Stanklin Blowsevelt

The James Earl Jones of scrawny white guys. Love life| Love living | Love liver

[Stanklin Blowsevelt @d_hammerhugs]

From the other room I thought dad was trying to have a conversation with his dog, but he was just on one of those bluetooth earpieces talking to some other dog.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

This is such an old dynamic it's wild to watch it play out over and over again when you can just read about it in any book about the history of science and/or technology.

Just FYI, doctors mostly aren’t saying “DON'T DO THIS.” They’re saying “screening is complicated.” They've seen exciting new techniques fail to improve outcomes tons of times. They take a whole oath about not doing harm and their field is filled with moments when doctors haven't waited for good evidence...and real harm gets done.

This happens with experts all the time...they see something new and there's skepticism...sometimes warranted, sometimes unwarranted.

Regardless, any amount of informed skepticism is extremely easy to re-package as “The old guard doesn’t want the future.”

That repackaging has been used by industrialists for as long as industrialists have existed...they turn every request for evidence into proof that the incumbents are scared.

The thing is there are a lot of Vioxx's and Theranos's and "radium therapy"s in the past proving that well-informed people who say, "Actually, that's not gonna work" are actually very often right.

And there's also tons of examples of industrialists being like "This is the future" and being correct while saying "you can't regulate us, that will stand in the way of the future" as steam boilers explode and human beings along with them.

But I guess we're just gonna keep having the same goddamn fights forever!

[The Sietch of Sci-Fi | @TSoS_]

People had a very clear idea what they *wanted* this movie to be about and then couldn't handle that it was a story about the absurdity of war photography that specifically chose the American setting because Western society has become so desensitized to War in the Middle East.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Rich kids get capital. Middle class kids get “figure it out.” Poor kids get trauma and told it builds character. The starting line is not equal.

[aleX🪐 @ALEXAGY0]

can't believe millennials had to smoke out of soda cans and apples then blow it all into a toilet paper roll filled with dryer sheets while gen z can just pull out a weed pen and hit it in the middle of target

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Say what you will about Joe Biden, but I have absolutely no fucking idea when his birthday is.

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

I was told today by a 17-year-old that there was no way people were writing 10 page papers without Al.

Dude, I was writing 10 page papers without having read the book.

[Definitely Danny @SemperWry]

Pfft, liberals. Reading classic literature lol. Conceptualizing themes in abstraction via narrative form and retaining them through the years to apply a lens of meaning to life lmao. Gaaayyy

[Stanklin Blowsevelt @d_hammerhugs]

@elonmusk Culture isn’t even consistent throughout the US. Go down to south Louisiana sometime and check out Cajun culture. This is also pretty rich coming from an immigrant from South Africa.

[Stanklin Blowsevelt @d_hammerhugs]

@TrustDML Little life hack for you: If you don’t say racist things, people generally don’t call you a racist.

[Stanklin Blowsevelt @d_hammerhugs]

@heywildrich @Cinnabon Pretty wild to admit that your racism motivates you more than your own personal health, but go off I guess.

[Stanklin Blowsevelt @d_hammerhugs]

@ericmmatheny You tend to get caught pretty quickly when you provide video evidence of you committing a crime.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

Fun that that this country is burning down because a handful of emotionally stunted dudes were furious they can’t get laid without living up to the low bar standard of “don’t be a fucking weirdo”

[Stanklin Blowsevelt @d_hammerhugs]

@elonmusk Yeah we know, dumbass.

[Stanklin Blowsevelt @d_hammerhugs]

@Catholicizm1 That high school dropout part of your profile checks out.

[brandAn is good @LeBearGirdle]

[Dentist waiting room]

Me: [chanting] teeth, teeth-

Other patients: teeth, TEETH

Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!

[Libertarian Party of Louisiana @LouisianaLp]

When many hear “taxation is theft,” they think Libertarians too selfish to pay for the services we use.

Few take issue with paying for sanitation, infrastructure, water, and other services – even if we feel government isn’t the best provider.

But taxation isn’t just for services we want and use. It also forces us to pay for services we may find wasteful, unjust, or immoral.

Taxation is the price we pay to execute the innocent.
Taxation is the price we pay for caging migrant children.
Taxation is the price we pay for race-based policing.
Taxation is the price we pay to outlaw trans therapy.
Taxation is the price we pay to use kill those simply accused of transporting drugs.
Taxation is the price we pay for the war on drugs and the unjust incarceration it creates.
Taxation is the price we pay for regime change and the funding of terrorists.
Taxation is the price we pay to suppress exonerating evidence.
Taxation is the price we pay for ICE to arrest the innocent and shoot the unarmed.

Taxation may fund some services that are good and useful, but it also funds some of the most immoral actions of humanity and it steals from us the choice of what we fund.

Many would gladly pay for roads and bridges, for sanitation and safety – whether from government or others. But taxation takes from us the choice of what we fund and it makes us all fund murder, hate, and injustice.

Freedom gives us the right to fund what we believe in and not be forced to support what we find immoral and evil.

Even though it may fund some good, taxation is still theft.

[We don't deserve cats 😺 @catsareblessing]

I want to complain but they both seem healthy and happy so I can't

[Pisco @PiscoLitty]

The anti-free speech woke right has fully embraced cancel culture and government censorship. They never cared about any of it.