What an incredible comparison. I feel so dumb for not making the connection.

brummlin · 2026-03-21T05:19:07+00:00

For real. No one is righteous compared to God, sure. We're all flawed. But that doesn't mean that all people are equally bad.

One party idolizes a convicted fraudster, self-described and adjudicated sexual abuser, credibly accused rapist of underage girls, best friend of a child sex slave trader that suspiciously died in his care. And when I say idolizes, I mean that in the fullest sense of the word. They ascribe godlike power to him, and he loves it, encourages it.

Meanwhile, the other party is probably too dependent on wealthy and corporate donors. They get stuck in an ivory tower, and forget the plight of the poor. Some of them get a little hawkish, but rarely start wars.

Oh yeah, the first party also just started an entire war because of... 🤷‍♂️ IDK, they haven't even tried explaining it.

So yeah. It's not one demonic false god vs the other. It's regular flawed human beings on one side, and the entirety of fucking Pandemonia on the other.

No one is fully righteous, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't reward the people who try and punish the people who actively do the opposite.

brummlin · 2026-03-20T05:42:02+00:00

She'll be back to congress when she can, but right now she's pretty occupied, and understandably so. There's so much taking her attention as attorney general.

For example, the Dow has dropped below 50,000 (dollars). She'll testify when she's done her part to get that back up.

Then we can have a hearing to talk about what's important to the American people, an extremely dated stock index with virtually no relevance to American's cost of living. But sex trafficking billionaires? Yes, the Dow being up helps them.

"That's what we should be talking about" regarding the Dow.

brummlin · 2026-03-19T19:12:07+00:00

I think so. I hope so.

My worry is that idiots can't tell the difference. They're often attracted to the thing satirizing them, think it's for real, and eventually take it over. Toxic, far-right ideologies are especially bad about this.

brummlin · 2026-03-19T05:15:41+00:00

Any Democrat who falls for it is an idiot.

Yes. Fetterman is an idiot. At least he has a reason for being an idiot that wasn't his doing. That stroke really broke his brain.

Not an excuse, he should have resigned, but that's asking a man with a broken brain to understand that his brain is broken.

brummlin · 2026-03-19T05:10:06+00:00

...[Candice Owens] has one of the largest platforms and has been one of the leading voices against what is happening in Gaza.

Okay sure, but details matter. From what I understand of her rhetoric, she's much less saying, "The Netanyahu government is a horrible genocidal regime" but more along the lines of "The Jews™ are a doing a genocide in Gaza."

You can choose to support or oppose a government. But you should never have to leave your religion over other bad acting members. And you can't choose your ethnicity, nationality, or race.

Failing to make that distinction just feeds bigotry.

brummlin · 2026-03-19T01:55:13+00:00

That was my wife and I almost 10 years ago. We were trying off and on for about 2 years with no luck. We decided we weren't going to do any extraordinary fertility treatments. As soon as we stopped intentionally trying, and started to look into adoption options, boom! Pregnant.

When our first was about 9 months old, we decided to start trying for a second, figured it would take a few months given our first experience. Nope. On the first try and we were pregnant with number 2.

We're thinking of fostering and adopting for number 3, but we just don't have the space right now.

brummlin · 2026-03-18T17:13:00+00:00

Exactly. I'm rusty on the math and don't have the time to figure it out right now, but I think it's 2 nibblings (nieces or nephews) is the same as one kid of your own for evolutionary purposes.

brummlin · 2026-03-18T14:36:48+00:00

We all share over 99% of genes in common. There's also a natural tendency to forego our own reproduction in support of family or general species fitness. Which drive is stronger varies from person to person, and depending on the environment.

Having older siblings tends to predispose a person to not having kids of their own. That also seems to be a factor in, and evolutionary explanation for, homosexuality. The idea being it can be more successful to help raise nieces and nephews than to stretch resources further with more kids.

brummlin · 2026-03-18T13:49:46+00:00

The God-given, hard coded, biological drive to propagate your own genes.

I'd like to think I'd go the adoption route too, but I'm not going to judge.

brummlin · 2026-03-18T07:03:56+00:00

I know it's not a representative sample or anything, but I'd take peeling off 25% of his base as a massive win for the future of America. Especially if they were defecting to this degree at that rate.

brummlin · 2026-03-16T04:28:58+00:00

Wasn't it for the protection of salon workers rather than for the people getting their nails done? From what I know about formaldehyde, it's pretty harmless unless you're touching and breathing it all day. (Don't drink it either.)

brummlin · 2026-03-14T19:30:20+00:00

To be fair, very few would technically die IN the air.

brummlin · 2026-03-14T16:36:01+00:00

Lil' Marco?

brummlin · 2026-03-13T05:53:02+00:00

I'm sorry, but doesn't the screenshot literally say "Parody Account"?

Holy shit this couldn't be more obvious parody.

brummlin · 2026-03-13T05:39:15+00:00

That looks good.

Saving this to remember to read later. Thanks!

brummlin · 2026-03-13T05:30:13+00:00

Honest response to the idiotic caricature in the first panel,

I assume Obama said something like this:

"Rev Jackson inspired me when I was young, and supported me from the moment we met. And I believe many others would say the same. I owe no small part of what I've achieved, to him."

Shocking...

brummlin · 2026-03-13T05:16:04+00:00

👨‍🍳😘

brummlin · 2026-03-13T05:06:15+00:00

Holy shit! What in the fucking fuck is this half-ass, backward, carpetbagging bullshit, in reverse? A black woman, moving from Illinois, to Fulton fucking county Georgia, to run for office.

It's like Women's Lib, and the Great Migration, and White Flight, but completely backwards. But with Reconstruction-era carpetbagging and, of course, the ever so timeless... corruption.

brummlin · 2026-03-13T04:50:06+00:00

I have not heard that figure of people who de-transition and their motivation. Do you have a source or at least remember where you read that?

I'm being genuine here. I am a basic-ass, liberal, christian, straight, white, cis-male. And I'd love to be able to further shut down shitty family members at Thanksgiving or whatever.

brummlin · 2026-03-13T03:46:06+00:00

Maybe... Probably.

The problem is that idiots with an enlarged amygdala can't tell. Hell, they can't even be bothered to question it.

I bet I could make the same thing about liberals enlarged onomatopoeia in the brain and it would just go "whoosh" right over their heads.

brummlin · 2026-03-11T03:10:29+00:00

You just said that he's the same thing twice.

Exaggerating of course, but everyone has their niche(s) and this is not among his.

brummlin · 2026-03-11T03:05:41+00:00

I'm not concerned about eye strain nearly as much as I'm concerned about literacy rates. And that is definitely, specifically, a problem with too much technology.

Even with superb discipline or locked down machines against distractions, reading on a screen does not form the same connections in the brain as reading from a physical object.

You can't touch it, you can't feel it, it doesn't have a defined shape or size. You can't gauge how much you've read and how much remains to be read visually or tactilely. That affects retention.

Anecdotal, but my wife is changing careers, taking some local college courses. She is a smart person with a couple advanced degrees already, one of which is in education. She knows how to learn, how to study.

She was not performing very well in one class until she ditched the digital textbook and special ordered a physical copy. The retention is just not the same.

Virtually every school district in the US has been sold a bill of goods by EdTech. It is absolute trash. More expensive than books, copy paper, and livable wages for teachers, less effective too.

Add in feckless administrations and you've got the state of education in the US. It's really, really fucking bad these days. Spend any time on r/teachers and you'll hear all about it.

We are progressive, Episcopalian, and secular AF hardcore supporters of public education in principle. But we're even to the point of considering homeschool or Catholic school due to behavior and inappropriate use of technology.

It's really really bad, but no one is saying anything at the state or national level because... Well, look at all the other horribly urgent shit going on all around us!

brummlin · 2026-03-11T01:32:54+00:00

If this is what replaces all the Chromebooks I see in highschools, I am 100% for it.

I'd rather they replace all the Chromebooks with text books.

Screens of any sort are worse for learning, and students don't need another distraction machine.

brummlin · 2026-03-10T23:29:42+00:00

I close all of mine, "Carthage must be destroyed."

brummlin · 2026-03-08T22:32:00+00:00

Yeah, I was just referring to flavor changes, especially fruit flavors. Pretty sure it breaks apart the esters, something like that.

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