To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

-Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Also: older eggs. The newer an egg is the more the shell will try and stick after hard-boiling.

He promised to get rid of the brown people. And they were told to follow him. That’s it for a lot of them. Blindly following someone because their preacher says to is ingrained in a lot of evangelicals especially.

But also a lot of them believe he was sent by God to kick-start the end times and trigger the Rapture. That’s why a lot of the politicians especially are behind him, and why Biden treated him with kid gloves. You’d be amazed how many statesmen in both the Republican and Democratic Party legit believe in all that ‘end times we go to Heaven and all the disgusting plebeians go to hell’ bullshit.

I mean, what’s mentioned in this thread is what rich people I know do. Plus saw a lot of it in Palm Beach.

I dunno, Jackson still has him beat by a little bit.

I mean, yes, but it is also a well-established bit of the lore. It even shows it in the first anime when Charizard is so unimpressed by Ash that he usually refuses to fight at all, and the one time he does fight (because the other Pokémon was strong enough to interest him) he just does his own thing and doesn’t listen to anything Ash says.

Because, when you think about it, what are you really going to do against a giant fire-breathing lizard that says ‘no’ when you ask him to fight? Especially if you’re a ten-year-old kid.

Actually, a fair number of those that hold power are high on their own supply. They’re just also smart enough to use that supply to manipulate others too.

Unfortunately that just makes them shoot the women instead as punishment for being ‘whores’.

When you think about it that way it’s no surprise they worship the Orange Pedo as the Second Coming of Christ. You’ve been Living A Wicked Life and have Gone Down The Path Of Sin, and so you deserve to be smited by the divine! But the divine never answered his prayers; you and all those other icky upstart ‘sinful people’ kept having a nice job and everything that he felt should be taken from you.

And then Trump comes along and grants his prayers with deportations and shootings and everything else he thinks you deserve. Is it any wonder he’s willing to suffer himself, as long as you ‘get what’s coming to you’?

Orange Discount Hitler’s billionaire bankrollers want it so they can build their end-of-the-world bunkers there. Not sure why they don’t want their New Zealand ones anymore.

Unfortunately, since it’s the billionaires that want it, and Slimy Orange wants to do them favors so he can rub shoulders with them and feel important, he won’t just let it go, even if the GOP pressures him to. Expect him to make a serious push for it.

To quote Scrollone@feddit.it elsewhere in the conversations:

It makes me think about the Italian movie from the '80s called “Maladolescenza”, which is now considered child porn by many countries, thus illegal.

I also saw a newspaper from the time in which they were interviewing people that came out of the movie theater, asking them what they thought of the movie. It was almost as disgusting as this article.

So certainly a fair number of people did.

Yeah, but it seems most of the people watching that movie took exactly the wrong message away from it, if that article is any indication.

Yes, but both tree species tend to live fast and die young, so they can be used to provide first-generation forest protection until the second-generation trees can grow up.

TBF his family are also super-rich white-supremacist pieces of shit, so he probably learned a bunch of this at home.

They are terrifying things to admit to yourself. Hold on to that feeling, but train anyways. Because those thoughts will keep you from becoming like those republicans who gleefully wave their guns around and talk about shooting all the people they don’t like. And the training means you can protect yourself and others.

Guns are a tool that kills things, and so you never pick one up unless you intend to kill. But sometimes, regrettably, you have to.

You mean like they ‘didn’t’ at Kent State?

Don’t kid yourself; they absolutely will. Going by our history, though, if they can they’ll do it to a black neighborhood first.

They’ve done it before. They’ll do it again.

Except it’s not very good. I turn it off and still get AI pictures and videos, and it gets rid of some pictures I know aren’t AI.

‘True and proper order being restored’ and ‘those uppity Others finally getting their just desserts’. And they figure that if they have to suffer a bit for that, then so be it. You have to remember that these ‘Christian’ loonies all have a persecution complex, so for them a little suffering is seen as a good thing.

I hate to say it, but I absolutely guarantee the law will do nothing but show up afterwards and pick up the pieces. If he does decide to get his fat ass off the couch and come get you, you’ll have to handle him yourself.