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You are not in traffic; you are traffic. You are not in the universe; you are the universe.
We need to pay attention and we need to stay in the fight. Because of course we do. But we should spend as much time as we possibly can over the next four years with friends and lovers doing things that bring us joy. Anyone who tells you that making time for joy — however you define it — is a distraction or a betrayal has no idea what they’re talking about. During the darkest days of the AIDS Crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced at night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for. It didn’t look like we were going to win then and we did. It doesn’t feel like we’re going to win now but we could. Keep fighting, keep dancing.
You should not be afraid of someone who has a library and reads many books; you should fear someone who has only one book; and he considers it sacred, but he has never read it.
- Anonymous
They really are the same, the two parties.
Republicans made internment camps. So did Democrats. More than once. Sometimes they did it together.
Republicans made the USA Patriot Act (Bush). Democrats expanded and codified it under the US Freedom Act (Obama). Both Bush and Obama greatly increased domestic surveillance and consolidated power in the executive branch.
The DNC stated, in a court of law, that they are not beholden to voters, "and we could have voluntarily decided that, Look, we're gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way. That's not the way it was done. But they could have."
Both Democrat- and Republican-led cities where police murder people (George Floyd, Justine Diamond, Breonna Taylor, Daniel Shaver, and Philando Castile to mention a very very very few) with no change made to police departments.
Tuskegee Syphilis Study from 1932 to 1972 - decades of Republicans and Democrats in power.
The coups we instigated and treaties we broke over the centuries for oil and bananas and oil and rubber and oil and land and oil? Republicans and Democrats.
For the most part, the people we elect don't respect us, we're just labor for their economic engines.
Voting for either party over the years has gotten us exactly where we are today.
Many whales die by drowning. Maybe whales who beach themselves fear drowning.
Cure hiccups by getting a glass of water and a pen or pencil. Place the pen or pencil inside your mouth and lightly bite down on it. Drink the glass of water.
People are a torment.
A part of keeping "peace" means stopping violence. Nazism is an inherently violent ideology. Organizing under Nazi ideology is an act of preparation for mass violence. Stopping Nazi's is done in the name of peace. Sometimes when people are violent, you have to use violence to stop them, in the name of peace. Just like we did in World War 2. If you don't want to face violence, do not wield violence. If you want to claim nonviolence, do not advocate an ideology that is inherently violent
There is no paradox of tolerance in the first place.
The paradox is resolved by treating tolerance not as a moral precept (something that is done because doing otherwise makes you a bad person, something that must always be done) but as a contract or treaty (something that is reciprocal, the benefits of which you are not obligated to afford to those who do not reciprocally offer those same benefits to you and others in return.) Treaties/contracts come with restrictions which signatories are obligated to follow, and benefits those signatories receive in return.
Those who refuse to tolerate others who are not impeding anyones rights are not entitled to our tolerance.