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It turns out that words do break bones...

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:45 pm
by Scooter
or bodies generally. Or cause others to break them.

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Re: It turns out that words do break bones...

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:09 pm
by BoSoxGal
If I hadn't spent my life semi-obsessed with the rise of Nazism in Germany, would the universe still have dealt me this most awful of timelines to grow old in?

I can't even. I am in a state of constant anxiety, even having turned the news off most of the time and trying to live in my patient's bubble of 1980s and 1960s American TV shows and local news about weather and traffic crashes. All the awful is still filtering in by social media and my doom-scrolling - I only read headlines now, I don't open the articles! - and I am in a state of toxic shock, I feel as though a kind of sepsis is happening in my brain and soul.

Does anybody else relate to these thoughts?

I can't believe this is really happening. I can't believe we are living it. I fucking hate every fucking moron who voted this guy into office again - but yet I can't help but pity them because how stupid and broken must these people be????? The frenzy of cruelty and life destroying is sickening to see, but their joy in it is something I cannot wrap my head around.


RIP

Re: It turns out that words do break bones...

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:13 pm
by Scooter
I think the best we can hope for is that 20 or 30 years from now almost no one will admit to ever having supported him. Much like it was nigh on impossible after WWII to find someone in Germany who would admit to having voted for the Nazis.

Re: It turns out that words do break bones...

Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2025 4:58 am
by Bicycle Bill
Scooter wrote:
Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:13 pm
I think the best we can hope for is that 20 or 30 years from now almost no one will admit to ever having supported him. Much like it was nigh on impossible after WWII to find someone in Germany who would admit to having voted for the Nazis.
No, the best we can hope for is that the next guy who points a rifle at him is a better marksman.
Does this offend you?   Too bad.   I feel that taking him down now before he can do any more damage is no more reprehensible than if someone had been able to take out Hitler at one of the Nürnberg rallies before he could ever invade Czechoslovakia or Poland.
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Re: It turns out that words do break bones...

Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2025 5:19 am
by Scooter
I'm not offended by it, I just don't think it would solve the underlying problem. There are any number of people who would be willing to take up the mantle of their "martyr". Probably someone with more intelligence and wisdom, who would therefore be even more dangerous.

Re: It turns out that words do break bones...

Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2025 5:22 am
by Joe Guy
Sorry. I know I'm getting carried away with my photo editing but it's fun.

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Re: It turns out that words do break bones...

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 1:03 am
by ex-khobar Andy
I'm with Scooter on this. For now, at least, the one thing we have going for us is Trump's sheer ineptitude, his incompetence.

Re: It turns out that words do break bones...

Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 5:54 pm
by BoSoxGal
The first story in Scooter's OP ends up being just another case of horrific domestic violence, which is a scourge in homosexual relationships as well as heterosexual relationships. In this case, all the more horrible because the killer had already killed another spouse two decades ago - wonder if the fire captain knew that?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/us/rebec ... index.html

Re: It turns out that words do break bones...

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 3:46 pm
by Sue U
BoSoxGal wrote:
Thu Feb 27, 2025 5:54 pm
The first story in Scooter's OP ends up being just another case of horrific domestic violence, which is a scourge in homosexual relationships as well as heterosexual relationships. In this case, all the more horrible because the killer had already killed another spouse two decades ago - wonder if the fire captain knew that?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/us/rebec ... index.html
Seriously, CNN?
Manhunt underway after police say woman killed her wife

Re: It turns out that words do break bones...

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 6:17 pm
by BoSoxGal
Well in fairness, the word manhunt is akin to mankind - both meant to suggest human, not gender, so it is common usage.

Re: It turns out that words do break bones...

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 6:54 pm
by Joe Guy
That brought to mind... Womankind.... a nice little tune....



Re: It turns out that words do break bones...

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 7:06 pm
by BoSoxGal
Joe Guy wrote:
Fri Feb 28, 2025 6:54 pm
That brought to mind... Womankind.... a nice little tune....


Your embedded links aren't working. Can you just post the link? Thanks!

Re: It turns out that words do break bones...

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 7:22 pm
by Joe Guy
Sorry... I think it's a Plan B glitch.

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Re: It turns out that words do break bones...

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2025 7:17 am
by rubato
-odd. For many months I have had to sign in three times. Anyhow, this is the last time.\. You aren’t worth it. Liberty is not worth it.

Re: It turns out that words do break bones...

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 1:13 am
by BoSoxGal
Just heard tonight that law enforcement in Mexico has ended the humanhunt by arresting the wife killer wife and she'll soon be back in California to face justice.

It's nice when there is a little bit of good news, and even nicer when it has to do with justice. So little of that these days . . .