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2026-08-17 13:37:39 GMT

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@nprofile…wmhr
And parents get to write off tuition costs on ther income taxes. Private K-12 should be illegal and home schooling should be limited to handicapped children.

2026-08-14 23:35:50 GMT

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@nprofile…w4ya
I see this a lot on mastodon, a weather report with absolutely no location information.

2026-04-27 13:51:55 GMT

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@nprofile…sftd @nprofile…mvft
Saw the framework ad, went to the framework site, found a page that offered Ubuntu and 3 other Linux distributions on their systems. Went through the hassle of picking memory, storage, processor etc, but when I got to the section for choosing an OS my only choices were Micro$haft, ie, Linux is only available on SOME of their systems. On Dell systems you SAVE $500+ with Linux instead of Windows.

2026-04-26 22:26:11 GMT

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@nprofile…sftd @nprofile…mvft
What a waste. Bait and switch, offering 4 choices of Linux distros, put together mMy memory, processor, etc, then only offered stinking Windows when asked to pick an operating system.

2026-04-03 11:40:32 GMT

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@nprofile…l70y
Fair enough. Jesus never said that, but then it’s doubtful that he said any of the things attributed to him, the Gospels (and the rest of the New Testament) being fictions. The best modern literary analogy to Jesus and the New Testament is probably Sherlock Holmes. The Church still teaches demonic possession and eating the body of your God (transubstantiation) to summon up “spiritual” benefits. The way of the West and is science and humanism, the way of Abrahamic religions is magic.

2026-04-02 22:29:29 GMT

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@nprofile…l70y
Glad to hear it. The usual quote is from Ephesians 6:5, “ Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ.”
Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Ephesians/6/5
The only aspect of Christian philosophy that recommends it is the Golden Rule, long predating Christianity, not merely trancultural but transpecic. Find me a quote from Jesus that condemns slavery.

2026-03-31 17:26:03 GMT

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@nprofile…l70y
First, it’s a war between Western Civilization and the mystery religions of the Middle East, btween Galileo and the Church, between the Ancient Greeks and the nomadic Hebrews, between science and magic thinking. Second, your nonchalant acceptance that Jesus was real and that the Gospels are actual history instead of obvious fictions reflects poorly on your academic credibility.
Third, the “teachings” of Jesus include instructing slaves to obey their masters.

2025-03-26 01:05:48 GMT

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@nprofile…2wc8
The technical level of security of Signal is irrelevant. Even using its vulnerability as an argument against it for secure government communications is merely a red herring, since the main issue is not the security breach, but the the Trump administration skirting government accountability and effectively creating an unaccountable shadow government outside the normal intelligence community..

2024-12-21 17:04:33 GMT

#NATO
Even the mastodon hashtags for NATO use lower case. When did NATO become Nato? Does anyone even know anymore that NATO is an acronym for North Atlantic Treaty Organization? It's not just the marginally literate Americans who use "Nato" instead of "NATO", it's The Guardian, too. Do we have an ambassador to Nato or to NATO now?

2024-11-17 19:21:15 GMT

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@nprofile…tsfn @nprofile…ju9m
The Old Testament evolved from oral traditions of the Hebrew nomads. The New Testament seems to have been written by goyim who were not familiar with Jewish traditions (Jesus would have been the Ram of God not the Lamb of God, eg) and totally uninformed about Roman government. The Bethlehem taxpayer trip is wholly bogus as is Herod's murdering the Jewish eldest sons. Jews would remember Herod killing their first born, but they don't.

2024-11-17 14:44:47 GMT

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@nprofile…tsfn @nprofile…ju9m
The Abrahamic religions probably had nothing to do with Christ at all, other than invent the idea of a Messiah. The books of the New Testament are fictions along the lines of Sherlock Holmes, with stories repeated (no copyrights!) for some 300 years. Mary didn't become a Virgin until more than 200 years after the early Gospels.

2024-08-17 22:04:30 GMT

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@npub1e4g…jtyh
Mitch McConnell rigged the Supreme Court, and Trump really had very little to do with it. In these lists of Trump's crimes, few mention that he murdered, at a minimum, 340K Americans in what amounted to bioterrorism, and covid deaths directly attributable to him continue.

2024-07-31 18:44:38 GMT

#lawyers #congress
There are 173 lawyers in the House and 57 in the Senate. Lawyers are taught to believe that they are always right (the exact opposite of scientific thinking), as the title of Gerry Spence's book shows:
How to Argue and Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, Everywhere, Every Time
Facts and truth are irrelevant, explaining why so many of our politicians are slimy morons: less than 1% of the workforce are lawyers, yet 40% of the House and 57% of the Senate are lawyers.

2024-07-26 10:38:38 GMT

I think we've all heard the "shoot somebody on 5th Ave", but we need to update it. I think we've reached the "rape somebody on 5th Ave and not lose any votes" stage. Continued support of this demented moron is in itself a form of insanity.

2024-07-20 19:01:00 GMT

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@npub1xr8…3q0g
Women still make more than unmarried men.

2024-07-14 17:19:12 GMT

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@npub1qg4…augv
I vaguely remember a story from the 1930s, where a miner asked why the mine owner cared so much about the mules but not the miners. "Replacing a new mule costs me $40, but I can replace you for nothing."

2024-07-04 02:23:08 GMT

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@npub1zlf…jxfl
I keep hearing people referring to Trump as a "great liar". This sounds entirely too much like a compliment. How about "big fat liar" instead?

2024-06-30 16:29:58 GMT

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
Volcano of prevarication

2024-06-28 20:32:32 GMT

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@npub1grx…uxfe
An essential part of the US gov't, to maintain clean water, clean air, protect wildlife, limit harmful pesticides, regulate chemicals and drugs, et hoc genus omne, has just gone up in smoke.

2024-06-20 12:40:47 GMT

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@npub15zu…s7lx
Nixon created the EPA, now the GOP is trying its best to get rid of it.

2024-06-10 01:27:37 GMT

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@npub1se6…cmph
It [poison ivy/oak] is the one thing that should not go to the #compost pile.
Actually, don't put grass clippings in there either if you use lawn chemicals.

2024-05-15 01:09:21 GMT

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@npub132h…f594
We can only hope he's right for a change.

2024-05-01 13:20:46 GMT

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@npub1g0t…tvm4
50K pounds for five years is 250K pounds, not 2M pounds. Where's all the extra money going, bribes?

2024-04-21 21:22:02 GMT

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@npub16nx…rj8k
Having Blinken as Secretary of State when the Middle East is ablaze is idiotic. He's a multi-generational Zionist. It's like having a self-proclaimed NAZI as Secretary of State in 1943.

2024-04-19 23:15:34 GMT

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
Maybe she can move to Moscow and hook up with Ed Snowden.

2024-04-15 19:01:02 GMT

#CitizenTrump #trumptrial
Consider this: when Citizen Trump was POTUS, he typically tweeted until 3 in the morning and didn't show up for "work" until 11, then he'd take off to play golf. He's never had to put in a full day's work in his life. Having to show up in court at 9:30 and sit there all day will be torture for him.
SchadenFreude TO THE MAX!

2024-03-19 13:27:16 GMT

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@npub1zh2…7965
Ah yes, Joe's plastic spouse. Geeting #CitizenTrump with grins and giggles in 2016 (he had already been credibly accused of child rape), Mika spent a cheerful session with Hair Furor. Not long afterwards, Joe Biden encountered a hostile Mika, grilling him about bogus sexual molestation charges some woman had brought up that week, snarling out questions like a TV cop in an interrogation room.

2024-02-24 13:19:48 GMT

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@npub1mmf…eknq @npub1m9a…025m
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2023-11-25 19:49:39 GMT

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@npub1mmf…eknq
Amazing. Psychopathy is contagious they say. Zionism has gone from psychopathy to sociopathy, even murdering its own people, even its own soldiers.

2023-11-13 14:01:17 GMT

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@npub155h…sn96 @npub19gl…mrne @npub1rvt…ta0m @npub1ccn…czwu
"Bald people don't insist they have hair."
Non sequitur. It would appear that you have untidy thought processes, likely a root cause of your delusion that supernatural gods exist. I believe in your god(s) as much as you believe in:
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2023-11-07 17:46:06 GMT

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@npub1lnm…624t
"...racists, misogynists, bigots and haters..." There's a word for that: Republicans.

2023-11-06 18:05:15 GMT

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@npub192y…7pyw @npub1uhs…m93j @npub14pn…rag6 @npub1pcn…zf7l
@npub1ccn…czwu
The English/Germanic days of the are all pagan, named after the Teutonic pantheon,, except for Saturday. Xianity didn't really go over big up north until deep into the Dark Ages.

2023-10-30 22:36:10 GMT

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@npub1lfs…2cez @npub1jkm…ndsx @npub1p90…5svf @npub1ccn…czwu @npub1j7t…ls96 @npub1t07…nm3q
Libertarians prefer Trump to Biden, so your "threat" just means they wound up with their second choice. Libertarians are just Far Right Republicans without the Jesus angle.

2023-10-28 14:07:57 GMT

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@npub105v…hk8p
I wish they'd stop calling the leadership of Israel "Jewish" and start calling them "Zionist", somewhat the same distinction we had in WWII, that Germans weren't necessarily Nazis.

2023-10-21 12:33:03 GMT

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@npub1ccn…czwu
"If it's been blasphemy for you, it's been a blast for me too." J. Whitney Brown

2023-10-17 13:58:28 GMT

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@npub1gha…ffp5
They aren't God's Chosren children, so they are of no concern to Zionists. Goy children have no value.

2023-10-09 17:06:51 GMT

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@npub12ez…uyf6
Stop calling them schools. They're juvenile Xian seminaries. The US public education system cannot recover until we get rid of private and religious schools entirely, forcing all students to attend public schools. This is the only action that would force the wealthy to support their local public school systems in order to provide their children with a decent education, barring sending them to Europe.

2023-09-01 12:35:59 GMT

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@npub189n…satx
Although I'm an atheist, I've always been struck by this passage from the Old Testament, Ezekiel 9:11.
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

2023-08-29 18:04:36 GMT

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 @npub1kpa…kn20 And profoundly rude.

2023-08-26 22:15:20 GMT

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@npub1s9z…9g85 @npub189n…satx
Nobody seems to mention how lonely it will be without the songbirds, the crickets and lightning bugs, the whales, the dolphins, the penguins, bears, deer, hawks and owls, crows, and the silence of humans being the only things left alive on Earth.

2023-08-20 13:30:14 GMT

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@npub147p…lnth @npub1nqz…838y
Catholics are basically polytheists anyhow, what with their pantheon of saints, Virgin Mary, Jesus and Jehovah, not to mention demonic possession (what are demons if not demi-gods?), Satan, and Jesus physically reincarnating in your stomach from wafers and wine, right before you digest his blood and flesh and later presumably shit out your sins. (Actually ALL of the Abrahamic religions are polytheistic, complete with cherubim, seraphim, archangels, et hoc genus omne.)

2023-08-20 11:44:33 GMT

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@npub147p…lnth @npub1nqz…838y
The Republicans have systematically removed all the sane, well-educated people from their party. While a lawyer CAN be well educated, a law degree is no substitute for a real education. The GOP is wall-to-wall grifters, preachers and lawyers.

2023-08-15 15:48:35 GMT

I would like to retract an earlier toot, that Kevin McCarthy was the most stomach-turning Republican politician in my lifetime. (I'm 80.) Execrable bag of flesh that Kevin is, I just saw Newt Gingrich sneering about the Fulton indictment and it all came rushing back. If anybody needs proof that there is no god, the fact that New Gingrich hasn't been stricken with boils and his home overrun with toads yet should suffice. One would think he'd poison himself with his own spittle.

2023-08-11 10:53:56 GMT

Wow. Turned on the TV to be greeted by #ChrisChristie railing against Hunter Biden, furious invective normally reserved for gang rapists and mass murders. And Joe Biden is as evil and awful as any president in our history. Chris Christie. Disgusting. Maybe I missed the beginning that would explain it, but I couldn't take more than 20 seconds of it before I went to the weather channel. For some reason I had thought Christie was little less awful, but he's just another psychopathic Republican.

2023-08-10 19:18:06 GMT

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@npub12ze…hunm
McConnell was basically given a large interest in an asbestos plant somewhere in Russia. Don't forget China, either. McConnell's wife, the daughter of a Chinese shipping magnate, was made Secretary of Labor, a post that oversees the ports of all things! Apparently marriages of state are still a thing.

2023-08-10 19:14:06 GMT

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@npub12ze…hunm
I don't understand how the Church keeps its tax exemption, because it OFFICIALLY meddles in our politics, to wit, the abortion issue. Archbishops giving public speeches, nuns demonstrating...but then, religion should simply be classified as part of the entertainment industry, with no special tax status of any kind. All religions. Temples, synagogues, churches, and mosques should have to pay ordinary local property taxes that support fire and police departments and maintain the roads.

2023-08-10 17:48:48 GMT

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@npub12ze…hunm
Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoe on the table at the UN and promised to bury us. Joe McCarthy's entire shtick was about covert Soviet infiltration of America, everything from the movies, to Congress, to local politics, almost all fiction of course, but it inspired lots of TV shows like The Prisoner. There were even rumors about American style villages in Siberia teaching Russian spies how to be Americans. What we actually have is the gradual buying up of American politicians.

2023-08-10 17:28:27 GMT

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@npub1swy…snpj @npub1wj2…g03d @npub189n…satx
#FL is full of rich Republican Yankees avoiding taxes and cold weather, and people who did not have the benefit of a decent K-12 education. The Yankees like what's happening (or don't care) and the rest don't know any better.

2023-08-10 17:13:26 GMT

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@npub12ze…hunm
Could it get any stupider? Well...I guess grifting and fraud aren't really stupid, but the suckers sure are in this case.

2023-08-08 15:24:14 GMT

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@npub1f9h…ah92 @npub189n…satx
Sad to say, it won't be long before all aquatic life is gone. Enjoy fish for dinner while you can.

2023-08-05 22:19:43 GMT

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@npub1j5x…5frn @npub189n…satx
Sadly, America is all about individual rights, freedom, and not having to do anything you don't want to do. The idea of civic responsibility is an alien thought in the US. The concept of duty is only something one runs into if one chances to join the military for some reason. We a country of selfish people concerned about their personal rights, not about obligations and responsibilities. We're a fun loving people and nothing is more important than fun.

2023-08-05 17:52:57 GMT

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@npub14cx…qwkm @npub189n…satx
Trump is a dangerously decompensating Narcissistic psychopath. He should be placed not in a prison but in a facility for the criminally insane.

2023-08-04 22:10:51 GMT

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@npub1pgn…kr4r @npub189n…satx @npub1msm…hjpd
Almost. #Trump is a bioterrorist and mass murderer (covid), in addition to his other charged crimes. After his conviction, he should be sent to Guantanamo where he will be safe and there won't be any demonstrations outside the facility to cope with.

2023-08-04 21:17:42 GMT

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@npub1nqz…838y
Everything from his very weird Bible verse tweets (frequently from the Old Testament, which seems odd from a Catholic turned Mormon turned Catholic), to his unparalleled dissociation from whatever current event he comments on. He seems genuinely oblivious to reality, often not even following the GOP talking points, blasting off at strange tangents, seemingly unaware of what is actually being discussed in public or debated in Congress. No fact is too big or too obvious to ignore.

2023-08-04 16:40:20 GMT

#Trump has been a Russian asset all along, and the Russians have supported all his activities, from trying to cripple Ukraine to threatening NATO. The #MoscowSeven and others in Congress, including #McConnell, are in thick with the Russians. The GOP is crippling the US from within, following the Russian/Soviet plan that has been in place since the 50s. In this light, #FOX, #McCarthy, #Cruz, OANN, etc, aren't pro Trump as much as pro #Russia.

2023-08-03 22:38:14 GMT

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@npub12ez…uyf6
He misspoke. He meant to say, "We'd like to start waterboarding people on day one," but fell victim to a Freudian slip.

2023-07-12 13:15:26 GMT

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@npub189n…satx
I attended an exceptional HS, class of '61. In Honors English, we had to subscribe to the New Yorker and Scientific American, given homework based on their articles. A Japanese outfit bought Scientific American ~1960 and suddenly there was a spastic sentence seemingly in every other paragraph; the teacher had picked Scientific American because articles were well written/edited, exposing us to good scientific writing. The homework turned into editing assignments.

2023-07-09 02:32:05 GMT

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@npub1ahq…wjwd
John said sweetly, with a Seraphic smile on his face, the smile last scene on an Inquisitor as he sentenced a heretic to life at the oar, serenely confident that Jesus was on his side, which, as today, was all that really mattered.

2023-06-12 11:32:16 GMT

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@npub1zh2…7965
I always enjoy talking to sensible people! 8^)
I will add that #Donald doesn't have the brains to lead a column of troops into battle. Any comparison of #Donald with Benedict Arnold is flattering for Hair Furor. I honestly think Hitler had more redeeming personality traits.

2023-05-21 00:56:58 GMT

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@npub1eeu…u43z @npub1xg6…e6jt @npub1rdh…a46z
Sorry, I didn't mean to criticize you and it certainly wasn't my intent. I see Xianity as a far more malignant and malevolent force than you seem to and tend to become pedantic on "The Emperor's New Clothes" aspect of Xianity.
Back on the subject of MTG protesting being called a white supremacist, I have my doubts that she believes in the redeeming grace of Christ any more than I do.

2023-05-20 21:42:09 GMT

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@npub1eeu…u43z @npub1xg6…e6jt @npub1rdh…a46z
Why would you believe Jesus was real? It's as if we've given "real Jesus" the benefit of the doubt for the past 1600 years and somebody has to prove that he didn't exist to challenge it.
Events in the Gospels don't match ordinary reality, never mind the miracles, for example, would Joseph take his pregnant wife on a donkey ride? If Herod ordered the murder of the first sons of Israel, why don't the Jews remember it?
In both cases, these happenings are imaginary.

2023-05-19 12:23:37 GMT

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@npub1eeu…u43z @npub1rdh…a46z @npub1xg6…e6jt
As if the Ten Commandments were even a sensible guide to morality for a bunch of ignorant nomadic goat herders. Half of the Commandments aren't even Constitutional, starting right off with Numero Uno, which would make Hinduism immoral by definition.
The NT, a collective work of fiction from many authors over a few centuries, is only indirectly connected to the Commandments via the fictional character Jesus being the Jewish messiah of prophesy, and King of the Jews.

2023-04-05 14:24:53 GMT

@nprofile…55y5
I graduated from high school in 1961, so I remember when the US won international scholastic competitions, instead of being unable to break into the top 10. Everybody had to take biology in 9th grade and that class became the intro to science in general. At our school, they played the Bell Telephone Science Hour series in class, and the one on weather, Unchained Goddess, ended with a climate change warning - 1958. I was 14 when I saw this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-AXBbuDxRY
#limitstogrowth