You can get concentrated permetherin, mix with water and apply with spray bottle to cotton clothes/socks. It bonds to the fiber and keeps the ticks off. Lasts several washes, longer if you don’t dry clothes with heat.

Much cheaper to buy the concentrate instead of the premix.

Spray outside, allow clothes to dry outside. Stuff is pretty much harmless to humans. When still wet or in concentrate, it is absolutely deadly to cats. After it has bonded to your clothes, it won’t hurt the cats. Doesn’t work if you apply it to your skin, the skin oils or something deactivate it.

Haven’t had a tick in years since I started using it.

Funko pops are collectible kitsch like beanie babies were. However, they have even less utility because they aren’t a stuffed animal. I don’t keep up with it because I don’t like them, but I bet it uses the same artifical scarcity model to drive sales due to rarity/collectability.

They’re art the same way abstract non-descript prints in hotel rooms or corporate offices is ‘art.’ A real artist designed it, but that doesn’t mean it’s not shit art. Take the same artist who is applying the funko formula and support them so they can produce whatever they want.

Burn shit corporate art.

Alfonso Ribeiro will always be FADDER!

SPEAK UP, WE CAN’T HEAR YOU.

Tight!

Post your other shit. Even if you can’t make more right now, you should share what you have. Sometimes you just have to grind.

I don’t have any advice other than hold on and keep pulling. It usually gets better.

Because, at the end of the day, Netanyahu will do or say anything to save his neck. He’s not a fanatic like Johnson. He’s like Trump and Vance.

I.E. Johnson would die for his beliefs and will kill or allow the deaths of those that he considers to be evil/subhuman like: queer people, immigrants, any religion other than Christianity or Judaism, etc.

Netanyahu will kill or do anything to protect or enrich himself. His Zionism is just a useful tool, and if it didn’t serve him, he’d drop it. (Not that that would ever be the case) Netanyahu would load jewish babies into a wood chipper while sucking off an Imam if it would keep him alive.

Look at what these people do, not what they say.

You’re so wound up on the whole Israel thing that you’re missing the point. Also, quit doing this purity test crap. It leaves you unable to understand the nuance in these things.

Johnson is more of a true Zionist than Netanyahu if you need to frame it that way. He is similar to Ali Khamenei in the fervency of his beliefs. I don’t have a good example of a Jewish politician as I’m weak on Israeli internal politics.

Wasn’t the baby just delivered a few days ago, very premature? Wasn’t it also known that it had hydrocephaly? (both things not very compatible with life)

Using a braindead woman and her braindead premature fetus as political football against the wishes of her family.

That’s so evil it’s a fucking cartoon. Like twirl your moustache, give an evil laugh, and then steal a blind person’s cane while jaywalking.

Crazy, ain’t it? Lemming really isn’t a bad descriptor for a lot the folks on here. Their brains have fallen out just like the MAGAts.

Trump should already be in prison for all kinds of shit. That being said, this is obviously political grandstanding and not the hill to die on. It doesn’t matter as it is a non-starter and distracts from the real issues.

However, gotta get that two minutes hate in. Don’t think, just scream. Don’t be effective in dealing with the far right, just be angry.

okay, that’s immaterial to the current discussion.

I would think Netanyahu is closer to the greed and corruption model. He needs the war to keep his slimy ass out of jail.

1991, with Limbaugh really gaining popularity. Conservative radio had found the secret sauce and this was arguably the first big win. The goals were certainly fascist.

I’m from a particularly backwards place. Thinking back on it, this may be when the big change started happening.

I think I would point to 9-11 2001 as the actual tipping point.

Mike Johnson is fucking spooky. I’ve been saying this for a few years now, when his Covenant Eyes usage made news.

He is a true believer, he’s on a mission from god. He’s smart. He will not care about the people crushed by the machine, as that is the fruit of their depravity in his worldview.

Watch this motherfucker. Trump and Vance are motivated by greed and power. You need to look to fundamentalist Islamic leaders for a similar mindset to Johnson.

I’m pretty okay with Duggar snark and Sister Wives snark. My girl follows all of it. Anything that spotlights the abuse inherent in fundamentalist Mormonism/Evangelicalism is mostly a good thing, in my book.

No clue about the particulars on this. Never heard of her before.

That’s a great Fitzgerald quote. I had to look it up. Written after The Great Gatsby but published shortly before, The Rich Boy is a novelette. From 1926.

1926. I fucking hate knowing history. I fucking hate feeling like Cassandra.

Sometimes a DIY icepick lobotomy doesn’t sound like a bad idea.

I love that you somehow caught a downvote on that. It’s almost a direct quote.

"Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had. " W. Kelley, Wharton Professor. Died 2011!

That’s how fucking dumb he was.

That’s been a minute.

I remember kids in my school wearing shirts with tanks running over Saddam with the caption, “Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.” I remember how happy my mother was about it.

I’m one of the dirty baby eating atheists, fwiw. Raised in christian fundamentalism. (Technically, I’m an agnostic Atheist.)

Read the article that answersplease posted below. According to that he was some sort of pantheist.

Ultimately, I think these guys are functional agnostics no matter what they claimed or even belive. The drive required to possess that level of power and manipulate everyone on your side and kill the Other doesn’t leave any room except for worship of self. I guess they’re amoral, but I’m not sure if labels like narcissist or sociopath always apply. You don’t have to be one of those to do great evil, just incredibly selfish and greedy. Chump may be an exception here, he’s obviously a fragile narcissist chasing daddy’s love.

For most of them, religion is just another tool to get what they want. They’ll change their beliefs to suit their desires. Musk is a good example, going from a darling of the left to the right. He was always a reptile in a skin suit, and for a while he made LGBTQ and environmental noises because that got him what he wanted.

I’ll look into Clean Wermarcht when i have time to fall into a rabbit hole. My question above was a genuine statement of what I knew of the subject. It’s interesting even though the entire thing is enraging.

I thought Ghislane was the Mossad contact, wasn’t her father actually in Mossad leadership? Epstein was the ‘party’ boy, gag, and Maxwell was operations?

I’ll go with you.

I’m still going to want to have a hard talk with God about why She allows cancer babies and such…

That’s why they explain the Bible to kids, sentence by sentence, to make sure they don’t accidentally understand it

That really is the rotten heart of the probelm. Doesn’t matter which flavor of fundamentalist. Christian/Jewish/Islamic fundies all pour that mind poison into children.

I thought Hitler was some sort of vegan atheist with a little sprinkle of occult Arayan BS? Christian trappings were for the masses and rank and file?

Personal general impression, no source.