Pynchon from Gravity's Rainbow:

"Don't forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as a spectacle, as a diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world. Best of all, mass death's a stimulus to just ordinary folks, little fellows, to try 'n' grab a piece of that Pie while they're still here to gobble it up. The true war is a celebration of markets. Organic markets, carefully styled "black" by the professionals, spring up everywhere. Scrip, Sterling, Reichsmarks, continue to move, severe as classical ballet, inside their antiseptic marble chambers. But out here, down here among the people, the truer currencies come into being. So, Jews are negotiable. Every bit as negotiable as cigarettes, cunt, or Hersey bars."

.... wasting taxpayer dollars on the poors is over. It needed fixing.

However, recognize that grief may result. It's a loss of the fantasy of people who love you. That hurts.

Roberts is a white male. Barrett is just a woman.

That sounds exhausting

Paradox of tolerance

He's plenty smart in terms of verbal fluency and debate. However he lacks introspective capacity or moral center or empathy, without which he is simply an ambitiously sharp tool being wielded by others (like Thiel)

Just about any medical procedure will sometimes produce regrets in some portion of the population of people who undergo it, for instance vaccinations, amniocentesis, etc. It's not reasonable to suggest that because this is true that no one should have access to the treatments.

Running arch for years now. If you keep it up to date and don't lean on the aur too much its very stable.

What contact in your personal or professional life have you had with trans folk? Are you speaking with experience of appreciating their pain or are you just speaking based on what you've heard?

Rupert Murdock is Australian and owns all the worldwide right wing news rags. Saying Fuck Murdock to the Australian pm seems like speaking a raw opinion to power with no fucks to give

Its not just money and power he wants. Read May Trump's book and you'll learn his father was a psychopath who verbally berated his older brother Fred (Mary's father) so much so that Fred found comfort in alcohol and died young. Young Donald learned to identify with the aggressor in order to win his father's regard. To my mind, Putin reminds Trump of his father and he wants to please his father.

Elros and Elrond had a choice as to become Eldar or Edain. Elrond chose Eldar, while Elros chose Edain. Once they chose their mixed nature was resolved.

Pretty horrifying if you let yourself think of it.

"But of those hapless who were snared by Melkor little is known of a certainty. [...] Yet this is held true by the wise of Eressëa: that all those of the Quendi that came into the hands of Melkor, ere Utumno was broken, were put there in prison, and by slow arts of cruelty and wickedness were corrupted and enslaved. Thus did Melkor breed the hideous race of the Orkor in envy and mockery of the Eldar, of whom they were afterwards the bitterest foes. For the Orkor had life and multiplied after the manner of the Children of Ilúvatar; and naught that had life of its own, nor the semblance thereof, could ever Melkor make since his rebellion in the Ainulindalë before the Beginning: so say the wise. And deep in their dark hearts the Orkor loathed the Master whom they served in fear, the maker only of their misery. This maybe was the vilest deed of Melkor and the most hateful to Eru"

How can I explain color to a blind man? You're either attuned to the suffering around you or you're contributing to it. Apparently you can't see that. You must be blind.

Thank you. Californian over here. I am disgusted with what our government and the magtards that voted them in are doing. Do what you need to do to defend yourselves but please keep in mind Americans are not all awful.

When breaking things down causes more overwhelm than it solves, have you found any strategy that does help?

More like Tolkien's orcs