Wandering Adventure Party

@Remittancegirl @cstross not at all. It is an incredible, personal story, and was the best kind of cry in honoring it. It convinces us on even more personal and emotional terms that RFKjr is wrong and the damage is going to kill people. Our stories are important! And I thank you for telling this one.

@Remittancegirl @cstross we all cried.

@jgivoni @randahl I'm not disagreeing. And we should not refuse community to anyone who is ready to help push back the evil.

What I am saying however might not sit so well with you: Trump is a symptom, not a cause. That's my opinion as someone who watched it happen over 28 years, from the first time I sat up and said, "omg - oh no." Trump's way was paved.

@jgivoni @randahl American here. Please don't be too quick to let Americans as a whole off the hook. There are a lot of people who give lip service to opposition to the administration who have not sacrificed a blessed thing, but sat on a sofa looking at Facebook, and now the chaos they have allowed without opposition at home is spilling onto the world. Americans have not fought and now they want everyone else to fight.

@randahl I have the same sense: irrevocable rupture. I think is it was actually delayed for a long time, through patient hope and maybe also sunk-cost fallacy, at least since the Iraq war. This is just the clear, sad reckoning and admission, the final divorce after having tried to make a bad marriage work for a long time. It may seem sudden to one mate, but the other has had reasons for decades.

@lionelb I could write 10 paragraphs and still not capture it as well as you have in 2 sentences.

Edgar Ende. The Burning Flag, 1934.

An American friend went on an absolute shouty tirade yesterday, saying that the comparisons of the USA to Nazi Germany are trite and unuseful. So stop it!

Okay.

#Painting

This is insane hocus-pocus but it has worked for me so far:

If your snotty sinuses stop up your nostrils, squeeze a water bottle or similarly sized and shaped object (even another person's arm) under the opposite arm to the stoppage and hold it to against your torso tightly.

I laughed when a friend first told me this. I can't argue with results, but I still can't believe it. Why would it work?

If when you look up, you observe the travesty of Christianity all around you, don't forget to reserve a little gall for the Romans, who created the infrastructure that made it all possible! Merry whatever.

Fox News is only reporting on the splash page that Clinton and Andrew were involved in the Epstein scandal emails. However an adjacent article is on the discovery of evidence that the Apocalypse of Revelation is real, so maybe they're trying to ease their folks into it.

It's never a bad time to review the major Logical Fallacies. We all encounter at least a few of them every single day. Why, there are so many strawmen on my feed here just this morning that I could assemble the US Senate in effigy. (And Appeal to Ignorance has become a whole damn lifestyle!)