Oh, look, another lemming so anxious to get his cute little burn out there. So anxious he skipped the first of two sentences in my comment. Hey! It was a pretty long-winded thing to parse!

Do I really need to post my entire comment in this reply? It’s two sentences and the first one covers your concern.

I think that came out after rehab, which really struck me as funny. Method acting indeed!

Didn’t Duchovny check himself into rehab for sex addiction?

Fishermen? I’m not defending the actions of my government, they are fucking appalling and illegal, but have you seen the boats they’ve killed? My friend, those are not likely innocent fishermen.

EDIT: None of you read first sentence. Not going to parse a two sentence post for you.

MTG is the weirdest politician I’ve ever seen. I honestly can’t decide if she’s stupid, wily as a fox, playing games and, uh, winning or losing? Considering how she got into office in the first place, I know she has zero morals, but other than that, I got nothing.

Speaker Johnson can’t swear in our new Congresswoman from Arizona as she’d be the deciding vote in releasing the Epstein files. May not even need that single vote as Republicans seem to be ready to jump shit, get ahead of the coming fiasco. “I voted to see the TRUTH!”

As another was commenting earlier, seems the whole thing spun out of their control and the “blame the Dems” ain’t workin’ out so hot.

Pretty cynical take, but I was wrong in saying our masters would never let us starve. Even a cursory view of revolutions should clue them in.

Let’s go with martial law, get it over with. The military is largely civilian, and everyone involved has family and friends. Not going to go as they expect. (What I mean is that civilians walking off the job instantly cripples maintenance, supply chains, advisors, all that.)

Yep, got out of control on him, exactly as you say.

But I disagree that Congress is clueless here. They know, they’re gambling on pushing the “Democrats are the problem!” message. FFS, they’re putting that exact message on federal websites! Said message isn’t really catching on.

Wrong again, I always said our corporate and government masters would screw us out of everything but food. Circuses all day! But circuses must come with bread. Humans will put up with about anything as long as we know where our next meal is coming from. (LOL, I have a hard time suspending disbelief when reading/watching fiction; How is our hero to EAT?!)

12.3% of the population on SNAP is a significant number. Considering you have to be 130% under the poverty line to apply, Haysus, that’s a lot of mad, desperate people.

Dunn worked as a paralegal for the Justice Department. After Dunn’s arrest, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced his firing in a social media post that referred to him as “an example of the Deep State.”

One of the things that frustrates me most with MAGA supporters is shit like this. They won’t believe that quote, only the most rabid 1% might latch onto it. But instead of seeing the Attorney General of the United States of America making a retarded claim in front of god and everyone, “Meh. No big deal, untwist your panties.”

That’s been the response every time I’ve pointed out idiocy like this. No. Big. Deal. Apparently I’m overreacting.

Lying police officers are not part of the process after the initial arrest, unless called as a witness. The prosecutors wanted more, which is surprising considering how hard the case failed in front of 2 grand juries.

The idea is the God guided the men who translated the Bible from various languages and decided what books to include. Got the answer from a Christian regarding the Council of Nicaea, seen it online as well.

I get that bit. Must have missed some news about Oilcel? Somebody posted a story but I was hoping for video to make it more clear.

Me no get it.

Sounds like an Issac Asimov plot. Hell, pretty sure it is an Asimov plot from one of the Robots books.

Some of these people never had to manage a fleet of computers.

This was in Florida, unless I missed the joke?

Out of time for a video than long, but you can bet I saved it! Love examining how we hominids came to be, how we came to behave. So many arguments as to how we “should” act clash with how we “evolved” to act. Untangling “should” vs. “is” would take us farther than arguing about ideal behavior.

Aim for a better world keeping in mind as it is, not how it should be. Am drunk. Making sense?

If the truth is in between, it’s because we’re arguing different things. I think everyone in this chain gets “it”, but we’re meandering a bit. Great conversation!

Recharacterize hate and anger as fear, human behavior makes more sense.

Yeah, racism is taught, as OP’s talking about, but fear of the other, the other outside our tribe, is genetic.

People take that opinion to mean racism is natural. Nope. It’s not skin color, it’s “other”. It’s a big world now, too big for us to easily parse, so we try to break each other into manageable chunks we can understand, skin color is an easy shortcut.

For example; I’m a middle-aged, American white guy. I understand, and am far closer, to my black friend down the street than I could be to any European, even one who looks exactly like me. My friend is in my tribe, my Monkeysphere, the European is not. Despite wildly different backgrounds, I share more in common with my friend than a random Spaniard. And if nothing else, he’s close, literally and figuratively, part of my tribe. Does that make sense?