ICE Has Us Worried for Our Safety
Obviously, undocumented folks are frightened, but the terror doesn’t end there.
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Keeping Greenland Safe
Hadn’t Greenland been doing just fine until the United States started threatening to invade/annex it, thus usurping the land of one of our allies since the formation of the Republic?
Mel Gibson for California Governor?
Well, let’s think about this.
Mel Gibson is one of a very few Trump supporters in American cinema, which makes him extremely unpopular in most of the United States, and especially in California.
Sure, there are parts of the inland/agricultural and dirt-poor parts of the state that have the same political sensibilities as Alabama, but the vast majority of Californians are well-educated, affluent, fair-minded people who, correctly, regard Trump as a wanna-be Hitler.
There’s a reason that, if it were a country, California would have the 4th largest economy on Earth. Principally, we don’t waste our lives invading places like Venezuela and Greenland, not to mention Minnesota.
If for some reason Gibson aspires to a governorship, let me recommend the Deep South, where education rankings are at the very bottom, and racial hatred is one of the most important driving forces in their society.
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Abolishing Property Taxes
The vast majority of property taxes go to funding public schools.
This is why the poor, living in impoverished regions of our cities, have such terrible education, and the rich wind up in our most prestigious colleges.
There is a group in the United States known as MAGA that wants to make Americans as ignorant as possible. Killing our schools is a critical step in the process of making that happen.
Trading with China Was Working Well for the Last Century–Until Very Recently
Wow, that’s some real stupidity at left.
Support the American farmer??
We used to have a very stable and mutually profitable trade relation with China, whereby the U.S. exported soybeans, grains, and meat, while we imported fruits, vegetables (fresh/processed), snacks, spices, tea, garlic, and seafood like shrimp.
Our president’s trade war put a spear through that, and our farmers are suffering terribly.
Our Perceptions Are Limited
This translates as:
Did you know that the majority of things that exist are totally invisible to us. We only see light 430 and 790 terahertz. We only hear sounds between 20 Hz and 20kHz.
These ranges are only a small fraction of the complete spectrum of existence.
I’ve heard this before, but I’m not sure how compelling it is. Is it possible that there is useful information in X-rays or infrared light? Ultrasonic or subsonic sound?
Seems unlikely.
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The Red MAGA Hat
It already is, by educated Americans who possess a conscience.
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Where We Are as a Nation
This one proposition encapsulates everything that America has become. We’re a nation that laughs at its own Constitution. We’d far rather serve our hateful bigotry than respect the guidelines set down by our Founding Fathers.
Moral Philosophy
Moral philosopher Peter Singer is probably best known as an animal rights advocate, and one who’s been at it for a very long time. I was reading his books when I was in college in the 1970s. Turns out he’s only nine years older than I am.
The point he makes at left is a good one, but think about how far we are from this dream of his, especially here in the U.S.
Rationality would demand things like quality education, caring for our environment, and treating all people with respect and dignity. Now, these ideas are ridiculed as “woke,” and teachers who present them up in the classroom are subject to disciplinary measures.
How the U.S. Is Regarded Internationally
At left is a statement from Germany about RFK, Jr. and the crackpot conspiracy theories he’s inflicting on Americans’ health.
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