[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 points 11 minutes ago

So you're saying that the Gulf Coast gives people bad credit?

/s

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 43 points 1 hour ago

Hawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.

Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye?

Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?

Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe.

Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them — little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

And The Plague Dogs, by the same author!

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

It's like Society (1989)

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago

And carrying cast iron cookware across the entire damn continent.

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

John Stark, one of the rescuers of the Donner Party.

In Summit Valley the remaining rescuers discussed what to do and took a vote to save only two of the children in Starved Camp. That might have been all they could manage. The others would have to stay behind.

John Stark, above, could not abide that. That meant that nine people, mostly children, would die on the mountain, exposed to the elements down in a very deep hole in the snow. John Stark decided he would save all nine, “Already shouldering a backpack with provisions, blankets, and an axe, he picked up one or two of the smaller children, carried them a little ways, then went back for the others. Then he repeated the whole process again and again and again. To galvanize morale, he laughed and told the youngsters they were so light from months of mouse-sized rations that he could carry them all simultaneously, if only his back were broad enough.” Once they were out of the snow he would eat and rest he said, but not before. He saved all nine. That is extraordinary and that is heroism. It was also heroism he never got contemporary credit for.

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The "artist":

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 48 points 10 hours ago

Imagine being JD Vance, looking at all of the people smarter and more experienced than him with their shattered careers after working for Trump, and thinking "But I'm the one who will figure out how to ride this tiger to my own advantage!"

Rudy Giuliani went from being "America's mayor" to being an absolute fucking laughingstock, a man so generally reviled that he couldn't sustain an appearance on The Masked Singer.

Anyone, literally anyone at any level, at this point who thinks that Trump won't throw them under the bus at his earliest convenience is just actively seeking their own destruction.

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago

And the unified currency!

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I counted at least twenty references to the "Harris administration," or "Harris' immigration policies," and one full-on "the Harris/Biden administration."

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Jesus, he went to Burlington VT? Was he trying to generate so much psychic dissonance that he summoned the angry ghost of Ethan Allen?

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I just wanted to feel rested in the morning for a change!

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From LIFE Magazine

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I couldn't really argue the point.

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I'm in the fucking emergency department. I'm not feeling very grateful right now. Read the room.

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I thought a half cup would be okay.

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From LIFE Magazine

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From LIFE Magazine

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From LIFE Magazine, July 30, 1956

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On a windy beach. In the summer. With a dog and a child.

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In August. On a windy beach. With a dog and a child.

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