Link round-up for 29 November 2020
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Debra She Who Seeks observes American Thanksgiving.
Rawknrobyn is having entirely too much fun with this turkey.
Comedian Eddie Griffin pwns religion and politicians (I didn't personally care for the second video, but the first one is perfect).
Hunt the tail.
For a wizard, clear penmanship is important.
See the faces.
Sorry, it's not flat.
This village is not Fucking any more.
Getting baptized? Have some fun with it.
Here's a way to raise some cash for the government.
Check out these German castles.
Soar, poetically, despite pain.
A mask is not a political statement.
Fight for consumerism, die for consumerism.
How will the birds cope without winter? How will we?
They knew how to make a statue back then.
The kraken has been released -- and it can't spell.
The New York Crank hands out some awards.
Greg Fallis explores pioneer cemeteries.
They built a monument to a marriage they thought could never be.
Some thoughts here about the holidays, consumerism, and the need for connection.
Rest in peace, Darth Vader.
Imagine if Biden behaved like Trump.
Samantha Bee endures a covid-19 Thanksgiving.
Here's where we are now in the election process.
Tiny desk! Tiny desk! Tiny desk!
Trumpanzees find themselves a Japanese role model.
Thursday's Supreme Court ruling was a win for theocracy and death.
To those who want to "reach out to" the wingnuts, try this one.
If there had been Trumpanzees on the Titanic.....
Are atheists less sociable than religious people? It's a real question.
Celebrities can be thugs too.
Trumpanzees on Parler are calling for a boycott of the Georgia runoffs to punish the Republican party for not supporting Trump insanely enough. More of this, please.
Full-on capitalism plus the virus equals catastrophe.
Stop playing the sap for Republicans.
If Christianity is merely a lie, why bother opposing it?
Fox News frets about being out-wingnutted by Newsmax and OANN.
Harris has an option for defanging Moscow Mitch.
The trans fad is seducing kids, with potentially life-ruining consequences.
No, atheism does not mean being like Russia.
Money doesn't matter in politics as much as people think.
Dear Evangelicals -- hope those 30 pieces of silver were worth it.
Green Eagle explores the wingnutosphere so you don't have to. It's not a happy place right now.
Are lesbians threatened with extinction?
This is no time for political suicide.
You can't bargain with a virus. Healthcare workers are already being devastated, and 1,700 have died. The holiday season will bring a bigger surge of deaths than anything we've seen yet.
Don't flinch -- call Trump's bluff.
Libertarianism takes an unrealistic view of racism.
Dominion responds to wingnut accusations about their voting machines and company history.
A professor at Berkeley (!) is advocating book-burning.
Yes, the Electoral College is an abomination. No, it isn't possible to get rid of it.
Trumpanzees are weaklings, valuing conformity above truth.
Religionists plotted secretly for weeks to hold a huge covid-19 super-spreader event in Brooklyn.
Wingnuts remain delusional about the election. The alt-right is ramping up threats of violence.
Here's another reason to avoid putting anything personal on social media.
54% of Republicans say they'd support Trump for the presidential nomination in 2024. Trumpism will retain its grip on the party.
"Every day another woman loses her job and a witch-burning occurs on Twitter." But women aren't supposed to talk about their own issues any more. We seem to be in the middle of another episode of hysteria with an inquisition mentality, like McCarthyism or the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. Such episodes pass, but they do a lot of damage.
A Catholic bishop warns his herd to refuse any covid-19 vaccine developed in defiance of Catholic taboos.
Republicans are doing better with Latinos by talking about class instead of race. And for fuck's sake stop using "Latinx".
Here are ten things Biden can do without needing the Senate.
A few Republicans are telling Trump to face reality. As his presidency ends, he's piling up new prosecutable offenses. We need to know just how big a threat to national security he is.
Violent mobs in Portland continue to attack large and small businesses and, for some reason, the Mexican consulate.
One of red America's best-prepared hospitals is already overwhelmed with covid-19 victims.
No, these nuns did not "mean well". This was evil.
France's president Macron calls on the country's Muslim leaders to support secularism and freedom.
Poland's right-wing government continues its harsh crackdown on massive demonstrations for abortion rights.
This is Azerbaijan.
Elephants owe their extreme largeness, enormity, and biggitude to a mutant gene that suppresses cancer.
Annie Asks You has assembled some worthwhile information about those new covid-19 vaccines.
A better understanding of telomerase should help us fight both aging and cancer.
Doctors confirm that going vegan can reduce the severity of covid-19.
More links here.
Reminder to trolls -- read this.
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In case you missed it -- last week I posted on the alt-right monster turning on its creator, how Trumpanzees can be deprogrammed, some images for lightening up, wingnuts freaking out at Trump's defeat, and the Supreme Court's pro-covid-19 decision.
posted by Infidel753 at 1:19 AM
12 Comments:
Nice fresh links collection 👌🏻 Some of these post titles kinda made me giggle, though 😜
Hunt the tail, LOL! And I love the baptism story. Also Trumpanzees on the Titanic.
Okay, I'm going to wade into the "extinction" or "erasure" of lesbians issue. First, let me just state the obvious -- lesbian SEX has not gone anywhere but, if anything, is more prevalent than ever. All that has changed is the terminology, conceptualization and theories around it. Every generation is entitled to draw its own conclusions and make its own analysis of same-sex desire. And that's simply what young people today are doing. Everything now is viewed through their lens of gender deconstruction and rejection of the non-binary. If you take the time to closely analyze this new characterization, however, you will see its connection to how we second-wave feminists viewed gender. Both we AND them wanted to ultimately transcend the limitations of gender so that it would no longer "matter" in how the world worked. In many ways, in my opinion, the new gender analysis is simply "old wine in new bottles."
The second part of my analysis is this -- we old-timey Boomer lesbians had our day in the sun when WE were the radicals and now we must not be judgy old curmudgeons about how Gen Z choose to live their lives. As I said, lesbian sexual BEHAVIOUR is doing just fine, thank you very much, and is in no danger of extinction or erasure.
And while I'm busy antagonizing you, dear Infidel, I'll go that extra step and say it is a profound injustice to Gen Z to dismiss their lives and choices as mere "faddishness." Everyone has the right to live their lives as they see fit and to make choices about their own lives, even if others view those choices as "wrong" or "bad" or "ill-advised." And hey, weren't those judgments and epithets exactly the same ones that the Greatest Generation made about Boomer gays? Let's not turn into our hidebound forebears.
excellent
I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving.
Hot: I would hope they gave rise to a few giggles.....
Debra: Well, we'll see – time will tell. Transgenderism in most cases certainly looks to me like a fad, and it does seem like a lot of young people who are actually just gay are re-defining themselves as trans because the concept has such a high profile at the moment. And it has a lot more potential for harm. If a kid decides they're gay when they're too young to really know, and later realizes they aren't, no harm is done. If they decide they're trans and get puberty blockers or surgery, they can seriously mess themselves up. I think in the years to come we'll see a lot of people who are angry that they were allowed to do that kind of damage to themselves when they were too young to make such decisions or define themselves that way.
Biological reality doesn't change from generation to generation. Things that do change so quickly are often, well, just fads. And a reality-based world-view doesn't need to resort to the kind of vicious personal attacks and threats of violence that characterize transgender ideology. That's the kind of thing religions do.
This isn't even a topic I originally took much interest in. I became concerned about it after seeing what women (many of them lesbians) wrote about it, plus the relentless barrage of harassing comments I got after I started including links about it on the blog.
JackieSue: Thanks!
Mary K: Thank you. Thanksgiving isn't a meaningful holiday to me, but it's always nice to have four straight days off work. I hope you're feeling better after your loss.
I do agree that extremist activists on BOTH sides of this issue need to calm down.
Lesbians will live forever. That article needs re-writing.
I can't imagine why evilgelicals put up with Cheeto. Wait, I can.
The Kraken, along with OANN and that other stupid right-wing mouthpiece are the product of too much IMPOTUS. It's called Lie-betes.
XOXO
The media doesn't get to call the weather. Only reputable government agencies in charge of overseeing the weather get to say what the weather is for the day. So, just because my local news meteorologist says it's raining at the moment, even if it is actually raining, doesn't mean that they are right that it is raining. Is that the logic that some Trumpanzees mean when they complain about various news organizations calling an election?
Can I address the puberty blockers thing from experience?
One of my daughters started showing signs of puberty when she was six. It's "precocious puberty" - look it up - and it's a real thing.
We treated it with puberty blockers. That's standard treatment for that sort of thing. It's been standard treatment for decades.
Stopping the blockers at twelve halted all effects. They are reversible, and don't cause damage. You don't need to be worried about them.
On puberty blockers, see here, here, here, here, and here. That's only a sample of the information that's out there. I've linked to more at various times. As the links point out, "puberty blockers" are sometimes used for treatment of genuine medical problems. In such cases, or in a case of precocious puberty (certainly an abnormal condition which would need treatment), it may be worth the risks. But the risks are substantial.
Closing comments on the post -- I really don't want to keep going back and forth forever about one aspect or another of the trans thing.
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