With a great effort, the rug is moved to one side of the room, revealing the dusty cover of a closed trap door.
So essentially, Paul is attempting to persuade Republicans in Congress to follow the law… but only in FEAR that the NEXT (presumably Democratic) president will do the SAME ILLEGAL ACTIONS THAT THEY’RE ALLOWING, RIGHT NOW, BY THEIR CURRENT PRESIDENT?
Instagram is horrible for artists. We pour our hearts and time into posting absolutely breathtaking content full of emotion and humanity, and the platform forces our followers to simply comment, like, and scroll on.
Where’s the REAL engagement? The meaningful dialog, the long lasting conversations, the building of genuine human connection?
The design perpetuates the idea that we must post content that in essence are bite-sized morsels of hyper-concentrated high fructose serotonin, each one fading out of existence forever as soon as it rolls off the screen and out of our attention span, leaving us endlessly craving another hit from the next in line.
This is not social networking, it’s fucking disgusting.
I visited a friend on Youtube that I hadn’t seen in decades. He’s still doing the same thing – vlogging.
He inspired me in the early 2000’s to come out of my shell with posting videos of myself. I became a vlogger for a time as well, interacting with him and the others who were intrigued by his charismatic personality. It was the very early days of Youtube, and we were creating communities together.
We talked about philosophy, the mind, collective consciousness. I felt like I was part of something bigger than just myself, but even bigger than that – a shift, enabled by new technology, which nurtured the expanding of the limits of the mind.. by talking to myself, I was talking to everyone.
I grew.
Now, it seems he’s lost his way. His heart is still in the right place but his mind has been captured, likely a while ago by those who seek power. Or, maybe he’s the same as he’s always been, and I simply forked a long time ago and had forgotten how rough around the edges he was…and is. Unfortunately, still.
2026 is starting out to be an interesting, reflective year for me.
How do we portray a culture that scoffs and makes fun of “obsolete” money?
Imagine a future global culture that had moved on a long time ago to a better motivation — such as mutual cooperation, to accomplish shared goals, as a hierarchy of communities that may resemble what may exist today but are restructured to be more efficient with this new motivation?
This feeling in me
The collective consciousness
We can be stronger
A smile is deadly
To those who can only hate
A coffin readies.
They know what they’re doing, and that it’s up to us to transform their energy.
We have each other, and we are MANY more than they want to project with their troll farms and AI bots and media control. It’s just an illusion, a magic trick 🪄
Demons have no strength
But how they are held onto
Let go of demons
I feel like a good metaphor for right-wing mainstream political news and fact checkers is that they’re playing a giant, never ending game of Splatoon; [dis]information is the ink and consumers of media are the playing field.
What a sad, sad state of affairs we’re in.
10:10:10
ChatGPT: Because you’re not good enough.
You know what’s fucking weird?
That news media essentially is giving zero (0) coverage to congress (especially Democrat congress) in their speeches with everything that’s going on.
If you wanna get it straight from the horses’ mouths, just cover them. Why are we getting everything from Trump, from the bullshit outsiders, but none of the official Congress stuff? Are you afraid that it’ll spread the truth a bit too much? Or is it just not sensational enough for your audience?
Either way, fuck you.
I would have thought by the year 2025, we would have figured out by now that empathy, cooperation and working toward keeping our host planet HABITABLE would be at the forefront of our focus. Instead, we see quite the opposite.
It makes me fucking sick.
I’d like to see every Christian church in the United States coordinate a mission for their followers to surround the U.S. Capitol and ask to speak to the Republicans in Congress about the teachings of Jesus Christ.
“Sometimes, the viewport can appear extremely narrow.”
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win”
I hear Obama is going to run for a third term in 2028.
I have sort of a fetish toward well engineered surge protector strips. Especially ones with..
Mmmmmmm…. *drool*
Finding ones like that at a thrift store at a good price is like striking gold to me. I don’t CARE if I need it. I *will* need it, at some point. And I’ll be happy I got it.
And I am.
The biggest game of reverse psychology is happening right now.
Don’t fall for it.
America knows exactly what you’re doing.
And we don’t like it.
The downfall of the United States will be remembered as completely avoidable; a sloppy re-enactment of rising Fascist nations of lore. Blood is on the hands of the currently GOP controlled Congress. They are allowing this.
It can only be my assumption at this point, that this is the intended result.
Prove me wrong.
Tired, stubborn old men die clinging to their own chests
As if they can start their own pale, black hearts again
It’s sad they can’t control how they die
As they strived to control their own lives
“A miserable failure”, again they said…
They don’t see
Beyond their own greed
And so they concede
Into the Earth, to try again
This is just fucking hilarious. In the same breath! Such confidence in the continued ignorance of your rapidly dwindling base.
“The pot calling the kettle black” is a proverbial idiom that may be of Spanish (or ultimately Italian) origin, of which English versions began to appear in the first half of the 17th century. It means a situation in which somebody accuses someone else of a fault which the accuser shares, and therefore is an example of psychological projection,[1] or hypocrisy.[2] Use of the expression to discredit or deflect a claim of wrongdoing by attacking the originator of the claim for their own similar behaviour (rather than acknowledging the guilt of both) is the tu quoque logical fallacy.
terrorist.
Only pitiful,
Weak men feel they must project
Strength onto others.
Empathy is only a weakness to those in deficit of it.
Republicans were so afraid of Communism that they didn’t notice Fascism sneaking in through the back door.
I am aware, that
I am fully alive, and
We are all one kind.
You know what we need? A fantastic montage of CIVIL DEBATE by politicians.