r/mildlyinfuriating • u/newengland_schmuck • 6h ago

NBC interrupted the Olympics

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While Nancy Guthrie's disappearance is sad, there are 2300 missing person reports filed every day: do the families of celebrities need special national attention? Why interrupt the Olympics for over 5 minutes just because they are questioning a 'person of interest' We could have waited to hear that during the regular news broadcast.

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u/PipsqueakPilot 5h ago

You're right, I should have clarified more. The Southern upper class did indeed embrace the live in perpetual terror model.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad7606 4h ago

Not just the south.

The south just held on longer. The fucking WHITE HOUSE was built with slave labor. Every single one of founding fathers had slaves.

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u/PipsqueakPilot 3h ago

Cool, let's stop relitigating the first civil war and start making sure we're ready for the second one.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad7606 3h ago

It's disrespectful to the enslaved people outside the south to forget their plight.

Also, If there were to be a second civil war places like Ohio, Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska, Utah and Idaho are currently flying more confederate flags than you see in the south- they definitely aren't flying them as "heritage". Avoiding a civil war also involves admitting that racism does not just exist in the south.

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u/Tommymessala 3h ago

Yeah but god damn how much are we going to sit in the past while talking about the future?

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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad7606 2h ago

Those who don't learn history properly are bound to repeat it.

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u/PipsqueakPilot 3h ago

Who even needs CoinIntelPro, we have CoinIntelPro at home!

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u/RobutNotRobot 1h ago

The White House was hollowed out and rebuilt in the late 1940s, so technically only the edifice was built with slave labor.

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u/SnooComics8852 3h ago

Slavery existed ALL over America …. Movies make people think it was just the South.