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  1. europesays.com/people/115029/ Voices: ‘Slippery slope’ or ‘generational reset’? Readers split on Keir Starmer’s social media ban for under-16s #ban #KeirStarmer #SlipperySlope #SocialMedia

  2. @Nonilex

    "...unless they were able to produce evidence that at least one of their biological parents was a #US #citizen or lawful permanent resident."

    So then at what point does #AmyConeyBarrett and the other right-wing #SCOTUS "justices" demand that a #BiologicalParent" was verifiably a biological #Man or a #Woman at birth by their criteria? #SlipperySlope

  3. @Nonilex

    "...unless they were able to produce evidence that at least one of their biological parents was a #US #citizen or lawful permanent resident."

    So then at what point does #AmyConeyBarrett and the other right-wing #SCOTUS "justices" demand that a #BiologicalParent" was verifiably a biological #Man or a #Woman at birth by their criteria? #SlipperySlope

  4. @Nonilex

    "...unless they were able to produce evidence that at least one of their biological parents was a #US #citizen or lawful permanent resident."

    So then at what point does #AmyConeyBarrett and the other right-wing #SCOTUS "justices" demand that a #BiologicalParent" was verifiably a biological #Man or a #Woman at birth by their criteria? #SlipperySlope

  5. @Nonilex

    "...unless they were able to produce evidence that at least one of their biological parents was a #US #citizen or lawful permanent resident."

    So then at what point does #AmyConeyBarrett and the other right-wing #SCOTUS "justices" demand that a #BiologicalParent" was verifiably a biological #Man or a #Woman at birth by their criteria? #SlipperySlope

  6. ah yes good, another “oh, this is actually happening in the real world and not just a bunch of extremely online fringe crackpots yelling on the internet” moment

    ‘Disturbing’: Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws

    https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867

    #MAiD #Euthanasia #SlipperySlope #NoWarButClassWar (and we’re losing)

  7. ah yes good, another “oh, this is actually happening in the real world and not just a bunch of extremely online fringe crackpots yelling on the internet” moment

    ‘Disturbing’: Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws

    https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867

    #MAiD #Euthanasia #SlipperySlope #NoWarButClassWar (and we’re losing)

  8. ah yes good, another “oh, this is actually happening in the real world and not just a bunch of extremely online fringe crackpots yelling on the internet” moment

    ‘Disturbing’: Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws

    https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867

    #MAiD #Euthanasia #SlipperySlope #NoWarButClassWar (and we’re losing)

  9. ah yes good, another “oh, this is actually happening in the real world and not just a bunch of extremely online fringe crackpots yelling on the internet” moment

    ‘Disturbing’: Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws

    https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867

    #MAiD #Euthanasia #SlipperySlope #NoWarButClassWar (and we’re losing)

  10. CW: Naked penis

    When it’s Friday and you’re on skiing vacation. 😈😛😉

    #fcf #fatcockfriday #slipperyslope

  11. CW: Naked penis

    When it’s Friday and you’re on skiing vacation. 😈😛😉

    #fcf #fatcockfriday #slipperyslope

  12. A quotation from Thomas De Quincey

    For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of the time.

    Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) English writer, essayist, literary critic
    Essay (1839-11), “Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 289

    More about this quote: wist.info/de-quincey-thomas/81…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #escalation #depravity #goingdownhill #thomasdequincey #corruption #crime #downwardspiral #gateway #sin #slipperyslope

  13. A quotation from Thomas De Quincey

    For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of the time.

    Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) English writer, essayist, literary critic
    Essay (1839-11), “Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 289

    More about this quote: wist.info/de-quincey-thomas/81…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #escalation #depravity #goingdownhill #thomasdequincey #corruption #crime #downwardspiral #gateway #sin #slipperyslope

  14. A quotation from Thomas De Quincey

    For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of the time.

    Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) English writer, essayist, literary critic
    Essay (1839-11), “Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 289

    More about this quote: wist.info/de-quincey-thomas/81…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #escalation #depravity #goingdownhill #thomasdequincey #corruption #crime #downwardspiral #gateway #sin #slipperyslope

  15. Twilight of the Big Bang

    Good evening. Twilight started at 12:00:01 Coordinated Universal Time, yesterday. It's been nice seeing you!

    #Civilization #SlipperySlope #Physics #Time

  16. Twilight of the Big Bang

    Good evening. Twilight started at 12:00:01 Coordinated Universal Time, yesterday. It's been nice seeing you!

    #Civilization #SlipperySlope #Physics #Time

  17. Twilight of the Big Bang

    Good evening. Twilight started at 12:00:01 Coordinated Universal Time, yesterday. It's been nice seeing you!

  18. Twilight of the Big Bang

    Good evening. Twilight started at 12:00:01 Coordinated Universal Time, yesterday. It's been nice seeing you!

    #Civilization #SlipperySlope #Physics #Time

  19. A quotation from Racine

    HIPPOLYTUS: Great crimes are never single, they are link’d
       To former faults. He who has once transgress’d
       May violate at last all that men hold
       Most sacred; vice, like virtue, has degrees
       Of progress; innocence was never seen
       To sink at once into the lowest depths
       Of guilt.
     
    [HIPPOLYTE: Quelques crimes toujours precedent les grands crimes.
       Quiconque a pu franchir les bornes légitimes
       Peut violer enfin les droits les plus sacrés ;
       Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés ;
       Et jamais on n’a vu la timide innocence
       Passer subitement à l’extrême licence.]

    Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist
    Phèdre [Phædra], Act 4, sc. 2, l. 1094ff (1677-01-01) [tr. Boswell (1897)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/racine-jean/80880/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #racine #phaedra #jeanracine #corruption #crime #degree #depravity #immorality #sinfulness #sins #slipperyslope #vice

  20. A quotation from Racine

    HIPPOLYTUS: Great crimes are never single, they are link’d
       To former faults. He who has once transgress’d
       May violate at last all that men hold
       Most sacred; vice, like virtue, has degrees
       Of progress; innocence was never seen
       To sink at once into the lowest depths
       Of guilt.
     
    [HIPPOLYTE: Quelques crimes toujours precedent les grands crimes.
       Quiconque a pu franchir les bornes légitimes
       Peut violer enfin les droits les plus sacrés ;
       Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés ;
       Et jamais on n’a vu la timide innocence
       Passer subitement à l’extrême licence.]

    Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist
    Phèdre [Phædra], Act 4, sc. 2, l. 1094ff (1677-01-01) [tr. Boswell (1897)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/racine-jean/80880/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #racine #phaedra #jeanracine #corruption #crime #degree #depravity #immorality #sinfulness #sins #slipperyslope #vice

  21. A quotation from Racine

    HIPPOLYTUS: Great crimes are never single, they are link’d
       To former faults. He who has once transgress’d
       May violate at last all that men hold
       Most sacred; vice, like virtue, has degrees
       Of progress; innocence was never seen
       To sink at once into the lowest depths
       Of guilt.
     
    [HIPPOLYTE: Quelques crimes toujours precedent les grands crimes.
       Quiconque a pu franchir les bornes légitimes
       Peut violer enfin les droits les plus sacrés ;
       Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés ;
       Et jamais on n’a vu la timide innocence
       Passer subitement à l’extrême licence.]

    Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist
    Phèdre [Phædra], Act 4, sc. 2, l. 1094ff (1677-01-01) [tr. Boswell (1897)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/racine-jean/80880/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #racine #phaedra #jeanracine #corruption #crime #degree #depravity #immorality #sinfulness #sins #slipperyslope #vice

  22. A quotation from Racine

    HIPPOLYTUS: Great crimes are never single, they are link’d
       To former faults. He who has once transgress’d
       May violate at last all that men hold
       Most sacred; vice, like virtue, has degrees
       Of progress; innocence was never seen
       To sink at once into the lowest depths
       Of guilt.
     
    [HIPPOLYTE: Quelques crimes toujours precedent les grands crimes.
       Quiconque a pu franchir les bornes légitimes
       Peut violer enfin les droits les plus sacrés ;
       Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés ;
       Et jamais on n’a vu la timide innocence
       Passer subitement à l’extrême licence.]

    Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist
    Phèdre [Phædra], Act 4, sc. 2, l. 1094ff (1677-01-01) [tr. Boswell (1897)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/racine-jean/80880/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #racine #phaedra #jeanracine #corruption #crime #degree #depravity #immorality #sinfulness #sins #slipperyslope #vice

  23. Fifteen studies of thousands of people from four countries found that more politically conservative individuals rated slippery-slope arguments as being more logical than did politically liberal individuals.

    Summary: psypost.org/conservatives-are-

    Original paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

    #Science #Psychology #Politics #Argument #SlipperySlope #Ideology #Intuition #Logic

  24. Fifteen studies of thousands of people from four countries found that more politically conservative individuals rated slippery-slope arguments as being more logical than did politically liberal individuals.

    Summary: psypost.org/conservatives-are-

    Original paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

    #Science #Psychology #Politics #Argument #SlipperySlope #Ideology #Intuition #Logic

  25. Fifteen studies of thousands of people from four countries found that more politically conservative individuals rated slippery-slope arguments as being more logical than did politically liberal individuals.

    Summary: psypost.org/conservatives-are-

    Original paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

    #Science #Psychology #Politics #Argument #SlipperySlope #Ideology #Intuition #Logic

  26. Fifteen studies of thousands of people from four countries found that more politically conservative individuals rated slippery-slope arguments as being more logical than did politically liberal individuals.

    Summary: psypost.org/conservatives-are-

    Original paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

    #Science #Psychology #Politics #Argument #SlipperySlope #Ideology #Intuition #Logic

  27. Breaking Precedent, GOP Changes Rules On Nominees

    “We are steadily handing away most of the significant constitutional powers of the Senate,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del. “That is very dangerous."

    #SlipperySlope #Trump2.0 #BlackMastodon

    hawaiitribune-herald.com/2025/

  28. Breaking Precedent, GOP Changes Rules On Nominees

    “We are steadily handing away most of the significant constitutional powers of the Senate,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del. “That is very dangerous."

    #SlipperySlope #Trump2.0 #BlackMastodon

    hawaiitribune-herald.com/2025/

  29. Breaking Precedent, GOP Changes Rules On Nominees

    “We are steadily handing away most of the significant constitutional powers of the Senate,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del. “That is very dangerous."

    #SlipperySlope #Trump2.0 #BlackMastodon

    hawaiitribune-herald.com/2025/

  30. Breaking Precedent, GOP Changes Rules On Nominees

    “We are steadily handing away most of the significant constitutional powers of the Senate,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del. “That is very dangerous."

    #SlipperySlope #Trump2.0 #BlackMastodon

    hawaiitribune-herald.com/2025/

  31. 20 years ago, it was a scandal that Google started to track which links you clicked on the search-results page:

    web.archive.org/web/2005111901

    #SlipperySlope

  32. 20 years ago, it was a scandal that Google started to track which links you clicked on the search-results page:

    web.archive.org/web/2005111901

    #SlipperySlope

  33. 20 years ago, it was a scandal that Google started to track which links you clicked on the search-results page:

    web.archive.org/web/2005111901

    #SlipperySlope

  34. 20 years ago, it was a scandal that Google started to track which links you clicked on the search-results page:

    web.archive.org/web/2005111901

    #SlipperySlope

  35. @rysiek

    Next up, footage from mail delivery trucks. Then, Teslas. Then, individual dash cam footages. #SlipperySlope

  36. @rysiek

    Next up, footage from mail delivery trucks. Then, Teslas. Then, individual dash cam footages. #SlipperySlope

  37. @rysiek

    Next up, footage from mail delivery trucks. Then, Teslas. Then, individual dash cam footages. #SlipperySlope

  38. @rysiek

    Next up, footage from mail delivery trucks. Then, Teslas. Then, individual dash cam footages. #SlipperySlope

  39. Der #SlipperySlope, auch #Dammbruchargument, behauptet, dass eine kleine Veränderung zwangsläufig zu extremen Folgen führt – ohne echte Beweise.
    Beispiel:
    🚭 „Wenn wir Rauchen in Restaurants verbieten, wird bald ALLES verboten – sogar Fleischessen!“
    💰 „Wenn wir höhere Steuern für Reiche fordern, führt das direkt zum Kommunismus!“
    Aber nur weil etwas passiert, heißt das nicht, dass das Schlimmste unausweichlich ist.

    👉 Tipp: Frage nach Belegen: „Warum genau sollte das passieren?“

  40. Der #SlipperySlope, auch #Dammbruchargument, behauptet, dass eine kleine Veränderung zwangsläufig zu extremen Folgen führt – ohne echte Beweise.
    Beispiel:
    🚭 „Wenn wir Rauchen in Restaurants verbieten, wird bald ALLES verboten – sogar Fleischessen!“
    💰 „Wenn wir höhere Steuern für Reiche fordern, führt das direkt zum Kommunismus!“
    Aber nur weil etwas passiert, heißt das nicht, dass das Schlimmste unausweichlich ist.

    👉 Tipp: Frage nach Belegen: „Warum genau sollte das passieren?“

  41. Der #SlipperySlope, auch #Dammbruchargument, behauptet, dass eine kleine Veränderung zwangsläufig zu extremen Folgen führt – ohne echte Beweise.
    Beispiel:
    🚭 „Wenn wir Rauchen in Restaurants verbieten, wird bald ALLES verboten – sogar Fleischessen!“
    💰 „Wenn wir höhere Steuern für Reiche fordern, führt das direkt zum Kommunismus!“
    Aber nur weil etwas passiert, heißt das nicht, dass das Schlimmste unausweichlich ist.

    👉 Tipp: Frage nach Belegen: „Warum genau sollte das passieren?“

  42. Der #SlipperySlope, auch #Dammbruchargument, behauptet, dass eine kleine Veränderung zwangsläufig zu extremen Folgen führt – ohne echte Beweise.
    Beispiel:
    🚭 „Wenn wir Rauchen in Restaurants verbieten, wird bald ALLES verboten – sogar Fleischessen!“
    💰 „Wenn wir höhere Steuern für Reiche fordern, führt das direkt zum Kommunismus!“
    Aber nur weil etwas passiert, heißt das nicht, dass das Schlimmste unausweichlich ist.

    👉 Tipp: Frage nach Belegen: „Warum genau sollte das passieren?“

  43. A text msg I just wrote that concisely sums up the threat that private healthcare poses to the public system #healthcare #slipperyslope [Not mentioned: private system works off profit & can pay workers more than public, so workers are siphoned off into private sector & worker shortages, i.e. current lack of nurses, gets worse. Big $ industry grows out of the carcass of public health for those who can afford to pay, & those who can't are left to die or face bankruptcy from medical debt (see USA)]

  44. A text msg I just wrote that concisely sums up the threat that private healthcare poses to the public system #healthcare #slipperyslope [Not mentioned: private system works off profit & can pay workers more than public, so workers are siphoned off into private sector & worker shortages, i.e. current lack of nurses, gets worse. Big $ industry grows out of the carcass of public health for those who can afford to pay, & those who can't are left to die or face bankruptcy from medical debt (see USA)]

  45. Last year, I rediscovered in the attic my incomplete 1990/91 MLB #Topps collection, which I started after a brief visit to the U.S.

    Now, some 34 years later, I've finally completed the 1990 set and #Pirates set for good measure.

    Next up - finishing 1991 and starting others!?😅 #slipperyslope

    #Buccos #MLB #LetsGoBucs