Teaching American fundies theological history is so fun.

So you think people just happened to decide on a narrow range of positions that are highly convenient to the ruling powers in society?

Other way around. Ruling powers have established themselves around the narrow range of positions that people take. It’s why you see the same rot in every society, not just modern or Western or capitalist ones.

Modern propagandists have realized it doesn’t matter if the truth is out there—you just need to make your narrative the loudest, most available, algorithmically boosted option and most people won’t put in the effort to question what you put in front of them.

Sounds a lot less like a monopoly and a lot more like people choosing to be lazy and uninformed.

Free will is an illusion

I knew you were going to say that.

and this completely ignores the near monopoly they have on the media and information people are exposed to.

Not really. We live in one of the freest eras of human expression, political and otherwise, ever known.

Also, this isn’t saying they cause all problems, just a lot of them in our current society.

I very much read it as “We shouldn’t be enemies of each other; we should be enemies of the billionaires!”

But the awful truth is that, while we should be enemies of the billionaires, we are also very much justified in being enemies of each other. The idea that these people are just puppets dancing on their masters’ strings strips them of the very real agency they have and willingly exercise in service to abhorrent values and goals. If the apocalypse came tomorrow and no estate was worth more than a few days’ work when the dust settled, these people would still be parroting the horrible positions they do now.

As we all know, there was no conflict nor problematic ideas before billionaires or their equivalents.

Billionaires don’t force people to become shithead followers of billionaires. People choose to become shithead followers of billionaires.

Good thing the Bolsheviks never did anything wrong during their rule, like genociding Poles, committing mass murder in the Baltics, ethnically cleansing Crimean Tatars, brutally crushing workers’ protests and stripping them of more rights than even bourgeois capitalist democracies did, running a system of high-mortality slave labor, etc etc etc etc etc.

Let the bug’s family hit it too, I hate all the little fuckers

I can’t believe the CIA was behind all of those Soviet regimes which brutally destroyed workers’ democracy 😔

and my wife isn’t an assassin,

So far as you know

Explanation: Gaius Julius Caesar, of dictatorial and conqueror fame, was accused, early in his career, of having an affair with the King of Bithynia. Under Roman norms, male homosexuality was permissible and largely unremarkable - if one took the ‘top’ role. If one ‘bottomed’ for another man, however, it was considered shameful and emasculating. As Caesar was rumored to be the ‘bottom’ in the relationship, he was called, by his enemies, ‘the Queen of Bithynia’.

Caesar always denied these allegations vehemently; even if they were true, affirming them would have been political suicide. But in this house, we love Caesar as “Every woman’s man and every man’s woman” (“omnium mulierum virum et omnium virorum mulierem”)!

Today is the Ides of March, the day on which Caesar was assassinated by conservatives in the Senate.

REJECT Al Bundy energy

EMBRACE Gomez Addams energy

Live in the present, be yourself at all costs, love and respect your SO visibly, vocally, and at every opportunity

Of all the people to blindly believe and follow, why him?

Trump openly promises fascism in terms stupid enough that fascists can understand.

There’s not much more to it.

Bad weather is a state of mind. As long as doggos are happy in it, it’s good weather 🙏

“Rome wasn’t built in a day, but it was burned in one.”

(technically the Great Fire of Rome lasted 9 days, but ‘9 days’ is less pithy)

And the Dem delusion, of course, that just one more compromise with the GOP will reset political relations between the parties to its pre-1990s configuration.

Evidence that the American electorate cannot sustain its own democracy.

Even if you meant ethics instead of morality, this is getting real close to some outright blood-and-soil nationalism by placing such cultural importance on border policy.

Jesus fucking Christ.

What about the expertise in suiciding whistleblowers?

Doesn’t Boeing do mostly civilian aircraft?

And just to clarify. I’m not black, I’m a pale transchick from the 90’s who’s whiter than sour cream, I’ve seen Wayne’s World 69,420 times and it keeps getting funnier every time I see it.

I’m sorry ma’am, you’re under arrest for excessive whiteness.

The election was stolen with Russian and Muskys help.

It should never have been close enough for them to matter.

This is who we are.

OK democratic leadership, you win; I’ll quit voting for your party.

May not matter at the rate we’re going.