Yesterday heard an outstanding report on NPR about #QueerEcology, the study of nature to understand sexual reproduction across life forms, as a result recognizing a binary choice of sexual reproduction should not be regarded as the norm. Unfortunately I can’t find a link but did locate this:
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/what-is-queer-ecology
@mikebrew @jann @Jayslacks I view the first 2 GotGs as an evolution, about the relationship between Quill and his Ravager Dad. It’s powerful, but I don’t insist on agreement. 😀 As I said my decision about GotG3 is undecided until I see it again.
@Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social @shuro I agree. When I reference “bad humanity” I’m looking at the collective. Surely we are not all bad, but as far as Mother Earth, NOT team players, and we will destroy ourselves the longer we remain selfish. You’d have to get statistics. An easy observation, but not conclusive is look at the make up of Congress, almost half there are-anti-democracy to manipulate, profit, and to exploit or to persecute. Then ask yourself how many votes do they represent? 🤔
@GreenFire Heard something like this before from Mr Plausible Denier, in an encouraging tone, “find me some votes, come on, you can do it!!” 😷
@PDFlynn Diversity is a worthy liberal ideal healthy for any democracy. No surprise the conservative court when they got the chance axed 69 years of precedence and progress. 😔
New details have emerged from the orange chump's attempt to get Arizona to overturn the will of the people in 2020.
It's unknown if Jack Smith has interviewed the ex-governor. Last month, Ducey announced that he is leading a free-enterprise focused political action committee, Citizens for Free Enterprise. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/01/trump-2020-election-arizona-governor-doug-ducey/
Turns out Trump also tried to get Doug Ducey to overturn Arizona election results!
@GayDeceiver I know little about the process but doesn’t The House have to vote on it? That would make it seem to me unlikely at this point.
Everyday I love the first great Miles Davis Quintet as much as I did the first time I heard them. And every day I love the second great Miles Davis Quintet more than the day before.
My only regret about our onrushing planetary breakdown is that Christopher Hitchens and George Carlin won't be around to observe and comment.
BACKDOOR PEACE TALKS
I wonder if some secret communications are going on between Russia and the US via India’s President Modi?
First Modi visits the White House, then traveled to the Kremlin to meet Putin.
Makes one go hmmmm.
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany #Poland #France #Turkey
@shuro @Radical_EgoCom @Huntn00
Humans are extremely malleable. Adaptation is how we have done so well in the game of evolution. So the systems we grow and live in have a significant impact on behavior like coastal trees bent by wind. Systems that incentivize exploitation and selfishness will naturally produce or give visibility and power to that behavior.
@Radical_EgoCom @Huntn00 > Capitalism is inherently exploitative.
Maybe humans are inherently exploitative? It can't be coincidence that all social systems so far basically are evolution of competition and exploitation.
#RightWing #Religion The Conservative Fool’d Ya Game and in some cases fooled ourselves game, takes something dark and slaps a sunny label on it, like “liberty” as part of “Moms For Liberty” redefining it into something else “my liberty and f*ck the rest of you”. It’s observable in school districts and religion. Freedom of religion, which includes freedom from religion, becomes “freedom to shove my beliefs down your throats.”
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-loves-moms-for-liberty-and-pennsylvania-lgbtq-rcna91919 https://www.npr.org/2023/06/07/1180486760/splc-moms-for-liberty-extremist-group
@jann @mikebrew @Jayslacks No problem,different tastes. 🙂
@lowqualityfacts Ah the Cream of the #WhitePrivaledge Crop. Pity them. The other end of this wide spectrum:
A white trailer trash type (semi-close relative by marriage, now axed, fading) who wanted to know why a black family in Walmart was so well dressed, and while pregnant out of wedlock (in her previous life), wondered why the State would not put her up in an apartment. You know those worthless minorities get all this free stuff, why not me?? 🤔
@Huntn00 @mikebrew @Jayslacks I’ll comment more when typing from something other than smartphone but totes agree!
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.