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
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Joel Osteen Frustrated As His Pulpit's 'Check Theology' Light Comes On Again
https://babylonbee.com/news/joel-osteen-frustrated-as-check-theology-light-comes-on-again
Gallup: #Trump has positive approval rating for 1st time in his presidency
President Trump's approval ratings were positive for the first time in his presidency, Gallup announced on Thursday, a positive sign for the contentious chief executive going into the election season.
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🔁 Michael Knowles Retweeted:
Jason Howerton @jason_howerton
OH.
MY.
GOSH.
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Original: https://www.twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1230578076393885698
#OH
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Democratic Candidates Clash Over Most Effective Plan To Destroy Economy
https://babylonbee.com/news/democratic-candidates-clash-over-conflicting-plans-to-destroy-economy
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🔁 Michael Knowles Retweeted:
Comfortably Smug @ComfortablySmug
Congratulations to the Bloomberg campaign consultants
Your plan to have Mike faceplant tonight so he has to spend hundreds of millions more on ads that you get a percentage of worked very well
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It's official, Donald Trump won tonight's democrat debate.
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Democratic Candidates Clash Over Most Effective Plan To Destroy Economy https://buff.ly/2QJ3Xva
2020-02-20, 02:11:17
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1230313945962926080
NHS staff can refuse to treat racist or sexist patients under new rules
The NHS will soon bar discriminatory patients from non-critical care - powers that currently only cover aggression or violence.
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This should be troubling because as a collective society we should already be past asking questions of "do I need to treat people nicely even if we disagree on one or two topics" or "why can't we kill babies".
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Everyone's different, that doesn't mean we have to hate each other.
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If you define yourself via group identity, instead of finding individual identity in who you are, you will probably live a largely miserable and tiresome life of constantly chasing and living up to the stereotype of your chosen group.
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Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional
contagion through social networks
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Our children and grandchildren may yet curse the day we began hyping race and ethnicity. There are countries where that has led to slaughters in the streets but you cannot name a country where it has led to greater harmony.
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Original: https://www.twitter.com/ThomasSowell/status/1228474878719909893
#Mises
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Another quote from this book : "many books become more boring the faster you read them." (p 74)
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Struggling Biden Campaign Now Offering One Month Of Free AOL For Rally Attendance
https://babylonbee.com/news/struggling-biden-campaign-now-offering-one-month-of-free-aol-for-rally-attendance
"It's what you're reading that matters...not the speed with which you're getting truth it. Reading is supposed to be about an encounter with other minds... Americans have enough encouragements to narcissism ; let's try to do without this one." (full quote in attached photo)
On #reading from The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction about bkkeepr, also applies to Goodreads and other alternatives.
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Fact:
The New Hampshire man, Patrick Bradley, who assaulted a 15 year old Trump supporter and fractured the jaw of another has a long history of support for ANTIFA
These attacks won’t stop unless we do something
RT if ANTIFA should be classified as a domestic terror group
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Original: https://www.twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1228321334838476800
#Turning_Point_USA #NewHampshire #Trump
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Trump's Power Doubles After Absorbing Impeachment Attack
https://babylonbee.com/news/trumps-power-doubles-after-absorbing-impeachment-attack
The U.S. was the world leader in CO2 reduction in 2019
The United States led the world in CO2 reductions during 2019, a feat it managed to pull off while still experiencing solid economic growth, according to a new report.
https://disrn.com/news/the-us-was-the-world-leader-in-co2-reduction-in-2019
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
