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Woody Haiken
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I write a Substack called, "For the Spiritually Unreligious." https://bit.ly/3CTSqn0
I believe that all people are created equal. Motto: Love your neighbor as you love yourself.
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The second greatest commandment. "Love thy neighbor as thyself" Lev. 19:18
February 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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If there was any doubt about DT aspiring to be King, there can’t be any longer. This is a screen shot I made of The White House’s official X account. A post that was made 30 minutes ago.
February 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Alternate facts are lies.
You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. This renunciation of reality can feel natural and pleasant, but the result is your demise as an individualand thus the collapse of any political system that depends upon individualism. As observers of totalitarianism such as Victor Klemperer noticed, truth dies in four modes. The first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they were facts. Excerpt from: "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century" by Timothy Snyder.
February 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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After the German elections of 1932, which permitted Adolf Hitler to form a government, or the Czechoslovak elections of 1946, where communists were victorious, the next crucial step was anticipatory obedience. Because enough people in both cases voluntarily extended their services to the new leaders, Nazis and communists alike realized that they could move quickly toward a full regime change. The first heedless acts of conformity could not then be reversed. Excerpt from: "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century" by Timothy Snyder.
January 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Elon Musk has messianic tendencies. This is a screen shot from a YouTube channel with over 100 videos portraying Musk as a messianic figure.
January 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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I grew up with the mantra, "Never again!" This photo of the liberation of Auschwitz was taken 11 years before my birth. The horrors of the Holocaust were imprinted in my DNA as a second generation Jew, whose parents lived through WWII.
Yet Fascism is rising again.
Auschwitz survivors upon liberation.
January 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM