Open Thread - Thurs 04 Jan 2024 - British Home Children
Submitted by Sima on Thu, 01/04/2024 - 5:00am![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1493/26212496565_b2b949e0a3.jpg)
British Home Children and Barnardo's Boys - A personal Tale
Immigration is always in the news, it seems. Always. Once upon a time, immigration into the USA and Canada was mostly by white people. These people did not always come willingly, and were often not treated well once here. In the USA, check out the 'No Irish Need Apply' statements from the 1800's, for one example. For an example of harsh working conditions, how's about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory? These white immigrants often came from the same impoverished, abusive and horrible situations modern immigrants nowadays leave in their home countries to try for a better place here. And often, the places they found here weren't that much better than those they had left, at least at first.
British Home Children working in the fields. From the BBC story discussed below.
The Evening Blues - 1-3-24
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 01/03/2024 - 3:37pmOpen Thread WE 3 JAN 24 ~ Healing Ideas, shattered dreams
Submitted by QMS on Wed, 01/03/2024 - 5:00am![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1493/26212496565_b2b949e0a3.jpg)
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Fake populism versus Real populism
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 01/02/2024 - 6:15pmYou may have heard that Victor Orban in Hungary was a threat to democracy. May also have heard that AMLO in Mexico was also a threat to democracy.
What you almost certainly didn't hear was how these two presidents were tremendously popular and why. Let's start with Orban.
The Evening Blues - 1-2-24
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 01/02/2024 - 4:58pmDistrust of Mainstream Media at all time high
Submitted by fire with fire on Tue, 01/02/2024 - 4:25pmMedia Trust In America Incredibly Low As Americans Find Reporting Increasingly Biased
Recent polls reveal a continued decline in American voters’ trust in the news media, with 60% feeling that media bias is worsening.
New York Times suing OpenAI/Microsoft
Submitted by earthling1 on Mon, 01/01/2024 - 9:52pm![open thread_92.jpg](/sites/default/files/user_images_3/open%20thread_92.jpg)
Don't know which is worse, Microsoft trying to train their Chatbot using the lying, propagandizing, mis/dis-informing New York Times, or the NYT trying to monetize their evil by suing to block MS from using their stories.