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You're gonna fee real bad when a republican uses this precedent to bend the rules and use naked power to do something bad!

Look at that hat, no way that's not a reference to Soviet or Chinese propaganda posters.

Stalin gets a few shoutouts in the show too. I bet it's partly because they just think he's Brutal but it makes me think someone in the production is a traveler.

While individuals can find space for weight loss regimes, it really is a society-level problem.

Consider an experiment with two populations of rats. One population gets a normal amount of food, the other gets the same food with a bunch of added sugar. Of course the population with added sugar gets fatter. But, while the average rat may have gained 10% weight or whatever, on an individual level you'll see a wide range of results - some rats aren't effected by the increased sugar, some gain a small amount of weight, some gain a lot.

This is basically exactly what we've done to ourselves in capitalist society over the past seventy-ish years, taken our previous diet and jacked it up with a ton of sugar (and other additives and a lot of increased volume). But while with the rats it's easy to see that all you have to do to return the overweight population to normal is to stop adding sugar to their food, with humans we can't see that because we've created a system that blames you for getting sick.

It's like building a coal power plant in the middle of a neighborhood, and then blaming the residents when they start getting asthma or worse, and holding up the people who won the genetic lottery and don't get lung disease as the example we should all strive to replicate.

The curtains are blue!

The curtains have a swastika on them.

No! They're just blue! Not everything is political!

I looked at my source again and it seems I misremembered - it wasn't that the progress for the disabled was all reversed, it was that one of the pioneers in the field of special education (I. A. Sokolyansky) was arrested in the Great Purge and his school was shut down, but when he was released in 1940 he was able to go to Moscow and get a new job doing the same thing at a different university so clearly it wasn't a universal thing.

It's a topic I should do more reading on, but the feeling I get is that it was a backlash to the highly progressive currents of the 20s. It affected nearly everything - the Soviet Union had some of the first schools for the blind and deaf, then some of them got shut down. There were women's work programs, then they got replaced with "traditional family" propaganda. Stalin is undoubtedly the source for some of it, but he was also the head of a huge and popular movement so he can't be solely blamed.

It tracks for me, the 30s saw more than a little bit of reactionary social politics. This is the period when abortion and homosexuality would get re-criminalized.

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Even streamers who I like in short doses like Hasan can't get through a fifteen minute edited video without saying the same thing five hundred times. It's suitable as background noise, but if I'm listening to a streamer I'd almost always be better off listening to music.

I remember that argument was when I learned that my parents were NIMBYs. It was honestly a shock, they're lib but I has assumed they would want a playground in the neighborhood considering that at that time there were six kids in the house with absolutely nothing to do inside walking distance.

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I have a theory that part of the function of the "where is your child now?" stuff that really curtailed kids' freedom in America in the second half of the twentieth century was a reaction to the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam movements. Both were prominently participated in by kids, the anti-war one especially, and when society goes from letting kids have a significant portion of the day to themselves in between school and supper to basically forcing them to go from one controlled location straight to another with no in-between, all of that potential youth-lead political organization falls apart because it doesn't have anything to support it anymore.

I don't think it was the primary driver - after all most kids weren't joining the Students for a Democratic Society - but it is a relevant secondary reason. The primary driver was almost certainly "property values". I remember one of my only interactions with the HOA where my parents lived concerned plans for a playground being voted down based on the logic that children playing outside would somehow lower everyone nearby's home value (they also made the equally-bad argument that teens would hang out at the child's playground to smoke). Multiply this interaction by a million HOAs around the country and eventually even the kids whose parents don't demand that they come straight home still end up going home anyway because there's nowhere else for them to go.

It's funny because it's set up almost like the book is going to prove to the reader that it isn't true. Hagrid and a few others all say it as a thought-terminating cliche - but the one house elf Harry knows personally actually hates being enslaved and greatly treasures freedom when he gets it. A better writer would have used this setup to show how wizarding society justifies its own bigotry to itself, but Rowling didn't want to imply that anyone she considered to be on the "good" team might have internal contradictions or be implicit in bad systems.

It's pretty simple to see the difference. One of them is technically underage but very clearly an adult, but the anime stereotype that is really fucked up is when someone is technically of age but very clearly a child.