That might be why they endorsed him. Israel supports which ever does what they say… and el Sayed almost certainly won’t.

And how they die.

They want meat for the meat grinder.

They don’t care which meat grinder it is.

(Though, with all the bullshit on child labor roll backs…. They can get kids in the one meat grinder and sell the other as “escape”)

It, uh, started long before Obama.

I mean, probably long before the colonizers came west… but like they’re a great example.

Missionaries went with the slavers. Missionaries ensnared the rubes. The slavers the rest.

As much as I think progressive christians aren’t bad people, religion-and Christianity in particular- are inherently coercive. The “nice” Christians are the velvet glove to the “bad” Christians iron fist.

Talerico, for example, I believe is a good man in spite of his faith. But that doesn’t change the fact that his religion is fundamentally authoritarian, or that his god is especially monstrous, and that as someone who has a master of arts in theological studies and some seminary, he’s got no excuse for not knowing the kind of violent caprice his god gets up to. (or, er, supposedly gets up to.)

Which causes lingering doubts about how he can truly be a secularist when his god would call him “least” for it.

Talerico is a Christian secularist. He believes that every one has a right to practice whatever religion they hold, and that the government should not be predicated on that.

Just as an example.

Atheists are people who lack a belief in any particular god- some (myself included,) will go a step further and hold a belief that there are no gods to believe in. In any case it’s largely uncommon for a stereotypical atheist to not be a secularist.

Antitheists are people who oppose theism. (I would suggest that most are anti religion, but details.). This can be a spectrum- people who believe that belief in a god is inherently bad and should be worked against (most of your deconstruction community on YT fall here,) and the raging assholes who think it’s something that should be made illegal etc. (Stalin. Mao. Though they had political reasons for that.)

In any case… it’s possible to be all three at the same time.

What’s ironic is… that passage, Jesus is saying the exact opposite.

“Do not think I have come to abolish the law and the prophets I have not come to abolish it, but to fulfill it.” It goes onto say that the law is eternal, and won’t be changed and blah blah blah.

(The idea of the law being made to go away comes from the heretic, Paul, who realized that centipede were unlikely to convert if they had to get snipped as Jesus intended.)

The Dan Sullivan thing is going to be… interesting…

I wonder how many people are going to vote for the wrong one. More importantly, I wonder how many people the loser is going to claim they voted for the wrong one.

The just added a high res image or whatever rather than scaling it up. Someone probably fixed it in their spare time.

It stopped for me, when I discovered functionality. At about an inch big.

Kde’s mouse growing big is actually useful though.

Ever lose your mouse? Just a wiggle- which is an action I take anyway to find it- and it gets easier to find, for a moment.

Lets me make the mouse tiny.

well. he probably would still be weird about women. Just maybe not using IVF to be weird.

Don’t do drugs, kids. they break things. (painfully.)

That’s what the Nazis did-- hurt everyone but in the process actually led to their own demise. Maybe I am anchoring myself too much to the analysis of Hanna Arendt but reading her book on the banality of evil,

The fuck you smoking?

The Nazis weren’t stopped until the allies stopped them. Until that happened the genocidal campaign kept accelerating. Most of the German citizens either didn’t know, pretended they didn’t know or were actively part of it. Some were part of the resistance.

Guess what? that’s HAPPENING NOW. you’re living in Nazis America, and you’re being like "yeah, well, uh. Just let them keep on keeping on. What’s a little fucking genocide.

This kind of accelerationist thinking is exactly how we got here; and I wouldn’t exactly be looking at Hannah Arrendt for wisdom here- she was a Zionist who helped enable the modern era of Israeli genocide of Palestinians by assisting jews flooding British Palestinian mandate (when it was going to be turned over to an Arab/Jewish state… subsequently resulting in the '47-48 war in Mandatory Palestine and subsequent 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

yeah, she subsequently distanced herself from that official Zionism- weakly advocating for a secular Arab/Israeli state (like what was supposed to be), but you can see the stupidity of thinking fascists will just stop in her own history.

The question isn’t whether or not fascism is a stable political philosophy- it’s not. it will inevitably collapse. The question is how much pure, unadulterated evil are you willing to accept before you start making it collapse?

I mean, he probably would be a pedophile. If his pecker worked.

I’m glad you gave it a nice home, where it’ll be loved by a cat.

I’m scowling at whoever dumped it though. (my mom was a quilter, I’ve seen her make hundreds so I have an idea of what goes into them. It’s a lot of work and care and love. and sometimes, a lot of frustration and seam rippers.)

You… found that at a thrift store?!

what an amazing find! (Seriously. that’s a lovely handmaid quilt. whoever gave that up…) The cat is also lovely,

Not to mention altitude and pressure.

Didn’t that happen because of the Mars Climate Observer crashing? Caused by a us team using pounds-force-seconds where nasa expected newton-seconds (sending it hurtling towards mars at a too-low dip into the atmosphere)

It would be hilarious for him to have private meetings with the health care CEOs. Maybe roll out some plastic sheeting just to get the point across.

Or at least do it in a very sarcastic Canadian accent.

You really think the trans-hate is only going to affect people who are trans?

Any man or woman who aren’t sufficiently cookie-cutter cisgendered are going to be affected. Including people who simply work in fields that are typically gendered and not their gender. Women who are doctors or scientists, men who are nurses or stay-at-home.

People who just don’t look masculine or feminine enough. Women who don’t dress like couch cushions to let Vance creep out on them.

Pretty much anyone who doesn’t present themselves as they want are going to be “trans”.

And that’s ignoring creepy ass men checking a child’s genitals.

And of course, trans people are worth protecting, same as any other person.