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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I truly miss the internet ethos of the 1990s.
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He used to work for NOAA and now realizes that the goonerment goonsquad climate change cult is a lie. Good for him. Will this wake any of the cultists up??
https://www.wnd.com/2019/08/ex-noaa-scientist-now-climate-change-denier/
He he...
Maybe the Men Should Sue? US Soccer President Carlos Cordeiro Says Women's Soccer Team Already Makes More Than the Men
Good at Soccer — Not Good at Math — Or Patriotism For weeks and weeks the media has reported the Women’s National Team made less than the men’s team. It made headlines. The women actually sued to get equal pay! And Elizabeth Warren tweeted even about it. The @USWNT is #1 in the world & …
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BIG TECH, VOTER MANIPULATION AND POLITICAL BIAS https://peertube.foxfam.club/videos/watch/e84b810c-f303-4bdb-b2a0-a645ad36c7e5
Headline and blurb are a bit click baity, but the video is good.
Ted Cruz blows a hole in Google
The hearing that exposed Google political machinations went very well for a top-notch lawyer and proven excellent debater, Senator Ted Cruz. In fact Cruz made it look easy
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/07/ted_cruz_blows_a_hole_in_google_.html
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This is how #Google is spying on everything you do
https://peertube.foxfam.club/videos/watch/1f39da41-7fee-4f6a-8781-b8f21e4c43b2
https://peertube.foxfam.club/videos/watch/1f39da41-7fee-4f6a-8781-b8f21e4c43b2
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Wow! Great Atlantic article about a study showing the social media view of the clean cut political divide in the US is inaccurate. The majority have so much to agree on. CW for length of a few quotes from the article.
From the article :
On social media, the country seems to divide into two neat camps...Reality is nothing like this. As scholars Stephen Hawkins, Daniel Yudkin, Miriam Juan-Torres, and Tim Dixon argue... most Americans don’t fit into either of these camps. They also share more common ground than the daily fights on social media might suggest.
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In a democracy, it is difficult to win fellow citizens over to your own side, or to build public support to remedy injustices that remain all too real, when you fundamentally misunderstand how they see the world.
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"Facts are stubborn things, but... not half so stubborn as fallacies."
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island, 1915
I know Trump drama is in the news as if he's literally Hitler; meanwhile a communist government is ratcheting up a crackdown on Christians, Muslims, and other religious citizens, demanding loyalty to the ruling party alone.
Looking through old toots now, and noticing more news stories of China 's government b teaching dangerous lies about Christianity and tracking who in what cities are Christians. What could go wrong?
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Uspol
the administration prosecuted leakers, shutout the media, and used lie-detectors on staffers, criticized by NYT Washington correspondent as "the most closed, control freak administration I’ve ever covered"
This was the Obama admin.
It's increasingly seeming as if the problems brought with Trump aren't problems (just hysteria for news viewership) or weren't brought with Trump.
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If we only tolerate those we agree agree with, I'm not sure that's tolerance.
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RT @GKCdaily@twitter.com
Many a man has been lucky in marrying the woman he loves. But he is luckiest in loving the woman he marries.
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Georgia Lawmaker Claims Chick-Fil-A Employee Told Her To Go Back To Her Country, Later Clarifies He Actually Said 'My Pleasure'
ATLANTA, GA - Georgia state rep Erica Thomas took to social media this weekend to express her disgust and outrage at a Chick-fil-A employee's comments to her in the restaurant's drive-thru. According to her viral Twitter post, the black state worker claims that after saying thank you for her food, the white cashier pointed his finger at her and ang...
The Bible verse read on the moon as Buzz Aldrin took communion - Premier
Carrying bread in a plastic packet and a chalice from his home church, Buzz Aldrin invited the NASA team to take communion with him.
https://www.premier.org.uk/News/World/The-Bible-verse-read-on-the-moon-as-Buzz-Aldrin-took-communion
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#QOTO seems to be getting an increased influx of new users the past 24 hours. Welcome all you newcomers. Remember show respect and be kind and you are welcome to express yourself and share your opinions. Be free to be yourself, have fun, and if anyone needs any help message me any time.
So wonderful to have you all here!
Dont forget to make an introduction post and use the #introduction and/or #introductions hash tag. See my pinned post for an example. I will reboost introductions.
- 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
