CharlesDarwin @ CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world

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I bet most people had to look him up after the shooting. I cannot count how many times someone said "who?" when they heard about him getting shot.

So put political pique aside this Thursday and be grateful to God, or wherever your faith tradition takes you, and for the people who sit beside you at the table.

I have always found it rather curious just how fundamentally arrogant believers tend to be. Note the way that they capitalize the word "God", which presumably is in reference to Yahweh/Allah/Jehovah, but just assume that the reader is from the Abrahamic strain of belief and just accept this conceit as a normal. Man has had many gods and goddesses over the course of history, but a certain kind of person can just write "God" and it is just accepted that this capitalization means one of those many gods: the Abrahamic one.

But even more so, especially as time goes on and more and more nonbelievers are in this country, the absolute arrogance of assuming the entire audience is even in a faith tradition is really quite something.

Those that say they are religiously unaffiliated are now at 28%.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2024/01/24/religious-nones-in-america-who-they-are-and-what-they-believe/

Why?...because the conservatives ruin everything.

Also, because fuck you is why. We cannot be giving money to smarty pants poindexters who think they know more than me! What they need is some more Jesus.

What's the sad truth is that vaccines are a victim of their own success. We seem to be right at the point in generational die-off where all that wisdom is being lost and a whole lotta dipshits that didn't watch babies dying of preventable diseases are now taking over...and believe the anti-vaxxer bullshit about how it was "really" because of things like septic systems, clean water, etc...

(What's even scarier is that also explains the rise of fascism, too. I know the 80 year cycle theory has supposedly been disproven, but it would explain a lot about the rise of the "alt-right" nonsense among the young)

Very true. If these dumbfucks want to live by their own credo, I guess....go for it?

But the idea that they get to set policy, spread disinfo, do things to discourage vaccination, or worst of all: keep US from getting vaccinated?

GO.

FUCK.

YOURSELF.

After all this is done and over with, these pieces of shit should be happy that we no longer prop people like this up in front of a firing squad...

I know it’s trendy to hate on the elderly but y’all need to understand you will be old yourselves soon enough and the cultural hate of the old will apply to you. You are neither different nor special. Get vaxxed, eat your veggies.

This, 100%. I see what seems to be a huge rise in bagging on "boomers" and a lot of it is among the supposedly progressive, which is just....mind-boggling. Apparently one of the last identity it is open season on is anyone above an arbitrary age, no matter what their life experiences. Everyone above, say, 70 years of age is one big monolith that caused all the problems...

Taco and Bobby Brainworm's Ministry of Truth will have to get to scrubbing THAT data soon, too.

Does he have the shingles vaccine?

Let's hope so. The guy is way too cozy with the likes of Thiel and Musk and all that freakishness combined with way too much money that they represent.

I mean, I'm not looking for more Curtis Yarvin or lame-brained insanity like The Sovereign Individual injected into my life or American institutions....but a "JD" "Vance" presidency just might bring it about.

Taco can bully the Republicans with the power of the purse and threatening the funding of primaries against them if they don't go along. Sure the base firebombing their families is a factor, too. But Musk and Thiel obviously have very deep pockets and could do similar bullying. Musk in particular also has his share of crazy stans and incels that could also probably be whipped up into threats of violence against non-compliant pubbies.

I would have been just fine with the Democrats running him, TBH. If something were to happen to him, there is a line of succession and he's not surrounded by total buffoons and Nazis, unlike Donvict.

BTW, all of their stupid rhetoric about the autopen is even dumber than their stupid fixation with teleprompters, except autopens have been used without fanfare for even longer than the teleprompter.

But when Democrats use technology that has been in use for decade upon decade, idiotic right wing mouth-breathers can be trained to think it's bad.

Taco has a meltdown about a teleprompter, accusing everyone of some kind of plot at the UN over it, but when Obama used a teleprompter it was like the end of Western civilization itself, because it was a Blah guy running as a Democrat.

These people don't even have any internal consistency. They are reprogrammable meatbags. If Taco uses an autopen and even talks about how he uses it, they won't bat a fucking eye.

Rules like that only apply to everyone else, not Republicans, who are special people.

If they amendment 25 him or if he keels over whatever, we all get to look forward to this asshole, I guess...I'd be curious if he carries on with extremely idiotic and unpopular things like tarrifs and golden ballrooms and bombing fishermen and talking about annexing Canada/Greenland or Panama, too. Same with all the stupid vendettas and childishness like putting up a picture of an autopen instead of Biden's picture or trying to charge Biden with "fraud" (LOL) for the autopen.

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”

-- Asimov

This is a nearly perfect quote, and my only quibble with it is that it comes off rather both-siderist, when the problem seems to be largely among conservatives. Not that the general population doesn't have problems; but proud ignorance seems to be a badge of honor on the right...

With the conservatives, cruelty is the point. If an idiot like RFK jr with no experience, no education and no qualifications is put in charge, that also just demonstrates their mantra that "government doesn't work", also furthering their agenda of destroying government and destroying any confidence in sound governance.

Will this combo hurt lots of conservative voters? Of course, but most of them are so balls-deep in anti-intellectualism and conspiracy theory that they'd never admit it, probably not even to themselves.

LOL when it comes to all of this, including the image they chose for this story.

I guess this was because of BLM and "antifa".

Yeah, I notice the same thing IRL - most people (except for the very young and rather naive) don't tend to fall for what seems to be a rather obvious ploy to further atomize and divide.

But online, holy cow, I seem to see a whole lot of alleged progressives that seem to be deeply engaged in lots and lots of discussions involving identity and intersectional this or that and lecturing on language (see as an example, "the r word"), but then be apparently very okay with dunking on "boomers" and seemingly being more preoccupied with the age of someone like Biden or Nancy or Taco or Schumer, etc., vs. things of actual substance...

I've said it a lot here, but this kind of thing is going to age like fine wine if/when breakthroughs in life extension/age reversal come online. I cannot believe how backward and regressive a lot of these positions are, but apparently this kind of thing is one of the last areas where it is perfectly fine to show bigotry (while in so many areas and corners of the 'net, the progressives love to play the Oppression Olympics) and it's rather concerning to see supposed progressives espousing it all over the place.

I figured a whole lot of "the kids" never even really did the piracy thing and instead went right to things like Spotify anyway...I though the idea of actually curating your own music (legal or otherwise) was something so passe.

Isn't "internet users" darn near everyone at this point?

I honestly don't understand why "shareholder value" has not already demanded something like this, given how formulaic most "leadership" actually is.

I think I know the reason, and the entire narrative is mostly bullshit, and instead the wealth that companies generate is set up to be extracted by a very, very few and they sit on each others' boards and set up their own compensation, etc...