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  1. @blogdiva

    Trump versus The Pope
    ==================
    Ring a Ding Ding!
    Two guys from a pedo ring,
    fighting & mudslinging.
    Both make a living,
    from human suffering.
    One thinks he is king,
    the other, that he has wings.
    Watch them come out swinging.
    Get popcorn & a seat by the ring.
    Hark! The demons sing!

    Trump is demolishing a so-called democracy.
    we-glue-earth.gitlab.io/when-w )

    The pope sits on a pile of gold looted with genocide from all over the world for centuries, in a private city state in the middle of Rome, and professes poverty, puts on a show of washing the poor people's feet, hides behind bullet-proof glass, protects pedophiles, wears a dress & tells people that being gay is a sin. The pope could issue an edict for all catholics to resign from the armed forces. Will he do that? The pope is a fairy, see?
    ( rant.li/ashwin/why-i-am-also-n )

    Telling the Truth is like taking an opium addict's rock of opium away. They react angrily, in pain from withdrawal symptoms. Cognitive Dissonance is painful.

    "Help Save Jesus"

    One can reach one's higher power through any number of ways. Some are better than others, and history bears witness.

    Having a book or a teacher is fine.
    Fancy words are Ok.
    Yet, the ultimate Truth is in the outcome. Does the religion make people better? Do they make the world better?

    With regard to Christianity, there are three types of people:

    1. Good Christians
    2. Bad Christians
    3. Non-Christians

    Good Christians ( sheep ) act as the cover for the Bad Christians ( wolves ).

    Bad Christians have so much blood on their hands, they killed 2 people, every minute, of every hour, of every day, 24x7, non-stop, for 100 years. And that was just last century.

    So good Christians should:

    1. stop turning a blind eye to the Bad Christians.
    2. stop trying to preach to the Non-Christians.
    3. turn to the Bad Christians and talk with them. Get their own house in order, before they dare preach to others, through pamphlets, brochures, media advertising, or door to door proselytizing etc. Jesus is in need of being saved, or the world will learn the Truth of history, and the Christian church, die out within a generation.

    #Earth #religion #Jesus #Christ #Christian #Christianity #church #bible #catholic #catholicism #truth #philosophy

    #Peace
    #Trump #Pope #Christ #Jesus
    #Christian #Christianity #Bible #Church
    #Poem #Sunday #lgbtq
    #CognitiveDissonance #Rebel #Heretic #Freethinker
    #Philospher #Philosophy #CriticalThinking #Epstein #Pedophile #Pedo

  2. A quotation from Orwell

    In nationalist thought there are facts which are both true and untrue, known and unknown. A known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes, or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact, even in one’s own mind.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46211/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #acceptance #alternatefacts #cognitivedissonance #delusion #facingfacts #factcheck #facts #nationalism #reality #selectivememory #truth

  3. A quotation from Orwell

    In nationalist thought there are facts which are both true and untrue, known and unknown. A known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes, or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact, even in one’s own mind.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46211/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #acceptance #alternatefacts #cognitivedissonance #delusion #facingfacts #factcheck #facts #nationalism #reality #selectivememory #truth

  4. A quotation from Orwell

    In nationalist thought there are facts which are both true and untrue, known and unknown. A known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes, or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact, even in one’s own mind.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46211/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #acceptance #alternatefacts #cognitivedissonance #delusion #facingfacts #factcheck #facts #nationalism #reality #selectivememory #truth

  5. A quotation from Orwell

    In nationalist thought there are facts which are both true and untrue, known and unknown. A known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes, or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact, even in one’s own mind.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46211/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #acceptance #alternatefacts #cognitivedissonance #delusion #facingfacts #factcheck #facts #nationalism #reality #selectivememory #truth

  6. #Trump repeated that he had already “obliterated” #Iran, but then a reporter asked if that was indeed true, why was the #US still at #war.

    Trump deflected by saying: “It’s a big country. They can’t fight back. They have no capability. I mean, they have some missiles left, they have some drones left, but essentially they have no capability.”

    He called the shooting down of American aircraft last week “a lucky shot.”

    #CognitiveDissonance #unfit #FactCheck #TrumpLies #IranWar #law #WarPowers

  7. In her court filings, Mrs. Chiles said she was not seeking to “cure” clients of same-sex attractions or to “change” their #SexualOrientation, but rather to help patients with their own stated goals, which sometimes include “seeking to reduce or eliminate unwanted sexual attractions.” [um, #CognitiveDissonance much?]

    #SCOTUS #Colorado #law #MentalHealth #gender #identity #LGBTQ #ConversionTherapy

  8. In her court filings, Mrs. Chiles said she was not seeking to “cure” clients of same-sex attractions or to “change” their #SexualOrientation, but rather to help patients with their own stated goals, which sometimes include “seeking to reduce or eliminate unwanted sexual attractions.” [um, #CognitiveDissonance much?]

    #SCOTUS #Colorado #law #MentalHealth #gender #identity #LGBTQ #ConversionTherapy

  9. In her court filings, Mrs. Chiles said she was not seeking to “cure” clients of same-sex attractions or to “change” their #SexualOrientation, but rather to help patients with their own stated goals, which sometimes include “seeking to reduce or eliminate unwanted sexual attractions.” [um, #CognitiveDissonance much?]

    #SCOTUS #Colorado #law #MentalHealth #gender #identity #LGBTQ #ConversionTherapy

  10. In her court filings, Mrs. Chiles said she was not seeking to “cure” clients of same-sex attractions or to “change” their #SexualOrientation, but rather to help patients with their own stated goals, which sometimes include “seeking to reduce or eliminate unwanted sexual attractions.” [um, #CognitiveDissonance much?]

    #SCOTUS #Colorado #law #MentalHealth #gender #identity #LGBTQ #ConversionTherapy

  11. In her court filings, Mrs. Chiles said she was not seeking to “cure” clients of same-sex attractions or to “change” their #SexualOrientation, but rather to help patients with their own stated goals, which sometimes include “seeking to reduce or eliminate unwanted sexual attractions.” [um, #CognitiveDissonance much?]

    #SCOTUS #Colorado #law #MentalHealth #gender #identity #LGBTQ #ConversionTherapy

  12. People out there demanding "no masters" while still acting like supreme monarchs over animals.
    ​It’s a bit wild to protest a "king" while paying for the oppression of someone else just because they aren’t human. If you truly want no crowns and no thrones, that liberation has to be for every soul, not just our own species. True anarchy is vegan. Let's lose all the crowns, shall we? 🌱✨
    #NoKingsDay #NoKings #Vegan #Liberation #NoMasters #CognitiveDissonance

  13. Disgusting & certainly not “#Christian

    At #Pentagon Christian service, #Hegseth prayed for #violence ‘against those who deserve no mercy’

    #US #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth, hosting his first monthly Christian worship service at the Pentagon since the #Iran #war began, prayed Wednesday to have “every round find its mark.”

    #CognitiveDissonance #hypocrisy #TrumpsWar #Trump #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #law #geopolitics #MiddleEast #Republicans #ChurchAndState #Evangelism #NAR
    apnews.com/live/iran-war-israe

  14. Disgusting & certainly not “#Christian

    At #Pentagon Christian service, #Hegseth prayed for #violence ‘against those who deserve no mercy’

    #US #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth, hosting his first monthly Christian worship service at the Pentagon since the #Iran #war began, prayed Wednesday to have “every round find its mark.”

    #CognitiveDissonance #hypocrisy #TrumpsWar #Trump #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #law #geopolitics #MiddleEast #Republicans #ChurchAndState #Evangelism #NAR
    apnews.com/live/iran-war-israe

  15. @theradioguy Whilst it's true that there is no free speech in war. There is no war according to Trump, but journalists will be done for treason for exercising their non-war right to free speech and will be American political prisoners inside America... 🤐 #cognitivedissonance #iran #iranwar

    By the way, it IS A WAR and it is unconstitutional.

  16. CW: Mewgenics spoilers, edgelord nonsense, queer discourse

    I notice myself, as a white woman, holding my nose and looking past that little nugget of intersectional edgelordism, but I also notice that I’m not living at that particular intersection. But of course there’s edgelordism elsewhere in the game aimed at my stuff. That’s the bit I wanted to discuss, but I didn’t want to step over the #racism on the way to processing my #cognitiveDissonance in being 40 hours into an objectively terrible thing.

  17. The more opportunities we have in life the lower is our tolerance for cognitive dissonance.

    We just walk away.

    Instead of trying to fix this worldview-reality gap we act as if the person displaying it doesn't exist.

    That's peak selfishness.

    No community and especially no democracy can survive such behavior

    #trueindividuality #democracy #cognitivedissonance

  18. The more opportunities we have in life the lower is our tolerance for cognitive dissonance.

    We just walk away.

    Instead of trying to fix this worldview-reality gap we act as if the person displaying it doesn't exist.

    That's peak selfishness.

    No community and especially no democracy can survive such behavior

    #trueindividuality #democracy #cognitivedissonance

  19. The more opportunities we have in life the lower is our tolerance for cognitive dissonance.

    We just walk away.

    Instead of trying to fix this worldview-reality gap we act as if the person displaying it doesn't exist.

    That's peak selfishness.

    No community and especially no democracy can survive such behavior

    #trueindividuality #democracy #cognitivedissonance

  20. The more opportunities we have in life the lower is our tolerance for cognitive dissonance.

    We just walk away.

    Instead of trying to fix this worldview-reality gap we act as if the person displaying it doesn't exist.

    That's peak selfishness.

    No community and especially no democracy can survive such behavior

    #trueindividuality #democracy #cognitivedissonance

  21. The more opportunities we have in life the lower is our tolerance for cognitive dissonance.

    We just walk away.

    Instead of trying to fix this worldview-reality gap we act as if the person displaying it doesn't exist.

    That's peak selfishness.

    No community and especially no democracy can survive such behavior

    #trueindividuality #democracy #cognitivedissonance

  22. It's very weird to be walking around in 65° weather (30° over historical average) in early March in New England in a light cotton shirt with my sleeves rolled up - surrounded by a ton of snow.

    Like most dogs, #SunshineSadie prefers to prance around in the snow as long as possible.

    The river is running quite high - about a month early. If we have another spring and summer without much rainfall, the snow pack won't help as much as it could.
    #CognitiveDissonance
    #mawx #dogsofmastodon #RiverWalking

  23. A wake-up call for #WhiteAmericans

    The deaths of #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti are forcing white people to face hard truths about power and violence

    By Chauncey DeVega, Senior Writer, February 1, 2026

    "None of what we have seen over the past few weeks — not the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis at the hands of federal officers, the seizure of children by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents, the callous disregard of civil rights and liberties from an increasingly authoritarian administration — is supposed to be happening in America. But it is.

    "American citizens are being arrested and brutalized for exercising their constitutional rights — recording ICE, standing nearby or simply being the 'wrong' color in the wrong place. The Trump administration has labeled these Americans 'domestic terrorists,' claiming they posed existential threats to heavily armed federal agents, despite clear video evidence to the contrary. Immigrants are hiding, afraid to go outside. Entire neighborhoods and communities are under siege. Even though it’s only January, at least eight people have died from their encounters with ICE.

    "The #CognitiveDissonance is dizzying. #Disorientation is one of the #authoritarian leader’s most powerful weapons.

    "Hours after Pretti was killed on Jan. 24, hundreds of people protested near the site in Minneapolis where he died. There, an older white woman told a reporter that 'the government is not supposed to be doing these horrible things to the American people. It is unbelievable. This is something like Nazi Germany or Russia.'

    "I yelled at the television. 'What d**n country do you live in?'

    "But her sentiments are common among people who are gathering at protests, community meetings and town halls all across the country.

    "Like many other white Americans, and too many Black and brown Americans, she seemed willfully ignorant of her own country’s history, which includes #genocide and #LandTheft against #FirstNations; white-on-Black chattel #slavery; #JimCrow and #JaneCrow; the #BlackCodes; the #RedScare; violent social and political repression of #LGBTQ Americans; the #PalmerRaids; mass #incarceration and the #WarOnDrugs, to name just a few examples."

    Read more:
    salon.com/2026/02/01/a-wake-up

    #AmericanHistory #Racism #SystemicRacism #USPol #Authoritarianism

  24. A wake-up call for #WhiteAmericans

    The deaths of #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti are forcing white people to face hard truths about power and violence

    By Chauncey DeVega, Senior Writer, February 1, 2026

    "None of what we have seen over the past few weeks — not the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis at the hands of federal officers, the seizure of children by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents, the callous disregard of civil rights and liberties from an increasingly authoritarian administration — is supposed to be happening in America. But it is.

    "American citizens are being arrested and brutalized for exercising their constitutional rights — recording ICE, standing nearby or simply being the 'wrong' color in the wrong place. The Trump administration has labeled these Americans 'domestic terrorists,' claiming they posed existential threats to heavily armed federal agents, despite clear video evidence to the contrary. Immigrants are hiding, afraid to go outside. Entire neighborhoods and communities are under siege. Even though it’s only January, at least eight people have died from their encounters with ICE.

    "The #CognitiveDissonance is dizzying. #Disorientation is one of the #authoritarian leader’s most powerful weapons.

    "Hours after Pretti was killed on Jan. 24, hundreds of people protested near the site in Minneapolis where he died. There, an older white woman told a reporter that 'the government is not supposed to be doing these horrible things to the American people. It is unbelievable. This is something like Nazi Germany or Russia.'

    "I yelled at the television. 'What d**n country do you live in?'

    "But her sentiments are common among people who are gathering at protests, community meetings and town halls all across the country.

    "Like many other white Americans, and too many Black and brown Americans, she seemed willfully ignorant of her own country’s history, which includes #genocide and #LandTheft against #FirstNations; white-on-Black chattel #slavery; #JimCrow and #JaneCrow; the #BlackCodes; the #RedScare; violent social and political repression of #LGBTQ Americans; the #PalmerRaids; mass #incarceration and the #WarOnDrugs, to name just a few examples."

    Read more:
    salon.com/2026/02/01/a-wake-up

    #AmericanHistory #Racism #SystemicRacism #USPol #Authoritarianism

  25. A wake-up call for #WhiteAmericans

    The deaths of #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti are forcing white people to face hard truths about power and violence

    By Chauncey DeVega, Senior Writer, February 1, 2026

    "None of what we have seen over the past few weeks — not the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis at the hands of federal officers, the seizure of children by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents, the callous disregard of civil rights and liberties from an increasingly authoritarian administration — is supposed to be happening in America. But it is.

    "American citizens are being arrested and brutalized for exercising their constitutional rights — recording ICE, standing nearby or simply being the 'wrong' color in the wrong place. The Trump administration has labeled these Americans 'domestic terrorists,' claiming they posed existential threats to heavily armed federal agents, despite clear video evidence to the contrary. Immigrants are hiding, afraid to go outside. Entire neighborhoods and communities are under siege. Even though it’s only January, at least eight people have died from their encounters with ICE.

    "The #CognitiveDissonance is dizzying. #Disorientation is one of the #authoritarian leader’s most powerful weapons.

    "Hours after Pretti was killed on Jan. 24, hundreds of people protested near the site in Minneapolis where he died. There, an older white woman told a reporter that 'the government is not supposed to be doing these horrible things to the American people. It is unbelievable. This is something like Nazi Germany or Russia.'

    "I yelled at the television. 'What d**n country do you live in?'

    "But her sentiments are common among people who are gathering at protests, community meetings and town halls all across the country.

    "Like many other white Americans, and too many Black and brown Americans, she seemed willfully ignorant of her own country’s history, which includes #genocide and #LandTheft against #FirstNations; white-on-Black chattel #slavery; #JimCrow and #JaneCrow; the #BlackCodes; the #RedScare; violent social and political repression of #LGBTQ Americans; the #PalmerRaids; mass #incarceration and the #WarOnDrugs, to name just a few examples."

    Read more:
    salon.com/2026/02/01/a-wake-up

    #AmericanHistory #Racism #SystemicRacism #USPol #Authoritarianism

  26. A wake-up call for #WhiteAmericans

    The deaths of #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti are forcing white people to face hard truths about power and violence

    By Chauncey DeVega, Senior Writer, February 1, 2026

    "None of what we have seen over the past few weeks — not the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis at the hands of federal officers, the seizure of children by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents, the callous disregard of civil rights and liberties from an increasingly authoritarian administration — is supposed to be happening in America. But it is.

    "American citizens are being arrested and brutalized for exercising their constitutional rights — recording ICE, standing nearby or simply being the 'wrong' color in the wrong place. The Trump administration has labeled these Americans 'domestic terrorists,' claiming they posed existential threats to heavily armed federal agents, despite clear video evidence to the contrary. Immigrants are hiding, afraid to go outside. Entire neighborhoods and communities are under siege. Even though it’s only January, at least eight people have died from their encounters with ICE.

    "The #CognitiveDissonance is dizzying. #Disorientation is one of the #authoritarian leader’s most powerful weapons.

    "Hours after Pretti was killed on Jan. 24, hundreds of people protested near the site in Minneapolis where he died. There, an older white woman told a reporter that 'the government is not supposed to be doing these horrible things to the American people. It is unbelievable. This is something like Nazi Germany or Russia.'

    "I yelled at the television. 'What d**n country do you live in?'

    "But her sentiments are common among people who are gathering at protests, community meetings and town halls all across the country.

    "Like many other white Americans, and too many Black and brown Americans, she seemed willfully ignorant of her own country’s history, which includes #genocide and #LandTheft against #FirstNations; white-on-Black chattel #slavery; #JimCrow and #JaneCrow; the #BlackCodes; the #RedScare; violent social and political repression of #LGBTQ Americans; the #PalmerRaids; mass #incarceration and the #WarOnDrugs, to name just a few examples."

    Read more:
    salon.com/2026/02/01/a-wake-up

    #AmericanHistory #Racism #SystemicRacism #USPol #Authoritarianism

  27. A wake-up call for #WhiteAmericans

    The deaths of #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti are forcing white people to face hard truths about power and violence

    By Chauncey DeVega, Senior Writer, February 1, 2026

    "None of what we have seen over the past few weeks — not the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis at the hands of federal officers, the seizure of children by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents, the callous disregard of civil rights and liberties from an increasingly authoritarian administration — is supposed to be happening in America. But it is.

    "American citizens are being arrested and brutalized for exercising their constitutional rights — recording ICE, standing nearby or simply being the 'wrong' color in the wrong place. The Trump administration has labeled these Americans 'domestic terrorists,' claiming they posed existential threats to heavily armed federal agents, despite clear video evidence to the contrary. Immigrants are hiding, afraid to go outside. Entire neighborhoods and communities are under siege. Even though it’s only January, at least eight people have died from their encounters with ICE.

    "The #CognitiveDissonance is dizzying. #Disorientation is one of the #authoritarian leader’s most powerful weapons.

    "Hours after Pretti was killed on Jan. 24, hundreds of people protested near the site in Minneapolis where he died. There, an older white woman told a reporter that 'the government is not supposed to be doing these horrible things to the American people. It is unbelievable. This is something like Nazi Germany or Russia.'

    "I yelled at the television. 'What d**n country do you live in?'

    "But her sentiments are common among people who are gathering at protests, community meetings and town halls all across the country.

    "Like many other white Americans, and too many Black and brown Americans, she seemed willfully ignorant of her own country’s history, which includes #genocide and #LandTheft against #FirstNations; white-on-Black chattel #slavery; #JimCrow and #JaneCrow; the #BlackCodes; the #RedScare; violent social and political repression of #LGBTQ Americans; the #PalmerRaids; mass #incarceration and the #WarOnDrugs, to name just a few examples."

    Read more:
    salon.com/2026/02/01/a-wake-up

    #AmericanHistory #Racism #SystemicRacism #USPol #Authoritarianism