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
Pinterest just FIRED whistleblower who exposed them…
I guess the attempt to conceal the identity of the whistleblower who exposed Pinterest failed: According to O'Keefe, the whistleblower has already been fired by the big brother social media company.
https://therightscoop.com/pinterest-just-fired-whistleblower-who-exposed-them/
Wow, they're moving fast with political censorship.
Live Action Permanently Banned from Pinterest for Spreading ‘Harmful Misinformation’
The pro-life advocacy organization Live Action announced Tuesday morning it had been permanently banned from the popular social media site […]
#Salesforce has announced their orwellian Office of Ethical Use, to determine who they won't provide services to.
The same Salesforce that threatened to move all employees out of Indiana and ban travel there if then governor Pence kept the religious freedom law that allowed companies to determine who they wouldn't provide services to.
True champions of freedom of association as long as you associate with who THEY say is ethical.
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Prager U Video: Big Tech Is Big Brother https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273978/prager-u-video-big-tech-big-brother-prager-university
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says Kavanaugh helped boost number of female law clerks on court
"Thanks to his selections, the court has this term, for the first time ever, more women than men serving as law clerks."
Ginsburg noted that more progress is still needed to ensure equal representation.
Reaction : Because while more of the female gender than the male is good, it's still not enough for equal representation.
Another Former Republican State Senator Found Dead with Gunshot Wound for Second Time in 2 Days
Senator Jonathan Nichols' death comes just two days after former Arkansas state senator Linda Collins-Smith was found dead, also with a gunshot wound
https://people.com/crime/former-state-senator-found-dead-gunshot-second-time-2-days/
As a Black Pastor, I Must Speak Out on Abortion Because 19 Million Black Babies Have Been Killed
While blacks only make up 13% of the population, they account for over one-third of all abortions in the U.S.
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Agreed. It seems apparent that he likes to think that he's for freedom and federation, when he's really in favor of using his position and power to lock down the fediverse to only voices he likes.
I've never seen gab. But I'm bothered by his demands, which have been met, for the app developers to build in blocks so no one can use any apps to connect to instances he doesn't like. It seems a fascist way to run a platform, going by the dictionary definition as far as it can fit in a context like this - centralized authority, using that power for blocking diversity of opinion, etc.
But it's said to be anti fascist. And maybe there are fascists he's opposed to ( but I'm not sure... Are they centralizing power to shut down opposing views, or is there some other expression of fascism that applies to them?), but even so, being a fascist to stop fascists doesn't seem to be the right approach. Being X to stop people who are X in general seems to be a silly idea, whatever the X is.
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For my first toot, I would like to say that I think it stinks that our children are judged primarily on multiple choice tests taken in a high pressure situation. The state tests do not show the flexibility, persistence, and creativity of my students. Nor do they show their ability to collaborate or to use and interpret technology.
If you really want to know about my students and their mathematical abilities, stop by and visit. You will learn more than any one test will show.
Disappointed at the lack of logic in the new censorship discussions here on mastodon. The argument goes something like :
If you disagree with me in any way, you're a fascist/white supremacist /etc.
If you support people's ability to voice their opinion that differs from mine, even if I can't prove that you actually disagree with my opinions, then you're supporting fascists.
The only right response to fascists is to implement an authoritarian view of mastodon, with a strong centralized governance to have no tolerance for opposing opinions.
I don't know much about gab, I don't like trolls (on the "I disagree with you" side or in the "disagreeing with me is FASCISM!!! 1!11" side), they are an annoying thing but are easy for individuals to block, but I thought the idea of mastodon was against this type of governance of social media, which is getting pretty close to an application of Mussolini's governing philosophy, whatever that was called.
Quotes from Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger
Planned Parenthood founder :
"The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
"We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population"
“I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan... I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak...In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.”
https://www.tfpstudentaction.org/blog/margaret-sanger-quotes
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So is @Tusky going to start making moral judgements for users and restrict which instances can be accessed through its app?
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Greg Abbott
I just signed the law that bans red light cameras in Texas.
https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1134944087965077507
What do you think of this idea from author Andrew Klavan on a recent podcast? The left consistently identifies an enemy and then adopts the enemies values.
Examples include feminism's push for women to adopt traditionally male values (work over family, career first, family later, hands on hips aggressiveness), instead of elevating traditional female values of being a mother, etc., and on race (using race against whites after identifying white racists as the enemy).
23 Weeks.
Saybie, Born At 8.6 Ounces, Is Now Believed To Be The World's Tiniest Surviving Baby
She was born at a San Diego hospital prematurely at 23 weeks of gestation weighing about as much as a large apple.
Glad to read that Nevada's governor vetoed the NPV bill. Nice to see anyone stand against the dismantling of the republic.
@masterofthetiger@theres.life
I don't think so, though I'm just starting the book. The above quote, I think, validates both. I object to gnosticism, the idea that only those with the secret knowledge can understand. But I think that we ought to study scripture because there's always more meaning to be obtained.
This author writes that (I'm tooting from memory here, but I think this is right) the study of nature (what you or I may call general revelation) and the study of God in his revealed word (special revelation) do not contradict, are not dichotomies, B but are rather dualistic : both are very different perspectives on the same reality, and as such don't contradict. One either has a faulty understanding of or it the other.
I have seen many church kids leave home with a kindergarten understanding of scripture, to be confronted by many proselytizing atheist PhDs, and their biblical understanding is really shallow so cannot really hold up.
I guess my thought is : Straightforward reading is good, meaningful, and true. Shallow reading without pursuing further depth will be lacking.
I think this book is too encourage the religious to be more engaged in science and the non religious to be more engaged in biblical texts. We'll see.
Just picked up The Science of God by Gerald L. Schroder. From the preface, and pertinent to recent toots here : "Why would God have described our cosmic history in the Bible in terms that seem to contradict the workings of the universe? The Bible was accountable to its earliest audience, a largely uneducated population of recently freed slaves, as it would be to scholars through the ages. So it works on a number of levels and is filled with subtle hints of much deeper truths confirmed by the underlying truths of nature. "
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
