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
It is amazing how many people seem to have discovered last Wednesday that riots are wrong — when many of those same people apparently had not noticed that when riots went on, for weeks or even months, in various cities across the country last year.
Re New Thomas Sowell column: https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/01/21/is-truth-irrelevant https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell/status/13491501...
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With everything that’s going on now, did the left just admit they were wrong about the Christian cake baker from Colorado?
It’s a private company they can do what they want. https://twitter.com/ksorbs/status/1348809852425019393 #Colorado
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First you violate his right to speak. Then you argue he should be removed because you violated it. With logic like that, no wonder you’re a Communist.
Bernie Sanders: Let's be clear. If Trump is too dangerous to send out a tweet or a Facebook post, he's too dangerous to be commander-in-chief. Donald Trump must be removed from office immediately and held accountable for his horrific acts of sedition, violence and chaos.
https://twitter.com/andrewklavan/status/1348818932208058368 #Trump
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I am a prophet.
ZUBY:: If you think that offensive speech should be banned then you probably haven't thought very hard about what that would actually entail...
'Offense' is one of the most subjective things that exists.
https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic/status/1348562092308246529 #Zuby
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The way I see it, Twitter is committing suicide & it’s perfectly fine.
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RT Lauren Southern
You are being gaslit.
https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/1348092981589409795
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Dissent stopped being patriotic this week when the left won the senate.
#uspol #Democrats #Unity2020
So this is the unity you speak of?
#uspol
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RT Lindsey Graham
Twitter may ban me for this but I willingly accept that fate: Your decision to permanently ban President Trump is a serious mistake.
The Ayatollah can tweet, but Trump can’t. Says a lot about the people who run Twitter. https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1347713459874627588 #Trump
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Twitter took down a video of Trump telling people to act peacefully and go home. Is @Jack encouraging violence?
https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1346974762434654210 #Trump
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Haven't been connected to the news much today - the last I saw was that Trump tweeted out a video telling everyone to go home, and twitter locked it so no one could re-tweet it. Is there more?
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So... There's precedent, from the #Democrat side :
FLASHBACK: Democrats object to counting Electoral College votes in 2000 and 2004
The last three times a #Republican has been elected president of the United States, #Democrats in the House of Representatives have brought objections to the electoral votes the Republican nominee won.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C.S. Lewis ( on government response to #COVID and other crises?)
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2020 was the least deadly year in Sweden's history.
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SWE/sweden/death-rate
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Who would have thought that sand / dirt from a uranium mine would be radioactive?
https://coloradosun.com/2020/12/29/grand-junction-cold-war-nuclear-waste-dump/
A mere 2.2M tons of this material was spread across the Colorado Western Slope (mostly near Grand Junction). There is a dump near there that takes this waste - recently funded for another decade with the huge omnibus bill.
PS: Read about the prize for "Miss Atomic Energy" for a laugh.
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
