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
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Remember, one of the reasons we hate Trump is his uncouth, uncivil tone.
Rashida Tlaib’s First Day in Congress: ‘We’re Gonna Impeach the Motherf**ker.’
"Young girls like my daughter and niece now have officials they can see & aspire to be like one day!" - seen on the Twitters
This. Must. Be. Stopped. Impeach now.
Last month, [the number of employed Americans] grew to a record 156,945,000, a gain of 4,869,000 in two years.
At the same time, the number of unemployed Americans increased by 276,000 last month, to 6,294,000, as more people were actively looking for work but had not found a job...
In December, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose 11 cents to $27.48. Over the year, average hourly earnings have increased by 84 cents, or 3.2 percent...
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DuckDuckGo served over 9 Billion private searches in 2018 (and is on pace to shatter that record in 2019)!
Despite our traffic growth, though, the number of personal profiles we store remains unchanged.
It's still zero.
https://duckduckgo.com/traffic
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1080837949779034112
18 deaths now at the southern border under a single administration.
"The reviews of these 18 detainees’ deaths demonstrate that the US government continues to fail to ensure that all detention facilities provide adequate health care to immigrants in detention. This failure is all the more egregious because many people in immigration detention should not be there to begin with...
The Obama administration should take immediate action... "
#uspol
https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/07/07/us-deaths-immigration-detention#
SecondJon
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RT @thehuli@twitter.com
How is complaining about cultural appropriation any different from telling people, "Act your race and keep to your own kind"? And how is that any different from how actual white supremacists would talk?
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Well that's that. Trump isn't literally Hitler, he's WORSE than Hitler because he supports fracking. Imagine how things would have gone in Hitler was focused on energy instead of murdering millions.
Thanks Noam.
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#mastodon makes the internet fun again, we need more places like this online. Places to have adventures and explore.
uspol
I'm old enough to remember 5 minutes ago when Michael Moore's allies bemoaning how uncouth and inappropriate it was to express a desire to see one's political opponents locked up. When they were aghast at the idea of questioning the integrity of a presidential election, etc.
No integrity, maybe among public figures on all sides. May we the people do better and not condemn in others that which we cheer in our own.
https://www.newsweek.com/michael-moore-trump-family-2019-indicted-1274541
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google working toward unilateral control of the web
amazon working toward unilateral control of commerce
facebook working toward unilateral control of data
kinda makes you think, don't it
amazon working toward unilateral control of commerce
facebook working toward unilateral control of data
kinda makes you think, don't it
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The longer I've followed the news, the more of it reads like nonsense to me. It's mostly just a heap of non-newsworthy stuff presented as if it actually matters.
It's the same with political debate, really. It doesn't really matter what arguments are presented, because I've heard most of them before, and they didn't convince me the first time either.
When you boil down politics to its essentials, it's all just a big game of justifying various feelings. You present an argument, but it's just a decoy for your true feelings. Defeating the decoy doesn't change those feelings; it merely forces the person to find a new decoy argument for the same feelings that didn't go away. The only way of resolving such conflicts is to vote according to your conviction, or if that isn't enough for you, go to war over it.
In my opinion, personal experiences can change political convictions. If you're anti-gay, discovering that your beloved son is gay might trigger a change of heart. If you can't stand black people, positive experiences with black people might make you feel otherwise. Living in a properly functioning social democracy might make you change your views on socialism.
Arguing on the Internet is usually a rather futile exercise. When I share things on here, they're more like conclusions than the beginning of a debate. I have reached that stage of life where I'm fairly settled, perhaps even a bit stubborn, in my ways.
It's the same with political debate, really. It doesn't really matter what arguments are presented, because I've heard most of them before, and they didn't convince me the first time either.
When you boil down politics to its essentials, it's all just a big game of justifying various feelings. You present an argument, but it's just a decoy for your true feelings. Defeating the decoy doesn't change those feelings; it merely forces the person to find a new decoy argument for the same feelings that didn't go away. The only way of resolving such conflicts is to vote according to your conviction, or if that isn't enough for you, go to war over it.
In my opinion, personal experiences can change political convictions. If you're anti-gay, discovering that your beloved son is gay might trigger a change of heart. If you can't stand black people, positive experiences with black people might make you feel otherwise. Living in a properly functioning social democracy might make you change your views on socialism.
Arguing on the Internet is usually a rather futile exercise. When I share things on here, they're more like conclusions than the beginning of a debate. I have reached that stage of life where I'm fairly settled, perhaps even a bit stubborn, in my ways.
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I have a theory that the popularity of the super hero genre of movies is the (mostly) complete escape of the mind-numbing wall-to-wall SJW/NPC regurgitation you get 24/7 - 365.
We'll see if Captain Marvel refrains from being "preachy" and is a success like Black Panther... or if is succumbs to SJW/NPC madness and ends up like Solo - A (boring) Star Wars Story.
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#Socialmedia has reached a place where it is somehow accepted and normal that Fortune 500 companies in Silicon Valley police the morality of our thoughts to the extent that you are sent to a digital purgatory if #Jack or #Zuckerberg decide you have sinned.
SecondJon
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Merry Christmas to all who celebrate.
To those who don't, Happy Holidays to whatever celebration you honor!
Love to everyone!
SecondJon
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Feels like a lot of good fedi accounts have gone dormant. I don't have a lot of time to sit around and skim through federated timelines to find good ones right now, so it's getting less and less interesting to read my home timeline. I mostly just post when I have something to say, without much time spent sifting through feeds.
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I'll give the alt-right this: They aren't afraid of fearlessly debating taboo subjects, and of saying exactly what comes to their minds. They seem more liberated than the politically correct crowd, who appear to be deathly afraid of getting real.
There is this persistent denial of painfully obvious things, which is exactly what sowed the seed for the alt-right movement to begin with.
If you want to fit into polite society, there are certain opinions you can't hold, for fear of being ostracised; opinions that once had wide appeal among people of European descent until the middle of the 20th century.
The facts on the ground didn't change; it just became unfashionable to interpret them in a certain way due to political events and ensuing changes in the political climate during the latter half of the 20th century.
I don't think it's self-evident that the idea of progress should apply to social issues. Progress in science and medicine is easy to objectively measure. Progress in social issues is merely a matter of opinion. While it's possible to argue that the suffering of oppressed groups should be reduced, it's equally possible to argue that this will lead to increased suffering for the majority on the long term.
The culture of the present will always be narcissistic, believing itself to be an improvement on past cultures, but again: What is your measuring stick for that?
There is this persistent denial of painfully obvious things, which is exactly what sowed the seed for the alt-right movement to begin with.
If you want to fit into polite society, there are certain opinions you can't hold, for fear of being ostracised; opinions that once had wide appeal among people of European descent until the middle of the 20th century.
The facts on the ground didn't change; it just became unfashionable to interpret them in a certain way due to political events and ensuing changes in the political climate during the latter half of the 20th century.
I don't think it's self-evident that the idea of progress should apply to social issues. Progress in science and medicine is easy to objectively measure. Progress in social issues is merely a matter of opinion. While it's possible to argue that the suffering of oppressed groups should be reduced, it's equally possible to argue that this will lead to increased suffering for the majority on the long term.
The culture of the present will always be narcissistic, believing itself to be an improvement on past cultures, but again: What is your measuring stick for that?
SecondJon
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Look away from your screen for a bit. Allow your eyes and mind to rest.
SecondJon
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RT @TrutherUfo@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TrutherUfo/status/1077011236708143104
SecondJon
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Everyone remember what Christmas is about. It is about God the Son, who came to Earth to die, so we may be reconciled with God.
- 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
