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  • Hooo boy, that’s a long story.

    Generally, I think it’s a discomfort with what is less commonly experienced and accepted, and an inability to integrate other valid experiences and ways of living into more rigid modes of thought. A lack of self-reflection tends to reduce empathy and acceptance.

    Economically, reproduction is the traditional way that communities grow and produce labor. Sexuality becomes a means to this end, with love and pleasure being secondary to child-producing couples. Value is determined by how many people you can add to the community, and individual rights are devalued in this sense.

    Socially, the LGBT space occupies its own paradigm of culture. Humans organize around shared interest and bond through shared experience, and the LGBT experience is seen as different enough to produce a foreign competitor.

    Spiritually, the fear of offending a cosmic being is compelling enough to simply write off the consideration of integrating other views, especially those surrounding sexuality, gender, and relationships, into an ingrained belief structure. It’s simply too much of a cost in mental work or spiritual reflection to risk even when faced with the cognitive dissonance of supporting togetherness while rejecting the other.

    Sexually, there is an intense level of projection surrounding attraction. See: the ongoing and vicious debate surrounding pineapple on pizza. People in general get weird about something that is so deeply ingrained as sexuality, and conservative religions tend to push for what grows the religion and enforces compliance. Sex is a primary control mechanism, and LGBT sexuality falls outside that regime of power.

    Why is it stupid and petty and myopic? Because humans are diverse, adaptable, social, and capable. The human rights of everyone should be elevated above having babies, sexual control, and base emotional projection when determining how societies should be organized and laws are written. There is no God judging how we have sex, it’s just other people ascribing astrological power to their feelings so that they can seem more important than they really are. If one does ascribe to a religion, sexuality, or whatever mode of being, they should be free to practice it for themselves, but not to legislate it.

    In the end, ordering the removal of a flag at a small monument for LGBT history is about as petty as it gets in my mind. All things considered, I suppose we should be glad that is the level of effectiveness they’ve been reduced to.








  • Mulder: “Scully, the physical boundaries of potato are virtually limitless, you have to admit that science has only touched the surface of our understanding of potato. This could be a new beginning for expanding the psychodynamics of potato.

    Scully: “Mulder, my initial physiological examination of potato reveals nothing supernatural of the sort. The legumiophysical characteristics of potato denote the standard vegitological implications of this investigation.

    Potato: P O T A T O

    FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner: “You two have reached the limits of your investigation into potato. You have 36 hours to get potato back or you’re suspended.

    Smoking Man: chain smoking 500 cigarettes “Project potato is go. Shut down the X-files.”

    EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

    Chris Carter




  • wuffah@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldForm over function
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    Make sure to sand them first with a rough grit or the paint won’t stick. You can also add sugar to your gas tank to make your sick piston paint job super sweet.

    Use a pickaxe to add speed holes to your hood, and stick a flaming rag out of your gas cap and you’ve got the recipe for a sweet hot rod.


  • wuffah@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlin bad country
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    Remember also that Trump, The President of the United States, yelled back “FUCK YOU!”, and walked away, apparently hitting a nerve. He’s probably not capable of true guilt, but he can definitely feel shame.

    How many people can actually say they made the fucking President say “fuck you”? A national hero.




  • Chaos is a ladder. My estimation is that this riles the base and enrages the opposition, creating fertile ground for violence during the election. Beyond that, I think it serves as a pressure release valve for the vicious idiocy, narcissistic rage, and extreme pathological insecurity that is constantly roiling inside Trump’s mind. He simply can’t contain it anymore.

    Although, I never would have guessed that the enshitifcation of the federal government would result in such a disgusting and debased tactic. The people in this “administration” are not mentally well, and they must have waited their entire lives desperately working to project their insanity on the world. They wield the most sophisticated political apparatus ever built, and an advanced computational capability ostensibly conceived to birth new intelligent life, borne of the most perfect objects created by humanity, and this… this is the result? This childishly misanthropic display of racist schoolyard bullying? It’s beyond pathetic.

    The children of America’s elite who grew up seeking the approval their parent’s vile and extreme beliefs, subsumed in a radioactive miasma of absurd wealth and power, vomit their sickness on to a vulnerable society. It is my belief that we are in the depths of a mass campaign of psychological and physical narcissistic abuse and projection.

    These people would be pitiable if they weren’t so dangerous. America is being controlled by children on meth with machine guns.