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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Deranged Don Lemon threatens to “blow up the entire system” including smashing the Electoral College and stacking the Court.
The Left is about one thing: power.
https://twitter.com/CortesSteve/status/1308376563885506561
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MSNBC is reporting on global approval ratings of the US President. Is that a measure of anything more than how the major media corporations are presenting him?
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LOL.
Genius Trump Nominates Joe Biden To Supreme Court Forcing Dems To Accuse Him Of Sexual Assault
WASHINGTON, D.C.
#Trump has announced his pick for Supreme Court justice: Joe #Biden. By nominating Biden, Trump has forced the Dems' hands, making them believe the sexual assault claims and allegations of inappropriate, creepy behavior against the former vice president.The "4D chess" move forced Dems to immediately accuse Joe Biden of...
https://babylonbee.com/news/genius-trump-nominates-joe-biden-to-supreme-court
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A packed house. Excellent Biblical exegesis. @johnmacarthur preaching the word of God while the state of California tries to silence it. (Even if I get Wuflu and die, he can still say he did his bit to #savetheKlavan.) Quite an experience. I'll talk about it on tomorrow's show.
Ryan Helfenbein: I don’t always go to @GraceComChurch church on Sunday, but when I do I sit next to @andrewklavan
https://twitter.com/andrewklavan/status/1307839974478282752 #California #God
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Nice to hear that Github is finally replacing the term master with billgates
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Re @ScottAdamsSays Things that were already (apparently) on the table:
1. Shooting up GOP baseball games
2. Allowing supporters to burn cities.
3. Staging coups against democratically elected president.
4. FBI collusion/perjury traps.
5. Leaking classified information. https://twitter.com/be_machiavelli/status/1307646292517154817 #FBI #GOP
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What do Democrats mean by "Nothing is off the table?" I mean, they already tried a coup attempt. Are they going to start mailing ricin to . . . wait, what? https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1307642267071471617 #Democrats
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@khird perhaps. I think nailing down "the rule" is purely subjective. The rule is either not to hold a vote during any election year (which is 50% or more of years), or don't hold a vote during the final months of a lame duck president (at term limit) when a different party holds the senate.
There's so much objectively different this time, whatever happened last time doesn't seem that it would apply.
I also don't think after what happened with the last nominee there's any good faith left for any kind of negotiation or promises.
Those shocked that the Republicans will push to fill a Supreme Court vacancy when Trump is running for reelection when they wouldn't when Obama was headed out of office might be forgetting that democrats demanded a hearing and now reversed their position. It's all sides.
Republicans can say there's multiple objective differences that explain their different position now. Other than "we hate Trump", what else is different that could explain a rational objection to a vote from those who demanded a vote 4 years ago?
@Demosthenes @randomthoughts@mstdn.social
I am reminded of the ACA Supreme Court ruling : "Elections Have Consequences".
I'm not sure of the problem when the elected president plays the presidential role here and appoints someone.
I understand there's many pushing unrest to increase fear, but not sure it's a good idea to not do the job one was elected to because others are acting too make people afraid.
Is the country moving to the left? Maybe.
Media presentations aside, it's been has been moving in a way that's landed is with an elected senate majority and president (the two roles who are responsible for this job) that are not members of the left wing party. And it's not clear that things will change in November. The democrats chose the primary candidate who presented as the most centrist, not one to the left. And it's looking to me like Trump is likely to continue to a second term.
Also wondering, can it possibly be more contentious than the last nominee? I don't think the current hatred against non leftists takes a break, election year or not.
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NNNNOOOOOOO!!!!! I woke up to find Ruth Bader Ginsburg died. I really liked her for the most part.
Part of me thinks Trump has been able to select too many supreme court judges, but I must admit while Trump is a pretty shitty president overall his supreme court choices arent too bad and I think its good we have some strong 2nd and 1st amendment rights representatives on the supreme court now at least... So lets hope he makes a good choice.
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So after reading a misleading meme on the internet I was compelled to compare the COVID situation in Canada over the past few months to that in the USA. This is what I notice.
The Canadian stock market has crashed by a thousand points since the beginning of the year and COVID cases in Canada have **increased** 700% since mid june... Compared to america where the stock market has **increased** by 3,000 points since the beginning of the year (thatsa 33% increase) and covid cases has **dropped** by more than 50% since the beginning of july.
The issue with lockdowns is they look great to everyone who is too ignorant to understand whats going on, but they devastate the economy and do no good because the second you let up the lock down no one has immunity and the virus spreads like it is new. So in the long run you get hit hard in the wallet AND in terms of the infection. Meanwhile the americans approach may have resulted in more infection early on but fewer in the long term and without damaging the economy along the way.
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@rbe_expert Yes it would. Even if you could some how figure out a way to make a non-capitalistic society work without everyone starving to death in general (has never been down) the productivity and ability to make progress in terms of infrastructure and resources still has just as much effect on the health of the population as in a capitalist society. If you lock everyone away and prevent them from working resources, including food, become scarce and people start dying.
The only difference you'd have in an idealistic non-capitalist society, say communism, would be instead of some people starving a bit more than others, everyone would starve and die together.
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@rbe_expert Yes I know what your saying. that has the same consequences, just to a slightly lesser extent than locking everyone away.
Point is lockdowns don't work, to any extent, when dealing with a virus that has the sorts of qualities this virus has. A full lockdown would have the worst long-term results, a partial lock down isnt quite as bad but still does more harm than good.
Lockdowns do not work at surpressing a virus that is in the wild globally, has a large portion of asymptomatic carriers, has short incubation periods, and has weak long-term immune response.... it literally has all the characteristics that a lockdown is **not** suited for as a solution.
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What could go wrong?
https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1304973881078214656
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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
