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@chrismwc @IndianaGPA No vote = no democracy

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Former CBC producer Rodney Palmer just delivered a forensic presentation to the panel on how Canada’s public broadcaster morphed into a Chinese-style propaganda arm. Called out his former colleagues — and DESTROYED whatever credibility they had left.

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¿Y si el mayor peligro para nuestra sociedad no fuera la maldad, sino la estupidez?

La alarmante teoría de Dietrich Bonhoeffer que explica el mundo de hoy.

La Teoría de la Estupidez de Bonhoeffer:
El peligro silencioso
Durante los años más oscuros de la Alemania nazi, el teólogo y pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer reflexionó desde su celda sobre cómo una sociedad culta y moderna había caído en la barbarie colectiva.

Su conclusión fue revolucionaria y alarmante:
la estupidez es un enemigo del bien mucho más peligroso que la maldad misma.

👉 ¿Por qué es más peligrosa que la maldad?
Contra la maldad se puede luchar:
se puede denunciar, combatir e incluso legislar en su contra.
El malvado, en el fondo, suele tener conciencia de que está rompiendo las reglas.

Con la estupidez, en cambio, estamos completamente indefensos.
La persona dominada por ella es impermeable a los argumentos lógicos y a los hechos objetivos.
Si se le presentan pruebas que contradicen sus dogmas, simplemente las ignora o las tacha de irrelevantes.
Al sentirse completamente segura de sí misma, se vuelve agresiva y sumamente peligrosa al ser confrontada.

No es un defecto intelectual, sino moral
Bonhoeffer aclaró que esto no tiene nada que ver con el coeficiente intelectual o el nivel educativo. Existen mentes brillantes que operan bajo una profunda estupidez y personas sencillas que desbordan sabiduría moral.
La estupidez ocurre cuando un individuo renuncia voluntariamente a su capacidad de juicio propio.

👉 El contagio social y el rol del poder
Para el pensador, la estupidez es un fenómeno sociológico.
Observó que el ascenso de una fuerte estructura de poder (política o religiosa) infecta de estupidez a gran parte de la población.
Al integrarse a un grupo o adoptar ciegamente una ideología, el individuo sacrifica su independencia interior.

En este estado, la persona ya no piensa por sí misma:
se convierte en un repetidor de eslóganes, consignas y narrativas prefabricadas.
Al delegar su conciencia al colectivo, se transforma en una herramienta dócil capaz de cometer o justificar las mayores atrocidades sin experimentar remordimiento alguno.

👉 La conclusión de Bonhoeffer
La estupidez no se cura con más instrucción o datos, sino con un acto de liberación interna y coraje moral.
Hasta que el individuo no recupere la valentía de examinar sus ideas de forma autónoma y de tolerar la incomodidad de contradecir a su propio grupo, seguirá atrapado en este peligroso letargo.

[The Honey Badger @Nance726]

(Author Unknown)
They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive you were “piss poor.”

But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn’t even afford to buy a pot; they “didn’t have a pot to piss in” & were the lowest of the low.
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June. Since they were starting to smell, however, brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women, and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it … hence the saying, “Don’t throw the baby out with the Bath water!”

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof, resulting in the idiom, “It’s raining cats and dogs.”

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed, therefore, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That’s how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, leading folks to coin the phrase “dirt poor.”

The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way, subsequently creating a “thresh hold.”

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, “bring home the bacon.” They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and “chew the fat.”

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the “upper crust.”

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up, creating the custom of holding a wake.

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive, so they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer.

And that’s the truth. Now, whoever said History was boring?

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@MelGibson_1th - this you?

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It may have been #1984. I walked into the Hard Rock Cafe at Yonge & Dundas enquiring about a waiting job. The manager said if i wanted to cook and could start right then and there I got the job. (1/8.

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The waitress said "Hey your friend is really cute."
I said that was Mel Gibson. "Who?" Mad Max.
"I served #MadMax !?!
She ran into the street to find him. (8/8.

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Good question, Steve!

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So when is @Apple going to make an armoured, folding #iPhone that fits in a person's breast pocket?

[Bruce @bruce_barrett]

We can’t let western countries fall next.

[Karla Treadway | Host Sovereign Sphere Podcast @thesovereignceo]

Canada in 2026

🇨🇭Swiss Prices
🇲🇽 Mexico Salaries
🇸🇪 Scandinavian Taxes
🇭🇹 Haitian Services
🇷🇺 Soviet Infrastructure
🇫🇷 France Arrogance
🇨🇳 China Sponsored

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Watching Henry Mancini conduct “The Pink Panther Theme” live, with Plas Johnson recreating that iconic saxophone part, is basically watching film music history happen in front of you. 🎷

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

The British colonialism lasted a few centuries, left behind railroads, legal systems, education, and modern institutions.

It wasn't perfect. It had its sins. But it also built.

The British brought modern medicine, science, engineering, and governance.

They opened schools, built cities, printed books, developed infrastructure, and left behind functioning states, many of which are now sovereign global players.

Now compare that to Islamic colonialism,

1,400 years long, relentless, brutal, and still ongoing.

It left behind slavery, tribalism, religious apartheid, cultural erasure, and the complete destruction of countless civilizations.

In India alone, Islamic invasions are estimated to have killed 80 million Hindus.

Entire cultures, Zoroastrians, Berbers, Assyrians, Nubians, Copts, were wiped out, Arabized, or reduced to second-class citizens.

Native languages were erased. Indigenous philosophies were buried under Arabic supremacism.
Libraries were destroyed.

Islamic empires didn't bring modernity.

They stole achievements from conquered people, translated their works, stamped Arabic on them, and claimed the glory.

What was preserved from the Greeks, Persians, and Indians wasn't Islamic brilliance, it was Islamic appropriation.

Islamic colonialism didn't leave behind parliaments, constitutions, or democratic institutions.

It left behind dictatorships, theocracies, blasphemy laws, and sharia brutality.

It replaced thinkers with clerics, debate with dogma, and diversity with submission.

Never put British and Islamic colonialism in the same category.

British colonialism built nations.
Islamic colonialism buried them.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Why does the world still allow trophy hunting? We've done so much harm already. RT if you think there should be a worldwide ban on this barbaric practice.

Nature is amazing. Protect it.

#ActOnClimate #climate #TrophyHunting #nature #rewilding #GreenNewDeal #biodiversity

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Ragebaiting with boomers is a great strategy to make gen Z vote.