today I learned that in 2008, the city council of florence overturned danteâs sentence of execution if he returned from exile. yes, danteâs inferno dante, who died in 1321.
but the funniest part of this is not that they were debating the exile of a man who has been dead for over 500 years.
the funniest part is that the vote was 19-5. five people voted to uphold danteâs exile.
The objectively funniest part of this is actually that the city that holds his remains, Ravenna, refused to give his remains back. This was a ploy from florence to have his remains moved back for the tourist money and its been ongoing for a long time. Florence had a fake tomb built in the city to trick people into visiting, and have tried to force the return of the remains.
His actual caretakers have been very steadfast in keeping them hidden, moved, or generally out of reach to respect his choice in life to never, ever, ever return to florence, even when he was first offered the chance to return. This is at this point an almost millenium long feud that florence is really, really mad about losing
Thereâs art twitter drama about some creators making chiikawa style warrior cats plushies. And everytime it comes across my feed I have to stop myself from going âI think copyright is fake as shit and artists should be allowed to do whatever they want. #FuckCopyrightLawsâ. I just have to go clock ânot interestedâ everytime it pops up
Idk everytime this discourse comes around it just makes me realize a lot of artist thinks of themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires who if they defend copyright law just this time itâs good. Like boringgggg . People should be allowed to make whatever art they want . Share whatever art they want. Copyright law is just fake bullshit made up by large companies to make more money.
me at the zoo like BUDDY I'm not a lion I'm a human you GOTTA believe me, please let me out so we can find the witch that did this to me and she can change me back.... but all he is hearing is grr rar roawrr đ đŚđł
I think those fancomics where Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes is transgender are cute and fun but I also think it's a deep misunderstanding of Calvin's character to think he would transition into a heterosexual normie who goes to her high school reunion. That girl would have neopronouns and fang implants
I know it's like 2 weeks too late to change it but I'm so mad I didn't realize that the band would obviously be called "Get Rid Of Slimy GirlS". I walk the road of shame
Every few years someone reinvents the wacky idea of "what if countries were people?" and its always racist and people are always surprised by this for some reason
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I'd like to know the exact origin of this image, because some of this sounds extremely Mormon. I'm guessing it's like 1890-1910 based on the presence of "coca" on the list, so the temperance stuff doesn't surprise me, but coffee? Tobacco? Yeah, that's really weird for this time period.
Wikipedia? Where we're going, we don't need Wikipedia.
It all starts with indulgent mothers
This calls him "an evangelist and leader of the temperance movement in the United States."
It also calls him "Thomas F. Hubbard," a search for which reveals some more:
See if you can follow the logic. If you allow your son to have a little food between meals, a.k.a. âa snack,â it will undoubtedly make him ill, causing you to ease his pain by giving him â gasp â medicine and âsoothing syrups.â That, in turn, will undoubtedly lead you to let him eat too many pickles and pork (itâs always baconâs fault) and âMexicanized Dishes and pepper sauces,â you know ⌠spices! But once heâs got a taste for flavor, he wonât be so easily satisfied anymore. Hot foods and the âother white meatâ will, of course, lead your son to an indulgent life of rich pastry and candy, damn the luck. Heâll want to wash down all those sweet confectionaries with âtea, coffee and cocaâ (sic). And you know that canât be good. Itâs a slippery slope from there. Heâll then want to drink âsodas, pop and ginger ale.â After that, your son will need to relax with a cigarette or other tobacco. What else could he possibly want? He had no choice, really. You canât really blame him. After soda pop, everyone needs to light up. Itâs only natural. And once you begin smoking, you canât really help but start gambling. Itâs inevitable. Once you light up that ciggie, playing cards, throwing dice and picking up a pool cue canât be far behind. It just canât be helped. And you know what every gambler on the face of the Earth does, right? You got it: drink âliquor and strong drink.â And he canât just drink it on occasion, but he keeps on drinking it, never stopping until he reaches âa drunkardâs grave.â And all because you gave him some Goldfish or Cheez-Its between meals. Itâs so obvious. One unbroken chain from snacking to death, with no possible way to break the cycle. Itâs like walking down the stairs. Gravity takes over and you canât help but keep taking each successive step until you have one foot in the grave.
In 1915âs The Temperance Program, Thomas F. Hubbard et al. laid out the progressive case for why alcohol needed to be banned so convincingly that in 1917, with Democratic control of both houses of Congress and the White House, they got the 18th Amendment to the Constitution out of Washington, D.C. and into voting by the states.
I'm really curious now about whether it was really that direct. Man writes ludicrous book, Democrats ban liquor. That seems like awfully short cause and effect, given how huge the temperance movement already was. I'm not really buying it.
Because people irrationally sided with elites then as they do now, Democratic states immediately ratified it and it raced to the 36 needed so quickly that the two Republican-controlled states that voted it down, Connecticut and Rhode Island, were irrelevant.
This is quite the claim. Bro was coming straight out of Puritan culture, from his evangelism to his extreme and rigid purity politics. But sure, it's because "elites."
I do think this is a pretty fucking decent call-out though:
Why did anyone believe Mexican food was a gateway to alcoholism? In small part it was because of the casual racism of progressives, now famous for popularizing the Eugenics which targeted minorities, but in large part it was because of what has continued to undermine American trust in science since.
alas.
Cultural mullahs epidemiologically linked lots of things to alcoholism to advance their agenda, including pickles and Mexican food. They had the the old-time equivalent of âBro, do you even science?â correlation on their side. Basically, crowds shouting down anyone who was skeptical.
After all, people ate pickes in bars and progressives believed the worst about all Mexicans then in the way they do Jews now.
...when was this written? HA! 2025.
He blames epidemiology for quack science:
So they argued the food caused it. Thatâs not science but it is 9,000 papers in peer-reviewed journals each year.
Not all epidemiology is bad. Epidemiologists were once so rigorous and methodologically conservative they were the last to agree about a hereditary link for cancer. They settled the cigarette smoking issue so convincingly everyone knew it was only a matter of time before it went from nearly 45% of people in the 1950s to 0%, which will hopefully be soon.
then what are you talking about, bro?
But it also had its suspect underbelly and that is what progressive exploited then and now. The first chemophobia scare, about cranberries in 1959, was caused by epidemiology that was turned into government policy regardless of how many scientists objected. Once epidemiologists became cultural ârock starsâ, after the Surgeon Generalâs report on cigarettes in 1964, everyone in the field wanted to be the one to find the next Big Tobacco.
So they began to scaremonger lots and lots of common chemicals, hoping to get into the New York Times and testifying before Congress. Then on the miracle food side of epidemiology we got low-fat diets and juice cleanses and acai berries and quinoa. We got International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in France so desperate to find new cancer-causing agents they claim plutonium is as harmful asâŚpickles. Hot tea causes cancer too. They suggest 900 different things supposedly cause cancer, while putting in small print they only do correlation, not causation, that California, which was foolish enough to abdicate its public health to IARC decades ago, now has Proposition 65 âmay cause cancerâ warning labels on over 80,000 products.
The only thing I know about the field of epidemiology is that epidemiologists on Twitter know a ton about COVID, its effects, and its prevention.
Prop 65 IS ridiculous and annoying. It basically doesn't take dosage or delivery method into account.
So, for example, parking garages all have signs saying they contain substances that might cause cancer. Because of the exhaust fumes.
It isn't "IARC" though, which doesn't run our public health. The reason we have Prop 65 is that just about anyone can get a proposition on the ballot here, as long as they get like a thousand signatures.
And the series of absolutely wild "miracle food" fads out there is because the weight-loss industry preys on people's body shame, and on the same legacy of Puritan bullshit that this Hubbard guy was pumping.
Which, apparently, all of Illinois was on:
On February 14, 1857, the City of Galesburg received its charter from the Illinois Legislature. At the first city election, the question on
On February 14, 1857, the City of Galesburg received its charter from the Illinois Legislature. At the first city election, the question on the ballot was whether to allow the council to have the power to license the sale of intoxicating beverages. The vote was more than four to one against the proposal.
The voters had confirmed the temperance beliefs of the Congregational and Presbyterian leaders of the original settlement. In fact, there was a temperance clause in every deed of a lot in Galesburg. The same vote was taken numerous times until 1872 when licensing was approved.
Later elections were held and the results went the other way. Members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) and clergymen carried on many campaigns to rid Galesburg of alcohol.
Bonus: not only does it go on from there, but it's my favorite kind of website. An Old-School Hand-Coded HTML Website where somebody just infodumps for you.
In this case, about writer/performer Carl Sandburg, and his hometown of Galesburg, IL.
I got one of his books, Rootabaga Stories, as a prize in a summer reading contest when I was little. I hated it. I kept trying to reread it every few years to see if I would hate it less.
I don't think it was bad. It was just unsettlingly weird in a way I didn't understand. Ohhhhhhhhh my fucking god, you can read it online now because it was published in 1922.
It's just supposed to be fun nonsense stories for little kids, I guess, but I could not STAND that shit.
Now juxtapose that with the Stairs of Doom up there, and tell me there isn't something awful in the water over in Galesburg.
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