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It is almost like there is a conspiracy

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 1, 2021:

Well duh, of course there is, but the corporate media will never mention it or allow it to be brought up.

Here is the real reason they are afraid of critical race theory

TomMcGiverin comments on Oct 1, 2021:

I think you are being overly charitable towards them regarding their ability to feel shame. I doubt most of them have changed any since 1957 and they are still proud of their racism, so I don't think a lot of them would feel ashamed if the truth about their past racism was taught. The only thing they feel upset about with critical race theory would the idea that a bunch of elitist Yankees were able to get it placed in their schools. It's the outside interference they resent.

This seems to be my life story

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 30, 2021:

That's me, for my whole life in the dating game, continuing to search for that next single woman that wants to try being weird together with me. We are rare birds in this Iowa culture of conformity and traditional values, where eccentricity and non-conformity are judged and punished so harshly. It's very hard to find people, even on a site like Match, that are willing to risk being open and honest about their being offbeat, as they know it will usually doom them to being alone for the duration.

NY Gov.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 30, 2021:

It is embarrassing, sad, and pathetic that this is necessary, but we do need our leaders who are sane to somehow get more of the deluded to vax, otherwise we will never get past Covid... So I am ok with her doing what it takes, as long as she doesn't go further and indulge their wish for theocracy. If it didn't harm us, I would be fine with letting the fools die.

Hello everyone! New to this app and thought I'd try to meet more people like me! What's going ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 29, 2021:

Rotsa ruck, pal. Looks like you live in a black hole, as do I, as far as there being any active, compatible women from this site living in your local area. Either need to try dating LD with someone from Agnostic, or join a real dating site like Match, etc..

Good Bye and Good Riddance: So if you’re angry, guess what?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 28, 2021:

I drove a school bus for several years before I retired. One guy quit last year because he is a right winger who didn't want to mask up for the job, but it really didn't cost him much because for him it was a second job after his upholstery shop. So he has been sticking with that and I'm sure it's kept him plenty busy. He said some other drivers also quit, and the bus driving was their only job, but I don't feel bad for them. They were right wing, Christan idiots, for the most part, my co-workers were, so I don't miss them at all either.

What will you do Lover Boy?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 28, 2021:

Fortunately, I'm retired and therefore, won't be driving for Uber. Decade or two ago, I was looking into the idea of driving a cab for a living, but quickly lost interest when I learned how shitty the hours were for most cabbies and how little money they earned. And this was before Uber and Lyft came along, when all you had were traditional cab companies. As for the revelation of a girlfriend possibly cheating on me, I would rather know sooner than later, so I can get out before I'm too attached.

Corporate whining

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 28, 2021:

Theyve always been lying and they know it. The difference now is that unions are decimated and the corporate media all cheerleads and supports their lying. There are no voices in the mass media, except the net, that ever counter their lies, so most Americans believe them.

wire hanger time

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 28, 2021:

The best one is the one about individual freedoms no longer being the definition of asshole...

Arizona Republican ‘audit’ finds even bigger lead for Biden in 2020 election | Arizona | The ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 28, 2021:

Take that, suckas......

Bringing Integrity To Christian Homemakers (BITCH) Betty Bowers. Satire. [youtu.be]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 28, 2021:

It takes so little effort or imaginations to parody these bitches and pricks. I hate them all and they really are this monstrous, the few times I have seen them on camera in private functions.

To use the bible as a Christian's worst enemy.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 27, 2021:

If only most conservative Christians had this guy's humility and intellectual honesty, but wait, if they did, then they probably wouldn't be fundies....

My neighbor died recently.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 26, 2021:

Personal responsibility vs. bad luck or just fate can sometimes be a tricky thing to determine. For the benefit of the group, I wanted to make a couple points on it, that show that I don't have a hard and fast position on any areas of life being always due to just one, personal responsibility, or the other, fate, combinations of factors, etc. Human behavior, which is almost always involved, and life circumstances, are both just too damn complex to classify or label absolutely. For example, I have known too many people that took good care of their health, but they inherited bad genes, and were thus sicker than most folks, and also died earlier. Same with some people who inherited good to fair genes, but worked most of their lives in unhealthy jobs or workplaces, and got sick from that, no matter how well they tried to take care of their health, not smoking or drinking excessively. Even living in poverty can and will usually affect your health by what foods you can afford to buy. Or how polluted the area you can afford to live in is. I have also known some people who were good at their jobs, worked hard, but got forced out of a good paying, good benefitted job late in their career, and got screwed out of their retirement, due to either the employer's greed and not wanting to pay their retirement pensions, etc., or due to terrible office politics in which they were victimized or scapegoated. It happens way more than most people realize or want to admit, even in government jobs. Some people grow up with lots of opportunities and advantages, but blow them and end up working in poor jobs and living in or near poverty, sometimes due to addictions, and others grow up with no advantages, in poverty, etc. and they somehow manage to claw their way up into getting degrees and a middle class or even greater lifestyle. But they tend to be really rare, in my experience and observation. In America, most people end up in about the same class level and education level as the family they started in, and, if anything, in the last few generations, most people move downward class and standard of living-wise. And I really doubt you can attribute that to a widespread lack of effort or personal responsibility. More likely it's because college education has been priced out of their range, good jobs have disappeared rapidly, and the economy is rigged so that more and more of the profits from work have gone upward to the top1%, rather than remaining with the peasants and workers who actually produce it. If life were always fair, it would be easy to know when bad things or outcomes are due to poor personal choices or lack of personal responsibility, but people who are intelligent enough to understand complexity, intellectually honest enough to recognize and admit ...

My neighbor died recently.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 26, 2021:

And yet, these same people love to bash the poor as not taking personal responsibility, etc. and they oppose any government assistance to the poor, the disabled, etc. The people who vote Repub love to preach personal responsibility, but often are total hypocrites on that point.

It's time we started to identify the real enemy

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 25, 2021:

That's easy. The real enemy, that shakes the jar, so to speak, are the ruling class and the corporations, who own the government and run the economy. They are the real enemy, and any socialist like me knows it. Unfortunately, most Americans are ignorant of this, get all their news and info from the corporate media and the government, so they keep behaving like the ants, fighting between the peasants, continuing to vote for the vetted, bought off pols of the duopoly or else dropping out of politics and no longer voting, and meanwhile all this saves the ruling class from having to drop the veil of democracy and install a dictatorship thru a military crackdown. Soon, we will probably have the civil war that allows them the excuse to do it sooner than they were planning to. Too bad we don't instead have a populist non-violent revolt, while we still can, against them by electing a government in DC that is not bought and made up instead of third party pols and independent candidates.

A family member is gaslighting me, and it’s a fascinating psychological study when I can ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 25, 2021:

I let go of my family for most of my adult life. I began having contact with them again after I got married, but only on equal terms. Even now that I am widowed and my parents are dead, I don't have any contact with my siblings unless it is on equal terms and with respect for me. I replaced all of them long ago with my family of friends, so I don't need them unless it's on my terms, which are quite fair, according to my friends and therapist. If they don't like it, too fucking bad.

The Midterms are Only 411 Days Away: Holy Sh&%$! - YouTube

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 25, 2021:

Actually Covid will not help us that much as far as the proportion of people voting Repub vs. Dem, because the Repubs tend to breed in greater numbers than us, so they have that numerical advantage to begin with. It will just get slightly reduced by Covid, that's all. I predict that with Biden getting all the blame for Afghanistan, due to Americans being so dense and ignorant of history, that the Repubs will retake both houses of congress, and will also win the White House in 2024. And a big part of it will be the way Biden and the Dems promised so much in the last election campaign, like a $15 min. wage and others, and since then they have backed off on all of those promises. So the working class and middle class voters will be pissed and throw a tantrum by voting red next year. And the Dems won't care, since they will then be able to blame the Reubs for everything and have no pressure to buck their corporate donors. They are like the boxer taking a dive and acting like they can't fight back or win.

Military Equipment for the Police: [huffpost.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 24, 2021:

It's all about getting the police armed enough to be able to put down future rebellions should the peasants eventually figure out that elections are a charade and the ruling class has to drop the veil and impose a dictatorship that rules completely with force to serve the rich and corporations. In other words, the ruling class is militarizing the police to prepare for our Hunger Games style future dictatorship.

Real

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 24, 2021:

Some were fine with it, others were worried for me or critical of me for it. I really didn't care if they were negative about it as long as they didn't hassle me or try to make me change my mind.

I notice this image being thrown around on social media.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 24, 2021:

China has an authoritarian government and a capitalist economic system. Those who say otherwise are simply spreading misinformation and engaging in red-baiting, same as when they lump socialism in with communism. They don't want the peasants getting accurate info or getting any ideas about better systems than our bare knuckles capitalism.

Of course they are at higher risk, that’s an understatement!?! 🤨 [yahoo.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 24, 2021:

Not surprising at all. I drove a school bus for several years, before retiring three years ago. I am so glad I did, esp. after Covid hit. The vast majority of my fellow drivers were elderly and were doing this as a retirement job. Also, the job with my bus company, who the school district had outsourced the busing to in 2006, so they could quit paying benefits to the drivers, had no health insurance benefits for the drivers, who were mostly on Medicare already. The minority of the drivers, who were younger, were either uninsured for medical care, on their spouse's health insurance from another employer, or were on Obamacare. But the fact is, a lot of the younger drivers had chronic health problems from being uninsured most of their adult lives, so they would not get care for those problems, such as asthma, or high blood pressure. No wonder that between the elderly drivers and the younger drivers with chronic health problems, that their exposure on the job to unmasked, unvaccinated kids, is making them drop like flies. I have heard from some of my former co-workers, that many of the older drivers retired after Covid hit, because the job was not worth the risk to their health, esp. before there was a vaccine. By now a rather large % of school districts have outsourced their busing to companies like the one I worked for, so it's not surprising that so many school bus drivers are without adequate health insurance, both the ones on Medicare and the younger ones who have no health insurance from the busing job. The older ones usually can't afford a Medicare supplement, so they may be putting off health care whenever they can. And the younger ones, who are on Obamacare, can't afford the copays, so they also probably put off care whenever they can.

Politicians, abortion and texas

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 24, 2021:

But most of the public, and the corporate media as well, miss the point about abortion laws and restrictions. They do not reduce the number of abortions performed, they only affect poor women, and their real intent is more about controlling women in general, rather than about reducing the number of abortions performed.

More Stupid News! "Mother-of-four who proudly posted that she was 'unmasked, unmuzzled, and ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 23, 2021:

Karma's a bitch..... Tough titty said the kitty when the milk ran dry.....

We are in zoom and Lisa wanted me to post this song so more can listen to it. [youtu.be]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 23, 2021:

Sorry man, I hate country music with a passion, even tho I am a lifelong Iowan. Just lucky, I guess...

In Quebec, an antivax goon sucker punches a nurse [montreal.ctvnews.ca]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 22, 2021:

I bet Pralina would kick the shit out of any guy who tried this with her....

Hi Everyone.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 22, 2021:

Glad it's working out.

This is known as one of medicine’s most incredible moments.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 22, 2021:

In this case, what the vaccine had on its side is that it was already clear these kids were dying and there was no other hope, so trying the vaccine had no risk or downside. With the Covid vaccine, the opponents still have their arguments that death is not certain with Covid, at least in most cases, and that the unknowns of the vaccine make it risky. So the current situation and this old situation with a different illness are apples and oranges...

Are there any 70 to 85 year old ladies on board that care to chat?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 22, 2021:

Good luck, pal.

We had to put down our cat Jango.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 22, 2021:

So cute and sweet looking. Glad you have lots of photos to remember him with. Makes me wish there was a cat heaven.

I want a good woman to take care of me. Oh wait...that's someone else's schtick. LOL

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 22, 2021:

Looks like you either embarrassed him into deleting his posts or else he blocked me. No matter either way.

Militant Atheists?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 22, 2021:

I would say, buzz off. Like you, I am not into hassling or battling believers over religion. I just want to be left alone on the subject and for them to not back or push theocratic laws against me. Otherwise, live and let live. There is nothing wrong with your organ playing gigs and whatever you do with the money is your business only.

What group in this world by numbers, is more discriminated against than the unvaccineed ?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 21, 2021:

Jeezus H. Christ, the next thing you know, laws and rules will be passed that discriminate against anti-vaxers just like the anti-smoking laws passed a decade or two ago that not only spared the non-smoking majority of second hand smoke in bars and restaurants, but also saved countless lives as well from lung cancer. Oh, the cruel injustice of those laws that even banned smoking in the workplace and public buildings as well... Oh, wait, those laws passed and nowadays almost no one objects to them. Maybe by the next decade most people will feel the same about vaccine mandates for Covid as well, and it will be simply seen as common sense, same as the anti-smoking laws, which still allowed private smoking, but not the right to expose the rest of us to second hand smoke and lung disease, the same way anti-vaxers do not have the right to expose the rest of us to a dangerous virus. BTW, if refusing to get vaxed prevents you from getting laid, tough shit.....

Fewer Asswipes? [nationofchange.org]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 21, 2021:

I am fine with a herd thinning where, regardless of class, the smarter and saner survive, while the stupid and deluded die.

Cat's Reaction to Treadmill !! [youtu.be]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 21, 2021:

Smart kitty, quick learner...

Hi Everyone!!!! I want to apologize to my Zoom Chat friends for forgetting about Sunday night.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2021:

I wish you the best. In my experience with online dating these last few years, it seems like the vast majority of women in my dating pool are really busy, either with work, their family, or both. So I often wonder why they are on a site like Batch, if it appears they only have time and interest for meeting up occaisionally and keeping things very casual. And if that's the case, why aren't they on more of a hookup site like Tinder, unless that is what they really want, but are too modest or proud to admit it here in traditional cultured Iowa? I honestly wonder if they really want more of an FWB with a man, but just don't have the guts or humility to ask for it. Anyway, glad to hear that it goes both ways as far as single people seeming or acting too busy to give time to a real relationship. I thought maybe the problem was mostly me and being retired, but I think it's about more out there than me in the local dating pool. There are a very few women in my local dating pool on Batch that are very openly seeking men just for a FWB, but they are much better looking than me and would never want me. One woman is about as open as you can be, as all of her profile pics show off her breasts, she writes about how she is seeking "fun.... with a man who is athletic and healthy, etc...." and she is only seeking black men (while she is white, well-educated, and a white collar professional), who are less educated than her. I have to give her props for being honest and bucking the Iowa culture....

Colorado's Polis marries longtime partner in first same-sex marriage for a sitting governor

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2021:

I hear CO has more than its share of religious crazies, but it's nice to hear that it's now way more progressive than Iowa, which has had gay marriage way before most states, but it only happened thru a state Supreme Court decision that really cost some of the ones who voted for it. Since then, it's been a very red state. We have yet to elect a queer person to statewide office, tho I have heard that one longtime statewide elected official is gay and in the closet, obviously for good reason. An appointed gay man who used to be Labor Commissioner was removed by a Repub governor for that and other reasons. It led to a lawsuit that went on for several years and the SC here finally ruled in favor of the governor. So that settles the ? of whether it's safe to be openly gay in statewide office here.

Biden Piñata = 42 members (including trolls) Trump Piñata= 1100 members I am a member of both ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2021:

I am guessing you troll the Trumpers on the Biden Pinata group. But I am a member of both groups too, and I troll the Biden supporters, but do it from the left side of the political spectrum, not from the right as the Trumpers do.

Riddle me this, republicans

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2021:

Pro-life in name only and only up to birth. They also support the death penalty, so much for consistency.. It's more accurate to say they worship and support the fetus and the womb, nothing else or beyond that.

I think this says it all

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2021:

I can't imagine what it's like these days treating these idiots for Covid and knowing how preventable and voluntary their illness is. Esp. if they have to continue to listen to their bullshit and denial about the virus. I don't know how docs and nurses can stand it.

Very prophetic

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2021:

Like the old saying goes, Give the people what they want.....

Perfect cartoon

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2021:

Yeah, there is a lot of hypocrisy on the right.

Interesting statistics

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 20, 2021:

Where is OSHU located?

[youtu.be] I made a new friend today who wrote this powerful song and sings it.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 19, 2021:

You might want to delete on of the posts.

20 Years of Post-9/11 Amnesia The constant demand that we “Never forget!,” the events of ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 19, 2021:

I think the things to never forget are the corporate media cheerleading for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the erosion of civil liberties under the Patriot Act, the suppression of truth about what really happened on 9-11 by the commission that supposedly investigated it, and the way the Repubs accused anyone opposed to the wars or their administration as unpatriotic and to shut up and support the troops. How quickly that last part was proven to be a lie as the Afghan war went on for twenty years, long after it was clear it could never be won. So the slogan of supporting the troops didn't take long to be proven as not at all about caring about soldiers and entirely about shutting down dissent.

Campus Preacher Provokes Fight After Carrying “Women Belong in the Kitchen” Sign | Hemant Mehta ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 19, 2021:

This reminds me of the good old days in the late 70s, where campus preachers like Rev. Jed Smock and his wife Cindy would ride the circuit of college campuses preaching against sin and the vices of college kids. They would usually get the sort of slapstick pushback from students, like being pushed into a flower bed, hit with a pie, or having water sprayed at them. They were quite entertaining, I hear, and even ended up being wrote about in Rolling Stone, including how they ended up with people, nicknamed Jedheads, who would follow them around from campus to campus, same as the fans of the Grateful Dead would follow them on the concert circuit. I find the idea of Jedheads to be really funny and indicative of how much they functioned more as entertainers than preachers, even tho I'm sure their intent was more about being the former. I just checked Wikopedia, and there is actually a good article on him under the name Brother Jed.

I'm a Octogenarian male Agnostic--Are there any Octogenarian female Agnostics on board?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 19, 2021:

In a word, no, or at most, very few. Welcome to the club, alon, as for the vast majority of us, including me, this site is worthless for meeting people to date, except for a very few who live in a large metro area that is not part of the Bible Belt. I am much closer to middle aged, for example, and live in the largest city in my state, but I have yet to meet a single member of this site in person, male or female. And I have no doubt that my experience is probably typical. But since you live in Cali, I would say try a mainstream dating site, like Match or some other one that caters to older folks, because I have no doubt there are probably many single women your age in Cali that aren't believers. If only that were true in my state.

Saw a profile in which the guy would have seemed reasonable, except he used this kind of language: ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 18, 2021:

This is someone who obviously prefers communicating in text speak, instead of actually using full words, correct spelling and full sentences. Probably not very deep intellectually, probably also a short attention span and rather lazy, since the profile is really short. Too lazy to write a full one and put some real thought into it.

Of course this was posted in a private group, since anti-vaxxers aren't actually interested in ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 16, 2021:

Getting vaxed "later" won't do them much good if they are already dead or in the hospital with severe respiratory problems already. What is THEIR Plan B for that scenario? Prayer?

Are vaccination passports and putting unvaccinated Covid patients to the bottom of the triage queue ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 15, 2021:

These people have chosen to deny and ignore science. Fine, then if they get sick with Covid, let them be denied or at least put at the back of the line for scarce medical resources, when it comes to using that science to treat the disease. They made their choice and there should be consequences for it. That is how the real world works, there are consequences for every choice, at least for average people. Not so much if you are part of a rich aristocratic family like Trump, or part of politically connected family either, for that matter.

Billboard Hailing Donald Trump As Second Coming of Jesus Appears in Georgia

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 15, 2021:

Further proof that Trumpism is a cult and these people are nuts.

How to care for your human

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 15, 2021:

I've always suspected they were plotting world domination..

Abortion pills are booming worldwide. Will their use grow in Texas?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2021:

We can hope so. What are they going to do, rip open every package to make sure no Texas women are able to get them thru the mail?

A Vaccine Or This Marriage: Conspiracy Theories Are Tearing Couples Apart | HuffPost

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 14, 2021:

In the past couple years I have run across a few people that have actually experienced this. They have been married to someone who either became a Trumper, an anti-vaxer or both, and it killed their marriage. They said, rightly so, that there was no reasoning with or changing them, same as if you had a spouse that suddenly became severely and permanently mentally ill, but refused to get treatment for it. In cases like this, I feel the traditional marriage vows of "in sickness and in health" don't apply, because the person is not willing to get help or do anything to preserve the marriage, so the best you can do is cut your losses and save yourself. I think that the Covid pandemic has made this worse, as the isolation it has caused many people, as far as having less face to face contact in person, has made it easier for people to get sucked into all the online and media disinformation without any real life interactions with others that might contradict or challenge that misinformation. So people can adopt a new, dysfunctional belief system without any real need to ? or defend it.

America's medical system cannot function normally with the burden of the anti-vaxxer campaign of ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2021:

The second option in the poll is not really relevant, as we have had a tiered health care system for decades, where there is one tier for the uninsured and poor, another for the insured who are in the middle classes, and then finally a top tier for the rich. So the idea of discriminating against the anti-vaxers being unfair or a perversion of our health care system is long out-dated and disingenuous. We have had second and third class citizens for a long time, esp. when it comes to health care, because it has never been a human right in America. If they choose to act with violence against the policies, then they should be met with violence, since their actions result in death anyway, let it include their own deaths if necessary. They are itching for a civil war, maybe it's time to have it, as long as the authorities, most likely, decide to act on our side rather than theirs. I believe they would, as the rich would instruct them to do so in order to preserve the medical system for their benefit, even if they don't care about preserving it for us peasants.

9/11: Why Americans Were Never Told Why They Were Attacked When Western media discusses terrorism...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2021:

Most Americans have no idea that if we got the hell out of the Middle East and stopped giving Israel unlimited and unconditional support, the Islamic and Arab world would no longer want to attack us. But that is something our corporate media is never willing to discuss. They are never willing to honestly discuss our wars and military interventions that our government does for empire and resources. If they did, it would be very clear to most Americans as to the real reasons we are hated in that part of the world, and that it has nothing to do with them "hating our freedoms", etc. What a load of bullshit!

COVID-19 spreads at Dana plants as company, unions force workers to stockpile parts I feel ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 13, 2021:

I am glad I am retired and have been able to start hunkering down again, maybe not quite as much as I did before being vaxed, but much more than I did after getting vaxed this spring. I think I will have to pretty much stay away from large crowds again this fall and winter, until my state gets somewhere near herd immunity level in vaccinations, and that's only if the new variants are not resistant to the present vaccines.

I've always been a sap for soundtracks and musicals as great music provides a pathway to a different...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 12, 2021:

Wouldn't know. You failed to provide a link or tell us even what song you are talking about.

[youtu.be] I made a new friend today who wrote this powerful song and sings it.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 12, 2021:

Nice to see somebody else agrees with me about how Obama was W. in blackface. I bet Joe Elmo also sees Biden these days as no different than Obama, just another corporate sellout.

The Young Turks - Fox Guest Complains: We Have To Pay A Living Wage Now! [youtube.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 12, 2021:

The business owner is typical of what I encountered in most of my jobs, before I retired. I figured out at an early age that in most workplaces it is a war between the workers and the bosses, including the owner. There is only a pretense, in some businesses, that they are on friendly terms or on the same side. They are out to use and screw us workers, and I learned to have nothing but contempt for most of them and resolved to put up with as little shit as possible, hoping that some day I would inherit enough money to get out of the rat race as soon as possible. Three years ago, my day came. I can now be open about my contempt and speak as often as possible to other workers about the reality of the modern workplace and encourage them to vote accordingly and get out as soon as possible too. One of my last jobs was a three year lesson in bare knuckles capitalism. I worked in a plant that packaged and shipped auto accessories for people wanting to chrome up their vehicles. The guy who owned it is very well known in my state, reportedly worth 78 mil., and a big donor to the Repub Party. He barely had any heat in the plant during the winter, only some floor fans in the summer. But the office staff and management of course has climate control year around. Sort of like the field slaves and the house slaves system in the old southern plantations. I began working there several months before the Great Recession, got downsized with most of the other workers in the collapse, couldn't find another job for a few years... So after being laid off for several months, they called me back to work, then kept me there for a few months. This process was repeated several times over the next couple years of my indentured servitude there, while I kept looking fruitlessly for other jobs, until I finally found an escape thru school bus driving for a private contractor that had taken over the busing for the local school district. So, ironically, my escape from the plant job was from outsourcing of formerly govt. jobs. The plant job was essentially a perma-temp job, where I would work a few months, get laid off again and go back to collecting UE for a few months, then back again, but without any benefits or health insurance. This was also before Obamacare was passed. I even wrote and turned in a letter to the plant manager about how I had been working there for over six months in one stretch, and asking to be hired as a permanent worker with benefits. I never got an answer from him, just got word from my supervisor that I was turned down and would always be a "temp" worker, as they put it. Talk about exploitation. They were just hoping I would eventually find something else or just quit in frustration, so they would then be permanently off the hook for UE liability for me. ...

The Young Turks - This White Nationalist Is UPSET People Are Mocking Him [youtube.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 12, 2021:

Poor baby.. This reminds me of the former Trump aides that now can't get a job in DC or find women willing to date and have sex with them, so in both cases they lie about having worked for Trump.

Hunter S. Thompson's 9/11 Essay Is Still Chillingly Accurate 16 Years Later | HuffPost

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 12, 2021:

Thompson had a keen sense of the rot, corruption, and ruthlessness of our leaders and our fed government, esp. the military and the intelligence community.

This guys sounds like an Athiest blogger! I do agree with his message though.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 12, 2021:

This is also a good retort to the usual "Thoughts and prayers" bullshit that we get after each mass shooting or natural disaster......

This guys sounds like an Athiest blogger! I do agree with his message though.

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2021:

Sounds like he is saying that fate, life, and the world around us helps those who help themselves.

Even on their death beds, some COVID-19 patients in Idaho still reject vaccination ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2021:

Their deaths are no loss for our collective society. Less crazy and stupidity is a win-win for us overall. I only feel bad for those health workers and relatives that these fools may have infected and that the health workers have to treat them no matter how much risk these people expose them to.

Unpopular take: I am tired of the 9/11 crap. I watched it happen on live TV. Was it a tragedy?

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 11, 2021:

I agree. It is bullshit that the corporate media uses to brainwash Americans about the "official" version of 9-11, which I have never bought. They want us to keep believing the government told the truth about what happened, play on feelings of nationalism, and gin up fear that something like that will happen again, in order to distract from how they country is falling apart and decaying from within, while all the while our leaders and the ruling class go on stealing from the rest of us thru corporate welfare and the funneling of money from the lower classes to the top class thru government spending on war. You also hear no perspective in the corporate media of how many people die every day from Covid compared to how many died from 9-11, because that would reveal the hypocrisy of the Repubs in how many dead Americans are acceptable to them if it furthers their policy goals. My position on the 9-11 event is that, at the very least, the Bush administration knew it was coming and let it happen, because it served their purpose and goals of getting a war with Iraq, spreading empire to the Middle East, and getting their oil, as well as occupying Afghanistan. It is also possible that they actively assisted in the attack happening. People thinking that the Repubs would never purposely allow the killing of a few thousand Americans for their political goals is hopelessly naive for these days, as I also feel the Dems are also just as callous when it comes to achieving their political goals. The lives of us peasants really don't matter to them either when it comes their goals or their ambitions for power.

Fuck texas