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There’s nothing ‘homophobic’ about the word ‘homosexual’ – gender cultists forget …
@OldRoberts953 I wrote this for @spikedonline about the use of the word homosexual –
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this commentary is a bit of britishism about the eternal question, what do we call ourselves. This is the moment I felt the need to copy: “Worse still, we now have the whole LGBTQetc alphabet to contend with. Amusingly, you will sometimes see individuals described as being ‘LGBTQ+’, or even describing themselves as such, for instance, as ‘an LGBTQ+ man’. Can you be all of those things at the same time? This is a bit like describing a cow as ‘a cow-horse-chicken-window-volcano+ bovine quadruped’.” The author likes “homosexual.” With 10 letters, and either four or five syllables, homosexual is to long for casual use. The pronunciation can be clunky. Rest assured, someone will come up with a new expression, that dare not speak its name. – It keeps getting longer. I’m no seeing 2SLGTBQIA+ (2SpiritLesbian GayTrans BisexualQueer/Questioning IntersexAsexualPlus) by the time you get through saying all that it’s time to say goodbye! – Maybe we should just say “alphabets” In current vernacular, an alpha man is the macho-toxic masculinity bastard. OTOH, a beta man is the politically correct, passive bitch. Many of us have a healthy dose of both alpha and beta ~ @mwgarbett I’ve taken a brief break from twitter besides a few snarky posts and replies but I’ve been meaning to post about our area’s big 3 WTF are we doing? and it may surprise you that #1 is the new Fulton County Jail. Which, honestly, dwarfs #copcity and #MARTA in WTF? Let’s discuss. /1 ~ “there remains a considerable amount of uncertainty beyond Day 3 on the track of the storm.” ~ this one is slipping under the radar. Emory Healthcare has dropped Christmas Eve as a paid holiday. This will be offset my making Juneteenth a paid holiday. ~ Manuel Esteban Paez ~ @FaithfullyBP “According to the state of Georgia, buying $11.91 worth of glue can land you on a RICO indictment, if the glue is used to protest the police.” -@JoshuaPHilll But they won’t charge police who murdered Tortuguita—shot 57 times, unarmed, hands up. – @chamblee54 Tortuguita had a rifle, that he bought – @pixfiber Are you suggesting that justified the 54 bullets through him with his arms in the air? – @chamblee54 I am not sure about either 54 bullets or arms in the air i am a resident of Dekalb County, where the facility is located. I never heard any of those things about Turtle before. I could could look it up, but my gut sense is that it is not true. this whole thing stinks 1/2 – @pixfiber On that we agree. I read it from several sources I consider reliable, but I’d love to find out what you might discover – @chamblee54 for one thing, i seem to remember there is no body cam of the shooting. I really don’t want to look into it. this is a discouraging subject, and i have the sense that the facility is going to be built no matter what – @pixfiber My reaction is exactly opposite: brutal assassination and prosecution/persecution of citizens for exercising their rights isn’t something we can afford to look away from. Neither is authorities going ahead in spite of huge public outcry, “no matter what.” – @chamblee54 i was been following this since before it became a national story i have known about the prison farm literally all my life i know that Turtle did have a rifle in his possession – HE WAS NOT UNARMED – @pixfiber My information is different. I’d appreciate a source to follow up. It still does nothing to justify any of it. – @chamblee54 you have access to the same google i do … this might be a good time to try duckduckgo, if it has not imploded yet … hiking at the prison farm was on my to-do list for years. sadly, it is too late now … – @pixfiber You took your move to strike from “but he owned a gun” to “he was armed” and when source was requested, shifted to “look it up yourself.” I didn’t ask for advice on search engines, just a factual basis. You won’t blame me for taking your suggestion with a hefty grain of salt. ~ i am serious about one thing… while america’s problem of color persists … both racism, and the dim witted efforts to fight racism aka wokeness … the endless talk about this malady is BORING ~ while america’s problem of color persists … both racism, and the dim witted efforts to remedy racism … the endless talk about this malady is BORING ~ I googled “gsv mission statement” This is what came up: “Our mission is to create a world in which ALL people have equal access to the future and we believe that scaled innovations in the delivery of education and workforce skills are critical to achieving that end. … The ASU+GSV Summit, co-founded by Michael Moe and Deborah Quazzo, began in 2010 with a collaboration between Global Silicon Valley (GSV) and Arizona State University (ASU).” ~ @BabaRamDass Alchemy of the Heart by @davidstarfire delivers a powerful musical meditation that honors @BabaRamDass deep connection to music while also providing listeners with a tool to bypass the thinking mind & be welcomed with open arms into Soul Land. ~ @MediocreJoker85 Son: Dad, have you seen my sunglasses? Dad: No, have you seen my dad glasses? ~ This is a repost from 2017 ~ “Worse still, we now have the whole LGBTQetc alphabet to contend with. Amusingly, you will sometimes see individuals described as being ‘LGBTQ+’, or even describing themselves as such, for instance, as ‘an LGBTQ+ man’. Can you be all of those things at the same time? This is a bit like describing a cow as ‘a cow-horse-chicken-window-volcano+ bovine quadruped’.” ~ This is a repost from 2021. Glenn and John continue to do bi-weekly shows, now hosted by glennloury.substack.com. Racism continues to be a convenient distraction, with numerous advantages to unscrupulous individuals. It gets more boring every day. ~ I just got back from walking to LAF. This requires the cooperation of the weather, my left foot, my right knee, and my L5S1 disc. I am grateful ~ the suppressed history of American banking : how big banks fought Jackson, killed Lincoln, and caused the Civil War ~ villanelle dream fuck ~ have you ever noticed how the criticisms that both mainstream US political factions make about their opposition tend to be cartoonish exaggerations and whole cloth lies with little or no grounding in reality? – It’s the strangest thing. Since 2015 Democrats have been insisting that Trump’s election would spell the end of American democracy and would turn the United States into a Nazi dystopia with goose-stepping brownshirts rounding up minorities for concentration camps. On top of that they began insisting that Trump is a secret agent working for the Kremlin and that Vladimir Putin was secretly operating as the de facto president of the United States. – On the right side of the aisle it’s even more ridiculous. They’re constantly babbling about a hostile takeover of the United States by socialists and communists, as though the Democrats are anything other than the same garden variety neoliberal capitalists that Republicans are. The more extreme factions prattle on about satanic plots to legalize child molestation, turn children transgender and make everyone eat bugs, which Americans will be powerless to resist because their guns will have been confiscated and their mandatory estrogen jabs will have made them too soft and feminine to fight back. – It’s just ridiculously bogus drama queenery from both sides, but they push it anyway, day after day, year after year, each year with more sensationalist melodrama and hyperbole than the year before. They do this for a couple of reasons, the first being that if they started criticizing each other for the actual things they are actually doing, people would start to notice that there’s not much meaningful difference between the two parties in terms of actual governance. If Americans started to notice that the US government behaves more or less the same way regardless of which party is in power, the illusion of the two-party puppet show would be shattered, and empire managers would lose a crucial means of social control. – Secondly, both parties criticize each other for fictional offenses because criticizing each other for their actual offenses would draw attention to just how evil they both are in real life. The warmongering. The starvation sanctions. The ecocide. The soaring authoritarianism. Making their citizenry poorer and poorer so their donors can get richer and richer, and then destroying social safety nets and imposing crushing austerity on their poverty-ravaged populace. Facilitating a mind-controlled dystopia in which everyone is brainwashed by propaganda to align their thoughts, speech, labor, actions and votes in accordance with the will of the powerful. – The basic, mundane, ordinary status quo is a waking nightmare that should make us all scream in terror; the only reason we don’t is because we don’t notice it, and the only reason we don’t notice it is because we’re used to it. We’ve never known anything besides this abusive dystopia, so we’ve got no perspective on what a healthy society would look like and how very, very far we are from it. But if someone was transported from an alternate universe where human civilization was functioning in a healthy way, they would fall to their knees and bawl at what they saw here. – They make up fictional horrors because they don’t want you looking at the real ones. They don’t want you looking at the suffering of the homeless on the street. At the working poor flailing in endless toil unable to get their heads above water and relax for a minute. At the families in nations like Venezuela, Syria, North Korea and Iran struggling to obtain food and medicine because of imperial economic warfare. At the emaciated bodies of Yemeni children. At the shredded corpses of drone bombing victims. At the inconvenient facts behind the horrors in Ukraine. At Julian Assange languishing in a maximum security prison for the crime of good journalism. At the indoctrinated masses marching blindly to the beat of the imperial drum while being trained to believe they are free. At the biosphere we depend on for survival being poisoned and fed into the machine of global capitalism. At the nuclear holocaust dangling over our heads by an increasingly tenuous thread. – Those are the real horrors. Not the imaginary ones the politicians and propagandists train you to fixate on, but the real ones they train you to overlook. The mundane horrors. The everyday horrors. The horrors we were born into, and got used to over time. – Stop focusing on the threat of some future hypothetical dystopia and pay attention to the dystopia we’re living in right now. That’s where the real tyranny is at. And that’s what the real tyrants work continuously to prevent us from noticing. The more they can keep us shaking our fists at imaginary problems, the longer they can keep us from solving the real ones. ~ Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library ~ selah