January 18, 2021

Covid is a true killer. So far it’s killed the flu, cancer, heart disease - it killed the ability to think, logic & common sense. It killed the economy, the working class, & millions of jobs. It killed millions of businesses, human connection, love and compassion.  Jeff Nelson@vegsource

Good morning. The DOD is vetting soldiers for dangerous conservative sentiments and NBC is encouraging the FBI to spy on conservative groups.@JackPosobiec

Echo chambers are unhealthy for a democracy. Suppressing ideas and banning accounts does not take away ideas, it amplifies them, and makes finding common ground impossible. That looks like the plan. @GeorgePapa19

NYT articles are indistinguishable from professional Dem public relations campaigns. I always expected a left bias in the NYT -- but also real writing, actual thinking. Now independent journalism is kaput. Journalists are Dem party operatives w/bylines. @Doranimated

Generally speaking the coronation of a new president when surrounded by an occupying army is the definition of a coup. @Cernovich

Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination. @ThomasSowell

Your good habits will protect you from other people's bad habits. @EdLatimore

During a pandemic, this seems on point: “Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.” #MLKDay2021 @Vegalteno

Some folks don't love it when folks only quote King's "I Have a Dream" speech. I disagree. I'm glad they're reading King, but they need to read the whole speech.

A thread of the forgotten sections:

"One hundred years later [after the Emancipation Proclamation], the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity...the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land.

"This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy."

"There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges."

"There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality."

[side note, folks asking what King would say about BLM: he would say AMEN]

"We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one." Joseph Stuart@jstuart_