SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org
- Current Life Chapter Title
- Something Smells Terrible
- More Seriously
- Fighting the long defeat
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.
I'm a #Dad of several from toddler to teen, #Husband, #Christian, #Anglican, Unaffiliated #conservatarian, Software #Developer, #Coloradan, Reader of paper #books, Card and BoardGamer, #tea drinker, solving problems and helping millions escape extreme poverty as a #Salesforce #Architect at an amazing nonprofit.
Joined Aug 2018
Repost this if you voted for #Harris in both the primary and the general election.
When I read 1984 and the Two Minutes Hate, I didn't expect that to one day be the entirety of a presidential campaign. Yet here we are.
"The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate
#uspol #1984
Today at the eve of the Era of Joy with President Kamala Harris's election victory I am dedicating this day to one final total mocking of Donald Tr...
@steele If the only option is to vote on one day that would make sense... Here in Colorado, everyone is mailed their ballot and has two weeks to return it or vote in person, so a holiday to show people to vote doesn't seem necessary.
I'm not sold on ranked choice voting. Maybe I just don't understand it enough, I keep thinking of scenarios where one party locks in the general election ballot, or the worst choice wins.
@darthstar and also if he wins he'll prosecute his political opponents and put them in jail, amiright?
@duanegran feeling like I'd seen a few, I took thirty seconds and found a lot. Here's a few to get started...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/opinion/trump-age-decline-behavior.html
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/oct/30/trump-would-make-history-inaugurated-age-78-busy-s/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2022/06/16/how-old-is-donald-trump/7615888001/
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A vote for President Trump is a vote for:
- JD Vance
- Vivek Ramaswamy
- Tulsi Gabbard
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
- Nicole Shanahan
- Elon Musk
- Ron Paul
Never seen so much raw talent associated with one candidate.
Mumford and Sons really f'd it up this time.
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Democrats Explain Trump Was Going To Be Hitler During His First Term, But He Forgot
https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-explain-trump-was-going-to-be-hitler-during-his-first-term-but-he-forgot/?utm_source=fediverse
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Investigation Reveals Trump’s Role In 'Home Alone 2' Was Staged
The allegations already sent shockwaves across the political landscape, with Democratic leaders saying the scandal was yet another indication that Trump is unfit for office for shamelessly staging what is now believed to be an entirely fabricated interaction with a lost young boy in a hotel lobby.
https://babylonbee.com/news/investigation-reveals-trumps-role-in-home-alone-2-was-staged
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Dick Cheney Excitedly Joins Democrat Party After Hearing They Get To Shoot People At Gun Ranges
"I can't believe I've been missing out on this," said Cheney, happily loading up his rifle. "Boy, do I love shooting humans. Looks like that Missouri fella shot his human in the arm -- I'm more of a shoot-him-in-the-face guy, but to each his own. Sign me up."
Election denialism is not a right wing problem.
https://newrepublic.com/article/187336/trump-cheating-2024-election-republicans-worse-ever
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Bill Maher defends Elon Musk's right to speak his mind without regulatory retaliation because "he lives in America and he can do that."
So much money being put into the Harris campaign. The wealthiest seem to be aligned with Dick Cheney this election.
So every FaCt ChEcK saying "but wait, crime is down" was wrong. Every one. #Crime went up, not down, according to a silent revision of the fbi numbers. The only published info about the numbers is from a year ago still boasting, falsely, that the numbers went down. One has to get to the data and analyze it to see it's been revised and the press release is untrue.
How much more violent crime? "80,029 more violent crimes" than the prior year. That's not a decrease. That's a huge increase.
The government can't guard us from #misinformation. The government is producing the misinformation.
Excerpts from the article:
[in 2023 the #FBI ] reported that the nation’s violent crime rate fell by 2.1%. This quickly became, and remains, a Democratic Party talking point to counter Donald Trump’s claims of soaring crime.
But the FBI has quietly revised those numbers, releasing new data that shows violent crime increased in 2022 by 4.5%. The new data includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults.
...
“This FBI report is stunning because it now doesn’t state that violent crime in 2022 was much higher than it had previously reported, nor does it explain why the new rate is so much higher, and it issued no press release about this large revision,” said David Mustard, the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia who researches extensively on crime. “This lack of transparency harms the FBI’s credibility.”
Uspol
We've all lived through, and survived, four years of #Trump and four years of #Harris...unless you're under eight years old.
We know what to expect from both.
The world didn't end under either.
Maybe we can have conversations rather than just making up boogeyman scary stories?
Looking at the federated timeline I mostly just see boogeyman after boogeyman.
Also, there's much more going on with the world and we can affect the world in ways better than we can by imagining nightmares about our less favored politician.
Go out and do some good. Sponsor a child living in extreme poverty. Fund a clean water project. Lots of easy ways to do real good and make a significant impact for someone today.
Reading my first Charles Williams. The Place of the Lion. Great read so far. I will look for more Williams.
@rbreich after seeing your posts on big bad billionaires, it's very strange to read from MSN today that more billionaires donated to Harris than to Trump.
Why are they rallying beyond her?
Be warned.
@rbreich with the national debt what it is, do they need to use something new to try to justify spending cuts? Can't the just use the national debt that all administrations have been making worse?
It's not like we're operating on surpluses here waiting for some republican to come and do something financially irresponsible. Both parties drive our national debt.
I'm not a scholar on the topic. But I'm glad we don't all vote for things just so they negatively affect People Who Aren't Me.
When question of whether something is a good or bad, right or wrong idea, it's good or bad regardless of whether I'm personally affected.
Even if it doesn't affect others to pull money out of the economy to pay a tax on profit never realized (which I don't think can be right, as two have to pull the money out of the economy somewhere), is it a good, moral, constitutional idea? Is it a reasonable economic idea? If the goal to raise revenue, or punish the rich?
I don't know the answers to all of these, but it seems strange to me to focus on who is affected by an idea rather than whether it's a good idea at all.
In one sense, and that the eternal sense, the thing is plain. The answer to the question “What is Wrong?” is, or should be, “I am wrong.” Until a man can give that answer his idealism is only a hobby.
- Current Life Chapter Title
- Something Smells Terrible
- More Seriously
- Fighting the long defeat
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.
I'm a #Dad of several from toddler to teen, #Husband, #Christian, #Anglican, Unaffiliated #conservatarian, Software #Developer, #Coloradan, Reader of paper #books, Card and BoardGamer, #tea drinker, solving problems and helping millions escape extreme poverty as a #Salesforce #Architect at an amazing nonprofit.
Joined Aug 2018
