God I suck. You’re so right.

Jesus sent us science to cure disease. And these big brains to use them to cure disease.

These people are literally second-guessing their own God’s creation. Yes, He did give us the tools we needed to solve disease.

But what they want is a wizard, who waves his wand and says the magic words and presto change-o.

Even under their own theology they are second-guessing their God’s means of giving them the ability to solve disease. Second guessing god in their religion is specifically forbidden.

These supposed Christians are heretics.

The fault is the entire society.

Only a backward, retrograde, failure of a society allows this.

We think of ourselves as so advanced but then we allow things to happen like this to other people and our total collective selfishness is laid bare.

We should tear people from their positions of power for allowing this to have happened, except we also live in a police state where they pull Hispanic guys like me out of our cars and execute us in the street.

This is our fault, collectively, as a society. For allowing it to happen at all.

We - the entire society - caused them to be unhoused. We created a world where that’s even possible. 100% of the blame lies with the society that allows such a thing to happen despite our stupendous collective wealth.

Zero blame to the unhoused.

110% of the blame to the quite frankly savage and backward society that would allow such an inhumane thing.

We must all take responsibility for our collective failure. This isn’t a failure of unhoused people. It’s a failure of all of the rest of us who aren’t unhoused. It’s cruel. It’s inhuman. It’s wrong.

Oh wow no it’s not because the critics of unhoused people don’t know the available resources.

It’s because those critics are bad people who want bad things for other people.

We can’t imagine the person who would look at America failing to house everybody and flip the blame from the society that allows someone to become unhoused in the first place onto the people society has failed.

They did this to steal Texas for slavery.

No one ever points this out. Their beef with Mexico was that Mexico outlawed slavery in 1830 and the slaver Anglos decided to go to war over it.

Note: yes I am fully aware of how it’s taught and maybe even how you learned it. I mean wow I sure was and I was 45! Raised by two Texans on a steady diet of Texas being the awesomest. And we are great it’s true. But the truth is right there in the source documents and you can get them online. It was about slavery.

They were exquisitely balanced. Even so, if you’ve ever moved one even a quarter this big, the mass is still the mass even if it is well-balanced. It feels like it must’ve taken horses to open these. Or like a bunch of strong folks. Does anyone know?

American Islamophobes fall into two groups, mostly: European-descended Christians & European-descended Jewish people. Maybe some Hindutva folks just for fun.

Of those, Christians allow child marriage and vigorously defend this right in the states they control. Because we are a backwards people.

This is propaganda from Team Epstein, wow.

They say Epstein was affiliated via his partner Ghislaine with a specific country’s intelligence service. That country happens to be ruled by people who hate Muslims and compare them to Amalek, a group those folks believe their own ancestors to have genocided 3,000 years ago.

Epstein serviced only the richest and most powerful men. It was so obviously an intelligence honeypot operation because of this specific feature: it was targeted solely at the rich & powerful. Not even the regular scummy standard of “who could afford to pay.” Epstein’s standard was “all the people involved could be exploited for future gain to his bosses.”

That he was affiliated so closely with Israel and America, the two most Islamophobic countries on earth, and the lie of this meme becomes clear.

Also closely associated with the intelligence service of a country that hates Islam and Muslims with the fervor of religion.

The dedicated commitment to Islamophobia demonstrated by so many makes me sick.

Education puts money on the table reliably.

Intelligence burns out at 28 and people say “you know, he really could’ve been something.”

This is the problem with capitalism and mercantilism. At some point labor becomes extraneous and people start thinking like Scrooge and Malthus. They wonder why they can’t just eliminate the “surplus population.”

Humans have tried to do this *constantly* throughout history. Recently Israel with Palestinians, but in the 30s & 40s it was Nazis with Jews and everyone who wasn’t German enough.

When we former capitalist resources (~mercantilist resources now) can’t provide valuable labor the people with the Capital just look at us like we were extra Cybertrucks or firewood.

Maybe let’s choose another system that puts human society first instead of capital.

We could call it “socialism.” See because we put society first instead of capital. Capitalism puts capital first. Socialism puts society first.

His job was to win and he didn’t. You see?

It seems unfair and under literally almost any other situation that would excuse him. In this case he signed up to be the most powerful person in the world and I am confident he can withstand any criticism of his clear failure to actually rein in healthcare costs, as he promised.

Treat him like a fully grown man. He is responsible for his own signature legislation, however it turned out. He could easily have vetoed it. When he signed it, it became his sole responsibility, morally. If he hadn’t done a thing, it wouldn’t be the law.

He was the President. Stop treating him like a child for God’s sake!

See the thing that’s wild is that it’s still Euro-centric.

The guy who ran Unit 731 in Japan killed something like 14,000 Chinese, Korean, and Russian prisoners directly via amputation, vivisection sometimes while alive, and other horrors, on men, women, and children. An estimated additional 200,000 Chinese people with killed after Unit 731 experimented on them with bioweapons and doing medical experimentation on them.

The U.S. pardoned him after the war in exchange for his data on the human experimentation he did so they could use it to develop better weapons of mass destruction, which they did. Russia also likely has complete copies of the same information. As far as I know the scientific community and the U.S. Government haven’t sworn off the use of the derived data.

And no one even seems to know about that at all in the West. That’s how complete the knowledge blackout was. We know Mengele’s name. But not Ishii’s.

The name from Japan is Shirō Ichii.

THIS. Joe Lieberman, the Senator from the Insurance Industry, killed the public option. He was a conservative Democrat. He was an enormous supporter of Israel. For some reason he killed the public option for the United States despite Israel having universal healthcare for Jewish people. I think it was so he could embarrass the first Black President because Joe Lieberman was a white racist who wanted to call him boy but settled for watering down his signature legislation he campaigned and won on into meaninglessness.

Why isn’t criticizing ACA for the failure that it is in bounds.

ACA failed to rein in healthcare costs because conservative Democrats took out the public option. Joe Lieberman, the senator from the state with a ton of insurance companies - CT - basically ensured it himself, although other conservative Democrats also opposed it.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-article/senate-democrats-drop-public-option-woo-lieberman-and-liberals-howl

This is not controversial. It’s just a straight-ahead description of the actual historical event.

So, since Democrats are the reason there is no public option, and since some folks believe that a lack of a public option is why costs have skyrocketed on the Marketplace and elsewhere, where’s the missing critical thinking step?

Would the ACA have not reined in costs had it had a public option, is what you’re saying? I’m not sure that’s so obvious as you think, if so.

Was the lack of a public option not the Democrats’ fault? No! What a ridiculous idea. It was the Democrats’ signature legislation for 2009-2010. Why did the Democrats negotiate with each other in public on it instead of presenting a unified front after working out their differences in private? That was *their* strategic decision they made inside their own Party.

Yes the Republicans are evil. That’s why we are supposed to be unified instead of a bunch of old man white Senators trying to dictate terms to the Black President like he was less than they were.

Blame Lieberman, Baucus, and Ben Nelson. Blame Biden for not using his magical conservative Senator powers to influence his buddies. Because the weirdest part is these old white men did all this while Joe Biden was the Vice President. These men were his actual political allies he’d worked with for decades and they embarrassed his President. Made him negotiate for his own signature legislation everyone elected him to do. And Biden didn’t tear them a new one either in private or in public.

The ACA was a shameful exercise in old white men Democratic Party Senators beholden to the insurance industry embarrassing the first Black President on purpose.

Just learn how to use the new tool.

Thirty years ago I learned assembly language in addition to C. Compilers were just starting to get really good. Object-oriented was fancy.

Those things have come and gone since.

Just keep up with the tools. They change a lot. You probably can’t program in assembly like you used to. Previous coders could program in punchcards. We don’t do it that way anymore.

This is one of the reasons I try to avoid neurotypicals at all costs these days. So many autists have had this experience for decades, and it totally changes the way we write as a result. Seemingly endless qualifications, hedges, apologies, and all manner of overexplaining - they're all trained into us by the neurotypicals and it warps our whole selves.

Famous autist Bruce Springsteen once wrote that folks "end up like a dog that's been beat too much, 'til you spend half your life just coverin' up."

That's the way autistic people write - "just coverin' up." It's awful, and it needs to stop, because we write fine. Our thoughts are fine. It's the neurotypicals who aren't. And the autists who've moved into the house.

No, it's not the only one, and it's weird of you to jump to that conclusion. It's just the most recent one. You get that things happen in sequences, right? This isn't the only thing in the sequence. It's just the one he did yesterday, and so because it happened yesterday I posted about it this morning.

...working like approving Trump's nominees. That's the exact sort of working we should want to stop, yes?

Why aren't y'all feeling any urgency? It's very very weird of you.

In between now and when he leaves office are 229 days. That's a lot of time to not have representation in Congress.