Skeptic

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle… Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

On the + side, these people are self-selecting out of the gene pool / removing their children from it. That means less competition in the marketplace for jobs. It's still a tragedy. These kids have no choice. Maybe if parents were caretakers and providers instead of owners, things might be different

Second Amendment for me but not for thee.

Plastic People 😂😂😂

Rogan has always been an idiot.

The Epstein Files are released.

This falls into the #NotSurprised category.

Too many of the first three creates a blackhole. Too many of the last one creates an asshole.

Maybe - crazy idea coming - people could not be dicks and stop shitting on everyone. We claim to hate bullies and then cheer them on. I'm going to get nailed to a tree for saying, "Why can't we all try being nice to one another for a change?"

YouTuber: Slavery good. Vaccines bad. MAGAts: I knew it. I did my own research.

Just two days until the big reveal.🤯 Unless he waits until Sep 30 to build the suspense. 🥺

“Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

File under #ToLittleToLate

QAnon MAGAts: Now there's my type of pedo.

I'm surprised they don't use them as zoning locations for the poor.

As someone who supports independent creators on Kickstarter, many are struggling with skyrocketing costs, and some have lost more than they earned, but are still honoring their obligations.

Just a reminder that christian conservatives called Reverend Fred Rogers, aka Mr. Rogers, evil. Apparnetly, you aren't special and don't deserve kindness of dignity. Those are earned through capitalism. www.snopes.com/fact-check/f...

Is there anything like this in the US?

If rainbows are woke, then God, after wiping out all life except one family and two of every species, is the original woke.

Every day.

One would hope that MAGAts learn from this, but it is always the wrong lesson. Fear necessecitates manufacturing imaginary problems, finding it everywhere, blaming the uninvolved, and applying the wrong solutions. Below poverty wages and rising prices are the new norm, and blaming immigrants.

That used to be nationalism. It was different from patriotism. Now they've soiled patriotism. I no longer use that word.

Why don't we get rid of the cronyism and corruption, stop harassing and arresting minorities, stop fabricating evidence, stop committing crimes, stop lying in court, and stop fixing everything with a gun? Police are often the most dangerous compenent of any situation.

Truth Art! #arresttrump #art

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They should ban Catcher in the Rye, if they haven't already. That book was absolute shit. A mediocre underachiever who does less than nothing is disillusioned with a fake world. Anne Frank's Diary makes people recoil from war. Catcher inspire young men to recoil from society and write manifestos.

The Diary of Anne Frank is part of their playbook. You don't want your plans falling into the hands of your enemies, nor inspire young people to have compassion and like human rights.

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I guess those Arkansas homicides must have been ordered.

And just like that, the world was a little bit better.

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

But sandwiches are still outlawed.

DoJ has 30 days to get an indictment for sandwich guy from a federal grand jury. It's been 8 days.

Gov'ts can either support their people or suppress them. It's run by the wealthy who see short term gain as more important than the long game, so suppression it is If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, why is society measured by it's wealthiest people?

Having grown up with Focus on the Family, I can say that the world is better off without some people. This is what evil masquerading as good looks like. Don't worry, another white false prophet will rise to take his place to plumb the depths of depravity in the name of god.

Growing up w/ christianity, the only people less empathetic than christians is psychopaths. Who else can tear a person to shreds and follow up with "Jesus loves you" or "God bless you"? Remember, sin is "anything I don't like." Just as calling your family when you're held hostage is a "felony."

We knew it was going to happen. Republicans are racist. The two cannot be separated.

Antisemitism is a problem. Weaponizing it for political gain dilutes the value of it. When legitimate complaints against Israel are automatically deemed antisemitism, the word has no value. Ironically, Holocaust deniers, conspiracy nutjobs and Jew haters overlap a lot and are primarily conservative.

This is the party of States' rights. The states have a right to be told what to do.

In the other reality, that is true. In this one, SCOTUS and Congress acceded it to him. Being the final authority is how being messiah-god-king works.