Notices by Pat (patrascan@ohai.social)

@estelle As you point out, we are so used to subject-verb-object word order that passive voice can insinuate the object is the actor. As in, "mistakes were made" = the mistakes made themselves!

@sorenfox @pluralistic thank you, thank you for posting this. Haunting. Packs a powerful punch.

@OGjester @phaedral to your point, Jester: my takeaway is that the overarching and most prescient theme in this film was not about getting mad. The main theme warns of the danger of turning straight news reporting into programmed entertainment, complete with giggling talking heads posing as news anchors, Sybil the Soothsayer and her sidekicks. Take a look at TV and other news media today-- I rest my case. Or, I should say, Paddy Chayevsky rests his case.

@Radical_EgoCom @colo_lee "complete rule by the proletariat", as described in the posting. I refer to the plot of "Animal Farm" wherein the animals (proletariat) overthrow their human masters (rulers) and govern themselves.

@Radical_EgoCom @colo_lee like Orwell's "Animal Farm", yes?

@britt @raineyday please please contact your local Dem headquarters for assistance. They will bend over backwards to remedy. Do not let the GOP vote suppressors get away with this

@VeroniqueB99 part of this is misinformation. As a single and later a married woman, I had my own bank account without a man's permission well before 1974. While most married women were dependent upon hubby's income, state (not federal) banking laws and the various banks' policies covered who was allowed to open an account, the usual criterion being age. To say women were not allowed to have their own acct prior to 1974 is not true.

@Millicent @VeroniqueB99 married people with joint accounts would typically share the same credit rating based on joint activity, wouldn't they? That was true for me until I got divorced, after which I established my own credit rating based on my history. I do not dispute women's economic dependence upon their husbands. However. I am unaware of federal legal mandates covering womens' financial assets and credit ratings.

@nsarwark the very essence of Young, Gifted and Black