If you experience a sudden loss of humor and the ability to laugh at your own foibles, i f you find yourself resenting others for seeking the same freedoms and rights you enjoy, if your angry at everything all the time, seek medical help immediately.
You may be at risk of becoming a Republican.
I see two issues that threaten to divide Democratic voters at a time when we can’t afford to be divided; where the candidate stands on support for Israel and where they stand on what needs to be done with Donald Trump. A third possible point of contention, where a candidate stands of the current and future use of AI and data centers.
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We need to bring back shunning.
Oligarchs, rioters who accept Trump’s payout, ICE agents, any and all members of the regime, need to be shunned until the day they die.
They’ve shown no compassion, they get none. No jobs, no homes, no friends.
Clive was truly annoyed at having lost the chicken. One minute he’s on the way to market, chicken safely tucked under one arm and whistling a random tune. The next moment Mr. Darby’s brainless spaniel runs up behind him and spooks the chicken something fierce, causing the bird to react violently. Unfortunately the violence was directed toward Clive and not the dog. Thank goodness chickens don’t have massive teeth. As it was Clive escaped the chicken’s reaction to the sudden presence of the yapping mutt by clawing Clive randomly about the face and neck.
The rising price of gas doesn’t just affect us at the pump, it affects the cost of trucking goods across the country.
It affects the cost of flying goods.
And now that the oil barons know we’ll buy gas for $4-6 a gallon, they won’t rush to lower the price. Why should they?
Give up profits? Hah!
I have got nothing to do today, I guess I’d better get started.
I shall begin by putting on pants. That’s an indication I plan on doing something, even when there’s nothing to be done.
Then I’ll make a list of all the things that I don’t need to do today.
Then I’ll probably need a nap.
With a background in psyops I feel a need to say something I haven’t seen mentioned elsewhere. I’m sure it will be misinterpreted and I’ll be pilleried for saying it, but to ignore it leaves a huge whole in our awareness that the fascists can exploit. We should be prepared for them to have their MAGA women, even men, come out with accusations of impropriety against Democrats who threaten them.
Other countries have seen that Trump can’t decide what to do, that he can be flattered, that he has no moral compass, and that he’s insane. They’re beginning to understand that there’s no reason to fear him or to let him have his way. He’s facing an increasingly defiant world. Meanwhile, Iran humiliated Trump, posting (wonderfully made) videos and refusing to take him seriously. Trump can’t stand that. He’ll nuke the entire Middle East if he feels disrespected.
As long as capitalism exists as the de facto means of the distribution of goods around the world, we will never rid ourselves of oligarchs and despots. As long as politics suffers from financial influence it will always be more a means to accumulate wealth than to serve the people. As long as we tolerate racism we will never achieve equality. As long as we maintain the nonsensical masculine/feminine divide we’ll never free people to be all they can be.
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.”
― Anatole France
Three years on and I’m still not sure what to do. Stella was badly abused before I adopted her, and I didn’t learn about her injuries until weeks later. If I returned her they’d put her down. She’s unpredictable. She will snap at people if touched wrong. She flinches at the slightest sound. She has a wonky leg and eye. But what worries me most are her frequent seizures. She and I get along well, but not so with others.
We never had a true democracy. We never had a classless society. We never eliminated poverty. We never eliminated racism. We never had equality among all people. We never had truly free elections. We never applied the law equally without This system needs to be totally reformed. We need to create a society based on humanity, on empathy, on sanity. But we’ll never succeed if we don’t establish controls on humanity‘s worst impulses.
Trump should just create the Department of Trump’s Defense and fill it with all the agencies that once defended the country (DOJ, DHS, DIA, CIA, NSA, FBI, the military…). End the pretense that those agencies have any other mandate.
I’m an atheist and humanist. I support the people of Gaza but not Hamas. I support the people of Israel but not Netanyahu. I support oppressed people everywhere but not their oppressors. That applies to America as well. That which divides us is evil. That which unites us is good.
Our political system is broken. Our economic system is broken. Our financial system is broken. Our trust in those in power is broken. Our legal system is broken. Our society is broken.
It’s difficult for good people to imagine just how bad the bad people can be.
Trump has enjoyed a lifetime of undeserved success, yet he still has the gall to whine about not getting even more. He wants to retroactively win the 2020 election for no better reason than to further inflate his already gigantic, though extremely fragile, ego. He’s pathetic and immature.
A claim that is popular among those who try to discredit atheism is, “Atheists reject god”. For this to be true atheists would have to believe that a god exists. How can someone reject what doesn’t exist? That’s practically impossible. So atheists would have to agree with believers that their god exists and they choose not to believe in this thing that both parties agree exists. If you told me flying cows existed and presented a detailed definition of a flying cow and why you believed they existed, it would be impossible for me to disbelieve in flying cows as if they existed and I was choosing not to believe in them.
Malania could have had a hit movie if she’d just stood there and read the Epstein files.