choir director: sing the song , ladies

the camptown ladies: doo dah, doo dah

choir director: what

History will ask: why did no one send armies to liberate Palestine?

It's complicated isn't an answer.

A still from a BBC news programme "The Breakfast Show" featuring a bald man wearing glasses and a chyron reading "Charlie Palmer: Garlic Bread expert" This is an edit, as they actually credited the Chef as a "Hummus expert" on the episode.

More rapist logic. The paternalism is disgusting. Just say you hate Arabs and don’t mind burning in hell. Get to the point.

And then that same party gnashes its teeth and rends its garments over what they label a "10% difference in opinion", very pointedly never elaborating on what comprises that difference in opinion, because saying out loud that they endorse the habitual murder of thousands is too gauche.

This is some conspiratorial nonsense. Folks aren't refusing to vote because the 'other side' is convincing them their side doesn't care about them. They are being shown, consistently and demonstrably, by the party that demands and needs their support to win, that they don't care about them.

If people like this have it all figured out, why does their strategy keep losing elections?

Here's a crazy idea: how about running on the platform you believe in, regardless of how many people support it, according to polls? Or that's impossible because Democrats don't actually believe in anything, other than being in government?

What are you talking about? Nonvoters outnumber both parties, and the vast majority aren’t centrists. You’ve chosen to give up on 30-40% of the country in order to chase the votes of a very small minority who want to work with fascists and whose policies gave us Trump, twice.

A hundred years ago, the U.S. had a nationwide network of short-line railroads that connected most urban and rural communities. By the 1940s, most of it had been dismantled ... by the barons of the auto and oil industries. 😑

Christ! This place is becoming like FB. The responses to this taking it seriously. Yikes.

Stop using public school funds for private and religious schools. Period!
Enough already.

lady: Please stop singing Backstreet Boys fella: Tell me why

Obviously they evolved that way to reach the typewriter and phone.

What does this even mean? Insufferable.

Be frustrated, be pissed, about the fact you're not great at emotional regulation or managing your money or being on time or whatever. You get to have feelings about it all.

And: give yourself credit & grace for the fact you're working on it. You DON'T deserve to be punished.

Because naming evil requires a different kind of accountability. It forces people to confront the systems that shape it, the socialization that feeds it, and the patterns that warn us long before the final act. It asks them to examine how they were raised, what they were taught,

It softens what they’re seeing, makes the violence feel clinical instead of intentional, and lets them avoid the harder conversation about how everyday ideas around power, entitlement, and control can harden into something lethal.

They don’t want to imagine that they are moving through these same environments and navigating the same ideas. That the person capable of something heinous might not be some distant, unknowable “other,” but someone familiar. Someone in their circle.

I’m Sorry We Keep Turning Your Diagnosis Into An Excuse For Violence: A Public Apology to People Living With Mental Illness To everyone out there living with mental health challenges, I want to begin here, without qualification or deflection.

"That’s the part people don’t want to face. That violence is not just an individual failure. It is something that grows in environments where it is tolerated, rationalized, and sometimes even rewarded. And that’s the part people resist the most.
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*wincing in pain, trailing blood across the floor* you gotta cool it with the purity tests, adults are adulting over here

At minimum you'd hope they'd be voting for someone who promises no more broken glass to crawl through at polling locations. I mean, it seems like a slam dunk to me.

Me: I wouldn't crawl through broken glass for any politician.

Liberal: Oh, so you support Trump?

The Martyrdom of the Liberal, Dying to Defend the Sanctity of Child-Targeting Genocide.

Outside of routine maintenance, car mechanics are frauds. This is supported by 20 years of experience.

It is now.

you're doing nothing but post on social media! if you want to change things get into congress so you can *checks notes* do nothing but post on social media

just run for office yourself, how much can one congressional campaign cost, $10?

British liberals 2015 to 2020: "I don't care how bad the tories are, if Corbyn isn't perfect no one should vote for him."

British liberals 2020 to present: "I don't care how imperfect Starmer is, the Tories are worse so everyone must support him."