Elections; 2024
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Quote:My Mother died at 94 years old in 2013. Houses are NOT built with basements along the Texas Gulf Coast. My life became very peaceful and normal once I rejected the teachings of my parents, the Jehovah's Witnesses. I turned to pulverizing abnormal people rather than catering to their needs. It is better for me, but not at all Christian, when Trumptards suffer rather than my smooth-running life being disturbed by their abnormalities, mental issues, and grotesque inability to understand they are wackos who deserve the suffering they bring down upon themselves.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Have fun at work today, honey. Don't forget to take the trash out for Mom before you slink back down in your basement.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:My Mother died at 94 years old in 2013.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Have fun at work today, honey. Don't forget to take the trash out for Mom before you slink back down in your basement.
No she didn't. You graduated college 10 years ago and you live in her basement. She hates you, but won't tell you that because it breaks her heart knowing what a loser she raised. Your fat dad died of a massive heart attack when you were in grade school.
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Houses are NOT built with basements along the Texas Gulf Coast. My life became very peaceful and normal once I rejected the teachings of my parents, the Jehovah's Witnesses. I turned to pulverizing abnormal people rather than catering to their needs. It is better for me, but not at all Christian, when Trumptards suffer rather than my smooth-running life being disturbed by their abnormalities, mental issues, and grotesque inability to understand they are wackos who deserve the suffering they bring down upon themselves.
You couldn't pulverize a piece of bread with those wet noodles you call biceps, soyboy.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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As expected...
RFK Jr. Ditches Democrats To Pursue 2024 Presidential Bid As An Independent
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Something or Someone is Not Going to Save Us
As much as it pains me to say it (my personal urge toward salvationism is as strong as anybody else’s), nobody is coming to save us...
By Thom Hartmann, Oct 9, 2023, https://hartmannreport.com/p/something-or-someone-is-not-going-8d9
“Saved at the last minute” is pretty much the story of our culture.
It’s built into our major salvationist religions, particularly Christianity and Islam. Even when killed or facing death, Jesus and Muhammed managed to ascend to heaven at the last minute and claim eternal life.
By this worldview, no matter how terrible a life you’ve lived, if you say a handful of magic words at the last minute before you die, you’re guaranteed a spot in paradise. There’s always the last minute.
It’s at the core of most all of our fiction, and a good chunk of our nonfiction. In the old Greek dramas it was deus ex machina — the god in the machine — when Our Hero was finally trapped in an impossible situation but then a platform is cranked down from the ceiling of the amphitheater with a god on it, who waves his hand and makes everything okay again.
In our modern movies and novels, it’s the last-minute discovery of the cure, a take-down of the bad guy, or the discovery of the fatal chink in the aliens’ armor. It’s the miraculous oil that keeps the menorah burning bright through the crisis or the earthquake that brought down Jericho’s walls.
Even in the field of nonfiction, nearly every book — no matter how dire its topic — wraps up with a section or chapter that essentially offers the “here’s what you can do” solutions to everything from acne to climate change to the fascist takeover of America.
This belief that something or someone will ultimately save us no matter how badly we screw things up is why we’re procrastinating with climate change and fossil fuels. It’s why we’re hooked on lotteries. It’s presumably why Merrick Garland put off doing anything about Trump for two years, apparently thinking Congress would rid him of that “meddlesome priest.” It’s why we celebrate Jack Smith, our savior.
There are fundamental issues that brought us to the verge of fascism and we’re ignoring them every day:
— Income inequality and the role of tax cuts in it.
— Worker insecurity and the role of the GOP war on unions.
— A climate-change-driven refugee crisis on our Southern Border.
— Political bribery by our Predator Class and the corrupt Citizens United decision.
— Billionaires and foreign governments buying politicians.
— Media consolidation under the control of rightwing billionaire families.
— Corporate monopolies.
— Racism, homophobia, and misogyny.
We ignore them all because we believe “somebody will eventually save us” so we don’t need to do the hard work of putting our nation, our working class, and our democracy back together.
For most of my life, religious salvationists have disparaged those of us who consider ourselves both spiritual and religious but don’t buy the salvationist aspects of our monotheistic religions. They mistakenly reverse the arrow of causation, arguing that without religion there can be no morality when in fact religion plagiarized morality from every human society that has ever existed.
Genuine morality is deeply buried in our collective psyche, and doesn’t require a savior figure or grand discovery to bring it to the surface.
As much as it pains me to say it (my personal urge toward salvationism is as strong as anybody else’s), nobody is coming to save us.
Salvationists take that as a statement of resignation, of surrender to crises bigger than we are. I take it as both a challenge and an opportunity. By abandoning reliance on others for our salvation from climate change, income inequality, political corruption, and all the other ills of our modern society, we can then shift responsibility for our future to the people most capable of doing something about these problems: ourselves and the governments we can influence.
Joe Biden is not going to save us, and neither are Bernie Sanders or El
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Fuck Thom Hartmann.
Please. Somebody fuck Thom Hartmann. Dude only gets off watching his wife's black boyfriend railing her.
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Quote:6ix remains depraved. The USA has a history of depraved Americans imagining themselves as wholesome people.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Thom Hartmann.
Please. Somebody fuck Thom Hartmann. Dude only gets off watching his wife's black boyfriend railing her.
From the essay:
Abraham Lincoln faced fully half the nation in armed rebellion holding to a fascist notion of America as a permanent nation of slaveholders. (In case you are a believer in the Lost Cause, the slaveholders were depraved people. I run across numerous Trumptards in East Texas who still believe the wrong side won the Civil War. It requires a high level of depravity to defend naming schools and Junior Colleges after Robert E Lee, a traitor, but Trumptards have those high levels.)
In 1932, the Republican Great Depression was approaching its zenith; a third of Americans were out of work and hunger stalked the land. With just as much corrupt intent as we see today in Jim Jordan or Donald Trump, nakedly fascist politicians were preparing to carve the country up and split the spoils.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Joe Biden Says Americans ‘Likely’ Among Hostages Taken by Hamas During Surprise Attack
https://www.yahoo.com/news/entertainment/joe-biden-says-americans-like
ly-125607818.html
Israel-Gaza latest: Hamas warns citizens of Israeli city to leave - as Israel says its offensive 'won't be clean'
https://news.sky.com/story/israel-gaza-latest-hamas-warns-citizens-of-
israeli-city-to-leave-as-israel-says-its-offensive-wont-be-clean-12978800
Thai death toll in Israel rises to 18
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2661214/thai-death-toll-i
n-israel-rises-to-18
The confirmed Thai death toll from the Hamas attack on Israel has risen to 18
British and Cambodians either dead or missing
"Unacceptable": Emmanuel Macron After Iran Praises Hamas' Attack On Israel
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/irans-condoning-of-hamas-attacks-unacc
eptable-for-french-president-4467656
Ten Nepali students killed in Hamas attacks in Israel
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/ten-nepali-students-killed
-in-hamas-attacks-in-israel/article67398564.ece
Hamas Israel attacks: The international victims of the assault on Israel
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67054825
Israeli air strikes pound Gaza as death toll climbs on both sides
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israeli-air-strikes-pound-
gaza-as-death-toll-climbs-on-both-sides/article67397137.ece
Israel-Gaza Conflict: President Biden Condemns Surprise Attack In Israel
Biden talks
As Israel mourns the loss of lives, more testimonials, images, and stories emerge.
Here are photos captured this morning by the "South First Responders" in Kibbutz Re'em.
https://twitter.com/SachaRoytman/status/1711626803486368245
When terrorists infiltrated the community, residents attempted to flee. The terrorists systematically targeted vehicles to ensure no survivors remained.
Blood stains are widespread, even on baby seats. The brutality of Hamas terrorists is evident as they indiscriminately targeted everyone, without distinguishing between soldiers and civilians, men, women, or children.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
As expected...
RFK Jr. Ditches Democrats To Pursue 2024 Presidential Bid As An Independent
He's a nut job comrade just like you. Hey, thank god Biden did not dismantle the FBI with all that's going on in Israel aye?
T
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix remains depraved. The USA has a history of depraved Americans imagining themselves as wholesome people.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Thom Hartmann.
Please. Somebody fuck Thom Hartmann. Dude only gets off watching his wife's black boyfriend railing her.
OK pedo.
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
As expected...
RFK Jr. Ditches Democrats To Pursue 2024 Presidential Bid As An Independent
He's a nut job comrade just like you. Hey, thank god Biden did not dismantle the FBI with all that's going on in Israel aye?
T
Ted never fails to impress with his stunning intellect.
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