CW for childhood bs and brief mention of , racism/white supremacy

All right, this is finally something I have wanted to talk about for a while. I grew up in the US in the-other-South in one of those interim Protestant marginally pro-zionist households with a church and family that was trending toward MAGA evangelical Christianity and all that entails. As a young geography nerd(geography bee school champion in the 5th grade nbd nbd) I might have been more clued into this stuff than I should have been which is why I even asked my family about Israel in the first place. These fully grown adults told me that the Israelis in Israel were the same Israelis that we read about in the Bible in church and Sunday school every week. Forgive me, but lying to children is bad. And a sin, if you believe in that sort of thing. Matthew 18:6

I think it is worth dissecting the lie and to contextualize where it came from. Otherwise, we will wind up confused, like our dear President Lolita Express. What you are hearing from Bill here is the lie that US Christians have been telling themselves for the past 50 years to protect their white supremacy and commit and contribute to genocide without ever having to feel bad or reflect on it.

My grandfather served in the US military during WWII, but didn’t go overseas. When I knew him he couldn’t get enough of the History Channel WWII docs. He once got mad at a Sikh person for wearing a turban on Wheel of Fortune and immediately became irate that Pat Sajak would allow a Muslim person on his favorite game show, like 8 years after 9/11.

We wouldn’t really talk about Israel or Jewish people in our household or church but what we did talk about was Jesus’ apocalyptic return. This is the pre-internet 90s, everything I know comes from the people around me. And these people, my family, told frightening stories. What I knew about Jewish people is that they were going to hell for not being Christian, same with the Mormons and the JWs and everyone else.

My aunt was addicted to those Left Behind novels, we watched the movie Tribulation with Gary Busey half a dozen times. In our household, the End Times were upon us, imminently. But in the meantime, our church began bringing in wackier and wackier speakers, evolution and stem cell therapies were a hot topic for denouncement from the pulpit every Sunday. And we celebrated sending missionaries to Ukraine(true story). As it turns out, it was always just about white supremacy, our city landmark church had been a meeting place for the KKK in the 50s, and in the 80s my grandmother had led the movement to resegregate the black and white Baptist congregations in our city, which was successful as I don’t think I ever saw a black person in that church. One of the Republican state senators who wrote my state’s anti-trans ‘bathroom bill’ was a prominent member there.

This is all to say that I had no idea what a Palestinian was until maybe 2010. I’ve learned a lot since then.

(I am going to continue a little later. Full sending this first half before my screen goes blank.)

I want my $250 back.

Very normal. Very normal.

The pope got his new OC done before I did. That’s cool. I’m definitely not washed.

dOeS iT rEalLy mAttEr?

It’s still funny how the mock-up lunar landing module is 50-feet tall.

The Artemis Program really is the NEOM of space travel.

Become ungovernable

Maybe we could do a little better about putting up a content warning(CW) when discussing self-harm here.

It’s a rough job, but somebody’s gotta do it.

bump amber whataboutism volcel police

And they are incredibly stupid and incompetent and think we are stupid too.

Actually shouting out the Osama bin Laden killing in the statement and telling the American public to directly associate that event with this one in their minds. Remember how happy you were when Osama died? That definitely helped a lot of people in the US in…2011.

Fuck America. Fuck these hogs. Joe Biden, I hope you are shot by a tank someday.

These people are such liars.

Doing a show with Saagar kind of amounts to the same thing whether she agrees with him or not… I wouldn’t care except that Krystal is married to one of my problematic favs, Kyle Kulinski, who does a left-aligned news program, so by extension I want good things for Krystal, and not whatever she is trying to do with Breaking Points.

Saagar Enjeti is such an incredibly dense piece of shit it’s a wonder he hasn’t broken every plumbing system he’s been in contact with.

I don’t even understand the value of what Krystal Ball is doing sitting next to him every week. This isn’t some wacky Hannity & Colmes, I’ll cover the left, you cover the right buddy cop team-up. Saagar Enjeti is an enemy of the movement and it’s harmful to give that know-nothing clown a platform to spew ignorance and give him the credibility coming from when they worked together at The Hill so that Saagar can ride his way into elite DC social circles.

These things go into the American memory hole faster and faster every year.

I love seeing the headlines about Hurricane Milton being “not as bad as expected.” It was just a mild climate change-fueled nightmarish natural disaster where millions of people were displaced and thousands of people, some already impoverished, lost possessions and lives. Don’t think about it, Americans. It definitely couldn’t happen to you. Enjoy your slop.

Look at my Secretary of Transportation, Dawg, I’m getting cancer.

What I am saying, explicitly, is that would make a better congresswoman than

Real crying at the child migrant detention center fence vibes

American healthcare may be shitty, and it may be too expensive, but at least

It is something that sounds impressive. If it worked it would probably be impressive. But I get the sense that a lot of people, just like with AI, really believe that this is a technology that is already working. Seriously, where is the money going if it’s not working? IBM(the holocaust punch card people) are heavily invested in QC and receiving government grants for it.