Criticism of Joe Biden is presently conflated with support of Donald Trump. This criticism is not in support of Trump’s failed pandemic response. Bleach?! https://t.co/T26lIUwleiDo you too get the sense that Biden is trying to avoid panic by refusing to tell the truth about how damaging COVID infections are on
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A Puff of Absurdity: How We Look After the Least Fortunate
Back in the day, the left was all about protesting for rights for marginalized people, and the right fought for a more individualistic, pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps ideology. Another thread from Kelly, this time on something I’ve also noticed in my life: this individualistic right-wing ideology in left-leaning friends: Had a discussion with
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Feudalism
Have we ever lived outside of a system of pseudo-feudalism with peasantry, slavery, or the working poor labouring for the benefit of Kings, land barons, or factory owners? One perspective of the past thousand years or so might go something like this: Peasants lived on the King’s land, first for
Continue readingExcited Delirium: The Creeping Conflicts of Corporate Contracts
With ArriveCan, Canadians catch wind of what’s supposed to be another scandal, but what if it’s just a repeat of a long-established trend of ripping of the public purse? The post The Creeping Conflicts of Corporate Contracts first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Transgender Ideology Destabilizes People
This is what transgender ideology looks on the inside. The vulnerable narcissism, the victim/persecution complex, and the complete inability to function in normal society. This is what happens when your beliefs cut you off from your family and friends. All you have left is your “glitter-family” whose support is conditional
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Riders Shoot Foot Again
Did the SK Roughriders hire the REAL geniuses who thought the Experience Regina rebrand was smart? They had a meltdown when some meat-heads (pun intended) got upset by A&W sponsoring the team while promoting veggie burgers.The organization doesn't care about player or fan safety, covering up disease outbreaks, and playing
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gender Affirming Care is NOT Evidence Based
Letter to the PM and Premier Doug Ford on the danger of “gender affirming care”. Share widely.
Continue readingScripturient: Have Conservatives Finally Become Irredeemable?
In the past, whenever I read news about any conservative leader, party or government — small-c conservative, including the Canadian federal and provincial Conservative parties, the American Repugnicans, and the British Tories — I always have to ask myself, “Can they get any more corrupt than this?” Then I ask,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Exploding Measles Threat
No, the latest measles don’t make you explode, I meant the threat is rising thanks to anti-waxxer ignorance spreading across the globe. And war, that’s infamously good at helping disease take hold of the population. Many of the people in charge of stopping health ignorance and control of diseases, have
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Climate Misery and Hope
Despair limits future actions, but knowledge is power. We must know and act in order to stave off despair. A depressing thread followed by an uplifting video today: Writer Matthew Todd wrote, “Sooner or later we’re going to have to face the reality that conservatism and capitalism are killing us. It’s not
Continue readingThings Are Good: Let’s End Gas Subsidies
For some strange reason countries like Canada keep giving tax money to ultra wealthy oil and gas companies even though they keep killing all life on the planet. Let’s stop this. The team at Solar Share hosted a good information session on how we can reduce government money going to
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Climate Projections and Anticipatory Grief
Media aren’t free to report on it honestly, and politicians won’t act on it. How can we possibly remain optimistic? Matthew Todd wrote about the possibility that the Gulf Stream could collapse in the next few years based on an study in Science Advances: “The day has come when the Daily
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Transactivists Are Annoying
Nothing gets the juices flowing more than a little woke hypocrisy in the afternoon. Scrolling through facebook I saw a post for a choral get together with the goal of showing “the transphobes” how wrong they are. My first reaction was one of exasperation because the individual who
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Lesson For Those Agitating for Revolution – The Return of the Progressive Atrocity.
. The FAFO factor often involves the highest of stakes. The people who support Hamas really ought to give their head a shake because most of their activities place them firmly in the useful idiot category. These excerpts from Susie Linfield‘s essay on called The Return of the Progressive Atrocity.
Continue readingScripturient: Musings on The Lone Ranger, Tonto, and Cultural Appropriation
Yes, I get the reason some people might have been outraged that a white guy (Johnny Depp) played an indigenous person in the 2013 movie version of The Lone Ranger. It seemed, at least from the outside at the time — before watching it — to reinforce stereotypes and denigrate
Continue readingThings Are Good: Norway Gamed Oil to Get Rich and Go Green
Norway figured out how to make money from its oil while going green, and other countries should learn this nifty trick. Yes, oil is bad and we need to stop using it right away to avoid climate collapse. What Norway has done is take their bad oil and export it
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: James Lindsay on How the Canadian Liberal Party Emotionally Blackmails Canadians.
Here we go again, I guess… The first of the manipulations, and the center of how it works, is the collectivization of the “LGBTQ2 community.” This thing does not exist meaningfully. It’s not even a genuine coalition. Gay people, and so on, exist, but that acronym represents nothing but a
Continue readingScripturient: WWCD: What Would Cicero Do?
Throughout his career, Marcus Tullius Cicero fought tyranny, stood up to dictators and bullies, defended the Republic, and paid for his principled stand with his life. He put himself in harm’s way frequently by openly challenging and even suing the elites, the rich, and the powerful who were controlling —
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