We’ve spent the last thousand years developing a rational view of the universe in which we investigate cause and effect. It has served us well and elevated humanity from our messy hunter/gatherer tribal origins to the technologically advanced global society we are today. This progress didn’t come from the pedophile priests who tell us lies about magic sky wizards. The progress came from observation, measurement, intelligence, and reason.

I could go on and on about these assholes pushing anti-vaxx nonsense and other anti-science trash. I really could. I could ramble on for an eternity about moronic shit in the sovereign citizen movement or miracle mineral solution. I’m highly likely to create posts based on these subjects at some point, in fact.

In all reality, Republicans are class traitors. They’ve wilfully espoused that they support any and all benefit and gain for their betters, but not their peers. The crime of class betrayal should carry a heavy penalty. I might even propose death as a penalty for such crimes, because they’re truly detrimental to society.

We’ve been engaged in a protracted and long term class war, all of us. We’ve all been fighting in it. We wouldn’t be alive right now if we weren’t, we would’ve starved to death long ago. And that’s the nature of it completely. The have-nots versus the haves. The haves were always here, they’ve been around since the start. Since the first agrarian settlements, there have been people staking claims to things simply because they exist in their proximity. Motivated entirely by greed, these people have told us we’re their lesser for thousands of years. They’ve enlisted the help of desperate and broken people to protect them, and in return these “haves” would keep enforcers on the payroll. These enforcers would evolve to be police, lawyers, judges. They exist between the ultra-wealthy and the impoverished, because they ensure the impoverished never realize that they’re the majority. They suppress the majority. These evil tools of society.

Apparently Musk is going to try to make Twitter a “public utility” without the oversight or government regulation of a public utility, because he “believes so much in freedom of speech”. Sounds like a dog whistle for white supremacy and alt-right groups more than it does “public service”. For one, Musk doesn’t respect public services, because he’s one of those idiot libertarian types. Second, private companies can’t “protect freedom of speech”. At the end of the day they’re vehemently opposed to any speech that would curtail profits, because they’re fucking private corporations. How stupid does this asshat think we are? Jesus. I mean, I guess he assumes a lot of us are morons because he does seem to have a cult following of morons. I think that’d definitely sway someone’s opinion of themselves and humanity. I can see his moron ego inflating like so much furry inflation porn.

Sometimes I wonder what went wrong when I was conceived. This “out of place”-ness, it doesn’t feel new or acquired. It doesn’t feel like I had to exist around people to experience it. I think there are very few places where I wouldn’t feel out of place. It’s difficult to quantify things that aren’t whole. It’s like a lingering sensation rather than a sure phenomenon.

I’m watching the drama with Kiwi Farms unfold, and I understand why people are angry. I get it completely. Kiwi Farms is an awful place where awful people gather to coordinate harassment campaigns against any individual they see fit for their attention. I get it. I just don’t agree with the means society is using to purge Kiwi Farms from the internet. Because Kiwi Farms has broken no laws, they’re using corporations and total lack of regulation to remove their voice entirely. Something that’s going to happen to you. It’s going to happen to me. We’re all going to have our voices removed, it’s simply a matter of attrition. Unless you’re just firing off useless videos of yourself dancing, you’re not going to be allowed to express your opinions on things. You’re probably thinking that I sound altogether too sure of myself and that there’s no way it could happen, but you’d be wrong. The thought police are coming for you. Right now they’re latching onto your current code of ethics and morals and they’re acting against individuals and groups you don’t agree with, but what are you going to do when it’s someone you know? Maybe your family member? Maybe you?

I feel like it’s going to be incredibly important for people to vote this November. We’re all going to have to participate in order to tell the government that we want more policy based on science. Right now we have far too many assholes in the GOP trying to stir up yet another sad “Satanic Panic” in order to rile up their base. It’s really pathetic to see in action, and usually the people supporting this shit the loudest are jackasses like David “Avocado” Wolfe. A man known for promoting quackery to treat all diseases up to and including cancer. I can’t stress enough how badly I want Wolfe to spend the rest of his days in prison for the shit he does. It’s parasitic. This garbage person is very closely associated with the right, and quite honestly I don’t get it, other than my existing understanding that con-men like to congregate, I guess. On the outset I suppose it makes sense for grifters to associate at least somewhat with one another.

Are you absolutely livid that you can’t click on a link to a news story or article anymore without getting slapped in the face with some shitty paywall for a publisher you’re never going to give money? These assholes are already farming our data with tens of cookies and trackers, so it’s time for us to take our data back and tell them we’re going to get what we want and we’re not going to pay for it. And it’s totally legal, moral, and ethical.

I’m back on the road this month. It’s not a light travel month, either. I’m talking 75% of the month will be spent at least two hours away from my home. It’s not optimal by any means, and quite frankly I hate it. I bought myself a Steam Deck and it’s been an absolute blast to mess with. I’m realizing quickly that it doesn’t matter how many expensive distractions I take with me on the road, there will always be something very important missing from the trip. It’s depressing, really. I even set it up so that I’m staying at a hotel that has a decent bar right behind it, walking distance. It’s still just a consolation prize. I can’t cuddle my fiance because she’s not here with me. It’s honestly pretty unacceptable, and I’m done with this travel bullshit. It was great when I didn’t want to be home, when being home meant fights. It was entirely convenient to be in another state, or just hours away, and I had the ability to just shut my phone off and instantly feel better.

I just read a headline about the US Education Secretary not “being excited” about student loan forgiveness. It’s funny, though. It’s almost like you innately feel like the station of “US Secretary of Education” should be a role for someone to steward the educations of hundreds of millions of Americans, when in reality he’s just a corporate shill installed to extract as much money from students and parents as humanly possible. What a fucking shitty country we live in. We can’t have anything nice, corporations have to ruin everything that could even conceivably be great if allowed. God damn what a shame.