Where young people from every district come to the capitol to compete in a televised spectacle for the entertainment of the ruling classes and the education of the workers.
No, yeah, that sounds fine. I’m 90% sure the javelins aren’t barbed, and the discus won’t explode.
Which District will win this year?
may the odds be ever in your favor…
And rebels who get caught either get executed, or their tongue cut out. Almost like we’ve seen this story before…
Or maybe these games will involve high school students going on a field trip…
The worst kind of propaganda, as none of it is actually true, which is a pretty terrible thing for a federal agency to send out to deliberately misinform people.
(There’s a temporary general tax cut for a small sub-set of retirees, and nothing specifically about Social Security income.)
There is absolutely no way that one could grow up in NYC and not know that “shylock” is an anti-Semitic term. No. Fucking. Way. Possible.
Donald Trump Pleads Ignorance After Using Antisemitic Slur at His Rally
I’m sure they’ll ensure there’s no Jesse Owens moment, either.
That’s odd, how’d he know.
And filmed by Leni Riefenstahl.
I’ve only been to NY a long time ago once, on a J1 visa, so what do I know?
But how the fuck could you grow up in New York and build your life around the idea that immigrants are the evil of the world? How?
Young people. And filmed semi or fully nude a la Leni. We know who’d prefer that.
That’s made up of words which are used in English, but it’s not English. I’d posit that it’s not language either, and it’s barely even language-shaped.
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Anthony Bourdain did a Parts Unknown in Queens &, IIRC, he broached the subject. Not sure the episodes are still online somewhere/somehow, but the website still has some notes, e.g.
It’s America—when America was still seen and believed to be an idea: a place for people from all over the world to be free, to better their lives, to build a new future. To say such things these days is unpopular. But Queens, I hope, is an argument for the founders’ original intent, a place where America still offers the world something of inestimable value: hope—and in return, receives so much.
P.S. it goes way back, in Queens:
