InevitableSwing

InevitableSwing, 6 months ago

how much more time

~4 months?

and money

I’m truly terrible at mental arithmetic but I’ll guess a few hundred million.

InevitableSwing, 6 months ago

I hope the day Haley starts to lead DeSantis in the pols - somebody snarkily tells him and he tries and 100% fails to laugh it off. He looks utterly dejected. His mask slips and he rages like a wounded predator because he knows his serious injury means certain death.

InevitableSwing, 6 months ago

The Hammond’s flycatcher, for example, is named for William Alexander Hammond, a former US surgeon general. Hammond held racist views toward both Black and Indigenous people, writing that Black people specifically were of “little elevated in mental or physical faculties above the monkey of an organ grinder.”

I wondered what was on his Wikipedia page. The page seems to be a disgrace. I hate reading pages with stuff missing so I only ctrl-f’ed through it but there didn’t seem to be any mention of his racism. I did find this very strange comment in the “selected works” section…

• (1863) Treatise on hygiene, with special reference to the military service (Surgeon General Hammond found no satisfying manual on hygiene. He wrote one. For some reason Hammond toned down a clearly racist passage in a last-minute note, adding it was premature to reserve military valor to the whites. Freemon 2001 p. 163 at Google Books)

I googled to find articles at sites like newspapers but I got nowhere. All the good results were bird-related.

Hammond’s Flycatcher, by Teresa Dendy | Bird Names For Birds

Hammond also encouraged troops to go pick fights so that the resulting dead natives could be sent back to him. The soldiers planned to send back bodies preserved in whisky.

Other than gruesome human specimen collecting, Hammond had other dishonorable beliefs and deeds. Hammond was on the Union Side of the Civil War, but he was not an abolitionist by any means. As tensions in Kansas rose leading up to the war, Hammond decried that white men should not kill each other over the lives of black people who he claimed had no better physical or mental attributes than monkeys. He also owned slaves.

Hammond was not just a racist. His sexist views were detestable as well. He believed that women had smaller, differently configured brains from men and were thus incapable of doing “men’s work”. His medical writings were respected and thus quoted to argue against women’s suffrage. Medicine today, especially concerning mental health, still struggles with sexism and racism in part because early practitioners like Hammond laid the groundwork for their fields with sexist and racist beliefs.

InevitableSwing, 6 months ago

I’m confused. The lesson learned from the Holocaust is that Gazans are basically Nazis and Israel should be proud of its military might?

InevitableSwing, 6 months ago

having a bad date at olive garden is a skill issue

Nitter

InevitableSwing, 6 months ago

Pence’s campaign was the strangest of all. Trump’s base hate him. There was no way for him to become president. If Trump cakewalks into the nomination as we all expect - of course there was a zero chance of Pence being veep again. An even if Trump dies of something like a massive heart attack - there’s still no path to the presidency or to veepdom because no nominee would choose him.

But I guess Jesus in All his Glory appeared to him and told him to run so he had no choice but to undertake the difficult burden.

InevitableSwing, 6 months ago

In my opinion “evangelical” in the US is basically life-style branding. They don’t actually give a fuck about god or Jesus. Trump is their guy and their lodestar.

More than half of US adults, 30% of evangelicals believe Jesus isn’t God: study | Church & Ministries News

By rejecting Jesus as god - it makes it simple for evangelicals to ignore what Jesus said and believed. He said “This is my command. Love each other as I have loved you.” But they moved on to Trumpism, racism, intolerance, greed, etc.