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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • We all knew this was going to happen, but still, isn’t this more important than articles about Trump’s humiliation?

    It isn’t as fun or as sexy, so it doesn’t get the same number of Updoots.

    Trump’s clown antics are distracting from the serious damage that’s going on directly behind him.

    It’s only a distraction if you can do something about it. 52 Republicans put a Democrat with a snarl of ties to half a dozen foreign powers directly into the heart of the national intelligence service. Now you’ve read the headlines. You’re clued in. What’s your next move?


  • She stuck her finger into the political winds way back in 2012 and came up supporting Hinduvista India, Qatar, and Donald Trump. Cynical? Duplicitous? Treasonous? All fair characterizations. But she started out a Democrat from a bright blue district and climbed all the way up the GOP colon into George Bush Jr’s old role as Intelligence Director. Seems like she figured something out.

    That 52 Republicans decided to throw their lot behind a Democrat from Hawaii with more foreign entanglements than anyone could count is mind-boggling. But that seems like a stupid fuck-up on everyone else’s head.

    Also gotta say… another person Joe Biden had four full fucking years to indict under the Espionage Act and decide to just ignore.


  • Idk, Canada is a lot more religious now than in the 20th century

    https://madeinca.ca/religion-statistics-canada/

    Based on answers in the 2021 census, 53.3% of the Canadian population identify as Christians. That means over 19.3 million Canadians reported belonging to a Christian religion. However, the proportion of Christians is falling rapidly in Canada. In 2011, 67.3% of Canadians identified as Christians, while in 2001, the percentage of Christians was 77.1% of the population.

    The number of Canadians who say they have no religious affiliation has more than doubled since 2001 when 16.5% of the population had no religious affiliation. By 2011, the percentage had risen to 23.9% and in 2021, 34.6% of Canadians had no religious affiliation. 34.6% is approximately 12.6 million Canadians.

    Perhaps the existing Christian base is getting louder, but the raw number of Christians is falling. Meanwhile, no affiliation seems to be filling in the gap. Canada isn’t filling up with Muslims or Satanists or whatever the current ForwardsFromGrandma email chain might suggest.


  • “Trickle Down” is patterned, as a sales pitch, to sound like a Capitalist New Deal. Its the same pitch line, except its keyed to an audience that’s been drubbed over the head with “The government can’t be trusted to do anything nice for you” forty years after the New Deal and Great Society programs have gone stale.

    You want modernized infrastructure? You want domestic growth? You want luxury consumer goods? Let private investment work its magic.

    And, in fairness, we are now awash in privatized infrastructure, a staggeringly bloated finance sector, and mountains of cheap consumerist babbles well within the reach of the median consumer. The trickle came down. In 1980, a full wall of custom themed Marvel Branded Bobble-heads would have cost you a fortune. Now you can get it on a fry cook’s salary.



  • Texas leading the way in thinning their own human herds, attaboy!

    The most vulnerable populations tend to be the poorest. Migrants, children, and other broadly disenfranchised peoples will suffer for these policies. Upper class white men insulated in their country clubs and gated homes will be the last to see any comeuppance.

    We’re doing Masque of the Red Death IRL. Prince Prospero makes it all the way to the final page.


  • THEN LET THEM.

    Its sort of an all-or-nothing affair. RFK Jr isn’t just going to be HHS Secretary for the Republican-leaning parts of the country.

    Also sort of neglects how the people who suffer the most under these policies are poor people not conservative voters. A general retraction of public health services hits the low-laying populations first.

    Let them suffer the consequences this time.

    The thing about infectious diseases is they don’t pick and choose by political affiliation.