Actually I looked up the real story of Johnny Appleseed and he was more about making hard cider and selling land. 🙃

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    16 hours ago

    Ah but you see, their comment has the message of “capitalism bad”, so it doesn’t really matter if what they wrote is true.

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      I’d go even further and say that this is more generic than capitalism/anticapitalism wish fulfillment. It’s a desire to speak truth to power but without any of the effort or sincere curiosity to learn what that truth is. To have that truth condensed onto a smaller and smaller spoon until you don’t even realize you’re being spoonfed at all is the ideal.

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          “I’m too old to care if what I say is true” what age do I get to just start saying stuff and act like other people are the problem when they call me out on pulling shit out of my ass and presenting it as fact?

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            Well, back in my 20s a coworker forgave me for leaning Democrat because “if you’re a Republican in your 20s you have no heart. If you’re a Democrat in your 30s you have no brain.”

            So, I’d say never. Reality matters at all ages. Well, until you have deep dementia. At that point, enjoy the invisible angels that help you use the restroom. You need all the help you can get. (Source: my mom on the occasions of caring for my grandmother)

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          Citation [21]“Johnny Appleseed, Orchardist,” prepared by the staff of the Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen Couth, November 1952, page 26

          Here, I took the trouble for you. He was not, by any accounts, a good business man.

          Please avoid spreading disinformation. This isn’t facebook.

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              What’s the goal here? Agitate people on line for fun?

              You’re not arguing in good faith. You tell people that you are in your sixties and disabled, as if that’s excuse for your behavior. You add no context or sources. What’re you looking to get out of engaging in a public forum? What does lemmy.world get you that Facebook does not?

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          And you really think that at 62 I’m gonna go track down a historical factoid to satisfy the gatekeeping of a LEMMY sub?

          Well hey, as a wise person once said:

          Too damn many stupid people in this world.

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            Good citation. That guy is a genius.

            He’s also taking enough gabbapentin to stun a horse so his memory isn’t super great.

            Good cook though.