Amazing New Video From half•alive: “What’s Wrong”

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half•alive’s official music video for What’s Wrong
Theres a lot of pressure with this being our first new release since Now, Not Yet. People often make up their minds pretty quickly about an artist’s sophomore release solely based off the first single, so it feels like the stakes are higher now & the song’s message has to be that much clearer. 2020 was a big break for us, being home all year, we were thankful for a breath to think, reflect & process, as many had that year. In the midst of that reflection, we wrote this song with the production duo @OjiVolta . After searching for “the perfect song” for so long, this one finally felt like it was it. Not because it was perfect, but because it was honest. It felt like it confronted the stack of problems that is piling up faster than the stack of solutions. Over the last year that pile was overwhelming & debilitating because the problem in front of me always feels like a drop in the ocean. “Times right to fix what’s wrong” means that I have ability to transform my immediate & eventually global environment by looking inward first. Looking in the mirror & realizing the inward journey is likely where real change is going to begin. -josh

“What’s Wrong” available everywhere now: https://smarturl.it/HAWhatsWrong

Directed by Brantley Gutierrez
Choreographed by JA Collective
Written & Executive Produced by Josh Taylor

Music Composed by Brett Kramer, J Tyler Johnson, Josh Taylor & OjiVolta
Produced by OjiVolta
Mixed by Jon Castelli
Mastered by Joe LaPorta

Editing by Josh Taylor
Additional Editing by R.P. Adam & Aidan Carberry
Producer - Mike Dones
Producer - Danny Herb
Director of Photography - Eric Ulbrich

Camera Op - Kenneth Wales
1st AC - Holly Horne
2nd AC- Devin Hassan
DIT - Jack Damon
CLT - Mark Ramsey
Key Grip - Justin Duquette
ACLT - Jason Popieniuck “J Pop”
SLT - Tony Cantor
Best Boy Grip - David Smart
1st AD - Bigg Riff
PA - Natasha Oviedo & Michael Rennie

Production Designer - Matt Sokoler
Art Director - Devin Parker
Set Dressers - Mikey Avina & Shay Turner
Key Makeup Artist - Shea Hardy
Hair - Terance Sdoeung
CCO - Terance Sdoeung & Darlene Orellana

Coloring by - Joseph Lombardi
VFX by - kaipo


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lyrics:
time is always right in past tense
avoiding is my newest obsession
started with the right intentions
but left ‘em on the shelf

so tell me how to live in tension
‘cause every could’ve been kills when
living here has been hell
& i can’t hold it myself

the whisper in my heart - it could never speak up
the message in my chest gathered too much dust
i can’t afford the truth even if it’s unjust
keep it top shelf, keep it all locked up
..
so yippee ki-yay it’s not my blood
but every single day it calls my bluff
it’s not ok then it ain’t quite done
then it ain’t quite done
no

the time’s always right to fix what’s wrong

looking through a haze i’m basing
everything around me on traces
the criminal i’ve been chasing
is wearing my shoes

the whisper in my heart - it could never speak up
the message in my chest gathered too much dust
i can’t afford the truth even if it’s unjust
keep it top shelf, keep it all locked up
..
so yippee ki-yay it’s not my blood
but every single day it calls my bluff
it’s not ok then it ain’t quite done
then it ain’t quite done
no

oh my God it ain’t quite
why hold on, it ain’t quite
love, hold on it ain’t quite done

the time’s always right to fix what’s wrong

#whatswrong #halfalive

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155 comments
1
HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 4, 2021 • 9:21:14am
2
Patricia Kayden  Apr 4, 2021 • 9:21:25am
3
plansbandc  Apr 4, 2021 • 9:36:16am

Watching Q: Into the Storm.

These people are beyond batshit.

4
PhillyPretzel  Apr 4, 2021 • 9:37:56am

re: #3 plansbandc

They are completely nuts. I do not think there is anyway to reverse the process.

5
Barefoot Grin  Apr 4, 2021 • 9:38:22am

re: #2 Patricia Kayden

Did the article even mention that the problem the GA Republicans are trying to solve is a lie?

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plansbandc  Apr 4, 2021 • 9:40:32am

re: #4 PhillyPretzel

No, they’re too far gone.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 4, 2021 • 9:42:35am

The Republican Party stoked and encouraged conspiracy theories for many years; it’s been a means of controlling their base. Fluoride, New World Order, etc. But with Birtherism and now QAnon the toxic memes got too powerful for them to control.

This is what the conservative movement has created, a Frankenstein’s monster of irrational bad craziness.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 4, 2021 • 9:43:15am

re: #5 Barefoot Grin

Did the article even mention that the problem the GA Republicans are trying to solve is a lie?

The problem they are trying to solve is black citizens voting; this legislation is certainly designed to do that.

9
A Mom Anon  Apr 4, 2021 • 9:47:28am

Serious question. Is there any place left in the US where sane people tend to be a majority? Asking for a friend….

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 4, 2021 • 9:51:51am

re: #5 Barefoot Grin

Did the article even mention that the problem the GA Republicans are trying to solve is a lie?

Great question. The NYT needs to do better when it’s covering anti-democratic tactics.

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plansbandc  Apr 4, 2021 • 9:58:27am

Fawking hilarious and NSFW language.

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BlueSpotinAL  Apr 4, 2021 • 9:59:04am

Treat yourself for Easter.

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plansbandc  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:00:57am

re: #12 BlueSpotinAL

That doesn’t seem like it would be very relaxing. :D

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:02:03am

re: #11 plansbandc

If I were him the .44 would already be out and I would searching recipes for goose.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:03:54am

re: #4 PhillyPretzel

They are completely nuts. I do not think there is anyway to reverse the process.

There is no way to dislodge my relatives lust for the latest Q shit.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:04:59am

re: #10 Patricia Kayden

Great question. The NYT needs to do better when it’s covering anti-democratic tactics.

That’s asking for too much. The NYT is just another cog in the Republican 24/7 Bullshit Machine.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:05:24am

re: #9 A Mom Anon

Serious question. Is there any place left in the US where sane people tend to be a majority? Asking for a friend….

In my little town, we are closing on 50% vaccinated. About 25% of us have received the second shot.

In spite of this, compliance with masking and social distancing requirements remains excellent, and I’ve never seen more than a couple of people at a time dining indoors (outdoors, of course, is another matter).

I guess that’s why they call us Berzerkeley — as one of the few sane places in the country, we stand out.

/bragging

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Teukka  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:05:38am

re: #11 plansbandc

Fawking hilarious and NSFW language.

#CanadianProblems

19
Orange Impostor  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:07:55am

re: #7 Charles Johnson

The Republican Party stoked and encouraged conspiracy theories for many years; it’s been a means of controlling their base. Fluoride, New World Order, etc. But with Birtherism and now QAnon the toxic memes got too powerful for them to control.

This is what the conservative movement has created, a Frankenstein’s monster of irrational bad craziness.

Don’t forget about the Republican’s whole-hearted open acceptance of the White Power movement into their fold, instead of keeping them at arms’ length and at least giving appearances (although not always through actions) of rejection of blatant racism.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:12:43am

re: #19 Orange Impostor

Won’t stop asshole Dinesh D’Souza from pushing the lie about Democrats being the racist party.

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JC1  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:15:09am

re: #9 A Mom Anon

Serious question. Is there any place left in the US where sane people tend to be a majority? Asking for a friend….

The northeast seems relatively rational.

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Teukka  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:16:40am

re: #7 Charles Johnson

The Republican Party stoked and encouraged conspiracy theories for many years; it’s been a means of controlling their base. Fluoride, New World Order, etc. But with Birtherism and now QAnon the toxic memes got too powerful for them to control.

This is what the conservative movement has created, a Frankenstein’s monster of irrational bad craziness.

re: #19 Orange Impostor

Don’t forget about the Republican’s whole-hearted open acceptance of the White Power movement into their fold, instead of keeping them at arms’ length and at least giving appearances (although not always through actions) of rejection of blatant racism.

And we ain’t, as the song goes, seen nuthin’ yet…

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A Mom Anon  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:27:56am

re: #21 JC1

The northeast seems relatively rational.

We’re seriously considering moving up north, but we have to be near a big city with big hospitals because The Husband has health problems. Not sure where to go. Or if we even can because he’s on disability and that’s our only income. But we have a lot of equity in our home and might be able to almost pay in full for a new place. If the prices aren’t nuts. We have homework to do to figure out how to swing this.

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mmmirele  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:34:11am

re: #12 BlueSpotinAL

Treat yourself for Easter.

[Embedded content]

My brother made my 81 YO mother an Easter basket chock-full of chocolate bunnies of all different types. And a real stuffed bunny. He’s waiting for mom to wake up to give it to her.

As for me…it may be Resurrection Sunday but I’m still going to call ‘em like I see ‘em.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:35:02am

re: #9 A Mom Anon

Serious question. Is there any place left in the US where sane people tend to be a majority? Asking for a friend….

Well, California is expensive real estate (because so many people competing for land), but for the most part the sane people are in the majority.

Near as I can tell, the big challenge in American society is coming to terms with the 21st century. I go on and on here about the loss-of-god problem, but there are other losses that are driving the resentment-politics that now control the GOP and swaths of this country.

Loss of the belief that there will be a good job for oneself. Loss of shared cultural experiences (because of high turnover in cultural celebrity culture). Loss of financial security ( it was always an illusion anyway.) Etc.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:35:40am
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:38:27am

re: #9 A Mom Anon

Serious question. Is there any place left in the US where sane people tend to be a majority? Asking for a friend….

The wild north country isn’t too bad, though the area I live in tends to be more wingnutty than most.

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jaunte  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:38:34am
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BigPapa  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:39:25am
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darthstar  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:39:40am
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BlueSpotinAL  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:47:17am

According to the interwebs, Michigan’s increase is greatest for kids, and being spread by sports and social interaction.

mlive.com

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mmmirele  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:49:06am

re: #11 plansbandc

Fawking hilarious and NSFW language.

[Embedded content]

There’s a lesbian on Tiktok @melissadilkespateras who folds laundry and gives laundry tips. Her video of folding a fitted sheet is *amazing*. And I found out what laundry bluing is actually used for and how to use it from watching her videos. She’s also a master of the double entrendre.

tiktok.com

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:49:47am

re: #21 JC1

The northeast seems relatively rational.

We’re Puritans in Massachusetts. We follow the law. I may not agree with the law, and I may use my freedom to disagree, but I and we are law-abiding.

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Teukka  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:56:55am

re: #32 mmmirele

There’s a lesbian on Tiktok @melissadilkespateras who folds laundry and gives laundry tips. Her video of folding a fitted sheet is *amazing*. And I found out what laundry bluing is actually used for and how to use it from watching her videos. She’s also a master of the double entrendre.

tiktok.com

Total clickbait cat grooming video:

Shaving Hot Lesbian Pussy

35
Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Apr 4, 2021 • 10:58:22am

50s food atrocity. The mayo was the final insult.

36
TedStriker  Apr 4, 2021 • 11:00:19am

re: #35 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

50s food atrocity. The mayo was the final insult.

[Embedded content]

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JC1  Apr 4, 2021 • 11:01:59am

re: #23 A Mom Anon

We’re seriously considering moving up north, but we have to be near a big city with big hospitals because The Husband has health problems. Not sure where to go. Or if we even can because he’s on disability and that’s our only income. But we have a lot of equity in our home and might be able to almost pay in full for a new place. If the prices aren’t nuts. We have homework to do to figure out how to swing this.

CT has Yale hospital which is excellent. Boston has Mass General. Eastern CT has relative bargains for the area. But the winters aren’t fun unless you like the whole cold and snow bit.

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BigPapa  Apr 4, 2021 • 11:02:17am

re: #35 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Blocked and reported.

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mmmirele  Apr 4, 2021 • 11:04:36am

re: #37 JC1

CT has Yale hospital which is excellent. Boston has Mass General. Eastern CT has relative bargains for the area. But the winters aren’t fun unless you like the whole cold and snow bit.

New London is very east and very cheap for Connecticut, but also very cold in the winter. However, my very cool friend Patty lives there…

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A Mom Anon  Apr 4, 2021 • 11:07:48am

re: #37 JC1

Hubby is from Maryland and I’m from Ohio, snow isn’t the worst thing ever. I was thinking Massachusetts or maybe northern Virginia? We’re just in the talking about it phase, we have a mess of crap to sort out and get rid of too. Sigh.

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Renaissance_Man  Apr 4, 2021 • 11:08:32am

re: #23 A Mom Anon

We’re seriously considering moving up north, but we have to be near a big city with big hospitals because The Husband has health problems. Not sure where to go. Or if we even can because he’s on disability and that’s our only income. But we have a lot of equity in our home and might be able to almost pay in full for a new place. If the prices aren’t nuts. We have homework to do to figure out how to swing this.

Detroit is very cheap, a very large city, and majority black, which in these times is a sign of sanity.

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plansbandc  Apr 4, 2021 • 11:12:24am

re: #32 mmmirele

I was a grooming assistant, so I know we used a little dap of bluing to make the white dogs super white.

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plansbandc  Apr 4, 2021 • 11:14:00am

re: #35 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

I’d eat it. I love prunes. :D

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 4, 2021 • 11:16:57am
45
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 4, 2021 • 11:25:28am

re: #23 A Mom Anon

I’ve overwintered in Arizona before… great place if you like deserts and the geology is wonderful. But frankly there is a culture war for Arizona going on right now.

I’ve also lived in Maryland for a season. It has its charms, but I am not an east-coast type of person. Yet there is opportunity in MD for a lot of people. The property near DC is expensive.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 4, 2021 • 11:26:35am

re: #20 🌹UOJB!

Won’t stop asshole Dinesh D’Souza from pushing the lie about Democrats being the racist party.

But apart from Republicans, who buys that stupid argument? We just saw Trump suck up and praise White Supremacists every chance he got including during a debate and after White Supremacists had murdered Heather Heyer.

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darthstar  Apr 4, 2021 • 11:27:19am
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Patricia Kayden  Apr 4, 2021 • 11:28:59am

re: #44 🌹UOJB!

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Renaissance_Man  Apr 4, 2021 • 11:29:56am

re: #46 Patricia Kayden

But apart from Republicans, who buys that stupid argument? We just saw Trump suck up and praise White Supremacists every chance he got including during a debate and after White Supremacists had murdered Heather Heyer.

Enough white people believe enough of it to think ‘well, Republicans are bad, but Democrats have their problems too, and how dare they call me racist just because I’m white’. That’s the purpose of it, to ensure that white people identify more with other white people and thus hate Democrats.

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austin_blue  Apr 4, 2021 • 11:30:28am

re: #23 A Mom Anon

We’re seriously considering moving up north, but we have to be near a big city with big hospitals because The Husband has health problems. Not sure where to go. Or if we even can because he’s on disability and that’s our only income. But we have a lot of equity in our home and might be able to almost pay in full for a new place. If the prices aren’t nuts. We have homework to do to figure out how to swing this.

Check out Raleigh/Chapel Hill/Durham or Richmond, Va. Light blue surrounded by a lot of red, but doable. Also, Charlottesville, Va is a lovely town with a medical school.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 4, 2021 • 11:32:30am

re: #46 Patricia Kayden

But apart from Republicans, who buys that stupid argument? We just saw Trump suck up and praise White Supremacists every chance he got including during a debate and after White Supremacists had murdered Heather Heyer.

Right Wing Xtians lap it up.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 4, 2021 • 11:32:54am

re: #47 darthstar

Pining for Khabarovsk Krai.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 4, 2021 • 11:43:30am
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Dangerman  Apr 4, 2021 • 11:44:15am

re: #43 plansbandc

I’d eat it. I love prunes. :D

I eat a handful of prunes every morning after I run. Each one individually slathered in peanut butter.

That there was an abomination

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Dangerman  Apr 4, 2021 • 11:48:53am

re: #53 Dread Pirate Ron

[Embedded content]

You’re misusing “pundit” and misapplying “sides”
Otherwise spot on!

See the problem?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 4, 2021 • 11:53:37am

re: #53 Dread Pirate Ron

Because Megan Mccain is never, ever thirsty for attention.

/

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ckkatz  Apr 4, 2021 • 12:04:37pm

re: #35 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

50s food atrocity. The mayo was the final insult.

[Embedded content]

That’s just wrong…

To be true avant garde ’50s it needs to be encased in jello.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 4, 2021 • 12:09:31pm

Meanwhile over in Brexitland, things are just hunky-dory (not):

Police attacked with petrol bombs in Northern Ireland rioting

Leaders’ appeals for calm went unnoticed on Saturday as violence erupted in loyalist parts of Northern Ireland for yet another successive night, fuelled by anger over Brexit and the policing of a formerly senior IRA figure’s funeral.

Three cars were hijacked and set alight in Newtownabbey, on the northern outskirts of Belfast, with the burning shells of vehicles pictured blocking the road at the Cloughfern roundabout, where a crowd gathered.

[…]

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 4, 2021 • 12:12:48pm
And in Derry, a fifth night of unrest raged in the city’s mostly unionist Waterside area on Friday, with Derry City and Strabane area commander Chief Supt Darrin Jones saying police “came under sustained attack from a large group of youths and young adults throwing masonry, bottles, petrol bombs and fireworks” - which he said left 12 officers with injuries.

Has Fox News blamed BLM yet?

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ckkatz  Apr 4, 2021 • 12:12:52pm

re: #34 Teukka

So I had to click on it and got the age-restricted warning. :)

Reminds me that in the Northern Virginia area, the fleas are immune to many of the standard anti-flea agents. I had to switch several times before I found something that would repel the fleas. (From my cat, btw. :) ) That may be the same issue as in the video.

Years ago, I had some friend who would shave their long-haired cat in the summer. It would look embarrassed, but relieved. It was also funny as all get out as there was not a lot of cat under all the long fur.

Thanks for posting!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 4, 2021 • 12:13:45pm

re: #59 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Has Fox News blamed BLM yet?

Belfast Lives Matter?

/

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mmmirele  Apr 4, 2021 • 12:14:29pm

re: #58 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Meanwhile over in Brexitland, things are just hunky-dory (not):

Police attacked with petrol bombs in Northern Ireland rioting

Ummm am I getting flashbacks to the 1970s?

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 4, 2021 • 12:16:55pm

re: #62 mmmirele

Same here. :(

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 4, 2021 • 12:17:15pm

re: #62 mmmirele

Ummm am I getting flashbacks to the 1970s?

As was expected, except that the Brexiteers lied and lied and lied.

Problem is that if one wants a border then you get a border. Borders means borders. But enough people in NI and Ireland don’t want a border between them, so BoJo went with the soft border in the Irish Sea, which means the Unionists now are all angry.

It was always going to be a lose-lose situation.

But the Brexiteers don’t care. They thrive in the hyper-nationalism that leads to things like wars.

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jeffreyw  Apr 4, 2021 • 12:25:59pm

YouTube

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ckkatz  Apr 4, 2021 • 12:27:27pm

re: #50 austin_blue

Check out Raleigh/Chapel Hill/Durham or Richmond, Va. Light blue surrounded by a lot of red, but doable. Also, Charlottesville, Va is a lovely town with a medical school.

re: #45 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’ve overwintered in Arizona before… great place if you like deserts and the geology is wonderful. But frankly there is a culture war for Arizona going on right now.

I’ve also lived in Maryland for a season. It has its charms, but I am not an east-coast type of person. Yet there is opportunity in MD for a lot of people. The property near DC is expensive.

Good advice!

Living in the DC region, the property has gotten extremely expensive, particularly in the past year. Houses in my neighborhood (near Reston in Fairfax County, Virginia) that were selling for $500 k last year are now going for around $700k.) A friend sold her house in Arlington last year. She listed for $800k and was offered over a megabuck. (It mostly went to the bank.) Her showing was in a blizzard and a lot of folks still attended.

The core counties around DC are very expensive. Around Baltimore, around Richmond and at the edge of the “Great Northeastern Megalopolis”, are much less expensive. [That’s basically Richmond to Boston, and west to the eastern edge of the Appalachians.]

Charlottesville, Va is a good option. The mountains of North Carolina, like Asheville are becoming a popular for retirement with a lower cost of living. The friend from Arlington ended up moving to Hagerstown, Md. (At the intersection of I70 and I81.) It does have a good hospital, economic opportunities as a transportation hub and regional center. It is about 1.5 hours drive west of DC.

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Teukka  Apr 4, 2021 • 12:30:39pm

re: #60 ckkatz

So I had to click on it and got the age-restricted warning. :)

Reminds me that in the Northern Virginia area, the fleas are immune to many of the standard anti-flea agents. I had to switch several times before I found something that would repel the fleas. (From my cat, btw. :) ) That may be the same issue as in the video.

Years ago, I had some friend who would shave their long-haired cat in the summer. It would look embarrassed, but relieved. It was also funny as all get out as there was not a lot of cat under all the long fur.

Thanks for posting!

The thing is, apart from the title, it’s a wholesome video…

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austin_blue  Apr 4, 2021 • 12:31:04pm

re: #62 mmmirele

Ummm am I getting flashbacks to the 1970s?

Nope, these are Protestant Unionists attacking the Police, not the Mary-worshipping Catholics.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 4, 2021 • 12:38:10pm

re: #34 Teukka

Total clickbait cat grooming video:

[Embedded content]

Which one is the sheet folding? There are way too many vids to watch there.

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ckkatz  Apr 4, 2021 • 12:39:51pm

re: #67 Teukka

The thing is, apart from the title, it’s a wholesome video…

Yup! I guess the biggest issue would be an adult trying to explain the double-entendre to a child.

Being a programmer, I do wonder whether the screening process was automated or human driven.

If human driven, I wonder how different dialects and cultural contexts of English speakers view it. Or whether the screeners spoke English as a second language, which might obscure the full context.

If the screening is automated, I suspect that there is a word list, but not a lot of context in it.

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mmmirele  Apr 4, 2021 • 12:42:46pm

re: #45 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’ve overwintered in Arizona before… great place if you like deserts and the geology is wonderful. But frankly there is a culture war for Arizona going on right now.

I’ve also lived in Maryland for a season. It has its charms, but I am not an east-coast type of person. Yet there is opportunity in MD for a lot of people. The property near DC is expensive.

Arizona is getting too expensive to live in. I’d blame it on the Californians moving in, but I tend to think it’s based on housing speculation.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 4, 2021 • 12:44:14pm

re: #70 ckkatz

I suspect it’s automated.

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Teukka  Apr 4, 2021 • 12:51:21pm

re: #72 Eclectic Cyborg

I suspect it’s automated.

Parts of which are really, really broken in a way which does not instill confidence in the coding abilities of the folks up at Google, Inc…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 4, 2021 • 12:57:29pm

re: #73 Teukka

Tech companies tend to put waaay too much faith into automation and algorithms.

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Teukka  Apr 4, 2021 • 12:59:14pm

re: #74 Eclectic Cyborg

Tech companies tend to put waaay too much faith into automation and algorithms.

Some of them also have an issue with code quality — what I’ve experienced is an error in the age verification which likely stems from poor programmer oversight and/or poorly constructed test software.

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A Mom Anon  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:01:21pm

Thanks everyone for feedback on places to live. My family is mostly here in GA but my family is right wing and basically threw us aside because of Jesus and politics. We haven’t spoken in two years. Husband’s family lives in the Ft Lauderdale area and Maryland. He wants to stay in the eastern part of the country so the NE USA is probably the only place that makes sense. Affordable housing and medical care are big consideration. Don’t want a big house, or a big yard unless it’s flat, lol. I even considered buying land and putting up a couple of tiny houses for us and our son, but that is probably not in the budget. Onward we go…

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BlueSpotinAL  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:01:27pm

re: #64 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

As was expected, except that the Brexiteers lied and lied and lied.

Problem is that if one wants a border then you get a border. Borders means borders. But enough people in NI and Ireland don’t want a border between them, so BoJo went with the soft border in the Irish Sea, which means the Unionists now are all angry.

It was always going to be a lose-lose situation.

But the Brexiteers don’t care. They thrive in the hyper-nationalism that leads to things like wars.

At least there were <40% numpties on the border who voted to Brexit.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:11:31pm

re: #76 A Mom Anon

Husband’s family lives in the Ft Lauderdale area and Maryland.

My experience of living in Maryland was while I was working in Alexandria. Yup, lived in MD even though my job was across the river.

It’s not really my kind of place, but I did think that overall, if one were willing to live slightly outside the inner belt of burbs of DC, or even closer to Baltimore, that one can find a decent place to live at a price not too exorbitant.

Weather is too mosquito-prone for me.

But on the plus side, blueberries are much cheaper to buy in that part of the country.

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Jebediah, RBG  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:17:52pm

Happy Easter from Blasphememes-R-us

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ckkatz  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:20:20pm

re: #78 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

My experience of living in Maryland was while I was working in Alexandria. Yup, lived in MD even though my job was across the river.

It’s not really my kind of place, but I did think that overall, if one were willing to live slightly outside the inner belt of burbs of DC, or even closer to Baltimore, that one can find a decent place to live at a price not too exorbitant.

Weather is too mosquito-prone for me.

But on the plus side, blueberries are much cheaper to buy in that part of the country.

When I moved down in the 1980’s it was a standard meme that newly arriving singles in their 20’s would live in Alexandria… For one rental season. Then they would move out as it was expensive, crowded and noisy.

And yes, locally available produce can be berry berry good indeed!

The parents of one of my current neighbors used to run a pick your own blueberry farm just up the road. Unfortunately, taxes got too high, the parents too elderly, and the farm was devolped into a bunch of McMansions.

As happened to the Appaloosa Horse Farm and the Iris farm. All originally there when Reston Avenue was a dirt lane. Now it’s a divided four lane road that, until the Pandemic, would be in a complete traffic jam during rush hours .

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:24:25pm

re: #74 Eclectic Cyborg

Tech companies tend to put waaay too much faith into automation and algorithms.

In part because they are trying to avoid training and paying people to do it properly.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:25:58pm

When I drove around the country or flew into places for meetings etc., the only parts of the country that felt really foreign to me was the deep south.

The eastern part of VA is now greatly urbanized so it didn’t have that feel anymore.

But driving through western North Carolina and then Tennessee… felt like a different land to me.

Also, visiting MS, even if it was the more suburban southwest (near NOLA.)

TX sort of has that feel. Didn’t quite feel right to me.

The rest of the places I’ve been I’ve not had that feeling.

NYC - fine.
DC - fine.
Traveling cross country through the old western route (Ohio westward) - fine.
Any of the western states - fine. Sure, Utah is a bit weird but it’s such a scenic drive through that state that I kind of just looked at the landscape and ignored the people.
HI - fine.

Never been to Alaska except while sitting in an airplane.

Anyway, the cultural milieu of say Chattanooga really felt odd to me. Driving on the highway and then pulling over into a large restaurant really hit me hard. The people (this would have been some years back) all seemed weird to me. And large.

When I went to live in Japan that of course was a culture shock. But it felt ok, even good.

I’ve not traveled for about 6 years now. Last time I went was to the middle of the continent. It does of course feel different than here in SoCal. The longer I stay away from there the stranger it has felt. But one can never feel totally out place where one has lived before.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:27:57pm

re: #4 PhillyPretzel

They are completely nuts. I do not think there is anyway to reverse the process.

again, there are some people who truly believe this shit, other people who are cynical bastards manipulating the true believers and others just along for the ride or for the laughs or they see it as a bizarre form of political Performance Art.

But they seemed to have reached a critical mass and are good at generating a buzz

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mmmirele  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:30:01pm

My brother has a big (12 feet?) prickly pear cactus in his front yard. I took this picture yesterday. There are dozens of cactus flowers in various states of open and closed on it right now. This was the lowest one I could reasonably reach with my camera.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:30:19pm

Can’t attest to the house prices where I am west of Philadelphia, but one thing to look for is where and how good the regional medical centers are and what sort of regional rail the various cities have.

I live 15-20 miles west of Philadelphia, but can get into the city center in less than an hour via the rail network. And I rent within walking distance of a train station.

Western parts of PA and NY might also be of interest. Though they get politically conservative once you get outside of the cities. The states themselves stay sorta liberal, but also tax a bit more than others. Plus you might find liberal bastions around some of the small college towns as well.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:30:29pm

I realize that TN is more “mid-south” and not deep south. But it felt deep-south to me.

MS is the deep south of course, but the only places I’ve visited are culturally connected to NOLA. Which itself felt a bit foreign to me, but I’ve been to enough cities with an international flavor that NOLA was fine.

Been to Stuttgart - lovely place from what I can remember. I’d do fine in Europe if only I didn’t have to work.

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darthstar  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:30:57pm

12 hours is meaningless. Suspend her for a week at least.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:33:02pm

re: #87 darthstar

What’d she do this time?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:34:48pm

Looks like I will be traveling to Albuquerque in early June for a wedding. (Main holdup was getting vaccinated.)

I figure on spending at least an extra week in the general area to tourist a bit.

However, I am also giving minor consideration to change things up and possibly take Amtrak to get there rather than flying. (And probably fly back, though round-trip train might be an option as well.) Not sure that the train travel will be that scenic, but it will be a change of pace and involve more leg and elbow room than I’d get in a plane.

Any Lizard suggestions on “don’t miss” places out there?

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jaunte  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:37:08pm

re: #89 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Sandia Peak:
sandiapeak.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:38:46pm

re: #45 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’ve overwintered in Arizona before… great place if you like deserts and the geology is wonderful. But frankly there is a culture war for Arizona going on right now.

Arizona used to have quite a liberal streak to it, gave us people like Mo Udall and Bruce Babbitt. But it also gave us Barry Goldwater and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. And of late, the gun-toting hard-nosed conservatives have really gotten the upper hand.

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ckkatz  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:40:12pm

re: #82 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

When I drove around the country or flew into places for meetings etc., the only parts of the country that felt really foreign to me was the deep south.

The eastern part of VA is now greatly urbanized so it didn’t have that feel anymore.

But driving through western North Carolina and then Tennessee… felt like a different land to me.

Also, visiting MS, even if it was the more suburban southwest (near NOLA.)

TX sort of has that feel. Didn’t quite feel right to me.

The rest of the places I’ve been I’ve not had that feeling.

NYC - fine.
DC - fine.
Traveling cross country through the old western route (Ohio westward) - fine.
Any of the western states - fine. Sure, Utah is a bit weird but it’s such a scenic drive through that state that I kind of just looked at the landscape and ignored the people.
HI - fine.

Never been to Alaska except while sitting in an airplane.

Anyway, the cultural milieu of say Chattanooga really felt odd to me. Driving on the highway and then pulling over into a large restaurant really hit me hard. The people (this would have been some years back) all seemed weird to me. And large.

When I went to live in Japan that of course was a culture shock. But it felt ok, even good.

I’ve not traveled for about 6 years now. Last time I went was to the middle of the continent. It does of course feel different than here in SoCal. The longer I stay away from there the stranger it has felt. But one can never feel totally out place where one has lived before.

Yup, there is a social contract that varies depending upon where one is in the US, who one is, and who one is perceived to be. As a white male, I have more flexibility than many others with respect to having a relatively good social contract.

I self-identify as a northeastern city person. While I have lived in rural areas, I prefer the services and opportunities in cities. And I prefer living in the North East.

I mean no disrespect to others who have made different choices and decisions…

I have had opportunities to live in Texas and Florida, but declined as my understanding of the social contract did not interest me.

I will note that much of the rest of Virginia views Va’s DC ‘burbs and Tidewater regions as Northern enclaves in an otherwise ‘Southern’ State. Which is likely true.

However, these two regions have a significant portion of the Va’s population, and an outsized proportion of the wealth. Which has had a major effect on Va turning blue.

What I find interesting is that regional differences have always existed in the US. In 1860, Midwest support for the Union was not always a sure thing. And Virginia had some serious doubts before throwing in with the Confederacy.

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darthstar  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:40:13pm

What’s a Harvard Law degree worth these days? I mean, I’d try to do something a little more substantial than social media influencing.

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Belafon  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:43:11pm

re: #81 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

In part because they are trying to avoid training and paying people to do it properly.

What is any tech throughout history but an attempt to do things more efficiently than humans?

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darthstar  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:43:54pm

re: #93 darthstar

What’s a Harvard Law degree worth these days? I mean, I’d try to do something a little more substantial than social media influencing.

I decided not to mock her because I suspect she’s sensitive to that kind of thing. But I did offer a bit of advice.

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BlueSpotinAL  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:44:15pm

re: #89 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Looks like I will be traveling to Albuquerque in early June for a wedding. (Main holdup was getting vaccinated.)

I figure on spending at least an extra week in the general area to tourist a bit.

However, I am also giving minor consideration to change things up and possibly take Amtrak to get there rather than flying. (And probably fly back, though round-trip train might be an option as well.) Not sure that the train travel will be that scenic, but it will be a change of pace and involve more leg and elbow room than I’d get in a plane.

Any Lizard suggestions on “don’t miss” places out there?

You can go to Area 51, where this happened:

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jaunte  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:44:19pm

re: #89 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

If you’re there for a week, Sante Fe is just an hour away, and it’s pretty interesting too.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:45:41pm
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Belafon  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:46:20pm

re: #93 darthstar

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Secret ANTIFA Operative  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:46:43pm

re: #87 darthstar

12 hours is meaningless. Suspend her for a week at least.

Forever.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:48:41pm

re: #62 mmmirele

Ummm am I getting flashbacks to the 1970s?

Reminds me of one of the lyrics to this little dittie from Rutland Weekend Television

I set fire to referees who let opponents score

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jaunte  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:49:13pm

Santa Fe is the first place I saw prairie dogs living in the highway median.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:53:24pm

re: #98 Patricia Kayden

We’re so obsessed w/estimating causal effects of suppression efforts we have ceded impt normative ground. The right to vote is sacred. Access to the ballot should be expanded, not burdened. Be wary of those who look at attempts to disenfranchise folks & remark, “Oh, no big deal.”

We are dealing with people who think it was a mistake to expand the voting franchise beyond land-owning white males. Ones who needed no ID because their reputation preceded them when they thundered into town to vote in their coach-and-six, trampling poor commoners who did not get out of their way quickly enough…

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ckkatz  Apr 4, 2021 • 1:58:38pm

re: #95 darthstar

I decided not to mock her because I suspect she’s sensitive to that kind of thing. But I did offer a bit of advice.

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Jay C  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:00:59pm

re: #96 BlueSpotinAL

You can go to Area 51, where this happened:

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Missing the caption:

“You fools! It’s getting away…..!”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:05:25pm

So I see that “President Oaks” is trending on twitter, and I think to myself - we’ve never had a US President by that name.

Then I check it out, and it appears he is el jefe of the LDS.

In today’s Easter sermon he’s apparently once again testifying to how our Constitution is some divine creation. But I guess the hot take from his delivery is that he doesn’t want anything to do with the insurrectionists of the religious right.

The LDS has a history of walking a fine line between the religious right in American politics on one hand, and being the outsiders (historical) on the other. Mormonism is a controlling religion, but they know they are considered heretics by the true believers of American fundamentalism.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:08:21pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:08:24pm

re: #106 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Mormonism is a controlling religion, but they know they are considered heretics by the true believers of American fundamentalism.

Which is why they could never warm to the likes of Mitt Romney but flocked in droves to support Trump.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:11:31pm

re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Which is why they could never warm to the likes of Mitt Romney but flocked in droves to support Trump.

Well, that’s the thing. Today president Oaks basically sent the message that if you’re LDS you don’t have to belong to the Republican party. His message communicated (to the LDS) that

“We should never assert that a faithful Latter-day Saint cannot belong to a particular party or vote for a particular candidate.”

This is quite a different stance than what is being taken in many fundamentalist churches in the US today.

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dat_said  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:11:48pm

K.re: #89 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Looks like I will be traveling to Albuquerque in early June for a wedding.[….]

Any Lizard suggestions on “don’t miss” places out there?

Santa Fe - many things but especially Meow Wolf, if open. Bandelier National Monument. Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument. Valles Caldera National Preserve.. Jemez Mountain Trail National Scenic Byway. Taos. Los Alamos.

And every stop on the green chile cheeseburger trail

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:13:14pm

The LDS, at least their leaders, know that if the GOP is used by the fundamentalists to install a theocracy, the LDS are as much a target as the atheists.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:15:45pm

re: #102 jaunte

Santa Fe is the first place I saw prairie dogs living in the highway median.

Lubbock has an organization, People for Prairie Dogs, that rescues and re-locates prairie dog colonies that are threatened by development. The city always gives them first crack at the critters when some developer seeks an extermination permit. I saw them in action a couple of times. The volunteers have a truck with a big tank of soapy water and a second one with a cage. The cage has a spring loaded one way door on top. One volunteer starts flooding a likely looking hole with soapy water, while others station themselves around nearby holes. They wear elbow-length leather gloves with chain mail inserts. The evicted rodents spring out of the holes madder than hell, snarling, growling and trying to bite off the fingers, indeed whole arms, of their rescuers. The volunteers wrestle the ungrateful varmints to the cage and drop them in. Then they hose them down with clear water to remove the soap, occasioning still more displays of rage, and give them some food. They are then driven off to their new home. One volunteer told me they are usually as calm as puppies by the time they arrive.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:17:14pm

This guy quickly found four comments from the Trumpers (also LDS?) who got the message and are now objecting:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:20:14pm

re: #113 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Whoops, my bad. That is his tweet from January.

Anyway, it shows what someone like Oaks is up against.

Trump’s merchandising of himself really fixed in deeply even into the LDS.

I’m wondering if other religious leaders of the non-liberal persuasion will go ahead are start to declare that the Republican party is not the party of God?

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BlueSpotinAL  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:23:31pm

Finally, got it to post with caption.

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Mattand  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:26:14pm

re: #9 A Mom Anon

Serious question. Is there any place left in the US where sane people tend to be a majority? Asking for a friend….

NJ has its share of cranks, but we seem to be doing okay.

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Mattand  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:29:32pm

re: #89 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Looks like I will be traveling to Albuquerque in early June for a wedding. (Main holdup was getting vaccinated.)

I figure on spending at least an extra week in the general area to tourist a bit.

However, I am also giving minor consideration to change things up and possibly take Amtrak to get there rather than flying. (And probably fly back, though round-trip train might be an option as well.) Not sure that the train travel will be that scenic, but it will be a change of pace and involve more leg and elbow room than I’d get in a plane.

Any Lizard suggestions on “don’t miss” places out there?

If I remember correctly, you’re in PA. Are you talking about taking the trip from PA to Albuquerque?

Damn. That’s a haul. I’ve done Philly to Savannah a handful of times. 12 hour trip that usually morphs into 14 due to delays. I’m having harder time doing that anymore. I can’t imagine doing PA to AZ.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:31:44pm
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piratedan  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:32:54pm

re: #13 plansbandc

depends on who’s eating you I suppose….

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Mattand  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:34:05pm

re: #76 A Mom Anon

Thanks everyone for feedback on places to live. My family is mostly here in GA but my family is right wing and basically threw us aside because of Jesus and politics. We haven’t spoken in two years. Husband’s family lives in the Ft Lauderdale area and Maryland. He wants to stay in the eastern part of the country so the NE USA is probably the only place that makes sense. Affordable housing and medical care are big consideration. Don’t want a big house, or a big yard unless it’s flat, lol. I even considered buying land and putting up a couple of tiny houses for us and our son, but that is probably not in the budget. Onward we go…

Sorry, didn’t see this when I posted my vote for NJ.

Maryland might be the way to go. I lived there as a kid for the first half of the 70s. We were 20 miles NW of Baltimore. I have nothing but great memories of growing up there, but I recently found out that our county had a rep for unrepentant racism and KKK activity at the time.

Maryland is often called the Gateway to the South, and it may be hit or miss regarding living next to the nut jobs.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:42:50pm

Since I mentioned it earlier, yet again, this loss-of-god problem is really driving broad swaths of the US crazy.

[narrator: he wrote, on Easter.]

I’m very convinced by now that the Trump-attachment syndrome arises as a proxy for I’m-afraid-to-lose-Je$u$ angst.

You can tell on social media, like twitter. They post great declarations of faith one after another, sometimes up to hundreds of tweets in a few hour.

They are incanting … via tweet.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:46:51pm

It recently occurred to me that in the 1960s and early ’70s there were lefty hippies who were not only understandably distrustful of the FBI, but also outright conspiracy theorists beyond what FBI or CIA were likely to accomplish. Around 2010 they became the Tea Party.

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marcusgorillius  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:53:19pm

re: #9 A Mom Anon

Try the Pittsburgh area. Property is reasonably priced, fairly mild winters and world class hospitals. When you get into new England your looking at major real estate prices and taxes.

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piratedan  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:54:30pm

AZ is purple at the moment…

Dems hold both Senate seats and a majority of Congressional seats as well.

Where politics can still be gerrymandered, at the State Level, they are with the GOP having a majority in the State House and the State Senate. Yet, despite that, their numbers are shrinking, hence their new plan (which is the same voter suppression plan elsewhere) to limit voting ease in places where they don’t have the majority and to try the same underhanded shit going on in Ga, Fla and Texas.

If you are looking at AZ as a place to retire, a few notes… the AZ Rim country is expensive because that’s where all of the well to do folks go to escape the summer heat. Phoenix is starting to trend more blue than it has in roughly 50 years, breaking the Mormon power stranglehold that has been the norm in the Valley of the Sun. Tucson, is traditionally bluer, most likely to the lack of a Mormon stranglehold on local elections.

Decent sized towns have their own personalities, Prescott and Flagstaff tend slightly bluer due to their local higher learning facilities, Yuma is a haven for retirees and is notoriously Conservative, as is Kingman. Sierra Vista is a mixed bag thanks to a big military base complex, Bisbee has a burgeoning artists haven vibe which tends to run blue with a heavy dose of libertarianism, yet much of Cochise county are made up of conservative retirement family ranch homesteads. Depending on where you go, you can find damn near anything but the dry heat has cooked our local wingnuts quite effectively, so its not just casual crankiness, our has been distilled.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:55:38pm

re: #121 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

They want control.

God as sock puppet for their wants is the ultimate form of control; a society in which they cannot top-down dictate morality by operating puppet-god is the worst case scenario for them.

You can see the opposite side of this in Meiji Japan and current day Hindu India: authority figures attempting to refine a diverse and syncretic polytheism into a body of knowledge defined by a small number of interpreters that are focused on establishing hierarchy and rigid control systems.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:57:22pm

re: #49 Renaissance_Man

re: #51 🌹UOJB!

Those are Republicans which was my point. Republicans are the only people who buy the argument that Democrats are the real racists.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:58:20pm

re: #112 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Aren’t prairie dogs one of the reservoir species for plague? And possibly a couple of other nasty virus/bacteria as well?

I’d definitely armor up if I had to handle them as well.

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jaunte  Apr 4, 2021 • 2:58:50pm
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 4, 2021 • 3:00:48pm

re: #117 Mattand

If I remember correctly, you’re in PA. Are you talking about taking the trip from PA to Albuquerque?

Damn. That’s a haul. I’ve done Philly to Savannah a handful of times. 12 hour trip that usually morphs into 14 due to delays. I’m having harder time doing that anymore. I can’t imagine doing PA to AZ.

It’s roughly 20 hours from Philly to Chicago. Then a second train to Albuquerque, which I expect (have not checked the exact timing yet) is probably another 1-2 days.

It’s not ideal compared to flying obviously. But I’m thinking it would be a bit more adventurous and possibly my best opportunity to take a longish train ride.

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darthstar  Apr 4, 2021 • 3:02:32pm

Wow…Trump accounted for up to 3% of the Credit Card Fraud in the US at one point.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 4, 2021 • 3:09:39pm

re: #123 marcusgorillius

Try the Pittsburgh area. Property is reasonably priced, fairly mild winters and world class hospitals. When you get into new England your looking at major real estate prices and taxes.

God yes. The market is insane here. And if you move looking to buy, there’s nothing to rent either (NH). It’s really stressing me out because we are hoping to get into the market but can’t compete. Our landlord is understanding, but if I were him I’d think about selling right now. That would shake up our lives in a major way.

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dat_said  Apr 4, 2021 • 3:09:50pm

re: #128 jaunte

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The owners moved the All-Star Game from Atlanta not because they’re for voting rights. The owners moved it because they were afraid the players would boycott if they didn’t move the game.

From the article: “These owners standing up and saying ‘Black Lives Matter,’ and even taking a knee, doesn’t mean that they get it,” Edwards said. “What shows what they get is where they put their money.”

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Apr 4, 2021 • 3:15:09pm

re: #127 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Aren’t prairie dogs one of the reservoir species for plague? And possibly a couple of other nasty virus/bacteria as well?

I’d definitely armor up if I had to handle them as well.

They are susceptible to bubonic plague but actual infections are rare. The Fish and Wildlife Service has an oral vaccine that is sprayed on likely sites from drones or small planes. They are generally less susceptible than most rodents to other infections, probably because they are exclusively herbivorous. The bites can still be very nasty. As with other burrowing species, the claws can shred flesh like it was paper.
They are cute, though.

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nines09  Apr 4, 2021 • 3:17:03pm

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Teukka  Apr 4, 2021 • 3:18:20pm

re: #130 darthstar

Wow…Trump accounted for up to 3% of the Credit Card Fraud in the US at one point.

WOAH.

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Sufficient unto the day...  Apr 4, 2021 • 3:20:37pm

re: #135 Teukka

Kinda surprised that it was only 3%, TBH.

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William Lewis  Apr 4, 2021 • 3:20:40pm

re: #124 piratedan

AZ is purple at the moment…

Dems hold both Senate seats and a majority of Congressional seats as well.

Where politics can still be gerrymandered, at the State Level, they are with the GOP having a majority in the State House and the State Senate. Yet, despite that, their numbers are shrinking, hence their new plan (which is the same voter suppression plan elsewhere) to limit voting ease in places where they don’t have the majority and to try the same underhanded shit going on in Ga, Fla and Texas.

If you are looking at AZ as a place to retire, a few notes… the AZ Rim country is expensive because that’s where all of the well to do folks go to escape the summer heat. Phoenix is starting to trend more blue than it has in roughly 50 years, breaking the Mormon power stranglehold that has been the norm in the Valley of the Sun. Tucson, is traditionally bluer, most likely to the lack of a Mormon stranglehold on local elections.

Decent sized towns have their own personalities, Prescott and Flagstaff tend slightly bluer due to their local higher learning facilities, Yuma is a haven for retirees and is notoriously Conservative, as is Kingman. Sierra Vista is a mixed bag thanks to a big military base complex, Bisbee has a burgeoning artists haven vibe which tends to run blue with a heavy dose of libertarianism, yet much of Cochise county are made up of conservative retirement family ranch homesteads. Depending on where you go, you can find damn near anything but the dry heat has cooked our local wingnuts quite effectively, so its not just casual crankiness, our has been distilled.

Heh. Sounds like what I’ve heard elsewhere and saw when at Ft Huachuca. If I moved to Az, and I’ve seriously considered it, it would probably be to Bisbee. It always seemed like a decent mix of the best elements of the state.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 4, 2021 • 3:21:03pm

re: #136 Sufficient unto the day…

Kinda surprised that it was only 3%, TBH.

That just tells you how much credit card fraud goes on. It’s an incredibly lucrative business, ripping people off.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 4, 2021 • 3:24:27pm

re: #138 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Yes it is. Even some of the people who were working at the PPA who were supposedly helping people with paying off their fines managed to get a few things for themselves because many people used their credit cards.

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nines09  Apr 4, 2021 • 3:31:03pm

There is a reason Nigerian and other scams work the US public.
They figured out that we are greedy AND stupid.

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Amory Blaine  Apr 4, 2021 • 3:32:03pm

re: #130 darthstar

Is that all? ///

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Dangerman  Apr 4, 2021 • 3:34:48pm

re: #126 Patricia Kayden

Those are Republicans which was my point. Republicans are the only people who buy the argument that Democrats are the real racists.

republicans have perverted American politics to the point where it is no longer a clash of value systems, each of which is in some way valid; a competition between basically well-intentioned people who see the world differently.

Republicans made it, not a conflict of diverse interests, but instead a tribal, degenerative, brutal struggle for office. they have declared with righteous indignation that Democrats / liberals / the left and only Democrats / Liberals/the left is and can be capable of behaving despicably.

This is not merely because what the parties want is diametrically opposed; that’s what negotiating and compromise are.

they’ve decided they want total power all the time and the only way to achieve that is to oppress everyone else and deny our humanity and right to exist.

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Belafon  Apr 4, 2021 • 3:39:23pm

Chuck Todd was a good boy today (no need for anyone to mention his usual behavior):

Chuck Todd did something he rarely does. He consistently challenged a Republican on his program. Moreover, he may have inadvertently made the Progressive point, the only humane policies that work for all Americans.

Senator Roger Wicker attempted to tie the President’s hand with bipartisanship, then claiming that the American Jobs Plan, the infrastructure bill, would cost jobs.

“How could the president expect to have bipartisanship when his proposal is a repeal of one of our signature issues in 2017, where we cut the tax rate and made the United States finally more competitive when it comes to the way we treat job creators?” Wicker said. “He reverses all that. And I’ll tell you what. He says no one will pay extra taxes if they make less than $400,000 a year. That may be true. We’ll have to see the details there. But under this tax increase bill, there are a lot of people making $100,000 and $50,000 that are going to lose their jobs because of the extra burden this plan would put on job creators.”

Chuck Todd gave a sufficiently appropriate response.

“Well, look, what they’re talking about, though, is lowering — is basically finding a middle ground between where the corporate tax rate was in 2017 and what the corporate tax rate is today,” Chuck Todd replied. They would like to move it to 28 percent.

But then he did something I did not expect. He actually, out of context, told the necessary truth about the Republican tax cut scam.

“I am curious,” Todd said. “This tax cut that you guys put through in 2017, there were various promises that were made. That they would pay for themselves hasn’t come close to that. That it was going to produce 4, 5, or 6 percent growth. We didn’t even get 3 percent growth. At one point, former President Trump said, ‘This thing’s going to pay off the debt like it’s water.’ Well, as you know, the debt is way up. So I guess, right, you look at this tax cut proposal when most of the benefits seem to go to stockholders. You know, corporations didn’t do what you thought they were going to do, which is take this savings and invest. They instead did stock buybacks. So, wasn’t this tax cut kind of an economic failure?”

m.dailykos.com

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No Malarkey!  Apr 4, 2021 • 3:45:11pm

Looks like Oathkeepers founder Stewart Rhodes is eventually going to be indicted in the January 6 coup. All of the Oathkeepers and Proud Boys involved need to get very long prison terms.

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plansbandc  Apr 4, 2021 • 3:48:16pm

re: #82 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Can relate. The south truly was a different country. We were treated, for the most part, very kindly there except for South Carolina. They did NOT like us and wanted us to GTFO. Went to a convenience store and they wouldn’t let us use the bathroom. Must have missed the NO Yankees sign.

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nines09  Apr 4, 2021 • 3:50:35pm

If anyone has Amazon Prime TV
Search “My Name Is Salt”.
Then sit down and watch and wonder how all these hard guy Americans could possibly live like this.
“Another fucking red light jfc.”
No commentary. Just a family, 3 generations whose work sits in packets that are thrown out.
Absorb this.

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plansbandc  Apr 4, 2021 • 3:55:11pm

re: #89 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Have something to eat at The Frontier.

Ride the tram and take in the view.

Go to the Nature Center and take a walk. It’s in town and it’s a wildlife preserve.

Go see the Petroglyphs.

For sure eat a green chile cheeseburger at Blakes. They’re all over town.

Just drive around. You’ll probably see a roadrunner you might see a wild turkey. If you drive in the foothills, you might see some quail and some deer too.

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mmmirele  Apr 4, 2021 • 3:59:05pm

re: #106 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So I see that “President Oaks” is trending on twitter, and I think to myself - we’ve never had a US President by that name.

Then I check it out, and it appears he is el jefe of the LDS.

In today’s Easter sermon he’s apparently once again testifying to how our Constitution is some divine creation. But I guess the hot take from his delivery is that he doesn’t want anything to do with the insurrectionists of the religious right.

The LDS has a history of walking a fine line between the religious right in American politics on one hand, and being the outsiders (historical) on the other. Mormonism is a controlling religion, but they know they are considered heretics by the true believers of American fundamentalism.

Dallin Oaks is not el jefe, he is next in line to be el jefe. The current el jefe is Russell M. Nelson, the guy who hates the name “Mormon” so very very very much that he’s trying very very very hard to cancel it. In fact, someone pointed out to me that all the “I’m a Mormon” on YouTube videos from a 2012 media campaign that were titled “I’m a Mormon” have recently had the “I’m a Mormon” removed from their titles.

Oaks is on my personal shit list because he’s a lawyer and he’s made a point over the decades of going after LGBTQIA people. This is a more recent (2019) description of where he’s at. It’s not a nice place and it has caused issues for friends of mine.

Eight months after President Dallin H. Oaks drew fire for his General Conference denunciation of same-sex marriage and transgender rights, the senior Latter-day Saint leader took aim again at the LGBTQ community during a June 11 devotional address at Brigham Young University-Hawaii.

In a transcript of his speech, Oaks, next in line to lead the church, lamented the “culture of evil and personal wickedness in the world,” including the “increasing frequency and power of the culture and phenomenon of lesbian, gay and transgender lifestyles and values.”

sltrib.com

It’s the followers of asshats like Dallin Oaks* who lose their shit when my city, Mesa, AZ, passes a tepid equality ordinance that is nevertheless TOO FUCKING MUCH and has a petition out to put it on the November 2022 ballot.

*Let me be exquisitely clear, I’m NOT indicting all Mormons in this, not at all. But there are some people who love them some Dallin Oaks because he’s letting the “homosexuals” have it. It’s those people I’d like to have a chat with.

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plansbandc  Apr 4, 2021 • 4:00:00pm

re: #132 dat_said

And that’s why we have to do boycotts. The only thing Rs respond to is losing money or potentially losing money.

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mmmirele  Apr 4, 2021 • 4:06:25pm

re: #113 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

This guy quickly found four comments from the Trumpers (also LDS?) who got the message and are now objecting:

[Embedded content]

Oh, another, *very surprising* thing that is going on among some of the local Mormons is defiance of the leadership when it comes to mask wearing and vaccination. Russell M. Nelson was a cardiologist for a very long time, he may have some exceptionally retrograde views on a lot of things, but vaccination is not one of them. The Mormon church’s official position is that wearing masks is fine and people should obey their local authorities in this matter. But more importantly, the church is all, “everyone should get vaccinated.” Well, in between the sovereign citizens, the more Republican than thou (e.g., my congressman Andy Biggs), the MUH FREEDUMBS people and the crunchy mamas, there is a shitton of resistance.

It used to be that if the president of the church said it, everyone lined up with it. (Example, when church leaders basically went around had members emptying out their 401Ks because marriage was being threatened and the Prop 8 fight in California required giving everything, right at the moment when the economy was hitting the crapper. They won, but they ultimately lost.) Now there’s a lot of HELL NO coming out of people. It’s kind of astonishing to watch.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 4, 2021 • 4:08:50pm

re: #142 Dangerman

republicans have perverted American politics to the point where it is no longer a clash of value systems, each of which is in some way valid; a competition between basically well-intentioned people who see the world differently.

Republicans made it, not a conflict of diverse interests, but instead a tribal, degenerative, brutal struggle for office. they have declared with righteous indignation that Democrats / liberals / the left and only Democrats / Liberals/the left is and can be capable of behaving despicably.

This is not merely because what the parties want is diametrically opposed; that’s what negotiating and compromise are.

they’ve decided they want total power all the time and the only way to achieve that is to oppress everyone else and deny our humanity and right to exist.

Yeah, but that’s because “good intentions” used to include doing horrible exploitative shit to people that we just decided weren’t people, and all the gentlemanly good white folk could civilly discuss things because they had the a common measure of who the not-people were.

African slaves, natives, Asians, Tejanos, Hawaiians…we keep having to have these “Are these people enough that we’re not entitled to make them unfree labor?” discussion…wash, rinse, repeat. Mostly Americans are so deeply uninformed about shit our government did that we’re not even capable of the colonialist discussion of “were we entitled to send our military over there and steal their shit and appoint leaders?” because we’re still kinda doing it…badly….

Over the years there’s been a group that are willing to expand the definition of “people” and retroactively acknowledge that what came before was not justified, and there’s a group that feels hierarchical distinction of who is a person to what degree is good and necessary…as long as they are seeded fairly high. There’s also a mushy center position group that wants to not confront what the past was or how it created the present, and instead wants everyone to play nice in the present, which isn’t going to happen because one side literally believes in caste.

If the wife of America is liberty, then the allure of cheap labor that can be abused because they’ve been legally penned as one of the not-quite-people is America’s mistress in the well-appointed Left Bank apartment.

People are noticing what conservatives are about this time because they’ve started assigning people into the not-people category in a very open and unabashed way, and that’s surprising because the mushy center that controls our cultural narrative has for generations trained us to believe ideology is solid…and therefore the racists are supposed to color inside the established lines of race and the meritocrats actually care about efficacy and the pious actually open their holy texts…even as ideologies have constantly mutated to justify the same arbitrary hierarchy with the exact same thirst for cheap labor; vulnerable people to fuck and/or fuck over; and that vague but potent feeling of inherent superiority that intoxicates shitty, empty people worldwide.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 4, 2021 • 4:17:08pm

re: #151 The Ghost of a Flea

What I’ve seen in person or from reading history is that pretty much any philosophy or religious system can be corrupted by assholes who wish to exploit it as the justification for stealing from others or proclaiming other humans “lesser” and thus make it socially acceptable and permissible to abuse.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 4, 2021 • 4:32:06pm

re: #152 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

What I’ve seen in person or from reading history is that pretty much any philosophy or religious system can be corrupted by assholes who wish to exploit it as the justification for stealing from others or proclaiming other humans “lesser” and thus make it socially acceptable and permissible to abuse.

True but orthogonal to what I’m talking about.

A lot of terrible shit in the past and present isn’t some kind of infiltrating “corruption.”

It’s shit that was and is 100% present and understood as a part of society that ideology either did not address or…more often…has so thoroughly accepted the base premise that it wasn’t/isn’t thought of as wrong.

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EstebanTornado1963  Apr 4, 2021 • 5:56:17pm

re: #53 Dread Pirate Ron

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austin_blue  Apr 4, 2021 • 9:18:16pm

re: #132 dat_said

The owners moved the All-Star Game from Atlanta not because they’re for voting rights. The owners moved it because they were afraid the players would boycott if they didn’t move the game.

From the article: “These owners standing up and saying ‘Black Lives Matter,’ and even taking a knee, doesn’t mean that they get it,” Edwards said. “What shows what they get is where they put their money.”

The effect, however, is the same on the gaspers: “Cancel Culture!”


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