"[Trump's] inability to read was part of a set of childhood behaviors including impulse control and attention that today would very likely have been identified as a ADHD learning disability, and treated. As an adult he has turned relative illiteracy into a selling point for a crowd of Americans who have decided that democracy means ignorance is as good as knowledge.
There is a very old very good reason why we pasteurize milk. It seems to be forgotten. Everything is not default safe, we made it safe. But everyone with living memory of the hell before #vaccines and modern medicine and here, #food safety and sanitary #science, is dead. And #ignorance reigns.
They wish to relearn the obvious, with death and suffering for us all.
More defiance of the ‘will of the people’. The judges will be the next lot up against the wall, followed by anyone who does not meet their exacting purity (in deed, thought and form) standards.
As well as being stupid, they can't count. But maybe ‘unthinking intentions of a minority of the people' would not look as good? How long before the Daily Heil takes up the cry?
The heart of #Christians are on full display following the #eclipse. Some delusional #Christofascist woman who was convinced that the eclipse would usher in the "#rapture" left huge tips for multiple servers prior to the event because she figured she'd be with #Jesus, and wouldn't need the cash. When she discovered that she was still on Earth after the eclipse, she was struck with #Biblical butt-hurt, and went back and demanded her tips back!
First, #proTrump media feeds its audience a steady diet of #misinformation, and violent encouragement. Then, once the audience is whipped into an #ignorance-based frenzy, the pro-Trump media organizations start distributing #weapons to them, because freedom! Watch how fast they switch to pearl-clutching indignation when someone they provided a weapon to goes out and kills someone. Watch how fast they disavow any responsibility for the inevitable.
"Protesters screaming 'Free Palestine' ambush Easter Vigil at St Patrick's Cathedral."
Peace inside the cathedral quickly devolved into chaos as demonstrators with Extinction Rebellion NYC's Palestinian Solidarity group swarmed into the church.
No problem. They have two options, don't take any legal advice or just redefine the law (and reality - say along the lines that Rwanda is a safe country).
Had to buy a new dryer the other day. Yesterday the guy called to let me know when they are coming to deliver. I commented on how sick he sounded. Apparently the day after we saw him he came down with an awful cold. He complained that there’s a lot of people who walk in the store. Not one employee had a mask on and every one of them looked at us weird because we did. Unbelievable that people are still this naive when it comes to COVID. #WearAMask#CovidIsNotOver#Ignorance
Fediverse! I’ve been building a bridge to Bluesky, and they’re turning on federation soon, which means my bridge will be available soon too. You’ll be able to follow people on Bluesky from here in the fediverse, and vice versa.
Bluesky is a broad network with lots of worthwhile people and conversations! I hope you’ll give it a chance. Only fully public content is bridged, not followers-only or otherwise private posts or profiles. Still, if you want to opt out, I understand. Feel free to DM me at @snarfed (different account than this one), email me, file a GitHub issue, or put #nobridge in your profile bio.
Johannes, There isn't one - they're talking out of their ass.
They're just making noise and emotionally distressed to discover that this is how the #Fediverse currently works, and always has worked - and it's not just the #ActivityPub portions of the Fediverse, or even the Fediverse - it's the entire #Internet...
"If you affect a public post, you have no expectation of privacy".
For those who still feel some sense of having been offended, I welcome them to unplug their computers and toss their iPhones and Androids into the trash. That's really their only option, and they'll come to that realization some day, maybe, and it is of no consequence for anyone else in the world if they don't.
"Ignorance" and the Middle East. Deconstructing the present through its past.
Dr. Lorenzo Kamel (Harvard University), December 8, 2016
"The region’s history and spatial background provide a framework for approaching these epochal shifts and critically examining the ‘ethnic stabilisation’ thesis, which interprets current demographic movements as a kind of normalization of the region’s ‘original’ demographics. Instead of this ‘medievalization of the Middle East’, many people in the region are keen on ‘getting back into history’ and ‘regaining possession’ of their multifaceted past: a powerful antidote to “ignorance” and the related geopolitical reductionism so popular nowadays."
I'm disappointed to see so many resisters amplifying Nikki Haley. She's maybe even more dangerous than is that orange chump since she would have perhaps a better chance of defeating Biden this fall.
Anyways, be careful is all I'm suggesting. It's better to tout the things that make our side's candidate better than either of them than it is to point out how you prefer one of the other side's candidates over the other one.
Asked by CNN if he agrees w #Trump claim that #Jan6 defendants are hostages, Sen #TimScott (R-SC) answers, "I believe that our DOJ should allow a jury of our peers to make the decisions"
(Approx. 140 people have been convicted at trial, 700+ opted for guilty plea)
Scott also told CNN about the Jan 6 mob: "99% of the people who showed up were there to exercise their first amendment rights.
(Of the 1200+ defendants, 450+ have been charged with assaulting police)
"Once people start banning dictionaries, they’ve moved beyond any pretense of protecting children—which they still haven’t proved book banning in any way does. ...
The situation seems to be that people who aren’t very smart want to prevent others from becoming smarter than them. Certainly, we can’t accept such a low bar for our children."