Is Empathy Controversial?
At left we see another example of how we will argue about anything in the modern-day chaos we call our “society.”
As John Cleese points out, we can’t even agree that empathy for other people is an unequivocally good thing.
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Biodegradable Plastic
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s there something of validity to this investment? I’m not sure.
What I do know is that the subject of biodegradable plastic has been the subject of scrutiny of materials scientists for many decades.
Part of the problem is the time frame in which you want the degradation process to take place. If you have a gallon of milk with a shelf-life of two weeks, you don’t need the plastic to last centuries, but if you have a case of bottled water in your garage in case of an emergency, you want the plastic to be good for at least a few years.
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Big Food
I’ll grant that the graphic below is, in fact, terrifying, but it’s factually incorrect; this does not represent anywhere near everything we eat and drink. In actuality, if you stay away from the center of your grocery store, you’ll avoid every one of these poisons, and you’ll cease to support the corporate control of our food.
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“Vermin” Is the Perfect Word to Rile Trump’s Base
Hmm.
I was aware that there were Jews living in Germany in the 1930s, but until Trump posted what we see here at left, I was unaware that we had more than a handful of “communists and Marxists,” let alone that they are “living like vermin.”
Just like Germany doesn’t want to go back to those days, I’m not sure this is America’s finest hour.
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Sad Times in America
The meme here points to a tragedy in U.S. history, but keep in mind that things have only gotten worse.
Seven years later, almost half of American voters support a man who clearly tried to overthrow our country, and who intends, if re-elected, to commandeer the entirety of the legal/justice system.
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Republican Candidates Swim in Turbulent Waters
There’s nothing enviable about the task confronting the five Republican hopefuls running against Trump, especially when you consider the chorus of boos they receive if they’re bold and honest enough to point out that Trump lost a free and fair election in 2020, and God bless them, if they want to point out that the former president faces 91 felony charges stemming from four indictments.
Euphemisms Can Destroy the Meanings of Our Words
Polite society lives in a world of euphemisms. If you have a low IQ, it may be more tactful to refer to you as “intellectually challenged” than “stupid.”
This phenomenon is even taken to the point of jokes; if you’re short of stature, you may be said to be “vertically challenged.”
Let’s hope there is something similar at work in the meme here. Normally, those in public office who take bribes, especially those at the highest levels of government, are not regarded as “ethically challenged,” but simply as “criminals.”
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Narcissism
Before the advent of Donald Trump, the term “narcissism” was used very seldom in America; it normally came up only in the context of the Greek myth in which a young man was so taken by his own image, reflecting in a pond, that he eventually fell into the water and drowned.
Now it’s important for us all to have some understanding of this psychopathological condition, insofar as it explains and predicts the behavior of a man who represents great danger to our nation, and, by extension, the world.
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Rejecting “The Great Reset”
In the politics of conservative Americans, the term “The Great Reset” refers to their desire to take government and social norms back to some point in the past. Though it’s unclear exactly how far into the past would satisfy those folks, it seems that a good estimate would be the 1950s, before Roe, the Civil Rights Act, gay rights, and certainly anything remotely resembling “woke.”
As we’re starting to see, however, Americans are rejecting The Great Reset by huge margins in the polls. This appears to be a reaction to the Republican party’s having squirted to the far right over the past few years, especially on issues like a federal law banning abortion, and the alliance with Donald Trump and his attempt to overthrow the U.S. government.
Voters have more affinity for cancer than they do for this level of right-wing extremism.
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Another Message to Republicans Re: Promoting Things Americans Truly Despise
As suggested in the meme here, another reason the Republicans are getting killed at the polls is their effort to throw sand in the gears of the U.S. military. I’m referring of course to Alabama Republican senator Tommy Tuberville’s ploy to raise awareness for the need to ban abortion, by blocking thousands of promotions with in our armed forces, thus gumming up our entire defense apparatus.
Again, here’s something so obvious that I can’t believe I’m typing out these words: Most Americans respect our military, and want to see it function with the greatest possible efficiency, unimpeded by political grandstanding.
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