But refusing to admit you're wrong is an extremely common human behaviour: it's everywhere, both on the right and the left, and it isn't some kind of shocking or extreme trait. It's actually tediously normal, even though it's utterly pathetic.

What, even if it's J D Vance?

Paine! Paaaaaine!
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Seriously, though- loads of Thomas Paine quotes sound like Spock.

Fake shit like this plays into the hands of MAGA.

Delete it.

"I'm on a train."

Ta!

What show is it? : )

That might make an excellent new humanist symbol? Maybe with the edges rounded off so we make it clear we're not 'spikey' like so dogmatic ideologies are? ; )

It's always baffled me that in the rich world we now have the most well nourished and medically protected generation in the entire history of our species... and yet people still endlessly, anxiously and pointlessly fret about their diet and health.

Fascinating question. Whatever those values are, a kind of pugnatious, proud, unpretentious independence runs through them all, and that can be a double edged sword. And of course those values will vary from class to class. Unarmed police are a proud tradition...

The MAGA brigade have a deep visceral dislike of people being under an obligation to help eachother out... which is absurd, given co-operation is fundamental to human progress and civilization.

I too loathe religion. But many unhappy people are terrified of death, so ain't gonna become atheists. I increasingly think a better strategy is to try and nudge such people towards the kind of 'anti-revealed-texts' DEISM Thomas Paine advocated, and was cancelled for.
polyp.org.uk/books/paine-...

She's a beaut!

If you give her a share, she'll take you off her 'things to snack on' list as a return favour... ; )

Toon c/o polyp.org.uk

Much as I loathe Trump, he's one of the few American politicians to at least admit, no matter how deviously, that globalization has destroyed American blue collar jobs.