Yeah, there’s a difference between “information that is not discussed because you’ll get a visit from the cops” and “information that is not discussed because, though it’s freely available, people don’t care enough to learn it.”

Yeah! Let’s start with Fort Sumner!

…wait

I feel like “noo it wasn’t a Nazi salute, or uh, it wasn’t intentional” is more of a “right of center” response instead of a “center” response, and “Elon Musk just did a Nazi salute on live TV” is closer to center, but otherwise this seems accurate.

Maybe the Overton window has shifted so far right that I’m wrong about that, though.

My interactions with that user have led me to believe that they’re less Marxist and more just pro-Xi. As Stalin demonstrated pretty clearly, there’s a difference between being the dictator of a nominally-communist country (or a fanboy of said dictator) and being an actual Marxist.

In the sort of dialect Charlie Daniels had, “went down to” means “went south to”, meaning that Hell is north of Georgia. It’s in Michigan, in fact — and based on my experiences there, it might just be Michigan.