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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • I’ll reiterate my original point.

    Back in the day, the IWW and other radical groups had their own folks in the crowd to make sure that no one threw a rock at a cop. The cops loved to send in bad actors who would give them an excuse to come in.

    Some one who throws a brick is putting everyone else’s safety at risk. If you really feel the need to fight a cop, go up and punch them yourself. Don’t hide behind someone’s grandmother and call yourself a hero.





  • To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, ‘It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but might as well be.’ It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: ‘if you’re so smart why ain’t you rich?’ There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.

    Kurt Vonnegut, in "Slaughterhouse 5’