Notices by A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆 (juliusgoat@mastodon.social), page 3

When you name the Republican Party as the white supremacist cult it is, there's a standard response.

"We can't just get rid of them," it's said. "We have to learn to live with them."

We.

Yes, we tolerate the intolerable. More than tolerate it; we enable it. On Tuesday maybe (hopefully not) we are going to give it limitless power.

Yet it cuts against the dominant social narrative to say we need to fight the white supremacist cult; this, because our society is supremacist.

Let me ask some other questions.

Do Republicans and other fascists *want* healing? Is that what they're asking for?

Do Republicans *want* to walk these redemptive paths? Are they walking them? If not, why are we so certain those paths are closed or that we have closed them?

I mean, do we not need to heal the white supremacist cult? Do we want these people to stay broken?

I sure don't.

It's far more popular to say we need to heal the white supremacist cult.

It's far more popular to issue reminders that we need to leave paths open for the white supremacist cult to find redemption.

And who could be against redemption? Who could be against healing?

It's not so popular to suggest that white supremacists have to learn to live with everyone else.

It's not so popular to suggest that the answer to white supremacy is for white supremacists to change their behavior.

A question: How to heal fascist bullies? How to leave paths open for their redemption?

To answer, let me give you a phrase and a word, which might seem counterintuitive.

Let me give you: Apology not accepted.

Let me give you: Unacceptable.

Full Essay: https://www.the-reframe.com/apology-not-accepted/

Here's what I mean when I say all of this is absolutely unacceptable in a decent society: It cannot by definition be permitted in a decent society, because a society that permits such things cannot be considered decent.

And yet our society does permit it.

So we know our society is not decent.

Jesus was big on miracles, parables, and carpentry. What a TikTok star he'd have been!

He told a parable once with 3 characters: a kid who squandered the family money; a father who loved his wayward kid; and an older son, who isolated himself from the return party because he held himself superior.

Yesterday I woke to learn that white christian presidential candidate Don Trump had blown his mic stand.

It reminded me of a famous Christian thinker named Jesus H. Christ. You may have heard about him; people often say his name when they see such things.

https://www.the-reframe.com/apology-not-accepted/

I did not present this isolation as something that others would be doing to her because of who she was, but something she would be doing to herself as a natural consequence to her own selfish behavior, and something that could be reversed by ceasing that behavior.

And I explained to her if she kept cheating at games, her sisters would not want to play with her and I wouldnt make them do so, and that would be sad because she would feel lonely, and I didn't want her to feel lonely.

It's not healthy to be outside society. A child knows that.

When my kid was very little she would sometimes cheat at games. She'd do it because she wanted to win. I had to explain to her that this wasn't the way to do it, because everybody else wanted to win too, and it wasn't fun for when somebody gave themselves unnatural advantages.

The parable is called the prodigal son. The older son represents the main point of the story, which white christians often miss, since missing the point is a main practice of Christianity for white christians.

Which son is the prodigal? Ask a white Christian sometime.

Let me change the subject.

I see TRUMP/VANCE 2024 signs on lawns around my neighborhood, and when I see them, I know there is somebody inside that house who on some fundamental level cannot be trusted, who is either eager to bring menace and death to others, or is willing to allow such things to secure an unnatural advantage.

The loneliness of men is a big problem for women to solve. The loneliness of women isn't the subject of many articles.

Let me change the subject.

Let me change the subject.

I saw a story last night in Newsweek about how women are refusing to date men who support Trump, and how this was a big problem for men. I'm not linking to it. There'll be another one of these stories today, and another tomorrow and 3 more next week.

I did this for the simple and direct reason that it was true. I bet most parents have stories like this. I bet most people who were once children have stories like this. It's pretty standard stuff. I reckon it's a part of the way children develop empathy, if they do.

Some don't. They're out there.

They claim this is is because they want to protect their children from sexualized imagery and abuse and pedophiles. Never mind, though, their hero sucked off his mic and they laughed and clapped and cheered.

Speaking of pedophiles: turns out Jeffery Epstein was indeed Trump's best bud. News at 11.

Gobbling his mic stand is not even the 1000th most repugnant thing Trump has done, but it's notable given that his crowd is a gang of mostly white christian supremacists demand the exclusion and persecution and death of trans people and other queer people.