Sunday, April 14, 2019

Facebook & Twitter Notes, April 14, 2019

I'm not apt to buy this book. Namit's review is all I need. Revisionist history virtually always comes with a political agenda.
 
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Twitterverse Colloquy -- Speaker Pelosi's cautious words do little to dampen the Islamophobia targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar. 

Speaker Pelosi: As we visit our troops in Stuttgart to thank them and be briefed by them, we honor our first responsibility as leaders to protect and defend the American people. It is wrong for the President, as Commander-in-Chief, to fan the flames to make anyone less safe.

Twitter reply: I have many irreverent things to say about 9/11, most of them having to do with how it was used to start a war in a country that had nothing to do with it, and now about how it's being used to attack and slander a US Congressperson.

Another reply: when did the memory of 9/11 become “sacred”? in what way? and to whom?
i meant this as a genuine question. it was indisputably tragic, world-changing, evil and despicable, and a turning point of history. but “sacred” is a particular word with its own religious meanings, and i wanted to pinpoint what it means to call such a day “sacred” specifically.

Then there's this: The memory of 9/11 became "sacred" immediately because calling things "sacred" discourages uncomfortable questions like: "Why did we get our asses kicked?" and "Does it even make sense that Saddam Hussein had anything to do with this?"
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Gerrymandering example...(political bonsai?)


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This is the most coherent summary of all matters Palestinian yet assembled at one place. And it is only a descriptive summary, with no apparent agenda.



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No wonder climate change is such an uphill climb. There are far more gullible people than anyone imagined.
When ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to become wise.


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