From now until the #election, I'm playing the Benny Hill theme tune at full volume and adopting a Kenneth Williams "oooh matron" voice, because it's now the only way to keep a grip on #reality
Today, in the Netherlands, caretakers all over the country dropped work for 2 minutes at 14:00 .
As respect for a colleague who was killed by a patient last month.
Violence against people working in medical jobs, by patients or people connected with them has increased a lot in the last years .
It is almost as if the #world is telling us a morbid joke: we will kill you if you resist and kill you if you hide, and if you refuse, and if you concede, and we will devour your land and gulp your oceans and kill you with hunger and thirst.
The massacres will be televised, broadcast in broad daylight. Our judges will legalize them.
“#Trump has been #dancing as fast as he can for #decades trying to stay one step ahead of #bankruptcy and the #law and he has been successful at doing it, apparently leading him to truly believe that he could always prevail by sheer force of #will. When the #2020election didn’t go his way, his #fragilepsyche couldn’t take it and he simply #created an alternate #reality in order to #cope.”
You're gonna wanna sit down and get your Shocked Face™️ ready:
"Researchers who studied the issue have found that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than American citizens. From 2012 to 2022, undocumented immigrants were 14% less likely to be convicted of murder and 41% less likely to be convicted of any criminal offense. Similar research by Michael Light at the University of Wisconsin found lower rates of "homicides, sexual assaults, violent crimes, property crimes, traffic and drug violations" among undocumented immigrants."
A young #Palestinian couple on their #wedding day. Just a small ceremony in an improvised tent, no #family gatherings, no celebration, everyday jeans for the groom, no real wedding dress for the bride, three red roses as bridal bouquet. No honeymoon - just the fear of loosing each other every minute. [Picture by Khalil.]
Reality is a bitter pill when you’ve been fed a steady diet of religious fantasy. While life always was random, I felt safer when I could explain it as “God’s will” or “Satan’s handiwork.” I felt extremely exposed & vulnerable without my Cosmic Big Brother watching over me. Step by step, I learned to own my life. Divorcing religion is painful - but it’s also liberating. I love my life ♥️ #independence#criticalthinking#identity#reality#science#equality#reason#SecularHumanism#atheist#joy
Imagine living in a room where everything in it is invisible but you can throw a visible net that reveals the contours of objects. I learned from psychedelics that physical, cultural limitations prevent us from directly experiencing most of the universe we live in, but language is like that net. It is a powerful tool for apprehending a reality we can only glimpse . Culture, habit mesmerize us into mistaking the net for the reality it only partially describes. #psychedelic#language#reality
Instead of people beating around the bush asking Nikki Hailey (and all of them) about the cause of the US Civil War, why the heck don't people just ask her if she:
Believes states should be allowed to open up slavery or to own people as property.
Believes in equal rights for all humans of all races, colours and religions
I find the media's penchant for avoiding the elephant(s) in the room extremely annoying and I think it enables bad people to keep pushing down bad roads.
Another year has almost passed, and she has not been cleared of charges. Sure, she got out of prison. But she never should have been in. She tried to warn Americans that Russia was interfering in our elections. While Trump is still free to lie & share information with foreign leaders. #Reality
Understand that we are up against a #whiteSupremacist#cult in November 2024. Millions of #Americans have decided that the #Nazis were right, and their #ideology should reign supreme in the #UnitedStates. This isn't #fearmongering. This is the #reality we are facing. Voting Blue is the only hope we have of preserving our #republic. If we fail, we'll never again have another opportunity to #vote.
Nothing that comes out of #Trump's mouth has any connection with #reality. Not one word. Every day it's more #absurd than the last. And yet far too many #media outlets report on it as if it was normal. There should be no #headlines reporting on his words that don't also include a disclaimer that it's a #lie. The media has to be more #vigilant.