mcnado

mcnado, 1 day ago to random

Burning down a refugee camp is not a tragic mishap, especially if you first burned down the refugees original homes, their hospitals, their water pumps and treatment plants, and their fields. No, it is not a mishap. It is an intentional act of violence against people who have lost everything.

mcnado, 3 days ago to random

I’m just gonna say it — this “Genocide Joe” thing is the dumbest fucking liberal shit I have seen in years.

Joe Biden can do more to try to rein in Israel, but Biden doesn’t run Israel. He isn’t CIC for IDF. He isn’t deciding what hospital to bomb. He isn’t deciding what border crossings to close.

You know who is pushing the Genocide Joe narrative? The fucking Russians and the Israelis. Why is that? Well, it’s an election year, and Trump is a hard right, pro-Israel puppet.

mcnado, 16 hours ago to random

For the folks bitching about the university protests — another history lesson. In 1974, students, activists, and community members working to improve conditions for chicano students on the University of Colorado campus occupied a building for an extended time. The movement was marred by two car bombings that killed members of the movement (unclear who perpetrated these events).

Does anyone reading this think those students and activists were on the wrong side of history?

mcnado, 15 hours ago to random

Wonder if any reporters will ask Biden how he feels about Mossad threatening ICC’s prosecutor and her family.

mcnado, 1 day ago to random

The thing I don’t understand about folks who support what Israel is doing in Gaza is this — if as a child/teen, someone bombed their home, killed their family, made them see their friends incinerated or dismembered, what would they do?

Do people not understand how terrorism thrives? Hopeless young people, with little left to lose, are prime targets for terrorist recruiters. Give them a common enemy, and you’re all set. Israel has created another generation of two of Hamas.

mcnado, 2 days ago to random

Remember folks, before Dobbs, Republicans claimed abortion was too unsafe to be performed in a clinic, but now in Florida they think C-sections can be. It was never about safety.

mcnado, 2 days ago to random

Florida allowing clinics to perform C-sections outside of the hospital is a horrendous handout to private equity on the backs of women and babies.

For perspective, driving DOWN the C-section rate is literally a quality metric for hospitals. Widespread availability elective C-sections doesn’t improve outcomes, can cause future complications, and of course C-sections are high-risk, often frenetic surgeries. This should not be performed somewhere that doesn’t have NICU and ICU services, period.

mcnado, 3 days ago to random

Do I want Biden to do more to get Israel to stop killing civilians? Yes. Do I think US dollars should ever go to Israel? No. Fuck ‘em. They have an economy. They have nukes. They can protect themselves. We have no business being tied up with them, particularly since Israel has backstabbed the US for decades.

AND,

Much of US-Israel policy is tied up in legislation and treaties that Biden can do fuckall about, and Israel has a huge and effective lobby.

mcnado, 3 days ago to random

People putting their bagged dog poo in my recycling bin hours after the recycling was picked up — why? Everyone here knows the purple bins are recycling. If you’re going to put dog waste in the wrong bin, why even pick it up at all? How fucking lazy do you have to be to not just carry it home with you like all the rest of us with dogs?

mcnado, 5 days ago to random

The current SCOTUS continues to do what they’ve been doing since Dobbs. They make one decision that is pretty middle of the road “yep, that’s the right call”, and then the next five or six big decisions are all deeply unpopular, and wildly partisan. They think people don’t see the systematic erosion of democracy, separation of church and state, and equality. They are so fucking removed from actual society that they think this will all blow over.

mcnado, 6 days ago to random

Two ways to look at the 2nd known human case of H5N1 in the US — one is to say oh heck another case, that’s not good. The other way of looking at it is that there are thousands of infected cows interacting with hundreds of dairy employees, and we’ve found two cases, both of whom had pinkeye.

mcnado, 7 days ago to random

Wierd that the GOP that was so concerned with antisemitism on college campuses a week ago has nothing to say about Nazi references in Trump campaign social media posts.

ai6yr, 14 days ago to random

Longs Peak, Colorado, Keyhole Route. #SearchAndRescue #SAR https://www.14ers.com/route.php?route=long1

mcnado, 14 days ago to snowboarding

Now is a great time to remind everyone venturing into the #backcountry in #Colorado that until July, it is functionally still winter at altitude. It often freezes at night, and can be very cold and wet for days on end. Carry clothing layers, dry backups, and gear to survive wet nights below freezing. Expect deep, wet snow in the woods, making route finding difficult, and travel frankly exhausting and slow. Weather can go from T-shirts to needing a parka in minutes as storms hit the divide.

mcnado, 14 days ago to random

UN vehicle struck, UN worker from India killed. UN has not identified attacker, but IDF is not denying responsibility and blamed the occupants for traveling through a war zone.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-69006734

mcnado, 16 days ago to random

When someone commits large scale tax fraud, they are stealing from you. They benefited from public services like roads, fire protection, and police, but they didn’t pay for it.

mcnado, 18 days ago to random

So a gun owner gets killed in his own home by a cop raiding the wrong apartment, and yet the NRA doesn’t have a thing to say about it. Huh.

Must be something about the case. Something that just isn’t quite white about it.

mcnado, 20 days ago to random

Brain worms, or more specifically, beef and pork tape worms (taenia saginata and taenia solium) are not rare in the US. We find the calcified cysts from these on brain CT scans all the time, particularly in communities with large populations of South and Central American immigrants. They don’t make people into racist, antivaccine, profiteering, grifters.

Some people are just bad people. The tapeworms don’t deserve the shade.

mcnado, 19 days ago to random

Another law-abiding gun owner killed by police in his own home. (Oh, forgot a key detail, he’s black).

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/air-force-airman-killed-florida-deputies-wrong-apartment-attorney-says-rcna151387

mcnado, 19 days ago to random

I don’t give a fuck what FDA is gearing up for with respect to fowl fever. What I care about is what HHS and DHS are doing with the National Strategic Stockpile.

If a lethal, contagious respiratory virus gets rolling like it’s 2020, we’ll be shit out of PPE in days, out of ventilators, out of sedatives, out of pressors, our of saline and lactated ringers, and out staff. How do I know? Because we already ran this scenario, and nothing has gotten better.

mcnado, 20 days ago to random

If you are worried about the 2 babies that died on Oct 7th and not the hundreds (likely more) that have died in Gaza since, it suggests that you value some babies more than others.

They’re all babies. People killing babies are bad people. Hamas are bad people. IDF personnel killing babies are also bad people. Politicians on both sides deciding to have their footsoldiers kill babies are bad fucking people.

That part of this is not complex at all.