Soph0571
Soph0571's JournalOne has, from time to time, pondered...
...the plight of Roman citizens in the immediate aftermath of their downfall, with reminiscences of a more splendid era diminishing exponentially as the last vestiges of Empire crumbled into bickering bedlam, and how they survived in such turbulent times.
I have a horrible feeling we are about to find out…
Heh.
Orange County teens busted for singing obscure Nazi song while giving Hitler salutes
The video was uploaded to Instagram by one member of the boys’ water polo team at Pacifica High School in Garden Grove, California, along with lyrics to the song played for German troops during World War II, reported The Daily Beast.
A spokesperson for the Garden Grove Unified School District told the website administrators learned of the incident in March, four months after the video was posted, but declined to say whether any of the students were disciplined.
[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/orange-county-teens-busted-for-singing-obscure-nazi-song-while-giving-hitler-salutes/|]
Emboldened little Nazi's...
Joe Biden is not an exciting candidate. That's why he is doing well
Sanders’s and Warren’s policy platforms are more removed from Trump’s than Biden’s, but they are also perceived as highly divisive candidates. And this is not the kind of change most anti-Trump voters are looking for. What they want, is a return to order and civility.
The paradox is that the mainspring of Biden’s support is therefore also a form of protest voting. It’s a protest against the politics of perpetual scandal and polarization. Protest against protest, if you will – which translates into a call for a return to order.
[link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/19/joe-biden-exciting-candidate|]
It is an interesting analysis - more at the link..not sure that it squares all the circles for me but it is worth a read!
Male Care Troll Gets Owned...
Indeed. Never met a Gin and Tonic I did not love... never raped me yet...
A circular pattern of racist delusion.
Your common place racist actively chooses not to perspective take on other community’s experiences. They choose not to look outside their privileged and/or segregated lives. They choose to actively ignore the systemic injustices in our systems of governance. By actively choosing to ignore these realities, they give credence to the rhetoric that they are victim when they are in fact just your common place racist wanker. Trump articulates what they are thinking, because he is also a racist wanker, but as your common place racist refuses to recognise their own racism it stands to reason for these deluded cultists Trump is not a racist either. A circular pattern of racist delusion.
The weaponisation of information is mutating at alarming speed
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The control of information can take more benign forms, too, such as the total disintegration of the White House press briefings that have made Donald Trump’s Twitter the de facto mouthpiece for the US executive, or the attempt by Boris Johnson to establish a direct channel of communication with his audience through Facebook. Removing regulated, accountable and experienced journalists from the equation can only be deleterious to the public interest. The fourth estate is a fundamental part of our political systems. The never-ending series of social media privacy and political scandals proves that tech companies are not able to play that role – and in any case, they don’t want to.
[link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/19/weaponisation-of-information-mutating-privacy|]
If we are not careful we will get to the point where disinformation is the new normal.
Are the END TIMES imminent?
There have been at least 34 individual predictions of the end times since 2000. It was once a familiar sight, men standing on street corners, wearing sandwich boards, declaring the end of the world is nigh. The sandwich boards may have mostly gone but the message hasn’t. Here in the UK we are seeing a significant rise in evangelical missionaries coming from the United to states to cities around the UK, proclaiming the end times are imminent. Cheers Cousins!
Why do they think the world is about to end? The Bible says it will happen when people become lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, and disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, and slanderous, without self control, brutal, treacherous, reckless, and swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. So when human beings display these characteristics, according to biblical teaching, Jesus will come again to judge the world and rebuke it for its sins. Haven’t men always displayed these characteristics?
In Matthew 24 Jesus talks about famines, wars. But there has always been famine and wars. In Luke 21 he talks about tsunamis, floods and chaos in the world. But there has always been floods and chaos in the world. In Ezekiel 38 it says that Russia, Turkey, Iran, Libya and Ethiopia will invade Jerusalem and God will send floods, hail and fire upon them, and then the end will come. I am sure that Ethiopia, to name one country, has other things on its mind right now. Of course Peter talks about sceptics and scoffers in the last days. It is all terribly convenient. Question the belief structure of the religious right and they can quote scripture at you. Everything that man says or does can be seen as another portent of the end times, if that is the prism through which you wish to view the world.
Are the end times imminent? These people who are actively seeking Armageddon are negating their responsibility to make better choices in the here and now. For example, what is the correlation between those who believe the end times are imminent and what they are doing to support efforts to fight global warming, or poverty, or famine, or even the geo-political climate in the Middle East? I don’t think it takes a genius to figure that out in the Trump Religious Far Right Administration!
If you think that the end times are imminent, surely this has the possibility of making you a less responsible citizen right now – leading to the kind of chaos and harm that leads people to say the end times are on us – a vicious circle of complicity, if you will.
The way things are going it might be the end of the world as we know it, but the end times?? Heh.
Find the Common Ground They Say, Heh...
A venn for our times.
You can be one or the other. You cannot be a little bit of both. There is no overlap in values @ all. Not in 2019.
We are witness to a poverty of spirit..
This whole illiberal shift to the far right, this nativist, xenophobic, racist and violent attempted take down of our progressive norms says so much about the how these nasty fuckers exist within a complete an utter absence of spirit. Their humanity has been subsumed by ideological zealotry, bigoted dogma and a spiteful, mean, hostile approach to the world. They are hideous. They have been given permission by 45 and his sycophantic, syphilitic enablers to show us their absence of spirit in all its hideous subservience to the alter of white supremacy.
FUGLY!
Just sayin'
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