“Listen to your dissenters”
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I left my church without voicing my word of advice because I was pretty sure that they would ignore it anyway. I’m sure that their culture of misogyny and self-righteousness continues without them realizing how it is damaging them.
All kids deserve to be raised in a world without hatred towards trans people.
Kids deserve unconditional love,
not a love determined by how much they align with their birth genitals.
(They also deserve a world where adult strangers aren't thinking of their genitals)
I didn’t check the facts about Israel and Netanyahu (mainly because I trust Harari to know what he is talking about) but the philosophy of avoiding divisive leaders resonates with me. The divisiveness of our main two political parties (in the USA) is also concerning to see.
I hope the CEO of twitter becomes the Defense Against the Dark Arts equivalent that's filled by a rotating cast of interesting characters who are cursed to move the plot forward then promptly leave the app after no longer than a year for mysterious or contrived reasons
"Four decades of the Islamic Republic’s hard power will ultimately be defeated by two millennium of Iranian cultural soft power. The question is no longer about whether this will happen, but when." My essay in today's @nytopinion https://t.co/rAAwpB43Sz
Imagine living under a government that is so oppressive that thousands have risked death to protest. The price of ‘give me liberty or give me death’ is being weighed and chosen because of the hope that liberty will one day be achieved. My that day come soon.
The obsession with platforms prostrating themselves before advertisers has always been misplaced, because on any scale longer than one bad news cycle, advertisers go where the audience is.
Optimize platforms for people, not brands, because people have a choice. Brands don't.
Beware of people and movements that derive their unity from othering marginalized groups. Beware of those that dismiss the importance of fiction and the arts and this physical world. Beware of those that would seek to re-shape you in their own image and silence your unique voice.
Before reading the book I didn’t know that hitler’s anti-Semitic views had grown from his belief in a conspiracy theory.
Ideas and beliefs can have long reaching consequences and therefore it’s very important that we avoid echo chambers and think critically about our beliefs.
“For 43 years, we have addressed the symptoms of the problem. But we haven’t addressed the cause.” I spoke to British-Iranian actor & activist @NazaninBoniadi about what's happening in #Iran. Please watch and share.
I wouldn’t wish the brutality of the IRI regime on even my worst enemy. When you stand for human rights, you center yourself on the principle that freedom can only truly exist for you, if it also exists for your opponents, and crimes are dealt with by due process and fair trials.
“From the year it was established, Presidents and their cadres have regularly directed the CIA to go beyond the law for reasons that cannot be justified, and therefore must be concealed — classified.” https://t.co/wDHCD851dA
I’m not sure that I’d heard of Rushdie before the attack but my curiosity has been aroused and I’m planning to read one of his books now. #ILoveMyLocalLibrary
“You can cheat to get a paper. You can cheat to get a degree. You can cheat to get a grant. You can’t cheat to cure a disease,” he says. “Biology doesn’t care.” https://t.co/zR6aLUvc21
Pardon him or we’ll conclude that you care more about power than you care about humanity. #Trump and #Obama failed that test. #Biden is currently failing it.
There is so much that is wrong with this case but 16 months in jail before the case was thrown out? What ever happened to the 6th amendment?!
“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial,…” https://t.co/FfGo8T6AhP
I think it’s been two years since I wrote the lyrics. I definitely need to improve the speed at which I produce new content at if I want to develop an audience! Please watch it and share it with anyone who you think might like it!
Happy Birthday to myself! I finally finished this project and can now start on the next one!
Come Out To Play (Original Song by MsTyfHyde) https://t.co/kuIn9YnEBJ