What if we taught people how to spot propaganda -- especially from their own political side?
You might want to ask yourself how an Air Force veteran ended up in a mob storming the Capitol, though.
What - and who - pushed her into thinking it was the right thing to do.
You might want to consider that many people like her are still out there.
Unpopular opinion, perhaps, but Babbit had it coming.
— The Biggest Mad. (@TweakaliciousTV) January 22, 2021
What if we taught people how to spot propaganda -- especially from their own political side?
(What? There's no such thing!)
Sure there is. The left scares its voters, same as the right.
(Yeah, but we scare them about REAL crises, not racist nonsense.)
Hmm.
And no, I'm not saying that #BothSides practice this to the same degree.
I'm saying we all have blind spots when we agree with what's being said and who's saying it.
Until eventually you believe thing Q.
And as crazy as thing Q is, there are a disturbingly large number of letters that come after it.
It might be a bunch of things. PTSD. Lack of purpose after a military career. A complex marriage.
Sometimes, though, there's a manipulative fucker in the shadows holding a stick and a picture of a kid with a target on it.
Those are the ones we have to look for. Those are the ones who need to Find Out.
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1. LWJ’s sword Bichen ‘is likely an abbreviation for the term 躲避红尘 (duǒ bì hóng chén), which can be translated as such: 躲避: shunning or hiding away from 红尘 (worldly affairs; which is a buddhist teaching.) (https://t.co/zF65W3roJe) (abbrev. TWX)
2. Sandu (三 毒), Jiang Cheng’s sword, refers to the three poisons (triviṣa) in Buddhism; desire (kāma-taṇhā), delusion (bhava-taṇhā) and hatred (vibhava-taṇhā).
These 3 poisons represent the roots of craving (tanha) and are the cause of Dukkha (suffering, pain) and thus result in rebirth.
Interesting that MXTX used this name for one of the characters who suffers, arguably, the worst of these three emotions.
3. The Qian kun purse “乾坤袋 (qián kūn dài) – can be called “Heaven and Earth” Pouch. In Buddhism, Maitreya (मैत्रेय) owns this to store items. It was believed that there was a mythical space inside the bag that could absorb the world.” (TWX)
1. LWJ’s sword Bichen ‘is likely an abbreviation for the term 躲避红尘 (duǒ bì hóng chén), which can be translated as such: 躲避: shunning or hiding away from 红尘 (worldly affairs; which is a buddhist teaching.) (https://t.co/zF65W3roJe) (abbrev. TWX)
2. Sandu (三 毒), Jiang Cheng’s sword, refers to the three poisons (triviṣa) in Buddhism; desire (kāma-taṇhā), delusion (bhava-taṇhā) and hatred (vibhava-taṇhā).
These 3 poisons represent the roots of craving (tanha) and are the cause of Dukkha (suffering, pain) and thus result in rebirth.
Interesting that MXTX used this name for one of the characters who suffers, arguably, the worst of these three emotions.
3. The Qian kun purse “乾坤袋 (qián kūn dài) – can be called “Heaven and Earth” Pouch. In Buddhism, Maitreya (मैत्रेय) owns this to store items. It was believed that there was a mythical space inside the bag that could absorb the world.” (TWX)