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OftenBen

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Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.

Don't take me too seriously.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Cui bono?

Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo

He who is without hope, is without fear.

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OftenBen  ·  25 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Ghosts

We are fucking doomed.

You people are supposed to know better, be better.

We are fucking doomed.

OftenBen  ·  33 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Court to consider whether to hear challenge to same-sex marriage on Nov. 7

Sorry for not tagging this with #antichristianbigotry so y'all could ignore it.

OftenBen  ·  33 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 22, 2025

Thank you for just acknowledging it.

Every day is another round of sanity-washing insane and intolerable evil.

I feel more grounded reading your words than every single other thing I've read today.

OftenBen  ·  34 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 22, 2025

The way forward is the same as its ever been huh?

Preventable mass deaths that we actually cannot prevent because we grease the wheels of our nations and history with blood?

Seems like it.

OftenBen  ·  38 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 22, 2025

I had my annual appointment with my primary cardiologist today. No news except to carry on suffering. I have lost weight and don't need a CPAP so that's cool.

In the waiting room there was a woman sobbing openly into her phone while her adult child she was there to support stared blankly into space, numb. I could not help but overhear that their insurance was gone, overnight. I couldn't parse if it was through the military, or a Medicare/Medicaid issue.

I don't have any shred of patience tolerance or kindness left in me.

I don't have the ability to tolerate the calls from pundits like Ezra Klein to find some way to cooexist peacefully with people who would see me, those I love, sick children dead from poverty and despair.

A guy I went to Bible study with in college runs a network of churches here in metro Detroit and he is venerating charlie Kirk as a modern day king David, and compared his podcasting to the Psalms.

What common ground is there to be made with someone like that?

There isn't going to BE another january 6th because they literally BOUGHT THE COMPANY THAT MAKES THE VOTING MACHINES.

WHAT. ARE. YOU. TALKING. ABOUT.

what. are. you. talking. about.

He's trying to axe nasa and sell it to blue origin and spacex.

He defunded the NIH

He defunded special education

He defunded childrens cancer research and treatment

WHAT. ARE. YOU. TALKING. ABOUT.

OftenBen  ·  40 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: ACB is ALREADY enforcing christian morality over the rest of us.

It's so cool that Roe is literally gone, Obergefell is next, but I'm the lunatic.

Your partner TNG doesn't agree.

OftenBen  ·  40 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In Liz Cheney vs. Donald Trump, Guess Who Won

And then they all voted trump in 2024. I hate being able to see the future.