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Comment Re:I'm so torn (Score 1) 387

And YOU need to learn historical context.

The platforms for the RNC and DNC switched in the 1960s over civil rights. The Dixie Democrats ran from the more progressive part of the DNC and into the waiting arms of the white elitist RNC when the progressives in the DNC made civil rights a part of their platform.

From what state did the senator who did that filibuster come? West Virginia.

What party represents that state in general? Capito (R) and Manchin (D).

And before you claim they're 50/50: Manchin represents the old sort of Dixie Democrats that the other southerns states used to be -- the kind that were progressive for almost anything EXCEPT when it came to giving equal rights to non-whites.

Comment Re:I know the archive doesn't go back that far... (Score 1) 280

What? Taco doesn't want to be rich like Linus and Bill...

We all want to be rich. ;-) Both Taco and Linus deserve to be highly rewarded for the value they have created that the rest of us benefit from. (Although for the newbies and humor-challenged readers: Slashdot did not invent Red Hat. That would be Marc Ewing.)

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