Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)
Admin of the FBXL Network including FBXL Search, FBXL Video, FBXL Social, FBXL Lotide, FBXL Translate, and FBXL Maps.
Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like
Adversary of Fediblock
Accept that I’ll probably say something you don’t like and I’ll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.
Ah… Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don’t answer that, I sort of know the answer already…
I strongly suspect that most Democrats don’t actually want to fund a bunch of forever wars either. I mean, that’s what Obama was elected for, he just turned out to do the opposite of everything he was elected to do. “Help the poor, end the wars, shut down gitmo? I agree but let’s tweak it to help the 0.1%, keep the wars going forever, keep gitmo going!”
When people say getting onto mastodon is hard I assume they must mean setting up an instance because even if soapbox and rebased are easier to use, it’s still just signing up for a website.
I feel like our focus on the 20th century really limits our understanding of the depths of human depravity.
This is an image of two Assyrian soldiers forcing a captured Babylonian to grind the bones of his family.
And you might say “Wow, that’s a really mean thing to say about the Assyrians!” No, this is them bragging about doing it in immortal stone form.
This wasn’t printed out on a laser printer, it wasn’t etched using a laser engraver. It probably took weeks or months to lovingly create this work. They were really proud of their depravity and wanted to share it with the world.
I’m making a distinction between the rank and file and the media, I don’t really believe most rank and file are really like whatever the media or the like claim… I mean if they really did flip 180 like that then it makes them incredibly disingenuous people…