I agree, but to no fair, no politician gives a shit about anything but money and power.
That’s because our current system rewards politicians with money and power. Capitalism is driven by accumulation, this is a necessary function of the Capitalist mode of production. Once Humanity advances beyond it, representatives can be selected for without allowing them to amass Capital.
The power to do…what? That’s the question. You can say that Bernie Sanders is only interested in power, and you’d be superficially correct. What he wants to do with that power would help people like me, and that makes all the difference.
There was a website that estimates IQs (emphasis on estimate) based on writing. It estimates that news reporters averaged 100-120, Stephen Hawking’s last work was in the 150s, Alexander Hamilton had works in the 160s, and Qanon conspiraters on Facebook averaged 75-89. Obviously they’re estimates, but it seems rather accurate within margin.
Since right wingers are often decried as Nazis, this practically begs the question of how high Hitler’s IQ and that of other Nazi leadership was.
HE’LL YAH BORTHER?
Right wing doesn’t mean prejudice. But I do wonder if this is in the half-third of sociology studies that can’t be reproduced.
Bro.
The right doesn’t hold a monopoly on stupid racism.
I think you’re comparing apples and oranges. Every white supremacist votes on the right.
Every tankie votes on the left, are all leftists tankies? And, every other person disagrees on what right and left mean in the first place.
Ironic that it was published in 1984
Literally 1984
But really they still only give a a shit about themselves.
the throat goat
bitch pulled more hose than a fire department
She, like most republicans, was an absolute fucking cunt and nobody of worth mourned her death.
This is the biggest problem with the GO, iif you forgive the racism, gaslighting, lying, faciast, authoritarians, war mongers, idiots/morons… ect. The issues are too big for everyone one else to wait til an issue actually affects you.
“I don’t mean those kinds of immigrants!”
Wasnt she the throat goat? I’m sure there were a few actors who mourned the loss of her skillset
The throat goat in the flesh.
“I’m a Republican. I didn’t support sucking cock until I gargled my first load of ladpoles…”
I hate her aldready and i don’t even know her .
Nancy Reagan, wife of President Reagan. Both of them were monsters.
She was the throat goat, don’t forget
Huh
According to Kitty Kelley’s biography, Nancy Reagan “was renowned in Hollywood for performing oral sex.” Just-say-yes Nancy — in the days when she was Nancy Davis — was known to give the best blowjob in town, “not only in the evening but in offices. [T]hat was one of the reasons that she was very popular on the MGM lot.” It must have made her very popular with Ronnie as well. Source
Wow… Um, thanks I think?
Ronald Reagan? The actor?
Then who’s vice-president, Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady!
I wish I lived in your world without Nancy fucking Reagan
That bad huh ?
She had a husband. He was about umpteen times worse. But yes. That bad.
Until the part where she basically got to be president bc Ronnie’s mind was swiss cheese
Out of touch conservatives have been causing problems for… [checks notes… Keeps flipping pages back.]
Some say he’s still flipping pages.
…and on full moon nights just like this one, if you listen closely, you can still hear him muttering - “goddamn… does this ream of paper ever stop?”
Once you get to know her, she’s actually quite terrible.
Or she’s awesome once you get to ‘know’ her. #throatgoat
She still doesn’t give a shit about you, her interests might align better with yours but she still only gives a shit about herself.
Those who don’t give a shit about things until it happens to them, make the circle ever tighter in that respect, make every solution arrive too late for all of us, and that’s a group that encompasses… all of us.
Normally we wouldn’t give the time of day to these idiots. But these idiots have a disproportionate amount of political power, and they blare their propaganda with divide-and-conquer obfuscation and outright lies at the masses, and always seem to snatch a scary amount of mindless ignorant narcissists, either maga or bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe.
I don’t think she’s giving too many shits about anyone these days.
Nancy is definitely on the receiving end of being shit on.
Not my cup of tea, but I don’t like to kink shame. I’m glad she is having fun.
My parents: “Adoption is amoral. Those children come from godless families.”
My sister can’t have kids, adopts two.
My parents: “Adoption is God’s way of making sure every child can grow up in a loving home.”
Christ. Sounds like you need to have less contact with your parents
I moved 3000 miles away for exactly that reason.
Good! Did the same, and haven’t regretted the decision
Hey, swap out adoption with aborting unwanted pregnancies and you have the same R meme.
Only tangentially related, but I recently saw some antiabortion protestors at a clinic (not PP)
They don’t even perform abortions at that clinic…
🤢 As someone who just went through a very lengthy adoption process to rescue my niece and nephew from the system, that first line makes me feel extra sick. How the fuck can you be so full of nastiness towards parentless children who got into the system through life circumstances they couldn’t possibly help.
Well it probably happened to you because you are a sinner or smth. That is how they think.
Religion is a cancer on society. All religion. You cannot changemty mind.
My only real argument against it is that religion often isn’t the reason for the views; It’s simply the cudgel being used to attack the “others”. People who aren’t already predisposed to racism, sexism, classism, etc likely won’t embrace those parts of religion. If they do end up being religious, they’ll land in the more liberal sects, like Unitarians/universalists…
But if someone is already predisposed to that bigoted mindset, religion will absolutely be used to justify it. Because the views of some 3000 year old goat herders is apparently meant to apply to modern society.
It’s a sort of chicken and egg situation, where it’s hard to say whether or not religion is causing the fucked up worldviews, or if it’s simply a phenomenon of people seeking out a religion that confirms their own worldviews.
Religionblind hatred for anyone not in your spiritual fraternity and hypocritical self interest is a cancer on society. ftfyPeople are afraid of dying and what may or may not come after, so we make up comforting narratives to ease the existential dread. And those narratives double as a cultural identity marker to make people feel special and in a community. I would be okay if it just stopped there. Where most religions here in the west go wrong for me is the constant threats of eternal damnation if you aren’t part of the club, like the concept of hell and eternal punishment for finite usually-not-that-bad crime is just so awful on a practical and philosophical level it must have originated from the human mind and our deep seeded desire for the ultimate form of vengeance. Imagining the people who wronged you burning in hell forever really does bring some people a fucked up sense of comfort I guess. That and most versions of God being kind of a overly controlling petty dick who despite being benevolent and all loving will absolutely torch your ass for all eternity if you don’t constantly ask for forgiveness over every little thing. Like im pretty sure an all powerful benevolent god that truly loves every being in existence wouldn’t have such a fragile and temperamental ego, nor would they expect constant groveling every time you bust a nut.
I used to be a hardcore athiest since I disliked those aspects of my countries popular religions so much. Taking heroic doses of mushrooms and learning eastern ideas of religion like daoism and the idea of the godhead through Alan Watts helped me tremendously with coming around to the spiritual nature of realty. Im much happier with actually being able to experience subjective experiences my edgelord athiest past self never would have imagined while feeling relatively comfortable with the concept of my own mortality.
Not sure what point I was trying to make. sorry for the ramble.
“What is the most basic article of faith? This is not all that we are.” - for me that doesn’t even require the belief in the supernatural (unlike Leoben) but simply that we are not just individuals but exist in a continuum as descendants of the past and ancestors of the future and strive towards some higher purpose.
I believe an idea of a religious utopia, where everyone follows the tenets and then everything works just fabulous is what drives people to religion, not the fear of death. That is why religion evolved alongside humans, for social cohesion. The main problem in this are the simplistic solutions and the slow adoption of “new revelation” through science. And that blind faith trains people to be narrow-minded.
Basically I believe we need a better class of religion if we ever want to get rid of the medieval stuff @Holzkohlen@feddit.de
No it’s, religion.
Religionblind hatred for anyone not in your spiritual fraternity and hypocritical self interest
This is EXACTLY THE BULLSHIT they some Reagan aficionados I know tend to see only once and not learn from.
What the fuck. I didn’t even know that was a take. That’s horrible.
Religion poisons everything.
I bet they were also saying abortion is murder at the same time they were saying adoption is amoral.
Fuck you Nancy and the privileged piece of shit horse you and fuckface Ronnie rode in on
“The sister of a Dutch bishop in Limburg once visited the abortion clinic in Beek where I used to work in the seventies. After entering the full waiting room she said to me, ‘My dear Lord, what are all those young girls doing here?’ ‘Same as you’, I replied. ‘Dirty little dames,’ she said.” (Physician, The Netherlands).
This story is my favorite of the ones in there. Very much a “morals for thee, not for me” worldview.
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