We got the lion ass.

University of Chicago I think.

When I was in college the biology department got donated half of a lion for dissection by veterinary students. We got the back half. I feel like that said something significant about the quality of my education.

Someone was joking that it would ruin all the 47 Trump merch they had been made. Would be funny

Guns.

I figured ice would be too rough on tidal systems.

I think we definitely are in agreement here. My one quibble is I don’t know that religion is the antithesis of government so much as a more primitive form of government. The earliest religions were a form of law enforcement in world without police or judicial systems.

If it’s just you and someone else alone in the wilderness, why shouldn’t you just kill them and take their stuff? There are no consequences. Religion adds the consequences. “God will punish you. You’ll burn in Hell/Hades/Tartarus.” Why shouldn’t I steal? “It’s a sin.” Why shouldn’t I sleep with my neighbors wife? “It’s bad karma.” It’s all just laws enforced by a mythological father figure instead of a real guy with a gun.

The one core reason is that 73 million Americans are vile ignorant pieces of human garbage.

Solar is more efficient in the cold even if the sunlight is less intense. Wind power is probably a good option too provided they can solve the icing problem.

Half of the reason government exists is to stop terrible people from being terrible. Religion is supposed to reign in the terrible people too, American Evangelicalism just creates terrible people.

I kinda think the 73 million who voted R might be the bigger problem here.

Any sane adult should have beat Trump. He won because 72 million Americans want fascism.

Let’s hope they don’t decide it’s too hard to depart people and just start shooting them.

I worked with a Mexican Trump supporter. He hated illegal immigrants because he immigrated legally and he was pissed they got away with it the “easy way”.

“But it’s against the law!” he exclaimed as the firing squad raised their rifles…

You don’t win against someone who is cheating by playing fair.

Enjoy the self-satisfaction of having taken the high road while the concentration camps get built.

They were uncomfortable because of Covid. That’s not likely to happen again soon. They were the most widespread protests this country has had since Vietnam (at least) and they accomplished nothing. The government has those kinds of protests figured out and can crush them or make them irrelevant. Nothing is going to change until people are willing to risk their own lives.

And that protest movement accomplished nothing.

Neither is going to lose. People are too comfortable. They have too much to lose to join a fight like that. Its delusional to think otherwise.