He has two children with his own stepdaughter.

Why does humanity have less genetic diversity than any other mammal that’s not critically endangered?

Probably because of some event in the past that few individuals survived, so that all humans since have been descended from them. Homo Sapiens is a relatively recent species so the genetic narrowing effects of such population reduction would still be felt today.

But it has nothing to do with character or temperament, and as far as I know there’s no evidence Homo Sapiens actively killed off its close relatives. For whatever reason they died off, while at some point we almost did too, but we just scraped through with less diverse genes as a result. That’s how it goes in evolution: tiny differences can sometimes be amplified due to environment and chance. It’s absurd to draw political conclusions, and to do so shows a misunderstanding of evolutionary processes and history.

An article about this:

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-we-lost-our-diversity

And a fun (but long!) video about the misuse of evolutionary theory to support psychological, political and social conclusions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31e0RcImReY

Well, I don’t like fascists. Does that count?

Ssshhh, don’t tell the FBI. We don’t want them swimming down here and finding us.

Evolution is slow, we’re still wired to kill anything that doesn’t look exactly like who we grew up around.

Explaining socio-historical phenomena by appeal to evolution is a pretty dodgy move, and a defeatist one. People can do better, and in many places and times they have done and still do. Fascists are responsible for their fascism. We’re not evolved to be fascist; we have slipped into it due to very particular circumstances.

The vast majority of these tweets allege that Soros is paying protestors to riot, and that he funds antifa. A smaller number claim that he plans to radicalize African Americans in order to undermine society and enable the globalist takeover of America, while some go so far as to claim that George Floyd’s death was actually a false flag deployed by Soros in order to precipitate the current crisis.

White supremacists are so fucking stupid. And so fucking in charge of the USA.

This week it’s “Armenia and Cambodia” while just last week:

Trump touts his peace deal between ‘Aberbaijan and Albania’ – getting both countries’ names wrong

What kind of a dysfunctional, mismanaged country has to struggle every single year to avoid its entire government shutting down, and sometimes fails to do so? Are any other countries like this?

we don’t want violence? don’t make it inevitable.

The fascists do want violence, so they try to make it inevitable.

I don’t think that’s the way. The way is for allies to organize in large numbers to defend trans people.

It’s not stupidity, it’s malice.

Let’s not do that. This is a question of moral character, not disability.

They value greed and cruelty to others.

There are no “cancel culture wars”. The right wing just pretended it was a thing so they could go after policies that were protecting people from bigotry, because it kept affecting them, because they are bigots. And the government punishing people for political speech is a quite different matter, and what the First Amendment was actually supposed to prevent. When MAGA claimed their First Amendment rights were being violated because they got fired by a private employer for violating anti-discrimination policies, or criticized online for expressing bigoted views, their rights were not being violated. When the government shamelessly and explicitly does everything it can to ruin private citizens’ lives because they expressed an unduly nonfascist opinion, people’s rights are absolutely being violated. Let’s not allow the media to frame this as a “both sides” thing.

Hopefully more hosts follow and point out the major hypocrisy from MAGA.

That will do nothing. They enjoy their own hypocrisy. They don’t care about consistency of principles and are quite happy to just want everything their way while no one else gets anything. They’re quite happy to abuse language by saying whatever suits them in the moment. It drives their opponents crazy as they try to point out how inconsistent and irrational they’re being. The fascists don’t care, but they do love to see you get frustrated. It’s just part of their sadistic fun: messing with people, playing with their prey until they are ready to exterminate them.

To complain that fascists are hypocritical or inconsistent is to miss the point of fascism, at least if your hope is to shock them into being more reasonable. I know this quote from Sartre is everywhere but he said it well:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Now all that’s needed is redefining having a different opinion as being political violence, and America’s transformation into a fascist dictatorship will be complete.

How about declaring opposition to fascism to be terrorism?

Trump says he will label antifa as a terrorist organization

We can’t be offending the pedofascists now, can we?

Some people seem to have misinterpreted your previous comment as expressing approval. But this disregard for the usual rules and standards is certainly part of the fascist playbook. It and the constant lying and goalpost-shifting are how they toy with their opponents and demonstrate that they just don’t care. That’s why the far right always speaks in bad faith. They enjoy the sport and it buys them time to load their guns.

When have war crimes ever come back to bite a US President? Getting away with it is a long tradition.

It’s shocking how the media just repeat the statements of this government without any questions asked. They’re really functioning as propaganda distributors rather than journalists these days. We’re seeing it also with them repeating uncritically the FBI’s claims about the Charlie Kirk shooting suspect.