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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"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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Thanks for the welcome, #@freemo Here's my #introduction .
I'm...
• a dad of a handful of kiddos, married, living in Colorado.
• a Christian in the Anglican tradition, and suppose I'm an unaffiliated conservatarian.
• a reader, working through the great novels as well as easier/fun books and nonfiction.
• a card and board game player and am happily teaching more to my kids as they get older.
• short on free time. I enjoy a philosophical pipe as I read and/or reflect, and occasionally get my guitar or bow/arrows out to learn new skills.
• a software developer... and have been for a very long time, now in the world of APIs and cloud development (CRM/SFDC).
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@MarkHalperin: "An email I just got from a very smart person, who is now smarter, unfortunately because of the assassination of Charlie Kirk:
'I used to think of Trump Derangement Syndrome as just people losing their minds about him specifically and knee jerk hating everything he said or did or enacted. But I now realize that Trump Derangement Syndrome has made people lose their ability to tell the difference between right and wrong.'”
https://x.com/MarkHalperin/status/1966813067049660841
(H/T @instapundit RT )
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Democrats Condemn Violence They Incited https://buff.ly/AvWNVuk
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@benshapiro: “What’s going to make Charlie—correctly—a free speech martyr is that he was literally in the middle of using words to talk about vital issues when he was shot to death.
He died doing the thing America was supposed to be about.”
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@philthatremains: "they don’t kill you for being fascist. they call you fascist in order to justify killing you"
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@IMAO_: "A big difference with political assassinations over school shootings is that you usually don't have a lot of people saying how great the school shooter was (like happened with Luigi Mangione) or had people saying how much the victims deserved it. [...]
A few excerpts from #qoto terms:
Be respectful, and don't harass other Fediverse users. Unpopular opinions are acceptable, hate-speech is not.
We won’t censor unpopular ideas and statements and welcome people from across the political spectrum, but hate-based speech such as sexist, racist, or homophobic speech will not be tolerated, be kind to each other.
QOTO aims to provide a community where our users do not fear being punished for their personal opinions. We do not allow people to disseminate ideologies that are abusive or violent towards others.
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"I'm sad that someone I smeared as a Nazi has been killed because of those smears" rings pretty damn hollow.
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The lunatic left believes killing Charlie was an act of self-defense. By treating his words as violence, they justify their violence as speech — the outcry of the oppressed. Shame on everyone who's ever validated this wicked worldview.
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@jk_rowling: "If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.
If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.
If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.
If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist."
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Fake News You Can Trust...
@TheBabylonBee: "'Why Won’t Conservatives Give Up Their Guns?' Ask The People Shooting At Them
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‘Why Won’t Conservatives Give Up Their Guns?’ Ask The People Shooting At Them
https://babylonbee.com/news/why-wont-conservatives-give-up-their-guns-ask-the-people-shooting-at-them/?utm_source=fediverse
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When I first saw the posts about #charlieKirk saying "live by the sword, die by the sword," I thought they were comments saying the shooter should be shot: shoot people and get shot.
But I was wrong. They mean: he talked, challenging prescribed ideas so he should be assassinated.
People inhabit entirely different narrative realities from each other.
Today is a very sad day. While the breaking national news was about today's political assassination there was local breaking news about another school shooting near me here in Colorado with multiple students rushed to the hospital with gunshot wounds.
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Has anybody forked #Moshidon and removed the instance blocklist? Would start using that app again in a heartbeat if the application was truly free.
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Trump Vows To Nationalize As Many Private Companies As It Takes To Defeat Socialism
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-vows-to-nationalize-as-many-private-companies-as-it-takes-to-defeat-socialism/?utm_source=fediverse
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I think this is like the “oh no I made the antisemites mad” starter pack lol
RT: https://social.teci.world/objects/53980b0a-c9ad-49be-91d8-4580911d1528
Not sure if this is a hot take or not but the current discourse surrounding #JeffreyEpstein and the #EpsteinFiles is a massive distraction. As was ...
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
