I'm a HUGE fan of high-speed rail.

Druvius comments on Jan 5, 2023:

Watching politicians destroy California's high speed rail for local political points was in a nutshell what's wrong with America.

Do you think there might be a viable future in the nuclear power industry?

Druvius comments on Jan 3, 2023:

Nuclear power is vastly better than burning fossil fuels to generate power. So I sure hope it has a future.

Now that's something you don't see every day...?

Druvius comments on Jan 2, 2023:

I raise you alligator farm, 1907-1953. :)

Self Cemetary.. wonder how that works?!?! Lol

Druvius comments on Jan 2, 2023:

"I grew ill, I died, I buried myself" ---Stephen Leacock ;)

Good that these two strengthen ties. Humanity may win yet. [msn.com]

Druvius comments on Jan 1, 2023:

Yes, Taiwan and China will reunite someday. The more peaceful the better.

Time to delete your Facebook. [idcommunism.com]

Druvius comments on Dec 28, 2022:

The Facebook algorithm deletes any post with even a passing reference to Nazis, I've had a few innocuous such posts of my own deleted.

Whoopi Goldberg Reiterates False Claim That Holocaust Wasn't Racist

Druvius comments on Dec 27, 2022:

I'm old, I remember when you could say things like "The world is round" or "Nazis are bad" and no one would disagree.

Zelenskyy: Ukraine War Would Stop If Russia's Vladimir Putin Should Suddenly Die

Druvius comments on Dec 25, 2022:

LOL. Granted one hears a lot of idiotic crap from thoroughly propagandized Americans, but that one takes the cake.

Ukraine: Endgame

Druvius comments on Dec 25, 2022:

One never really knows, but Russia has four times the population of Ukraine, and the GNP disparity is vastly greater. Hard to imagine Ukraine will do well in any war of attrition.

The FBI seeks to manipulate public opinion via social media. Is this their role?

Druvius comments on Dec 25, 2022:

The FBI has been a thoroughly politicized arm of the swamp all my life, nothing new.

We have one of these fake musicians in front of our local WFoods store.

Druvius comments on Dec 25, 2022:

Punching down, stock in trade for modern "conservatives."

So much for global warming……

Druvius comments on Dec 24, 2022:

"So much for global warming" Another hysterical self-own by Jester, never met someone so proud to wave their ignorance around.

The McProxy War Continues: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Druvius comments on Dec 23, 2022:

Propaganda so thick you can cut it with a knife.

THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE [en.

Druvius comments on Dec 22, 2022:

The offensive could not possibly have succeeded since part of the plan was "capture enough fuel to continue the attack." And no, I don't believe they did.

Driving is a right a car is property , there's no reason for a license or registration nor taxes.

Druvius comments on Dec 22, 2022:

The Supreme Court settled this very issue some years back. No, driving a car isn't a right. No need to vote, you're simply wrong.

[washingtonpost.

Druvius comments on Dec 21, 2022:

Wow, he regarded the Sentinelese as "Satan's last stronghold on Earth." Not only misguided, but one sick f**k.

[washingtonpost.

Druvius comments on Dec 21, 2022:

Hope he got a Darwin Award, he earned it.

Schools lose fight for anonymity after censored tours at human rights museum

Druvius comments on Dec 20, 2022:

Snowflake Evangelicals are soooo tiresome. It's not that hard, teach your freaking kids to avert their eyes if there's something you don't want them to see.

Jan. 6 Committee Updates: Panel Votes For Criminal Referrals for Trump

Druvius comments on Dec 19, 2022:

If. IDK, I think Trump's star is sinking so in many ways it doesn't matter. He's a second rate grifter who only got where he is because of three lucky breaks in his life. A fourth break seems unlikely.

Pentagon says no aliens on Earth

Druvius comments on Dec 18, 2022:

At this point the evidence for aliens is the same as the evidence for ghosts or angels. Contemporary folklore/myth.

Ohio teacher told principal using students' preferred pronouns violated her religion.

Druvius comments on Dec 17, 2022:

If your job is not compatible with your faith, choose another job. "This job won't allow me to be an ignorant hateful bigot" isn't a violation of your religious freedom. You're perfectly free to find a job that doesn't care if you're a hateful bigot.

Would you trust a Tesla? Don't think I would.

Druvius comments on Dec 17, 2022:

A friend has a car capable of auto driving, fun, but the technology isn't there yet. She only uses it in crash avoidance mode, where it's useful.

Great, Japan seems to have abandoned its pacifist defense policy introduced after WW II.

Druvius comments on Dec 17, 2022:

Hopefully you're being facetious, militarism is the problem, not the solution.

Jan.

Druvius comments on Dec 16, 2022:

Maybe. I suspect in a functioning republic he long ago would have been tried/jailed. The US is far from a healthy republic though. Even if he is tried and jailed suspect that would just more polarize the nation. What a mess.

You can't help but feel sorry for the people that live there and have to put up with the radical ...

Druvius comments on Dec 15, 2022:

Yet no Americans felt sorry for them under 25 years of an American imposed dictatorship.

This from 1994 [facebook.com]

Druvius comments on Dec 15, 2022:

Spare me. Perpetual motion machines are nonsense.

Message From the Future: Your Acceptance of Evil Has Condemned Us All - Chris Floyd - Empire ...

Druvius comments on Dec 14, 2022:

There was a glimmer of understanding and hope during Vietnam, but corporate acquisition of mainstream media in the eighties shut it down. The empire is finally reaching its end, at least in this iteration. What the future holds is anyone's guess, but a sea change is afoot.

The greatest leap forward in energy production in our lifetimes: [newyorker.com]

Druvius comments on Dec 13, 2022:

The cost to use energy exceeded the cost of energy in the 50s, so more energy isn't solving any problems.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Could’ve Led a Better Armed Insurrection on Jan. 6

Druvius comments on Dec 12, 2022:

"ill advised and legally precarious" is right. Still, got to give her her props, the Jan 6 insurrection made the Beer Hall Putsch look good. It was an amateurish badly planned coup attempt. Saying it could have been better planned and executed isn't wrong.

Kanye West, Trump, Antisemitism May Pull Christian Nationalists Apart

Druvius comments on Dec 12, 2022:

So nice seeing the right form up circular firing squads.

Watchdog Group Names Kanye "Antisemite Of The Year"

Druvius comments on Dec 11, 2022:

Is there an idiot of the year award too? I looked up how Hitler treated blacks. They were third class citizens relegated to only the most menial jobs. Subject to disappearance at the slightest perceived transgression. Black POWS, when not simply summarily executed, were worked to death as slave labor.

Restaurant Denies Christian Group Service Over its ProLife and LGBTQ Stances

Druvius comments on Dec 8, 2022:

It's legal in all cases, businesses do not have to provide service to people they don't like. They just can't discriminate because of things like race, religion, etc.

"No Question of Russian Involvement" in "Alleged" German Coup | The Independent

Druvius comments on Dec 8, 2022:

Yes, the Kremlin denied involvement. One plotter (a Russian national) reached out to his embassy for help. That is the entirety of the evidence of "Russian involvement" in this coup, which by every other indication was modeled on Right Wing nonsense like the Sovereign Citizen movement and QAnon.

WTF.

Druvius comments on Dec 8, 2022:

Anti fascism in one guise or another has been around since the 1930s, so that's a fail. ISIS was founded in 1999. BLM did start under Obama, but BLM is a good thing. And the War on Cops is as real as The War on Christmas: It doesn't exist. Typical hater BS.

Americans Dumbed Down on Russia - Antiwar.com Original

Druvius comments on Dec 7, 2022:

Russiagate was as dumb a conspiracy theory as Stop the Steal, but thoroughly propagandized Dems don't get that. and thus they are supporting the most dangerous proxy war the US has engaged in since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Scary times indeed.

Construction starts in Australia on the world's largest radio telescope [engadget.com]

Druvius comments on Dec 6, 2022:

We live in a Golden Age of space exploration.

US Supreme Court weighs clash between free speech and gay rights [bbc.com]

Druvius comments on Dec 6, 2022:

Except there are no free speech issues here.

Ukrainian drones strike two different Russian air bases deep inside Russia. [bbc.com]

Druvius comments on Dec 5, 2022:

We are witnessing the next generation of warfare.

When does life begin?

Druvius comments on Dec 3, 2022:

The ancients had it right. When one draws their first breath.

Savannah teenager shot while volunteering for Warnock campaign

Druvius comments on Dec 3, 2022:

The far right has certainly engaged in incitement to violence.

A bit different.

Druvius comments on Dec 1, 2022:

If you have objections to doing your job, change careers.

Why I dislike NATO.

Druvius comments on Dec 1, 2022:

NATO should have been dissolved in 1989. Instead it's now a pork barrel institution for the arms industry and a partner in US global aggression. Fail.

Senate passes bill protecting same-sex marriages [washingtonpost.com]

Druvius comments on Nov 30, 2022:

It's a mixed blessing. :/

Bwaaaaahahahahaha.

Druvius comments on Nov 30, 2022:

The wonderful thing about racists is they always self-own! Only someone steeped in racism could come up with stupid sheet like this.

Twitter stops enforcing its COVID misinformation policy

Druvius comments on Nov 30, 2022:

Innocent people will die, but hey, profit! Merika!

I never thought of it like this:

Druvius comments on Nov 30, 2022:

Yes, to repel predators. If you're repelled, it's working.

There are several reasons i might go into the bathroom, Checking out someones junk is not one of ...

Druvius comments on Nov 27, 2022:

Exactly, who goes into a bathroom and wonders about the genitals of people in the stalls? Perverts is the only answer I can come up with.

What if we are wrong?

Druvius comments on Nov 27, 2022:

Pascal's wager is as logically bankrupt today as it was in the 1600s.

Britain says Russia likely removing nuclear warheads from missiles and firing at Ukraine

Druvius comments on Nov 26, 2022:

LOL, Britain invented modern war propaganda, literally nothing they say can be believed.

Bolsonaro Contests Brazil Election Wants Vote Voided| AP

Druvius comments on Nov 23, 2022:

Trump normalized this, possibly his greatest crime.

Remember all those African nations praising China and condemning imperialism?

Druvius comments on Nov 23, 2022:

Western propaganda for the most part, only the west is supposed to exploit the third world! https://uscnpm.org/2022/04/04/was-the-ugandan-airport-loan-a-debt-trap/

Don't be so quick to dismiss lab-grown meat The FDA's approval of cell-cultured meat is the perfect...

Druvius comments on Nov 22, 2022:

It certainly has potential at this point, but it's an emerging technology.

Russians are indiscriminately bombing civilians as we speak. 😡

Druvius comments on Nov 21, 2022:

There's no evidence Russia is deliberately targeting civilians, that would be a mind numbingly stupid thing to do. The war continues because the US and NATO want it to continue, they don't care how many people are dying.

Alabama residents are flipping out over a Krampus-friendly 'Festival of Yule'

Druvius comments on Nov 21, 2022:

So tired of humorless evangelicals.

I rescue adopted an adult female cat two weeks ago.

Druvius comments on Nov 20, 2022:

Approach her on your belly, eyes half closed, not looking at her.

Ewww, Gross!

Druvius comments on Nov 19, 2022:

There is no big deal unless you have made your religion's arbitrary gender definitions part of your identity. But that's your problem, not society's.

Did anyone else grow up believing that they would go to jail if they cut the label off their ...

Druvius comments on Nov 19, 2022:

It was kinda a background meme/joke back in the day before memes existed.

Elon Musk is horrible for what he is doing at Twitter AND Biden’s economy is doing so well!!! ...

Druvius comments on Nov 16, 2022:

Only a true clown could celebrate failure, CJ never never fails to live up to their name.

A NATO country has been attacked by a non-NATO member.

Druvius comments on Nov 16, 2022:

It's pretty well established that it was a Ukrainian missile: https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2022/11/16/zelensky-recklessness-on-display-in-errant-ukraine-strike-in-poland/

A NATO country has been attacked by a non-NATO member.

Druvius comments on Nov 16, 2022:

More reason to try and end this war, but NATO doesn't want peace. Where's the profit in that?

[huffpost.com] Russian missiles cross over Polish border, kill 2.

Druvius comments on Nov 16, 2022:

Another reason why the US and its Allies should try to negotiate an end to the war ASAP.

[nbcnews.

Druvius comments on Nov 15, 2022:

He's either wildly optimistic about how long it takes to treat severe burns, or his burns aren't too bad. I hope it's the latter.

Exclusive: At least $1 billion of client funds missing at failed crypto firm FTX | Reuters

Druvius comments on Nov 14, 2022:

Cryptocurrencies are just a variation on pyramid schemes.

No 'new Cold War' with China, Biden tells G20 after meeting with Xi [france24.com]

Druvius comments on Nov 14, 2022:

Actions speak louder than words, and the US is absolutely going balls-to-the-walls to confront them militarily in regions of essentially zero strategic interest to the US. So Biden can say the most bald faced lies with presidential aplomb. Obama was also so gifted. The Chinese will not be fooled, and time is on their side. Also a wonderful example of how everything the POTUS says is directed at American audiences.

Do artificial sweeteners cause cancer? A new decade-long study suggests they might [euronews.com]

Druvius comments on Nov 13, 2022:

This immediately strikes me as a very poorly conducted study with numerous confounding factors that would be impossible to filter out. If artificial sweeteners caused cancer in any meaningful way, epidemiological evidence would long ago have emerged,.

I honestly thought this was another Babylon Bee post of sarcasm.

Druvius comments on Nov 13, 2022:

You have a problem with reducing racism? Guess what that makes you, LOL. Another idiotic self-own by our resident Captain Clown.

A failed GOP 'victory party' in Arizona reveals another reason why there was no 'red wave'

Druvius comments on Nov 12, 2022:

Yes, the GOP has doubled down on a very narrow ideological platform that is simply toxic to the majority of Americans. They may have finally dragged the goalposts too far to the right.

Veterans Day's Other Name

Druvius comments on Nov 11, 2022:

The fetishization of the US military in service of imperialism?

Leonard Pitts Jr.: The infuriating charge of 'racism against white people'

Druvius comments on Nov 10, 2022:

that more than half of white people think whites are a discriminated against minority know shows just how clueless more than half of white people are about the discrimination blacks endure daily.

Ex-GOP Strategist Suggests Trump Has No Chance of Winning in 2024

Druvius comments on Nov 9, 2022:

I'm feeling a lot more reassured. By the old rules the Dems should have been clobbered. The GOP under Trump though has both narrowed its base and alienated an ever increasing number of Americans. A lot can happen in the next two years, but for now I'm breathing easier.

Soooo, the Red Wave is more like a Bloodbath?

Druvius comments on Nov 9, 2022:

Interesting. Not the first time the GOP badly underestimated the broadness of the opposition to its white tribal evangelism. Expect a wave of baseless stolen election claims.

Watching the news to see if republicans won or if it was all rigged...

Druvius comments on Nov 8, 2022:

The only thing that is rigged is the media narrative on both sides.

Christchurch mass killer appeals against conviction and sentence

Druvius comments on Nov 8, 2022:

I'm not in favor of the death penalty unless the crime is monstrous and the guilt unassailable. This qualifies, he should have been put down long ago.

Proof positive that the color of your skin makes a big difference to some Americans. [msnbc.com]

Druvius comments on Nov 7, 2022:

Damn frostbacks, something needs to be done!

Hospice nurse charged for allegedly cutting off man’s foot without permission – 102.3 KRMG

Druvius comments on Nov 7, 2022:

Def weird. The foot was necrotic and dead, but still. Esp this: "Once the foot was removed, Brown instructed staff to place it in a freezer to preserve it. Multiple witnesses said that Brown intended to taxidermy and bronze the foot “as a reminder to wear your boots,” which one nurse described as “weird.” One nurse said that they needed to report the incident to the facility’s administrators and to the police."

Delightful wedding present!

Druvius comments on Nov 7, 2022:

And Freyja rules over the coolest afterlife: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%B3lkvangr

Back in 2019 I posted some negative Elon Muskisms and I got so much bad feedback my post was ...

Druvius comments on Nov 7, 2022:

Yes, "combination of a 16 year old edgelord and an 18th century coal baron." A real privileged piece of work.

Air Force Academy accused of promoting Christianity with out-of-order numbers

Druvius comments on Nov 7, 2022:

Since no one but someone who was already very familiar with Christianity would notice it, meh.

9/11 and the Scientific Method | Part 1: Motion | Jonathan Cole, PE - YouTube

Druvius comments on Nov 5, 2022:

TLDR, what is your point?

Not seeing a lot of coverage about this.

Druvius comments on Nov 5, 2022:

The FBI started manufacturing fake terrorists right after 9/11, not limited to Trump.

I never got why people said this is my half brother.

Druvius comments on Nov 4, 2022:

Family and kin are two different things.

U.S. to Send Nuke-Ready B-52 Bombers to Australia as China Tensions Build

Druvius comments on Nov 3, 2022:

Vietnam again. Let's risk nuclear war over something that is essentially meaningless to US interests.

This is how deep Trumptyhumpty's corrupt cronies went in government departments.. [cnn.com]

Druvius comments on Nov 2, 2022:

I'm sorry, I loathe Trump and think he's done incalculable harm to the US ... but this is a nothingburger.

White House deletes Twitter post.

Druvius comments on Nov 2, 2022:

Biden has indeed come up with some whoppers lately. Not quite sure what that's about. Emulating the MAGA "If Trump says it it's true?" Incompetance on the part of his staff? Weird times.

Sic'em Popey...

Druvius comments on Nov 2, 2022:

Until the Pope and church unreservedly cooperates with investigations into crimes committed by its clergy, it's just another criminal gang. Worse even than gangs like the mafia and Hell's Angels, who at least don't pretend to be anything other than what they are.

SCOTUS Might Leave Innocent Man in Prison Because of Rules - YouTube

Druvius comments on Nov 2, 2022:

The American "justice" system has ALWAYS worked this way, nothing new here.

Don't want Russian forces in Ukraine?

Druvius comments on Nov 2, 2022:

Exactly, the US invades and occupies other nations at will, usually with vastly less justification than Putin's invasion of Ukraine. The hypocrisy from Americans supporting Biden's Ukraine crusade as being some sort of defense of the international rules of order is thick enough to cut with a knife.

Paul Pelosi, Nancy's Husband 'Violently' Attacked With Hammer in Targeted SF Break-In, Suspect in ...

Druvius comments on Oct 28, 2022:

There are way too many "leaders" on the right openly calling for political violence these days. I can't imagine it ending well.

I want to pinpoint the exact time that the Discovery Channel turned to shit.

Druvius comments on Oct 27, 2022:

It was around the turn of the century I think. Originally the history channel was neat, lots of documentaries and old newsreels etc. Then turned to a sheetshow.

Christian 'prophets' claim Jesus was wealthy: 'He had five houses!'

Druvius comments on Oct 26, 2022:

Contemporary evangelicals are proof that Satan does his finest work in the name of Our Lord.

2 intensifying border wars show Putin is losing sway in his neighborhood while Russia struggles in ...

Druvius comments on Oct 26, 2022:

And in 1967 the media confidently declared we'd won the Vietnam War. Nothing has changed.

Adidas Ends Partnership With Kanye Over Antisemitic Remarks | News | phillytrib.com

Druvius comments on Oct 25, 2022:

Only recently became aware of Kanye. Hate filled idiot, what the hell is he so famous for?

[cnn.com] Kudos to this courageous woman. As for the armed cowards, why aren't they being arrested?

Druvius comments on Oct 25, 2022:

I knew we were doomed when the GOP normalized bringing guns to protests.

Christianity Today admits: 'Public schools aren’t godless'

Druvius comments on Oct 24, 2022:

It's always infuriating when religious extremists claim God and prayer are banned in public schools. In the first case, a supposedly all powerful being isn't subject to US law, right? Secondly organized religious services were banned, not prayer. In fact the Supreme Court ruling banning such services EXPLICITLY said prayer was not banned in public schools.

The Wolfowitz Doctrine Led to the Disastrous War in Iraq: Now it is Leading to a Potentially Even ...

Druvius comments on Oct 23, 2022:

These people think they rule the world. They are mistaken.

Has anyone talked to someone who was dead for a few minutes and when they came back had anything to ...

Druvius comments on Oct 22, 2022:

Knew someone who died on the table and watched them doing the last rites over her body from the ceiling.

[wapo.st] I wonder how many other states are going to be messed up by repubs?

Druvius comments on Oct 22, 2022:

It's a strange state of affairs, we are talking a really extreme blend of theology and politics. There aren't a huge number of historical antecedents, and they generally have ended badly. Especially in a developed country.

In A Damning Blow To Justice Clarence Thomas And His Wife, Congress Advanced A Bill That Challenges ...

Druvius comments on Oct 22, 2022:

Too little too late. Nice try though.

How can you possibly suspend disbelief on this:

Druvius comments on Oct 22, 2022:

Stupid straw man argument, a hallmark of the right.

Technically is it correct to classify Putin as a mass-murderer?

Druvius comments on Oct 21, 2022:

How about classifying him as the leader of Russia? Americans in particular can't complain about foreign leaders considering the carnage the US has waged around the world for the better part of a century.