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
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BERNIE SANDERS: "Eighty-three percent of your tax benefits go to the top 1 percent."
AP FACT CHECK: false.
This is theoretical for the year 2027 and only because Bernie and friends won't make the tax cuts permanent.
https://www.fox8live.com/2019/06/28/ap-fact-check-claims-dem-debate-opener-night/
Nancy Pelosi and Democrats Block Bill to Stop Infanticide For 66th Time, Refuse Care for Babies Born Alive
Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats continue to refuse a request to allow a vote on the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, legislation that would stop i
"the ever-outraged and always-offended tone of the mainstream news sources is making us numb to the world's pain. When everything is a crisis, nothing is. We think we're becoming informed, but actually we're becoming numb... We must resist becoming people who talk of justice out of rage and work on becoming people who talk of justice out of love. "
Justin Whitmel Earley, The Common Rule. Published 2019
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The look on my face when someone starts resorting to personal insults on a respectful discussion over a difference of opinion.
Had to log into Facebook for the first time in several weeks to check in on my kids summer camp. That was awful.
@masterofthetiger@theres.life
Whoah
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This horrifying decision was reversed:
Woman No Longer Forced To Have Abortion After English Court Of Appeal Ruling
https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/24/disabled-forced-abortion
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Teen Who Said There Are Two Genders Suspended from School http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/breitbart/~3/uoCgdJucvoM/ #IdentityPolitics #genderfluidity #genderidentity #genderpolitics #London/Europe #SocialJustice #UnitedKingdom #freespeech #Education #scotland #Britain #schools #gender
@DashEquals@linuxrocks.online
I'm not sure if that's more important, or that it's my business. She and her parents are eager to raise this baby. The government decides which babies are allowed to be born.
UK judge forcing mentally disabled mother to have abortion against her will
A judge in the United Kingdom ruled that a mentally disabled pregnant mother must abort her baby because doctors have arbitrarily decided an abortion would be less traumatic for her than childbirth. At 22 weeks gestation, this baby can feel pain and may be viable outside the womb.
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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” — C.S. Lewis
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
C. S. Lewis
@freemo
Suffering and unhappiness are not wrong or the measure of immorality.
They're both essential parts of the human experience. As a great man once said : life is suffering. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something.
Certainly the choice to cause suffering is a different question, but I think it's also a different question than taking a person's life, which with incredibly rare exception is always wrong.
@dcjogger
Fetus : Medical term for the baby before it is born, ie when still in the uterus.
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Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges.
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Whatever you think about the current strangeness in Oregon politics, remember that the same thing happened in 2003 in Texas (with the parties reversed).
@mhjohnson
All because the Democrats don't want the people to have a democratic vote on this?
Because CNN is neutral:
CNN’s Lemon on Airing Trump Speeches: Would We Have Given Hitler a ‘Platform’?
‘You knew in the moment that was a bad person and they were doing bad things’
https://news.grabien.com/story-cnns-lemon-airing-trump-speeches-would-we-have-given-hitler
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
