Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

I'm clearly not spending enough time with green engineering pads.

When a dog's nails are done, is that a pedi-pedi or a quadrupedicure?

A moment of Zen.

amazon.com is a great site for tsundoku puzzles.

Apple Mighty Mouse scroll wheel suddenly stopped working? The fix is trivial:

https://macintoshhowto.com/hardware/how-to-fix-the-scroll-wheel-on-your-apple-mighty-mouse.html

@SecondJon I agree on policy being the important thing. It is the GOP's policies to which the left objects.

That said, Trump's activities are an unusual threat to civil democracy. See the 4th toot in this thread:

https://qoto.org/@peterdrake/100710118962588226

@SecondJon Huh. I'm not seeing that.

Trump called literal swastika-waving Nazis, who had just murdered someone, "very fine people". He applauded a candidate who physically assaulted a journalist. During the campaign, he suggested that "Second Amendment people" might do something about Clinton if she won.

He'll back down after a few days of uproar, having winked at his base and garnered attention, but he certainly doesn't start by distancing himself from violence.

On the other side, Pelosi has condemned Antifa (who haven't actually killed anyone).

In the Democratic platform: "While freedom of expression is a fundamental constitutional principle, we must condemn hate speech that creates a fertile climate for violence."

I find it interesting that you distance yourself from Trump's "comedy routine". The GOP seems uncomfortable with Trump, but they fall in line with him every single time it comes down to a vote.

I agree that all calls for political violence are inappropriate and fantastically dangerous. I don't agree that the problem is solely or even predominantly on the left.

@SecondJon Interesting. My sense is just the opposite: that GOP leaders (especially Trump himself) are much more likely to call for violence. Gianforte upped the ante by performing the violence himself (earning applause from Trump).

Certainly right-wingers are actually murdering far more people than left-wingers:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2017/08/21/which-ideology-has-inspired-the-most-murders-in-terrorist-attacks-on-u-s-soil/#6b5ab72f1e74

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/12/study-shows-two-thirds-us-terrorism-tied-right-wing-extremists

Trump is, to put it lightly, not making this issue a priority:

https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-08-14/three-ways-trump-administration-has-downplayed-white-supremacy

Bridge components going up!

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RT @EmilyGorcenski@twitter.com
As the US wakes up to news that the homes/offices of two former presidents have had bombs sent to them, let’s take have a refresher on who is actually committing domestic terror:
https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/1055095497097142273

@SecondJon You seem to be arguing that the left is more violent than the right. Let me offer a counterpoint:

https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/1055095497097142273

It bodes ill that this is Amazon's #6 best seller in C# programming:

https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-House-Night-Oracle-Cards/dp/0770433448/

The briefing voice in @EpicGames@twitter.com Robo Recall sounds a bit like @DarcyCarden@twitter.com, but @IMDb@twitter.com doesn't give full voice credits.