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Art: Phainesthai, by Nam Das

Millions of tragedies happen every day that could have been avoided by being subscribed to The Duckstack. This means: I am filing a class action lawsuit against the entire planet. Everybody owes me. They could have read my blog, they chose not to, and look what the world has come to. Disease. Destruction. Death. Jaywalking. Millions of police officers, millions of judges, all to rectify your mistake. Enough is enough. I’m going to be awarded damages. I’m going to be so rich. Don’t let yourself be caught in the crossfires. If you aren’t already one of the noble, chosen few who already subscribes, do not despair. I can be merciful. I can be magnanimous. Will I be? That’s up to you.

Love Thy Enemy

Can’t love my enemies if I don’t have any. Checkmate, Jesus

On September of 2025 a rabid Evangelical drove his truck into a Latter-Day Saint chapel in Michigan and shot a bunch of kids. In an endless outflowing of compassion, millions of Christians of all stripes and varieties joined hands in united solidarity, and took to social media to denounce the Latter-Day Saints as unchristian and the antichrist, rebuking reporters, governors, and Donald J Trump for miscategorizing the victims. As the shooter himself had calmly explained on public radio mere days before, Latter-Day Saints are actually Not Christians, and are in fact The Antichrist. There’s a clip of the audio, floating around somewhere. The killer went out in a literal blaze of glory, having methodically set the chapel on fire, one final righteous stand against the cult of believing the trinity is kind of more like a perfectly united council rather than one single being.

One begins to suspect the highest duty of any Serious Christian is saving their God from the terrible danger of being associated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I call this “semantic gnosis”, or salvation by metaphysical profession. Its a real thing, and it is very serious to most Christians. I think this very conveniently removes Christ from the equation, swapping a living God out for a controlled proxy variable, but I do not actually blame Christians for their behavior¹. The Bible is all they have, so from my vantage point, they’re trying their best when they say we’re all super murderers who are going to get people tortured for eternity or whatever. Its fine. What I do blame these Christians for is lying.

One man who joined in the social media fun of dogpiling anyone who erroneously wept for the dead Latter-Day Saints is now running for Governor of Idaho. Mark Fitzpatrick is some sort of MAGA extremist which I would normally think is great for him except that he is not running for governor of his home state of California, but has instead transplanted himself to Idaho, which is probably the most LDS dominated state apart from Utah itself, and the membership there is far less fairweather.

Mark, like pretty much everyone else who enjoys ranting about how unchristian the Church of Jesus Christ is, in the wake of his governor bid now seeks to assure us that he “loves Mormons” and “totally has mormon friends” and for some reason expects people to buy this. This is where I take issue. I do not mind self-righteousness as such, but he seeks to excuse himself, and this is how we know that his conscience is not unsullied. He has painted himself into an ideological corner and now that he’s found his ideology didn’t prevent infinite consequences he wants to walk it back. When he loses he will of course return to his vomit, probably going much further against the church than he did in the past, rather than learning anything.

Of course, this guy is probably correct that his opponent is “sort of soft on immigration” or whatever, but when you want to destroy our culture and way of life then you’re doing the exact same thing that makes immigration bad. Mass immigration may not be in LDS Idahoans self interest, but religious antipathy towards them definitely isn’t either, and expecting our people to sacrifice themselves for your ideology is simply hubris. Claiming you “definitely love super murderers” is hubris too.

Tough Love is a true principle. Enablement Is Not Love is also a true principle. I don’t think any Latter-Day Saint in Idaho expected this guy to agree with their religion, convert, or even pretend alignment. But anyone with eyes can tell there is a thin line between Tough Love and “Not Love At All Actually”. The conqueror may truly believe he brings a better way of life to the Savages, but pretending to altruism is a thing he cannot do. His major motivation is himself, this is nowhere more apparent in politics.

You can love your enemies. Christ commanded this, but what most Christians (myself included) tend to do about this is to say “well my way is better, therefore when I hit you, I am expressing love”. You are not. You are expressing narcissism. Love for your own ideology is not, strictly speaking, love for others. Much less for your enemies.

There is a practical aspect here as well. In real life, (as leftists never tire of reminding us), solutions don’t apply at scale. Most things have exceptions, and ideal solutions are always the ones adapted to individual circumstance, and the less you account for individual circumstance, the greater the likelihood of collateral damage. Maybe such is necessary- but it isn’t “love”. In many cases, callously applied systems do not even work.

Being flamboyantly callous is, however, a really easy way to earn Based Points. You can signal virtue at essentially no cost of action, which is something the Prude Right loves. Being allergic to compromise allows you to posture as a reliable voice on an issue, even though you never get anything done. So there is an incentive gradient to stay away from the best approaches, compounded by how drastic many political (and religious) issues really are. Of course, “nuance” can be an extremist stance too, and a highly evasive one at that- so it really does all come down to the sincerity of the individual. While I’m sure Mark Fitzgerald has some good ideas, he simply couldn’t bring himself to be sincere. And this is one of the keys you can use in your own life, to more closely attune your conscience to God, and is in fact one of the big uses of prayer. By looking inward at your own sincerity, stripped of posturing and publicity, you can improve two vital life skills: You can more easily recognize God’s voice, and you can more easily recognize your own.

Duckstack Science: Beakers

If there’s no beakers, it isn’t science

Every day, liquids are getting poured into beakers, and beakers are getting roasted on Bunsen burners, and apparatuses are dripping drops into beakers, and does anyone stop to ask how the beakers feel about this? Our lab boys did a poll and they found the answer: Absolutely not. In fact, extrapolating from our sample (n=1) nobody on the entire planet has ever apologized to a beaker for lighting it on fire or manhandling it, or any of the other abuses that occur in the workplace. This is a clear HR violation. But the lab boys say it isn’t feasible to writeup everyone in the world for this². I trust my lab boys. They’re self serving here, but that’s what Jesus called smart³, so we’re going to do it, we’re just going to write it all off and call the whole thing square, but put all the scientists through workplace harassment training and sensitivity lecturers in order to funnel money to our politically aligned NGOs. Everybody wins!

History

Our son woke up late at night and cuddled with me while I was writing this. After a while, I told him its probably time for him to go to bed. He thought about it, and hesitantly said: “I feel like, its too… Comfy.”

While on the bed our son said he was cold, so I threw the entire blanket over him. “Here’s a blanket.” He sat motionless under it for a moment before commenting, “This is too much blanket for me.”

“There’s only two donut stores in the world”. He’s counted

The toddler at the dinner table spontaneously identified everyone in the house. Baba. Mama. Ai Ai. Bay-bee.

Our toddler has started saying “ya” to things, its very adorable

Took our son out to Fathers-And-Sons, which is basically just a boys campout once a year for your church congregation. Our Bishop (semi-equivalent of a pastor, but Bishops more do administration rather than giving talks) gave a nice fireside speech about pursuing a relationship with God and Joseph Smith’s example, and then someone threw a 3 foot diameter by 8 feet log on the fire, which didn’t burn at all. So we learned a lot both spiritually and scientifically. Our son says he “wants to go camping forever.”

Animal Facts

A comprehensive guide to the wilderness

FACT #1: dogs have fur. Bears have fur. Fish have fur, but scaly.

FACT #2: Cats purr, Lions purr, we all purr, for ice cream. Write that down.

FACT #3: Snakes slither on their bellies, just like my kids sometimes.

FACT #4: Horse runs are called “Gallop”, which is like human skipping but sideways, sort of like crabs

#FACT5: Fish lay eggs. Snakes lay eggs. Chickens lay eggs. Coincidence?

FACT6 #6: Birds do not like being upside down. Thanks, gravity!

A Game of Telephone

Is your refrigerator running?

Here is a game anyone can play with their phones: hacky sack

Ducksnax #112

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1. I am totally not above dunking on them though

2. writing up everyone in the world for not subscribing to my blog is already done, I’m afraid. Live and learn

3. Luke 16:8And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.