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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Couldn't post this on Twitter for some reason. But children, as well as debt, are often used to keep people quiet and scared. You might be willing to take a hit for public statements. But not if it harms your kids or career prospects.

 Well one of the things that having kids does is that it kind of enslaves and restrains you. I'm broke and I can't afford kids and there were very few times where I could. But that does give you some freedom. Not only is there nothing financial to take away from me (trust me on this.) but it frees me to say the truth. For example: Israel should be registered as a foreign agent. Biden and all the Dems that armed them should also be charged with war crimes. It really is genocide in Gaza. And I'll take the punishment for saying those things. Apparently it could be my phone exploding near my groin. Or my heart. Choices I guess. But I also don't have to worry about someone targeting my children or a job that I would probably need if I had kids. No trust funds here. People with kids, or politicians who want kids and want a future in politics, or less likely to say what I just said. And I don't think those people are awful cowards. There's a price to pay if you take on the lobby. You're just less likely to do that if burdened by debt or children. I think that's the point of our fucked up society. And one of the many many reasons it's a fucked up society.

I was responding to this Young Turks post. One thing I forgot to add: If Sarah Huckabee really liked kids in her state she wouldn't have signed a bill allowing them to work at younger ages. Contrast this to Walz feeding all the kids in his state. Their pics with kids look different too.





Thursday, August 15, 2024

 I'm thinking of doing an audio book of short statements. This might be one of them.




Must read story: A tsunami is coming: The shocking influence of right-wing money on American politics

NEXT UP:5:00 AMMorning Edition

(From Alternet.)

A tsunami is coming: The shocking influence of right-wing money on American politics

Get ready: massive pools of dark rightwing money are soon going to clobber us. Will Democracy survive this onslaught by the morbidly rich?

Democrats are giddy right now; the substantial lead that Trump had held over Biden for months has largely vanished as the match-up has changed to Harris and Walz. In the ten polls aggregated by RealClearPolitics since Biden’s withdrawal, Trump has lost 3 points and only leads by one. In the DailyKos/Civiqs poll Harris leads Trump 49/45, Reuters puts the race at 43/42, and Morning Consult has it at 47/46.

Trump is blustering in ways that indicate he thinks he’s losing (Thursday's presser at his shabby golf motel was particularly pathetic), while JD Vance’s poll numbers are in the toilet…or the couch…and showing no indication of recovery any day soon.

That said, other lessons from this and recent past years should keep Democrats from easing up or becoming overconfident. The official beginning of the election season is still almost a month away, and the big money pledged by rightwing and neofascist billionaires hasn’t even shown up yet.

ALSO READ: Republicans are playing a dangerous game by weaponizing ignorance



Monday, August 12, 2024

Joost Swarte


 


 

Just assuming Handmaid's Tale is already banned but I'm not sure...


 

Better Buzz Barr

 



 

Stephen Hickman.


 

Dan DiCarlo. Well she doesn't look innocent....


 

Fuck Timons Esias and Parsec. Gnome lookin' motherfucker...Does he still carry the Gandalf staff in public. Ker Rist....

 

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If you guys don't mind, I could post at least 5 to 10 posts a day from my other site that are science fiction related. It would be more of a daily news thing although occasionally I run into local stuff. Just tell me to stop if its too much. Yes I have been a member in the distant past. I was last at a meeting sometime in the 1990s.
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Timons Esaias
If you aren't a member of any of the groups, it seems rude to be dittobombing from a site that already exists.
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Philip Shropshire
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Timons Esaias Timons the site here is dead. People openly post here and complain about all their friends dying. It's like a morgue here. Call me crazy but I would think that people into science fiction would be interested in science fiction in all its aspects. I find it astonishingly dim, not to mention rude, that someone who posts fuckin' nothing criticizes someone who does post things. (For Free! For love of the game...incredible. Fuckin moron...)