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gavvet (78)in #assassination • 5 years ago
Big night tonight
With president Trump promising "fireworks like never seen before" will he be getting more than even he bargained for. By Cemg , CC BY-SA 3.0, Link His 1260 days in office…
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gavvet (78)in #buildabridgeandgetoverit • 5 years ago
Consequences... Imagine that.
When you have been wrapped in cotton wool and safe spaces most of your life, I guess it's not hard to become a snowflake. If you've never had to suffer consequences for some of…
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gavvet (78)in #woke • 5 years ago
As funny as the simpsons are...
Their chickens are coming home to roost. They have quite a bit to answer for and not to the woke mobs they are scared of now. These mobs are simply the fruits of what they…
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gavvet (78)in #thoughtless • 5 years ago
The simplistic vs the complex?
Are things ever only black and white? Rarely so. Simple creatures remain in their limited sphere because their field of focus is limited by a very simplified combination of…
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gavvet (78)in #issues • 5 years ago
Why the self absorbed project
I guess when all that is in your life is focused on self then it's easy to see everything only from your own perspective and through the lens of your own making. The Selfie…
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gavvet (78)in #protests • 5 years ago
These guy's called it. The US Political upheavals we see now.
An emerging academic/scientific branch predicted that the decade of the 2020's would be a turbulent decade in US history. All that was needed was a trigger. Its a very…
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gavvet (78)in #woke • 5 years ago
And so the cannibalism begins
Pull up chair for the war of the woke. It's been a long time coming, this postmodern philosophical harvest of "truth is relative" twaddle. Released from the moorings of any…
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gavvet (78)in #signaling • 5 years ago
Virtue signaling penance and or pandering to the mob
Guilt can be a strong motivator as is peer pressure. Some religions have incorporated it into their rites and observances. Absolution of guilt has been a carrot that is used to…
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gavvet (78)in #politics • 5 years ago
Politics, politics, politics
Progressivism and Conservatism both have their virtues but have been corrupted by politicians. True to form this is what has happened in both camps over time. “Every great…
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gavvet (78)in #religion • 5 years ago
The Religion of Progressives
Having all but abandoned religion and traditional values progressives require something to fill the gap. What has emerged is remarkably similar to what went before. By Fabio…
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gavvet (78)in #voice • 5 years ago
Without an independent voice?
The world is changing again... The internet gave us a voice. Everybody could become their own publisher and social media helped us find and congregate with like minds. That…
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gavvet (78)in #assassination • 5 years ago
Coup or assasination?
Victor Davis Hanson pointed out the orchestrated nature of recent anti-trump statements from retired military generals and other leaders etc. His intimation is they are…
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gavvet (78)in #mobs • 5 years ago
Why pandering to a mob can never work
Mobs take on a life of their own. There is a certain anonymity that is derived from being in a crowd. Think needle in a haystack. img source When people think they…
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gavvet (78)in #mobs • 5 years ago
Mobocracy Anyone?
In the early days of the internet, trolls were quick to emerge. Now social media is rife with angry twitter mobs, social justice warriors and all kinds of viewpoint pushers and…
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gavvet (78)in #narratives • 5 years ago
A lot of sense, among all the nonsense
Now this was a well balanced perspective. Well articulated and thorough. An absolute must read. It's longer than most "goldfish attention span" readers these days can digest…
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gavvet (78)in #rip • 5 years ago
Till death do us part - or just succession?
No longer just a fantasy. What were considered crackpot theories just a decade ago are now beginning to take on an air of feasibility. img source The toppling of…
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gavvet (78)in #opinion • 5 years ago
The Whirlpool and the Current
Our current information landscape is more like a tumultuous whirlpool than a calm lake surface. Swimming in these waters is dangerous, currents of all strengths and in all…
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gavvet (78)in #technology • 5 years ago
Meaningless gestures
I guess one of the contributing factors to all these wonderful signals of virtue can be ascribed to the rize of technology. Have all our technological gadgets and the…
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gavvet (78)in #economy • 5 years ago
Is this the end of the west?
The west has had a long tumultuous run. Rising slowly from the ashes of the Roman Empire and struggling to free itself from the viscus quagmire of Medieval Europe the once…
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gavvet (78)in #comfort • 5 years ago
A timely message as fear grips the planet
Covid-19 has introduced a lot of uncertainty into our lives all over the world. It's the first global and aggressive pandemic that is likely to touch most of our lives in a…
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