As if Abbott wouldn’t go back to segregation immediately if it was politically feasible.

The same idiots would be incenced if they saw a Muslim washing their feet in the bathroom sink.

They just don’t want Muslims around.

The Skepticrat just started doing video recently, they’re great (and actually funny).

What a great idea for a podcast! I’m going to dig into it for sure.

War With a Mate, for those who didn’t click through.

Also, birds are warm-blooded reptiles.

You sure hate mondays, huh?

Who blamed grocery stores and farms? I said it was a SYSTEMIC issue, which implies the SYSTEM is to blame, and that we should change that.

Nobody said it’d be easy, just that it’s worth doing despite all the FrEe MaRkEt bloviating.

But keep fighting those straw men, you’re so good at it. Meanwhile, I think we can absolutely afford to feed everyone because it’s demonstrably true.

Proposing an individual solve a systemic problem is disingenuous. They’re saying that society could fix the problem if it cared to; we are choosing to let kids go hungry as a culture because it “costs too much,” as if the starving child isn’t a too-high cost that we’re already paying.

They’re saying that we need to reevaluate our society’s social priorities, and you’re saying they should give up everything themselves if they care so much— as if that would solve the systemic problem instead of creating another starving person.

I used to think the KISS song went I wanna rock and roll all night… and part of every day.

It’s far less hard core that way.

The Odyssey and Escape Simulator 2.

If you think about it, the cyclops cave was kind of an escape room anyway.

I know you can import .midi files, it might work by exporting as a MIDI (if possible) and trying it that way?

I do wish they’d include some CRT shaders on their version of DOSbox though. Lots of those games’ pixels were never meant to be seen by the naked human eye.

Remember Madison Cawthorn?

And file explorer, and the start menu, and the task bar, and Outlook…

The only people who believe it are just looking for a reason. Being a stupid reason works for them, because it pisses off their opposition for caring about reality.

They see it as a double win: no need to think about it, and the people they hate are upset.

Cowards complying in advance.

It depends largely on how expensive your car is and the color of your skin.

Nazis are like cockroaches: filthy shit-eaters that you have to keep stomping every time they return.

From Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristen Kobes du Mez

Antecedents can be found in nineteenth-century southern evangelicalism and in early-twentieth-century “muscular Christianity,” but it was in the 1940s and 1950s that a potent mix of patriarchal “gender traditionalism,” militarism, and Christian nationalism coalesced to form the basis of a revitalized evangelical identity. With Billy Graham at the vanguard, evangelicals believed that they had a special role to play in keeping America Christian, American families strong, and the nation secure. The assertion of masculine power would accomplish all these goals.

By the 1960s, the civil rights movement, feminism, and the Vietnam War led many Americans to question “traditional” values of all kinds. Gender and sexual norms were in flux, America no longer appeared to be a source of unalloyed good, and God did not in fact appear to be on her side. Evangelicals, however, clung fiercely to the belief that America was a Christian nation, that the military was a force for good, and that the strength of the nation depended on a properly ordered, patriarchal home. The evangelical political resurgence of the 1970s coalesced around a potent mix of “family values” politics, but family values were always intertwined with ideas about sex, power, race, and nation. Feminism posed a threat to traditional womanhood, and also to national security by removing from men their duty to provide and protect and opening the door to women in military combat. In similar fashion, Vietnam was not just a national security issue, but also a crisis of masculinity. Civil rights, too, dismantled time-honored traditions and destabilized the social order. Representing federal government overreach or even an insidious communist agenda, desegregation also heightened the long-standing imagined threat to white womanhood, and to the power of white men to police social and sexual boundaries. The reassertion of white patriarchy was central to the new “family values” politics, and by the end of the 1970s, the defense of patriarchal power had emerged as an evangelical distinctive.