Don't be misled by the amplification factor of a totally one sided social media, from whichever side.
I might be in a minority, but I don't believe I'm wrong. Isn't that why we are here, to think for ourselves?
Emotions are high, and people are distracted. We (on this forum) should be focussed on the Maricopa audit, not to dancing to the MSM tune that is designed to heighten emotions and reduce reason.
I wouldn't be human if similar thoughts had jot also crossed my mind. My imagination, when wronged, can take me to a very darkly creative space, I'm no goody two shoes, but I'm trying.
If I just sit back and observe people who I think have good hearts being drawn down that path, a path I have seen and do not like how it ends (for anyone) then I would not be true to who I am.
I'm not saying people are wrong to feel the way they do, there is plenty of provocation after all. What I will say is 'is that how you want it to go down, being played like a chump?'.
Sometimes a calming voice can keep people from making rash mistakes. Note, I am not saying 'do nothing' and being a larp etc. What I am saying is be smart.
The whole idea isn’t to prevent people from having or voicing these harmful thoughts, because we all have our own demons.
It’s about being able to have an open discussion around those thoughts and proving out the ideas that work. The proverbial “market place of ideas”.
Everyone here is united by the cause of freedom, and united against those seeking to destroy freedom.
The left has created such absurd false equivalences and narratives that it’s easy to start seeing through their lens, and it’s also easy to start creating bad blood through what most of us mean as irreverent humor or, as Rush Limbaugh used to say, “illustrating the absurd with absurdity”.
But we’re all brothers and sisters fighting for the same thing. We can’t lose that along the way, and we definitely can’t let the left pull us into a meaningless distraction, because that is their goal.
I think the root of the problem is that old saw : judge by what people do, not by what people say.
People say all sorts of weird and outlandish things, but that doesn't mean they'll do them. The idea that the word is the deed is the real fallacy and must be confronted at every turn.
Judge people by their actions. With that as a focus, it's a lot harder to be distracted by gadflies.
My mum had a nasty fall after getting dizzy and ended up in hospital on Monday and had to stay in overnight. She had her second jab last Tuesday.
I could 't come right out and say it, I just said 'aren't you supposed to be having your second jab soon?' which led to her saying that she'd already had it, and also drawing her own conclusion that it might be related.
If I had just come right out and said 'Didn't you just have a second jab?' then it would have sounded like 'I told you so'. As much as she deserved it after all the warnigs and i fo I gave her, it would not help.
Just like telling people not to feel angry about being villified in the MSM is fruitless, but sometimes it's worth pointing out the MSM's game plan and letting people come to their own conclusions.
I amy or not be effective in this, but I can only drink the ocean one glass at a time :)
I think you’re missing a lot of the motivation behind that, though.
People were expecting and even hoping for riots because we know that the Antifa riots have never had anything to do with racial justice to begin with.
Sure, many BLM protesters during the day are honestly fighting for something they perceive to be right, and they intend to do so peacefully and properly.
But they have always been USED by the left as cover for the wanton destruction of the country, under the guise of a narrative that you’re racist and evil if you don’t support it.
I’m not aware of one person who wasn’t horrified by the George Floyd video when it was first released, without context. The country was in lock step against it.
And then the left took that moment and turned it into rioting, looting, “defund all police”, and “don’t you dare say there are any limits to what this justifies us to do”.
People wanted riots to expose this movement for what it was always meant to be - a divisive ploy to destroy the country.
The way they tore down our unified stance against this last summer when this first happened should be all the evidence you need of this.
Doesn’t mean we should be rooting for destruction, and we always need to be careful not to become what we hate... but there is context to everything, and we’d all do well to understand that if trying to help.
Don't be misled by the amplification factor of a totally one sided social media, from whichever side.
I might be in a minority, but I don't believe I'm wrong. Isn't that why we are here, to think for ourselves?
Emotions are high, and people are distracted. We (on this forum) should be focussed on the Maricopa audit, not to dancing to the MSM tune that is designed to heighten emotions and reduce reason.
I must respectfuly disagree.
I wouldn't be human if similar thoughts had jot also crossed my mind. My imagination, when wronged, can take me to a very darkly creative space, I'm no goody two shoes, but I'm trying.
If I just sit back and observe people who I think have good hearts being drawn down that path, a path I have seen and do not like how it ends (for anyone) then I would not be true to who I am.
I'm not saying people are wrong to feel the way they do, there is plenty of provocation after all. What I will say is 'is that how you want it to go down, being played like a chump?'.
Sometimes a calming voice can keep people from making rash mistakes. Note, I am not saying 'do nothing' and being a larp etc. What I am saying is be smart.
We need people like you here.
The whole idea isn’t to prevent people from having or voicing these harmful thoughts, because we all have our own demons.
It’s about being able to have an open discussion around those thoughts and proving out the ideas that work. The proverbial “market place of ideas”.
Everyone here is united by the cause of freedom, and united against those seeking to destroy freedom.
The left has created such absurd false equivalences and narratives that it’s easy to start seeing through their lens, and it’s also easy to start creating bad blood through what most of us mean as irreverent humor or, as Rush Limbaugh used to say, “illustrating the absurd with absurdity”.
But we’re all brothers and sisters fighting for the same thing. We can’t lose that along the way, and we definitely can’t let the left pull us into a meaningless distraction, because that is their goal.
Thank you.
I think the root of the problem is that old saw : judge by what people do, not by what people say.
People say all sorts of weird and outlandish things, but that doesn't mean they'll do them. The idea that the word is the deed is the real fallacy and must be confronted at every turn.
Judge people by their actions. With that as a focus, it's a lot harder to be distracted by gadflies.
Sometimes people just got to vent, you know?
My mum had a nasty fall after getting dizzy and ended up in hospital on Monday and had to stay in overnight. She had her second jab last Tuesday.
I could 't come right out and say it, I just said 'aren't you supposed to be having your second jab soon?' which led to her saying that she'd already had it, and also drawing her own conclusion that it might be related.
If I had just come right out and said 'Didn't you just have a second jab?' then it would have sounded like 'I told you so'. As much as she deserved it after all the warnigs and i fo I gave her, it would not help.
Just like telling people not to feel angry about being villified in the MSM is fruitless, but sometimes it's worth pointing out the MSM's game plan and letting people come to their own conclusions.
I amy or not be effective in this, but I can only drink the ocean one glass at a time :)
I think you’re missing a lot of the motivation behind that, though.
People were expecting and even hoping for riots because we know that the Antifa riots have never had anything to do with racial justice to begin with.
Sure, many BLM protesters during the day are honestly fighting for something they perceive to be right, and they intend to do so peacefully and properly.
But they have always been USED by the left as cover for the wanton destruction of the country, under the guise of a narrative that you’re racist and evil if you don’t support it.
I’m not aware of one person who wasn’t horrified by the George Floyd video when it was first released, without context. The country was in lock step against it.
And then the left took that moment and turned it into rioting, looting, “defund all police”, and “don’t you dare say there are any limits to what this justifies us to do”.
People wanted riots to expose this movement for what it was always meant to be - a divisive ploy to destroy the country.
The way they tore down our unified stance against this last summer when this first happened should be all the evidence you need of this.
Doesn’t mean we should be rooting for destruction, and we always need to be careful not to become what we hate... but there is context to everything, and we’d all do well to understand that if trying to help.