Strega

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Views and conduct run counter to everything which can actually tear at the fabric of who we are as an institution. We need your help.

Thanks for that Reg, I’ve never heard of Ministry before. I just listened to the entire album, and see that they and their founder Al Jourgensen has been around and influential for…[Read more]

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Yo Strega, you’re welcome, been rhyming since a kid,
Droppin’ playground bars, yeah I always knew you did.
Now we grown, still flowin’, keep the rhythm alive,
Every line you spit got the crowd doin’ high fives.

But wait—hold up!  I need my Nobel Prize,
For these beats so sick, got the world hypnotized.
Give it now, I said! (boom-boom, drum rol…[Read more]

Yo, Musk playin’ rockets like a kid with toy bricks,
Trump stackin’ towers made of ego and tricks.
Two nogoodniks rollin’, think they legends in suits,
But it’s clown-car chaos when they hit the reboot.

Bad magnetism, yeah, they push then repel,
Talkin’ big futures while the present’s pure hell.
One tweets Mars, the other tweets rage,
Toget…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
It does however having something for the eternally moronic goddamn white trash…

Awesome observation, it’s  not just the lefty white trash.

Both MAGA and Anti-MAGA think in group-oriented ways. The Anti-MAGA espouse racial, ethnic, sexual, gender and class identity politics and the MAGA react with their own brand of identity politics. And both assume their desired group identity has monolithic interests and both tolerate no dissent.

Enco, that’s a good depiction of where it’s at. Nei…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
That’s right, Trump’s electoral strength—and his staying power—have been buoyed, above all, by Americans with authoritarian inclinations.

I’ve heard that before.  Also that Trump supporters tend to think in a very group-oriented way, they think that groups have to compete, and that their group has to win.

I think Bill Maher mentioned this recently. It may have been a different family. But a similar event. A family found Arizona to be “too woke” so they moved to Texas, only to find it was just not conservative enough for them. So they sold everything and gave their money to the poor moved to Russia. WTF!

This article is more than 10 years old, but it explains a lot, like how in the world does he get so much support within groups you’d think shouldn’t support him: ethnic minorities and women among others.

The One Weird Trait That Predicts Whether You’re a Trump Supporter

I’ve found a single statistically significant variable predicts whether a v…[Read more]

Have a great week!!

“I don’t reject gods. I just apply the same standards I use for everything else—and they don’t make the cut.”

-me.

Prayer effectivity is a very straight-forward hypothesis to test.  And well, one would think that Mississippi and Alabama would have streets paved with gold by now.

CDC in Atlanta after firing of Susan Monarez.