SleepySteve 
Apples and Pears
@lonewolf
We need a complete and total shutdown of Ohio until we figure out what the hell is going on.
We need a complete and total shutdown of Ohio until we figure out what the hell is going on.
Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)
WatermelonRat 
Assistant
Upload King
@Commune
I think Gretchen Whitmer would be a strong contender. She carried Michigan Democrats to their first legislative majority in decades in the last election, and has been putting that majority to good use in the past few months. She’d have plenty of accomplishments to point to in a campaign.
I think Gretchen Whitmer would be a strong contender. She carried Michigan Democrats to their first legislative majority in decades in the last election, and has been putting that majority to good use in the past few months. She’d have plenty of accomplishments to point to in a campaign.
Plus, she’s oddly popular with young people, apparently. About a month ago, I was escorting some high schoolers on a field trip to Lansing, and we went to the state capitol. They had fun at the Capitol building, but when we passed the Governor’s office on the way back to the hotel, they went absolutely nuts, repeatedly yelling “That’s where Big Gretch works!” and waving furiously at the windows.
SleepySteve
Apples and Pears
@WatermelonRat
Gretchen single-handedly revived Michigan Dems after stagnating under Republican Rick Snyder. She should be a clear frontrunner.
Gretchen single-handedly revived Michigan Dems after stagnating under Republican Rick Snyder. She should be a clear frontrunner.
Dustcan 
Dogs
Barge carrying 1400 tons of methanol sinking in the Ohio River
Well it looks like the Barge companies want to get in on it now. Didn’t know they shipped it by Barge.
As an Ohioan, I laugh at all those “Living in Ohio” memes.
They get less funny as they become true.
Background Pony #F6E5
@Dustcan
Why has Ohio been that one state that’s getting super bad luck now? Like, good gravy. It’s utterly insane.
Why has Ohio been that one state that’s getting super bad luck now? Like, good gravy. It’s utterly insane.
Ereiam 
Monde de merde
@Background Pony #F6E5
Because AFAIK Ohio is one of those few Rust Belt states that stubbornly clings to whatever industrial heritage they have left instead of considering reconversion, and since Trump thanked them for voting him in with the eminently populist move of deregulating industrial safety norms, those chickens are now coming to roost.
Because AFAIK Ohio is one of those few Rust Belt states that stubbornly clings to whatever industrial heritage they have left instead of considering reconversion, and since Trump thanked them for voting him in with the eminently populist move of deregulating industrial safety norms, those chickens are now coming to roost.
Violet Rose in The Rain 
It is true that people tend to adopt irrational defensive positions when they feel attacked -
But.
Believing that you would never cool down and see reason if you did end up in that position says a lot about you.
This reminds me of Caelan Conrad’s excellent recent video on Megan Phelps-Roper, the ex-westboro baptist church lady who hosted Rowling’s new podcast, and how a lot of ‘reformed bigots’ like Roper are very good at empathising with other bigots and not so good at actually empathising with or understanding the pain they have cause the communities they were bigoted against, especially when they have ‘reformed’ by becoming liberals.
Background Pony #1D40
@Violet Rose in The Rain
Cooling down is not relevant because it’s not about anger. It’s about who you interact with and what ideas and information are you exposed to.
Cooling down is not relevant because it’s not about anger. It’s about who you interact with and what ideas and information are you exposed to.
Beth 
In digital purgatory
@lonewolf
Oh great, the acid cloud from the train wasn’t enough.
Oh great, the acid cloud from the train wasn’t enough.
Now 1400 tons of neurotoxin in the water.
Methanol best known as wood alcohol can make an adult man blind with one shot (measuring it like drinking alcohol because this is how most methanol poisonings happen)
It might not stay around long, being highly volatile, but it will kill everything organic in it’s path, and disperse into the air too.
Wiimeiser 
(Foil Hat)
And now you know why the Internet doesn’t exist in the future. (In all seriousness, it’s because Star Wars and Bladerunner predate it and Mirror’s Edge was a video game).
Violet Rose in The Rain
I guess you proved me right. Bigots who come across criticism and decide to get more Fascist decided that they can’t handle criticism from people with genuine pain. Can’t reason someone out of what they emotioned themselves into.
So much for, “facts over feelings.” Why should we coddle reactionaries and treat them like gifted kids? They don’t spare a thought of empathy for minorities.
Kiryu-Chan
World's Okayest User
@SleepySteve
I mean, both “California” presidents were pretty hardcore republicans, including GOP darling and overall person responsible for everything currently wrong with the country Ronald Reagan
I mean, both “California” presidents were pretty hardcore republicans, including GOP darling and overall person responsible for everything currently wrong with the country Ronald Reagan
SleepySteve
Apples and Pears
@Kiryu-Chan
And yet Reagan is still kinda gospel in Cali. The Dem supertrifecta is still all too happy to proclaim “Ronald Reagan Day” every damn year.
And yet Reagan is still kinda gospel in Cali. The Dem supertrifecta is still all too happy to proclaim “Ronald Reagan Day” every damn year.
lonewolf 
U mad?
Twitter banning posts about Trans Vengeance Day
So Andy Ngo and many many others got suspended for commenting about this day being promoted:
Turns out it was because Twitter was auto nuking posts about this “call for vengeance” because it violates their rules, and everyone got their accounts back.
So Andy Ngo and many many others got suspended for commenting about this day being promoted:
Turns out it was because Twitter was auto nuking posts about this “call for vengeance” because it violates their rules, and everyone got their accounts back.
Background Pony #0ED2
Just watched a PBS Newshour segment about how the media ignores cases of missing people of color, specifically Latinos/Latinas.
And there are people who say systemic racism isn’t real.
Zincy
In Vino Veritas
If the US had any nuts it would pull defense funding from Israel until they drop this stupid court coup.
Especially after Bibi-Bitch said “Israel will go its own way” and told Biden to backoff.
Sure, we’ll back off. Now kiss those billions goodbye.
Commune
🚙
@Violet Rose in The Rain
People need to stop labeling despotic actions as “fascism”, democratic regimes can also take despotic measures
People need to stop labeling despotic actions as “fascism”, democratic regimes can also take despotic measures
Calling every authoritarian and/or conservative programme “fascism” just weakens any effective anti-fascism overall
If the US had any nuts it would pull defense funding from Israel until they drop this stupid court coup.Especially after Bibi-Bitch said “Israel will go its own way” and told Biden to backoff.Sure, we’ll back off. Now kiss those billions goodbye.
Pulling defense funding probably wouldn’t do that much, Israel is fairly self-sufficient
Beth
In digital purgatory
I don’t know much about middle eastern affairs but I thought Israel was just America’s fort in the middle east now.
I didn’t know they had it in them to ever be defiant. That’s interesting.
SleepySteve
Apples and Pears
The US of Canada-Jesusland memes are so funny because it assumes “Dem America” has similar values as Canada.
I don’t know about that. Canadians aren’t that enlightened on racism, for one.
lonewolf
U mad?
The latest email dribble from Gab over the shooting:
“By: Pastor Andrew Isker
On Monday, March 27, a woman who believed she was a man deliberately attacked a conservative Christian school in Nashville, murdering three nine-year-old children and three staff members. It was a deliberate terror attack by a transgender on Christians and their children. A 28-year-old woman named Aubrey Hale, who also went by “Aiden” and demanded others use male pronouns to refer to her, was shot dead by police minutes after the attack began.
Given these circumstances, any reasonable person can safely conclude this was an ideological attack. Whether Hale’s manifesto recovered from her vehicle ever sees the light of day is another story, especially if it is damaging to the transgender narrative the regime has devoted massive resources to prop up. What can be pieced together is that:
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The female-to-male transgender Hale was once a student at Covenant School in Nashville.
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Tennessee recently passed a bill to protect children from sexualization at Drag shows.
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March 27 is the beginning of “Transgender Week of Visibility,” yet another celebration in the bloated degeneracy liturgical calendar.
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Every Regime propaganda outfit is in the midst of a full-court press saying evangelicals are Christian Nationalists who plan on genociding transgenders.
The result is that 3 children and 3 adults lie dead, murdered by a person whose mental illness was turned into an ideological weapon by the most evil people on the planet. All day long, 24/7, you hear the message that conservative evangelical Christians are evil scum. We are the only group that hatred of is not only seen as acceptable or allowed but positively virtuous. Add that to a group of people put through the meatgrinder of a callous, godless world that manufactures mental illness, whose minds are so warped they believe that they are the opposite sex and will mutilate their bodies surgically and with hormones, who have been told they are being targeted for extermination, and you have the recipe for mass violence.
As I wrote nearly a year ago after the Uvalde shooting, “the question we ought to be asking is not ‘why does this happen?’ but rather ‘why does it not happen a lot more?’” We live in a society that is past its breaking point (see right). Everything that used to give life meaning has been taken away, driven far from the reach of ordinary people, or made an object of ridicule. Love of one’s nation and people is both mocked and called “racist.” The normal impulse to desire a spouse and children is ripped apart by divorce, feminism, and sexual perversion and then put out of reach for many by worsening economic and social conditions.
The major institutions of the Christian faith that provided a spiritual foundation for a once great nation—the mainline Protestant churches—were hollowed out over a century ago, now with teary-eyed female pastors offering moralistic, sentimental discourses on Chicken Soup for the Soul at best and gay transsexual, antiwhite race hate, Marxist propaganda, at worst.
The churches that grew over the last century in response to the mainline apostasy retained their adherence to the Bible but are largely beset by a pragmatism that places church growth ahead of faithfulness. The result has been precious few Christian leaders willing to defend the Christian faith in a way that matters to a culture in freefall.
That pragmatism that has infected the church is responsible for much of the cultural rot we are experiencing. The entire ethos of selling the Christian religion as a lifestyle product you separate from and add to your pre-existing way of life has dominated the practice of ostensibly conservative American evangelicalism. It was a convenient arrangement for a lot of people, especially when you lived in a culture that enjoyed the fruits of two millennia of Christian cultural formation.
You could separate the Christian life and keep it self-contained to Sunday morning and maybe a few small group activities throughout the week. You could keep “spiritual talk” separate from talk of your work, of news and politics, of sports and entertainment. That was a convenient arrangement when the entire society, Christian or not, agreed that marriage was between a man and woman and foundational to civilization, that men and women are entirely distinct and immutable sexes, and you had functioning, well-ordered communities where people could reasonably expect to trust one another. But that convenient arrangement no longer exists.
Today you live in Negative World, and Negative World just became deadly. No longer do you live in a place where there is a distinction between being a Christian and “fighting the culture war.” Those three nine-year-olds that the monster shot were not consciously combatants in the culture war. They were not little James Dobsons. They were just Christian kids being raised in the nurture and admonition of the Lord by Christian parents. But we have reached a point where simply being a Christian means participation in the culture war is unavoidable. You may not want your children involved in the culture war, but if they bear the name of Christ, they are part of it whether you like it or not. Your enemy has made them a target, if not with bullets, with a poisonous mind virus that they constantly want them exposed to.
It is well past time for Christians, particularly Christian leaders, to recognize this. You have enemies. You have enemies that want you and your children dead. You have enemies you need to fight. Your desire to “win them over” through niceness is a weapon they wield against you. They manipulate your desire to avoid conflict. They know that you are terrified of offending anyone since that will negatively affect church attendance. And so they have rolled over you, they have destroyed your culture, and have now made you a pariah in your own country. You are not going to winsome your way out of this. You can choose to remain silent out of cowardice, or you can begin to fight an evil ideology that could not be in more stark rebellion against the Creator of Heaven and Earth.
You need to be preparing your schools, churches, homes, and selves for this spiritual war. You need to have a plan in place. You need to have men willing to protect your people with force. You need to be physically able to protect your family. You need to be getting in better shape. You will notice the two police officers who dispatched the trans terrorist did not have dad bods. Hard times are here. It is no time for soft men. And lest you think this is an unprecedented time in the history of the church, it is not. Violent individuals provoked by the government to attack dissident Christians is nothing new.
It is even part of the Anglo-American Christian tradition. As one commenter pointed out, the 1689 English Bill of Rights guaranteed the right of Protestants to bear arms to protect themselves against anarchy allowed by the government. The government didn’t send goons to attack them; they just let armed thugs loosely aligned with them do their dirty work for them. Sound familiar? We are in a very similar place and will require similar courage and strength of will. The Protestant churches of 17th-century England had strong leaders, strong fathers, and men who believed so strongly in the Lord Jesus they were ready to die for Him. Do we have such men and such leaders? If you are reading this, you are the answer to this question, one way or the other.
We have reached a crossroads in our country. Either biblical Christianity or sexual degeneracy will be tolerated. One will be eradicated by the other. This will not be the last time Christians will be martyred by mentally ill leftist freaks. Will you have the courage to take a stand for righteousness and truth, or will you submit to the hideous and disgusting abusers and murderers of children? The choice is yours.”
Gee that kind of sounds like a call to violence to me. If Putler doesn’t start WW3 first, I really think a 2nd civil war is coming. And it’s going to be bible humpers vs everyone else.
Beth
In digital purgatory
Christians have been the ones inciting violence since day one, they repetitively used threats of war and damnation before any trans person has ever attacked anyone.
They sexually ridicule people, harassing people over their genitals (which is sexual degeneracy), they tell Trans people that they are worthy of death, that they’re not human, that their very existence is against everything good and holy.
How far to trans people have to be pushed, killed, and dehumanized until violence in return is justified?
It won’t ever be justified honestly.
That trans man fucked up, and now the rest of the world has to deal with it. Pfft, prob wasn’t even trans. this is all too rich.
You’re telling me a police office can’t have an inside group of people waiting to pin a shooter on trans ideology?
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