Too stupid to live

Forest fires and heat waves all over the planet, so we need all the trees we have to absorb the CO2 that’s causing the forementioned forest fires and heat waves, and this guy cut down godknows how many trees then set fire to them in order to provide meat for those who still eat it (because they think, mistakenly, that they need it or, worse, just because they want it) and to get rich doing so.  I swear, most of us are too stupid to live.

A man walks along a fallen tree trunk in the Amazon rainforest.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/22/the-secret-to-colombias-drop-in-deforestation-armed-groups

 

 

 

 

John Mulaney on Drag Queens

Some excellent lines, for example:

“What is your notion of a woman based on?”

“[re mean and rude drag queens] You could’ve stayed a guy if you were going to be an asshole about it.”

 

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When you support trans rights …

Check L. Harris out:

The Real Meaning of “trans-rights”

Misogyny: a clear case of projection

Misogyny is a simple and clear case of psychological projection, a defence mechanism whereby one denies the existence of a quality in oneself and instead attributes it to the other—’it’s not me, it’s you’.  Men hate that they want us, that their thought, their behavior, is so overwhelmingly and relentlessly occupied with wanting us.  Instead of identifying themselves as the source of the sexual attraction (the problem—they are sexually attracted), they identify women as the source (the problem—they are sexually attracting).  And so they hate us, they hurt and kill us.  When the rational thing would be to hate themselves, hurt and kill themselves.  Actually, no, the rational thing would be to simply take the drugs that reduce their desire so it’s not overwhelming and relentless. And what do they do instead?  Take drugs that increase their desire.  (Who was it who said they were the rational ones?)  Because the greater their sexual desire, the more manly they are.  But the greater their sexual desire, the more they hate us.  So, the more manly they are, the more they hate us.  Despite the faulty logic, that rings true: only wusses actually like women.  That is to say, it accurately reflects the psychopathic notion of manliness.  (And that would be another rational thing to do: reject the notion of manliness.)

Women’s Locker Room Talk

“One woman warning you about a creepy dude and a dozen other women chiming in with their own stories is our version of locker room talk.” Caitlin Kelly

reposted from https://www.facebook.com/radfemsca Says a lot, doesn’t it.  (And what’s men’s locker room talk about?)  

Pirsig on religion

“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity.  When many people suffer from a delusion if it is called Religion.”  Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

more great Dawkins

 “If somebody announces that it is part of his faith, the rest of society, whether of the same faith, or anotheher, or of non, is obliged, by ingrained custom, to ‘respect’ it without question …” (Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, p306)

Dawkins (and Monty Python) on the ‘human potential’ argument against abortion

“[T]he logical conclusion to the ‘human potential’ argument [against abortion] is that we potentially deprive a human soul of the gift of existence every time we fail to seize any opportunity for sexual intercourse.  Every refusal of any offer of copulation by a fertile individual is, by this dopey ‘pro-life’ logic, tantamount to the murder of a potential child!  Even resisting rape could be represented as murdering a potential baby …” (Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, p300)

He goes on to remind us of Michael Palin singing “Every sperm is sacred” in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.

Mother Teresa on abortion (she’s such an idiot)

“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.” Mother Teresa, acceptance speech for Nobel Peace Prize

WTF?! Or, in Richard Dawkins’ words, “How can a woman with such a cock-eyed judgement be taken seriously on any topic, let alone be thought seriously worthy of a Nobel Prize?” (Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion)

On politicians

“John had become a national figure by the time he was forty.  This was because he was in certain positions and places: not becuase he was more than ordinarily competent, or had more than the usual grasp of public affairs …”

“He was not respected in ways that matter, and he knew it.  He was only another among the hundreds, the thousands, of the politicians of the globe of whom nothing much was to be expected …”

“In fact, most of the politicians of that time needed psychiatric support, because of hte natur eof their preoccupations: an unreality at the very heart of their everyday decision-making, thinking, functioning.”

from Doris Lessing, Shikasta (p103-5)