What’s a Holiday Without Some Christian Rage???

Another great video by the Rev. Ed Trevors.   He shoots down the need of some who claim that Christ is king and all powerful lord to then go on constant screeds of outrage and making claims that god is being taken away.  He shows how this is not Christian, he shows how this is simply using people and doing what the bible says not to do.   I love this man’s message.  Hugs.  Scottie

Let’s talk about the Region, the response, and the risk….

As I was listening to this video I was reading a reply from Roger deteremineddespitewp and we were talking about regional conflicts and the cycles of conflict and hate.   I will post Roger’s grand comment and then the video from  Beau.   Hugs.  Scottie  BTW if you want to read the entire discussion which I recommend it is on this post. 

https://scottiesplaytime.com/2024/04/08/the-times-of-israel-six-months-after-october-7-some-hostage-families-embracing-anti-government-protests/comment-page-1/#comment-17454

Oh Scottie you could loose track on become very depressed trying to compile a list of what are termed genocides, adding civilian deaths through wars, reprisal killings, mass communal violence, deaths through prejudice and on and on. By the time you’d finish you’d be thinking ‘Well at least conventional war on a battlefield is honest and upfront,’
Where and how to start to put a stop to this frustrates me, because I keep coming up with ‘knocking heads together’ solutions which kind of defeats the whole purpose.
rawgod gave me a challenge to write out a story where in 2643 Humanity finally quit this violence ‘kick’….. I had to write it from a sci-fi perspective it was my only way.

 

My problem is, as long as I can think back I’ve always hated prejudice and violence that goes with it, which in turns causes my own violent solutions, try as I might that idea still bubbles up. And actually that is something of a sin in true Christian terms.

 

You, like rawgod, Jill and Keith are so right we should learn, force ourselves to work together. These constant wars which pit communities against each other only leave a legacy of bitterness for another generation to feed off.
Take an extreme example of WWII. When the fighting had ceased some nations who had engaged in Total War just put down the guns and said ‘OK. That’s over. Some will have to pay for starting it, but as for the rest. OK.’ UK & USA did that with Italy, Germany and Japan and the populations of those nations did likewise; though it took some time.
Even with the USA and Vietnam, the veterans would meet up. Americans went back to help with projects, just to try and make sense of it all. It’s still a tight state run by a ‘communist’ government but is not what would call a North Korea. Hip-hop for instance is alive and vibrant (though I am sure the artists are careful with the lyrics)

 

When its communities; not so much, the hate is passed on down. The massacres are shared out. Even if the violence stops the hate simmers ready to break loose. Maybe not on issues across the board, but perhaps on certain sensitive points.

I’m tip-toeing around here a bit, lest I mention one example which triggers someone reading this.

 

I keep on hoping, when the evidence seems to be the opposite. I keep thinking of folk who wish for peace and have generous hearts, those who work for peace who try to reach out. I try and stifle my own little demons.

 

You are so right we should not be squandering our life span, in this useless Hate.

Division in Oregon highlights growing political rift between rural and urban areas

Thank you, Ten Bears for sharing this video so I could post it.  What I want every one to understand is something the news reporters and the station buried.   The people upset and demanding this huge change … are only 20% of the population.  Now I listened to it three times and I couldn’t decide if they were saying the people in the county or the rural people in the country.  To me it sounded like country wide the rural people were demanding and were 20% of the population.   Which sounds right if you look at population maps.   Do you understand what that is?   A small minority is demanding the entire country abandon its progressive move forward into the modern age so a small segment of the population can be satisfied and happy.  It is minority rule over the majority.   It is not democracy!   It is what the fundamentalist Christians are trying to do right now to every red state on LGBTQ+ issues. Are we as a country going to allow the most violent vocal segments of our society force us back to a regressive past that will eventually destroy what the US really is and could be?   Hugs.   Scottie

The divide between rural and urban areas in the United States has been growing in recent decades with grievances and political consequences on both sides. Judy Woodruff traveled across Oregon to learn more about that rift for her series, America at a Crossroads.

Gender Theory: Why Now?

If you are unsure of the difference between sex and gender, or if you are question many of the hate myths about trans people, or possibly thinking trans people are new and never been accepted then please watch this video.

The host is easy to listen too, shows his sources, and uses facts, yes those pesky facts that refute all the anti-trans misinformation spread desperately through the right wing media.  The video covers how anti-trans groups formed fake medical groups to claim science said that trans was a sickness or such, but the video show that real professionals in medical science disagree and show that being trans and gender nonconforming is a normal difference some people have.  

Finally the hosts shows how the anti-trans movement push was started around 2008 when conservatives and fundamentalist religious groups were losing the war against gay people and gay marriage.  They were seeing gay people normalized on TV and moved to prevent that from happening for trans people.  Plus the video shows how this is about state control over everyone’s body.   He shows how the idea of strict gender roles formed when men felt marginalized and wanted to create a society that was male oriented and was based on male superiority.  For men to be superior, that meant they needed females to be inferior.  So strict gender roles were created and enforced.  This only has been the way for the last few centuries, not forever.  Hugs.  Scottie 

Does Gender Even Matter?

There’s a full blown panic sweeping America, and it’s all about gender, and especially people who don’t conform to traditional categories. But what is it about people’s gender choices that makes others so worried? Was this an inevitable facet of modern life, or is something more complicated going on? Let’s find out in this Wisecrack video on Gender Theory: Why Now?

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PA Drag Story Hour Canceled After Emailed Threats, Two City Blocks Evacuated Over “Suspicious Package”

This is government by gang thuggery, or to call it what it is, terrorism.   And driven by religion.  This was again pushed as evil and child abuse by Libs of TikTok who as I recently have posted she is very proud of the violence she promotes.   She also is a rather stupid person who is overjoyed at the all the notoriety and attention she receives for stirring up hate and fear.   This is the attempt by the religious minority to take over the country, force the majority to live by their biblical doctrines / views, and rolling back all the civil rights gained by women, black people, and the LGBTQ+.  The US has never been and shouldn’t ever be a theocracy.  This country must not let bigotry and hate causing fear and targeting people for harm become a legitimate way to govern.  But again the haters win because the show was canceled denying the kids and parents who wanted it to lose out.  The haters are denying the freedom of others to enjoy themselves freely to enforce a religious view of morality on everyone.   We have to stop letting these events be canceled and the haters win.  If there was a bomb let the haters get blamed then found, charged, go to court, and …   Hugs.  Scottie


 

The Associated Press reports:

A scheduled “Drag Queen Story Hour” at a Pennsylvania library that had drawn opposition was canceled Saturday after a suspicious package was found in the building and two blocks were evacuated after threats were reported, authorities said.

Police evacuated the Lancaster Public Library after the package was found. A state police bomb squad later cleared the library, but police said “additional reported threats” were still being investigated. Residents of the block and another block nearby were told to evacuate, an order lifted several hours later.

A city spokesperson later said that a dog had alerted on the package and that the contents were later found to be “benign” but “subsequently, we received additional written threats via email.”

Lancaster Online reports:

 


Lissa Holland, the library’s executive director, said she felt “really sad, very disappointed and angry, that leaders of this county turned this into saving the children from the library and we are having to cancel this event because of safety threats.”

Though the library did not make the decision to cancel Saturday’s event, Holland said it was the right call during a brief interview under the overhang outside the Starbucks at 101 N. Queen St..

“Absolutely. It’s safety first, for everybody involved, For our storyteller, for the staff — and most important for the children that were going to be here and the families. I am saddened to the core” that the event had to be canceled, Holland said.

 

As usual, Libs of TikTok is behind this.

Terrorist.

It’s time to dive into Libs of Tik Tok personal life. There’s got to be skeletons in her closet that need to be expose.

It’s past time to ruin the Raichik CUNT–
by any means necessary.

How about her finances and tax returns. There has to be fraud there. She can’t Xitt from prison.

This is what those terrorists are demonizing. I don’t why we didn’t start protesting at churches every time a pedo was found, lost opportunity to show where the real threat to children was coming from.

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Even truly religious people won’t protest churches, even their own when the ugly truth is revealed.

Dumb question: why did they called themselves Libs of TikTok when they’re anything but liberal?

I figure it’s a play on “People of Walmart” and other similar things – the pictures and profiles being posted are of the people the profile is against, not something they identify with.

 

What do you want her to call herself, Cunts for Christ?

They exist to Other.

It would be a bit of truth in advertising, you have to admit.

They thinks it’s a witty putdown.

Like “Let’s Go Brandon!”.

Makato is right. Her account started as something else and her career basically shifted because of the attention that was focused on her. There are several of these accounts on Twitter and what they do is collect other peoples posts from any social media–Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, et cetera–and post it in their timeline. They have names like Whatever Posting Ls or something similar. LisbonTikTok (I like that typo and I’m keeping it) started posting stuff from TikTok.

Do you hate some group but don’t want to be bothered searching the Internet for things to hate and laugh at? Do you want reinforcement of your own biases? They’ve got you covered.

Same reason every fascist ironfisted christofascist law GQPs pass is a “freedom act”.

That’s called terrorism

Trump lifted the rock and the scum have all crawled out.

More Raichik shit. Library in Reading, Massachusetts just got a bomb threat, too.

She needs to be ended. Once upon a time, we had a CIA, didn’t we?

CIA FBI. The CIA is forbidden from running operations within the US, except for LSD experiments and selling crack and guns in red-lined neighborhoods.

That, then. How is this not a domestic terror threat? She got our leading childrens’ hospital shut down with her terrorism. Kids missed pedi chemo treatments.

 

She would claim this is a free speech thing and point out that she never actually tells people to do the terrible things they do. It’s a cop out of course because she gets her viewers enraged over BS. It would be like me saying, “Mr X is a terrible danger to society and someone should do something about him” and then when said person gets attacked and blames me I can say “I didn’t tell anyone to attack you!”

Enough, enough, enough! This is no way to maintain a society, permitting the sickest among us to call the shots by threats of violence. There must be stronger penalties for those bullies, those who terrify others with their threats, those who shut down the normal activities of society, those who cost thousands-to-millions of dollars for law enforcement and lost business. We must not allow them to make us all live in fear.

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ALT RIGHT A.I.?

I am so tired right now having not slept last night, but I wanted to post this as I felt it was important.  This is a direct diversion of every search to the Republican agenda presenting in the best most convincing light.  Pushing project 2025.   So much for a neutral only the facts’ news AI media.  Seriously a bot designed to push pro-fundamentalist republican anti-choice regressive view points?  Is it deliberate? We people that love our democracy and progressive country better get engaged and vote, or we lose it all.  The wealthy owner class wants us to return to the guided age, when only businesses had a say, government had no power, and workers were slaves to be worked to death for profit.    Hugs.  Scottie

Microsoft’s A.I. bot copilot has been produced some strange results lately that make it seem like it may have been trained by alt right bros.

Why the political worldviews of young men and women are increasingly diverging | DW Analysis

To me as I listened to the video it became clear that the real issue is how a lot of this is driven on the male side from the era where men look at it as their entitlement to the best looking most attractive women they are attracted to, but can not have.  So they feel women are the real enemy, rather than the system that is denying each gender of equality.  Why do incels feel entitled to a female, a woman that is to please them as they demand / wish?  Because for far too much of history that was how men were taught to look at women, taught that females were to be used, subjected to their whim, to keep them happy but not really a person like they are.  They don’t see women as full humans like them.   The day that men and women see each other as equal will be the day all this conflict dies.  Hugs.  Scottie

Young men are more likely than women to drop out of college, commit suicide, and support far-right parties. But while misogynistic influencers like Andrew Tate are correctly blamed for fueling the incel manosphere’s backlash against feminism, there is a lot more to this story than incels, culture wars and wokeness. From stagnant economies and unaffordable housing to fears of cultural obsolescence, young men are grappling with a myriad of challenges that seldom enter the public discourse. So what is really behind the growing political rift between Gen Z Boys and Girls?

In the video we talk to Richard Reeves, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the book “Of Boys and Men” where he explores all the ways in which the modern male is struggling. Alice Evans, visiting scholar at Stanford University, who is travelling around the world to study this divide and makes the point that lagging economies, corporate algorhythms, and patriarchal mentality can explain this backlash. And Neil Shyminsky, Professor at Cambrian College and famous on TikTok as @professorneil, who sees in Influencers like Andrew Tate as a main threat.

Video by Christian Caurla