@idontexistTore Doctors are NOT the problem! Insurance Companies hijacked medicine 20+yrs ago when they began to practice medicine without a license. Dr's have become indentured servants. Mds must see 20 to 25 patients daily, chart, get pre auths, prescriptions and any other ins demand!
Dear Muslims: My family and I have decided to move from the US to a Muslim country. We haven't picked which one yet—we're still comparing which one offers the best benefits package.
All my neighbors want to come too. And my neighbors' neighbors. And all their friends. And their friends' friends. Millions of us will show up with suitcases and a sense of entitlement.
As a large Christian community, we'll need a few small changes: Please start building churches immediately. Real churches, with nice loud bells, the kind that can be heard from the town square.
We'll also need for everyone to celebrate Christmas, and to close certain streets once a year for our processions. We may want to gather to pray to our Almighty God on your streets, in your parks, or on the lawns of your mosques.
We'll be an oppressed minority, so you'll have to be understanding and adapt to our way of life. Every supermarket must stock real pork, ham, chorizo, and bacon. And we're bringing all our dogs, so you'll need dog parks, and you'll have to smile tolerate them we walk them in front of your mosques. We want our women to be able to safely go out alone and wear shorts and tank tops. And when the weather's nice, we men like to go shirtless. We also want to drink alcohol, dance, and place an occasional bet at the horse races.
While we're at it, your religious holidays are a bit too much; they could offend the Christian community, so we'd appreciate it if you'd discreetly eliminate them. Thanks.
In schools and workplaces, our children and employees must be able to wear large crucifixes, say prayers, eat ham sandwiches in the cafeteria, and learn Christian principles without anyone getting criticized. We also demand chapels or Christian prayer rooms in every building, plus translators, because we have no intention of learning Arabic.
If any of this is rejected, please send a list of police station addresses so we can report you for discrimination, Christianophobia, racism, and anything we don't like.
One more thing: if my kids protest or burn your flag for any reason, please be understanding. I'll be sure to give them a very serious scolding.
Finally, we all want generous benefits, free housing, phones, free food, and pocket money while we "integrate" over the next three generations. Working is optional, obviously. Be patient with us, you'll get used to it.
We thank you in advance for your tolerance and compassion. After all, diversity is our strength!
Sincerely,
A Very Reasonable Christian
@Chicago1Ray Kuddos to the DAD who understands actions have consequences that many parents are unwilling to follow through with!! This is how you teach respect.🫡
Todd Rose graduated from high school, sort of, with a GPA of 0.9. Somehow, he went out to become a professor at Harvard, and today, he runs the most consequential think tank in America. Populace specializes in private opinion polling, and their work today is more important than ever. Why? Because the extent to which we’re being manipulated online is worse than you think. Much, much worse. Hundreds of millions of bots, (literally) have infected every social platform, and led to a long list of “collective illusions” that have reinforced to a “manufactured consensus” around myriad issues that are tearing us apart. In short, we’ve been turned against one another, by an enemy that’s determined to see our county collapse from the inside out.
According to Todd, the most serious, manufactured consensuses plaguing Americans revolve around societal values, political polarization, and interpersonal trust. For instance, Americans widely believe that society fundamentally prioritizes wealth, status, luxury, and fame. But in private polling, individual Americans overwhelmingly rank personal fulfillment, being a good parent, character, and doing work with a positive impact at the top of their personal values. Because people chase what they think others value, they pursue hollow benchmarks of fame and money, inadvertently teaching their children to do the same.
Likewise, the overwhelming public consensus suggests that Americans are fiercely divided over cultural, institutional, and political issues. But data from Populace (and I mean, LOTS of data) reveals that roughly 90% of Americans actually agree on the vast majority of controversial issues. Our brains use a deeply flawed shortcut that assumes the loudest voices are the majority. Because a tiny fraction of extreme users dominates most social media platforms, and because foreign bot armies, (mostly from China,) have weaponized these divides to an unprecedented level, we are awash in false consensuses. Which leads us to self-silence out of fear.
According to Todd, the largest collective illusion in society today concerns mutual trustworthiness. In truth, the vast majority of Americans privately believe that they are trustworthy and value integrity. However, they simultaneously believe that most other Americans are dishonest and do not value trust at all. This manufactured mismatch causes people to treat their neighbors with a level of suspicion that oftentimes, isn’t warranted. It also leads people to fall in line with all sorts agendas that are not in fact, nearly as popular as they assume them to be. Defund the Police, for instance, or Black Lives Matter, (no kidding), or the current panic around data centers, or the resistance to nuclear power, or much of the public pressure around cancel culture, DEI, ESG, and lots of other issues that never really had the support that people thought. Bottom line, school boards, corporations, and politicians implement policies that almost nobody actually wants, driven entirely by the fear of opposing a false majority that doesn’t really exist.
For me, Todd’s research does two things. It encourages tolerance and offers hope, because it proves we’re not really as divided as we seem. But it also encourages brutal honesty, even if it means getting thrown out of your own club. I’d be curious to know what it inspires in you.
Our whole conversation is here: https://t.co/5cwxM2Gcc0
A short clip is below. His latest initiative, Be The People, is also worth a look. https://t.co/05qtYwg4kO