"Nobody can control the weather."

William Lindsey :toad:

"Antisemitic tropes have commingled on the site with false rumors and conspiracy theories amid the chaos of the recovery effort, according to a report released Tuesday by the nonprofit Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)."

#hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation #ElonMusk #Twitter #X #antisemitism
/8

William Lindsey :toad:

@the5thColumnist Yet as Karen Armstrong, an astute scholar of world religions, says, the word "belief" is etymologically rooted in the word "love" — and properly understood, religious belief is not about doing something with one's head, but setting one's foot in a path towards love.

The fundamental frame to understand belief in the Abrahamic religions is Abraham's willingness to walk into the desert — to journey. Not to do something with his head.

William Lindsey :toad:

Writing from her perspective having grown up in rural Missouri, Susan Niemann says,

"Perhaps by better understanding them, we can reason with them? Nah. The vitriol has reached a fever pitch now. The cult mentality of Trump supporters is strong. VERY strong.

People have been told who to hate and that it’s ok to do so. No matter what facts are presented to them, they refuse to hear it."

#hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation
/9

I'm so sick of ALL of it.

And you are, too. Humans are behaving badly and our politics is killing us.

(adchick.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"They’ve left normal life behind and are now lost. Gone.

There is no reasoning with these people.

The primitive way people are behaving may well be the undoing of America.

The Republican Party has worked diligently over the years to create this anger and division."

#hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

@wdlindsy

"No matter what facts are presented to them, they refuse to hear it."

Gammons just don't do facts.

They don't consider things like "facts", "truth", "logic" as relevant to their lives. They don't use such things as inputs to their decision making processes.

William Lindsey :toad:

In Oliver Willis' view, what Americans are now dealing with is "disinformation terrorism" on the part of the Republican party, and the Democratic response so far has been weak tea.

#hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation
/11

Trump And Fox News Are America’s Disinformation Terrorists

They Are At War With Us

(www.oliverexplains.com)

DnParadice

@wdlindsy "life is not supposed to make sense because it’s God’s plan. Followers should submit not just to the will of God, but to the word of church authority figures" this sentiment paired with the notion that any success you have in your life is only due to God was what eventually drove me away after growing up Christian. The issue is that these ways of thinking are subjugating people to God but God is typically manifested as a church leader who then has power to control.

William Lindsey :toad:

@paradice Yes, a good passage in Jill Filipovic's good commentary. The (always male) religious leader as the incarnation of God…. As Mary Daly said quite a while ago, if God is male, then the male is God: the males projecting themselves as the image of God to control all of us are creating a god in their own image.

William Lindsey :toad:

@TimWardCam You're right — and that represents a colossal educational failure.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Tooden Let's hope not! But you may mean she actually held that title? I suppose money can buy a lot of things….

William Lindsey :toad:

@humanhorseshoes Yes, it does.

Baba Kofi

@wdlindsy Jill Stein: On #Hurricane #Milton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkBZGqx-1xM

William Lindsey :toad:

@babakofi It's too bad that Stein keeps positioning herself as a spoiler for Democratic presidential candidates, isn't it? I wonder what that's about.

Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷

@wdlindsy If the competition existed, she'd win.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Tooden I'd be hard-pressed to vote for her. Only yesterday, I quoted to someone words that ring in my ears from hearing my mother and her sisters say them over and over: "Pretty is as pretty does."

I really don't mean to criticize someone's appearance. But I do think how we behave ends up shining out in our faces, and how Ms. Taylor Greene behaves is not pretty to me.

Urzl

@wdlindsy Historically the Democrats have been super bad at playing offense. Their defense is hard to even judge since you can't win a game on defense alone.

It's part of why we all freak out over Republican advances even if they're small, we see the ball get past our defense and we know the Democrats aren't up to evening the score.

Timo

@wdlindsy Oliver is like a 'one trick pony', bashing the dems all the time. What doesn't he get about the capture of the media by the billionaires with an agenda? Who does he think will report all the statements of the dems? He's kind of stuck in the Obama-Bush era.

@wdlindsy

It doesn't change the fact it develops a belief system not based on facts or observed knowledge but whatever you choose to believe.

Andrew

@wdlindsy

And this with AI as it is now. The pace of development and investment is such that in not too long a time it will be very hard for anyone without the technical knowledge to tell the difference.

Deep fakes, AI and bad actors will result in an alternative reality in which the truth will be whatever anyone wishes it to be.

I genuinely fear the future.

Andrew

@wdlindsy

Beliefs require no evidence. In fact beliefs hold fast in the presence of evidence to the contrary when sustained by higher authority.

Christian evangelism in some quarters is transfixed by the literal truth of the Bible, that the Earth is only 6000 yrs old, the Flood was 4000 years ago, the world is flat, and space is fake as the world is enclosed by a firmament. You can’t debate it as their “evidence” is the Bible.