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He doesn’t even look tired…
I can’t find a choir version where the singers are not ‘door-belling’ on the held notes, so we have to go with this one. :)
On the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice, there’s a profound reason to be thankful for the light.
Despite the long, dark nights, this day marks the turning point when the days begin to lengthen again, bringing a promise of brighter times ahead.
It’s a moment to appreciate the return of the sun, to celebrate its warmth and life-giving energy, even in the midst of winter’s chill.
This celebration transcends cultures, embodying hope and renewal.
We are reminded to cherish every ray of sunlight, understanding that light not only illuminates our world but also symbolizes hope, knowledge, and the enduring cycle of nature.
Take care my readers, and enjoy the return to the Light while carrying your own. :)
May the season be kind and peaceful to you and yours.
“I am more convincved than ever the trans movement is a deeply misogynistic destructive force created by those who want to destroy the fabric of society, harm women, and harm children.”
Well done, trans activists.
Surprise surprise. To actually make recycling effective it relies on the decisions of individuals to use less in the first place, and that is the only way as of yet to reduce the amount of waste produced.
The recycling narrative remains powerful, but its bullshit and needs to be empirically reviewed. Let’s make science relevant again.
Our institutions have strayed so far from their mandates of providing reliable information to the public. The road back will be difficult to navigate, but we must do so to repair and save our Western societies.
“There is an epidemic of white police officers killing unarmed black men, we must block the puberty of children born in the wrong bodies to prevent them from killing themselves, the Russians control Trump through a sex blackmail operation, the Covid vaccine prevents infection, millions or billions will die from starvation and harsh weather from climate change, there’s no way a Covid virus could have escaped from a lab, mass migration improves societies with no trade-offs, it’s best for addicts if we give them hard drugs to use in special sites downtown, we need the government to fight misinformation online in order to save democracy, Biden is sharper than ever, Kamala is 100% prepared to be president, and anyone who disagrees is racist, sexist, and/or fascist.
While many Americans are increasingly and at least partially aware that all of the above are lies, we are still a long way from coming to grips with their enormity, their monstrous consequences, and the totalitarian ways in which the mainstream news media, many employers, and governments demanded that we believe them. Current and former heads of state, our most-trusted journalists, and full professors at Ivy League universities created and propagated those Big Lies, repeatedly, for years, even after they had been thoroughly debunked, sometimes within days or hours of them being made, by people who ruling elites then sought to bankrupt, shame, and ostracize.
There has not yet been a proper accounting of the very many abuses of power, including the Big Lies, by elected officials, the media, and other governing elites during the Woke Reign of Terror (2013 – 2024). That accounting will need not only to thoroughly debunk all of the major lies, it will also need to explore why elites created and perpetuated them, why so many people believed them, why they lasted for so long, and what can be learned from them, both separately and how they worked together as a whole, constituting the worldview of the people who run Western societies and nations. Historians, sociologists, psychologists and many others will, for centuries, study the Work Reign of Terror as a uniquely irrational and self-destructive period in America’s history. Hopefully, something good, including wisdom, courage, and improved self-governance, will come out of those studies and reflections.”
Trying to discuss political issues in today’s social climate can be difficult at times. Much of the difficulty lies with how many on the progressive Left have a priori determined that their position is the only possible position to hold on any particular issue.
Reading the Parents With Inconvenient Truths About Trans substack led me to this exchange between a woman who is grounded in reality and set of friends that follow the gender identity religion.
“When yesterday at lunch Monique brought up the issue of males in women’s bathrooms, I said I didn’t want any man in the stall next to me, no matter how he identifies. Women have a right to dignity and privacy, and that’s an assault on both. When Monique then asked if I’d have a problem with Lisa in the stall next to me, I had to answer truthfully: yes, I’d have a problem, because Lisa is a man. Although neither of you had put me on the spot before in a way that required me to state this explicitly, my answer shouldn’t have surprised you.
Monique suggested that my unwillingness to share intimate female spaces with men, whether or not they mimic women, is the same kind of bigotry as refusing to share intimate female spaces with black women. Gary appeared to agree. But the unwillingness of any woman to give up her rights is not bigotry.
Men and women segregate themselves from each other when in the toilet for good reasons. It appears to be instinctual because it’s true of males and females in far-flung societies.
It’s neither liberal nor tolerant to demand that women abandon their rights and their boundaries to accommodate men who would like to be thought of as women. Making such demands is, instead, authoritarian. It’s also not within the rights of any third party to give any man access to women’s and girls’ private spaces.”
The text in bold is the argumentative dead end so many Progressive choose. I think it is because they have imbued their position with a sense of moral correctness that they are so willing to shut down conversations rather than listen to those who hold differing points of view.
Obviously it is a false equivalence to try and compare men in females spaces with black females in female spaces. Completely fallacious. Yet, the frequency in which this sort of tactic is employed speaks to how effective it is in shutting down dissent in social situations.
There are no easy social solutions to this other than to point out the inaccuracy of their argument, and restate your thesis and ask them to address the question without the implicit moral assumptions.
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