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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Wordle 1,493 6/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  2. Fleshing out the point for clarity: For various reasons the Federal government wanted to build bases in the south. Politicians wanted to name those southern bases after confederates to garner support from southern people, who had been lied to systematically about the past. Part of the “lost cause” myth involved rehabbing some pretty terrible officers like Bragg and Hood (who were reviled in their own time and survived the war to die in or near poverty) into heroes. So, when the politicians told the war department and the army to name bases after traitors, the army gave them bases named after the men whose mistakes and failures were key moments in losing the war. Good bull.
  3. When the army does it, it’s irony. When the local school board does it, it’s ignorance.
  4. Multiple can be true at the same time. It’s widely understood why they named the bases after confederate generals. But naming them after two southern generals who were both famous and had been reconned by tradition into something other than the failures both on and off the battlefield they weee understood to be in their own lives is exactly the kind of ironic genius that institutional bureaucracy produces when politicians force it to something repellent and contrary to its mission. Are you honestly saying that naming bases after John Bell Hood and Braxton fucking Bragg were good faith attempts to honor the gallant conduct of the confederate forces? Come on man. That’s Lost Cause bullshit.
  5. I am like 85% sure that naming the southern bases after John Bell Hood and Braxton Bragg was done to poke fun at the south.
  6. I’m just glad the children are gone, right @greggym?
  7. Of course this is very silly, but how common do people think bar fights are? Of course there’s occasional pushing and shoving. I think I have seen a total of fewer than 20 actual fights inside bars in my entire life, and I was literally a bouncer in Texas for 5 years.
  8. Wordle 1,492 4/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  9. Wordle 1,491 5/6 ⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  10. Shlomo De La Pecho
  11. This seems silly to me
  12. Had I not deliberately knocked out some letters in my second guess to eliminate a bunch of other words instead of going for the solve in 3 it would have taken 6.
  13. If he did, he’s honestly not a bad writer. It reads like something a grad student would write in a Dona Tartt novel.
  14. I mean it is a word, but come the fuck on
  15. Wordle 1,490 4/6 ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  16. Come the fuck on Wordle 1,489 5/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  17. Jerry Clower, my favorite comedian of all time (along with Richard Pryor and Norm MacDonald) did the best version of that bit, and I think it was because as a devout Christian he took Christ’s gospel more seriously than his own blind spots and social pressure and talked about Godliness even in jest he did it like a preacher. So when he did that bit he was very clearly castigating the ignorance and shortsightedness of a large part of own audience. And they knew it, and he knew they knew it. by the way, you can develop a fair impression of Jerry Clower by mastering the following phrases: ”Newgene Ledbetter” ”Marcel” “Liberty, Mississippi” ”projected, and predicted” ”AAAAGH, this things killin’ me!” ”Super-dyna-whoppin’, mo-jo-doola, whim-diddley hotel”
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