CIRCLE WITH A DOT

The best thing all the living former presidents could do?

Publicly say how fucking stupid this war is. Humiliation is the only tool we really have against his fuckwittery.

@dave While I am aware thay technology cannot solve social issues, it seems to me that it would be a fairly simple thing to code in a "harassment" feature that once triggered by the victim, exposes the entire thread publicly. Then the abusers couldn't hide behind the audience settings in order to victimize people. I know this puts the work on the victim, but it's a better solution than forcing them to screenshot the whole thing and publish it.

Idk. A thought.

I take umbrage with the term "nerd reich". These people aren't nerds. These people are technocratic nepo babies with too much money and pudding for brains. Musk couldn't code himself out of a paper bag. He either doesn't understand or deliberately lies about basic science. Thiel would be better off wearing a cardboard sandwich sign on a street corner that says "the end is near".

I'm a nerd. Everyone I know is a nerd. Real nerds don't get little stiffies over locking up children, raping, or bombing them.

*This is also anti-intellectualism, BTW

@Holberg Oh I'll bet. Haha. I mean, I'm a west Texas redneck...not raised around fancy people, but I know tacky when I see it.

@Holberg He is the very definition of tacky. Everything about him is tacky.

"No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote."

James Mattis

They act like he made one bad decision one time. My dudes, this asshole is made of fail. He is a walking tactical error. Every decision this oozing puddle of fraud makes is self dealing garbage. This asshole bankrupted A CASINO. I wouldn't trust this wanker with a paper route.

Shortly after 9/11, we had dinner with my husband's parents at their house. We were discussing the attack when my MIL blurted out "You know why they're like that don't you? (meaning Muslims) It's because they're descendants of (the biblical) Cain".

I choke laughed because I seriously thought she was joking. I looked at my husband and FIL and they both were intently studying the green beans on their plates.

So instead of letting that nonsense go, I said "how do you mean? Like what"?

She straightens up like she's about to learn me something and says "they're violent and murderous. You know". I told her that no, I don't know and that absolutely heinous things have been done, and are still being done in the name of Christ.

I then asked her where she learned such a thing.

She answered that she had done an entire Bible study on the subject.

I absorbed that for a moment and replied "Seems to me if you wanted to learn about Muslims, you're reading the wrong book".

She turned a few colors, dropped the subject, and never discussed religion with me again.

I once had hope that human beings would grow as a species. Learn from our mistakes. Move beyond tribalism and reject idiocy.

But here we fucking are, repeating the 14th century.

Rooting for a giant asteroid. Let's get this over with. Maybe the octopii will do better.

@dabertime
Sending you all the good thoughts. Sorry you have to go through this.

So they...killed all the people they were going to install as puppets.

I um. Yeah ok wow.

Since he has the attention span of a flea, he'll be bored with this in about 2 days. He'll say something stupid about watching the footage like it was a TV show, then who knows?