Oniontown
@please-calm-down.bsky.social
The World is a strange place. But not that strange. Let's leave a little room in it for some common sense.
I used to live in Chicago.
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I used to live in Chicago.
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March 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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March 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Another from the vault: our most frequent visitors get the most photos, but, hey, I am not complaining...
Anna's Hummingbird.
#Birds #nature #photography
Anna's Hummingbird.
#Birds #nature #photography
March 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Another from the vault: our most frequent visitors get the most photos, but, hey, I am not complaining...
Anna's Hummingbird.
#Birds #nature #photography
Anna's Hummingbird.
#Birds #nature #photography
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SOFT LIGHT IN THE GLOAMING; it's #SCAPE Friday. This is one of my youngest son's favourite #landscapephotography pieces of mine. Out in the desert, where humans are scarce. A soft light as the storm passes on. We could all use some soft light. #loriryerson #focalocity #quiet #nohumans
March 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
SOFT LIGHT IN THE GLOAMING; it's #SCAPE Friday. This is one of my youngest son's favourite #landscapephotography pieces of mine. Out in the desert, where humans are scarce. A soft light as the storm passes on. We could all use some soft light. #loriryerson #focalocity #quiet #nohumans
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I'm really, really, really tempted to support you on this one, because Mr. Trump is a proudly ignorant, shamelessly amoral blowhard who has built a career out of spitting on educated people (people like me), while becoming the candidate of choice for literal neo-Nazis.
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The decisive test of our society in my lifetime was the 2024 election and our failure was spectacular and total. I will never again have any faith in the American electorate to do the obviously right thing.
March 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I'm really, really, really tempted to support you on this one, because Mr. Trump is a proudly ignorant, shamelessly amoral blowhard who has built a career out of spitting on educated people (people like me), while becoming the candidate of choice for literal neo-Nazis.
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I've spent the last few years listening to self-styled "patriots" who follow him saying that "coal burners" (people in interracial relationships and marriages) should be k i l l e d and claiming that the multiracial children of such couples were inherently inferior "abominations."
March 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I've spent the last few years listening to self-styled "patriots" who follow him saying that "coal burners" (people in interracial relationships and marriages) should be k i l l e d and claiming that the multiracial children of such couples were inherently inferior "abominations."
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I've repeatedly had to turn off the computer and go out, out of fear that my blood pressure would spike and I'd blow a gasket. So, from where I sit, slamming everybody who voted for that smirking pig would have an immediate emotional payoff.
Until I slowed down, stopped and thought about it.
Until I slowed down, stopped and thought about it.
March 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I've repeatedly had to turn off the computer and go out, out of fear that my blood pressure would spike and I'd blow a gasket. So, from where I sit, slamming everybody who voted for that smirking pig would have an immediate emotional payoff.
Until I slowed down, stopped and thought about it.
Until I slowed down, stopped and thought about it.
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Mr. Trump is unquestionably a vile human being. But so was his opponent in that race. Kamala Harris is a blatant sociopath who, as a prosecutor, knowingly fought to keep innocent men in prison, just to advance her own career.
This is not a conspiracy theory. This is an inconvenient fact.
This is not a conspiracy theory. This is an inconvenient fact.
March 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Mr. Trump is unquestionably a vile human being. But so was his opponent in that race. Kamala Harris is a blatant sociopath who, as a prosecutor, knowingly fought to keep innocent men in prison, just to advance her own career.
This is not a conspiracy theory. This is an inconvenient fact.
This is not a conspiracy theory. This is an inconvenient fact.
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She built up a record that was so horrendous that even the New York Times had to say something about it.
www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/o...
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In the US presidential race of 2024, our choice was one between an ignorant malignant narcissist (Trump) and a giggling sociopath (Harris).
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In the US presidential race of 2024, our choice was one between an ignorant malignant narcissist (Trump) and a giggling sociopath (Harris).
Opinion | Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progressive Prosecutor’ (Published 2019)
The senator was often on the wrong side of history when she served as California’s attorney general.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
She built up a record that was so horrendous that even the New York Times had to say something about it.
www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/o...
archive.is/E1YRn
In the US presidential race of 2024, our choice was one between an ignorant malignant narcissist (Trump) and a giggling sociopath (Harris).
www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/o...
archive.is/E1YRn
In the US presidential race of 2024, our choice was one between an ignorant malignant narcissist (Trump) and a giggling sociopath (Harris).
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There was no righteous choice for a voter to make. Both of the major party candidates were evil and insane, and they were running under a system that makes a third party candidate victory in a presidential race a near-impossibility.
March 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
There was no righteous choice for a voter to make. Both of the major party candidates were evil and insane, and they were running under a system that makes a third party candidate victory in a presidential race a near-impossibility.
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To judge those who made a bad choice when there were no good choices to make is to tell one's fellow man that he is to be damned if he does and damned if he does not.
March 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
To judge those who made a bad choice when there were no good choices to make is to tell one's fellow man that he is to be damned if he does and damned if he does not.
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The immediate emotional gratification of screaming at those who voted somebody we almost all hate shouldn't blind us to the fact that this is not a valid moral choice, and that by making it, we'd be helping to amplify the already nearly out of control hysteria in American politics.
March 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The immediate emotional gratification of screaming at those who voted somebody we almost all hate shouldn't blind us to the fact that this is not a valid moral choice, and that by making it, we'd be helping to amplify the already nearly out of control hysteria in American politics.
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While almost guaranteeing that honest, reasonable communication will have little to no chance of happening, because all will be left in fear of how they might be judged.
This briefly comfortable, easy answer also immediately deflects our attention from the real question that needs to be asked.
This briefly comfortable, easy answer also immediately deflects our attention from the real question that needs to be asked.
March 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
While almost guaranteeing that honest, reasonable communication will have little to no chance of happening, because all will be left in fear of how they might be judged.
This briefly comfortable, easy answer also immediately deflects our attention from the real question that needs to be asked.
This briefly comfortable, easy answer also immediately deflects our attention from the real question that needs to be asked.
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Namely, why do we go on finding ourselves with such atrocious choices? In 2020, our choice was one between the same narcissist who got elected, this time, and an obvious late stage Alzheimer's case whose dementia had already manifested in public (eg. "I am Joe Biden's wife").
March 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Namely, why do we go on finding ourselves with such atrocious choices? In 2020, our choice was one between the same narcissist who got elected, this time, and an obvious late stage Alzheimer's case whose dementia had already manifested in public (eg. "I am Joe Biden's wife").
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Until that question gets answered, and the problems pointed out by the answer get addressed, we're going to be going from disaster to disaster. Either we find out what needs to change, and change it, or the cycle of madness will continue until one of those disasters takes out our society.
March 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Until that question gets answered, and the problems pointed out by the answer get addressed, we're going to be going from disaster to disaster. Either we find out what needs to change, and change it, or the cycle of madness will continue until one of those disasters takes out our society.
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The search for easy answers might well be in fashion. It usually is, and has been ever since "the Great Communicator" of the 1980s (Reagan) did so much to normalize the questionable practice of addressing serious issues with glib, breezy soundbites. But fashions sometimes need to change.
March 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The search for easy answers might well be in fashion. It usually is, and has been ever since "the Great Communicator" of the 1980s (Reagan) did so much to normalize the questionable practice of addressing serious issues with glib, breezy soundbites. But fashions sometimes need to change.
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Bullying the opposition into silence isn't going to change that fashion, it's just going to help reinforce it, because when one expects to be talked over (or even shouted down), a soundbite is likely to be one's response of choice.
March 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Bullying the opposition into silence isn't going to change that fashion, it's just going to help reinforce it, because when one expects to be talked over (or even shouted down), a soundbite is likely to be one's response of choice.
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A brief answer, even if it's a bad one, is far likelier to be heard in the sort of uncivil discussions that an indiscriminate demonization the opposition will leave us with. Those who make them will be heard and having persuaded more listeners, will see their points repeated more.
March 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A brief answer, even if it's a bad one, is far likelier to be heard in the sort of uncivil discussions that an indiscriminate demonization the opposition will leave us with. Those who make them will be heard and having persuaded more listeners, will see their points repeated more.
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While those who persist in giving nuanced, well thought out answers, having been silenced, will have little influence, at all.
Do you see the problem, yet? The evil character of the opposition that you're trying to bully into silence is the product of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Do you see the problem, yet? The evil character of the opposition that you're trying to bully into silence is the product of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
March 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
While those who persist in giving nuanced, well thought out answers, having been silenced, will have little influence, at all.
Do you see the problem, yet? The evil character of the opposition that you're trying to bully into silence is the product of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Do you see the problem, yet? The evil character of the opposition that you're trying to bully into silence is the product of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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By just assuming that ANYBODY who made a different choice than you did in the election just HAS to be an evil person in need of cancelation, you're assisting in the rise of un-nuanced Far Right politics, by reducing the reach of the voices of those who would have undercut them.
March 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
By just assuming that ANYBODY who made a different choice than you did in the election just HAS to be an evil person in need of cancelation, you're assisting in the rise of un-nuanced Far Right politics, by reducing the reach of the voices of those who would have undercut them.