SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
Because this is less and less possible here, I'm largely offline and am not sure if I'll be returning. It was fun back when civility was a trend on qoto.
Joined Aug 2018
This chaos must stop, it's terrible! Vote for change! The number of employed Americans has never been higher. The 156,562,000 Americans employed in October is the twefth record set under President Donald Trump. CW for length, more jobs numbers below.
In October, the number of employed men age 20 and up -- 80,405,000 -- set the 12th record since Trump took office; and likewise, for the 12th time, the number of employed women age 20 and up set a record, reaching 70,909,000 in October.
The unemployment rate held at 3.7 percent, the same as September, which is the lowest it's been in decades -- since the end of 1969. And the Hispanic unemployment rate, 4.4 percent, has never been lower.
The unemployment rate for African-Americans, 6.2 percent, remained near the all-time low of 5.9 percent set in May.
On top of those numbers, the economy added a whopping 250,000 jobs last month.
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/156562000-record-employment-12th-time-under-trump
I have been incredibly active on diaspora.
2 new notifications. 1 from an hour ago, one from 7 years ago.
3 Proofs that mainstream media bias does not exist, that Republicans should be crazy to attack CNN, etc, like Obama attacked Fox News :
Earlier this month, before the suspicious packages sent to democrats, suspicious packages were sent to Republicans, some testing positive for ricin, one grain of which is lethal and has no known antidote.
1. The media asserted that Trump's rhetoric and his alone was the cause of the suspicious packages sent to democrats. Certainly we can find media giving equal blame to his opponents rhetoric from earlier this month for the packages sent to republicans.
2. Media dubbed the second unknown mailer the MAGA bomber, certainly they must have dubbed the first three Love Trumps Hate bomber.
3. CNN ran the ticker blaming Trump as news was just breaking about the second mailer, they must have run the ticker blaming democrats for the first.
Or none of the above is true and media bias seems glaring.
Source : Suspicious letters addressed to Trump, Ted Cruz office, Pentagon
Democrats are to blame for the packages sent to Republicans in equal amount to the blame resting on Republicans for packages sent to democrats.
Maybe this stuff isn't restricted to one side, but we just assume it is because the media gets viewership by polarizing so they present it that way. (Or media outlets are more just active as an arm of a political party and we'd do well to acknowledge that.)
Maybe we can rise above the constant us VS them mentality and get away from the one sided outrage for a minute to think clearly.
Fewer Sexual Partners Before Marriage Yield Greater Happiness in Marriage: Study
New research reveals that marriages are quantifiably happier if the couple had fewer sexual partners prior to their wedding day.
#uspol, money and politics
I think this is a very real and regular problem with spending taxpayer money on this and many other issues. It seems a smaller government with less spending would have less effective corruption.
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
Because this is less and less possible here, I'm largely offline and am not sure if I'll be returning. It was fun back when civility was a trend on qoto.
Joined Aug 2018
