Dang it. I didn’t watch the one I posted more than two seconds. Didn’t see it had commentary.

Thanks for posting this one!

Average time in your life spent:
Brushing teeth- 39 Days
In School- 2 1/2 years
Eating- 3 1/2 years
Flipping your family members’ dirty socks from inside out to right side out while doing laundry- 12 years

Why do they even have that? Seems absurd.

If I told you I had books for that would you be surprised?

Every time.

“I believe in due process, regardless of citizenship status”

“Oh you like riding illegal immigrant dick, huh?!?”

It is so obvious how much they have a fear-based, performative masculinity. Truly wild.

Anytime you might doubt that gender isn’t essential to right wing politics, just go look at the comment section of political discussion in a random, non-political Reddit.

It’ll be some version of “you are a woman,” “you are gay,” “you are a cuck,” or a mix of all three as the rightist gets angrier.

Gorgeous post

Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel

So when communists preached anti-racism, conservatives saw it as the same “divide and conquer” technique as the Nazis.

The solution, of course, being “shut up and act united” AND “Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism and, therefore, can’t be racist.”

Hence National Brotherhood Week.

Don’t worry. I’ll find humor in almost anything that isn’t at someone’s expense (punching down).

One of the things that I think my own research shows most clearly—though it’s nothing unexpected or new—is that American conservatives saw Nazi racial ideology primarily as a tool for divisiveness….

In that they both enjoy negating the atrocities of “their side” by blaming the “other side” for them? Yes.

Nah. It’s the anticommunism they adore. He works as way to negate the Nazi atrocities with “but communist gulags!”

Evangelicals love Solzhenitsyn. They’ll gladly adore any and every critic of communism.

Nominally because communism is godless, but actually because love anyone who doesn’t challenge wealth accumulation.

Evangelicals LOVE him. They’ll gladly adore any anticommunist.

The treatment becomes more radical because it can’t stop the problem from occurring. But its minimal successes demand more investment that starves prevention and cures.

1 year ago today I was terminated by DOGE from USAID where I worked to get humanitarian aid into Gaza. Everyone I knew across almost 10 years of my career across 3 prior jobs became unemployed as well. My entire LinkedIn network suddenly became "open to work"

I'm a one issue voter. Punishment.

Reading The Emperor of All Maladies (about Cancer) and the author notes two times that doctors vigorously sought to defeat cancer by more and more radical treatments—radical mastectomy and High Dose Chemo.

This is analogous to policing. Lavish investment in treatment but prevention is underfunded.

SNL's cold open looks at the Derek Chauvin trial YouTube video by Washington Post

Sorry @chadstanton.blacksky.app. I may have gotten caught up. It’s just wild that after that they got more money.

And yes, I should have seen it LONG before that. My naïveté and blindness remind me of this sketch.

We’ve proven that a catch-all called “police” doesn’t work. They think anyone not them is a criminal. They protect property over people. They turn into extortion groups.

I want crisis managers dealing with domestic disputes. Addiction specialists dealing with addicts.
Police are skilled in none.

So if you ask me if I really want every cop to lose their job?

Yes. Whatever that looks like. Over time or immediate. Whatever.

I want them depropagandized. I want policing to be replaced by free community programs and education. Jobs’s police do split into different brackets not on catch-all.

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I remember in 2020 you could literally go to a reddit with dozens and dozens of videos of police violence. Evidence everywhere. And our Dem government responded to being elected in response to protests against that by saying, “wow, look at all those individual, non-systematic events.”

And then dudes will see police brutality called fascistic and yell at people for misusing the term. And by dudes I mean “former” Republicans (Tom Nichols) who are ok with a police state, just not Trumps.

I had no intent. You feel I’m hiding something?

First, why did you make me read that image.

Second, why did you make me read “friction on their dick”?

Third, I agree with you both.

Note what I said and what the above commentator said. We made the point that using AIPAC as a shorthand for problems in campaign finance is playing into (at the very least) antisemitism. We aren’t discounting having real conversations about AIPAC and its influence. But that’s rarely what happens.

CPAC was funded by Hungarian fascists (Orbán) who themselves were funded by Russian fascists (Putin). One wonders if perhaps that would be a more pertinent topic. If we consider why AIPAC is focused on rather than CPAC.

And I know CPAC doesn’t fund Dems, but AIPAC isn’t funded by Israel.

There are valid reasons to discuss AIPAC. But far too often it’s just used as “accepts campaign finance” or “pro-Israel”.

Notably there is a far larger evangelical Zionist lobby that catches almost no flak.

Every time I see a Dem using “AIPAC checks” as a shorthand for the easily corruptible system of election finance, I die inside.

Seriously there are larger and more destructive—perhaps not as overtly so—lobbyist and financing groups.

Why AIPAC? Well, history has suggestions.

Get off my timeline.

Oh my goodness. I just saw it.