Postcards from the Clown Show

[CCTelander]

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/2/12/hunger-strike-solidarity-protest/

THIRTY?!?!

For TWELVE HOURS?!?!

They must really mean business.

 

[acptulsa]

Divorcing Peace and Prosperity.

 

[acptulsa]

 

[Anti Federalist]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1759058020594548788

 

[Anti Federalist]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1759343876652015890

 

[Occam's Banana]

Where's [MENTION=6186]Danke[/MENTION] when you really need a thread closed?

https://twitter.com/i/status/1759343876652015890

 

[acptulsa]

 

[acptulsa]

 

[Anti Federalist]

https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1759310053138374732

 

[Anti Federalist]

Where's [MENTION=6186]Danke[/MENTION] when you really need a thread closed?

I keep trying to flush him out.

 

[Anti Federalist]

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1759129663052628107

 

[acptulsa]

 

[Anti Federalist]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1760311947722183023

 

[CaptUSA]

From "NewScientist"

Is it time for a more subtle view on the ultimate taboo: cannibalism?

New archaeological evidence shows that ancient humans ate each other surprisingly often - sometimes for compassionate reasons. The finds give us an opportunity to reassess our views on the practice.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26134783-600-is-it-time-for-a-more-subtle-view-on-the-ultimate-taboo-cannibalism/

IT IS the ultimate taboo: in most societies, the idea of one human eating another is morally repugnant. Even in circumstances where it could arguably be justified, such as when a plane crashed in the Andes in 1972 and starving passengers ate the dead to survive, we still have a deep aversion to cannibalism. One of the survivors, Roberto Canessa, has since described the passengers’ actions as a “descent towards our ultimate indignity”.

Ethically, cannibalism poses fewer issues than you might imagine. If a body can be bequeathed with consent to medical science, why can’t it be left to feed the hungry? Our aversion has been explained in various ways. Perhaps it is down to the fact that, in Western religious traditions, bodies are seen as the seat of the soul and have a whiff of the sacred. Or maybe it is culturally ingrained, with roots in early modern colonialism, when racist stereotypes of the cannibal were concocted to justify subjugation. These came to represent the “other” to Western societies – and revulsion towards cannibalism became a tenet of their moral conscience.

A slew of recent archaeological discoveries is now further complicating how we think about human cannibalism. Researchers have unearthed evidence suggesting that our hominin ancestors ate each other surprisingly often. What’s more, it seems that they weren’t always doing so for the reasons you might expect – for sustenance or to compete against and intimidate rivals – but often as funerary rituals to honour their dead.

 

[Occam's Banana]

From "NewScientist"

Is it time for a more subtle view on the ultimate taboo: cannibalism?

New archaeological evidence shows that ancient humans ate each other surprisingly often - sometimes for compassionate reasons. The finds give us an opportunity to reassess our views on the practice.

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ubtle-view-on-the-ultimate-taboo-cannibalism/

 

[devil21]

Remember folks....

 

[acptulsa]

https://twitter.com/WadeMiller_USMC/status/1761015125673222572

 

[A Son of Liberty]

Remember folks....

Couldn't watch past "the upper class keeps all of the money and pays none of the taxes".

That's some bullshit socialist propaganda. The upper class BY FAR pays the lion's share of taxes in this country... and that's without addressing the 400 lb. gorilla in the room regarding the fact that none of us - NONE, not rich, middle class or poor - should be paying "taxes" to the government, especially in this day and age wherein taxation is merely a whip, not a means of financing the government. That's what they have the Federal Reserve for. 34 trillion dollars in debt and growing exponentially by the day, and an annual budget that hasn't been balanced since the fucking 90's. But they've made us fat, lazy and stupid, so we sit here on our fat, lazy, stupid a$$es, enjoying the raft float down the river, seemingly completely oblivious to the waterfall we're heading toward. Every. Single. One of us... yeah, a couple of us do say, "hey guys, maybe we should get out of the water, seems like there might be trouble ahead"... but not enough of us.

Well, I have my soft metals, and I have my land. And I will take are of my family to the best of my ability. But this ship is sinking, no matter how much or how little the wealthy pay. And I'm not going to depend on anyone other than myself, and people I damned sure know I can trust.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Couldn't watch past "the upper class keeps all of the money and pays none of the taxes".

That's some bullshit socialist propaganda. The upper class BY FAR pays the lion's share of taxes in this country... and that's without addressing the 400 lb. gorilla in the room regarding the fact that none of us - NONE, not rich, middle class or poor - should be paying "taxes" to the government, especially in this day and age wherein taxation is merely a whip, not a means of financing the government. That's what they have the Federal Reserve for. 34 trillion dollars in debt and growing exponentially by the day, and an annual budget that hasn't been balanced since the fucking 90's. But they've made us fat, lazy and stupid, so we sit here on our fat, lazy, stupid a$$es, enjoying the raft float down the river, seemingly completely oblivious to the waterfall we're heading toward. Every. Single. One of us... yeah, a couple of us do say, "hey guys, maybe we should get out of the water, seems like there might be trouble ahead"... but not enough of us.

Well, I have my soft metals, and I have my land. And I will take are of my family to the best of my ability. But this ship is sinking, no matter how much or how little the wealthy pay. And I'm not going to depend on anyone other than myself, and people I damned sure know I can trust.

I owe you a rep

 

[Anti Federalist]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1761552726570188957