Heath Rogers

Heath Rogers

@squatchlord.bsky.social

Extreme Metal, Star Trek, and Ferrets Fuck ai

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"We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements- transportation, communications, and all other industries; agriculture, medicine, education, entertainment, protecting the environment; and even the key democratic institution of voting -profoundly depend on science and technology.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."

They thought violent, conquering kings could speak to god. They thought genocidal colonizers were bringing salvation to their victims. They thought slave owners had strong christian values. They place insatiable, immoral billionaires as the leaders of the new christian nationalist movement.

"The spectacle of right-wing grievance politics collapses under the weight of its own contradictions. When migrants drown at sea or refugees are caged, cruelty is rebranded as comedy and monetized through merchandise, memes, and talking-point theatrics.

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This is not empathy but selective outrage, rooted in the same supremacist logic that has always rationed compassion along racial, national, and ideological lines. The dissonance is not incidental it is the defining feature of the politics itself." -Heather Lyle.

"The spectacle of right-wing grievance politics collapses under the weight of its own contradictions. When migrants drown at sea or refugees are caged, cruelty is rebranded as comedy and monetized through merchandise, memes, and talking-point theatrics.

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Equally revealing is the grotesque idolatry of the Second Amendment. Its defenders treat firearms not as tools but as civic sacraments, brushing aside the predictable carnage as 'the cost of freedom.'

"The spectacle of right-wing grievance politics collapses under the weight of its own contradictions. When migrants drown at sea or refugees are caged, cruelty is rebranded as comedy and monetized through merchandise, memes, and talking-point theatrics.

Yet when violence returns home, when one of their tribunes is struck the discourse shifts overnight from sadism to sanctimony. Suddenly, 'empathy' and 'the sanctity of life' are invoked, not as universal values but as tribal shields.

Trump kept his promise about eliminating tax on tips and overtime. Consumers can’t afford to tip anymore and employers can’t afford to pay overtime, so it can’t be taxed. Sure, he did it in a way that decimates the working class, but he sure did do it! #Tax #WorkingClass

With the level of violence and brutality we see from them everyday, that they are willing to commit while on camera, imagine what type of shit they are doing when we AREN'T filming them #MeltICE

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American Historians are going to have an insane time trying to write history books on the events leading to WW3. They will have to start with global tensions that have been building since the end of WW2, unless they try to skim over many decades by calling them “Peace Time.”

The coolest part about our capitalist system is that all of the profits are privatized (return on investment for shareholders), but all of the losses are socialized (government subsidies).

MAGA says that not everyone in America deserves or is guaranteed a job. MAGA is trying to defund disability, food stamps, unemployment, and other welfare programs. MAGA is cutting tens of thousands of jobs every other day in the public sector, and they are doing so without any kind of due process.

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Why does Fox News spend most of it’s air time talking about trans people, while our economy is in shambles? Why are they constantly whining about DEI, while most of us can no longer afford basic necessities? It’s because they don’t know the answer and they don’t care about finding it.

They can keep you distracted by talking about other peoples’ personal choices, while they tear down the social systems WE paid for and enrich themselves in the process. #ClassWar #ClassConsciousness

Why does Fox News and the new mainstream media, the right-wing podcast circles, spend so much time focusing on culture war issues? It’s because the right-wing doesn’t understand, nor care, about the economy.

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Do you notice a foundationally important figure in CHRISTianity that is conveniently left out? Maybe it's time to drop the facade. #Religion #Christianity #Faith #Nationalism #Jesus #Christ

“Every social system believes that it represents the only possible form of existence for human beings, that its institutions, its religion, its morality are the last word that can be spoken. That is what the cannibals, the Egyptian priests, Marie Antoinette and Tsar Nicolas all fervently believed.

And that is what Francis Fukuyama wished to demonstrate when he assured us, without the slightest basis, that the so-called system of "free enterprise" is the only possible system-just when it is beginning to sink.”