Daniel Keys Moran
@fatsam.bsky.social
"Be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him." ~~~~~ Those who make peaceful change impossible will make violent change inevitable.
From XenophonsXiphos on Reddit, few years back. They've only gotten worse.
!["You all don't get it. I live in Trump country, in the Ozarks in southern Missouri, one of the last places where the KKK still has a relatively strong established presence. They don't give a shit what he does. He's just something to rally around and hate liberals, that's it, period. He absolutely realizes that and plays it up, they love it, he knows they love it, and the fact that people act like it's anything other than that just proves that liberals are idiots, all the more reason for high fives all around.
If you keep getting caught up in why do they not realize blah blah blah and how can they still back him after blah blah blah, you are not understanding what is the underlying motivating factor of his support. It's fuck liberals, that's pretty much it.
Have you noticed he can do pretty much anything imaginable and they'll explain some way that rationalizes it that makes zero logical sense? Because they're not even keeping track of any logical narrative, it's irrelevant, fuck liberals is the only relevant thing, trust me, I know first hand what I'm talking about. That's why they just laugh at it all, because you all don't even realize they really truly don't give a fuck about whatever the conversation is about, it's just a side mission story that doesn't really matter anyways. That's all just trivial details - the economy, health care, whatever. Fuck liberals.
Look at the thing with not wearing the masks. I can tell you what that's about. It's about exposing fear. They're playing chicken with nature and whoever flinches just moved down their internal pecking order, one step closer to being a liberal.
You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness. And I mean passionate, sadistic hatred. And I'm not exaggerating. Believe me. Sadistic, passionate hatred, and that's what proves they're strong ... [omitted for length.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p77wuyqfduabwbmkfzr3a2pz/bafkreidgsrdmbqgz3ay2bjkkjr7bic5kdzpxv6u4rbjaj7yc25kesz7gjm)
Man said once that rugby players were tougher than football players. No. You put pros on the same field together, line them up, and there's a bloody streak left on the ground where the football players pass through. No one, not almost a pro, is holding onto that ball.
Boneless Wings…Lover@coachd21.bsky.social · 2d agoDo you think you take a hit from a NFL player and not fumble the ball at your age?
"But think how good I had it, and how long I had it good." Circa 2003, when my oldest daughter would have been about 13, and the youngest of my five, still a baby.
I'm glad I'm not a journalist, or maybe "journalist." Breathlessly re-discovering, year by year, that Donald Trump is a child rapist, a rapist, a murderer, a child murderer, a money launderer, a criminal in every single part of his life? Looks exhausting even from here.
American cons used to be mostly that, Americans, with a small Confederate wing, and an even smaller Nazi wing. Today they're roughly a third Nazi, a third Confederate, and a third sociopath business criminals -- with considerable overlap. None of them are American.
"As Mr. Trump and his allies try to whitewash the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, we should return to an older and far more accurate name for the Civil War. We should once again call it the Slaveholders’ Rebellion." archive.is/G4v7d#select...
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You want socialism, clarify you mean Scandinavian and I'm good. You can't do that, I'm going to suspect you really want Cuban socialism, and there we have a problem. If you're posting the hammer and sickle, you're either young and ignorant or could do with an enlightening stay in the old gulags.
I hated Alien 3. Actively despised it, the way I despise No Country for Old Men. Nihilism from the incompetent might be vaguely forgivable: you're stupid and incompetent, life looks horrible to you. I get it. Nihilism from successful talented people is a moral failing.
"Don't write sad songs. You'll have to sing them later." - Diamond David Lee Roth.
Mostly I just feel sorry for the guy. Imagine being this afraid of death. slate.com/technology/2...
He’s Devoted His Life to Becoming Immortal. A Grim Medical Diagnosis Is Throwing a Wrench in His Plans.
After devoting his life to living longer, Bryan Johnson is seemingly rethinking his choices—but don’t expect him to stop anytime soon.
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People who didn't get vaccinated are halfwits, and usually fascists. A rattlesnake could more easily shame me.
The Liberal BoJack@thelibbojack.bsky.social · 5d agoAnother thing that irritates the crap out of me is people who didnt get the Covid vaccine publicly shaming those of us who did. It was a confusing time for everyone and many were faced with no choice. Knock it off with the moral superiority bullshit. You don’t get a trophy 🙄 InteractInk.vercel.app
You've seen this before, but good God, wouldn't you prefer we were watering crops with Brawndo?
WNBA suspends Seattle Storm minority owner for being rude to transphobic shitheads:
WNBA Suspends Seattle Storm Minority Owner For Being Rude To Transphobic Shitheads | Defector
On Tuesday night, a small group of weirdos held an anti-trans rally outside of the Seattle Storm’s home arena. The occasion for their gathering was a game against the Indiana Fever and bench player…
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Trump will cause chaos at every turn, not because it suits his interest necessarily, but because he is unable to work. Chaos is his only tool, even when using it harms him. It's not a "distraction" -- it's all he knows how to do, and possibly all he ever knew how to do, even before senility set in.
I never played games that didn't involve a ball and some amount of running. When Harry Potter got called a jock, I was genuinely baffled. He was playing some game like soccer but without the running? How is that a jock?
I've had a few women mad at me in my life. Feminists, most of them. And yet somehow I can listen to the feminist critique of male toxicity without taking it personally. Most of what they're describing in those pieces is not something I recognize in myself.
Finally watched The Mandarin and Grogu. (First Star Wars movie, in 50 years, I didn't see in a theater.) It's fine. It's a kid's show, and Grogu is by far the best part of it.
Barely true. Guggenheim Partners, which Walters is CEO of, owns .38% of a company that runs prisons, including ICE concentration camps. Any billionaire probably has conflicts like this. The problem is the existence of billionaires.
Diane@dianesf.bsky.social · last wk.Now I know why Trump got the ring from the Dodgers. The guy that owns the Dodgers and the Lakers also owns a for profit detention centers. You gotta reward the guy who gives you billions in government contracts.
As I frequently say to myself, What Would Jesus Do? Sometimes the answer is he'd flip over tables and chase bankers with a whip.
All the important information about the socialist asteroid 23238 Ocasio-Cortez. ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sst...
Modern conservatives are rapists and murderers; and child rapists and child murderers. They used to lie about why they'd do such things: "Freeeeeedom." They're out of the closet. "Look at what we can do! AND YOU CAN'T STOP US!"
