Maeve

🫡 Really

Common knowledge You don’t have to back up absolutely everything you say with evidence (or you’d soon run out of wordcount to advance your own point properly!). Some things are common knowledge. That could mean that a fact is just generally known by everyone, and not disputed or in doubt. This could include:

•facts such as London is the capital of the United Kingdom •well documented dates such as the start of the First World War in 1914 •H20 being the chemical formula for water •things which everyone knows from their lived experience, such as the sky is blue.

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That's also true.

Unless it's common knowledge or easily sourced.

Let it go. Move on to those more receptive.

I remember when one conservative parent was absolutely furious with GW Bush over invading Iraq. Then they were all in MAGA for nine years. They've finally disavowed that one, but I don't know how much time they have to come further left, or how the trajectory may shift. We actually had a pleasant few days together, with each of us clenching our teeth and walking away a few times, but that's any relationship. Some things we (everyone) feel strongly about really aren't worth that argument. In fact, a lot of them.

"If it doesn't apply, let it fly." "Hit dogs holler."

They're already insular, and are hoarding resources. It may be that their police force will slaughter some of the angry mob that comes for them, cameras and ARs be damned?

Where will poor people go and how would they afford to go and how would they get there?

Mathew and Hugo were pretty horrific.

Little Shop of Horrors, original and remake. But I always assign social commentary, regardless if the writer meant any or not.

That was a great movie. I also really liked "Get Out."

I guess billionaires better spend some of their precious money learning engineering and construction then. Cooking and cleaning and parenting, as well.