“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.” -J R R Tolkien
S*icidal boy: *decides not to k*ll himself*
Sick fuck who happens to be female: “get back in the car and gas yourself to death”
Very Smart Twitter Users™️: the justice system is sexist, poor little sociopath!!
The corrupt FDA says you don’t have the right to even *try* medicines that haven’t been through 10+ years of testing, yet the government *mandated* Covid vaccines that sailed through FDA approval in less than 1 year. You can’t believe both things at once.
The Supreme Court is not a democratic body. Ironically, though, when they allow issues to be sorted out democratically like Roe v Wade, you’re upset about that, too.
@SelectSpeed @NoobTheNotable @S117doteth @InternetH0F The Supreme Court stacked by people who follow a certain agenda (hint it’s not the democratic one)
🧵The Spiral of Silence
In a week when Keir Starmer said a woman is an adult human female, the New Statesmen published a Dawkins essay about sex being binary and Andrew Neil cottoned on that child sex changes aren’t such a great idea, it’s safe to say that the spell has lifted/1
“I won’t address your question because I can’t. If you try to have a discussion, I will endlessly say that your source isn’t good enough because it is the only way to stave off the cognitive dissonance. When that fails, I will resort to ad hominem.”
Smugnorance is so tiresome.
@bunchofnumber1 @theartistpatri1 @lwoodhouse I cannot explain your straw man arguments, because they are, of course, misrepresentations of the facts.
Now if you want to ask about something that you have validated from a reputable source, with links, then we can talk.
@whysomadstan @theartistpatri1 @lwoodhouse dude you could have just ended after “I cannot explain” & saved us the bother.
Your replies are specious. Sound and fury, signifying nothing.
You’ll notice libs are very touchy about the seventh grandkid thing. They don’t like hearing about that whole situation, at all.
Because it shatters their illusions. The illusion that they’re our moral betters, and support people who are our moral betters.
I’m trying to understand the controversy. I thought it was common knowledge that American slaves did more than just field work, that they were enslaved in damn near every industry and trade: industrial, shipping, education, music, and religion. Not everyone was on a plantation, but even on a plantation, there are a lot of skills one can gain. They used these learned skills while enslaved, often to their benefit. One of those benefits was to make their own money and buy their freedom. Once the civil war was over freed men and women used those skills to build communities, cities, businesses, and universities. Once upon a time, there was a THRIVING black middle and upper class and it started with men and women who were once enslaved. Was slavery evil? Absolutely…but that makes all the details that much more interesting.
Beauty from Ashes, that’s the Black American story. The purpose of an African-American history class is to walk through the details. Young black men and women need to know where they come from. This victim mentality is not in our blood; we come from a resilient, resourceful, and faith-filled people who made something out of nothing and it all started while we were still in chains.
@whysomadstan @theartistpatri1 @lwoodhouse They openly call for community policing?
Can you explain how someone who is for defunding/dismantling policing is also pro incarceration for non-crimes?