Professionally, I customize bougie-on-a-budget itineraries for multidestination vacations.
Personally, I think the only thing Orwell got wrong was the year.
@SamsungMobile I have held onto my Galaxy S22 Ultra for 4.5 years, hoping and praying that the next Gen of the Fold would include an onboard stylus. Again, you've let me down. 🥺
Margaret Atwood has stated that she based The Handmaid’s Tale on events that had already happened in the world - and she explicitly included the eradication of women’s rights in Iran after the 1979 Revolution- when she wrote the novel in 1984.
In other words, THT is not “like” Iran - it’s directly referencing Iran.
Yes, women’s rights vis-à-vis health access has been seriously damaged in certain U.S. states. It is concerning and has had severe consequences - sometimes fatal - for many, many vulnerable women.
However…
I, like others, am quite done with people in the United States who on one hand dramatize the precariousness of women’s rights here by speaking as if we already live in Gilead (we absolutely do not, that’s preposterous) and simultaneously have no clue as to how absolutely horrific the conditions have been for Iranian women under its abusive regime. It’s not even a comparison. The magnitude of oppression is beyond the scope of understanding for mononational American women. We have never and will never see that here. There is no category of American women alive today that has been as abused by our government as have Iranian women by theirs.
It boggles the mind that I have to even say something so obvious. People have lost the plot.
Imagine being this ignorant. "Venezuela's socialist potential" was up for debate 20 years ago, but has since failed miserably. And Maduro is a dictator, not an elected President. Capitalism didn't create him. If it had, they'd be cheering his arrest. https://t.co/dv3tNUEfnH
@danwilliamsphil Unlike others here, I give credit where it is due. 😉 It doesn't matter how or when you came to your understanding or whether it is perfect or imperfect. The point is that you broke out of the mold of intolerance. Welcome!
@austinmcraig@danwilliamsphil This is an insightful take. The way I have understood our differences is by locus of control. The left's is external - life happens TO them. The right's is internal - life is what they make it. One places blame, and the other takes responsibility. We are not the same.
@larryjones If a person in a customer-facing role is an asshole, it makes sense that they would be fired, right? So what is the problem here? Assholes aren't entitled to jobs. Good people lead with their hearts, not their assholes.
@OliLondonTV If we want people to come over to the side of Truth, we have to give them a little grace while they wake up to it. Mocking this young man isn't productive. It isn't what Charlie would have done either. Let's not behave like leftists & alienate people who are open to conversation.
@booker9e1@OliLondonTV That's not fair. He is literally realizing in real time that his side is violent. If we want people to see things from our point of view, we have to give them some grace to come to terms with it.
Man who asked Charlie Kirk question about trans mass shooters before he was shot speaks out:
“The point I was trying to make it how peaceful the left was right before he got shot. And that only makes sense if we stay peaceful…”
@WomenReadWomen I love that he brought "black trans women" into the conversation. I guess it was hard to make his case on his own white male privilege alone.
In the last few years we've seen:
- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk
Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.
The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.
I saw this video this morning on my feed and I think it so eloquently explains what Charlie Kirk was put on this earth to do.
“When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence, that is when civil war happens”
Greg Gutfeld just WENT OFF about Charlie Kirk being shot, even dropped an F-bomb live on Fox
"If you thought that you were going to shut a movement down, you're going to get a rude awakening.
You woke us the F*CK UP." — @greggutfeld
Charlie Kirk was firm in his Christian faith and faced detractors with unwavering integrity, patience, and kindness. Much like Malcolm X 60 years ago, this young man saw a path forward to heal a divide, and the devil preferred he not take it. What a profound loss! RIP
After the Ukrainian woman was murdered, the mayor issued a statement exclusively defending the homeless and mentally ill.
No mention of the killer’s 14 arrests and multiple felonies.
Our empathy keeps getting used to excuse evil.
And it’s literally killing us.