BlackSheep

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[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

“They basically want to kill me”. Quote from people discussing their american health plans?

[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Honestly, I don’t think there’s any distraction tactics. Anyone who can’t see what’s happening is blind. It’s full on dictatorship in progress, people.

[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How many times am I allowed to upvote?

[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago

As a new biography Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II, excerpted exclusively in this week’s PEOPLE, reveals, it was her experiences during Germany’s five-year occupation of Holland during World War II that truly shaped her.

While more has come out in recent years about her war experience, Robert Matzen’s book reveals harrowing new details about how a young Hepburn battled severe malnutrition, particularly during what was known as the “Hunger Winter” of 1944-45.

Leading up to that brutally cold winter, as Germany tightened its grip on Holland, Hepburn and her family were often forced to live in the cellar for days and weeks at a time due to bombing overhead. And food became more and more scarce.

[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 50 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Well, with the way things are going, it won’t be read in the U.S.A. It’ll be banned.

[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s a reference to a Pete Seeger song, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”.

[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

Agreed. Our grandparents, and for some of us, parents, survived the great depression, WWI and WWII. Elbows up, buckle down, and stay strong together.

[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Unfortunately, there are many anti-Canadians in Canada. And they always seem to be the loudest and most aggressive, hateful people.

[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

I agree 100%. There’s a whole lot of room for improvement. But I will tell you this: I dislocated and broke my arm because of a bad fall last year. I DID have a long wait in the emergency. But once the x-rays were done and I was seen by a surgeon, surgery was scheduled and performed very quickly. I’m retired and on a fixed income. If I had lived in the USA, I’m sure I would have lost my comfortable little bungalow townhouse.

[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yah, well good luck with that. I am an old flower child educated in critical thinking. No amount of propaganda or the bombardment of such will ever sway me to hate any human being for just wanting to live a good life.

[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 weeks ago

SMH. Dear boy. We elders were taking it to the streets in the 60’s and 70’s—in huge numbers. We organized without social media, were willing to face danger and arrest, and got shit done. We were using DOS before you were probably even born (do you know what that is?). While many of us are, in fact, fading, there are legions of us with knowledge and experience you will never understand until YOU are an elder.

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