Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Blinken and China's top diplomat spar over spy balloon incident in Munich meeting - POLITICO https://apple.news/Aq2TuXwZ4RSKJ4UM9oHJMmw

@ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs I think this insight is simply helpful. It puts "conversation" with the right wing into its proper context: You are not going to convince anyone. If you engage in converstation, it can not ever be about that. If you want to engage in conversation, you have to be ready and willing to play their game.
And their game is not a "game of truth" or a game of "well reasoned argument". You can only do that with two well meaning partners in a conversation. As you have discovered: They are not that. And a conversation is not what you are having.
If you want to play with them, then you have just agreed to have a game of rhetorics, sophistry, and performative discussion, with a clear aim and agenda behind it. This is the game the other side is playing. You can only either play this game, or not. You can not force them to play your preferred game.
That's the lesson I would take from this.

Happy 5th (!!), Hamilton! 🥳🦴

#Hammy #DogsOfMastodon

7pm: think I'll do some reading then turn in early
2am: (drunk eating bbq chicken pizza) let's go to the fucken zoo. what time is it

Just act natural… 🥷

#catstodon #catsofmastodon #blackcat #spooky

#EEBYDEEBY

Teresita Gómez learned piano in secret at the exclusive fine arts school where her parents worked. She's now a celebrated classical pianist and a longtime promoter of music by Colombian composers. https://t.co/dYVOAHub3B

@DrJackBrown
Speaking of which, I'm getting a lot tired of those demanding we exchange land for peace. The world already tried that tactic with Crimea, remember? The result was not more peace, but more invasions because that's what always happens when you try to trade land for peace with a fascist regime.

Crimea is Ukraine.

@JoshuaHolland
Christofascists or American Taliban, whatever you call them their agenda is clear.
They want to set the standards for all Americans. That's not freedom nor is it democratic.
They've proven they don't listen to the American people by opposing abortion and elections.

Right-wingers are so hostile toward free speech. It's amazing that anyone ever believed their bullshit about championing it.

"Republicans take aim at risque jokes and romance novels with anti-sex bills"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/17/republican-anti-sex-legislation-state-level

#fascism #freespeech

Teachers.
The most undervalued profession in America.

every shift i choose one random order and make them 6 or 7 dumplings instead of 5. its the little things that make someones day

4am home intruder #NotMyCat

🎶Oompa Loompa doompity ditter…🎶
🎶Why are you still fucking posting on twitter?🎶

As President Jimmy Carter prepares to move into the next plane of existence, it’s important to remember how President Reagan struck a secret deal with Iran to hold the U.S. embassy hostages until after the election.

I hope everyone is having a peaceful #caturday.

@KinoGhoul I will never buy a book, or see a film based upon her work.

I never got into Harry Potter, and have no regrets about it.

Her statements are words of violence toward transgender individuals, and I’ll always see that as unacceptable.

@ChattJazz Russia shall forever be known and associated as willing baby rapists and child traffickers. Let them burn.