jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 6hNothing wrong with being a plumber at all - unless that is your only qualification for being in charge of DHS. By the same token, I am uninterested in the world's best statesman being put in charge of fixing my on-demand hot-water heater. 010
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 10hYou have to groom them early. The older the kid gets without being indoctrinated, the less likely they'll accept such things. After that, it usually takes desperation or violence to "convert" them. 000
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026That said, what an individual chooses to believe in to make sense of their life is entirely up to them and nothing should be off limits. If you, personally, want to teach your kid, that is also your own business. Once we get beyond that, however, we are proselytizing not educating. 220
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Of course not. That would be as silly as telling them that the devil will roast them when they die. The only thing empirically true for all humans is that your life will eventually end. Speculation beyond that is just manipulation. Dazzle 'em with 72 virgins or damn 'em to eternal torment, right? 130
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Why teach them about any mythology as though it were real? 251
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026There's so much white trash in this country that burning it to the ground may be the only way to clean it up. 010
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026His death is the only thing that would qualify him for a "peace" prize. 070
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Gas prices will almost certainly come down leading up to the midterms and that will be enough cover for a large number of people to vote for Republicans again. 021
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I am 100% with you on voting - but I remember punk very differently. 010
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026When I see a Netflix stand-up special starring any male comedian from the 90s/00s, I know I will not be seeing any new material and, instead, a long string of complaints and double-downing on tired material that isn't funny anymore. 010
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The best way for the Left to get centrist Democrats out of power is to get Republicans out of power first. 000
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This includes all of the awful family members that you continue to give a pass to by treating them normally. 000
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If someone hasn't already mentioned using "Take on Me" for the music somewhere in the comments, I'm going to be very disappointed. 000
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Religion and, by extension, conservatism require an enemy at all times to function because, without fear, they have little to offer. People are not dazzled enough by heaven to submit but combining it with the idea of being damned to hell is powerful Kool-Aid. 000
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026That's why god, in her infinite wisdom, created burner email addies. 120
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Reconciliation without reckoning is what got us here in the first place. 010
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026He so privileged, he doesn't even know he's privileged. 0260
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I agree and I share your anger at MAHA and its morons. I just don't think Peter Steele is the poster child for this so much as the poster child for "this stuff happens to folks with medical conditions who take lots of coke and booze with their meds". 101
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I recall the song and I read Peter Steele had heart issues but there's no evidence he refused treatment. He was taking heart meds per reports (with coke and booze - as one does). Reports say he was unaware he had diverticulitis and mistook the symptoms of sepsis for the flu. Coke and booze and all.. 100
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Why waste the island real-estate when there's so much unused water around it? Bio-degradable bag, small weight, a good friend and a row boat. 020
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is the kind of rhetoric that I was worried about with Talarico. I get the point but the bible is full of nonsense that people have been using for millennia to justify the worst kinds of horrors - in addition to compassion and justice. 110
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026They'll make more memes stating the obvious, cosplay resistance and chant "wait until 2028" 000
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Violence must be avoided at all costs prior to mid-term elections, though. No cover can be given to this administration for instituting Marshal Law. It would be a "get out or jail free" card - which is why I'll be shocked if they don't try it regardless if they have a legal reason. 110
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Even if this isn't something that necessarily floats your boat, it's still the kind of simple, obvious stuff that makes a community the kind of place you want to be a part of. Beauty. 030
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This isn't going to stop until that ambulance is also rushing the agents to the hospital. 000
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There is an outside chance only that this doesn't come down to violence. Slick memes and peaceful protests have a shelf-life. 110
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Miller hoping some unhinged MAGAt will pick up what he is putting down. 171
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Racist, misogynistic, homophobic pieces of white, patriarchal, xtian shit. 000
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A political career when an OnlyFans site would have sufficed. 071
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026He wasn't wrong. Note that 60 years ago, we were on the doorstep of the Southern Strategy so there was more reason for the similarities than one might assume. 010
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If you think we'd be right where we are now had we never elected Trump, you're not being serious. I get an uncomfortable feeling that a part of you may feel that, if things are allowed to get miserable enough, folks will accept hard Leftism. I hope it's just late, I'm tired and that isn't true. 000
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Idealism. Hillary - despite being objectively lousy - was nothing like Trump and, at the VERY least, she'd have left the country with at least a 5-4 SC majority and almost certainly a better response to COVID. We're not Mexico and giving the Right the ability to dig in like this was insanity. 000
jFunk @jminifunk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026You're positing ideals. We have a 2-party system. We got to where we are because a large enough number of people decided both sides are not to their liking and stayed home. In the primaries, one votes for who best represents them. Once the candidate has been decided, do what needs to be done. 100
