The paradox of tolerance means that to prove you're tolerant, you need to be trying to blind and/or murder anyone who you think might start saying something you disagree with.
NEW THREAT: Antifa Plans Acid Attack on D.C. Free Speech Rally, Promises To Blind Attendees - Big League Politics
Attendees at an upcoming free speech rally have been threatened with acid attacks via social media. Acid mixed with wax so it sticks, penetrates the skin, gets in the bloodstream, and causes cardiac arrest.
@campers
Unless it's a midterm?
I heard the same thing before the midterms from Trump supporters who were 100% sure Republicans would retain the house. I'm not sure it's something to be comfortably confident in.
@MegasAlexandros @melody @umad80 @Mongo3804 @deighs @NevadaJack
Uspol
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
The look on my face when someone starts resorting to personal insults on a respectful discussion over a difference of opinion.
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
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
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.
@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.
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.