| Everyone loved my phone call 03:26 - Jan 5 with 929 views | Illinoisblue |
Yes, Donald, we sure did. The balls on this guy.
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| An interesting aspect to this, on 08:58 - Jan 5 with 741 views | Guthrum |
which nobody seems to be mentioning, is the unexpectedly poor Democrat performance in southern Florida and parts of Texas. Were officials leant on in the same way as Raffensperger, but buckled under the pressure? |  |
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| An interesting aspect to this, on 09:21 - Jan 5 with 683 views | blueislander |
| An interesting aspect to this, on 08:58 - Jan 5 by Guthrum |
which nobody seems to be mentioning, is the unexpectedly poor Democrat performance in southern Florida and parts of Texas. Were officials leant on in the same way as Raffensperger, but buckled under the pressure? |
Surely not.? Unthinkable! |  | | |
| Everyone loved my phone call on 10:22 - Jan 5 with 618 views | azuremerlangus |
As mad as he seems to appear he knows that he has a sizeable amount of supporters who believe him - and that in itself worries me more about 21st century media than anything else.
Are we in a period of reverse enlightenment? |  |
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| Everyone loved my phone call on 10:33 - Jan 5 with 588 views | Chrisd |
The bloke is a complete weapon, the sooner he is out of office the better. I can’t wait until his official time is up, I really want to see his sorry backside physically kicked out of The White House. He’s a complete embarrassment to the USA and what’s more incredible is that over 70 million people voted for him, which is a very sad state of affairs. | |
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| Everyone loved my phone call on 10:36 - Jan 5 with 576 views | BlueBadger |
| Everyone loved my phone call on 10:22 - Jan 5 by azuremerlangus |
As mad as he seems to appear he knows that he has a sizeable amount of supporters who believe him - and that in itself worries me more about 21st century media than anything else.
Are we in a period of reverse enlightenment? |
We have been doing that since 2016 when we declared that we'd had enough of 'so-called experts'. |  |
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| Everyone loved my phone call on 11:33 - Jan 5 with 522 views | Darth_Koont |
| Everyone loved my phone call on 10:22 - Jan 5 by azuremerlangus |
As mad as he seems to appear he knows that he has a sizeable amount of supporters who believe him - and that in itself worries me more about 21st century media than anything else.
Are we in a period of reverse enlightenment? |
No. Collectively, I think we’re better informed than ever before. And more progressive.
We’re seeing the last bitter fight as the reactionaries try to hold onto the old world order of the 20th century. Combined with over 40s who haven’t grasped how social media works or how easy it is for anyone to self-publish on the Internet.
Since the Enlightenment and religion-backed monarchies started to lose their absolute power we’ve seen centuries of moving in a more rational and equitable direction for human beings. Sure, there are pockets of resistance and uncertainty causes people to regress into authoritarian or totalitarian regimes but these are localised, moments in time. But harnessing the collective resources of our imagination and efforts there’s no doubt that the world is getting better for the vast majority on almost every measure.
The question we have to ask ourselves and of our societies and their leaders is do we want to make the world a better place or do we want to resist change. You can of course be passive but that ultimately only delays change and prolongs needless suffering and injustice. We also need to be looking forward and facing the real challenges of the climate, AI, automation etc. and how we can evolve along with them rather than fighting entrenched opinions from a former time.
Bit of a rant and a diversion from Trump’s call but your post about the enlightenment triggered something I was already thinking about 😀 [Post edited 5 Jan 2021 11:36]
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