{"id":87099,"date":"2024-03-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87099"},"modified":"2024-03-05T06:52:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T12:52:05","slug":"at-a-history-conference-2174-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87099","title":{"rendered":"At A History Conference, 2174 AD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCENE: A conference room in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland. An international team of historians is gathered in a conference hall. Behind the panel tabel, a large “Powerpoint 2170” holographic slide displays the title for the session: “Origins of the Second American Civil War”. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PROFESSOR A: Welcome, one and all, to this discussion on the origins of the Second American Civil War. We’d like to start with this presentation from PROFESSOR B. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PROFESSOR B: Thank you. As you know, the origins of the Second American Civil War, 150 years ago, are shrouded in mystery. But we found this exchange on “X”, a “social medium” popular around 2024, that sheds some light on the subject. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(B swooshes his hand in the air, and the holograph advances to show a “Twitter thread”i)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ProgressiveDuke1332: ReTHUGlicons have no policies to fix Minneapolis’s problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mitchpberg: Of course we do. Arrest, prosecute and incarcerate actual dangerous criminals. Make life better for law-abiding citizens. Get rid of impediments to affordable life, like rent control, the Met Council’s idiot zoning policies and city policies about “driving density”. Have a a sales tax holiday. Cut spending, and cut taxes, especially some of the more niggling, punitive taxes like parking meter rates and hospitality taxes, to simulate traffic and business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ProgressiveDuke1332: Hahaha, mitchpberg think you can eliminate crime by lowering parking fees! <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

PROFESSOR B: This, I hold, was the beginning of a pattern where nobody in society could communicate about anything<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PROFESSOR C: So, part of America lashed out at the other part as a matter of…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PROFESSOR D: Intellectual self-defense?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PROFESSOR B: Precisely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Brow-furrowing and beard-scratching follows<\/em>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PROFESSOR E: I mean, it doesn’t not <\/em>make sense…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(General assent breaks out<\/em>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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