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@se7en I love how SBC bought all of those companies, including AT&T, and then renamed themselves as AT&T. Colbert did a good bit about it back when he was funny and relevant.

@wiggles I was already in graduate school by 2006; so I was never in a position to see any of this that early on. At least with gender ideology, there are videos back from the 90s Kate Bornstein saying some of the same stuff that’s now crazy mainstream.

My undergrad was in a state university in a small town, but I do think I saw the beginning of a lot of the hard-left mindset from my professors at the time. I’m actually really curious how on-campus Christian miniseries are coping with this (I was involved with Campus Crusade and Intervarsity for a bit but left the faith during University). There was at least one case recently of a Christian student council member at a university that was harassed for her opposition to a rainbow flag.

I had a psychology professor talk about how it’s very difficult to climb the social ladder (the George Carlin school of you have to be asleep to believe the American dream school of thinking) and both me and a lot of my friends hated the police, mostly due to a lot of people getting bused for drugs.

I really worry that an earlier me would be knee deep in this defund the police garbage. But I think living outside America for years and growing up a lot has made me not hate the police and no longer hate America.

I think back to that professor talking about how it’s difficult to change your social class in America. She didn’t mention that, even though it’s hard, it’s still easier than a lot of the world. I also never thought about the fact that my dad grew up in a war in India, got his degree, got a visa, brought his family to the US and literally lived the supposedly elusive American dream.

@roka The original 1980s softcore animated porn. Heavy Metal 2000 was hilarious too. Never really read the magazine.