Philosophical Dave
@philosophicaldave.bsky.social
Professional Storyteller.
Amateur Philosopher.
Volunteer big brother, loaner dad, and/or good-crazy uncle.
Cryptocurrency is a scam. I'm not on social media looking to get laid. No one I just met on the internet is getting access to my money.
Amateur Philosopher.
Volunteer big brother, loaner dad, and/or good-crazy uncle.
Cryptocurrency is a scam. I'm not on social media looking to get laid. No one I just met on the internet is getting access to my money.
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White Christian Nationalists are terrified of two facts that are becoming increasingly hard to ignore:
1) White people did not civilize the world; they plundered it. Your family tradition of "hard work" rides on the back of stolen land, stolen labor, and stolen wealth.
1) White people did not civilize the world; they plundered it. Your family tradition of "hard work" rides on the back of stolen land, stolen labor, and stolen wealth.
2) All of the pleasures they gave up out of fear of their vengeful gods were for naught. Now all they can do is make everyone else as miserable as they are, because the fundamental ability to admit the lies of their religion has been beaten out of them for generations.
Only those who have endured the hardships of immigrating to America have anything to brag about. Being born here is no reflection on a person; it's just a side-effect of geography.
December 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Only those who have endured the hardships of immigrating to America have anything to brag about. Being born here is no reflection on a person; it's just a side-effect of geography.
Willful ignorance is the only devil in the world.
How many MAGA regime members, MAGATs, and MAGAT influencers suffer from amathia...... ?
December 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Willful ignorance is the only devil in the world.
Everything the current regime does is based in bad mythology.
December 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Everything the current regime does is based in bad mythology.
Conservative Christianity in America seems to boil down to "How dare you blunt any of God's tools of torture."
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Conservative Christianity in America seems to boil down to "How dare you blunt any of God's tools of torture."
Conservatives love the mythology of America; they want nothing to do with the realities.
December 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Conservatives love the mythology of America; they want nothing to do with the realities.
"Why are you not afraid of the demon-- I mean, benevolent god - that I spend every waking moment in stark terror of?"
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year
What is the reason for the season?
Does the romance naturally arise from the solstice & the circle of life?
Or does it depend on the unnatural hope of eternal happiness & the fear of eternal suffering?
32 days of Robert G. Ingersoll’s ‘Christmas Sermon’
It’s the most wonderful time of the year
What is the reason for the season?
Does the romance naturally arise from the solstice & the circle of life?
Or does it depend on the unnatural hope of eternal happiness & the fear of eternal suffering?
32 days of Robert G. Ingersoll’s ‘Christmas Sermon’
December 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"Why are you not afraid of the demon-- I mean, benevolent god - that I spend every waking moment in stark terror of?"
Unless it harms the most vulnerable, the current regime will oppose it, facts be damned.
Not what RFK Jr told me! He never uses fluoride and his brain is…oh, ok
“In the first US study looking at whether the recommended fluoride levels in drinking water affects brain function, researchers found that the hot-button mineral has no negative impacts on cognition – and may actually be giving it a boost.”
They are trying to dumb-down America.
flip.it/sH5foh
They are trying to dumb-down America.
flip.it/sH5foh
December 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Unless it harms the most vulnerable, the current regime will oppose it, facts be damned.
America has rarely shied away from such follow-ups.
In WWII, we made excuses for machine gunning survivors from sunk Japanese warships along the lines of "they might have reached the nearby island battle and become soldiers."
In WWII, we made excuses for machine gunning survivors from sunk Japanese warships along the lines of "they might have reached the nearby island battle and become soldiers."
Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?"
Mark Kelly: "It seems to."
Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"
Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
Mark Kelly: "It seems to."
Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"
Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
November 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
America has rarely shied away from such follow-ups.
In WWII, we made excuses for machine gunning survivors from sunk Japanese warships along the lines of "they might have reached the nearby island battle and become soldiers."
In WWII, we made excuses for machine gunning survivors from sunk Japanese warships along the lines of "they might have reached the nearby island battle and become soldiers."
All that matters to ICE is how "brown" you look. No form of identification will change their minds.
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
All that matters to ICE is how "brown" you look. No form of identification will change their minds.
Curing cancer wouldn't make up for a decimal point of the harm Trump has done.
And how exactly will Trump “cure cancer” without science and medical research funding?
November 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Curing cancer wouldn't make up for a decimal point of the harm Trump has done.
And every false accusation of rape gets a profoundly disproportionate amount of media coverage to hide the fact that a man is more likely to BE raped than falsely accused.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
And every false accusation of rape gets a profoundly disproportionate amount of media coverage to hide the fact that a man is more likely to BE raped than falsely accused.
Classic comic book characters were not White because whiteness was important to their stories. They weren't allowed to be anything else.
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Classic comic book characters were not White because whiteness was important to their stories. They weren't allowed to be anything else.
America seems determined to tear down everything shielding the vulnerable from the insatiable.
November 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
America seems determined to tear down everything shielding the vulnerable from the insatiable.
All that wage suppression sure has kept prices low. </sarcasm>
November 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
All that wage suppression sure has kept prices low. </sarcasm>
The Founders never intended for anyone but White Protestant Male Landowners to have power. The US government has been pulled kicking and screaming into every common sense granting of rights all along, like so many religions before them.
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The Founders never intended for anyone but White Protestant Male Landowners to have power. The US government has been pulled kicking and screaming into every common sense granting of rights all along, like so many religions before them.
I've been told that "Life begins at first breath" doesn't mean what it seems to mean.
I'd love some clarification on that beyond my assumption that this particular verse simply doesn't fit the narrative.
I'd love some clarification on that beyond my assumption that this particular verse simply doesn't fit the narrative.
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I've been told that "Life begins at first breath" doesn't mean what it seems to mean.
I'd love some clarification on that beyond my assumption that this particular verse simply doesn't fit the narrative.
I'd love some clarification on that beyond my assumption that this particular verse simply doesn't fit the narrative.
Working without permission is a misdemeanor.
Hiring people who aren't permitted to work here is a felony.
Rounding up the CEOs is how things SHOULD work.
Hiring people who aren't permitted to work here is a felony.
Rounding up the CEOs is how things SHOULD work.
November 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Working without permission is a misdemeanor.
Hiring people who aren't permitted to work here is a felony.
Rounding up the CEOs is how things SHOULD work.
Hiring people who aren't permitted to work here is a felony.
Rounding up the CEOs is how things SHOULD work.
There is a lot of money to be made in martyrdom these days.
A 28 yr old Jennifer Greene, former GOP congressional Staffer, called 911 to report a politically motivated attack; she was found zip tied and cut multiple times w/ Anti trump vulgarities written on her.
Turns out; it was all a Hoax. She PAID someone to cut her. Items from attack found in her car.
Turns out; it was all a Hoax. She PAID someone to cut her. Items from attack found in her car.
November 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
There is a lot of money to be made in martyrdom these days.
Shot twice in the head.
Ruled a suicide.
The math should terrify you.
Ruled a suicide.
The math should terrify you.
November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Shot twice in the head.
Ruled a suicide.
The math should terrify you.
Ruled a suicide.
The math should terrify you.
Why would the Investor Class invest in people, infrastructure, or even their own businesses if we just let them keep all the money?
Progressive taxation works!
Progressive taxation works!
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Why would the Investor Class invest in people, infrastructure, or even their own businesses if we just let them keep all the money?
Progressive taxation works!
Progressive taxation works!
It is impossible to make rational decisions when your primary sources of news are openly lamenting the end of slavery.
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
It is impossible to make rational decisions when your primary sources of news are openly lamenting the end of slavery.
Electing a "business" candidate to public office means everything is built from the cheapest materials by the donors with the best bribes.
No corporation pays more than lip service to the common good.
No corporation pays more than lip service to the common good.
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Electing a "business" candidate to public office means everything is built from the cheapest materials by the donors with the best bribes.
No corporation pays more than lip service to the common good.
No corporation pays more than lip service to the common good.
Americans have a choice between electing the obedient slaves of autocrats or the autocrats themselves.
Our new government, post-Trump, will have a lot of loopholes to close, a lot of rights to make clear, and needs to put a lot more roadblocks between criminals and political power.
Our new government, post-Trump, will have a lot of loopholes to close, a lot of rights to make clear, and needs to put a lot more roadblocks between criminals and political power.
November 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Americans have a choice between electing the obedient slaves of autocrats or the autocrats themselves.
Our new government, post-Trump, will have a lot of loopholes to close, a lot of rights to make clear, and needs to put a lot more roadblocks between criminals and political power.
Our new government, post-Trump, will have a lot of loopholes to close, a lot of rights to make clear, and needs to put a lot more roadblocks between criminals and political power.
No leader of a megachurch is going to preach against the evils of hoarding wealth while collecting 10%.
November 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
No leader of a megachurch is going to preach against the evils of hoarding wealth while collecting 10%.
"Tradition" that can only be maintained by the constant threat of torture is profoundly monstrous.
It's psychological abuse to do it to anyone. It's flat out child abuse when done to children.
November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Tradition" that can only be maintained by the constant threat of torture is profoundly monstrous.