Brush up on Hannah Arendt On Standing Up to the Banality of Evil
“Evil becomes commonplace; it becomes the everyday. Ordinary people — going about their everyday lives — become complicit actors in systems that perpetuate evil.“
https://philosophybreak.com/articles/hannah-arendt-on-standing-up-to-the-banality-of-evil/
For those of you with MAGAt relatives who haven't voted yet - ask them what they think of a representative who literally doesn't want their votes counted. Don't tell them it's a MAGAt calling for this. Just ask how they feel about that - then tell them it's one of their own. #politics
Fantastic closing video argument. Let's finish strong, folks!
Adorable sea otters slam dunk little pumpkins 🎃
Rick Steves:
Many don’t realize that the first people Hitler sent to his concentration camps weren’t everyday Jews, but his political opponents. So, when Trump rants about retribution, locking up his opponents, and giving them “very long sentences,” I can’t help but take him seriously… because history teaches us that is what fascist dictators do during their “Day One” period to consolidate their power.... your political opponents running around free.)
To keep fascism out of our lives...
Thank you, Seattle Times and publisher Frank Blethen. (Hey Bezos! Check out how not to be a fking coward while newspapering!)
Hundreds of completed ballots were reportedly lost in Vancouver, Washington, after smoke was seen billowing out of a ballot drop box.
A Portland, Oregon, ballot drop box was said to have been reported on fire just hours earlier. Investigators blamed an incendiary device set off inside the box.
https://www.rawstory.com/washington-ballots-burned/
Formerly @agunn and @agunn_at_work on that dead bird site, but free of the fouled nest. Hi there!