Pragmatic J

mama/wife/very tired prison clinician - she/her. Two sons - one has Down syndrome, and one doesn't.

[Pragmatic J @jack_msw]

Don't buy me any birthday gifts, my Dad said. Just help me get this firewood up, my Dad said. It's just that poplar tree in the corner of the backyard, my Dad said. (He made us stop after 2 hours)

[Pragmatic J @jack_msw]

Oh!

[Thought Provoking Berserker ⚛️🦍🦅 @Provokethoughtz]

Women: I want to go for a run.

Society: You can't go alone. You'll get raped.

Women: I want to walk to my car in the parking garage.

Society: Alone? You better get someone to escort you, or you'll get raped.

Women: I want to live alone.

Society: You need a gun, an alarm system, a dog and probably a gun for the dog too.

Women: What about going to the park?

Society: Dangerous.

Women: Okay, I'll just go out for a drink then.

Society: Don't take your eyes off your drink. Watch out for predators spiking your drinks. Stay alert at all times.

Women: I was raped.

Society: Are you sure? That just seems impossible.

[Pragmatic J @jack_msw]

@TjMisiolek Oh, I'm so sorry for your loss. This is our Shadow.

[Pragmatic J @jack_msw]

@ron_goga @MikeLevin We will never know the full scope. 😐

[Pragmatic J @jack_msw]

@MikeLevin We will never know the true scope of this insanity.

[Pragmatic J @jack_msw]

@Nostradominae @palashshah 😅😅😅

[Pragmatic J @jack_msw]

@sarcasm_bardie @pukelidt @palashshah I am a notorious buzzkill; the only good thing about this website anymore is daily reminders that there are people out there who are even less fun than I. 😅😅

[Pragmatic J @jack_msw]

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[Pragmatic J @jack_msw]

When ... when all the Boomers die, can we ... can we be done with jazz? Please?

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I deeply understand why cats just sit there and judge everybody.

[Pragmatic J @jack_msw]

@DialecticWin @jmrphy Wow, you sound fun!

[Pragmatic J @jack_msw]

@VirenV164391 @ok6ixx "Delicate darling?" Bro there was a band-aid in her food.

[Pragmatic J @jack_msw]

@bar_doors @sickoflibbullsh @nickgraynews Never.
GFY.

[Pragmatic J @jack_msw]

@BridgesSisco @redhotnerd @JonKatz79 It's like $.99 what do you expect?

[Pragmatic J @jack_msw]

@zionszzn Also that "horizontal goes with the horizon?"

[Pragmatic J @jack_msw]

This is unfortunately well-put. 🫥

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

These quick thoughts by Michael Jochum on the disturbing reason Trump gets as much support as he does is a must-read 👇

I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is.

I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.

If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.

If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.

If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.

It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume.

Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”

And that’s the part that should chill us.

Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform?

Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress.

Now the mask is off. Now we know.

And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand.

– Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

[Pragmatic J @jack_msw]

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[Maura DragonHeart 🍀🇺🇸🇮🇪🇮🇹 🌛🌝🌜💙 @maura_resister]

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[Pragmatic J @jack_msw]

@mariana057 More specifically

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@mariana057

[RobertFella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @Bonkavision5]

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke