Daniel Dvorkin @medigoth@qoto.org
Bioinformaticist / biostatistician, veteran USAF medic and Army infantryman, armchair paleontologist, occasional science fiction author, long-ago kickboxer, oldbat goth, vaccinated liberal patriot.
Joined Oct 2022
@realcaseyrollins @freemo No. If you genuinely believe what you wrote in item #1, provide some evidence.
@realcaseyrollins @freemo Casey, thanks for letting me know when I could stop reading with the first few words of your first "point."
@freemo I don't have the data. I was hoping maybe you did. :)
If neither of us has the numbers, of course to some degree we're just blowing smoke. But I will say I personally know an alarmingly large number of people who suffered exactly that type of abuse, and never got justice for it.
@freemo "religious conservatives of all denominations," I should have specified.
@freemo How about youth pastors, teachers at church schools, et al.?
I agree that the Catholic church has been scapegoated (probably shades of ancient anti-Catholic prejudices in general). They've covered up plenty of abuse, but they're certainly not the only offenders, and probably not the worst ones. My point is that these days, religious conservatives in the US label things like teaching LGBTQ kids to be comfortable in their own bodies as "grooming" ... while having an *extremely* well-documented history of covering up the real thing.
Most school shootings are inexplicable to anyone but the killer or killers. This one may not be: https://twitter.com/xxclusionary/status/1640598560876920832
As soon as a friend sent me the link, before I even clicked on it, I just knew what it was going to be. Churches and church-affiliated schools covering up systematic sexual abuse of children is very nearly as common as the abuse itself.
Expect an intensification of the "groomer" rhetoric in the coming weeks. They still think they can cover themselves that way.
#church #school #shooting #schoolshooting #sexualabuse #molestation #grooming #conservative
Most likely I'm preaching to the choir by posting this here. But #covid has spawned more conspiratorial thinking than any other event I can remember in my lifetime, and that includes things like 9/11. So, in case it's useful for countering any bullshit you may encounter, here you go.
@Rickd6 Yeah, they really don't want to answer that question. I guess that's why they have a designated "black friend" each primary cycle. 😀
Possibly the last time I'll give an honest, non-sarcastic answer to this kind of question. I've tried, for decades, and I'm just about done. Snark is practically all I have left. Consider this a brief flash of the old me.
I really doubt the questioner will pay attention, but maybe it will do someone some good. FOR ... THE ... LURKERS!
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-Democratic-Party-hate-white-men-so-much/answer/Daniel-Dvorkin-3
The wheels of #Mouse grind slow, but exceedingly fine.
#Disney rolled over a lot quicker than I expected when #DeSantis took #ReedyCreek away. Gloomily, I thought that meant they were giving up—calculating that it was better to alienate some large part of their customer base than to pick a fight with a terrifyingly succesful #fascist politician on his way up the ladder. Now I have a different view.
This conference presents a huge challenge for #DeathSatan. If he tries to stop it, he's in for a massive court fight... and/or persuading Dinsey that it's finally time to leave #Florida, which could happen, and would be a massive blow to the state. Maybe even enough to lose him Florida's electoral votes in the 2024 Presidential election where he clearly expects to be a candidate.
If he doesn't, he looks weak. The #Republican #Party is hopelessly committed to #performative #masculinity. The slightest appearance of weakness on the part of #SqueakyRon will give Former #President #Babyhands all the opening he needs to win the pissing contest. Forget the general: #Trump gets the nomination and DeSantis is yet another also-ran.
Me, I'll just be over here making popcorn.
I will note that it's a deeply weird feeling for me to be backing a giant corporation against a legitimately elected government, however much it galls me to admit the latter. But strange bedfellows and all that. #Stalin vs. #Hitler: sometimes you gotta pick a side.
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The judge in the Dominion trial has a point.
Fox keeps saying that it was just reporting the news. To that the judge says: Seriously? The bigger news was that Trump had no evidence!
This is from Reliable Sources: https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/167945446451957cd1436b8d9/raw
The "bigger story" in the wake of the 2020 election was not the conspiracy theories the network chose to give a platform to, [the judge said] but the fact that the former president was "making all these unsubstantiated false allegations."
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Me: "Oh dang, this article says there's a deadly fungus present in most US states"
My wife: "Were they unaware of Republicans before this?"
@NoahH I'm pretty sure that's among their goals. There was a time within living memory, in some parts of the US, when women could be arrested for wearing pants and men could be arrested for having long hair. Many right-wingers would love to go back enforcing gender roles at gunpoint.
@trinsec There are still enough good questions, and good answers, to keep me active there. But the signal-to-noise ratio is definitely dropping, and has been for years. A lot of formerly active users have decided it's not worth it anymore. Many of them are my friends, and sooner or later I'll probably join them. Just not *quite* there yet.
@drsbello Yeah, they'll buy that! 😛
Bioinformaticist / biostatistician, veteran USAF medic and Army infantryman, armchair paleontologist, occasional science fiction author, long-ago kickboxer, oldbat goth, vaccinated liberal patriot.
Joined Oct 2022
