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Cake day: June 11th, 2024

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  • I’ve found, as I’ve gotten older, that my desire to believe things that are true is far from universal. It’s mind boggling to me that people willingly delude themselves for a hit of dopamine or whatever, while they slowly lose the ability to tell the difference between reality and fiction




  • It’s not comparable at all. Democrats were literally the party of slavery. Then Roosevelt came along with The New Deal, pushing them to the left. Then the civil rights movement began, and the “Dixiecrats” (racist southern Democrats) had enough and left the party over it.

    Racist, anti-integrationist Dixiecrats like Strom Thurmond remained hardcore Republicans until the day they died.

    The “Democrats” that created the KKK are the basis for the modern Republican party.