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Throwback Created Thursday

Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged blogging, drugs, holidays, law, left-right myth, politicians, psychology, Thanatopsis on November 7, 2024| Leave a Comment »

The dictatorship of the majority is…the most oppressive tyranny of all because it has a huge army of sympathizers and informants with which to enforce its demands.
– “Guy Fawkes Night”

People love to say, “if you don’t vote, you have no right to complain,” but this is completely backwards: it is the voters who have no right to complain, because by signing on to this devil’s bargain they agree to be bound by it.
“Honored in the Breach”

The rulers [of modern republics]…treat government as a colossal game of hot potato, eternally passing the ball forward in the hopes that it will be in someone else’s hands when the music at last stops as it inevitably must. – “Cleansing Fire”

The continuance of life for any given creature requires the regular deaths of countless others. – “The Mysteries“

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Treats and Tricks

Posted in History, Links, Miscellaneous, tagged adolescence, advertising, Antarctica, Arizona, artificial stupidity, California, China, comics, cops, disease, Florida, Georgia, holidays, Hollywood, illegal aliens, imaginative fiction, libraries, Missouri, Nevada, New York, psychology, recipes, robots, South Carolina, United Kingdom on October 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »

I’ve always been dedicated to the idea of this as the time of year for spooky fun. So every year I collect all the spooky, creepy or scary content from the previous year into one place just before Halloween. If you’ve come to my blog in the past year, or don’t remember previous editions, they are “Trick or Treat”, “More Trick or Treat“, “Tricks and Treats“, “This Trick’s a Treat”, “Tricky Treats“, “A Trickle of Treats”, “Tricking and Treating“, “Tricks for the Treat“, “Tricked Out Treats“, “Tricks and Treats and Such Small Deer“, and “Trick Treatment“. Horror, death or Halloween-themed columns of the past year included Day of the Dead 2023, Diary #697, and “Why Zombies?” There are creepy or spooky-fun videos in Links #695, #698, #721, #722, #739, #745, and #746, and a collection of seasonal links appears below.

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Spooky Tweets

Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged animals, artificial stupidity, asset seizure, blogging, Bluesky, California, censorship, consensual crime, ethics, Georgia, Haiti, Hollywood, hysteria, illegal aliens, internet, language, law, left-right myth, libraries, Neither Addiction nor Epidemic, politicians, propaganda, psychology, racism, robots, Russia, Send In the Clowns, surveillance, The Implosion Begins, TikTok, Twitter, yin and yang, You Were Warned on October 18, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Poor Crumbs! https://t.co/JY0hrMuJiM

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 13, 2024

I wonder if part of the problem in this country is that too many weirdos believe women naturally find Trump irresistible. pic.twitter.com/bKDqAABkp2

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 13, 2024

Attention, all "progressive" types: are you angry and disgusted by what Republicans are doing to Haitians right now?YOU were doing the same to sex workers all through the Teens, until "Pizzagate" and QAnon forced y'all to let Trumpists have that narrative.And I will never let y'all forget it.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-09-15T17:07:40.233Z

Honestly, I thought I was later than that; I dawdled for a couple of months after getting my first invite.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-09-17T05:02:25.648Z

Whatever an individual chooses to do with their time, body, money, and brain is nobody's business but their own, and CERTAINLY not the government's, as long as it hurts nobody else.Everyone understands this deep down, which is why control freaks keep trying to expand the definition of "harm".

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-09-17T17:18:13.072Z

This is very, very good; it's rare I see an article which portrays the problems with US politics so clearly and recognizes partisanism for what it is. http://www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ca…

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-09-18T16:51:36.658Z

They were teeny, tiny mistresses.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-09-20T03:55:37.871Z

As I've said many times before: charges like "money laundering", "conspiracy", and "racketeering" do not refer to actual criminal actions; they are charges intended to criminalize ordinary behaviors like banking and talking when done by people the government wants to crush. https://t.co/JYLZ2pGz5k

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 20, 2024

People who constantly think in terms of "revising" other people's creations rather than creating their own, really should stay in academia where the rest of us don't have to see their ridiculous monkeyshines.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 21, 2024

Crimes are magically transubstantiated into sacraments if Holy Government performs them.
Robbery becomes "confiscation".
Rape becomes a "search".
Abduction becomes "arrest".
Persecution becomes "prosecution".
And murder becomes a thing that "just happens" without human agency.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 22, 2024

It's pretty obvious he's using that repeated "beautiful" as a synonym for "white", but I won't be surprised if he eventually just lays his cards on the table and says it aloud. https://t.co/kspHejyf4H

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 24, 2024

The advantage of this for cops is that their videos go from being reviewed by entities with only rudimentary consciences, to being reviewed by entities with absolutely no conscience whatsoever. http://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/n…

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-09-25T17:01:17.251Z

Nah, I'll pick any number I want. I don't obey stupid, arbitrary attempts to control or limit my peaceful, private behavior. https://t.co/VI7FzchTn3

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 29, 2024

Remember 2016, when Americans became so obsessed with creepy clowns that they actually put one in the White House?

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 1, 2024

Honor among thieves. pic.twitter.com/tLs7Reni6R

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 1, 2024

Never forget that for most modern Americans, "in history" actually means "in as long as I can remember, like the year I graduated from high school".

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 2, 2024

I *wish* this were only a GOP thing, but it isn't. "See Something, Say Something" dogma has been promoted by both parties in the duopoly for a generation, largely in the service of campaigns to inflict police violence on women and drug users, but also to promote single-side hobby-horses.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-10-03T17:24:33.518Z

Torch-bearing mobs come in many forms, and some use courts to help them commit library arson. https://t.co/0cK03m2kvB

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 4, 2024

I declare a personal finance emergency, so all levels of government need to make me permanently exempt from all taxes, fees, and fines until I declare the emergency resolved.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) October 7, 2024

When a person's brain is so small and weak it can only conceive of two possible positions on any issue, it's no surprise to see such a mind switch from one extreme belief to another.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-10-08T17:33:31.681Z

No lies detected.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-10-09T18:26:03.866Z

“There is a cult of ignorance in the US, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'.” ― I. Asimov

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-10-11T18:20:42.620Z

It can babysit your kids, walk your dog.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-10-12T17:12:14.673Z

"Some people…embrace [politicians] and…idealize them…in the way that fans treat celebrities, or that medieval peasants treated kings. Not only is this unhealthy for the fabric of…society; it is unrealistic. You cannot be a fully moral person and be elected president of the US".

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-10-12T23:49:53.760Z

Prohibitionist "dopamine" propaganda (against drugs, porn, video games, etc) is just puritans straight-out declaring that they are against pleasure, and most Americans being much too stupid to understand what they're being directly told.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-10-14T17:45:54.245Z

REAL protest targets the people the protesters disagree with, rather than fine art or people trying to drive somewhere.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-10-15T19:42:32.683Z

"The Supreme Court’s devotion to finality in case outcomes is built upon the fiction that justice is not only possible but almost certain during the trial process. Nothing could be further from the truth. " http://www.teenvogue.com/story/robert…

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-10-17T16:40:28.675Z

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Half the Lies

Posted in History, Perception, Tyranny, tagged All-Purpose Excuse, hysteria, left-right myth, pizza!, politicians, propaganda, The Implosion Begins on October 4, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Regardless of how much partisan “journalists” bray that “sex trafficking” hysteria is a “right-wing conspiracy theory”; they themselves did at least half of the work to turn it into a moral panic, from its introduction in the New York Times in January ’04 until it was finally taken over by QAnon in 2018-19. For a while there was a tug-o-war between Trumpists & Anti-Trumpists for control of the narrative, and when MAGA won the soi-disant “progressives” suddenly pivoted to debunking it. These people absolutely do not care about sex workers or anyone else their shamelessly-puritanical rhetoric harmed for two decades; they just suffer from a pathological need to be “correct”, and when it became obvious they were losing control of their own propaganda narrative, they turned to “sour grapes”.

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Tweet and Low

Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged animals, apes & monkeys, Arizona, artificial stupidity, Backpage, BDSM, blogging, Bluesky, California, censorship, China, Colorado, contraception, cops, Dangerous Speech, dating, end demand, holidays, Hollywood, hysteria, illegal aliens, law, left-right myth, nanny state, New York, Oklahoma, politicians, psychology, racism, robots, sex work is work, slavery, surveillance, teachers, The Implosion Begins, The Pygmalion Fallacy, Top Cop, Twitter, Venezuela, yellow journalism, yin and yang on September 16, 2024| Leave a Comment »

I beg to differ, pic.twitter.com/RXUjm4tk2N

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 17, 2024

"I am much better looking than her" – Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/7gH7yHmKAN

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 18, 2024

Fortunately, neither you nor any other control freak has the power to take away sex workers' jobs. We'll just keep on doing them whether you like it or not, just as we have for the past century of criminalization. You'll just have to stew in your unsatisfied need for control. https://t.co/SuhSJi7Wub

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 19, 2024

"Kamala Harris is a prosecutor who has shown over the course of a long career her commitment to [imprison] the victim, [laugh at] the little guy, [and send enslaved prisoners out to]…be…burned."

There, fixed it for y'all.https://t.co/2jtT0HOLBf

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 21, 2024

New insta-mute: authors who encourage the censorship of other authors. Vile in the extreme.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 23, 2024

I smell "autocorrect" at work. pic.twitter.com/kIko1DG4GI

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 24, 2024

Your regular reminder that you are not the property of any political party, and none have any right to demand ANY action from you. Any claim to the contrary is a moral abomination which reduces you to a part in a machine.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 25, 2024

The actual meat here: "the superintendent doesn’t have the unilateral authority to issue such a requirement and…the edict is unenforceable." https://t.co/jgEVShp5m3

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 27, 2024

"Flight by suicide". Consider the sickness and evil of any mind which could not only voice such a phrase aloud in court, but also demand it prevented lest the intended victims escape the State's torture. The depth of depravity to which these prosecutors have sunk is nauseating. https://t.co/TUe0sdDzrX

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 28, 2024

In order "to put it very nicely", he left out the word "white". https://t.co/mnDfx33pYA

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 30, 2024

The puritanical US medical establishment, like the puritanical US political establishment, believes suffering is good for the soul & pain relief a sinful indulgence. That goes DOUBLE for women, and QUADRUPLE for anything involving reproductive systems. https://t.co/dm4WXCzvuZ

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 31, 2024

I'm almost 58 and I'm constantly carded for the most absurd reasons. Carding is no longer age verification; it's an example of the State forcing people to do utterly ridiculous things (like take off their shoes on filthy airport floors) just to demonstrate its power over us.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 1, 2024

If you're a woman, you better thank a whore for being able to vote. You better thank a whore for the right to own property. You better thank a whore for sexual rights. You better thank a whore if you like cosmetics or attractive clothes. You better thank a whore…

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-09-02T19:05:33.910Z

"Likes" serve no practical function for the "liked" creator whatsoever. If everyone who "liked" my content retweeted it instead, I'd have 10x as many followers and probably two or three times the monthly subscription income.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-09-03T16:56:31.984Z

Modern "journalism" has completely bled all meaning out of the word "shocking". https://t.co/0HZpQFs5UV

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 4, 2024

The precedent for this was set by local politicians in the US who think they can reschedule Halloween to a more "convenient" weekend time. reason.com/2024/09/04/c…

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-09-05T17:26:44.617Z

There's a term for cops allowing a crazy person to run around shooting every living thing in sight: "professional courtesy". https://t.co/1ticmuYwD9

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 6, 2024

You've got to go to a higher price point to get that, Brad. pic.twitter.com/FlOk90YlpR

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 8, 2024

These opinions are the kind of idiocy that result from trying to cram the entire world of political thought into two and ONLY two points on a one-dimensional axis.

Imagine trying to define ALL food by only "sweet" or "sour", and nothing else. https://t.co/Aa72rc5ymp

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 8, 2024

About damned time. Lest you forget, Mel Brooks released "The Producers" only 22 years after the end of the Holocaust. Humor serves an important social & psychological function, a fact too many Americans denied for virtually the entire 2010s.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-09-09T17:11:23.844Z

The only thing synonymous with "right wing" is having political views different from a speaker who self-identifies as "left wing". The converse is also true.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 10, 2024

Presumably, the 45% who disagree are the same economic illiterates who think sex workers want our customers harassed and caged. https://t.co/Hp6OyEchq7

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 11, 2024

Maybe this will help the morally-deficient grasp why consent can be revoked at any point.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-09-13T16:26:54.102Z

Your regular reminder that "Pizzagate" and QAnon both developed from the "sex trafficking" hysteria that cops, the local & national media, and politicians of BOTH major parties eagerly promoted for two decades. https://t.co/Xv764Q54U5

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) September 15, 2024

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I, Throwback Thursday

Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged Algeria, blogging, Buttons Bags & Banknotes, censorship, cops, ethics, internet, Islam, law, neofeminism, politicians, pragmatism, stripping, United Kingdom, Washington DC on September 12, 2024| Leave a Comment »

The imitations of their fashion and dance styles by American belly dancers since the 1960s are all that remain of a once unique and fascinating culture, now ground into the dust of the Sahara by the twisted schemes of tyrants.
– “The Ouled Nail”

The laws and regulations produced by the American political system no longer reflect sense, morality, the well-being of society, the will of the people, or any other recognizable principle of good government, and are therefore not binding on free people. Police, prosecutors and other government actors who enforce such laws are not legitimate authorities, but rather the myriad tentacles of a mad, amorphous abomination flailing about wildly in its delirium and killing or maiming everything with which it comes into contact. – “Against Conscience”

When those with a history of attack, oppression and exclusion say they need a certain weapon for defense, you can be as certain as the sun rising in the east that it will also be used for offense. – “Buttons, Bags & Banknotes“

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Silent, Indeed

Posted in Biography, History, Miscellaneous, Music, tagged acting, language, video on August 19, 2024| 2 Comments »

Though I’ve read the explanation of why the cohort born from 1928 to 1945 was first named “The Silent Generation“, I cannot fathom how so many nitwits still think it’s a good label for the generation which gave us Elvis, The Beatles, and every other pioneer of Rock and Roll; most of the leaders of the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr; actors including Robert De Niro and Elizabeth Taylor; directors including Stanley Kubrick; artists including Andy Warhol and Jim Henson; writers including Harlan Ellison and Charles Beaumont; comedians including Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder; scientists including Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan; sports stars including Muhammad Ali and Willie Mays; and many, many other important (and not at all silent) public figures. And since the generation gave us the majority of the Beatniks and the older hippies as well, I have started a one-woman campaign to start calling it “The Beat Generation”.

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Tweet Dreams

Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged agency denial, animals, blogging, Bluesky, California, censorship, cops, Facebook, fantasy, games, genitalia, hysteria, imaginative fiction, internet, language, left-right myth, neofeminism, Never Call the Cops, politicians, prohibitionist myths, propaganda, psychology, racism, sex work is work, Twitter, yellow journalism, yin and yang on August 16, 2024| 3 Comments »

Nothing is safe from being politicized by nitwits. https://t.co/P9g7ufOAtH

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 19, 2024

Gee, it's almost like big centralized systems in which a small number of fail points can cripple everything are a terrible idea.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 19, 2024

I guess a lot of bat-shit insane arguments sound reasonable when you live in the belfry of an ivory tower.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 21, 2024

The "human trafficking" moral panic is *definitely* over. Well played, @TheOnion. https://t.co/SczHVU4NTE

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 22, 2024

Surely you didn't think they'd stop at "charged with a knife"? Now we've got "retreated with a pot of water". Soon "hid in a closet" will be used as grounds for summary execution of an innocent person foolish enough to call cops or unlucky enough to have them barge in at random.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 23, 2024

The world of U.S. politics is a cesspool in which the biggest, most disgusting turds float to the top.

Case in point, the 2024 presidential election.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 24, 2024

After being a sex worker on and off for almost 40 years now, it always amuses me when guys on the internet mock some other dude for something that, judging by what I've heard from clients, they've probably done themselves.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 25, 2024

Superman says bigotry is un-American, and of course he's 100% correct. pic.twitter.com/gsFpWh1cH9

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 27, 2024

Also: Not a day passes that I am not thankful that my life choices have led to my having absolutely no idea who 90% of the PICTURES posted on Twitter are. https://t.co/n8QXZHge6J

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 30, 2024

When you make unsolicited dumbass comments on social media to people you know absolutely nothing about: pic.twitter.com/32obxE3fbM

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 1, 2024

Oh look, the magical Talisman of Debt Reduction is back, but the Sacred Talk about it must be shielded from the eyes of all but priests, kings and nobles.

These are not serious people. https://t.co/DZlqqLuosQ

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 2, 2024

More than half of Americans are useful idiots who wouldn't know a leopard if one bounced up and ate their faces. https://t.co/ijpv3GAKTi

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 3, 2024

You will never convince me that there's a healthy mental process behind obsessing about other people's clothing. https://t.co/tEtoBgh7rU

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 6, 2024

One of the most important things historians and social scientists should be doing right now to benefit future generations is studying how dark ages start, so as to possibly head off or at least ameliorate the next one.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 7, 2024

"They're telling us that they can invent something out of whole cloth and then *make it true* by getting enough people to repeat it enough times."

You mean like the "sex trafficking" myths both GOP and Democrats have unanimously spread for 20 years, and some are STILL spreading? pic.twitter.com/ReKeOnaCm7

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 8, 2024

I wonder what mechanism he believes is involved? Peristalsis? Giant Eustachian tubes into the vagina? Magic?

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 10, 2024

In MY line of work, we don't even START until we get paid. https://t.co/0R5aywV41J

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 11, 2024

"I’m not going to quote anything Trump said in the interview because it was either too stupid to merit transcription or a mere repetition of the nonsense he spouts at every rally he holds."

If every report on every politician were written like this, it would be a better world.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 13, 2024

So if she were walking down a runway, she'd be a "fashion model" and the Puritans would be saying it wasn't "real work".

But because she's in a window, it magically becomes "slavery".

These people are simply against women making money, period. https://t.co/PRt0xENVmP

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 14, 2024

Every cop, politician, and other prohibitionist does this every time they talk about my profession. https://t.co/qg46ZdvuB0

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) August 15, 2024

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Hush…Hush, Tweet Charlotte

Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Words, tagged animals, artificial stupidity, blogging, Bluesky, California, cops, fantasy, hysteria, imaginative fiction, language, law, lawheads, left-right myth, nanny state, Never Call the Cops, politicians, pragmatism, propaganda, psychology, robots, The Implosion Begins, Twitter on July 19, 2024| Leave a Comment »

One of my earliest go-to insults for squares (c. 11 years old) was "conformist". https://t.co/ml4KEU1umT

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 22, 2024

The historical ignorance which passes for "truth" on Twitter shouldn't shock me, but it does.

Please, please, read a damned book on occasion.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 24, 2024

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— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 25, 2024

I'll do it for $200 an hour. https://t.co/QpvWhWqZEr

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 27, 2024

Here's the meat: pic.twitter.com/l0L98OdAbu

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 27, 2024

My fantasy is that some benevolent god sends four simultaneous lightning strikes to take out Trump, Biden, Harris, and whatever deranged authoritarian Trump chooses as his sidekick, while cameras are rolling so their worshipers can't spin their sudden departures as chance.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 28, 2024

to think is big hard https://t.co/3NleApB6FI

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 29, 2024

Everyone who actually paid attention to the plot of either "The Running Man" or "Looker" finds them disconcerting. https://t.co/OEwEixSXRE

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 30, 2024

Today in the "nothing new under the sun" department, "England in 1819" by Percy Bysshe Shelley. If you don't understand the references as you should, crack open a damned book rather than getting your history "lessons" from ideologues on the internet. pic.twitter.com/arNVbIBHgg

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 1, 2024

It's easy to tell sheltered ninnies who have never been in actual danger (from the State, individuals, or both) by their jaw-droppingly stupid opinions about self-defense.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 2, 2024

How can a ground vehicle that looks like a B-movie flying saucer be described as either "unidentified" or "flying"? https://t.co/NoTEfyO2YD

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 5, 2024

Authoritarians love to pretend THEIR scheme to control your body and/or property is morally different from the "other side's" scheme to control your body and/or property because "wings". And most Americans are stupid and/or delusional enough to swallow that.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 6, 2024

"Bullying"?
"Him"?

This is a mechanism. It cannot be "bullied". This is like saying a nail is being "assaulted" when it is hit with a hammer, or protesting the existence of junkyards. https://t.co/4L6HqVJfNy

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 8, 2024

If you thought Catholic priests giving sexual advice even though they're supposed to be celibate was ridiculous, you're gonna LOVE machines giving you advice on health. https://t.co/Cis7V5n7XS

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 9, 2024

The fact that they thought people would be stupid enough to ignore her deeply authoritarian, deeply pro-carceral record and terrible personality because of her "New and Improved" branding speaks volumes about the party's low opinion of the voters whose support they depend on.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 10, 2024

Because the devils have a solid lock on Western society, and don't welcome interlopers. https://t.co/GAbUQ3ZyS5

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 11, 2024

I tried "sane people" but it doesn't fit. https://t.co/TU57aWB3NQ

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 12, 2024

I'm thinking it'll be sometime after the orange-utang announces his sidekick, so I can just get all four of the characters at once.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 15, 2024

…at least we no longer need endure endless parades of taped-mouth morons standing on lawns or telling people to wave origami figures in strange women's faces. It's like the Drug War: still being used as excuse for State violence, but no more fried egg commercials.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 17, 2024

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The Return of Fridaystein

Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged blogging, comics, holidays, law, LGBT rights, psychology on July 5, 2024| Leave a Comment »

The safeguards installed by the Founders [have been] undermined, abrogated, annulled, ignored and repealed to make way for laws and practices based upon the real beliefs of the majority of Americans: fear, hate, superstition, intolerance, greed, violence, control-freakishness, lust for power, and, above all, prudishness. – “Successor”

I see history as a continuously-unfolding process stretching into the far future rather than as a collection of moldering facts about the dead past.
– “Divided We Stand”

Queer bigots are the most revolting bigots because theoretically they should know better.
– “These Kids Today”

Nations and empires are as mortal as the humans who build them, if somewhat longer-lived; and despite the childish beliefs of many Americans, the US is not an exception. – “Post-Imperial“

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