Category: Beating Back the St00pid

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Speaking Truth to Power

    • AMERICAN VALUES OVER AUTOCRACY.
    • BENEVOLENCE OVER BIGOTRY.
    • THE CONSTITUTION OVER THE CODE.
    • DEMOCRACY OVER DEMAGOGUES.
    • ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OVER EXTREMISM.
    • FREEDOM OVER FASCISM.
    • GOVERNING OVER GASLIGHTING.
    • HOPEFULNESS OVER HATRED.
    • INCLUSION OVER ISOLATION.
    • JUSTICE OVER JUDICIAL OVERREACH.
    • KNOWLEDGE OVER KANGAROO COURTS.
    • LIBERTY OVER LIMITATION.
    • MATURITY OVER MAR-A-LAGO.
    • NORMALCY OVER NEGATIVITY.
    • OPPORTUNITY OVER OBSTRUCTION.
    • PEOPLE OVER POLITICS.
    • QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES OVER Q-ANON.
    • REASON OVER RACISM.
    • SUBSTANCE OVER SLANDER.
    • TRIUMPH OVER TYRANNY.
    • UNDERSTANDING OVER UGLINESS.
    • VOTING RIGHTS OVER VOTER SUPPRESSION.
    • WORKING FAMILIES OVER THE WELL-CONNECTED.
    • XENNIAL OVER XENOPHOBIA.

Did you catch the looks on the faces of McCarthy and the Q-Anon contingent as soon as he started on this list? It was priceless!

And somehow, this also seems appropriate to post in this context…

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Quote of the Day

With a necessary part of its collective mind, religion looks forward to the destruction of the world. By this I do not mean it 'looks forward' in the purely eschatological sense of anticipating the end. I mean, rather, that it openly or covertly wishes that end to occur. Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about its onw greedy accumulation of temporal power and wealth, religion has never ceased to proclaim the Apocalypse and the Day of Judgment." ~ Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great

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Don't Shit in the Swimming Pool

From Greg Fallis:

Okay, here's an analogy. Twitter is a swimming pool. A large pool, an Olympic-sized pool. It's privately owned, but open to the public.

People come. Some just want to splash around, some want to swim laps, some just want to hang out poolside, some want to train for a swim meet, some want to cannonball into the pool and make a big splash, some want to practice diving. It's a big pool, so even if some jackass is playing Nickleback on a bluetooth speaker instead of using headphones, you can move to the other end where it's less annoying. It's far from perfect, but you still come because it's the biggest pool around and all your friends hang out there.

The pool has a few loose rules. You break the rules, you can get your ass booted out of the pool. One of the fundamental rules: Keep Litter Out of the Pool. Nobody wants to swim in a pool that has old candy wrappers and cigarette butts floating around in it.

That's Old Twitter. New Twitter is different.

New Twitter is owned by a rich, arrogant, bone-ignorant narcissist who thought it would be fun to own his own swimming pool. To save money, he's fired the concession stand workers, the maintenance workers, and the lifeguards. He also feels some folks who've been evicted for littering were treated unfairly. He feels they contribute to the swimming pool community, that perhaps the litter makes swimming more challenging and immediately vital.

So he's re-invited them back.

Now, feeling vindicated for littering, they're gleefully shitting in the pool.

And the new owner suggests folks who are reluctant to swim in the pool now aren't really committed to swimming.