How can I say goodbye to a place neither I nor anybody I know has ever been

Especially when it’s getting freaky in bed with Religion

In general the more emotionally charged the subject, the harder it is to find (or be) good impartial moderators encouraging constructive dialogue.

No amount of caffeine will save you from afternoon sleepies in the wrong class

In my case it was a grad level course They let me in as an undergrad because I was smart and motivated Only half a dozen students Giant mug of coffee

Lots of matrix algebra 800 year old professor 3pm Dead quiet room Fluorescent lights

The shame of dozing off in his class still pains me decades later I AM SORRY

What exact law did he break?

Alphabetically, where does it go in relation to “felony” and “war crime”?

The cure to misinformation and propaganda is critical thinking and the scientific method

We have the tools. We need the talent.

Imagine hell on Earth rape horror

Now make it in a dentist’s office

Yes investigating Signalgate

What do you get from a glut of TV?
A pain in the neck and an IQ of 3!
Why don’t you try simply reading a book?
You’ll get no… commercials…!

-The Oompa-Loompas

It’s his whole shtick now

It was funny like the first 5 times

It’s not serious leader material

Is it just me or does this look like a ~15-years-younger Howard Lutnick

… and then all that will be left will be .onion sites

This was a particularly awkward Cabinet meeting, which opened with almost an hour of Trump meandering about the new ballroom in the White House and whether Melania gets bothered by the construction noise; the “rigged election” of 2020; Joe Biden; the idea that the word “affordability” doesn’t have a definition; Joe Biden; a “very low-IQ congresswoman” he doesn’t like; his physical health, which is apparently impeccable because he “got A’s on everything” during his annual physical; Joe Biden; how he made Ozempic cheaper, or, as he put it, “the fat drug, F-A-T, for fat people”; how he didn’t get the Nobel Prize even though he deserved it more than anybody else in the world; how people “love to correct me even though I’m right about everything”; Joe Biden; how the environmentally friendly Green New Deal was a “scam” because “they talked about global warming and all that crap”; why the green tiles that, yes, Joe Biden chose for a bathroom in the White House weren’t very nice; why the New York Times is a bunch of losers; and, to round it all off, another description of the new ballroom.

I’ve been in some awkward meetings with out of touch bosses… but… not like this

Fox news consumers include lots of current & former military. People who will be very familiar with UCMJ they had to take training and pass exams.

Silly rabbit, real crypto doesn’t need mixing

This is what you want

https://Librewolf.net

It’s literally the latest FF but with the telemetry and AI ripped out, and proper adblocks etc

84 percent of the U.S. adults polled said they sometimes use YouTube, while 71 percent say they use Facebook. “Half of adults say they use Instagram, making it the only other platform in our survey used by at least 50% of Americans,” notes Pew.

So. You don’t even need TikTok. Whichever actor’s influence ops on these 3 USA-born & raised platforms, wins prize USA next round.

Cabinet then

People do respond to rhetoric, especially rhetoric that is reinforced by their culture

It is crucially important that the memes people internalize are not based on belief-without-evidence, nor or specially-chosen-people.

Those are toxic memes for a successful modern diverse inclusionary civilization

You are rather quick to assume I am one of the “pro-genocide people”.

I have been quite consistent (and am certainly not the only one claiming) that both Israel and Hamas-run Palestine have each separately engaged in genocide (and, separately, various war crimes). I try not to “both-sides” this; each actor has their independent rationale for what they do.

I fail to see how what I said was so “vile”. Troll-ish, yes, guilty. In my defense, this was in response to an equally invective comment; I was trying (poorly) to show that the same standard was not being applied equally.

And FWIW I agreed with the mod removal; it was a good decision. The comment that stood was what I should have posted, had I been less emotional on this admittedly… pretty emotional topic.

Anyway, good luck fighting against everyone until they agree with you.