Fuck Today, Continued

Not sure why the WaPo published this garbage. Thiessen has always been a complete shit, going back to his days as a supporter of GWB’s torture program.

Critical theory thus helped spawn totalitarian ideologies in the 20th century such as Marxism and Nazism, which taught that all human relationships are relationships of power between an oppressor class and an oppressed class. For the Marxists, the bourgeoisie were the oppressors. For the Nazis, the Jews were the oppressors. And today, in 21st century America, critical race theory teaches that Whites are the oppressors.

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Because we have to hear both sides of the argument… the factual side and the racist side! /s

episode 8 bullshit GIF by RuPaul's Drag Race

Whoever wrote this doesn’t understand shit.

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Yes, and to be clear for others you were quoting me quoting the article. Lol

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Yes! I’m aware, but it’s always good to have clarity…

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Which Horseman of the Apocalypse has the scorpions? Pestilence, maybe?

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I’m glad they were caught. That they were so violent and predatory at such a young age is chilling.

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I’m wondering if the connection to toxic masculinity is strong enough to post this in the misogyny thread…

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Sitting in the terminal waiting for my return flight and looking at a guy in the next gate over. He’s about 6’5”, maskless, and wearing a shirt that reads “Lions, Not Sheep,” which seems to be a clothing brand. His two companions are maskless as well. Not sure why airport security hasn’t done anything. That should be an interesting flight.

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Come On Reaction GIF

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They’re even not in the same ecosystems.

Still - he may be right. “ Female lions are the pride’s primary hunters and leaders.”

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Was going to point this out. Male lions,while larger, don’t cooperate hunt the way a female pride will do therefore are much less efficient. Their strength is a one on one fight so they kill each other a lot. They are driven out of the pride when they become old enough to be untrustworthy, adolescence I think, and are not tolerated near the pride unless the lionesses are in heat. They follow round and scavenge carrion left behind by the pride.

Male lions are a really shitty male role model.

Thinking about it rams are probably more up their street, but let’s not go there.

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Aesop disagrees, eg this lovely retelling by Phaedrus:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0119%3Abook%3D1%3Apoem%3D5

Thus rank unrighteousness and force
Seized all the prey without remorse.

(Really, all the traditional stories about a lion’s strength relative to, say, sheep, are not sympathetic to the lion.)

And then there’s this guy:

The catch is that, when a lion eats the sheep, it gets changed over into a sheep itself and afterward can thus be eaten by different lions.

Huh?

I would say, though, that anyone wearing such a shirt adds “jackass” to the ecosystem.

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Waiting to find out how it goes.

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pride cometh before the fall. hmmm. :thinking:

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Shelling out 50 bucks for a shirt that contains a slogan that one learned from a Facebook algorithm is total lion behavior.

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I think he retired, to be replaced by Pollution. Which means he missed out on Covid-19, which seems to be a bit unfair. I posted the NPR version of this over in Climate Change, but there are many places a good biblical apocalypse can go nowadays.

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Not to mention baby killers…when a lion becomes the the dominant male, they kill off the cubs of the former king.

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