Happy May Day!
Until I was 25, this was the day US media always had an easy opening segment to the news, reporting on the scary power of the USSR as displayed that year. What a different world we have now. Link
It really sank into your thinking and your world view back then. Oddly enough, the Cold War made some things so easy...
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Happy Mad Day!
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken -
Re: Happy Mad Day!
I saw the title "Mad Day" and I was hoping that I had just learned about a new holiday. Oh well.
On the Path to the Streets of Gold: a Suebi AAR
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Hvil i fred HoreToreA man who casts no shadow has no soul. -
Re: Happy Mad Day!
Given this start, I think this thread should be squelched.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken -
Re: Happy Mad Day!
May day was a little less interesting this year, I know there were the usual may day protests in Europe mixed in with anti-COVID restrictions and some far right elements to start fights. Sizes of the protests were all smaller than usual, pandemic plus general apathy.
Cold war did make a us vs them mentality easier. 
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
-Abraham Lincoln
Four stage strategy from Yes, Minister:
Stage one we say nothing is going to happen.
Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.
Stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we can do.
Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it's too late now. -
Re: Happy Mad Day!
Does Mad Day celebrate Mutually Assured Destruction?
