Some thoughts on the trans movement, and I'm pretty sure “movement” is the right word.

racocn8 comments on Apr 6, 2024:

There's a lot of trauma out there and a corresponding amount of toxicity seeking to rationalize the fallout from that trauma. It's exhausting to contemplate. It seems that a considerable percent of people seeking to transition have severe depression which does not necessarily go away after transition. However, the trans movement has a lot of money behind it and exacerbates people's preexisting confusion.

My county has declared a State of Emergency for Monday. Why?

racocn8 comments on Apr 6, 2024:

Please, if only. Let them all go to their Valhalla. Can't they'd do the Jonestown thing...

He has proof

racocn8 comments on Apr 6, 2024:

That's a shit-stain if I ever saw one...

Yeah, that's usually how it works.

racocn8 comments on Apr 6, 2024:

And the tighter you clench your fist, the more star systems will slip through your fingers..." (Leia to Vader, SW1)... Meaning, as Christian Fascists try to retain their power, the more the churches will empty out...

And I’ll be standing in that line for as long as it takes

racocn8 comments on Apr 6, 2024:

We should be so lucky...

Christian woman admits she was fired from Starbucks for being an anti-LGBTQ bigot -- Friendly ...

racocn8 comments on Apr 6, 2024:

...but be warned: Trump and MAGA are all in with the 2025 Christian fascist movement and their plans are to dismember the U.S. as we know it and institute a Christian theocracy police state enforced via martial law. They have it all planned out and while we're trying to grasp what happened next year, they'll be enacting the Fourth Reich with Trump as Hitler. THIS IS HAPPENING NOW!!!!

A change of plans

racocn8 comments on Apr 5, 2024:

She'll tell her crabs to stand down...

The For Sale ad in the Penny Saver (Billionaire's Edition) stays.

racocn8 comments on Apr 4, 2024:

The Supreme Court has a ugly, wretched history up until the 60's. The GOP have restored it to its former shame and decrepitude. The behavior is so offensive, it may force the Democrats to do something. Their conduct has been just as seditious as Trump's and some evidence indicates Putin is behind some of it, plus he supports the Heritage Foundation...

AI is brutal

racocn8 comments on Apr 4, 2024:

Yikes. I only recognize The Rock and Will Smith. Is that Steve Buscemi?

Find your favorite movie! I found mine (this post belongs here. Trust me 😀 )

racocn8 comments on Apr 4, 2024:

I'd invite others to post a few of their favorite movies that didn't make the list above. I'll start: Oklahoma Damn Yankees It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Contact John Wick Forbidden Planet

Is it true about Area 51 that there are extra terrestial specimens hidden and space researches going...

racocn8 comments on Apr 4, 2024:

A few people have said that is true. They appear to have a large number of contractors flying in and out from Las Vegas to support such a research effort. The statements by David Grusch make the claim that such research has been going on. Why do you ask? This 'agnostic.com' group appear indifferent or hostile to this subject. You may enjoy looking at the posts here: https://agnostic.com/group/LikelyUFOLore

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racocn8 comments on Apr 4, 2024:

You forgot the Italian eyeball...

You are completely entitled to opinions that are not supported by evidence ...

racocn8 comments on Apr 3, 2024:

One becomes a liar when you lie to yourself and choose to 'believe' what is obviously doubtful.

6% of scientists are republican ...

racocn8 comments on Apr 3, 2024:

DEI

When you are a fake Christian ...

racocn8 comments on Apr 2, 2024:

The better to pick pockets with..

Robin still has words of wisdom.

racocn8 comments on Apr 2, 2024:

That may be the downside to high brilliance...

I also remember having to go out to turn the antenna so that we could pick up the 3rd channel that ...

racocn8 comments on Apr 2, 2024:

I remember being the first to get a color TV in the neighborhood and inviting the neighbors in on Sunday night to watch Disney (& feeding them home-made pizza). Maybe late 50's or early 60's.

I’ve been away; what has the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) been telling us?

racocn8 comments on Apr 2, 2024:

I keep seeing articles about astronomers claiming that the smudges are fully formed galaxies. and that they don't understand how they could form that quickly after the Big Bang. I believe they recently imaged a powerful quasar.

Did you miss it?

racocn8 comments on Apr 2, 2024:

Is he cut?

Trump's new fund raising

racocn8 comments on Apr 2, 2024:

It would be a crime against Humanity if Trump survived to that age.

Richard Dawkins says Christianity is "fundamentally decent," but Islam "is not" -- Friendly ...

racocn8 comments on Apr 2, 2024:

I think Dawkins is closer to the truth than the article's author. Islam and Christianity certainly suffer from the same horrific bigotry, immorality and nonsense. However, Christianity HAS evolved in the last 5 centuries while Islam has not. Meaning that the evolved sensibilities of modern culture have been adopted by Christian believers to a much greater degree than by Islamic believers. Islam left its mathematics and art behind and does little to encourage flourishing of creativity or inventiveness. Islam still provides for slavery, female genital mutilation, honor killing, justice by amputation, stoning and the mindsets that allow all that.

There were three young ladies from Birmingham And this is the scandal concerning 'em They lifted ...

racocn8 comments on Apr 1, 2024:

Spoken from experience no doubt...

Religion, the enemy of progress.

racocn8 comments on Apr 1, 2024:

I don't think we have any chance of winning this one unless we can find a cure.

I'd pretty much forgotten this movie, it's even preSimpsons.

racocn8 comments on Mar 30, 2024:

Oh? The spirits of the deplorables has been broken? Poor, poor deplorables. Everyone's been so mean to them. Even Rodney Dangerfield got more respect. It's the disappointment of the entitled not being able to lynch or rape slaves anymore... It wouldn't take much to replace them. Hell, no one would miss them at all, at all, at all....

Christians erect (another) $240,000 cross in Mississippi -- Friendly Atheist

racocn8 comments on Mar 30, 2024:

They like burning crosses so much, indulge them...

Trump said once he looked like Elvis

racocn8 comments on Mar 30, 2024:

He likely smells the same...

Hard pass Auntie Griselda….

racocn8 comments on Mar 30, 2024:

And yet I've heard people who swear by it. Different strokes...

He has Risen and has a message

racocn8 comments on Mar 29, 2024:

Patient Zero. Too fitting.

We was in love

racocn8 comments on Mar 29, 2024:

These are a pair of the brighter MAGAs.

Now that trump is hawking bibles, I hear that he now wants to be officially called the supreme ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 28, 2024:

Whatever gets him the attention his illness tells him he needs.

For those who think Social Security is sacred and republicans wouldn't dare destroy it ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 27, 2024:

They proclaim it, then deny it, then say it again. Can we just cancel social security in the red states? The same for abortion, mifepristone, birth control and all the other BS they think they want?

Random memes today!

racocn8 comments on Mar 27, 2024:

Lasagna: pack in that solanine...

Happy Easter everyone!!!

racocn8 comments on Mar 27, 2024:

Send that ghost back to the netherworlds, if not to hell (which would be most appropriate)

The new definition of chutzpa, how can anyone fall for this carnival barker bullshit.

racocn8 comments on Mar 27, 2024:

Religion is a con??? Nooooooooo

They are on sale. 🤣

racocn8 comments on Mar 27, 2024:

Coming sooner than we think? (Modest Proposal)

Yep she is fired already.

racocn8 comments on Mar 26, 2024:

Now can they fire the neocon psychopath that hired her?

Religion isn't useless

racocn8 comments on Mar 26, 2024:

Still a waste of ink, and insulting to the intelligence of every user.

19 Reasons Why Atheists Say They Don’t Believe in God by Jane Andrews How many do you agree ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 26, 2024:

All of the above. I'd also mention that the character of believers often leaves much to be desired (ill-tempered, sexually repressed, naieve, willfully ignorant, and a lot more...

[vm.

racocn8 comments on Mar 26, 2024:

I wish the US would deal with the Saudi Arabia dictatorship as they did with Iraq. And this time, yeah, they can have the oil.

Church attendance is dropping all across America. It's long overdue. -- Friendly Atheist

racocn8 comments on Mar 26, 2024:

Being wholly divorced from reality, religious belief is already extremist.

20 have been charged for threatening election workers around the country: Feds -- The Hill

racocn8 comments on Mar 26, 2024:

I'm betting that the number of people who should be charged is 50-1000 times higher.

I'll buy this shirt

racocn8 comments on Mar 26, 2024:

At this point, I will not be OK with confinement at Mar-a-Lago. He MUST go to ACTUAL prison.

The Wonderful thing about Trump is Is Trump's a wonderful things Tops are made out of blubber ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 25, 2024:

The only good Trump is a....

Court throws Trump a Lifeline I say let the insurrectionist fucker sink! [youtube.com]

racocn8 comments on Mar 25, 2024:

Does no one notice this constant evasion of consequences in the face of concerted criminality? We are being played.

Lest we forget, in 2022 Trump openly called for "termination" of the Constitution. [apnews.com]

racocn8 comments on Mar 25, 2024:

We already have a SCOTUS that will issues bogus rulings that disregard the Constitution. It's been shredded for a while now... (Citizens United, Dobbs, Section 14-3)

A Michigan commissioner wants to prevent Satanists from giving an invocation -- Friendly Atheist

racocn8 comments on Mar 25, 2024:

Religious extremists of any stripe are unfit for positions of responsibility. Religious extremism focuses the believer on hating others and that animosity blocks their ability to make fair judgments.

I long for the day when ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 25, 2024:

We've been moving away from that ideal for at least 20 years now.

I found a great vomit emoji....

racocn8 comments on Mar 25, 2024:

The supposedly main-stream media have reliably given Trump all the time he could possibly want to spread his hate and his lies. The MSM must now be viewed as just as treasonous as the GOP and probably also on Putin's payroll. The way that MSNBC hired ex-RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel proves beyond doubt that MSNBC has its own psychopaths at its helm.

Far right Christians don't like Jesus

racocn8 comments on Mar 24, 2024:

Christians have always been Nazis.

Just for fun.

racocn8 comments on Mar 24, 2024:

That would be ideal... It appears that not every Republican is on Putin's payroll, but those few have no patience for the traitors that are.

China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers, FT reports -- reuters.com

racocn8 comments on Mar 24, 2024:

May thy chips shatter and break..

Stormy Daniels Likens Trump Supporters to 'Suicide Bombers' -- Newsweek

racocn8 comments on Mar 23, 2024:

That Daniels has an obligation to Trump stinks. Shame on the Justice system for enabling a wealthy asshole to bully a woman he used for sex.

For Big Oil and Gas, Greenwashing is the New Climate Denial - Earthjustice

racocn8 comments on Mar 22, 2024:

I'm waiting for this guy to be assassinated... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhsKMWOYuYo

Beliefs don't change facts ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 22, 2024:

And that IS the scientific paradigm.

Trump's Brain v Biden's Brain - Markin Report

racocn8 comments on Mar 22, 2024:

Hur should be fired for injecting partisanship into his work.

Einstein said this in 1949 ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 22, 2024:

It's worse, they all have an agenda and deploy propaganda for that purpose. In the case of Fox, it's actual agitprop...

Friday Challenge

racocn8 comments on Mar 22, 2024:

Lead paint and pipes...

Social Security and Women's rights are on the ballot in November

racocn8 comments on Mar 22, 2024:

Let us hope that, as much as possible, the Republicans take Christianity with them to oblivion.

Justice Department files antitrust suit against Apple

racocn8 comments on Mar 22, 2024:

I don't disapprove, but letting all the senior Magas off the hook is as incompetent, partisan, and seditious as it gets.

Ladies, good men are hard to find.

racocn8 comments on Mar 22, 2024:

5'7" and 100 kg !!! Okayyyyi...

Texas is differently dumb

racocn8 comments on Mar 22, 2024:

A lot of problems might get solved in the Christians adopt an anti-vaccine belief as a religious tenet.

What have we done....

racocn8 comments on Mar 21, 2024:

May we never let them forget.

Schadenfreude Watching trump get his just desert's.

racocn8 comments on Mar 20, 2024:

Watch. He'll use it to scam his followers. People should hold their mirth until he actually loses something.

If you are interested in commodities...

racocn8 comments on Mar 20, 2024:

Don't hold your breath. Putin is winning.

Real billionaires don't travel around peddling cheap shoes, and soliciting donations from their ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 20, 2024:

Blood money that came from the destruction of millions of brick and mortar stores by Amazon.

Texas proud here; fuck your DEI programs

racocn8 comments on Mar 19, 2024:

Christian racists? Nooooooo

Now these!!! Lol!!!

racocn8 comments on Mar 19, 2024:

Ever the victim. Ohh, poor, poor billionaire...

What could possibly go wrong?

racocn8 comments on Mar 18, 2024:

What could go wrong with that?

Please pass on this post in every medium you can.

racocn8 comments on Mar 18, 2024:

It's the animosity against women, LBGTQ, non-whites, non-Christians, and progress of any kind. It's the empowering of rudeness, cruelty, bullying, narcissism, dishonesty, and really immorality in all its forms. It's the Incels, Christians, fascists, the willfully stupid, the fanatically partisan, and everyone else listening to idiots demonize others from behind a pulpit. It's the paranoid, the unendowed, the abusers, those with borderline personality disorders...

Immunotherapy stands out as the most promising systemic approach to cancer treatment compared to ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 18, 2024:

bsAbs have been around for 50 years and I've yet to hear of anyone using them. But then, you have to have money to do research, do clinical trials, etc., and the GOP don't want any of that. I had an idea for them 40 years ago, but that was then... The real problem is that people fall in love with their ideas, and those ideas can be grand and elegant, but if you don't have a path to market, it's just a useless obsession.

Breast cancer, a widely recognized term, stands as one of the most prevalent malignant tumors among ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 18, 2024:

Could you fluff that verbiage up a bit more? If the object is to get the content read, try concision.

Abrogation [youtu.be]

racocn8 comments on Mar 18, 2024:

All religions use a cafeteria approach. The problem with Islam is the same problem with all religions: it's bogus horse shit.

Pharmaceutical corporations and academic institutions have invested significant time, money, and ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 18, 2024:

Do you work for Creative Biolabs or something? What makes the mouse line humanized? Did the inject it with human WBCs or mess with the MHC?

So weird.

racocn8 comments on Mar 18, 2024:

Not weird at all. It's straight-up corruption in both cases (corrupt fishing expedition in the case of Willis)

Been there Juan, good luck !

racocn8 comments on Mar 18, 2024:

She looks like an Olympic runner...

My neck hurts seeing it

racocn8 comments on Mar 18, 2024:

Well, so far, she's still able to stand. Who wipes her ass for her?

6 former Mississippi policers officers to be sentenced for the torture of 2 Black men | CNN

racocn8 comments on Mar 18, 2024:

Again, everyone having a position in public safety needs to be psychologically assessed for fitness. It's good that these psychos were caught, but that's the exception, not the rule.

Investigation finds policies at Catholic-run hospitals restrict reproductive health care | PBS News ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 18, 2024:

I am not surprised. I simply assumed that women would not go to a Catholic hospital if they needed health care in that arena. My mom stayed at a Catholic hospital briefly and I was offended at how they had crosses hung on the walls everywhere. Crosses are short-hand swastikas.

Orange juice can help with high blood pressure.

racocn8 comments on Mar 17, 2024:

I am currently doing research on the effects of flavonoids and they do a lot of amazing things. I get the concern about sugar, but they can mitigate the underlying causes of diabetes II, Alzheimer's and a host of other conditions.

Societal Collapse ‘On Schedule’ According To 1972 MIT Study - YouTube

racocn8 comments on Mar 17, 2024:

Also, there's this: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/GlobalTrends_2040.pdf I'm wagering the MIT study did not and could not anticipate the advent of robotics, AI, and the advance of both computer technology and, frankly, most other technological arenas. It also can't accurately predict the effects of climate change and global shifts in population due to famine, disease, etc.

I don't like a flat soda for sure

racocn8 comments on Mar 17, 2024:

My ex needed a reduction because they were turning her into a hunchback. It can be too much of a good thing.

What in the name of fuck is this guy talking about.... [twitter.com]

racocn8 comments on Mar 17, 2024:

Proof that religion is mental illness (delusion).

Bidenomics is a disaster ... Say republicans in spite of the facts...

racocn8 comments on Mar 16, 2024:

It would be even better still if the Fed hadn't needlessly jacked up interest rates. And certainly much, much better if Trump's tax cuts hadn't worsened an already badly unbalanced distribution of wealth. Said wealth then being used to corrupt the government and prop up inefficient enterprises.

Not all religious people are bad people ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 16, 2024:

Where did the person who made that sign gain that information? Perhaps they thought it would be inspirational, but is that a good reason to make a statement that claims to have the ultimate authority behind it? In short, it's a lie. Some asshole made it up, thought it would be cute, and bingo. No basis, other than the hoped-for effect of suggesting to Christians that they should a bit less hateful. Good luck with that. Religion, especially Christianity, teaches hate at every opportunity.

Late night dump

racocn8 comments on Mar 16, 2024:

Trump is still running and still getting the benefit of doubt at every turn, even though anyone not a psychotic MAGA knows he's guilty of a litany of crimes and wrongdoing. Where a judge insists on knee-capping Willis because of 'appearances', the whole Trump Campaign to End America gets a pass, because MAGA's might get upset. The MSM is still pulling its punches while FOX goes completely berserk. MSM does this for the lofty purpose of making more money if the election is an even horse-race. Even if Trump isn't re-elected, our culture is so poisoned by allowing this charade that hopes of survival for Humanity have been shredded. The world rightfully regards the US as an unstable and unfunny joke. You simply cannot have a functioning country when half of it works diligently for its end. Christian fascism isn't just an existential threat; it's our epitaph.

Are you for or against assisted dying (don't confuse it with euthanasia)?

racocn8 comments on Mar 15, 2024:

My optometrist shot his wife while she was sleeping. She had advanced cancer, and he was brought up on charges. A good friend recently lost his sister when a 'friend' of the sister arranged to change the sister's will to benefit her, and then she 'died' under her care. Unfortunately, the opportunity for murder whether for mercy or for profit looms over this issue. My recommendation would be to fill a plastic bag with dry ice generated CO2, and put it over one's head.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 14, 2024:

Completely useless without an example, indeed, subject to skepticism and rejection. But I'm biased in favor of the philosopher king.

Imagine you are an elderly and incapacitated person and at threat of being eliminated by an ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 14, 2024:

Put it in a trust with an attorney executor?

Hahaha... yeah, pretty much how it is with these people. 🤪 [facebook.com]

racocn8 comments on Mar 14, 2024:

Latent much?

The Star Trek movies had some outstanding soundtracks.

racocn8 comments on Mar 14, 2024:

When it first came out, I took a Communist Chinese doctor to see the movie hoping the special effects would blow his mind. We were both going to U. Penn studying immunology. Of course he couldn't understand too much never having seen the series (I don't think). I remember they had an enormous poster in a window facing the street that must have been 8 x 12 feet. I wonder where that ended up?

There is a certain pleasure in giving a god mobster and evolution denier a well deserved spanking.

racocn8 comments on Mar 14, 2024:

They will just get off on it.

We are becoming, and soon will be entirely one of the most corrupt "democratic" countries in the ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 14, 2024:

It's called masturbation of the masses. It's a lurid, stupid rom-com starring Putin and Trump. Somehow Putin and the CIA have come to terms and put this puppet show on. Everyone is either manipulated or powerless to do anything to stop it.

That, my friends, is all it takes.

racocn8 comments on Mar 13, 2024:

Donald Trump IS the deep state. Somehow, Putin has defeated the US military and intelligence agencies, who have stood by and let it all happen. Trump may be right to revile the military that have shown themselves to be cowards when it comes to defending the Constitution. Maybe it was always only an aspirational dream?

It began 4 years ago today

racocn8 comments on Mar 13, 2024:

Trump has invented a new kind of criminal: the political psychopath.

4 years on, people were using coffee filters for toilet paper, store shelves were emptied, masks ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 13, 2024:

And, he disparaged the use of masks and denigrated the CDC staff that wouldn't follow his lead. He delayed developing testing, giving it over to his son-in-law who failed to come up with a testing plan. All that enabled Covid to get a solid foothold. He dismissed Covid as just a cold or flu, and when supplies were ordered, they were confiscated and diverted for resale. He can rightly be said to have killed a million Americans by making Covid much, much worse. (Then he took credit for the vaccines whose development had nothing to do with him.)

Rather than tell the truth Jim Jordan spent $95,000 on a pr firm to claim he never knew about the ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 13, 2024:

One of the hardest problems to face is the complicity of people who protect sexual predators. In one case, a father had abused his daughter from an early age including rape and deployed all the elements of Trauma Bonding. The mother and sisters hung back as it happened in plain sight. How does that happen? Then the abused daughter wants to retain relationships because of the bonding, and won't even protect herself against further abuse. The sickness of it all defies description much less imagination. People with Power. The narcissism enables the worst sort of psychopathic behavior, even in people who are otherwise respected. It's horrible. Jordan is a straight up traitor to boot, and the traitor Garland stands by and does nothing about these miscreants. This is one fucked up society.

Sen.

racocn8 comments on Mar 11, 2024:

The GOP are so insecure that they feel compelled to tell nothing but lies. With lying as their means to check each other's loyalty, everyone must lie everywhere, all the time, no exceptions. Any slip-ups and you're a Rino. (Trump isn't just a sexual predator- - he's a pedophile rapist, but that's just to start. He's a poster child for the 7 deadly sins 1. Pride, 2. Greed, 3. Lust, 4. Envy, 5. Gluttony, 6. Wrath, and 7. Sloth)

I am manipulated I think

racocn8 comments on Mar 11, 2024:

Preoccupation With Bosoms Scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hln19l9RtWg

Texas State Rep.

racocn8 comments on Mar 11, 2024:

A perfect example of a fake American. He knows what American values are but chooses to ignore those and claim his own bigoted and racist values should be law. Lucky for him the real law protects speech. Were I to get my fever dream, I would treat people like him as he seeks to treat others.

Atheists, Hate to tell you Jesus doesn't love us and has no plan for us, let alone a plan just for ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 11, 2024:

(I didn't know Jesus was polydactyl, but OK...) And it was the scientists busting the myths, not atheists.