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
I can't keep track. Are we at "no one is above the law" or "defund law enforcement"? The double think is hard to keep track of.
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Republicans: You should follow the law.
Democrats: What are you, racist?
Democrats: What are you, racist?
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Nation Takes Somber 'May The 4th' To Remember Deceased Star Wars Franchise
https://babylonbee.com/news/nation-takes-somber-may-the-4th-to-remember-deceased-star-wars-franchise/?utm_source=fediverse
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Trump administration sues Colorado and Denver, alleging blame for Aurora apartment chaos
Justice Department attorneys argue Colorado’s “sanctuary policies” allowed the Tren de Aragua gang members to seize control of The Edge of Lowry in Aurora. Police and city officials have repeatedly disputed the characterization.
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@karnage @cimarron @antonionpellegrini @Sven @Debradelai @DawnM @Eiualumni @masterblaster @Gmajv @saramangas @YoungBlood sorry but wrong. Did Jesus say Peter is a pope? Nope. Just like there is no Christmas or Easter in the Bible
https://newsie.social/@JaneinNJ/114381689006638416
#brave and #innovative is Larry David and the former newspaper The New York Times, to call Trump Hitler.
Finished my paper nonfiction, The Heritage of Anglican Theology by J I Packer.
Started I Told Me So: Self-Deception and the Christian Life by Gregg A. Ten Elshof
Finished my audio book, War in Heaven by Charles Williams, and started his next: Many Dimensions
Still in the midst of my paper fiction book...
1% increase over the previous day, for 90 days...
100 push ups daily becomes 245 push ups daily.
3 mile daily run becomes 7.35 miles daily.
10,000 daily steps becomes... wow, 24,486 daily steps.
All by just a daily increase of 1%.
I'm not measuring results, I'm not setting a specific goal, I'm trying to focus on establishing a system and a trajectory, with a few ideas from Atomic Habits. And I'm not beating myself up when I miss a run or a whole day for being too busy with work, relationships, or not feeling well. Just trying to keep moving forward.
https://mstdn.social/@carrieberry/114305364367737312
A perfect example of outsourcing all critical thinking to your news sources.
https://mastodon.social/@randahl/114278493420601922
I get it now. Trump is bad because he's not raising tariffs enough, and tariffs punish other countries, not one's own.
I used to post regularly here. But the mastodon/federation feel of the good old days of BBS and the early internet seems to have been sufficiently quenched.
Gone are the days of friendly interaction with those of different perspectives, which is what I loved.
I'm old enough to remember news networks declaring a constitutional crisis over the covfefe typo. Signalgate seems to be covfefe 2.0.
uspol, confusion
So... Those who won the electoral college vote and the popular vote are working to decrease the spending while increasing transparency of the federal government.
Those who supported the losing candidates say this shrinking of government and more visibility is... The end of democracy, fascism, and a reason to out themselves as terrorists, blowing things up, doxxing people who... drive electric cars?
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@beinlibertarian: "Conservatives refused to drink the beer from a company they disagreed with.
Democrats set cars and other property on fire from companies they disagree with.
They are not equals."
CNN currently showing a special on a DOGE employee who posted to instagram during business hours. Wildly inappropriate, "insulting," "Are you kidding me!?"
I know this is an attack on DOGE, but... the reason is because... of government waste.
So CNN is sort of asking for DOGE to DOGE even harder.
Weird argument.
Oh, tariffs as foreign election interference. It's a bold strategy, let's see how that works out for them... No one show them the popular vote...
Canadian PMs: Trump is bad because... Tariffs on others is an attack on one's own population.
Also Canadian PMs: We'll apply tariffs even harder.
>🇨🇦 New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says he will continue trade wars with the United States. >"My government will keep tariffs on ...
Ottawa removing half of federal internal trade barriers in response to tariff threats from the US
"Removing all internal trade protections could lower prices by up to 15 per cent, boost productivity by up to seven per cent and add up to $200 billion to the domestic economy, according to Anand."
Comment: what an amazing move. Why has the Canadian government kept these anti Canadian regulations in place until now? I guess.... The Trump Effect is making Canada better.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/anand-ottawa-removing-cfta-exceptions-1.7465125
Hahaha. The article says nothing has been banned, but I appreciate the outage in defense of JD Vance. The wild outage about rules being applied evenly, even to the VP is hilarious.
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
