Douglas Grinder

Only pawn in game of life. A pox on both of their houses.

[Douglas Grinder @bearhock]

@DrunkRepub Trump has partially abandoned trumpism. It seems he’s been ideologically captured as he was in his first term. We must help get him back on track. Was there ever a philosophical base for your support or just a cult of personality?

[Douglas Grinder @bearhock]

@Looky_Hear @SamaHoole Hah!

[Douglas Grinder @bearhock]

@SamaHoole Figures. I love cashews. Dangit

[Douglas Grinder @bearhock]

@compliantvc Too subtle. Parody is hard enough in the absurdity we live in.

[Douglas Grinder @bearhock]

@gopevangelist @HawkEmDownChris Bingo! The old CO was hilarious. Henry I think.

[Douglas Grinder @bearhock]

@ktibus @kidnotor @HawkEmDownChris Jackasses: it stopped being funny. Whether you perceived it as leftist pap or not matters little. Sit-com turned into all situation and little or no com. Happens when a show runs too long.

[Douglas Grinder @bearhock]

@tia_la21570 Man boobs? Awful.

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@DemonFramed Silly

[Douglas Grinder @bearhock]

@Ideoprax @ConvenerNatureP Please community note this.

[Douglas Grinder @bearhock]

@caroljsroth Kushner. No doubt.

[Douglas Grinder @bearhock]

@MetamateDaz You’ve heard of gambling before, I trust. That’s what investing is. . . Gambling. We risk losing in hopes of winning.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

She could not speak until she was nearly four. She grew up to redesign how half the cattle in North America are handled and killed, by learning to see the world through the eyes of a cow.

Temple Grandin is autistic, a thinker who reasons in pictures, not words. As a young scientist she did the one thing no handler had thought to do. She climbed down into the chute and looked along it at the height of the animal.

And she saw what everyone had missed. The cattle were freezing at shadows on the floor, at a glint on a puddle, at a coat draped over a rail. Small terrors, invisible to us, screaming at them. The autism the world had called a defect was the very thing that let her feel an animal's fear.

So she rebuilt the whole machine around that fear. Curved races, so the animal never sees what waits ahead. Soft light. Sure footing. Her centre-track restrainer, cradling the body steady through its final second, so the end comes clean.

Then she did the harder thing. She turned mercy into arithmetic. For McDonald's she built an audit of five cold numbers: stunned on the first shot, fallen, crying out, shocked with a prod. Fail it, lose the contract. An industry deaf to every plea to be gentle went silent the moment gentleness became a score it could fail.

She is no abolitionist, and the purists have never forgiven her for it. Her stance is the harder, braver one. She eats the animal, she looks it in the eye as it dies, and she insists that this is precisely why it is owed a calm life and a death without terror.

Nature offers no such kindness. The wolf does not stun the elk.

Her life's work fits in a few short words. Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.

[Douglas Grinder @bearhock]

@emeriticus Seems you don’t like him. Did I get that right?

[Douglas Grinder @bearhock]

@MmisterNobody @TheAliceSmith Well said

[Mr. Nobody @MmisterNobody]

When you tell society that taxes are theft, they slowly peel their eyes away from TikTok, give you that premium fluoride stare, the official “Error 404: Critical Thinking Not Found” look, and mumble something about “roads.”

But when a society has been dumbed down to the point where almost half its income disappears into the endless pit of corruption, you know full well there’s a massive brainwashing operation in full swing… and it’s been working like a charm for decades. Still undefeated. Still collecting rent on the air you breathe.

[Douglas Grinder @bearhock]

@kingofthehood89 @Good_Knoght @c_tr026933 @DemonFramed Idiot? Key board warrior.

[Douglas Grinder @bearhock]

@c_tr026933 @Good_Knoght @DemonFramed I live in northeast off of 95 corridor. You don’t know what you’re talking about. Non union electricians, fitters, plumbers, welders make 6 figures once they get experience and certs. Union better wage and Bennie’s but not always steady.

[Douglas Grinder @bearhock]

@Judianna Good one.

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@KeenanPeachy Finally a war I can get behind!

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@Ravenismeee Sharting