It’s because of them thinking World 2 is the entirety of reality.

“World 1,” World 2,” and “World 3” are terms from Sir Karl Popper, one of the great philosophers of the 20th Century. Worlds 1, 2, and 3 are respectively physical reality, social reality, and logical reality.
The thing is, Worlds 1 & 3 are not under are control, but World 2 is. We can’t alter the law of gravity by human will, or the Pythagorean theorem. But we can alter the govt. of the U.S.’s fundamental structure by will, and we have, twice, in 1781 and 1788.
But people have trouble keeping the three straight. They think they can change human nature and the societies it gives rise to by just wishing for it to happen.

There’s a lot of talk about following #science, but little realization that science frequently leads you places
you’d prefer it didn’t. We are basically emotional animals, and it’s hard to think clearly about that which arouses a strong emotional response.

For now, it seems the best we can do is be aware of the fragility of our reason, and do our best to think straight.
So we will just have to put up with people who can’t reason because they are too upset to think clearly, and remember that we may be among them.

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#TranslatedIntoHonest: Not if he can help it.

The “harm” was a teacher telling the truth. She pointed out that “Some of the books filling our libraries make it seem simple, or even cool to take puberty blockers or opposite-sex hormones.”
She later said “This book is misleading because it does not take into account how Shane might feel later in life about being infertile. This book makes very serious medical interventions seem like an easy cure for emotional and social distress,” the teacher said.
She saw them as age inappropriate and (apparently) untrue.

Piatkowski ruled that saying these things is “transphobic” violates “the human rights code” and does “harm” to someone.

Canada is headed for dictatorship. It has been conquered by the forces of #evil.
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It helps if you look at the history of the word “race” in the OED. It is a very vague term that meant at various times “family”, “ethnic group,” “nationality,” “species,” and the current meaning of “major human anatomical group based on skin color and other cosmetic features.”
I should also mention for completeness sake the political mean associated with Noel Ignatiev, “evil oppressors who must be overthrown to create the communist paradise.” By this definition, the Irish were not white till they came to the U.S. and discriminated against blacks.
It’s something Ignatiev and other socialists made up to attack contemporary society. Historically, the Irish were always “white” in the U.S. Till the 14th Amendment was passed, immigrants could not be naturalized a citizen unless they were white. The Irish had no trouble there.
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#Propaganda #protip: Never underestimate the power of the Big Lie. There have been NO studies about the implications of this, long term, because there CAN’T be. They would have had to sit on the #vax for YEARS to conduct them. We’ll find out the implications in future years.
Did you know the word “cisapride.” It’s the name of a drug introduced to the U.S. market in 1993, and ‘voluntarily’ withdrawn from the market in 2000. (It’s still available for vet use). Why was it withdrawn? It kills people. OOPS!

How did it ever get approved?
There were deaths among the test subjects in the clinical trials. But there didn’t seem like a lot of deaths, it was plausible that they were coincidental, so the regulators made a judgment call and approved it.

That is not a scandal. The scandal came later.
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#Propaganda #protip: Never forget that #Editing is #Lying.

Read this #WaPo story: web.archive.org/web/2022010808…. Than look at this 3-tweet thread by Michael P Senger: . Almost NOTHING of what Senger points out as misinformation appears in the WaPo piece.
And of the one or two claims that do make it in, there is no hint whatsoever that the claims might be false.

The CDC has stated that the vaccinated can catch and spread the disease, e.g., but Kagan’s statement to the contrary is not challenged.
Another egregious example is in this Vox story; vox.com/2022/1/7/22871…. The #Biden administration apparently claims that covid is more deadly than smallpox, yellow fever, or cholera. That is complete nonsense, unbelievably wrong.
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And this stinking pile of 💩 reveals her inner nature. She is full of resentment and envy, and took the opportunity of a horrific quintuple murder to display what she thought was wit.

Truly #evil. Utterly #disgusting. The Twitter rules prevent me saying more.
And look at THIS imbecility, where she can't understand what she did wrong, and says her remarks were in "bad taste." As if anybody on Twitter cared about taste.

Note also how she tries to cover herself with "free speech," and how her "accepting responsibility" lie All text, reads: I firmly believe in the right to freedom of
is contradicted by the whining in the tweet above.

Let's look at her "bad taste." Here's one example, which she has since deleted. "No one" @tweettruth2me tweeted : "When your political ideology means more to you than human life, you have lost your way." Lemanski's reply: Quote tweet by Lemanski: Quoted tweet from Heavy.com, all te
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The #WaPo has a decent review of "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story," the new book based on the notorious #NYTimes Sunday Magazine articles.

Reviewer @CarlosLozadaWP notes the basic dishonesty of the project, where criticisms are met by changing the definitions of words.
For instance, when Nikole Hannah-Jones says blacks fought for their rights "alone," that doesn't mean "Without aid or support," or "Without anyone else." It means "without the support of the majority of white Americans."
This is dubious as stated (did the majority of whites oppose the Civil Rights Act of 1964, or the Voting Rights Act of 1965? If answering, please present evidence). It is also irrelevant. A minority of white Americans has always fought for black rights. NHJ lies about this.
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