I don‘t care what the title says, imma read it anyway!
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I don‘t care what the title says, imma read it anyway!
"Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters!"
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Trump often seems like a one-man set of Aesop-like fables with easy to decipher morals like “those who lie down with dogs will get up with fleas” but because he is president of the US, his actions do not simply end in a tag line moral; they ripple outward like a toxic tsunami, creating havoc in the lives of millions.
“Make America Great Again” translates into turning the clock back to the 1950s, before the civil rights movement, before the women‘s movement, before LGBT rights, before Black Lives Matter.
WAY back. Centuries back!
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. —Robert A. Heinlein
I liken the attacks on science to turning off the headlights. We‘re driving fast and people don‘t want to see what‘s coming up. Scientists—we‘re the headlights. —Mike MacFerrin
We can‘t control whether our public servants lie to us. But we can control whether we hold them accountable for those lies or whether, in either a state of exhaustion or to protect our own political objectives, we look the other way and normalize an indifference to truth.
