during COVID, that kind of language would have gotten you labeled an antivaxxer and banned from social media. You trust the experts or else.

Didn't you atheists get chased out of the public square after one of you cornered a woman in an elevator at 4am and tried to rape her? And then Richard Dawkins backed up the rapist? I see you learned nothing, you're still as despicable and hostile assholes as you ever were.

Stupidest argument ever. American public schools are lavishly funded, we spend more per student than anywhere in the world, and still students don't learn. We can't address this issue because it would lead to politically unacceptable outcomes, like acknowledging who the poor-performing students are. I'm sorry, the "we're starving schools of money" argument doesn't hold water.

People running away from X aren't doing so because they're being censored. They're running away because they can't censor YOU.

If only artists had not turned their backs on us. They hold us in contempt and want our lives to be without the enjoyment of art. It's working.

"Poetry is for the poet, and everyone else can fuck off'
Philip Larkin

What gets me is the astounding stubbornness. The world gave up on communism in1989and yet Cuba still sticks with it. They could be a resort island for Americans like the rest of the Caribbean, but no. They'd rather to tell us to fuck ourselves. Just like Democrats. And their people suffer rather than admit they were wrong. Isn't communism about caring for the people and putting their interests first? How does Cuba treat gays, by the way?

BREAKING: Team Trump announces new law that will require students and their parents to affirm "Jesus is Lord."

If parents refuse, school administration will hold secret meetings with the child, create secret duplicate files and guide the child through Christian baptism without parental consent.

States have authority to remove children from custody if parents still refuse to praise Jesus.

While the above is not true, this is how gender ideology works in California.

No border wall. Remember, when Texas called out the national guard to close the border, the Biden administration sued them to put a stop to it immediately and keep the fentanyl from Mexico flowing.

At $25 billion, the wall was too expensive. But to defend the borders of Ukraine, we send $100 billion at a time, and if we don't have the money the Federal Reserve prints more.

In the past six months or so, I've come to a simple conclusion. Whenever someone who is against the political or corporate establishment is subject to character assassination, that means it was enemy action. It's just that simple. Real people would explain how they were wrong, and make arguments against it. But "you're a crazy person" or "you cheated on a test in the second grade" aren't arguments and never will be. This razor works remarkably well and is repeatable everywhere. Personal attacks aren't arguments, and any time powerful actors can't make arguments and have to resort to character assassination, it's bullshit. Disregard it. Then, watch yourself get dogpiled in the comments with people saying, "But that's not fair to Exxon!" These are almost certainly paid social media consultants, there to derail and disrupt our conversations with each other. Block them on sight, and encourage others to do the same after pointing out what they're doing. The magician's trick doesn't work when people point out the wires.

From everything I've heard, Bluesky is 2017 Twitter all over again. Cheese pizza, rampant censorship, cancellation cabals coordinating in behind the scenes on Discords and instant bans for disagreeing. A reminder that folx leaving for Bluesky are doing so not because they were not being allowed to express their opinions, but because you *are* being allowed to express yours.

[LINK]X is the media now.

The name was stupid when it came out. I get it, the homosexual character in Pulp Fiction. Durr hurr, it wasn't funny back then and it's far worse now. But they still won't change because they're nerds. I never got the whole thing where they pick a dumb name and then pretend it's an acronym. Somewhere, two people have got the giggles about it and that makes it all worthwhile.

Socialism is government control of the means of production.

This, in a single image, captures the argument of ta lot of people who the US government has trained to think everything they do is automatically bad.

Good thing Biden is doing this. If it were Trump, it would be widely denounced as racist. Remember when he stopped flights from China to stop COVID?

It goes much deeper than that. After I got utterly pounded by Cloudflare's exceedingly difficult captchas, I found out by searching (On Yandex, not Google) that they consider using non-Chrome browsers suspicious. That's right, use Waterfox and get slammed and basically DoS'd from using the damn web. I changed to a Chrome-based browser and the problem stopped.

Doctors SUCK at diagnosis. If you have a broken arm, sure. But come in with something like "Doc, I have a pain all up my side and it just keeps getting worse!" The doctor makes the "jack off" gesture and says, "Probably ideopathic. Maybe psychosomatic. Anyway, I have a tee time ae 3pm so get out of my office."

If they don't know what you have then they absolutely suck at diagnosing it. I, for one, welcome our AI overlords in this case.