. Why my rectum needed to be inspected before I was offered my lovely jumpsuit and plastic sandals is beyond me.

I shant return.
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Arguably stupider - less educated, less knowledge of science, more decisions based on religious dogma, fears, and gut feelings.
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No. Always like this.

We just see the dopes more now because they can intrude into our lives. It used to be after high school we never saw them again. Now they're in Comment streams (and Congress).

Sturgeon's Law applies to humans too.
 
Sure, they have always been around...

But currently because everyone is so connected, the DERPS are just in a more concentrated form now.

That is the difference between 2020 and 1980.

Back then Hillbilly Joe from Backwoods, Arkansas was able to keep his thoughts about the Civil War just being at "halftime" limited to just the town folk he saw daily/weekly... Now he can broadcast that and connect with Backwoods Bill in Sister's Taint, Georgia and form an alliance.
 
I’m reading “The Bomber Mafia” on a recommendation. It’s amazing how Curtis Emerson LeMay is idolized by so many…I’m attributing this to a general lack of knowledge about LeMay vs Kennedy (actually advocating we conduct a preemptive nuclear strike on USSR) and LeMay’s role in drafting Operation Northwoods.
 
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The higher percentage of enslaved people that a U.S. county counted among its residents in 1860, the more guns its residents have in the present, according to a new analysis by researchers exploring why Americans' feelings about guns differ so much from people around the globe.

More than 45% of the world's civilian-owned firearms are in the United States, where just 5 percent of the world's people live. This disparity may have something to do with the way the majority of American gun owners view gun ownership.

"Gun culture is one case where American Exceptionalism really is true," says Nick Buttrick, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of psychology. "We are really radically different even from countries like Canada or Australia, places that have similar cultural roots."

Pew Research Center surveys show two-thirds of Americans who own guns say it's a way to keep themselves safe, while in other countries, people are more likely believe the presence of a gun adds risk and danger to their lives, considering, for example, the far higher rates of homicide and suicide in households with guns. Gun culture scholars have also explored the role of race in American gun attitudes for some time, Buttrick says, and the two may be linked.

In a study published recently in the journal PNAS Nexus, Buttrick and co-author Jessica Mazen, a psychology graduate student at the University of Virginia, describe a shift in sentiment away from the predominant, pre-Civil War idea of guns as tools for hunting and sport.

In the post-Civil War South, the belief that a gun was necessary to protect family, property and a way of life grew prominent among white southerners. This was driven by a flood of surplus military weapons, the rise of armed, white-supremacist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan, and elite rhetoric that Reconstruction governments would not protect the interests of white southerners from newly freed and politically-empowered Black people.
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