Well, of course we’re the bad guys. We’ve always BEEN the bad guys. The United States was founded on genocide and land theft.

And yet when members of the two groups talk, they’re often surprised to discover that they’re both human beings! That’s one of the things I really loved about facilitating dialogue between theists and atheists.

I have a hard time imagining him giving up his fixation with gold and his own name. Since he would be charging 10 or 100 times more than his cost, and it would be paid by his supporters and the taxpayers, I don’t think he’d care about the price. They’d be made cheaply in China anyway.

It’s funny if you find it funny. That’s how humor works!

You don’t think Trump would make a flag like that?

Too little too late

Wicked!

I hope China sanctions the USA to keep their RAM and SSDs and technology in general away from the US.

My hope is that when the USA falls, it will take global capitalism with it. I’ve been speculating about the post-capitalist world on Mastodon lately.

https://kolektiva.social/@Quasit/115710698245440299

You can lie to the people again and again. And they’ll swallow it, right up until they realize that their bellies are actually empty of food.

Against real hunger, propaganda is powerless.

Is it copypasta if I wrote it?

So actually witnessing an incontrovertible miracle wouldn’t work for you?

I can’t say that it would work for me, mind you. I’d probably get myself examined by a neurologist first!

It’s hard as hell, but for me it comes down to this: we have to decide if they’re suffering so much that death would be a relief for them. Since we don’t have a common language, all we can do is go by what other signs and indicators are available. I don’t entirely trust veterinarians to make that decision, because in the past it has seemed to me that they tend to err on the side of euthanasia.

I’ve done it both ways. Either way, it hurts.

I’m surprised it doesn’t apply to Americans who are returning to the US!

All I know is that I hate capitalism and capitalists.

Ironically I was called an “Uncle Tom atheist” by the then-president of American Atheists (himself a New Atheist, I believe), because I attended a Unitarian Universalist Church at the time. And also because I advocated mutual understanding rather than his own position, which was to mock believers. But he was trying to sell his book.

That said, the audience seemed to much prefer my approach.

National Parks should ALWAYS be free!

I’d follow you here, but I can’t figure out how! I’m not seeing an option to follow on your profile.

I tried setting one up on Mastodon with Guppe Groups, but it plunked into the void and was never seen again. I should probably try a different approach. Maybe a group on Lemmy?

The next step will be empowering the President and his officials to remove citizenship from ANYONE, including native-born Americans - and I’m specifically including native Americans. They’ll sell us as slaves to dictators overseas.

How is BookWyrm doing these days?

Pretty good, but it definitely needs some of the functionality of GoodReads! There just isn’t enough social interaction there. Without that, it’s kind of stuck in a quiet place.