truthfully, i *do* think there’s a serious conversation to be had on this topic, and that sitting out in 2024 was a severe as an ethical miscalculation… BUT frankly that’s a conversation that will not be led by any rep/candidate. it’s the wrong people and the wrong venue, and it won’t help anything.
Posts by Matt Puckett
“this whole system is rigged against criminals!”
clean energy IS affordable, you just have think more than 5 seconds into the future
really not beating the blasphemy charges.
1) y’all gotta stop implying that you’re the Christ
2) deadly acts of war aren’t comparable to a healing miracle
“let’s make history together on our knees”
i am begging anyone at all to hire an editor
haha yeah, i bet you did, petey
We've shifted completely away from driving profit by creating products and services designed to solve problems and make lives easier.
The focus now is on generating profiting by extracting wealth from consumers as efficiently as possible, by any means necessary.
so wait, i’m confused—when we start adding up the violence willingly inflicted on children by these guys, are we putting millstones around their necks or no?
lots of ways to respond to this, but my brain just can’t get over the forced line break that split off your ending to read
“sick, open up your Bibles with me to Mark”
and i guess i’ll just be keeping that one in the ol back pocket 🤙🏻
it happened to me:
a youth tried to introduce me to blink 182
she’s perfect. brave, beautiful.
ah yes, a doctor, that other role we all identify you with
*sees news of ceasefire*
i meant IRONICALLY guys, cmon haha 😓
i am so sad to say Dave Matthews Band, but i won’t lie to my friends
oh i don’t have to personally hate someone to tell them that they’ve made a huge mistake, abdicated their responsibility to god and their fellow man, and now have the blood of thousands on their hands.
Secret Election Funders (via NYT) U.S. politics has seen a stunning increase in dark money donations, undermining promises from the Supreme Court.
i’m so old i remember when obama called out SCOTUS for citizens united during a SOTU, predicting this would happen, and alito shook his head and said “that’s not true”
Exhibit 1,000,000 in “people tell you what their priorities are”
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch
This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days
let him cook 🙏🏻
… and then a big, strong man came up to me with tears in his eyes, and he said “Sir, please don’t say ‘GUSHER’”
people seem to be having a very hard time grasping that it is in fact *the work* that is respected
at this point i’m ready to hear someone just say “look, if you can’t work with the budget you already have, maybe you’re just bad at this”
they’re really not beating the antichrist accusations, huh?
proudly proclaiming that midpoint centrism is the hill i’ll die on
Whatever happens today I know a brother will have made it into space before that South African
this is unfathomably horrific