make sure Texas gets the memo this time https://t.co/1qDUkDpxtP
— zeddy (@Zeddary) June 17, 2021
Some people can’t even shut up and enjoy the picnics, because they so hate other peoples’ freedom…
republicans will 100% treat juneteenth like it’s al nakba https://t.co/O27Vs4CS81
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) June 17, 2021
liking a day celebrating human freedom is the easiest layup in history and republicans can’t do it because it their base just super fucking dislikes black people
it’s a conundrum!
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) June 17, 2021
“Juneteenth,” holiday celebrating liberation of slaves in United States, is opposed by proponents of “Columbus Day,” celebrating European introduction of slave trade to Americas.
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) June 17, 2021
You know all the people up in arms over Juneteenth would endorse Trump Day in a hot second.
— FBIDidARICO!Hat (@Popehat) June 17, 2021
it really doesn’t cross his mind that commemorating the end of slavery is a celebration of our history. like, it’s a thing to celebrate. like, “yay!” and stuff. being happy, better things, whole deal. https://t.co/H9Iis2GlIB
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) June 17, 2021
Juneteenth parade Austin. Imagine a self-styled "patriot" being triggered by this pic.twitter.com/RWDAdrz4rX
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 17, 2021
"heritage Americans"? I am descendant of 8 generations of Corn Belt dirt farmers who arrived here in 1765, fought in the Continental Army, the Union Army, and pretty much every war since, and neither of us has as much American heritage as freed slaveshttps://t.co/OZLrTefL9J
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 17, 2021
just dropping this in for certain MEGA MAGA PATRIOTZ in my mentionshttps://t.co/bt26TdUFZe
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 17, 2021
Steeplejack
Justin Amash: “Plot twist in the fourth act.” Charlie Kirk on Juneteenth.
phdesmond
googling around,
“If you want a rough German antonym of Schadenfreude (or simply schadenfreude in English texts — “enjoyment obtained from the mishaps of others,” as Merriam-Webster defines it), then Seligkeitfreude would work. Lisa always celebrates others’ successes.”
or
“The opposite of schadenfreude is called fremdscham, or the “vicarious embarrassment syndrome”. Essentially, people who have this syndrome tend to feel embarrassment for someone else’s misfortune.”
phdesmond
@phdesmond:
here’s a third possibility:
“Gluckschmerz is also a compound term of two German words: Gluck, meaning luck, and Schmerz, meaning pain. It represents being displeased by an event presumed to be desirable for someone else.”
NotMax
By this time next year it will be so commercialized that there’ll be greeting cards with a sound chip which plays “Unchained Melody” when the card is opened.
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Steeplejack
“Journalist Janet Malcolm dies at 86.”
Anne Laurie
Thank you, that’s the word I was looking for!
phdesmond
@Anne Laurie: the two first ones seemed way off, especially the second.
Anne Laurie
@Steeplejack: IMO, the best ‘contemporary’ introduction to Malcolm’s skills as a character assassin is her 2011 review of Sarah Palin’s TV ‘documentary’.
Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]
I think I’ve found the word: Mudita. Indian “To take joy in the joy of others”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudita
ian
I guess this isn’t really a surprise, certainly the juicers here more familiar with twitter knew this, but I was surprised at how far apart/ separate universe left twitter and right twitter were. It is like switching the channel between fox and msnbc. Two entirely different languages and moral value systems, compressed into repeated bursts of 140 words.
NotMax
@Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]
Also, kind of, the Yiddish firgun (Feer-GUHN). Ungrudging and genuine vicarious delight, empathetically joining in with tooting of their horns by others.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Two Covid stories here in LA:
I received an email from The Huntington, they’re doing Covid shots there. Get your shot and get a free admission for you and a guest the day you get your shot.
On the down side, our positivity rate has gone up from 0.4% to 0.5%.
JWR
Beware the Woke Cathode Ray Tubes!
Tony Jay
“When my ancestors shed their blood on every battlefield from Bull Run to Gettysburg they did it because they loved freedom and rejected tyranny, not to celebrate Hip Hop culture and pour scorn on the heritage of white, working class Americans. This fake holiday trivialises their sacrifice and exists only as a virtue- signalling exercise by publicity hungry radicals!”
Beauregard Jackson Lee Tarleton III
Martin
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Delta outrunning the marginal rate of vaccination.
The Dangerman
FY, YFF
I’m thinking BJ lurker there.
James E Powell
@Tony Jay:
He needs one of those nicknames
Beauregard “Buddy” Jackson Lee Tarleton III
opiejeanne
@ian: 280 words now. The limit was doubled several years ago.
opiejeanne
@Tony Jay: It’s scary how you can do that, replicate their grievance style.
bjacques
Shouldn’t that be “Manassas” instead of “Bull Run”? But I wouldn’t be surprised if Tarleton got it wrong too.
In the words of Capt Macdonald: Acid is groovy. Kill the pigs.
Van Buren
@Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]: Feel free to experience some Mudita on my behalf, as I have managed to adopt a pupper. It took two weeks, felt like two months & we won’t actually get her til the 26th. She’s the epitome of muttdom & she’s a Jersey girl, so my wife decided she had to be Rosalita. I counteroffered Crazy Janey, but she used her superior negotiating skills to carry the argument.
SiubhanDuinne
@JWR:
Because I just woke up and am reading with bleary, sleepy eyes, I first took this to be Beware the Woke Catholic Ray Tubes!
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@phdesmond: With that clarification, I must say I’m feeling schadenfreude at their gluckschmerz.
mrmoshpotato
Yup. Because the Confederacy is still alive and, well, they’re still racist, white trash.
NotMax
Waitin’ on morning thread music.
:)
JWR
@mrmoshpotato: I finally re-watched the Jon Stewart “Covid” segment, (from Monday night’s Colbert show), and yikes! Somebody here said he was being sarcastic, but I dunno. Sounded to me more like he came awfully close to calling it “The Wuhan Flu” without directly calling it “The Wuhan Flu”.
In case anyone missed it, here’s where Stewart goes off the sciencey rails.
Tony Jay
@James E Powell:
“I’m Buddy Tarleton and I’m here to tell you the truth about the Cultural Marxist takeover of American education, what “Woke Culture” really means, and how a small monthly donation from you can help me stop it. (applause) And this is my wife, Bubbles. She’s here to make the coffee and iron my shirts, like God intended!”
@opiejeanne:
The trick is not to put a moment’s rational thought into it. 8-)
Baud
I love that Ron Johnson prevented Trump from getting credit for Juneteenth.
Tony Jay
@bjacques:
Damn it. I knew it was a po-tay-to/po-tah-to thing, but I backed the wrong horse.
Though, as you note, scumbag slaver killbot Tarleton was a Liverpool boy.
NotMax
@JWR
Haven’t assigned a micronanogram of weight to anything emanating from Stewart’s piehole since … ever.
Matt McIrvin
@ian: Most of the Left Twitter I read was knocking the Juneteenth move as an empty symbolic gesture substituting for real action to dismantle systemic racism, which they see Democrats as unwilling to make.
Cameron
@Van Buren: “Shut up,” she explained? (h/t Ring Lardner)
NotMax
@Cameron
Oh gawd. Ring Lardner, the wet dream of every high school English teacher.
Cameron
@Tony Jay: I am much confused. The only Tarleton I’m familiar with in American history is Banastre Tarleton, and he operated a whole lot earlier than the US Civil War. Guess I should stop reading horror stories and watching shitty TV – maybe take some time to, y’know, learn something.
Cameron
@NotMax: True, but I love that particular expression.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
More proof those people are stupid. But it is interesting that even the racialist can’t stand each other.
Tony Jay
@Cameron:
No, no, that’s the one. I was just riffing off Tarleton’s enduring popularity on the hard-right of military-alt-hist-sci-fi as a ‘worthy enemy’ (in the same vein as Otto Skorzeny) who’s absolute bastardy is offset by his hard-fighting ruthlessness and the fact he was on their wavelength with regard to ‘other issues’, if you l know what I mean.
Plus, he was English, so he’d have got the name of that battle wrong too.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@JWR: I saw it and it looked to me that Stewart was try to play it as a joke but really meant it to me. Stewart’s eyes when Colbert asked him for evidence, it was clear Stewart was fighting the urge to break character and start screaming at Colbert for daring to question him.
Geminid
@Matt McIrvin: That fits the left twitter template. These people are intellectually and emotionally invested in the failure of this administration, and nothing it does will ever be good enough for them.
What I like is the way loyal Democrats push back. There are some very forceful advocates for Democratic policies on twitter.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Tony Jay: That Tarleton? You should also add “My family fought in booth the American Revolution and The Civil War, from Mananas to Fort Pillow and….”
Fort Pillow is an infamous massacre of Black Union soldiers after they surrendered.
Cameron
@Tony Jay: So y’all want a Tubman twenty? Well, we’re introducing the Tarleton quarter! Pwned again, libtards!
Geminid
@Cameron: The Tarleton “no quarter” quarter.
debbie
Wow, “heritage” Americans. My mind is boggled.
Cameron
@Geminid: It’s a Bitcoin thing…..
Tony Jay
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Ha! I was going for subtlety (who? me?) but I wish I’d worked that in.
Cheryl from Maryland
I thought the reference was to the Tarleton Twins in Gone with the Wind. But I’ll go with the Brit Tarleton who was nicknamed Benny by American General Daniel Morgan during the Revolutionary War as Morgan whipped Benny bad at the battle of Cowpens. Whichever reference, it’s the name of a loser.
H.E.Wolf
Good choice of surname for your racist character.
https://fabricforcosplayers.com/tarlatan/
“Tarlatan would be fun to use in zombie or ghost costumes” … and I bet it would make a good summer-weight KKK robe, too.
(I’m also reminded of the aside in To Kill a Mockingbird: Naming people after Confederate generals makes slow, steady drinkers.)
Geminid
@Cheryl from Maryland: Like Ulysses Grant, Daniel Morgan had been a teamster in earlier life. Morgan’s victory at Cowpens was a turning point for the war in the South. Morgan captured most of Tarleton’s command, and Tarleton himself barely escaped after a close encounter with Colonel William Washington, a distant cousin of General Washington.
Uncle Cosmo
@Geminid: IIRC the Briti nasty in The Patriot who kills Mel Gibson’s character’s son (& is eventually killed in return) was rather closely & unflatteringly modeled on Banastre Tarleton.
(FTR in S. M. Stirling’s alt-history Draka timeline, Tarleton in 1784 becomes the first C-in-C of the armed forces of the Crown Colony of Drakia. Appropriate appointment for a brutal slaveholding state that Stirling has described as an “anti-America” fanning out from South Africa to terrorize the planet.)
piratedan
@Cheryl from Maryland: tbh, I thought that they were linking to the notorious cigarette manufacturer, tobacco=southern profit crop.
Tony Jay
@Uncle Cosmo:
It’s the Drakaverse version of Tarleton I was thinking of when I took the name. Horrible universe that one, but some of Stirling’s best work. Guy certainly knew his audience back then.
Geminid
@Uncle Cosmo: Have you read Freedom, by William Safire? The author gives a good narrative of events from Ft. Sumter to the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, using several dozen historical figures. One of them is Marylander Anna Carroll, political operative and pampleteer. She advocates for the campaign up the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers that helps bring Tennessee under Union control, and (in the novel) counsels politicians such as Frank Blair Sr. and John Breckinride. Carroll had been influential in the recently disbanded American (Know Nothing) Party.
LongHairedWeirdo
So… slavery isn’t something to be ashamed of? We should *celebrate* slavery? Or just blow it off? Damn it, once lies and partisanship trump truth and reasoning, people can’t even be *coherent*, much less “worth reading/listening to”.