SpinozasHeresy @SpinozasHeresy@qoto.org

It’s odd to me that we spent four flaccid years listening to Trump tell, what, like 30,000 lies? something like that? But when he says he’s “going to be a dictator on day one” all media (except Fox News et al) soils its collective pants. Trump is a fucking buffoon. Pearl clutching and swooning is exactly what he wants. Why does everyone continue to give it to him? And before you tell me to ignore it at my peril, tell me exactly how 50 states and 330 million people are going to get on board.

Our current abortion ban problems aren’t the result of conservative success. They’re the result of a majority failure to vote.

Tattoos are a lot like bumper stickers. Neither ages well and they’re really hard to remove.

I’m not sure I understand why anyone is surprised evangelicals love Donald Trump.

Which is the more efficient method for genocide

Looks like the human buzz saw business model didn’t work out so well.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/gun-factory-upstate-new-york-roots-19th-century-105330722

It doesn’t take a genius to know that the newspaper industry was destroyed by the move of advertising to the Internet. Advertising is what makes the Internet go. Including TwitteX. 

I’m watching CNBC and coverage of the release of the Tesla Cyber truck. For me, the truck’s unremarkable. What’s remarkable, though, is the way the commentators are gushing, not over the truck, but over an unremarkable racist like Musk.

So it goes.

B-side Police has been rolling around my head for a while now.

“...murder is the sport of the elected, you don’t need to lift a finger of your hand.”

https://youtu.be/tUq9fURN2VQ?si=iI4iwz9ZjhxUP6FM

Why are they calling the poo flinging monkey show between the IDF and Hamas a “war” when it seems like the only people dying are civilians?

It’s all fine as well to thank a veteran for their “service to the country”. But when was the last time you thanked an accountant in your local government for stewarding your tax dollars? When was the last time you thanked a teacher for creating a future American? When is the last time you thanked the guy that’s paving the road you drive on every day? Those folks spend their entire lives serving their country and, quite frankly, they are ignored. They all serve. Their contributions are many. 

Don’t be a bad guy...

https://youtu.be/scbyNdHneco

When I hear the term “Jewish state” I cringe. Like it or not, the term feels like the white supremacist notion of an ethnostate and is counter to anything resembling the idea of a democracy. Using the term “Jewish state” sets up a semantic muddle that makes it difficult for non-Jews to be clear about the country’s intentions. Are they interested in democracy? Or are they interested in an exclusionary state based on religious belief? My cultural experience with the 1st amendment gives me pause.

When someone uses the Bible to prove a point...they don’t.

Someday I will live in a religion blind society. A place where I will be assessed by the content of my character, not by the beliefs that may or may not be foundational to my character.

Sometimes, when I’ve had my glaucoma medication, I consider the weirdness of a thousand humans sitting in proper rows and efficient waiting lines cradled and crammed by the relative security of science.

I used to worry about artificial intelligence destroying civilization but I’m not worried anymore since we can buy our way out of it with bitcoin. Whew! 😰