Waiting for the Murk

That trillionaire fuck been in the news again for (possibly) the biggest evil he’s committed since ending usaid condemned millions to death:  using his xitter to incite and inflame neo-nazi violence.  Reminded me of when I speculated on what might get him assassinated.

This is a strong contender.  Remember when that old Irish gal went all the way to shitaly to take a shot little benny musso?  Rest in power, Violet.  Anyhow, apartheid junior, by some metrics, has more power to make the world a worse place than the original fascist did.

I know there’s a small vocal faction in FtB comments who are die-hard that speech inciting evil should never itself be considered evil, by whatever definitions and terms they prefer.  Like they regard my position here equivalent to accusing the fash of thought crimes.

While racists are burning immigrants out of their homes in northern Ireland, while my nuke-happy nation is in the hands of neo-nazis, don’t bring that ignorant idealistic shit in my comments.  Thanks.

Meanwhile, violets are being sown.  I’d love to see a bumper crop.  edit to add: and you can call that a thought crime.  👶🤙

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Happy Juneteenth, Nobody is Free Until Everyone is Free

I’ve got a bit of a grudge going for Dave Chappelle.  I don’t think about things or people I hate all the time, so it doesn’t come up much for me, but when it does, I’m like, fuck that guy a lot.

There was an episode of his show where some goofy pimps time traveled to the days of slavery, and one of them shot an overseer.  The meta-laff was that this was supposedly a skit that had been cut from an earlier show by execs who didn’t think killing slavers was funny.  I had a good time watching that a million years ago.

For those who don’t remember his story after that point in his career, he had a nervous breakdown and broke contract to abandon the show and chill out in Africa for some years.  Comedy Central ran what was left of his show as reruns for a very long time – probably still does.  Then, at long last, Dave emerged from the earth like Punxsutawney Phil, to chip into the discourse of our times.  What did he purchase with the remainder of his cultural cachet?

He defended shitler’s “grab them by the pussy” remark like a month ahead of his first election.  Then he fucked off again for a while, during which time he did some few standup shows.  At one of these, he was photographed partying with Apartheid Junior and some other Bay Area heels.

After that he really got my attention by going full transphobe.  One of the subjects of his “humor” was a trans woman who subsequently committed suicide.  I imagine she had other reasons as well, but still.

But let’s back that up a moment.  Chappelle has partied with the guy who is currently egging on white supremacist riots in northern Ireland, who unambiguously heiled hitler at the grabber’s second inauguration.  Do you suppose the has-been comedian has any misgivings about the company he’s kept?

I’m sure he doesn’t, because like the terfs who thought they could defend cis-women’s rights by killing trans women, like the working class white ameriKKKans who thought they could protect the working class by killing mexicans, he makes this one important mistake.  He believes you can discriminate against one oppressed class of people without empowering the oppressors of your own people.

It can’t be done.  You cannot separate out the struggles of the oppressed and say one group deserves it, one group is a reasonable sacrifice.  This is basic fucking shit, as basic as it gets.  Freedom can only be protected by solidarity between the oppressed, whatever their differences.

You don’t have to like or even care about other people on your side, as long as you can stifle your shitty mouth when you’re tempted to let your prejudice run – when you’re tempted to give aid and succor to the Fourth Reich.  Do people like Dave Chappelle care about his fellow black people?

I don’t buy it for a fucking second.  Like the recurring theme in Russian folk tales of a decent pauper who becomes a shitty prince, people get X amount of dollars and decide they hate taxes more than they love human rights.

Biggie Smalls once said, “Fuck the world, don’t ask me for shit. And everything you’ve got, you work hard for it.”  I say many hands make light work, and nobody in the fucking world should have to truly work hard, as many hands as we have.  If everybody who hits the sixth zero in their bank account turns nazi, it’s time to make sure nobody gets that dollar.

Freedom for all oppressed people.  Traitors eat shit.  Long live the fighters.

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Your True Name

Charly recently raised a question that on the surface seems reasonable, but when applied to ameriKKKa, becomes a bit of a mess.  Why is there a problem with requiring ID to vote here?  Wasn’t that already required?

It depends on a lot.  I don’t recall specifically presenting my ID to vote, maybe once at an in-person location a few decades ago?  You have the option of registering to vote any time you renew your photo ID or driver’s license, and I think also when you submit a change of address at the post office.  I’ve been doing mail ballots for ages now.

But this is a state that isn’t powerfully motivated to suppress voter will, unlike the rethuglican political establishments of the Southeast, where black people are often a majority in urban centers.  In those states, ID requirements are a very useful tool of voter suppression, precisely because on the face of it, they’re a reasonable requirement.  The trick is how difficult it has become to obtain and maintain a photo ID.

ID requirements are also a great tool for kicking the poor off of social benefits, of keeping them homeless or imprisoned, of getting them to die from preventable health conditions.  The closer you live to the ground here, the more likely you are to be evicted and lose all of your possessions.  To be incarcerated and have your wallet “lost” in the process.  Old folks and people with vices are easy to rob.  At the level of the homeless, they tend to have their every last possession stolen at least once a year, by other homeless people or by corrupt cops.

Over-policed populations like people of color, lgbtetc people, the poor, the homeless, can be arrested at higher rates and lose their rights and possessions that way.  If your ID expires in prison, good luck getting it renewed when you get out.

At the federal level, “Real ID” (a creation of the fascist Patriot Act) or a passport is required for air travel and a few other circumstances.  States can require it for a lot more than that, at their discretion, including voting.  To get one of those, you need your social security card, birth certificate, a mailing address, and more.

Mailing address is tougher than you’d think.  Poor people get priced out of their circumstances often enough that we move a lot.  I’ve moved well over a dozen times in my adult life; some move every few months.  To get my birth certificate took three months.  What if I didn’t have the money to pay for it?  Very few parts of this process are free.

There’s a lot more that could be said on these things but I don’t have much time these days for research.  Some amount I know of due to my job, but I can’t elaborate on that.  I wonder sometimes if the sheer size of this country makes it harder to administer than Europe, even if the colonial linguistic hegemony makes many things easier.  Certainly the lack of political will to properly fund the government is a problem.

If you live in the USA and you have all your papers in a row, keep them in a safe place, as much as that’s possible.  If you don’t have all your papers, get crackin’ whenever you’ve got a stable circumstance, because you never know when you’ll lose that, and potentially lose much more.

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Oh yeah, I named this article before I wrote it.  What’s with the title?  I thought I was going to get into this more.  You may have heard people use the phrase “legal name” as if there is one definitive database where these things are kept.  There isn’t, and even where there is, you might be surprised by what’s filling out the fields on those computer screens.

Did you remember to update your citizenship when you got it?  Your name when you got married?  Divorced?  Did you do it with just the court, the DMV, Social Security, or all three?  What about your passport, if you have one?  Department of Education for your student loans?  The IRS?  All of these agencies could have different names on file for you.  Maybe even different dates of birth or places of birth, due to typos.  If DE for Germany was mistakenly entered in a state of birth field, congrats, you were born in Delaware.  That doesn’t automatically make you a citizen because that’s a separate field that could say anything as well.

That’s probably the most important thing of all now – consistency.  Government computers have become more integrated in recent years and people who never had a problem from these inconsistencies in decades of life are suddenly having problems with them now – couldn’t file taxes, couldn’t fill a prescription, couldn’t vote.  Make sure your biographical details are accurate.  Pick a name and go with it, and make sure all of the agencies have all of your names in all the right fields – first, middle, last, suffix.  Honestly suffixes can be more trouble than they’re worth, might consider losing that.  Some computers have a separate field for it, some just tack it onto the last name, and if they disagree you could find yourself locked out of something.  Whatever you do though, do it consistently, because this is not automatically done for you.

Legal name evokes the old magical idea of a “true name.”  Who are you?  Your name is words that, like all others, are trying to simplify a reality that can be much more complex than syllables can convey.  Even your own country may, in important ways, have no idea who you are.  Fascism’s trying to fix that for you.  Thanks?

Financial institutions and government have relied on Social Security Number to verify people’s identity for a long time, but with leak after hack after leak, practically every SSN that exists is compromised.  Hell, does DOGE still have read access to the Social Security Administration and Department of Treasury?  I’ve heard they have been reduced in prominence, but never heard anything concrete about them being shut out of the access they were initially granted.

But fuck all that.  Maybe we should have code names known only to our favorite people.  Or is that what internet handles are?  Boochie Flagrante and Buttfucker3000 are truer names than any birth certificate can contain, I say.  Power on, comrades.

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Trump is Clearly an Atheist

Atheism is not an intellectual achievement.  Maybe for some people it can be, people who grew up in an environment completely drenched in god sauce, atheism and doubt never being allowed a voice.  And in that void, they had to rebuild atheism from scratch, using the power of reason to give voice to and justification for rejecting everything they’d ever been told to believe about the universe.

But my cat is nigh-thoughtless and he’s an atheist, no need for any of that.  He never had the power to understand the lie of religion in the first place.

President for Short-ass Rest of His Life Donlad Pumpkinhead Shitler IV possesses the atheism of a cat.  He will never fear death because he is incapable of grasping the reality of it on an emotional level.  It means nothing to him.  Should we really expect that he has anything like a conception of life beyond his own, enough to imagine a creator that came before him, a creator that would have any opinion that matters regarding his worldly conduct?

The people who trust that he is christian are the same as the people who believe he is honest.  On at least this one issue, we gotta admit, he’s one of ours.  Likewise most of us in the atheist community are “culturally christian,” carrying with us the patriarchal and zealously conformist baggage that entails.  Unsurprising in hindsight to see our “thought leaders” in the same sordid company as hair fuhrer.

When I say these things, on some level you know it’s just to court controversy in my scene.  But also I feel a need to distinguish myself from the shitbird hypocrites of the right wing by not playing the no true scotsman game.  If that sack of shit wants to say he’s an atheist – which he won’t – he has as much right to the word as DickDawk, Spam Hairish, and the rest.

…and the rest, here on Epstein’s Iiiiiisle!

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No Nukes

If shitler and his “warfighter” get up their dicks enough to nuke somebody, I’d like to just be on the record here as saying whatever reprisal happens to this country will be justified.  I hope first and foremost that the fucking clown posse doesn’t do it, because fuck nukes, but if they do?  I hope the reprisal is a decapitating strike that doesn’t kill any of the civilians of Washington DC, who are mostly descended from the slaves who built the place.  We’ve done enough decapitating strikes lately to more than earn one of our own.

I am obliged by my “no doomerism” policy (please don’t forget it in my comments) to say I sincerely do not believe a full-scale nuclear conflict will result from whatever these horrific fuckups do.  It has been inevitable since the Cold War that at some point somebody is going to use smaller-scale nukes in a war scenario.  The technology exists to make a crater of small country, but restricting the scope of the blast to the size of a city is more “economically” sensible – preserve the value of more of the real estate.

Whoever ends up taking out the trash here, don’t miss newt gingler.  I like the version of him from this video better than reality…

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Getting on the Take

Note:  I feel like this whole post was poorly considered.**  I’m just spittin’ it out to have a post up and keep myself in the sidebar.  ignore it or bust my chops in the comments, as u please.

They always say we’re paid by George Soros; we ain’t.  They are often paid by the Koch bros and like-minded shitstains in fascist think tanks up and down the beltway.  All you gotta do is be conservative on the right podium, and if a few shills in the crowd cheer, you’ll get a bank full of money.  Conservativism is like drug use.  It’s obviously* wrong-hearted to the people who want desperately to believe in it, so they’ll seek reassurance, and abuse any detractors.  They use peer pressure.  For the in-group:  “What’s so bad about feeling good?  Everybody does it.  You’d be a sucker not to.”  For the out-group:  “Narcs and squares and pussies, what’re you gonna do?  Tell my mommy?  (please don’t)”

(speaking of mommy, i wouldn’t be surprised if hegsdeth literally threatened to have his mother whacked if she didn’t walk back her criticism of him.  he’s a murderous fucking monster in the light of day; what kind of vile ass shit does he do behind doors?)

But these are all sidetracks.  I had a thought here.  Lemme see…  Well.  We should be on the take!  Somebody should be paying us!  Maybe not Koch money.  Not like we have cocaine habits or blackmailers to hush.  But the thing conservative pundits and profiteers are getting paid to do, that’s something we could do from the other side, right?  They get paid to promote evil, we should get paid to promote goodness.

What we do get really isn’t enough.  How many progressive bloggers are flogging shady advertisers on yewchoob, or living on food stamps, or losing all the time and energy they could use for the cause just toiling to get the mortgage paid, or endlessly line the coffers of landleeches?  We’d have more sauce for this if we were funded.  Not much.  Just pay for our modest lifestyles, and we will evangelize harder than the way we do now.

Because what we do now, we’re doing for free.  Some of us have patreons or other schemes to connect the dots and still have to work some kind of day job, or rely on a generous lover to stay indoors.  And the imbalance is obvious!  The scum have us on the ropes.  All around the world, fascism is still winning.

Anybody with eyes can tell that fascism is going to be the death of human civilization (not for a minute and the end of civ ain’t necessarily the end of you #nodoom).  It can’t do anything else.  No civilization, no rich people.  So all you vampire lords that wanna keep the baloney rollin’ and aren’t as shortsighted as your cousins who are currently in charge, consider ponying up.  Pay for people to fight fascism.  Your children will thank you.

Now one lil’ post in the snowy hinterlands of wordpress won’t bring any foundations grants or endowments to our doors, so I wonder aloud, what might a lobbying campaign look like?  What kind of progressive lobbying organizations are out there already and how are they doing it?  Less like the ACLU who were formed in the time before time, more like idk… Whoever Junior.  How’d they do it?

Just to annoy the nazis, I want everyone except rich Jewish people to reply.  Goyim with greenbacks, hmu.

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*ok, i don’t think this is universally true.  i think some conservatives are just profound fools and jerks who have bought a bad bill of goods.  but the particular flavor of fascism practiced by the creepy misogynist kids, and by jumped up crapitalism zombies like mfvk, i’m pretty sure i got their number on this one.  this is the kind that has taken over america.

**on the poor consideration, i have grave misgivings about sacrificing my day job for something with less job security and likely less money.  barely scraping by as it is.  i’d be unlikely to bite on any offer that came down the pipes, not that any were going to come down anyway.  makes the post pointless, but might be funny to talk about.

I Spare a Thought for Slime

I’ve made posts wondering before if any of the people from the shit side of the regressive/progressive atheist split find themselves looking at what has come of their politics, looks at the war, the hatred, the censorship, the reality denialism, the terror that has taken over the world, and realizes what they’ve done, feels at all bad about it.  There’s no evidence of this in the “thought leaders” and I’ve never seen any from the trenches.  Like the SlymePit™ seemed, for a while, to have more popularity and even perhaps more staying power than the FtB it was born to oppose.  And yet here we are, and they are..?

I can see from comments elsewhere that many of them are in the comments at the blogs of fascist tools like Jerry Coyne, so not much evidence of reality penetrating their skulls yet.  But still.  Not even one of them?  I suppose this is like wondering why there are no good billionaires.  Or maybe it’s me asking that question that vexed me so often as a small child – the earliest evidence I had theory of mind – that I always wondered why bullies did what they do.

Why do they want to be despised?  Why do they want to do harm?  These things never made sense to me, even as their cruelty fostered a violent imagination in me.  I want to hurt people because they hurt people.  Clearly not the same goal for us, and they still don’t make sense to me.  I do think observation of people and other animals has slowly teased something like understanding out of me.  It’s entertainment, diversion.  Humans suffering is, to them, like the erratic movement and bleeding of a tormented prey animal to a cat.

Back to the point tho.  We are literally under nazism, in all but name!  There are people in the halls of power with neonazi tattoos!  Science in the USA – once a point of pride to movement bros like Chundersh1te – has been decimated, hosed with a goddamn flamethrower, with no hope of recovery in sight.  We’re involving ourselves in holy wars on purpose.

Every ideal of freedom and rational thought and wisdom that the nu atheists claimed to uphold is being piled into mass graves.  Things aren’t even as bad as they can get!  You’d just think that like, fuckin Matt Dillahunty, who spent time trolling Atheism+ as a “social experiment,” might take a look at this shit and connect some dots.  Might realize this is the logical end point of regressive beliefs, and hey, maybe that means y’all were wrong about progressives on some level?  Just a bit?

I saw a comment somewhere from one of the shitbirds saying “i can’t believe you made us do this, ftb!  look what you made us do!”  Hey, who is winning, bruh?  Who controls everything right now?  When Sam Harris crows that murdering Persians is a good thing, it’s not because he’s trying to convince the powers that be, it’s because he’s defending them doing the thing he’s always promoted.  He’s saying how cool it is that he got what he wants, and begging the naysayers to drop their distaste for mass murder long enough to be as happy as he is.

If antifeminists have literally taken over the world, how did we make anybody do anything?  The powerful side was yours.  This is the history you always sought.  All we did, in opposing you, was to help elucidate the difference between us, help you understand yourselves.  You do understand yourselves by now, don’t you?

You do see the blood money medical crank piling up quack dollars over dead American kids?  Right?  That’s you.  You do see the petty con artist thrust into nuclear godhood from a base motivated with literal cult behavior, right?  That’s you.  That’s the fruition of your beliefs winning.

Does this not give any of you pause?  Insert we’re the baddies meme?  What will it take, you fucking creeps?

We’re tired of saying “we told you so” over the innocent dead.  If you can’t come correct now, at this late stage, just fucking eat shit and die.  I wish I could say I was done thinking about you, but I don’t know if I ever will be.  That first question I ever asked myself about the minds of others, it never goes away; it only changes.

Why do bullies hurt people?  I might as well ask my fucking cat.

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Dunt Love CEOs

one might think i’d be enthralled with anthropic’s ceo defying shitler’s administration and causing orange apoplexy, as i’m a big llm booster.  and i do use claude (anthropic’s llm) for some things.  still, have you seen the statement that made the shitgibbon lose it?  the ceo said he was cool with all sorts of terrible shit, just a few things were too far.  the language was drenched in normalized fascism, going so far as to use the dod’s disgusting new chosen name.  the fact it was composed like that is just one of a million demonstrations of how far we’ve fallen down the path of tyranny.

naturally mainstream liberals loved it (see katy perry screencapping her purchase of a subscription to claude), which moves the needle more in favor of llms than it used to be.  and i’m ok with that, but still.  these are the kind of democrats that are gonna jam through a gavin newscum presidential nomination.  i say fuck that shit with my entire chest, tetas incluidas, izquierda y derecha.

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WWIII: Picking Sides

Shitler and murderhomie Netsferatu’s newest aggression hasn’t turned into World War Three yet, but any of this kind of shit has that potential.  The funny thing about world wars is that the sides are not always what one would expect.  It was always possible the US would have joined the Axis powers, if politics at home had been x degrees the other way.  Good job to the hardworking propagandists that saved us from that particular shame.

This time around, we are the Axis.  No fucking question on that.  We are the imperialistic aggressive enemies of freedom, full stop.  But has Germany swung hard enough to end up in the new Allies?  My outside impression is fuck no, which has the added irony they might end up on the side of Israel in any coming expansion of these conflicts.

In fact, as much as Europe has made some good noises about protecting themselves from US horseshit, we are all united in propping up our aging economies draining the blood of the global south.  That might help prevent this from bleeding into a world war all by itself.  The nations that have the most reason to oppose us don’t have the power to do so, except as insurgents in the aftermath.

If this new round (or some future shitlerism) goes WWIII, who will be fighting whom?  Place your bets in the comments, careful to avoid going full doomer (see my comment policy in sidebar).

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Run the Country Like a Business?

Businesses are made to fuck you to pieces and feed the meat to their next victim, so yeah, wouldn’t it be amazing if the government was run like a business?  Oh boy, can’t wait, let’s see…  During the last year Biden was in office dem politicians were making moves towards ending exploitive practices by commercial tax services and make the public aware you can often file for free directly on the IRS website.  I did it for the first time for tax year 2024, which was great, and then… as a gimme to corporate fucklords, the government has ended the ability to file for free on the IRS website.  Can’t do it this year.

Thanks, shitler!  I’d like you to load up a few shotgun shells with broken glass and human feces and rearrange your face with that at your earliest convenience, thanks.  Since you love giving us little gifts like this, let us love you back.

Technically there’s still some way to file for free there but they made it just complicated enough to ensure the maximum number of people are diverted to the businesses that donated to shitler’s campaign.  That ain’t graft, it’s business!  Business is so good for people, god i love business.

Busy busy busy business, love it love it love it.  Yay business.  Corporate States of America, with a CEO cherry on top, oh boy, so good.  So good for us little guys.  CEOrange sure is a man of the people.  God it’s great to live by his fiats.  We should all be grateful.  Make America Grateful Again, weeeeee…

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