read this as breakfast heated --

the scuzzy history of enabling the tRUmp era


and by 2021

#TrueStory

on the Raiders in the Capitol

On the incitement

"'How do I know I'm saved' is perhaps the central question of Christian life. Each tradition & sect finds different answers.

Most end up engaging in some flavor of works righteousness. For someone it is straight-up synergism. For others, it's the more subtle "fruit checking." /1

@HenningStrandin @davidpapineau I mean, like I said, I basically do agree ‘the problem of induction is a pseudo-problem, because we don't reason inductively in science’. I think attempts justify induction are a dead end, and it’s to Popper’s credit that he took that seriously & worked on alternatives

@davidpapineau (And it’s not like Popper didn’t write a whole bunch on auxiliary hypotheses and ad-hoc falsification as well...most of people’s concerns like this he raised himself and discussed, whether or not you agree with his resolutions)

@davidpapineau My general position is that all attempts to define scientific method ultimately fail, but Popper is generally more interesting and useful than most. Confirmation/inductive logics are among the most naive and, aesthetically, are gross 🤮

@davidpapineau Here’s the naive view of a well-known Bayesian statistician on induction and deduction, who believe Popper was basically correct. There’s certainly some naive philosophy bits, but the important thing to me is that it’s *interesting*:

@davidpapineau In terms of the screenshot of what I wrote, here’s the basic idea. You can tell me if it’s Popper or Bacon or whatever:

https://t.co/gZbAyf3UBq

A very personal thread about this story and why I increasingly believe addressing the rot caused by QAnon will be one of the Biden administration’s most important and most difficult tasks.

There are thousands of meme queens across the country. Let me introduce you to another one – my former best friend.

We grew up together, were inseparable throughout high school, drove to school together every morning, went on vacations with each other’s families. Sometimes i went to church with her family and sometimes she came to church with mine. We were in each other’s weddings.

She graduated from a good college and went into finance. She didn’t like it much. She moved to California with her husband, went to nursing school and became a delivery nurse. She loved it.

She had a baby, and then had two more. But she had a difficult time finding reliable childcare, and not being near any family, she found it increasingly impossible to juggle work and children.

PMF PERSONNEL SUCCESSFULLY REPEL AMBUSH ATTACK ON THEIR CONVOY IN BIRNIN-GWARI

​· Inflict heavy casualties on Tens of the Bandits as IGP Commends Officers for gallantry in repelling the attack

The Inspector General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, NPM, mni has commended the Police officers attached to Police Mobile Force - 9 PMF Squadron, Kano for displaying uncommon gallantry and repelling the attack on their convoy by bandits numbering about hundred

along the Birnin Gwari - Funtua Highway on Friday, 15th January, 2021, on their way back to their base in Kano after the completion of their special duty.

The officers are personnel attached to Operation Puff Adder and deployed to Niger State in the sustained operation to reclaim the public space and tackle incidents of banditry, kidnapping and other violent crimes in the area.

Contrary to unconfirmed reports in some sections of the media stating that eighteen (18) officers were kidnapped, only sixteen (16) officers were attacked in the ambush. The officers successfully repelled the attack accordingly and neutralized the bandits in their tens

In my annual, ritual meditation on King, I keep thinking about those misused,spontaneous references to his “four little children” in “I Have a Dream.” As many have noted, this passage has been pressed into the work of domesticating King’s radical project, into inserting him 1/

into a reactionary, progressivist narrative emphasizing just how far “we’ve” come & overcome. Thinking too about the fact that King’s most enduring rhetorical tropes—the touchstones of American memory of the Civil Rights struggle—the dream, the mountaintop, the Promised Land, 2/

are all chosen from the end of the addresses in which they appeared. The beginnings of these speeches are seldom emphasized, although they are rich with suggestions for thinking about time and tense, ending and beginning, past and present. In his last sermon, 3/

“I See the Mountaintop,” widely considered his most apocalyptic, King took as his point of departure, the matter of time. “If I were standing at the beginning of time, “ he began, “with the possibility of a general, panoramic view of the whole of human history up to now, and 4/

The Almighty said to me, “Martin Luther King, which age would you like to live in?” King then takes the reader on an imaginary journey through the ages, pausing at historic sites and momentous occurrences, ending with Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation. Then /5

@Indian65980982 @It_is_HitS @ANKURJAIN1811 @Charmi_Ankit @VedicWisdom1 @Sameeksha_India @YashodhanGandhi @Dikshit99_Bhatt @Dharma_Granth @truejainology @jaintrue @kshemsmita @arpitjain__ @jindeshna @JainPayal12 @jainheritage @ankitjain2191 @prithvi525 @Pureminority @1AakashJain @YoungJainsIndia @_Swagittarius @Mjmansijain @JainMaggii Let us take ur claims one by one -
U r talking about -
Impalement of the Jains in Madurai
It was a pious Shaivite triumphal fiction with zero confirmation from Jain sources. In other words the Jains have never claimed that they were persecuted or impaled. If u can show in any

@It_is_HitS @ANKURJAIN1811 @Charmi_Ankit @VedicWisdom1 @Sameeksha_India @YashodhanGandhi @Dikshit99_Bhatt @Dharma_Granth @truejainology @jaintrue @kshemsmita @arpitjain__ @jindeshna @JainPayal12 @jainheritage @ankitjain2191 @prithvi525 @Pureminority @1AakashJain @YoungJainsIndia @_Swagittarius @Mjmansijain @JainMaggii Jain source where it is written that Jains were killed in Tamil Nadu ,than ur claim can be debated
I also noted the images displayed on the temple wall where this persecution is claimed were wearing the sacred thread which is common to Brahmins. So ,they were most probably

@It_is_HitS @ANKURJAIN1811 @Charmi_Ankit @VedicWisdom1 @Sameeksha_India @YashodhanGandhi @Dikshit99_Bhatt @Dharma_Granth @truejainology @jaintrue @kshemsmita @arpitjain__ @jindeshna @JainPayal12 @jainheritage @ankitjain2191 @prithvi525 @Pureminority @1AakashJain @YoungJainsIndia @_Swagittarius @Mjmansijain @JainMaggii brahmins of rival philosphy

In Buddhism case ,The Buddhist texts do mention their persecution at hands of Hindus .
But than i pondered
If People left Hinduism when they adopted Buddhism but if that was so ,than it should have happened to every other place where Buddhism spread

@It_is_HitS @ANKURJAIN1811 @Charmi_Ankit @VedicWisdom1 @Sameeksha_India @YashodhanGandhi @Dikshit99_Bhatt @Dharma_Granth @truejainology @jaintrue @kshemsmita @arpitjain__ @jindeshna @JainPayal12 @jainheritage @ankitjain2191 @prithvi525 @Pureminority @1AakashJain @YoungJainsIndia @_Swagittarius @Mjmansijain @JainMaggii but clearly it doesnot,
Bonpo Religion in tibet,
Confuciaism,taoism in China ,
shintoism in japan,
Native Pagan traditions and
tengrism,Shamanism,Animism in South East Buddhist Nations
remained intact until recent takeover in last centuries.

So on what assumption can u

@It_is_HitS @ANKURJAIN1811 @Charmi_Ankit @VedicWisdom1 @Sameeksha_India @YashodhanGandhi @Dikshit99_Bhatt @Dharma_Granth @truejainology @jaintrue @kshemsmita @arpitjain__ @jindeshna @JainPayal12 @jainheritage @ankitjain2191 @prithvi525 @Pureminority @1AakashJain @YoungJainsIndia @_Swagittarius @Mjmansijain @JainMaggii assume Buddhism conquered India.

Furthermore I found several holes within Buddhist narrative .
Eg - Balaji idol is Buddha's and Vaishnavas converted it later iwth hindu symbols on it.
I investigated and found - Balaji has four arms - no statue of buddha has four arms.

🧵 After much deliberation concerning the events of last week concerning homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia in our Catholic schools, Toronto—St. Paul’s New Democrats have decided to act.

Members of the @TCDSB and other publicly-funded Catholic institutions and boards have repeatedly attacked members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. The 2SLGBTQIA+ community is an at-risk community; the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected many at-risk 2SLGBTQIA+ youth.

Many Catholic publicly-funded school boards neglect or intentionally omit 2SLGBTQIA+ resources, which may affect the availability of life-saving information and/or resources.

However, we recognize with sadness that there is a culture of homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia in the @TCDSB and in publicly-funded Catholic education based on recent events.

We welcome the 14 January 2021 action wherein the @TCDSB passed a motion to establish 2SLGBTQIA+ resources and to create an advisory committee to deal with issues thereof.

My latest @PRAEyesRight- A deep dive into Nick Fuentes and his America First/groyper movement, the most prominent & mobilized white nationalist formation at the Capitol insurrection, a Gen Z group determined to capture the future of post-Trump

Nick & the groypers have been out in force at nationwide 'Stop the Steal' protests in the long leadup to Jan 6, championing the ‘American people’ against 'globalist elites', promising to ‘smash the GOP’ & build a true American nationalist movement

Nick is careful to speak in a language many can hear. His image-conscious ‘groyper’ movement looks like clean-cut Gen Z White kids- campus Republican types in polo shirts & MAGA hats- concealing the hard-edged white nationalist core of their beliefs.

What they don’t say at these rallies is for them, 'America First' means white dominance. They want to end immigration to preserve a white demographic majority for future generations in America. A small non-white minority can remain, as long as white birthrates stay up.

Like many before him Nick takes great pains to say he's not a white nationalist but it's all there. “Why can’t we wake up and acknowledge,” he said in summer 2020, as the Black Lives Matter uprising grew across the country, “that we as a people- white people- are under attack?”

Hey all you ‘nothing is habbening’ guys 👋.

Check this out

This was last night in Sterling Virginia

Oh, my. Former FT Editor @lionelbarber defends bothsideism, impartiality, objectivity and other recent journalistic tradition.

In it, @lionelbarber laments the loss of trust in Walter Cronkite; "newspaper of record." That was trust imagined by the institution & limited to white privilege & power. Now, on the net, we hear people never included in the institution, who never trusted it. See: #BLM, #metoo

Barber quotes @WesleyLowery, which is good, but misses his point: that these institutional notions of objectivity, impartiality, trust were fictions those in power told themselves because they had the power to do so. It was journalism's fatal tautology. 3/

The bothsideism Barber defends was an invention, too, aimed at securing power journalism's hold on its claims of objectivity, &c. Of course, I advocate completeness, fairness, accuracy, openness. But then I advocate judgment. 4/

One irony of the age is that journalists are demanding that platforms make judgments that journalists themselves--like Barber--refuse to make. That is not onesideism. It is a sin of journalistic omission. What do I mean by that? 5/

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