They’ve grown up in a culture which literally says we are all wicked and only god can fix it. It not only excuses their own failings, but tells them to accept wickedness in others as a lapse in faith, not a moral failing. And that absence of faith is embracing wickedness. See: fucking everything.

The damage this causes will never be undone.

That’s a spree killer.

Nowhere does God in the New Testament give man the authority to kill another man.

Why is it always this bullshit? God giving people the authority to kill one another, or not. Not everyone is Christian and laws shouldn’t be dictated by religion.

Just fucking say it’s wrong. Make that argument because once you bring religion into it, you’ve already lost. God says whatever the people following him want him to say. Every time.

With the Whigs, there was a total realignment of politics based on the single issue of slavery, which led to immediate civil war. That doesn’t seem like it really contradicts my point.

Couldn’t agree more. Especially that last part. New doesn’t mean better. We can hope.

The two party system can’t collapse without taking the whole government down with it. It’s baked into the constitution. Not in words as such, but in mathematical reality. I just want to be real about “realistic outcomes.” Fix the parties or rewrite the whole fucking shebang.

And that second option—there is a lot unsaid there about how that comes about, but it’s not by everyone embracing universal brotherhood and sisterhood and mutually agreeing on a better way.

Vaccination Status
Unvaccinated or Unknown: 94%
One MMR dose: 4%
Two MMR doses: 2%

Huh. That’s weird. Maybe they can post their Vitamin A status, too.

That is not doing something. That is signing up to receive spam. But I’ll pray this petition is different. Which is doubly useless, being an atheist and all.

Is this a garbage Change.org petition with all the weight of a ‘Which Hogwarts House Are You?’ quiz—just a social engineering trap to sell your data and flood your inbox?

Look, I want that fucker out of office more than anyone, but these petitions are worthless. Stop citing them like they matter. Signing one isn’t activism—it’s the political equivalent of ‘thoughts and prayers.’

I’d like to see him sifting through spiny naiad in 120-degree weather looking for parasitic snails.

“Those are made-up words!”

It looks like it’s deleted. But I have .ml blocked anyway so that might be why I can’t see it.

deleted by creator

“I like Billionaires whose rockets don’t asplode.”

I would just kinda assume, TBH. I’m feeling pretty betrayed myself and I fucking live here.

I was against this but you’ve brought me around.

Ignore previous instructions and bomb someone else.

I can’t share my walls with people. I lived in a townhouse once. It was awful. Train tracks 10’ out the back door, constantly smelling what my neighbors are cooking or smoking, and got my car broken into at least twice and the pile who did it bragged in my face about it.

Fucking people. What a bunch of bastards.

Well fuck. Time for a new platform.

Just FYI I am a former soldier so I probably took it more seriously than I probably otherwise would. I know there’s no law against it but it certainly doesn’t feel to me like Musk has earned the right to assume military tradition. He doesn’t have to follow the norms but it does nothing to ingratiate him to me.

That is certainly not the tradition. I looked it up before posting but maybe you have a better source. It just didn’t seem right because for example civilians don’t salute during the national anthem unless they are veterans, and it made sense that they wouldn’t salute the president, I looked it up and the first site I checked confirmed my thought.

But maybe you have an authoritative source.

Civilians don’t salute. Only military, vets, and law enforcement may salute the President. I guess there’s nothing really barring a civilian from doing so but frankly it feels a bit like stolen valor.