There were free black people in Washington's day. But yes, the first several presidents were all slave owners.

One big protest can easily be shut down. Split this into dozens of protests at different intersections and the cops will be hopelessly outnumbered at every location.

The Lehi terrorist organization was formed shortly before WW2 with the goal of killing the British (who were in control of Mandatory Palestine), Palestinians, and any Jew who advocated for peace.

Under the leadership of their founder, they repeatedly tried to join WW2 on the side of the Nazis.

They also adopted Nazi race science whole cloth, except that "God's chosen people" had to be on top, with Arabs (Palestinians) being relegated to the bottom.

Their founder was killed by the British in 1942.

Under their second leader, Lehi were directly involved in several brutal massacres of Palestine people.

In 1980, the Second leader of Lehi became the Israeli Prime Minister, and directly mentored a young Benjamin Netanyahu.

Naan is safe.

General Tso's chicken on the other hand, is another 1960s invention.

Same with orange chicken.

In fact, most "Chinese" food that Americans or Brits eat was invented in the 60s or 70s.

Funny you bring up that couple, because the lack of standards has a through line here.

A man named Roy Cohn was the prosecutor, and he wheeled and dealed to make sure that both Rosenbergs got the death penalty, even if the evidence was a bit weak, especially the evidence against Ethel. Cohn got witnesses to change their story so that he could push to kill Ethel.

Cohn then went on to help Joseph McCarthy run the Red, and Lavender Scares.

And then, later still, Roy Cohn would tutor Donald Trump in the art of personally attacking anyone who tried to enforce the law against him.

The piece of shit finally died of HIV,

State law. Rrump can't pardon it away.

Technically the Nazis lost that election, but the Conservatives who won turned around and handed power to Hitler, all to prevent the Left from gaining power.

Either that or Trump is following orders.

Brian Thompson didn't learn shit he's dead. And I doubt that Stephen J. Hemsley, the Executive Chairman of UnitedHealth Group and Brian Thompson's co-defendent in an insider trading lawsuit, likely didn't learn squat either but is currently still alive.

The thing is, DEI was always going to become political. Evey single conservative is some level of white supremacist.

You cannot hold conservative beliefs and also be a fan of diversity, equity, or inclusion.

The conservative mind sees people as all innately fitting into social hierarchies. And brown people are always at the bottom.

Trying anything that changes that hierarchy is seen as a direct attack on conservativism. Because in a very real way, it is. Which is the fucking point. DEI policies were a subtle attack on white supremacy via capitalism.

The argument was that companies that practiced DEI made more money.

It worked for a time, but the jackasses would rather throw money away than abandon their social hierarchies.

They're kind of mask off about it all now.

Fun fact, -40C and -40F are the same temperature.

Then 575K and 575F are the same.

Eight years in and I'm still pissed about those fucking hats. I have this nice red cap that a friend gave me almost 15 years ago. It was custom-made, and has a starburst image that a third friend created... and the cap base is the exact same shade of red as those fucking Trump hats, so I've not been able to wear it in public for 8 years.