Notices by Patrick (patrickoftheg@mastodon.social), page 6

@fu Nobody wants to work is way up there with children not respecting their parents.

You could not expect the kind of nation that would let Kissinger walk free to care much about ethnic cleansing when there's money to be made.

So America asked Canada to keep funding the UNWRA while not willing to do it itself, obviously for reasons that go beyond the lies that were told about the agency? America is so very broken it's almost exciting. Imagine being so corrupt that you encourage others to do the right thing, knowing that you yourself cannot. And this administration is supposed to be the good guys, eh?

A staggering self-declaration of weakness.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/national/united-states-implored-canada-behind-the-scenes-to-keep-supporting-unwra-hussen

@hannu_ikonen It's America.

It's interesting because for [redacted] I use souped up versions of these tools and they are really only useful for American clients; other countries, with much better laws, do not allow for these kinds of things and so they have no use.

America's business-based hatred of privacy of any kind is what makes my life a lot easier. Condolences though.

@AnarchoNinaWrites @AnthonyJK Bonus points, of course, for Bonesaw, or whomever else really, doing direct business with various companies and those companies then lobbying politicians on their behalf.

A friendly reminder that God kills fertilized embryos at an astounding rate. If abortion is run of the mill murder, let me tell you, friends, God's doing it on a Pol Pot scale.

60 to 70 percent of fertilized eggs do not make it to birth, and thankfully most women don't know they miscarry.

The cosmic joke is that if you wanted to stop the death of babies, #Alabama style, the only ethical way to do so would be to stop all sex, especially the kind that aims for reproduction.

We all know about the enshittification that brought advertisement to paid streaming services.

It is only a matter of time before they start offering "television channel" versions in which you don't pick to watch what you want when you want, but are stuck to a schedule set by the service.

It is the obsession of every major player to dial back your freedom to that of elderly boomers still subscribing to cable channels.

The double standard on this.

Imagine the screams of bloody murder if America were held accountable for its war crimes because "democracy"?

Do you have any idea how many people Kissinger killed? Remember 9/11. No, not the NYC one but the one America did to Chile? Is the world allowed to carpet bomb NYC?

Ditto imagine if every time the IDF killed the innocent, if that justified vengeance against Israeli citizens because democracy? Evil.

Madness.

Credit to @DrALJONES

https://www.juancole.com/2024/02/innocent-civilians-palestinians.html

This should not be a controversial take:

In a just world, George and Martha Washington would have been hacked to pieces, terrified, in their bed at night by their slaves.

#thusalwaystoslavers

Fetterman telling South African lawyers to stick to their own continent is:

1. Hilariously racist
2. Not advice that America follows

Russian Invasion and Annexation of Ukraine (Feb 2022 to Nov 2023):
11000 civilians dead.

Israeli Helot Reprisal War in Gaza (Oct 2023 to Jan 2024)
9300 to 23000 civilians dead.

Depending on if you believe the invader or the invaded, both who are notorious self-serving liars.

Who could have guessed that Putin and the Russians are that much more humane than the Israeli leadership?

@jeffowski If it makes you feel better, a bunch of other people I follow, and myself too, have him blocked or were in turn blocked by him.

It's possible he found your post by him following a hashtag that you may have used. I would not worry, Church of Jeff, just a prolific troll.

@evan I am immediately multitasking on most calls because there is not enough productive time to do things, and most video conferences are not productive.

@jeffowski I do not like how real that is to me, Church of Jeff. It is at the back of my mind any time something good is happening or feeling.

It is mostly in my head.

But it has happened enough times that I am more than a little worried I am up for some disappointment.

@fu I remember, somewhere in 2005 to 2009, having this realization when a foreign friend and I were playing a game together.

We were both scandalized that the front page to a major news network was showing us two completely different things. He was also offended that I was getting more real news as a Canadian and him just more entertainment news junk.

I am not sure how I can be following a thousand people and Mastodon loads up a post or two, disappears them off my screen, and then hits me up with my home timeline being empty.

Hello friends.

A gentle reminder for you.

You have been given a great tool to discern evil and evil people with almost one hundred percent accuracy.

If you see any article in praise of #Kissinger in the upcoming weeks? If you hear anyone say even a single kind word about him? If someone says his name and they are not spitting?

You know they are soulless ghoul who would prey on you and everyone you love. Who would undo your life, as a lesson to others, just to show they can.

Use this gift.

I see that AirBNB still is not banned and that the rent is going to go up again next year. We should definitely keep subsizing landlords with our food banks instead of doing something about that.

PS - Nationalize those companies buying all the rental units.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/food-bank-use-highest-in-canadian-history-hunger-count-2023-report-1.7006464

@Jonathanglick Conterpoint: It's easier to believe the whole senate is exactly like Sinema than the opposite.

::looks on in fossil fuels and the credit card industry and Americans not having health care and military spending and all of banking::

I see that the Onion is still doubling down in style.

https://www.theonion.com/dying-gazans-criticized-for-not-using-last-words-to-con-1850925657