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adamcoe t1_jadxv58 wrote

Reply to comment by adamcoe in TIL the last B-52 Bomber produced for the US left the factory 10/26/1962 - the same day as the climax of the Cuban Missile Crisis - they're still used 60 yrs later. by GoGaslightYerself

Rain your downvotes on me by all means, you know I'm right and every one is confirmation of it. Honestly it'd be a little sad if the world's most grotesquely funded military wasn't maintaining their stuff well, wouldn't it?

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WaitingForNormal t1_jadwos7 wrote

Reply to comment by InflamedLiver in TIL that due to "Subjective Age" most children and adolescents feel older than they really are. But this switches at around 25. By age 30, around 70% of people feel younger than they really are, with the discrepancy between actual age and subjective age growing over time. by AspireAgain

Yeah, I think this happens to a lot of us. I definitely feel like real adulthood doesn’t happen until 30s. 20’s are the transition years.

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JezebelRaven t1_jadwn0i wrote

Reply to TIL that due to "Subjective Age" most children and adolescents feel older than they really are. But this switches at around 25. By age 30, around 70% of people feel younger than they really are, with the discrepancy between actual age and subjective age growing over time. by AspireAgain

As a 15yo I wanted to be seen as responsible and it went on for a full decade. At 25yo I felt like I was in my 40s due to the responsibilities I had put on myself and my need to show I was an adult.

Now at 46yo I understand we never really know what we're doing and I take everything with a grain of salt. I feel so much younger than what I am and I'm much more carefree than I was as a young adult... and I love it.

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PreciousRoi t1_jadwaib wrote

Reply to comment by FuschiaKnight in TIL that the first woman to serve in the United States Senate was also the last member of Congress to be a slaveowner. by addemup9001

OK, but the way you word it, you make it sound like the Democrats didn't have the South on virtual lockdown after the Civil War until Nixon.

It is also a complete slander to say that the Republicans "gradually" became more opposed to Civil Rights...they were never opposed. It was Democrats vs. Other Democrats, until LBJ/Nixon. Republicans voted in favor of Civil Rights, and only two elected Democrats "switched" in the 60s.

Also, LBJ said plenty of other things about Civil Rights...the question isn't if he lied, the question is, which version was the lie? Was he lying to his closest friends and colleagues, or to everyone else? The "inconsistencies" (i.e. racists) in the Democratic Party were never "pushed out", they died and were honored as Democrats. The Democrats never attempted a purge of anyone (with any power they could use) just because they were a leader of the local KKK, for example. Even when I was a kid in the 70s/80s, the overt racists weren't relatively wealthy Republicans, they were working class Union Democrats, living through White Flight. Trump changed a lot of that, and post-Trump, everything looks different, but Republicans used to be less opposed to "Civil Rights" and other "Social Justice" issues and more utterly indifferent...they drifted from being the "Anti-slavery"/"pro-Union" party, to being the pro-business party, not because they "gradually opposed" Civil Rights, but because they were mostly powerless to do Civil Rights because racist Democrats were in control. Once enough racist Democrats became convinced by their friend LBJ that if they didn't pass Civil Rights, some Yankee Federal Judge would impose something worse and passed it, the Republicans voted overwhelmingly in favor.

You also allude to Wilson as a step towards Civil Rights...that is gross. Like disgusting. Wilson is like the poster child for Intellectual Racism at the turn of the century. Buy into Good Guy Lyndon OK, maybe it was all "locker room talk" (nah, fam, but you do you)...but Woody...come on, man!

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gorillamagnet t1_jadvv9w wrote

Reply to TIL Thomas Jefferson regularly attended many different churches and declared "I am of a sect by myself" unlike many of the other devoted founding fathers. by skylightyourlife

This concept of 'devoted founding fathers' is nonsense, revisionist history. Jefferson and Franklin were agnostic and may even have been atheists. Washington paid lip service to religion on his best day but it played no major role in his life.

If you're wondering why so many American right wingers are religious and like to mix their religion with politics, it is mainly because, in their minds, the US is like a fallen angel that was once a great nation, and was a great nation because it was God fearing. And it has gotten away from that. And if only it would get back to God, that would solve most of its problems and it would once again become great. That's why they say 'put God back in schools.' God was never in schools, at least no school that I ever attended. And what they really mean there is 'put Christian God back in schools.' Somehow I don't think Muslim kids kneeling and praying to the west in the gym is quite what they have in mind when they say that.

The entire premise of this is false. From a Constitutional perspective, the US was never ever a God fearing or Christian nation. This is pure revisionist history.

Source: Me. I worked in the Republican party apparatus in my local politics for a period of years and I know how they think. And I read the Constitution. Jesus' name never comes up even once.

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InflamedLiver t1_jadvv6l wrote

Reply to TIL that due to "Subjective Age" most children and adolescents feel older than they really are. But this switches at around 25. By age 30, around 70% of people feel younger than they really are, with the discrepancy between actual age and subjective age growing over time. by AspireAgain

I get that. When I was in my late teens I basically saw myself as a young adult. Then by the time I hit 30 I felt like I was finally a young adult for real. Now in my 40s I think I finally feel like a "normal" adult.

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