Someone should tell this stupid bitch to follow her own religion:

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward. 6But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard.…

Remember to always tell xtians that they should not be babbling like the pagans and keep it in the closet!

Thanks Polis, you dumbfuck.

That quote from Carlin is one that often comes to mind, LOL.

It's alarming to learn how accurate that actually is. People often talk about how comedians are basically today's philosophers and I can understand why.

The measurements on numeracy and literacy in the United States explains quite a bit about one's everyday experience. I mean, I went to university and graduated. I got mostly A's in K-12. I was not valedictorian. I did not have a 4.0 in university. I don't have a PhD. I consider myself someone with about average intelligence, but I applied myself. I read rather widely. I try to apply logic to situations and assess new material as it comes in.

I don't think this is some high bar for an adult. Honestly, I consider the above the bare minimum. Often it felt like I was coasting in high school and parts of university.

But everyday experiences and seeing how other adults behave and what they believe and accept as "fact" seems to constitute a baffling array of the ridiculous and the silly. When you remember things like this, it makes a bit more sense:

https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/survey-of-adults-skills-2023-country-notes_ab4f6b8c-en/united-states_427d6aac-en.html

Most especially in the corporate media, oops, I mean, the "liberal media".

Yeah, the right's reaction to 2020 was absolutely wild. In the face of a pandemic that could have united the country in their response to it, we had dumbdumb in charge and whipping up absolutely insane bullshit instead.

And that's after seeing the right's response to having a black President and seeing the W years - Iraq, Katrina, topped by a financial collapse.

Oh, and then their Covid response was followed by the unhinged J6/"stop the steal" terrorism.

LOL, "believe".

I get these polls are about trying to measure public understanding of all things reality-based, but reading that is like hearing some creationist going on about how they don't "believe in evolution.

I guess if put $1.50 gas on my pedonald vision board, it will be so the next time I go to a gas station...

Is this guy even sure he's a Republican?

Again, I'm not sure where I see Democrat politicians kicking men. Do you have examples of actual policies that Democratic politicians vote for, or don't vote for, that are ostracizing men?

Do I see plenty of liberal activists doing what I think is performative and ridiculous bullshit practically designed - maybe even literally crafted and designed to do exactly that- to peel men away from the Democratic Party?

Oh hell yes I do.

A nearly textbook case of this I could point to is what BoingBoing's comment section turned into. I honestly don't know if it was a psyop or just a case of people being really really stupid. Anyway, right after they achieved peak liberal (oh, excuse me, I called them "liberal" which they find deeply offensive, LOL, and insist on being called "leftists", by Athena, and don't you ever forget it, you shitlibs!) caricature and maintained that for a few years, it was taken behind a paywall.

Just in time for PEDOnald's second term, by the way. Very interesting.

But do I think these overly vocal and terminally online are really the Democratic Party, most importantly, the Democratic candidates actually running for office or in office?

Not even close. But I know that Faux "News" loves to go nutpicking and find quotes from the fringiest of the fringe and declare that there is a war on men or whatever.

100%. I think it's quite reasonable to have boundaries in school libraries. I bet nearly everyone would agree with that, except for the online free speech maximalists who probably don't really take that position IRL anyway...

Where that line is will obviously be something that people differ on. To be fair, I'm not all that familiar with the line of books you are talking about, but if they are as you describe, I doubt too many are going to back them, at least at the lower grades.

If you put the Southern notion of "liberty" at the center of your universe, it drives one crazy.

And you can see how Alito absolutely despises the Northern version of liberty. Absolutely hates it. Guy would have thrived as a witch finder general in the Middle Ages.

I don't know why he is resigning?!

Didn't PEDOnald give Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

Oh, LOL, it is Fetterman. So easy to predict.

Isn't it interesting that someone gets brain damage and turns conservative?

For all my life the conservatives have bleated that "liberalism is a mental disorder". Hm.