@Tarnagh @Museek I think it’s a multi channel assault on reality.

Dark Money needs to be removed from politics (eliminating super pacs)
We need actual journalism, not infotainment
We need term limits
We need cult deprogramming
We need social media to be serious about separating the fact from fiction

sea urchins in hats

@DavidSalo Well said. Many of us "tolerate" without accepting or becoming, and we must accept that it's the most many people can do.

But it also means not attacking, fomenting hate, interfering, stopping or dictating that other people change into something we decide is personally acceptable.

Some things must NEVER be codified into law or enforced with the tools of terror and power. That puts us into a state of fascism...and stopping fascism is now our greatest battle.

Good morning, CoSo!

No matter how insane it gets in the outside world, you're a reminder that people can be fair and decent to each other, even in a large community.

You don't have to just shrug at people who are different from you: you can be very glad that you live in a colorful, non-monotone world, full of different ways of being and relating to that world, and that you have the opportunity to enrich yourselves by participating in the lives of those people and learning from them, as well as their learning from you.

If your idea of "love" is hurting people and preventing them from being able to enjoy their lives, because you're convinced that what they *really need* is to shut up and obey your rules...

Then you might actually not be motivated by love at all, but by a lust for control and power.

For example:

I'm not offended by people being white, or male, or straight, or cisgender, or having short hair, or going to church, or mowing their lawns, or putting framed embroideries that say LIVE LOVE LAUGH on their walls.

If I were, I might be intolerant.

I *am* offended by people who think that people of color, or women, or LGBTQ people are inferior, or who hate long hair, or who think that atheists and pagans need to be re-educated, or who sue their neighbors for having wild space.

That's not intolerance. That's not some kind of paradox. That's not "the limits of tolerance."

It's simply that the point of "tolerance" — or rather affirmation of differences — is to eliminate hatred, not protect it. The only people who feel threatened by an open and diverse society are those who want to impose their views and ideology—whether it's fascism, communism, capitalism, christianity, islam, or anything else—on others. It's about freedom to be, not freedom to make others be something.

Morning thought:

Some people think of tolerating other people who are different from themselves as a concession—something they really shouldn't have to do, but that they agree to for the sake of general peace, or out of weakness and fear that they might be discriminated against themselves.

How different is this flabby toleration from an enthusiastic embrace and affirmation of differences, based on an understanding of the strength, vigor, and intelligence of diversity!

Dear streaming services,
Please give me a "view all alphabetically" option.
When you sort these things I'm spending half time scrolling past dbl. trip, quad cross categorized stuff.
Yeah it makes your offerings "appear" bigger and that's why you don't have a list all section but don't blame the viewer on YOUR slim pickings.
#CoSoEntertainment

Good people, my WiFi has been working hard on her YouTube channel showcasing her crafting and comedy, and it's starting to get some traction. Do have a look. It is guaranteed to entertain and might even educate and illuminate!

In this episode I join her as more than just a disembodied voice as we review candy toys, so you can catch a glimpse at the big dope behind all my insane posts! Enjoy! And please boost! Link to the channel in my profile
#cosocreators #youtube

https://youtu.be/sbC0k23iTho