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Narcissists cannot tolerate smarter people around them, especially underlings.

Ruh roh

This is fascinating!

I'm also curious what causes idioms to be shared across languages, like "pearls before swine" (presumably this is shared because of the biblical verse, Matt 7:6)

Fixing the police is great but I don't think that's enough to reduce child rape.

Find the causes—childhood abuse / neglect, most likely—and aggressively address these social ills. Find more reliable ways to rehabilitate and use it for those convicted. Among other things.

How do you figure?

In what way will a punch prevent a child rapist from wrecking the lives of more children?

Will it somehow cause them to stop? Will it cause them to face charges for their crimes? Lead to therapy in hopes of reform?

I don't see how a punch is likely to do any of these things.

Anything resulting in their arrest and conviction? Great. Do that.

Peters quote from the article:

“I think that these people need to be replaced,” Peters said regarding elected and government officials. “They need to be replaced, but by means of elections is not going to happen. So what we need to do is what the Constitution directs us to do, which is to abolish and tear down and dismantle a government that has become rogue and oppressive to our individual God-given, inherent rights. And then we need to replace it with a form of government that’s representative of the people.”

“If we do that,” Peters continued, “none of this song and pony show dance fake circus nonsense would even be in existence because the people that are perpetuating this and have openly declared war on the American people will be held to extreme accountability, and they will be gone.”

“It’s all fake. It’s all rigged. It’s all set up,” Peters declared. “It’s part of a Marxist coup. It’s the ushering in an authoritarian, oppressive one-world government and the only thing stopping them from completing it is 450 million guns in this country, so now we just need to talk about what to do with those guns and how to use them.”

"Marxist coup"? For some of us words mean things and we know those meanings. For the rabid right, certain words are divorced from meaning and made into Pavlovian triggers for fear and revulsion.

Words like socialism, Marxism, groomer, woke, and even names like AOC and Hillary.

Edited to add...

This is more dangerous rhetoric and it continues to escalate. I find it especially dangerous because parts of it appeal to anyone feeling disenfranchised and poorly represented.

Would I like to replace corrupt, corporate bootlickers in congress with people who are honest and want to make things better? Absolutely but through legitimate means. I feel dirty and 🤢 having any views even slightly agreement with this shitstain because this guy is clearly a fascist piece of shit (wait... that's redundant) and he can and should go fuck himself.

But I genuinely fear his rhetoric may entice those who are less woke (in the good sense of the word) and who are poorly inoculated against rhetorical manipulation and ignorant of the history of fascism.

Hopefully the Trump era left no fence sitters in the US and perhaps younger generations mostly reject this hateful bullshit. At the same time I feel we aren't out of the woods yet as far as rising fascism goes.

So the answer is Jesus. Y'know, because "he's the answer to everything?"

So happy to be atheist now ..

60% 5%

I'll get the graham crackers then

Let's make it a potluck bonfire.

Remember when Trump couldn't walk down a slight incline by himself?

No. Yes.

WASHINGTON — The House Oversight Committee on Thursday convened its first hearing in the GOP's impeachment inquiry, presenting a panel of Republican-picked witnesses who said while there is no evidence of a crime by President Joe Biden, more bank records are needed from him and his son Hunter Biden to determine if there might be.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna117657

His term was the longest decade of my life. I don't remember if I had a celebratory dram but I remember the immense relief washing over me.

Fixed her fucking portfolio probably.

Lmao cool story bro.

You and I know that. But to them Biden is the one with dementia. It's so incomprehensible and infuriating I have to laugh (or else go insane).

It is utterly baffling to me now people can go through life not giving the slightest shit about what is real or bullshit.

And always fertilized with the finest humanity can expel

They got me too, dang it

President Donald Trump, who has in recent days accused Milley of “treason” and suggested that he should be put to death for his conduct surrounding Trump’s bid in 2021 to remain in office despite losing the presidential election.

no u.

It's comically simple how transparent fuckheads like him become once you tune into the pattern. Accusations are confessions, gaslight, obstruct, project, and all that

Ha that hit hard. This is basically the system I just upgraded to. Well at least it'll run the game well.