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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White supremacist Bernie Sanders admires likenesses of bigots on stolen Indian land: https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1279931298304294913 #Bernie #India #Sanders
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What I wanna know is where were the All Countries Matter crowd during Canada Day
#BLM is costing a lot of black lives. It's almost as if it's cynically using black lives as currency to spend toward its political purposes.
Shootings soar 205 percent after NYPD disbands anti-crime unit
Gunshot injuries skyrocketed to 157 from 47 in 2019, a 238 percent increase.
With a total of 205 shootings during the month, it was the bloodiest June in 24 years — going back to 1996, when the NYPD logged 236 incidents, the department said.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/04/shootings-soar-205-percent-after-nypd-disbands-anti-crime-unit/
@design_RG
Finally finished The Shallows just now. It's a great read, and is somewhat haunting of what the internet is doing to our brains. I highly recommend the book.
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This is well done and very Republican. Joe Biden: Our nation was founded on a simple idea: We're all created equal. We've never lived up to it — but we've never stopped trying. This Independence Day, let's not just celebrate those words, let's commit to finally fulfill them. Happy #FourthOfJuly! https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1279468678199734272 #Biden #Independence #Republican
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Biden Campaign Refuses To Release Cognitive Test Results
Joe #Biden told reporters that he’s been “tested and am constantly tested” for cognitive decline... Biden never actually said what any of the results were.
I'm old enough to remember a press conference a few weeks ago when Trump said he'd been tested for COVID-19, and reporters shouted demands to know the results. Not the same if you're Biden
https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/03/biden-campaign-refuses-to-release-cognitive-test-results/
Was just told by mall security that sitting and reading my book (any book) while I wait for my son is not allowed. Sitting and waiting is allowed. But not reading a book. Covid rules make so much sense. So now I'm standing next to the only seating in the mall reading my book standing up. That's fine, apparently.
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The biggest difference between the Affluent and non-affluent is MINDSETThe paradigm of the value of time, value of work, what it means to create value that can be leveraged, short term vs long term thinkingWealth is manifest of mentality Two Books to reprogram your brain... https://twitter.com/AJA_Cortes/status/1278938938258780160
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When you consider what an enormous windfall gain it is to be born in America, it is painful to hear some people complain bitterly that someone else got a bigger windfall gain than they did. https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell/status/1279039290656395264 #Mises #America
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Thousands of free blacks owned slaves in the antebellum South. And, years after the Emancipation Proclamation in the United States, whites as well as blacks were still being bought and sold as slaves in North Africa and the Middle East. https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell/status/1278727162967863297 #Mises #Africa #MiddleEast #UnitedStates
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@Lonestar
I was in Hong Kong in the summer of 97 when the hand over happened, and again the next summer. I talked to a number of people who were moving away in 1997, concerned about the lack of freedom they'd have under communist Chinese rule. And talked to a number of people the next summer who were moving back because it was still free after 1 year.
Looks live China plays the long game. 23 years later (to the day?) and they made their move.
@mhjohnson
Got this too. Very annoying. Celebrate your freedom in the anniversary of the signing of the declaration... But you're not free to exercise your religion, or associate with others.
Your free to comply with emergency text messages about masks and muzzles with nonsense slogans while we cancel freedom celebrating events while the death rate from this is really low and not increasing
"Keep calm and Denver on." oy.
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Re "So all white people are racist, all black people are oppressed, every Western system, institution and structure is racist, we should tear down all statues, and we must judge people based on their skin colour in the name of anti-racism!"Wait, wut...? 🤣 https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic/status/1278639637922275330 #Zuby
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"it's a phrase designed to use Black people."
Voddie Baucham: I can't support Black Lives Matter "because I love black people"
"And what worries me is that there are so many Christians who are not taking that stand. We have to separate this movement from the issues. I know that [Black Lives Matter] is a phrase that is part of an organization. It is a trademark phrase. And it's a phrase designed to use Black people."
Dean of Theology at African Christian University Voddie Baucham denounced the Black Lives Matter movement, saying people, and Christians especially, need to separate the issues from the movement.
Wait... Any Corona type virus, including the common cold can be reported as COVID-19 positive?
@Sunnywindows@social.quodverum.com what is the source of this? Surprising to me.
The Media is Lying About the ‘Second Wave’
Ron Paul
"Billions of appropriated Federal dollars are being funneled to facilities based on the number of “Covid cases” they can produce. As I’ve always said, if you subsidize something you get more of it. And that’s why we are getting more Covid cases."
The Present Moment Has Set Blacks Back a Half-Century
According to the make-believe world of the left, we are experiencing a great moment in American racial history. For the first time, the story goes, more whites than ever are
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Black likely voters know something TV talking heads apparently don't. Please retweet. Rasmussen Reports: Media Myth-Makers Busted: Black Americans are the demographic group MOST CONCERNED about a shortage of police officers and reduced public safety in the community where they live.And - support for Police is BI-PARTISAN. Please retweet. Marked crosstabs & story below. https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1275503895834292224 https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1277923581423427584
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Astronomers baffled by unexplained disappearance of massive star
Scientists are trying to figure out what happened to a massive star that once seemed to illuminate its entire host galaxy but now appears to be gone.
https://disrn.com/news/astronomers-baffled-by-unexplained-disappearance-of-massive-star
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
