What are the benefits to this behavior?

racocn8 comments on Oct 13, 2021:

Yeah, I was forcibly retired at 48 during a merger reduction. I was keenly aware to look at the demographics of prospective companies. One seemed like a good match, but after 9 months relocated their headquarters to Ohio, cutting the location staff from 37 to 9. I survived, but had few qualms about changing jobs 2 years later.

Dangerous unicorns

racocn8 comments on Oct 13, 2021:

Where's the narwhale?

Trump tells Republicans not to vote in 2022 and 2024 if his election loss isn't "solved."

racocn8 comments on Oct 14, 2021:

Should we convey the message that the 2020 election isn't solved? Or stick with no election fraud?

I hate Trump and his idiot followers.

racocn8 comments on Oct 15, 2021:

Moron? And rapist, child molester, traitor, seditionist. fraudster, fascist, bigot, and micturition fetishist. And a lot more.

This is what happens when you let ‘god’ take the wheel [fox8.com]

racocn8 comments on Oct 15, 2021:

From the article: "At the hospital, officers did not detect any sign of impairment from drugs or alcohol." The impairment was from her religion.

I've been blocked by someone already.

racocn8 comments on Oct 20, 2021:

I got blocked by Conservative Atheist without any notice. But that's what it takes to keep the bubble intact.

Perfect for the perfect host. 😜

racocn8 comments on Oct 21, 2021:

Cannibals must have loved Stranger in a Strange Land. Pass the Fava Beans and Chianti.

My confused Plum tree.

racocn8 comments on Oct 24, 2021:

When I moved into my first house, it had a stick in the ground. That stick grew quickly and in a few years, the plums grew so profusely, the branches looked like clusters of grapes with a few sad leaves sticking out between them. Plums rot into a messy glob, and I like a nice lawn, so it was all I could do to pick the plums off before they fell. I had to box them up and figure out who I could give them to. So I'd deliver box-fulls to all the control rooms at the facility. And they tasted just fabulous; tart and sweet; nirvana in your mouth. And then there were those that ripened faster than my picking. The globs got shoveled up along with the dog poo, and put into the same bucket. That became a problem as the two melted together into a stinky mass, sometimes increased by rain. I had a hard time figuring out what to do with that. Heaven never seems to have hell very far away...

How does it happen?

racocn8 comments on Oct 24, 2021:

Are you sure they were an atheist? Christians often claim to have been atheists, or drug users, or sex addicts. Most will adopt some lie to tell the others and then embellish it over time. It's part of the degradation process... Francis Collins claims to have been an atheist, but doesn't know the definition of it, using the bogus pejorative Christian definition instead (that atheists are God-deniers rather than not believing).

How atheists have become racist.

racocn8 comments on Oct 30, 2021:

I didn't see anything about atheists becoming racist. I DID see that about 1/3 of atheist parents reported that their children experienced discrimination at the hands of religionists, presumably in secular schools. And it is a certainty that having religionists teach science means it will be taught incompetently. The religionists suit claims a secular education is intrinsically discriminatory. As the prevailing belief system, that is surely more culture war propaganda that anything based on reality.

IRONY India is celebrating its biggest annual festival called "Diwali" and today is the most ...

racocn8 comments on Nov 4, 2021:

Except they now worship Trump, imagining that he is wealthy...

Ivermectin has now become a political issue for some Republicans. : Shots - Health News : NPR

racocn8 comments on Nov 4, 2021:

Um, ya think? Ivermectin use for Covid was always, always, purely political. Being an idiot is the only way idiots can 'own the libs.'

Good god.

racocn8 comments on Nov 6, 2021:

If you choose to be a sheep, don't be too surprised when you get fleeced.

Michael Flynn Says Of The US: 'We Have To Have One Religion'

racocn8 comments on Nov 14, 2021:

Let's hope Flynn's subpoena will come soon if it hasn't already. His dementia needs to be put on full display. He is a straight-up traitor, and needs to be exposed as such.

The Benefits of Claiming "Atheism" for Atheists Should Not Be Ignored

racocn8 comments on Nov 14, 2021:

Unfortunately, the hate propaganda put out by the Christians has worked. The true definition of atheism has been obscured by the Christian definition. Fortunately, their pervasive hate campaign against everyone else is, at last, being recognized, along with their hypocrisy of ignoring their own precepts. The latter is a message atheists should echo, along with the honesty of atheism and the alignment with scientific facts.

Good a difference as any..

racocn8 comments on Nov 22, 2021:

I'm afraid the gun is louder. Remember the anarchists that started WW1 by assassinating the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria...

I get the feeling, increasingly, that Christianity, especially evangelical, is a death cult.

racocn8 comments on Nov 24, 2021:

The love Christians talk about so much is, looking at their behavior, just so much hypocrisy. One might expect that Christians would be aware of their own beliefs and act accordingly: that would be rarely or never. The cursing of the fig tree being a prime example. Here, God, or the Son of God, curses a fig tree to death for not providing fruit ( even though it isn't the season). Taken literally, Jesus is destructive in response to his disappointment; hardly anything like a good example. Taken as allegory, Jesus's curse signifies God's disappointment in the Jews, and their curse is to lose God's favor which is transfered to the Gentiles. That's an ugly message to be interpreted out of a few verses. That is just a sample of the hate that permeates Christianity and Christians. And yet God's disappointment with the Jews is supposed to be based on their corruption in the world and the greed of gain. Yet all we see now is the Gospel of Prosperity (and hatred of women, non-whites, LBGT, science, etc). That, and the glaring absence of real moral principles.

Season ridiculous reason?

racocn8 comments on Dec 1, 2021:

As God impregnated his own mother, that makes God a motherfucker. ...but we already knew that!!

Yes it started here

racocn8 comments on Dec 3, 2021:

I always knew Jesus was part jackass... Mary, for shame...

The types of traitors who deserve the firing squad.

racocn8 comments on Dec 3, 2021:

And most took money from our hostile adversaries.

Lauren Boebert Posts Christmas Photo of Young Sons Brandishing Assault Weapons Just a little ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 8, 2021:

A Majority of Gun Victims Know Their Assailant https://newrepublic.com/article/122627/majority-gun-victims-know-their-assailant And when the youngest has had enough of the wacky family bullying, time to send them all to heaven...

Beau of the Fifth Column - Let's talk about coup by PowerPoint..... [youtube.com]

racocn8 comments on Dec 13, 2021:

An integral part of the ongoing coup is the Koch organization that distributed suggested laws to GQP state legislators to suppress voting and to substitute legislature-chosen electors for the electors that would otherwise be designated by the vote tallies. All of that activity is knowingly subversive. They and Koch all need to see jail and the laws they passed invalidated.

Running down non-believers for Jesus🤣

racocn8 comments on Dec 16, 2021:

Another tiny pecker peckerhead.

Poll: White evangelicals distinct on abortion, LGBT policy

racocn8 comments on Jan 2, 2020:

While some of these kooks decried the separation of children from their parents, you can be sure they were still wholly opposed to immigration by non-Whites. Trump's base has consistently shown support for his White nationalist and racist comments. They certainly never object. Trump may mouth platitudes against bigotry, but it's clear he only say those things to disguise his admiration for Hitler. White trash have shown they are unfit to live in a pluralistic society and constitute an existential threat. The GOP should be permanently dismembered the first chance we get.

I can't say I'm very shocked by these comments, but it does make me wonder how these people could ...

racocn8 comments on Feb 3, 2020:

The practice of religions results in a behavior modification process. The process generates several styles of personality disorders. One example is pathological narcissism. These people love to provoke and create drama. Everyone around them becomes a victim of their cruel behavior. Another pattern is passive-aggressive behavior. They delight in frustrating their peers by being lazy or even incompetent. The anxiety they see is a punishment of their peers not being like them. The posters in the excerpt above relates to those who have had empathy drained from their personality. They are, in effect, closet Nazis. As seen in Germany, vast swaths of the population were indifferent to the suffering inflicted by the regime, and were easily recruited to take part. Sadly, personality disorders are rarely helped by medication. However, if we study this issue, someday we may make progress.

My Republican Senator James Inhofe sold $500000 worth of stock after the 24 January briefing on the ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 19, 2020:

This insider trading more than merits jail time.

We may never un-do what Republican law makers are doing, and getting away with doing, during this ...

racocn8 comments on Apr 12, 2020:

Trump promised that the Country was going to re-open today. What a good idea that was! He'd have done it too, if the adults hadn't stopped him. Now we learn that he wanted to let Covid "wash" through the country, kill a couple million Americans, and not do anything at all. He's a genius alright. Putin's genius. The evilangelicals have blood on their hands, and a lot of it will be their own. But ....

Yup. Makes sense to me. Not.

racocn8 comments on Apr 12, 2020:

It is our society as a whole which has refused to admit that religion is a self-inflicted lobotomy. Now we have the patients running the insane asylum. Except it's Putin who's really in charge. The Russians took the cue from Viet Nam and finally beat us. And we thought the Cold War was over... He's using the EvilAngelicals as a cudgel.

Shockingly, the Four White Women Who Named Themselves the 'Conservative Squad' Have Run Into Some ...

racocn8 comments on Apr 18, 2020:

What do you call four blonds sitting beside each other? A wind tunnel.

[agnostic.com]

racocn8 comments on Apr 27, 2020:

That's an insult to dogdom. He is a pig; re-do your drawing.

This Chart Shows How Quickly Americans Are Abandoning Organized Religion | Hemant Mehta | Friendly ...

racocn8 comments on May 2, 2020:

Other countries have gone through a similar shift where a major share of residents lose their allegiance. Maybe Covid will speed it up a bit too. Many people will worry that the loss of declared affiliation will mean a rise in immorality. The unswerving allegiance of the Evangelicals to Trump proves they refuse to be offended by the most vile, degenerate and corrupt politician in American history. So much for Christian morality! The loyalty of each Evangelical to Trump proves they will ditch the morality their religion teaches; and then enact fawning fealty to a personalty cult. Gross!! And they are proud to be deplorable! They embrace the term. Eff'd up! No one expects Christianity to go away. But, in a millennium, perhaps Jesus will join Wotan, Zeus and Horus. Granted, something just as silly would likely replace it. And then there's Islam, Hinduism, etc. Perhaps humans will advance and fix whatever flaw it is that allows unlimited belief. Or, we might even learn a Truth. In the meantime, we should continue our efforts to support science education and critical thinking.

The gang's all here

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2020:

They all need crosses to show where their hate comes from.

You may have heard of Shelley Luther, the woman sentenced to jail for contempt of court for opening ...

racocn8 comments on May 25, 2020:

An enterprising but degenerate wing nut. Disgusting. Interesting how some women pile up divorce settlements like pensions...

I am an atheist.

racocn8 comments on Jun 7, 2020:

While shards of prose may seem pleasant enough, the history of the Bible and those who believe it are ugly and horrific. Giving it any credence demonstrates appallingly bad judgment. We are fighting a culture war against fascist maniacs. You are with us or against us. Help us or hide.

Right-Wing Pastor: I Once Went to a Hospital and Healed a Kid’s Broken Pelvis | Hemant Mehta | ...

racocn8 comments on Jul 12, 2020:

Religionists are taught from birth to lie as part of their religion. This is curious insofar as lying is one of the most basic violations of our moral code. Moral people know immediately when they consider telling a lie. All healthy people understand what lying is, and that it is immoral... And yet, religionists develop their dishonesty into a talent, telling just-so stories with a straight face, or as straight as they can manage. This is the essence of testifying or witnessing for god. The absurdity of these lies are often breath-taking, and one wonders at how people rationalize this perfidy in front of a god that can read their minds. Do they have no hesitation at what god thinks of their dishonesty? Mainly, this disregard for basic morality paves the road for the miserable conduct they go on to do for the rest of their lives.

Christian Bigot Flips Out After Airbnb Guest’s Review Tells People Who He Is | Hemant Mehta | ...

racocn8 comments on Aug 12, 2020:

If you shoot a Nazi, slave-owner, or child-molester, is that a crime, or justice? Sometimes it is just time to take out the trash... And get them before they get you. I do wish I could be more harmonious, but the reality is they aren't either.

Can you spot the difference?

racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2020:

Seriously, can't we open up a park where these jokers can kill each other off? Can we pit the Klan against the Nazis against the mercenaries?

Is it likely that a person that has successfully feigned wealth will feign death and disappear to ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 2, 2020:

I'm hoping that at some point, Trump will fly to Moscow, one way.

I understand his confoundment, how can someone be so callous and careless.

racocn8 comments on Oct 4, 2020:

I can.

Trump campaign attacks Joe Biden for lack of ‘firsthand experience’ being infected with COVID-19...

racocn8 comments on Oct 5, 2020:

Once they came up with this hoax, they brainstormed for benefits. The one above is surely the weakest bit of silliness. The worst is Trump's statement that having it confers knowledge that books can't convey, but implying that his experience provides understanding that is *better* than books. Standard carny grifter rationalization.

A few memes off of Facebook (and one from Twitter)

racocn8 comments on Oct 6, 2020:

I liked the last one. Conservatives willingly give complete allegiance to an unspeakable degenerate and then wonder why the rest of us write them off as also evil. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

Religious Conservatives Lash Out at Kellogg’s Over “Anti-Christian” Cereal | Hemant Mehta | ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 26, 2020:

Ken Ham is a notorious bigot and hate-monger. For him to denounce Kellogg as being anti-science is pure finger-in-the-eye from a rabid creationist. On a dime, Christianity quickly devolves into the ugliest degenerate perversity. It seeks to numb their believers into swallowing the rank hypocrisy that Christianity is based on. It is mental illness at its worst.

I am either an agnostic (don't know, don't care - we'll all find out soon enough) or humanist.

racocn8 comments on Oct 31, 2020:

Do you remember where you were before you were born? Same thing.

Kirk Cameron: “Disguised” Commies and Socialists Are “Knocking on Our Doors” | Beth ...

racocn8 comments on Nov 3, 2020:

The Evangelicals denounce and decry all sorts of groups: Women, non-Whites, non-Christians, LBGBT, scientists, ... really, anyone who isn't them. What is bizarre is how these a-holes will claim liberals are Communists. They intentionally fail to notice that Trump is a stooge for ex-KGB Putin. It's pretty much the same thing as using Holocaust to describe abortion. These people are just plain sick. The only thing they care about is fomenting hatred and sticking it to the libtards.

Bout to burn a bowl for Biden.

racocn8 comments on Nov 7, 2020:

Now if we can just get Trump's supporters to join in, maybe they can calm down a little.

The bastard is definitely hurting!

racocn8 comments on Nov 7, 2020:

Don't think he's capable of that either...

Amazing post borrowed from Facebook.

racocn8 comments on Nov 10, 2020:

A high quality exposition. Nicely done.

Someone posted this on Facebook as a retort to a tRump follower.

racocn8 comments on Nov 22, 2020:

Yeah, full scale model...

This guy is an appellate litigator admitted to practice in California, the Ninth Circuit and the ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 4, 2020:

Our government is largely a sham, tinkering around the edges when much larger change is needed. It is a decoy for the Real Deep State (The military, intelligence and industrial complex, not the BS Deep State the GOP imagines). We should all hope that the republicans feel disenfranchised, and thus vote less in forthcoming elections. Republicans are psychotic or disordered, and they lack fundamental human attributes: empathy, honor, honesty, integrity, and the thirst for justice and fairness. They do not believe in democracy. So, let them crawl back under their rocks, silent and cowed as they were before Reagan and the fake moral majority.

White House Will Be Thoroughly Disinfected in the Hours After Trump's Exit

racocn8 comments on Dec 10, 2020:

No amount of bleach, 409 or even aqua regia could remove the stench. Maybe better to use napalm and start over. And plow over anything Melania planted.

Are they still at it🙄🤐 These speakers are definitely getting paid. [youtu.be]

racocn8 comments on Dec 19, 2020:

So you have a huge subpopulation of mentally disturbed people who have allowed themselves to be brainwashed to be this entity that parrots the echo chamber of republican meme-lies. Its racist evangefacism in action.

Oh yes it is.

racocn8 comments on Jan 3, 2021:

if only... Regrettably, they'll both end up with lives of leisure and comfort, rather that being engulfed by a gasoline fireball and a flesh-ripping tangle of steel, as they deserve. We must do better at seeing justice and fairness meted out.

All 10 living former defense secretaries declare election is over in forceful public letter - ...

racocn8 comments on Jan 3, 2021:

If Putin can figure a way to screw the US, Trump will do it.

Using the Fear - With a global pandemic sweeping across the globe, now is the time to look hard at ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 11, 2020:

Shall I remember for the umteenth time how I tried to give love to a dead fish? Shall I once more appeal to my asshole child to stop being an asshole? Shall I once again ponder how my discoveries are met with yawns? Shall I bequeath my inventions to a species that is unworthy? Shall I again cast my pearls before swine? It's nice. It's nice for as long as it lasts. Except for the pain. And the mosquitoes and the spiders. 'Meaning' is just a word like 'why.' Meaningless really. As is death. I'm not much looking forward to the dying part. Think of your phone as a living thing. It eats electricity, and you spend your hours staring at its asshole. There's your purpose of life.

He's almost done

racocn8 comments on Apr 13, 2020:

Vladamir, what is next?

Russian intelligence services intervened in the 2016 U.

racocn8 comments on May 9, 2020:

But don't forget that it's not just the Trump Administration. You did mention that the Senate Republicans wouldn't vote to impeach, and that the impeachment proceeding was an utterly disgraceful sham, destroying all semblance to historic political norms of the US. That was a big step in a coup that ended the country. The Senators bequeathed unlimited power to Trump - - but why? It was not just self-serving, but many of the Senators are just as compromised as Trump is. And almost certainly, a goodly number of democrats are also in Putin's pocket. Tulsi and Kirsten are strong suspects, and probably several more too. Installing a fifth column has always been a strategy favored by the Russians. We know the NRA has helped orchestrate it. Real Effing Americans... Where it goes from here is unclear. Whichever side wins, Civil War is a very strong likelihood. And certainly meeting with Putin's approval. Civil War is actually here already, we just won't admit it. Next will be a mass shooting at one of Trump's rallies. Would you be surprised at all? It's a lot like Hitler. The industrialists funded him believing they could control him. They reckoned wrong and Germany was destroyed, along with a lot of those industries. We are very much on that same track. Wall Street has been happy to support Trump. Will Trump burn the Post Office like Hitler did to the Reichstag? We are in the hands of Covid-19, if only it would put Trump out of our misery.

I've long found this to be true.

racocn8 comments on May 11, 2020:

Don't give up. Minds in America are changing; not as fast as chrome rusting, but they are changing. Yeah, I can't tell you how I'd be working with a fellow engineer and then I'd find out they were wacko. How am I supposed to trust any work product they provide? How can you work in the sciences and repudiate the whole thing at the same time? Sick, sick, sick...

Absolutely Priceless.

racocn8 comments on May 17, 2020:

Nice and concise. In case anyone missed it, here is my summary. Trump produced numerous tweets criticizing Obama’s handling of the Ebola outbreak, so Trump had understanding and concern about pandemic outbreaks. He later took similar actions that he criticized Obama for. In 2015, Obama’s Susan Rice established the White House Global Health Security and Biodefense unit tasked with being responsible for pandemic preparedness. In 2017, the Obama administration walked incoming Trump administration officials through a pandemic scenario. Officials were told a pandemic would likely lead to shortages of ventilators. In May 2018, the GHSB pandemic preparedness team was disbanded and its head Timothy Ziemer, left the Trump administration. On January 29, 2019, the DNI (Director of National Intelligence) issued an annual report that warns on page 29 that, “The United States will remain vulnerable to the next flu pandemic or large-scale outbreak of a contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability, severely affect the world economy, strain international resources, and increase calls on the United States for support.” In 2019, from January to August, the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services conducts a simulated exercise with 12 U.S. States to respond to a severe influenza pandemic originating in China. The study found confusion between HHS, FEMA, and the Department of Homeland Security on which federal agency would take the lead in the crisis and that the US lacked the production capacity to meet the demands for protective equipment and medical devices. The published findings were completely ignored by Trump and the White House staff. A few months later, symptoms from the first cluster of confirmed cases in Wuhan emerged and began to be documented between Dec. 8 and Jan. 2. WHO was notified on December 31. On Jan. 22, A reporter asks Trump if there are worries about a pandemic. Trump responds: “No. Not at all. And we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s — going to be just fine.” Sometime toward the end of January 2019, Trump suppresses release of the next annual report from the DNI and it is never released. On January 29, Peter Navarro warned Trump that the pandemic would incur trillions of dollars in losses. The White House forms a coronavirus response task force. Jan. 30: The WHO declares a global health emergency. Trump blocks some travel from China. There was never a travel ban, only restrictions with gaping exceptions that included Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and every American returning home from China. Trump did not act before everybody else. His travel restrictions were effective as of February 2. Dozens of ...

The Death of Expertise

racocn8 comments on May 24, 2020:

Those with power have been engaged in a long term campaign to disrupt our value norms with slick propaganda. They also orchestrate drama, the result of which is to keep progressives on their back heel, and overwhelm our responsiveness with tangles of misinformation.

Another former 45 supporter turns on him, AGAIN. [dailymail.co.uk]

racocn8 comments on May 25, 2020:

Anyone got some popcorn?

Trump’s war on reality just got a lot more dangerous - The Washington Post

racocn8 comments on May 26, 2020:

The question is whether the public will react to the increasing death toll caused by opening up. It seems like a certain loser for Trump: killing hundreds of thousands will surely kill enough people so everyone will have lost a beloved relative or friend. It is up to the States and I gather that two multi-state consortia have formed to facilitate where they can, expecting no help from the Federal government. (Though they might not come out and say that)

Trump, Upside Down! [politicalflare.com]

racocn8 comments on Jun 2, 2020:

As a Beast-wannabe, he's holding the Bible correctly. (upside-down). But seriously, holding the Bible upside-down only reflects his unfamiliarity with it. Considering his support is almost entirely coming from the Evangelicals, his ignorance of Christianity is deeply ironic. But then, Evangelicals are usually ignorant of their own religion, so it works.

I thought some of you might like to know what's going on in Tulsa.

racocn8 comments on Jun 17, 2020:

If it turns into a shooting gallery, well, I guess it's just their time to go. (Like old people should just quietly get covid and die off for Trump's re-election).

The Darwin Award for the most stupid will not take place this year...sorry Trump supporters!

racocn8 comments on Jul 2, 2020:

At long, long last, the Creationists finally get their comeuppance...

Fox's Jeanine Pirro: “I don't want a vaccine” for coronavirus | Media Matters for America

racocn8 comments on Aug 4, 2020:

She is entirely welcome to follow Herman Cain.

10 lbs of shit in a 5 pound bag

racocn8 comments on Aug 25, 2020:

They ditched having a platform with actual issues in favor of a statement expressing REVERENCE for Trump!!! (North Korea for sure...).

Just like all of his supporters

racocn8 comments on Sep 13, 2020:

And past time to take it out. It smelled bad to begin with but now, whew...!

Excuses excuses

racocn8 comments on Sep 13, 2020:

They died for Putin's new Motherland.

Good description

racocn8 comments on Sep 22, 2020:

If he spent the rest of his life being waterboarded, it still wouldn't be justice.

Trump Refuses to Commit to Peaceful Transition of Power When pressed by a reporter, President ...

racocn8 comments on Sep 23, 2020:

Putin has the U.S. by its balls.

Apparently not all Republicans love the Donald. "We can all dream, can’t we?

racocn8 comments on Oct 6, 2020:

A rotting corpse would smell better. And wouldn't be posturing childishly and issuing vindictive directives. We're going to have a real problem when it's clear he's lost.

Another reason why fanatical religious zealots are dangerous to society and just so there is no ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 7, 2020:

The Hasidim broadly supported Trump in 2016. Most Conservative and Orthodox Jews support Republicans and behave in the same low information, psychotic and morally challenged way as evangelicals.

Today’s Supreme Court Case Threatens to Turn Nonreligious Americans into Second-Class Citizens | ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 9, 2020:

There may be more going on here than discrimination. Per the article: "several Muslim men who were approached by FBI agents and asked to inform on their congregations. When the men refused to comply, they were put on the “No Fly” list without justification". The FBI doesn't just harass Muslims for the fun of it. The FBI may not choose to reveal their sources and methods, but it is reasonable to believe that the FBI questioned these guys because they were involved in a plot. Either someone informed on them or their communications revealed terrorist activity. If the FBI sought to put would-be terrorists on a no-fly list, that makes perfect sense to me. It is up to AA to explain why they are interested in this case. While white supremacists are a much bigger problem, Muslim terrorism hasn't gone away.

Video Shows Conservatives Being Told Not To Fear 'Voter Suppressor' Label: Report These idiots ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 15, 2020:

When I was younger, I took several trips across the country. I'd listen to the radio, but too often, the only clear station was religious. The bile and vitriol spewed was sickening, particularly against scientists. That upset me because science was my interest. The Christian broadcasts made it abundantly clear that Christianity was all about hating the other, be they Blacks, Women, Jews, Catholics, LBGTX or even that other church up the street. I knew how Christians blamed Hitler on atheists or on Germans being German. They still do. It's like the Japanese who taught their children a wholly sanitized version of recent history. As I listened, I understood that the hate I heard must be pretty close to what happened in Germany. As I formed my non-belief, I recognized I was in a despised minority, and I mostly kept my identity secret. As I looked around to see all the Christian robots, incurious, schizophrenic, delusional, superficial and ignorant, I realized how these psychotic wanna-be mass murderers surrounded me. Fortunately, they were mostly docile, not triggered like they are today. We have been lucky that US Christians have been chastened a little bit by WWII, but this has fully faded. We remain fully enmeshed by Nazis. Yeah, I know, Godwin's Law. Trump is the exception; he really does have KKK roots and a long history of public and now private bigotry of the worst sort, as revealed by the tell-all books. Trump would be nothing without his followers.

Once I said to a dear Christian friend: “Suppose there really is no God, and suppose I had it ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 17, 2020:

It would be nice if we could allow people to stew in their own stupidity. The problem comes when the stew starts to boil and they feel compelled to not just spread their delusions, but to insist that others bow down to their god. And, if you don't, they will kill you. If people are to be given freedom of delusion, society must also enact measures to protect the rest of us from them. Dissemination of lies needs to be controlled in some way, and when belief gets too extreme, it should become a public health issue. Extremists should be treated as psychopathic lunatics BEFORE they start a body count.

Oh, Those Poor, Wildly Flailing Babies! [alternet.org]

racocn8 comments on Oct 20, 2020:

Intentionally using Russian propaganda to further Trump's campaign is still TREASON. They are knowingly using information from a hostile foreign adversary. Trump's Director of National Intelligence LIED through his teeth in denying that it was known to come from Russia, even though his own subordinate agencies have said so. This administration should be in Guantanamo so we can find out what they've given up to the Russians.

Boy, Are We Great! [rawstory.com]

racocn8 comments on Nov 2, 2020:

You might need more than 250 National Guardsmen to fend off 3 million protesters. The Berlin Wall fell, so will that one.

Terrorist vs Domestic Terrorist.

racocn8 comments on Nov 4, 2020:

That would be: " Y"all-QAnon "

I'd love to be a fly on the wall when this happens

racocn8 comments on Nov 6, 2020:

Biden will need to decontaminate the White House. Talk about injecting bleach...

Hahahaha..

racocn8 comments on Nov 10, 2020:

Yeah, Trump's the one with the sharpie that cheats. This is what passes for humor for those who don't have any.

No, I Will Not Be ‘Reaching Out’ To Trump Voters, Now Or Ever.

racocn8 comments on Nov 12, 2020:

Wow, a really excellent article. I really liked some of the lines... "Before any attempt at “unity” can be made, there needs to be a reckoning, an acknowledgment that so many of Trump’s actions have been unconscionable and do not align with societal ideals that claim to value all life. Building bridges with people who share Trump’s views sends a clear message that you are willing to keep the peace at the expense of the dignity and well-being of those with less power and privilege." "I have spent the Trump years fearing that none of us will have the right to control our own reproductive choices if Trump has his way. " "Those who supported Trump, and those who still do, lack the compassion and the basic decency to recognize that every life has value."

How many courtrooms have they used in their attempt of a fake coup?

racocn8 comments on Nov 13, 2020:

The attempt to stage a coup is all too real. Nothing fake about it.

A horse's ass and a Clydesdale

racocn8 comments on Nov 29, 2020:

Cutting off a horses tail (which it would otherwise use to repel flies) is cruel and comes from a severely sexually repressed mind. It is very much like Trump's comment that having handicapped or amputated soldiers present for Veteran's Day was "...not a good look." Psychopathic vanity and insecurity. What would people say if they actually had to see a horses anus? Like they've never seen them before? This is such a fucked up society.

Actually started to get an. idea after Obama was elected.

racocn8 comments on Dec 4, 2020:

All you ever had to do was listen to the radio while driving through the red states. White Evangelicals are steeped in racism. They never got over the Civil War and they've used Obama and Trump to expand. The neonazis are out of the closet.

Biden caught saying the "Defund the Police" slogan hurt democrats.

racocn8 comments on Dec 10, 2020:

Yeah, really. Ya think? While I support the BLM issues, that also didn't help, nor the rioting, though much of that was likely started by White Nationalist opportunists, or actual Republican operatives.

Supreme Court denies effort to block election results in 4 key states that sealed Trump's fate ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 11, 2020:

First Line: "The State of Texas’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution. " Which is what anyone with a passing understanding of law knew. And yet you had 17 AG's and 104 Republican congressman sign on to it. What isn't said is that it DID constitute a desire to replace democracy with a Trump dictatorship. It IS sedition. These people are not Americans; they are degenerates willing to be Putin's stooges.

The Craziness of The Wannabe King Tweety the 45th.

racocn8 comments on Dec 14, 2020:

It riles me is to see these phonies defiling the flag. They are no kind of American.

I think he should remembered by posterity for picture number 18

racocn8 comments on Dec 16, 2020:

Stuck between 12 and 20. Either is good.

Trump Works for the Dems? [truthout.org]

racocn8 comments on Dec 30, 2020:

I hope it works that way. Mitch was discouraging Republican Senators from screwing around with the electoral count, and unseating Mitch may be a final Trump insult to one he views as betraying him.

Today I blocked a member from the group, CourtJester.

racocn8 comments on Jan 1, 2021:

I was sorta wondering...

With my apologies to any golfers in this group.

racocn8 comments on Jan 3, 2021:

What they are playing with are the same size as marbles...

I do NOT like Mitt's politics, but for me, his integrity has never been in question.

racocn8 comments on Jan 3, 2021:

Mitt represents the Mormon church, a mafia that is significantly different from and at odds with the Russian mafia. However, they are among the elite power centers, and can afford to disagree. None of the Families have the interests of US citizenry in their hearts.

tRump supporters are storming the capitol building as per The Guardian.

racocn8 comments on Jan 6, 2021:

And will Homeland Security escort them into black vans for uncharged, indefinite detention?

Tears for Beers.

racocn8 comments on Jan 6, 2021:

So nobody misunderstands, these patriots, as Melania calls them, are patriots for Putin. They betray the country they pretend to love. They want power and authority to demean and kill non-whites at will. I will be sorry if they don't get a dose of the medicine they seek to dole out. Inject them with Covid, it's all a hoax, right?

Who was Jesus ?

racocn8 comments on May 20, 2019:

As noted, there are no contemporary records of said Jesus. Most of the story is plagiarized from previous myths so that if there were a Jesus, stripping out the previous myths leaves practically nothing of significance in terms of moral or ethical teachings. Also, the New Testament also has huge gaps in moral teaching, again, nothing denouncing slavery nor equal rights, etc. The most telling issue of all religious texts is the utter absence of informed understanding of humanity or of the universe. Nothing approaching divine wisdom is presented; just dopey stories that are ambiguous and readily misinterpreted. Definitely not the quality one would expect of an omnipotent deity.

Peterson thinks we got our ethics from our Judeo-Christian heritage.

racocn8 comments on Jul 9, 2019:

Peterson is a propagandist and demagogue for the right wing. At 3:05 he excoriates Sam Harris with an absurdity wherein he falsely claims Harris advocates that people give up their connection with the *grounding in the transcendent* , a concept he dishonestly substitutes for religiosity. The claim that people, especially religious people, have a connection, much less a splinter of experience with the transcendent is asinine. Nowhere does Sam Harris advocate a disconnection from the transcendent. Quite the opposite is true; Harris often speaks of the utility of entering meditative states. At 2:53, Peterson also equates the belief in god as being equal to having moral values. Again, zero connection. Then he presumes that non-belief means one believes they can do whatever they want. Wrong. Belief in god obviously never stops people from cruel immoral acts, and the attached dogma does a lot to promote violence. At 3:52, Peterson equates psychopathic behavior with naked self-interest. He would have you believe the president is not a wacko, but only self-interested. Sorry, but real psychopathic behavior has nothing to do with self-interest, naked or otherwise. At 3: 57, Peterson asks where is the pathway from rationality to egalitarianism, suggesting that there isn't one. The path is simple: seeing that one reacts with sadness and depression after seeing deprivation promotes the impulse to relieve the suffering with charity; that is egalitarianism. At 4:27, Peterson says Harris and Dawkins deny that noble values derive from religious mythology, and that they suppose moral values are simply intrinsic. That's correct, but he infers that morality comes from religious mythology, and that non-believers must therefore be immoral in their character. As Harris and Dawkins point out, that is wrong, wrong, wrong. It's the same BS argument of religionists. Ethical and moral behavior are NOT predicated on belief in god, and to say so is an obvious lie. Peterson is a diarrhea-spewing asshole.

[newsmax.

racocn8 comments on Jul 22, 2019:

War with Iran is Trump's Plan B in case impeachment or state indictments get any of traction.

[yahoo.

racocn8 comments on Aug 29, 2019:

If only it were so. The treasonous Rethuglicans certainly deserve to be replaced. They prove democracy is a sham if it allows every idiot cultist to vote. It's one thing to have one's own opinion, but it's another thing if that opinion is based on easily disproved myths.

Ralph Reed: Christians Have a “Moral Obligation” to Support Donald Trump in 2020 | Sarahbeth ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 13, 2019:

The doctrine of supporting Pro-Life politics bests all other moral issues. This is the height of irony!!! First, the Pro-Life view is completely fictitious and unsupported by the Bible. The Pro-Life view comes from the Catholics, who the Evangelicals hate almost as much as the Jews. And, the New Testament denounces political intrigue, while Trump demonstrates the lowest it can go.

Criticizing the doctrine of Islam does not mean the person doing so is a xenophobe,Islamophobe, or ...

racocn8 comments on Nov 5, 2019:

You are challenging the CLAIM that criticizing Islam is racist, or comparably immoral. I suspect that this claim is being marketed by Saudi Arabia and by similar Islamic entities. Religions do act on their own behalf. Distributing a false claim like this seeks to disarm opponents of the religion. Two examples of successful silencing of critics were the dis-inviting of Dawkins and Maher to lecture at Berkeley. Indeed, other atheist and scientific speakers have often received their sharpest criticism when they criticized Islam. The shouting down of critics of Islam has effective reduced the volume of outrage over Islam-inspired atrocities as they have occurred around the world. Indeed, certain Christian-inspired critics have used false testimony and innuendo of scandals to bring down atheists, as I believe is the case for both Lawrence Krauss and Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Fortunately, Tyson has been mostly unscathed so far. Christopher Hitchens recorded a number of YouTube videos discussing the demerits of Islam. Hitchens attacks are interesting, clear and unambiguous, and he often makes the distinction defining precisely why criticizing Islam isn't racist, but rather that Islam deserves all the criticism it gets.