The only Balls (for dancing) that are cared about or spoken of these days are the ones held for High School Seniors

[AZJonnie]

Coincidence?

Just a random thought I just had I thought I'd share

[Igel]

1. The Ackerman Grand Ballroom hosted a lot of activities.

It's not just for dancing.

Large accumulations of invitees. Receptions. Speeches for large crowds. Went to a sci-fi/fantasy conference there, got to talk to William Gibson, get taught about Foley artists and play with some Foley gear. Once attended a meeting that became a huge protests. It's a great place for having a ton of students go for orientation.

You know, no dancing at those. Guess the organizers and the Union folk didn't get the edict.

The Hilton ballroom a bit south of me has dancing for HS proms. But it also hosts business conferences, academic conferences, all sorts of things--the plenums, not the workshops. A school district multipurpose center's the same--it's been used as a ballroom (it can be rented by community groups and individuals, just as my high school cafeteria's rented by a 7th-day observant group when the church it usually rents is busy on shabbat), but mostly it's used for large group sessions for teacher professional development, trainings by publishers, to showcase student talent ...

Again, not much dancing.

Think of it as an "event center".

[AZJonnie]

3. You're taking me a bit more literally than I meant it

Still, I imagine very few edifices that are expressly called "Ballrooms" are still being built, especially not entire buildings. But Trump and his MAGAts are all nostalgic for 'the good old days' (when white men ran everything), I'm pretty sure that's why he describes it as a 'Ballroom'

[myohmy2]

2. Republicans...

...doing what they do best...

...

[Initech]

4. It's insane that the GOP has been able to sell the lie that democrats are elitists.

When they spend every fucking weekend going to black tie galas at country clubs. Doesn't get much more elitist than that!

[AZJonnie]

5. Because everything about them is gaslighting bullshit, from the top down.

Everything GQP, Faux, and MAGA claim is made up nonsense. They collectively live in a carefully-curated fantasy world where facts are fungible and reality is a mere inconvenience

Which is not to say some very rich people are liberal, obviously. But in the same breath they decree the "Liberal Elite" they'll also call us a "bunch of jobless hippies". We're Schroedinger's Liberals. Kinda like how the ''immigrants" are simultaneously stealing all the jobs, and also no-account welfare free-loaders, depending on whatever bullshit point they're trying to put across.

[Skittles]

6. the greedy old pig party routinely shits on WE THE PEOPLE

it is just disgusting