I like the Gnostic explanation that the being who created the material universe was a lesser deity of some sort (I think they call it evil but I’d probably go with chaotic or something). It made people to have intelligent-ish beings to interact with, and it put the Trees of “Knowledge of God & Evil” and “Life” in the Garden (for some reason) but didn’t want Adam & Eve to become knowledgeable & immortal.

In this telling, the “Serpent” is Jesus by which they mean the physical projection of the actual highest actually all powerful, all loving, etc etc god, and it wants to free A&E so it convinced them to eat the fruit.

The political answer is to vote for DSA and WFP candidates every time they run in a Democratic Party primary.

Looking at the Republican Party it took about 8 years (2008 - 2016) for the Tea Party to completely reshape.

I bet we could do it faster.

Yes, but not right away.

We can see that during Trump 2.0 is taking longer but we are growing our opposition.

Remember the Muslim ban and the immediate reaction at airports in 2017? We’re seeing similar things now (farther into the term) with reactions to ICE.

don’t indulge his bullshit attempt to rename the DOD

Well the answer to “why did people still support Trump after Jan 6th” is actually “Jan 6th.”

Those people that came to DC and walked to the Capitol and stormed out are Americans who were a) pissed off and b) willing and able to travel and march and attack on behalf of Trump.

That’s not nothing in terms of power and influence. And it’s indicative of a BUNCH of people who met condition (a) but not (b). Like probably an order of magnitude or more.

Since no Republican stepped up to steal those supporters from Trump by pointing out how absolutely un-American Jan 6th was, they stayed loyal to him. So the politicians followed, the owners followed, and the media followed.

I went to Linux Mint and it’s been painless. All my games I want to play run on it (through Steam).

My son is getting my old computer as a hand me down and I put Mint on it, too. I’ve installed Sober on it so he can play Roblox. I don’t know how it’ll go but we’ll see…

Just over 9 months, not a year.

(And yes things were pretty bad before but the graph has really gone hockey stick…)

I hope she’s left wing in the “tax the fuck out of corps who’ve been using our Bonnie Island as a tax avoidance scheme” sense

which supplements has the highest lead though

not Su-paw-paw-sition…?

I mean in any other timeline that would be pretty funny…

Brexit

a lot of them probably expect pardons, but are delusional enough to ignore how badly Trump treats most of his toadies…

Sounds like i need to open a *Everything’s $1 ** store and just make sure I get the fine print squared away…

Sounds like a bunch of us should put up seeds with titles like “This (1947) It’s A Wonderful Life (Public Domain) is better than (2025) Fantastic Four”

Only Peyton from that godforsaken part of Tennessee I’ll ever cheer for

If you know anyone who is anti trans but goes by a nickname, start calling them by their given name. Doug, you’re Douglas. Alex, you’re Alexander or Alexis or whatever. Bill: William. Ted: Rafael (might only apply to one Senator).

Hah oh man I hope this is indicative of a Great Cancelation Event coming to punish all the capitalists, where we take the relatively minor power we have a individuals and combine it to smash the fuck out of them.

The Kimmel Disney thing showed people that we have the power at the end of the day, I hope these XBox games can hang tough and kick Microsoft right in the dick.

(Also maybe give these conglomerates some second thoughts about buying another company…)

I’m here for the headline but the content was disappointing. Mamdani got more votes for his mayoral primary win than the Republican who beat Osborn for the Nebraska Senate in the general election (Mamdani 573k in round 2, 499k for Fischer ®, 436k for Osborn (D)).

So who does this guy talk about for most of the article? Osborn, of course.

Look, I get that there will probably be a mix of Osborns and Mamdanis and everything in between and probably even outside of that landscape. There will be people I will have to hold my nose and vote for because they will go after the literally evil billionaires preying on all of us, even if we won’t get their support for marginalized groups.

Even Ta Nehisi Coates said that he would have supported FDR in his recent sit down with class traitor Ezra Klein, even though FDR sold black Americans down the river.

Hmmm no I think maybe it’s Were-DEI: inclusion programs for half-human, half-animal individuals…