HM Beisswenger

Folklore Friday: Aesop's Fables And the nature of evil

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Indigenous People's Day And why Columbus is in the Bad Place

2 minute history on why Columbus is in the Bad Place.

Happy Indigenous People's Day!

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3 Minute Look at Nazi History Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Night of Long Knives

The Night of Long Knives and parallels to the current administration.

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A Brief Note on the Shutdown Some things to note about the shutdown:

Bullet point notes on things you should know about the government shutdown. It's less than a 2 minute read.

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Hegseth and the Generals And the meeting that could have been an email

I watched Hegseth’s speech so you don’t have to.

TL:DR: He wants to abolish the RoE. That’s the legal code that prevents crimes against humanity, set up via the Geneva Convention.

Anyone who wants to get rid of the RoE is on the fast track to Nuremberg.

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The "Martyrdom" of Horst Wessel A brief minute of Nazi history

A brief moment of history and how Horst Wessel compares to Charlie Kirk.

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Let's Talk About Bots What they look like and how to deal with them

Let's talk about bots: What they are, how to spot them, how to handle them, and what their goals are.

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GOP Hypocrisy is the Point, Not a Design Flaw What we miss when we focus on the hypocrisy of the GOP

Anytime someone points out the obvious hypocrisy within the GOP, they are missing the point of the GOP's platform.

Hypocrisy is the point.

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Charlie Kirk and "Fake Conservativism" And what we've learned about MAGA from the assassin

Yesterday, I posted about how Charlie Kirk weaponized debate to target white boys in online forums.

This is the analysis of the alleged shooter and how he came from the same forums Kirk was trying to exploit.

Except it didn't work out for him.
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Charlie Kirk, the Great Debater And how the right-wing weaponized academic debates

Moderate liberals are celebrating Kirk as someone willing to sit down with people from all political backgrounds and have an honest debate.

That is NOT what he did.

This is how Kirk and the right-wing weaponized debate to radicalize young men.

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Breaking Down a Common Apologetic Argument And why "Just do your research" falls completely flat.

When Christian apologists realize their arguments aren't leading to conversion, they all have a tendency to fall back to "If you just did your research/read the Bible, you'd understand."

Here's why that argument is absolute crap.

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Folklore Friday: Yahweh, the Semitic Storm God And the time he threatened to murder all the other deities.

Some history behind Yahweh as a Semitic storm god, and the story of the time he set about to murder all the other gods.

Psalm 82 is one of my favorite Bible myths.

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Minneapolis and the Stages of Gun Violence And what the Minnesota Catholic School means for what comes next

For a very long time now, I've been writing about how the intersection between book banning and mass violence and how it escalates.

The Minneapolis shooting has the potential to serve as the next step, when the government steps in to take over.

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Migrant Deportations and Echoes from the Past How Trump's agenda mimics that of Idi Amin

What Trump is doing is beat for beat what a Uganda dictator did in the 1970s.

And it will lead to the same outcomes.

Here's how that works.

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Folklore Friday: Baal, the Canaanite Storm God and his epic rivalry with Yahweh

Some of the history behind the Canaanite storm god, Baal and his epic rivalry with Yahweh.

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Folklore Friday: Crispus, the Son of Constantine And the tragic tale buried at the core of Christian history

Instead of folklore for Folklore Friday, today we have the historical tale of Crispus, the first son of Constantine.

His death played a major role in the conversion of Constantine, who was most definitely a terrible person.

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Fascism and The Least of These Let’s talk about “the least of these” and how it ties into the rising terror within our communities.

In 30 years, when the next generation is sitting in AP History class asking how did this happen again and how can we prevent it from happening again and again and again and....?

The answer lies in protecting the least of these.

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Folklore Friday: Anat, Hebrew/Canaanite Goddess of War and Savagery And God's other wife

Last week, I wrote about the goddess Asherah who was God’s wife in the Bible.

Today, we have Anat, the Hebrew/Canaanite war goddess, and God’s other wife.

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Folklore Friday: Asherah, Queen of Heaven, Mother of the gods, and God's Wife And the convergence of Biblical tales with Canaanite mythology

Folklore Friday: Asherah, the Queen of Heaven and mother of the gods from Hebrew and Canaanite mythology.

She was God's wife until the kings in Jerusalem figured out a "one god, one temple" policy gave them consolidated and unchecked power.

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What Does "Illegal" Actually Mean? And why the word is a lie

The word "illegal" is designed to preprogram your mind to automatically think something is bad. Except the word is empty rhetoric and rhetoric is designed to escalate.

Here's how that escalation works and where we are headed next.

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Book Recommendation: "Undeniable" by Bill Nye Evolution and the Science of Creation

A book recommendation for anyone who grew up in religious schooling now has to teach themselves science.

This is a great dive into the differences between evolution and creationism. I highly recommend for anyone early on in their deconstruction.

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Deportation camps are for brown people.
Labor camps are for kids with ADHD and learning disabilities.
Prison camps are for queer people, democrats, and dissenters.

Functionally, they're all the same.

Folklore Friday: Libertas The Roman goddess of liberty and freedom

The goddess Libertas (or Lady Liberty) from Roman mythology and her dark duality through history.

Freedom for all?
Or freedom for me and not for thee?

Tis a very solemn 4th of July this year.

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UFOs, Aliens, and the Pentagon And the conspiracy to use conspiracy theory

It may be surprising to discover the Pentagon uses alien and UFO myths to cover up real classified development projects.

Here's some history behind why they do that, and how the conspiracy to use conspiracy theories to deceive the public is so effective.

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." 

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Iraq, Iran, and Dictators And the fog of war theory

The intelligence failure of the Iraq War wasn’t what most people thought it was.

But yes, there is a chance that is a repeat of the same mistakes, as well as a typical dictator move to consolidate power.

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Folklore Friday: Physis, the Greek deity of the order of nature And the unmoved mover

Physis, the unmoved mover from Greek mythology (and philosophy).

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Folklore Friday: Iphis from the Island of Crete And the time Isis turned a girl into a boy

The epic (and forbidden) love story of Iphis and Ianthe, from the overlap of Greek and Egyptian mythology.

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Folklore and Blurry Vision And the time before eye glasses

I have a strong suspicion that many aspects of folklore may trace back to humans with bad eyesight in the time before glasses.

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Folklore Friday: Inanna, Sumerian goddess of war and fertility And the ability to change people's genders

For #pridemonth, we have Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of fertility and war, but who also had the ability to transform men into women, and women into men.

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