'Cause Kids Today Don't Need No Fancy Book Learnin'

[barbos]

I am less worried about the funding freeze than I am that their far right wing fan fiction excuses are apparently suitable enough reasons to justify a reaction to something that isn't even real.

Both, democrats and republicans have started wars on mere suspicions which were not even real.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

So, does this mean we are handcuffed and can't do what is right now because we fucked up in the past?

 

[Jarhyn]

For a student whose government just expelled them from college for being poor, or a scientist whose funding just vanished mid-project, it doesn't make much difference whether Trump "meant to" hurt them or not. He is not known for thinking things through before saying them, but that doesn't make him any less the President of the United States.

But it does make him less of a human being.

No, he's still 100% a human being. He's just not a person.

 

[WAB]

For a student whose government just expelled them from college for being poor, or a scientist whose funding just vanished mid-project, it doesn't make much difference whether Trump "meant to" hurt them or not. He is not known for thinking things through before saying them, but that doesn't make him any less the President of the United States.

But it does make him less of a human being.

No, he's still 100% a human being. He's just not a person.

That doesn't make a lick of sense. But alright.

 

[Jarhyn]

For a student whose government just expelled them from college for being poor, or a scientist whose funding just vanished mid-project, it doesn't make much difference whether Trump "meant to" hurt them or not. He is not known for thinking things through before saying them, but that doesn't make him any less the President of the United States.

But it does make him less of a human being.

No, he's still 100% a human being. He's just not a person.

That doesn't make a lick of sense. But alright.

Were you not reading your own "what is a person" thread? The whole thrust of mine and several others' posts was that some humans aren't people and some people aren't humans.

This is one of the incredibly rare times where it's clear some human being isn't a person, not even one little bit, and without even a shred of doubt; not only have they abandoned the fundamental assumption of interpersonal equality that sits under every same system of ethics the world over, they explicitly do not care at all about anyone else other than themselves.

The concept of the truth simply does not exist for Trump. He will say literally anything, because what is "truth" for him is whatever statement he says that gets him closer to what he wants: absolute and unrestricted freedom to do literally anything he wants, and everything anyone else wants be damned.

It is hard to imagine a person ever rising from such a husk.

Were he to ever become a person, I imagine that given the weight of his predelictions for young girls who look like his daughter, I imagine that he would show the world why Hari Kari ever became a phenomena, as when a person commits such a deeply shameful act, as any of his could be described and becomes aware as a person of their shame, sometimes the only action one may take is to let one's descendants try to live out from underneath the pall of your name.

He lives, therefore he has not become a person yet. His road to redemption and certainty is to be a hero and slay a villain, as his own "hero" once did.

 

[WAB]

Okay, you go, Jarhyn!

 

[Crumb]

So kind of a no true Scotsman.