+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@qoto.org

#Caturday

@shibao
> hamas
i don't think positively about them at all.

i'm looking at it from two hypothetical hats: the hat of someone who really, really hates another country and wants to punish them. this hat could do so much real damage with just a little bit of the right effort

another hat is i'm controlled and just doing enough terrorism to keep a forever war going and nothing else. if i'm wearing this hat, i'd do exactly what terrorism looks like right now: stab some guy at a mall, makes people mad, but doesn't actually do anything on a strategic scale.

@Tfmonkey @shortstories My brother in christ, that isn't bread, that's an unholy and nutritionally sparse amalgamation of artificial and denatured ingredients and possibly seed oils; goyslop. Everything you ever admitted to eating fits this description. Real bread is just water, flour and yeast. Real alternative 'bread' just replaces the wheat flour with another and some kind of emulsifier. Please eat real food. :ablobcatnodmeltcry-0:

Truth: #PeacePresident #Trump2024

this company is run by the kind of person who would get a kiwi farms thread/ED page/google docs callout post

#MemesklauForTheElderly

./configure affirmations:
-you have jobcontrol
-your fifos are usable
-your implementation is ok
-your sockets are usable
-you are normal

I think that Peanut The Squirrel may very well be the thing that costs the Democratic Party their entire claim on being "the party of human decency".

So many of the democrat influencers are saying "but the law said it was ok to kill the squirrel". This is honestly the most terrible reply possible.

Their whole party identity is based around the idea that they would NOT kill your squirrel, even if it's illegal to have it, because they believe in being decent and reasonable human beings.

The "rules are rules" perspective is a religious-authoritarian vision which is an abbreviated way to say "by all following the rules, we all win, so we need you to follow them too". Democrats are NOT this, their illegal immigration perspective leans decidedly on "human decency".

Their problem though is that illegal immigration could have another explanation, perhaps it's not human decency that motivates them. The right claims that they're importing the 3rd world as a plot to destroy the country, they reply to this with "how could you" and so on.

But their killing of Peanut, or more precisely, their unwillingness to distance themselves from it, calls into question whether they ever actually cared about anyone.

To lose the human decency claim is so devastating. They don't have military strength, they don't have fiscal conservatism, they don't have law and order, and they don't have individual liberty - except in narrow cases like abortion. They gave up anti-war 5 or so years ago, and now even their grip on science and progress is tenuous, with the guy whose Actually Launching Rockets now denouncing them.

Without Human Decency, the democratic party stands for nothing. It's the empty shell of a party that relies on social pressure to bully people into saying they're going to vote for them.

But the whole "nobody has to know who you voted for" thing cuts both ways.