America Needs Democrats to Follow AOC’s Lead on Their Virginia Loss
Democrats need to make themselves look unelectable to the average person for conservatives to regain powerAlexandra Ocasio-Cortez is hellbent on keeping the Democratic Party moving further to the Left if that’s possible.That’s great news for conservatives and regular middle-class Americans who want to live in a functional country. The last time we had one was in 2019 under President Trump when we had record low unemployment for Blacks and Hispanics, store shelves were full, gas was affordable, wages were rising, little inflation, a working supply chain, and not everything was about race. Since we had mean tweets, we couldn’t have normal things and Biden got elected.If Democrats like AOC were clear-thinking people, they would realize all their far-left policies and ideas we’ve dealt with the past year ruined the country and they should recalibrate. Any good political strategist or...
The free will debate is pointless
Is free will a thing? Do we have the ability to choose our own path?"Free will" is analogous language designed to explain the idea that we have the ability to choose."Free" is a concept, it is not a literal truth. As soon as you start slapping around a concept with a literal definition it falls apart instantly.Free is never free, there are always trade offs and costs to anything labeled as free.As human beings that have evolved through millenia on a planet orbiting a star, our will is most definitely bound by our three dimentional circumstances and our biological makeup.This we already know. Most people know that they can't fly like superman irrespective of their will to do so, we are most definitely bound by our biological circumstances and instinctual responses.We still have the ability to choose, my biologic systems may create drives and desires, hunger etc, but it is my choice to...
Masks, the dehumanizing of the individual
We have been told contradictory information about wearing masks since the decided lockdown date in March 2020 . There are no peer reviewed research on the efficacy of masks, only for a N95 or higher properly sealed mask with a hypothesis that non standardized masks somehow stop the spread of a a micron sized virus while your eyes are open membranes for transmission. We are nearly 2 years in to this pandemic, the 1st pandemic in the social media age. Those tasked with providing accurate information have lied to the worlds population since day one. First we must establish that China and the Chinese Communist Party were aware of the lab leak as early as October 2019 and did nothing to warn the rest of the world. In fact after the original Sars outbreak in 2003 the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made a concerted effort to join the WHO and other international organizations and gain...
Understanding the horrors of North Korea: J.P. with Yeonmi Park
Yeonmi Park’s story was terrifying, beyond sad, surprisingly uplifting, and ominously illuminating. I could see the genuine pain Yeonmi experienced while talking about some of the terrible experiences she endured in North Korea, China and Mongolia. Yeonmi’s ability to educate herself, excel in university, and speak up about what she believes in the face of the North Korean government wanting her dead is inspiring beyond words.The utter privation of knowledge and basic necessities of life that Yeonmi suffered growing up in North Korea shook me to the core. I know that North Korea was a grim place, but I didn’t realize parents are separated from their kids for months at a time, children are tasked with gathering poop as a prize resource, people’s primary form of protein often comes from scrounging up grasshoppers, and those who break the rules in any way are sent to prison camps to be...
Climate Change as Our Most Recent Iteration of Religious Sacrifice
Climate change is a hot topic in American media, politics, and public opinion. But why has it caught on so well with the public? In this essay, I argue that widespread belief for climate change and support for its policy prescriptions comes not from compelling science, but rather from how it aligns with pre-existing belief systems in America.--Climate change is big in America. As Pew Research found in their 2016 study "Politics of Climate," 75% of Americans are particularly concerned about helping the environment as they go about their daily lives(1). In 2019, about half of them stated of climate change that they think human activity contributes "a great deal" to the problem (seen below). Americans believe in climate change, and they believe they are a great deal responsible for it.But what does it mean when they can't seem to agree about what the science says? As seen below, about...
The Truth About The Truth
Truth was put on trial and judged by people devoted to lies. Truth faced six trials in less than one full day, three of which were religious and three "legal." In the end, few people involved in those events could answer the question, "What is Truth?"A postmodernist world that denies the truth can be known makes the question more important than ever to answer. What is truth?I will attempt to use Salem, MA., Witch Hunt of 1692 as an example of defining truth, and I will need to point out many things, so please bear with me.So, the question has always been for as long as I can remember, why we got taught to fear the witches in Salem and not those who hunted them and burned those convicted of witchcraft "at the stake." The latter being a lie, nonetheless. And I will address that point of contention later in the read.We must understand that during 1692 and even prior, Puritans believed...
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