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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Imagine being stupid enough to vote for change by casting your ballot for the incumbent.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/nov/03/donald-trump-kamala-harris-iowa-poll-us-presidential-election-live
Mumford and Sons really f'd it up this time.
😂
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Democrats Explain Trump Was Going To Be Hitler During His First Term, But He Forgot
https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-explain-trump-was-going-to-be-hitler-during-his-first-term-but-he-forgot/?utm_source=fediverse
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Investigation Reveals Trump’s Role In 'Home Alone 2' Was Staged
The allegations already sent shockwaves across the political landscape, with Democratic leaders saying the scandal was yet another indication that Trump is unfit for office for shamelessly staging what is now believed to be an entirely fabricated interaction with a lost young boy in a hotel lobby.
https://babylonbee.com/news/investigation-reveals-trumps-role-in-home-alone-2-was-staged
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Dick Cheney Excitedly Joins Democrat Party After Hearing They Get To Shoot People At Gun Ranges
"I can't believe I've been missing out on this," said Cheney, happily loading up his rifle. "Boy, do I love shooting humans. Looks like that Missouri fella shot his human in the arm -- I'm more of a shoot-him-in-the-face guy, but to each his own. Sign me up."
Election denialism is not a right wing problem.
https://newrepublic.com/article/187336/trump-cheating-2024-election-republicans-worse-ever
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Bill Maher defends Elon Musk's right to speak his mind without regulatory retaliation because "he lives in America and he can do that."
So much money being put into the Harris campaign. The wealthiest seem to be aligned with Dick Cheney this election.
So every FaCt ChEcK saying "but wait, crime is down" was wrong. Every one. #Crime went up, not down, according to a silent revision of the fbi numbers. The only published info about the numbers is from a year ago still boasting, falsely, that the numbers went down. One has to get to the data and analyze it to see it's been revised and the press release is untrue.
How much more violent crime? "80,029 more violent crimes" than the prior year. That's not a decrease. That's a huge increase.
The government can't guard us from #misinformation. The government is producing the misinformation.
Excerpts from the article:
[in 2023 the #FBI ] reported that the nation’s violent crime rate fell by 2.1%. This quickly became, and remains, a Democratic Party talking point to counter Donald Trump’s claims of soaring crime.
But the FBI has quietly revised those numbers, releasing new data that shows violent crime increased in 2022 by 4.5%. The new data includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults.
...
“This FBI report is stunning because it now doesn’t state that violent crime in 2022 was much higher than it had previously reported, nor does it explain why the new rate is so much higher, and it issued no press release about this large revision,” said David Mustard, the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia who researches extensively on crime. “This lack of transparency harms the FBI’s credibility.”
Uspol
We've all lived through, and survived, four years of #Trump and four years of #Harris...unless you're under eight years old.
We know what to expect from both.
The world didn't end under either.
Maybe we can have conversations rather than just making up boogeyman scary stories?
Looking at the federated timeline I mostly just see boogeyman after boogeyman.
Also, there's much more going on with the world and we can affect the world in ways better than we can by imagining nightmares about our less favored politician.
Go out and do some good. Sponsor a child living in extreme poverty. Fund a clean water project. Lots of easy ways to do real good and make a significant impact for someone today.
Reading my first Charles Williams. The Place of the Lion. Great read so far. I will look for more Williams.
In one sense, and that the eternal sense, the thing is plain. The answer to the question “What is Wrong?” is, or should be, “I am wrong.” Until a man can give that answer his idealism is only a hobby.
From the Daily News, August 16, 1905
Sir,—I must warmly protest against people mistaking the uneasiness of “A Heretic” for a sort of pessimism. If he were a pessimist he would be sitting in an armchair with a cigar. It is only we optimists who can be angry.
One thing, of course, must be said to clear the ground. Political or economic reform will not make us good and happy, but until this odd period nobody ever expected that they would. Now, I know there is a feeling that Government can do anything. But if Government could do anything, nothing would exist except Government. Men have found the need of other forces. Religion, for instance, existed in order to do what law cannot do—to track crime to its primary sin, and the man to his back bedroom. The Church endeavoured to institute a machinery of pardon; the State has only a machinery of punishment. The State can only free society from the criminal; the Church sought to free the criminal from the crime. Abolish religion if you like. Throw everything on secular government if you like. But do not be surprised if a machinery that was never meant to do anything but secure external decency and order fails to secure internal honesty and peace. If you have some philosophic objection to brooms and brushes, throw them away. But do not be surprised if the use of the County Council water-cart is an awkward way of dusting the drawing-room.
Government will not solve the core problems of society. Your favored political candidate will not solve the root causes of the main problems in society. If you're voting for a savior you're doing it wrong.
Or as #Chesterton said,
“Political or economic reform will not make us good and happy, but until this odd period nobody ever expected that they would.”
More from GCK in the comments
- 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
