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NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 13h

[Short Version- Because we use the scientific method all scientific theories must be Empirical, Testable, and Falsifiable. They must be as Objective as humanly possible, can be tested, and can be proven wrong at least in theory.

Literally none of those things apply to creationism.]

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NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 2d

Good. I don’t think the Republicans are in a rush though. They can’t end the shutdown without passing a budget through the house, and they can’t pass a budget through the house without opening up a session with the house which will require them to swear in new members. Epstein Files!

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NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 2d

I taught mostly freshman level physics and astronomy so I would often include basic scientific philosophy and terminology, including the scientific method and what this implies about scientific theories.

Turns out learning exactly why creationism doesn’t work for science is bad for conservatism.

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NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 2d

You’re getting threats because conservatives are saying you teaching about how fascism is bad as a threat to conservatism. Gee, what an interesting opinion they have.

I was on that watchlist for a little while too for teaching students that they can’t just have conservative ideology as science.

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NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 9d

Today is the last day of government funding and yesterday Trump told the generals that they will be used against “the enemy within”.

That feeling when you know your government wants to do a full concentration-camp-style genocide and go hot with a civil war, but can’t because it’s too broke.

NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 18d

Let me repeat saying that I absolutely agree that in a healthy society things like what happened to Charlie Kirk don’t happen. That said, something that came up for no reason…

NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 18d

“Who am I to tell you what to put in your child’s body?” Said the party that wants it to be legal to marry and fuck kids as long as you do both.

NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 18d

NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 19d

Update - So, the Kimmel/Kirk situation?

so many people went to the Disney subscription cancellation page that it crashed the site, so Disney offered a compromise where they’ll let him back on the air if he apologizes for his remarks and pays the Kirk family some money.

Did we just win?

NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 20d

[If you want to be more precise, he was at a conference for alt-right influencers and his exact wording was more like “their land grab strategy during the war was arguably too aggressive”. That’s not flat saying the only thing the Nazis did wrong was lose the war, but that sure as hell implies it.]

NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 20d

This is good because Kirk was a Nazi. I’m not exaggerating, one of his first big statements was to say that the only thing the Nazis ever did wrong was lose the war.

In a healthy society public killings like that don’t happen, but otherwise fuck Charlie Kirk. I won’t be gaslit.

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NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 20d

Used to be about 2 in 5, now it’s only about 1 in 4. Among GOP used to be about 4 in 5 and now it’s a little less than half.

Turns out to properly martyr someone you need to invoke empathy, which is hard to do for someone who openly called empathy damaging to society. /2

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NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 20d

Spot of good news - the push to turn Charlie Kirk into a martyr?

It’s not working. A poll that was scheduled to be conducted right after when the shooting took place anyway found that the percentage of people that think the country is headed in the right direction has basically been cut in half. /1

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NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 21d

Remember kids - It’s not often enough to just call these guys out as hypocrites. Strong chance they know, they just don’t care.

NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 22d

Kash Patel just testified that they can’t find any evidence at Epstein trafficked any underaged girls to other people.

It would be equivalent to busting Escobar with several million dollars worth of cocaine but insisting that it’s all for personal use. That’s what Kash is trying to do for Trump.

NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 23d

Short Version- They expected us to thank them for it, then rollover and die.

NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 23d

Worth mentioning that just today the Trump DoJ deleted one of their own studies that found yet again that the hard right does almost all of the political violence in the US. So much of it that even when they try to fudge the numbers it fails and they still come out the #1 threat.

NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 23d

Once again, like they always do the right proves that they actually love cancel culture, they’re the ones that invented it. They’re just mad that occasionally other people get their shit together enough to do it back at them once in a while.

NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 23d

It is low-key kind of hilarious how they’re trying to turn him into a saint in murder, but he spewed so much hateful and stupid shit that just repeated his quote is considered an “unfair” attack.

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NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 23d

Exactly. When you make people pay money to read the truth but hateful and stupid bullshit is distributed for free, who do you think has the advantage?

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NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 23d

Jamie Lee Curtis sobbed all the way through video about the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Jamie, do you realize just how many times he’s called for your or your daughter‘s death?

Because I don’t, it’s so many times that I’ve literally lost count. Stop gaslighting everyone.

NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 24d

You know, I’ve been saying for a while that liberal/leftist become such a meaningless term in the US that it basically just means anyone who’s not down for hunting homeless minorities for sport.

Didn’t expect it to become so literal.

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NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 24d

Like if you look at acts of political violence and terrorism that occur on US soil - just US-born, white, rightwing extremists specifically are doing about 3/4ths of it. And most of rest is still rightwing, just not necessarily white or US born.

NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 24d

On the Charlie Kirk show today, the VP went on and promised a broad crack down on political violence from liberal/leftwing groups.

In a healthy society political violence doesn’t happen, but the part he’s leaving out is that the right is responsible for *orders of magnitude* more violence.

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NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 24d

a man is sitting on a couch with his hands on his face and the words pretends to be shocked above him

ALT: a man is sitting on a couch with his hands on his face and the words pretends to be shocked above him

media.tenor.com

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