DagwoodIII
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5·1 day agoI never heard that. They’d have had normal sized women and it’s more likely that they’d plan around the building than to rely on little people. Remember that the US was building thousands of planes and ships and needing extra small folks would have created a massive bottleneck.
I did a quick search and nothing came up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovitz_family
Family of ‘dwarves’ who survived the concentration camps.
The basic flaw of you thinking is that there was ever a “reason” the US entered that war.
There wasn’t one. There was just lots of justifications for why te US had to stay in it.
Please don’t use the “US is evil” argument to justify not knowing history.
The reality is worse.
The US was almost totally focused on the Soviet threat after WW2. The US wanted France as a strong ally, so the French coerced the Americans to pick up the torch in Vietnam and help the South beat the North. Eisenhower and Kennedy gave the South ‘military advisors’ but didn’t want to fully commit. Then LBJ became President.
Johnson believed that he could win the War with a massive buildup. His plan backfired, and the US went from having a small force committed to a large force stuck in a quagmire. Johnson didn’t want to raise taxes for the War, so he printed money, which lead to inflation.
Nixon got elected as a ‘peace candidate.’ He then doubled down on LBJ’s policies of a big War paid for with paper money. Nixon knew the War was unwinnable; he planned on keeping it going until 1976 when he was out of office.
The inflationary spending was starting to hurt the US economy when the OPEC Oil Embargo hit. That made everything in the US much more expensive. It was so bad under Ford that families that used to be able to do well with one job needed Mom to get a job too.
Jimmy Carter’s man, Paul Volker, won the war on inflation, but people only saw results after Carter was out. Reagan got the credit for Volker’s plan, but Reagan had his own inflationary program ready to go.
In 1964, before the War ramped up, ‘middle class’ was one Union job supporting a family of four with enough money to send the kids to college and have some luxuries. In those days, $1 million was a vast fortune. By 1993, when George Bush Sr. was done, ‘middle class’ was two incomes to keep a household going. In 1993, $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.
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I’ll take this opportunity to tout a favorite graphic novel.
Big Man Plans.’ A slightly off kilter officer recruits a 4-F little person to be a tunnel rat in Vietnam. Then it gets kinda weird…
1·2 days agoIt doesn’t make a lot of sense to talk about the authors’ styles if you haven’t actually read them.
32·2 days agoIt’s funny that in the classic Libertarian novel “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” the rule free society only works because there are no guns and literally everything is controlled by a single giant computer.
Objectivism creator Ayn Rand ended up on welfare after she lacked the will power to give up smoking.
Need I say more?
nsfw
They asked Stan Lee about digital comic books.
He said comics are like boobs, he’d rather have one in his hand than on a screen.
I meant printed volumes.
Don’t steal books form the library.
1·2 days agoI wouldn’t beat myself up for complying.
Take the money and run
Not a lawyer, but it sounds like the attorneys wrote one contract and boilerplated it to everyone.
They put out the whole comic series in four big printed volumes after the TV show came out. The entire run of the comic.
Get them from your local library; they are worth a read, and if you get them from the library he doesn’t get any more money.
If they don’t mention it in the interview process, you don’t need to worry about it.
If you’re at the level where a non-compete clause is going to come up, you should talk to a lawyer.
For most salaried jobs, two weeks notice is considered appropriate.
Sorry, but read “Walk To The end Of The World” by Suzy McKee Charnas,
Thus proving my point.
11·3 days agoBy that logic we should throw Mamdani out because he didn’t strangle Trump in the Oval Office. Instead, he did the smart thing and acted like a gentleman. Also, Mamdani got a little over 50% of the vote running against a molester and an idiot.
And the millions of voters who’d happily give Obama a third term are a ‘hindrance?’
You live in a fantasy world where there are millions and millions of Progressive voters who have sat out every single primary and general election waiting for the perfect candidate to appear.
If you’re going to put words in my mouth, please order some chips and salsa.
If you just want to live in a fantasy world where Progressives control the government, go ahead, but leave me out of your private wonderland.
If you want to talk actual strategy and tactics, I’m here.
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I’ve yet to see an ‘adjusted for inflation’ that coincides with the actual costs of the different eras.
In 1960, $1 million would get you a Beverly Hills mansion, a fleet of cars, a Manhattan townhouse, and you’d have enough left over to live lavishly off the interest.
In 2025, $12 million will get you a fairly nice house.