Peter Metzger

"Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching-- even when doing the wrong thing is legal." - Aldo Leopold

"""Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching-- even when doing the wrong thing is legal."
- Aldo Leopold"
- Nick Offerman"
- Peter Metzger

31.03.2025 14:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.

05.03.2025 03:54 — 👍 46001    🔁 7364    💬 664    📌 269

Watching it live because I wanted to hear it straight from the horse's mouth, even if the horse is a jackass.

05.03.2025 02:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So as far as I can tell, we're* trying to give Ukraine to Russia, Brazil to Bolsonaro, Americans to Musk, and America to Trump. I know this isn't a complete list, what did I miss?

*"we" in the sense of the US Federal Gov't. I'm certainly not trying to do any of these things, myself.

#geopolitics

19.02.2025 18:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

aaaand he's gone and done it. I don't even know what to say, which I think is partially the point.

It's bad enough when a president is power-grabbing all over the government, but to see it extend into historically bipartisan cultural centers feels especially dangerous.

13.02.2025 17:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

10.02.2025 13:46 — 👍 3254    🔁 374    💬 94    📌 45

Trump says he's firing Kennedy Center board of trustees members and naming himself chairman President Donald Trump says he is firing members of the board of trustees for the Kennedy Center and naming himself chairman.

Naming himself head of a cultural institution?

apnews.com/article/trum...

I've read about the political trials Dmitri Shostakovich endured as a composer in Stalin's Russia, but I never thought we'd start to see it happening here.

08.02.2025 13:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

And when do we all start being excellent to each other?

08.02.2025 12:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

One of these days we're gonna have to reckon with the fact that "money that I spend which does not directly benefit me is a waste" is a popular sentiment.

I think we should state plainly that this is selfish on its face.

And stupid when you have awareness which extends beyond your nose.

07.02.2025 18:30 — 👍 20325    🔁 2726    💬 88    📌 11

(that is, Dems-- or whatever non-maga Republicans might be left-- get painted as "refusing to pay" the people who take up the offer, if they don't want to go along with whatever budget proposal comes up for a vote)

06.02.2025 23:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

To what extent is the "deferred resignation" offer potentially setting up a batch of martyrs for when funding to pay out the remainder of the promise (remember, the federal government is only funded through mid-march at the moment) gets tied to whatever maga tomfoolery they come up with next? #usgov

06.02.2025 23:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Why not democracy, if democracy-shaped?

05.02.2025 18:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0