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."
"The Escambia County School District, located in the Florida panhandle, has removed several dictionaries from its library shelves over concerns that making the dictionaries available to students would violate Florida law."
"The most powerful ally of injustice is ignorance. Unfortunately, those who are ignorance’s most devout practitioners are so clueless that they perpetuate their own downfall.
In general, people think they are smarter than they really are. This is called 'illusory superiority.' Polls show that 65% of Americans believe they are smarter than the average person."
"In 2011, a poll found that twice as many Americans knew that Randy Jackson was a judge on American Idol than could correctly identify the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court."
Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies
Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance today has become a highly influential topic in its own right, commanding growing attention across the natural and social sciences where a wide range of scholars have begun to explore the social life and political issues involved in the distribution and strategic use of not knowing.
#Religious freedom for #Christians means they have the freedom to impose their #beliefs on the rest of us, and leverage the power of government to ensure that their #religion is the only religion in public life. In this case, a misguided #Christian#student wrongly described #meditation as a religion, and sued to have it banned from her public #school. This is the ultimate intersection of #ignorance and #entitlement, and it's par for the course for uninformed Christians.
Getting ready for Halloween, recovering from changing the clocks, or dreaming about fall on a spring day down south? We hear you! Today we're listening to some spooky Lofi tunes to get in the work groove and have more treats than tricks. What are your tunes to get energized, find focus, or wind down? 🎧 🎃
Lecture de l'après-midi que je recommande. Le sujet est important par son omniprésence en France, tout en permettant d'aborder un certain nombre de concepts centraux de philosophie des sciences et de la médecine. Sur la forme le livre se lit vite et agréablement, les phrases sont courtes et claires, et le propos bien construit.
"New research unveiled that when faced with a choice, 40% of individuals opt to remain ignorant about how their decisions impact others, often leveraging this unawareness to act more selfishly.
The researchers equate this behavior to consumers who turn a blind eye to the problematic origins of products they purchase."
Vu, L. et al. (2023). Ignorance by choice: A meta-analytic review of the underlying motives of willful ignorance and its consequences. Psychological Bulletin, 149(9-10), 611–635. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000398
"Meta-analytic results reveal that 40% of participants avoid easily obtainable information about the consequences of their actions on others, leading to a 15.6-percentage point decrease in altruistic behavior compared to when information is provided. "
"Ron DeSantis got his BA from Yale, and his law degree from Harvard. But these credentials have not stopped the Republican presidential contender from spewing out a toxic slurry of ignorant bigotry regarding the Palestinian men, women, and children who have been forced to flee from Israel’s 'complete siege' of Gaza."
For Armenians, a classic relic ethnic minority whose Christianity peculiar alphabet date to Romans it was another genocide.
For the Azerbaijanis, Turkic in language and historically Shia Muslim, a great triumph.
Instead, in its emboldening of traditional regional powers like Turkey, scrambling for geopolitical spoils after the retreat of superpowers, it’s a harbinger of the coming world disorder.
'Exceedingly dangerous': Why the rise of #Christian#nationalism is 'entirely out of our control'
In 2024, this nation will wrestle with Christian nationalism once again, but it won't be the nationalism of ideas. It will be a nationalism rooted more in emotion and mysticism than theology. The fever may not break until the 'prophecies' change, and that is a factor that is entirely out of our control.
#Knowledge is under attack by an ill-informed public determined to replace it with popular #ignorance.
Though this is not entirely possible – no society could survive such a transition – the breakdown in trust between experts and laypeople underlying this misguided ambition is making the U.S. ungovernable.
#Experts are held in contempt, sometimes for their errors but increasingly simply because they are experts and laypeople are not.