Thoughts for the Day 20230129

• It's amazing how all these billionaires  selflessly volunteer to be the new Donald Trump/
• Our nation is truly cursed to have them.
• By the way, do we call Elon Musk "Donald Musk," or "Elon Trump"?
• The dream of the GOP is to restore slavery, the "final solution" for the cause of white supremacy.
• And in order to do this the GOP will "destroy America in order to save it."
• The Confederacy 1.0 (of Civil War 1.0) was to protect slavery as a way of life.
• Confederacy 2.0 was share-cropping and for-profit prisons, and forced seperation of immigrant children at our southern borders.
• By the way, where are those children now?
• Confederacy 3.0 is the GOP life-and-death struggle to restore slavery.
• How many people would be surprised if I pointed out Conservatives want a race war?
• It should be obvious by now.

Thoughts for the Day 20230112

• "Anti-woke is just another way of saying white supremacy."
• P. Z. Myers
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the governor of Arkansas now

Thoughts for the Day 20230111

• There are not enough living beings on planet Earth to create "herd immunity."
• Rest assured, the uber-wealthy 10% are fully immunized against COVID-19, including booster shots.
• Per their capitalist conservative worldview, they fully expect the remaining 90% (you and me) to die of COVID.
• Those of the 90% who survive will become slaves.

Thoughts for the Day 20230108

•  For Conservatives, the question, What is a woman? is a "gotcha" question.
• To conservatives, the correct answer is, "A woman is a person born without a penis.
• I'm seeing strange arguments about slavery being practiced by non-whites, so this (somehow) hand-waves whites off the hook for importing (and then later smuggling) boatload after boatload of slaves to the Americas for the benefit of white slave-owners: "Oh, everyone was practicing slavery."
• Rule #1: Slavery is evil.
• Rule #2: When in doubt, refer to Rule #1.
• The fact slavery is near-universal is one of the major failings of our civilization.
• The prevalence of slavery does not excuse the practice of slavery.
• How bizarre that conservatives emphasize individual responsibility; 
• unless it comes to issues of race, 
• whereupon it's all collective responsibility.

Thoughts for the Day 20230105

 Still catching up on old notes:

• This happens all the time in local politics:
• We need to pay town employees more to better retain experienced people.
• GOP: No.
• We need to pay LEO's more to retain them.
• GOP: Yes.

Thoughts for the Day 20230104

 Catching up on a backlog of my personal notes:

• People who own guns want their ownership to be sacrosanct, a moral imperative.
• Guns are just guns; they are designed only to kill.
• That is not a moral authority; that is terror.
• I have little patience with pro-gun arguments, because their logic--boiled down--is, "I have a gun, and you don't, so you lose."
• Pro-gun arguments are abysmally stupid and meaningless.
• The question Conservatives hate the most is, "Why are you doing this?"
• Conservative attempts to truthfully answer this question are too revealing, as conservatives know they cannot reveal their real reasons, as they are inherently racist and exploitative. 
• I thank the gods I have witnessed the beginning of the end of the Republican party.
• The slippery moral slope begun in the Reagan administration has dumped the GOP into a pit of their own making.
• I weary of all these articles and essays whose thesis is, "I was a Liberal until..."
• As far as I am concerned, that until is when you sold out to gain wealth, fame and power.
• I am a Liberal.
• I want to be a Liberal.
• I am not a Liberal in reaction to conservative policies and exploitation.
• Conservative candidates only have (obscene amounts of) money, not an agenda.
• A major consequence of GOP misrule is ignorance and misinformation.
• At my local college, students who come from GOP controlled regions were afraid to be openly liberal, and had no idea of what a lot of important--even vital--social issues there are. 
• Yes, my worldview is radical, even anarchist, based on an unshakable belief in human rights.
• And the means to ensure these human rights is a democracy, not a republic.
•  Don't paint the GOP as the bad guys.
• Instead focus on how horrific their policies and platform are.