Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
As an indigenous person who grew up without running water or modern plumbing for the first ten years of my life in Canada … I always appreciated this quote …
Will Durant Quote: “From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.”
Personality, presence and confidence
Natural self confidence, but NOT an arrogant selfish confidence.
Some people naturally have confidence and presence and some people need to build it as a skill.
I know guys and gals with little to no knowledge or skill build up careers because they just knew how to talk and connect to people.
I also know guys and gals with years of education and degrees but have little to no way of politely or easily getting along with people.
I’m Indigenous Ojibway/Cree from northern Northern Ontario and I speak my language. The word we use to describe white people or Europeans is ‘Mistikoshoo’.
It’s a two part word … Mishtik is the word for ‘wood’ … or ‘stick’
adding the ending ‘ooshoo’ to the word changes it refer to or describe a person.
So in all … the word just translates to ‘man with a stick’
When we made first contact with Europeans, they were all so preoccupied with their religion that they just looked like people wandering around with a stick in their hands and around their necks which was very, very important to them.
Then they taught us this strange religion and all its rules and regulations that everyone glorified but no one seemed to follow. When you look at the Middle Eastern religious traditions and what they preach and teach and what kind of culture they have evolved into, you begin to realize that religion is just another tool to control and manipulate people.
I always enjoyed reading about the history of European colonization … especially by the Spanish
Before he was burned, a priest asked Hatuey if he would accept Jesus and go to heaven. Las Casas recalled the reaction of the chief:
[Hatuey], thinking a little, asked the religious man if Spaniards went to heaven. The religious man answered yes… The chief then said without further thought that he did not want to go there but to hell so as not to be where they were and where he would not see such cruel people.
Reminds me of The Office
I’ve been involved in a number of cults both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower but you make more money as a leader.
Creed Bratton
… and I love the fact that with Creed Bratton quotes … they could be made up fiction or based on actual real life experience.
The only difference between religion and a cult … is time
They’ve been doing that for six thousand years
The nightmare isn’t Trump … the nightmare are the Americans who support and enable this crap.
Once they’re done with the Cheeto Mussolini the same culture of people will move on to the next wannabe fascist.
Coca-Cola, coffee, barbecue sauce, ketchup and hamburger juice … all naturally soaked and baked in the sun.
At one point even putting the government up for sale
Imagine starting or rallying towards a civil war
… for some dumb, stupid, meaningless, ignorant, arrogant and self serving politician like Donald Trump.
They would have burned out faster if they had the internet and social media 1750 years ago
Didn’t the world go through this same scenario about 1500 years ago with the Roman empire?
America: I did Nazi that coming
Simple and to the point, everyone should know and follow this. One of the best pieces of advice from the Dalai Lama
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”
6% of six states. Because of the Electoral College, any majority wins all of a states votes (for most states), regardless of 51% or 75%.
… and America is supposed to represent the standard for the rest of the world’s democracies?
In that system, people have absolutely no power other than to feel good about themselves while having a confused look on their face.
If your electoral system is so complicated and convoluted to the point where elections representing 300 million people are decided by only 6% of the population who will more than likely be influenced by those with 99% of the wealth … why bother referring to it as a democracy?
Everyone will use Will Hackers, trolls and AI deepfakes to upset the 2024 election ? !!
This is like looking at a distant mushroom cloud from a major nuclear explosion and telling the person next to you that “a bomb may have gone off”
The correspondents dinner is not as hopeful or bright as it used to be.
They’re trying to prop up an old man to look young and treat him as the last hope against a decrepit opponent.
All while casually ignoring their responsibility to the world and encouraging one of the worst senseless and useless conflicts in living history.
The world isn’t blind or ignorant. America can put on the biggest blinders they want but everyone will still see and understand America’s part in all this.
Any change no matter if is too late or too inconvenient would be a better change for the DNC than to allow Biden at the top position. Seriously, any other DNC politician would be better than Biden even if they changed right now or in the next few months. All you need is some politician who is about 50 years old to fight Trump every day until the election and the orange menace would suffer a heart attack trying to keep up.
This is insane … it’s almost as if the powers that be want Trump to win and the only way they can ensure that is to put him up against an 80 year old competitor because it is the only candidate he could possibly beat.