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paying dues

Post by stilltrucking » December 4th, 2022, 1:21 am

exercise my inertial guidance system
to maintain organ functions
the meat machine craves life

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Post by stilltrucking » December 9th, 2022, 7:07 pm

That question is both innocuous and offensive. Usually, it’s a clumsy attempt at hospitality. But it can be triggering for the person on the receiving end — it pokes at something raw and personal.
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Post by stilltrucking » December 15th, 2022, 6:04 pm

"Amalgamated yard sale supplies"
used exercise bike 4 miles
balling a jack
listening breathing
so easy to fade away
do I expect another year?
unless I bike my physiological blues away

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Post by stilltrucking » January 5th, 2023, 8:06 pm

Why Did George Santos Lie About Being Jewish?
Jan. 4, 2023
A practicing, Sabbath-observant Jew makes some people suspicious; being a secular American who happens to have had a great-great-grandfather who was a shtetl rabbi is a cool biographical fact.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/opin ... itage.html

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Post by stilltrucking » January 7th, 2023, 12:06 am

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
Who Goes Nazi?

by Dorothy Thompson

Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. They may be the gentle philosopher whose name is in the Blue Book, or Bill from City College to whom democracy gave a chance to design airplanes—you’ll never make Nazis out of them. But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.


It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi. By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many times—in Germany, in Austria, and in France. I have come to know the types: the born Nazis, the Nazis whom democracy itself has created, the certain-to-be fellow-travelers. And I also know those who never, under any conceivable circumstances, would become Nazis.


Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi. It’s an amusing game. Try it at the next big party you go to.

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Post by stilltrucking » January 12th, 2023, 9:42 pm

[*]Leaving Morality Where It Is
Contingency and the Particularistic Approach to Morality
DANIEL PATRONE
i was born into a racist tribe
is there no chance to rise above it
being that I am what I am?
dues for the blues
thank god for the music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR8BBJz416Q

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