It’s so obvious how many people have made politics their worldview since they’re lacking a biblical one
They interpret EVERYTHING through their political worldview. Humanity, history, art, everything. And they don’t realize how little they understand.
I remember in Ken Burns Country Music documentary, Roseanne Cash made a comment about her father that he would believe two opposite things at once. She used the example that “he was against the war in vietnam, but he would go and sing for the soldiers in vietnam”
The only way you could possibly believe such an absurd statement is if you view everything through a Political Left and Political Right worldview and derive your entire moral set from your chosen party.
Johnny Cash didn’t believe two opposite things. He simply believed human life mattered, so he didn’t want to support what he believed was a needless war. And because human life mattered, he went and tried to offer comfort to those who were affected by the war. This isn’t hard to understand.
A lot of people will point at a lot of things Johnny Cash did over his career to try to paint him as left wing or right wing, depending on who’s talking and which side is trying to “claim” him. The truth about Johnny Cash is that he viewed himself as apolitical. Because the bold actions he took weren’t motivated by politics, they were based on firmly held principles he had from his Christian upbringing. He didn’t take a hard stance against racism because he was “leftwing” or “rightwing,” he took a hard stance because he believed all humans had value. He didn’t play for prisoners because he was trying to virtue signal politics around the prison system, he did so because he believed all humans mattered and deserved a voice. If you cannot understand this about Johnny Cash, you will never EVER understand any of the choices he made throughout his career.
But you cannot understand it because your worldview doesn’t align with Truth so you will never have an understanding of history or humanity or art or science that is actually true.
(yes, yes, very on brand for me to use a country music history example, I know)
the “came back wrong” trope except like… they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like “oh no… what have i done…. shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!” and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like “oh shes soooo weird” but shes just normal
There’s a bunch of “glitches” in the Fionna and Cake world, spotted by various people including this Reddit user. I wonder if the human AU is all a fabrication of the crown or something…
After 8 foot tall lady dimitrescu went on a rampage through the internet getting everyone horny as fuck, I stopped being dysphoric about my height and instead use it to my advantage
i hope you buy things that bring you joy. i hope you wear clothes that make you feel good. i hope you decorate your home however you like. i hope you don’t wake up dreading going to work. i hope you meet people that make your heart sing. i hope you discover hobbies that fulfill you. i hope you go on fantastic adventures that give you unforgettable memories. i hope you do things just because you want to, and i hope you don’t feel like you have to justify your decisions to anybody. i hope you find happiness. i hope you cultivate a life you love
[Images description: a Twitter thread by Alisa Lynn Valdés, M.S., @ AlisaValdesRod1. It goes as follows:
“This quote, from the @ nytimes review of the Oppenheimer film: (quote) “He served as director of a clandestine weapons lab built in a near-desolate stretch of Los Alamos, in New Mexico” (end quote)… It was inhabited by Hispanos. They were given less than 24 hr to leave. Their farms bulldozed. 1.
Many of those families had been on the same land for centuries. The Oppenheimer’s crew literally shot all of their livestock through the head and bulldozed them. People fled on foot with nowhere to go. Land rich, money poor. Their land seized by the government. 2.
All of the Hispano NM men who were displaced by the labs later were hired to work with beryllium by Oppenheimer. The white men got protective gear. The Hispano men did not. 3.
The Hispano men all died of berylliosis. These were US citizens, folks. Their land taken, animals killed, farms bulldozed, forced to work for the people who took everything from them, and killed by those people. 4.
For 20 years I have been trying to sell a film based on the story of Loyda Martinez, a remarkable whistleblower whose family’s land was seized for the labs. Her dad was one of the men who died from beryllium exposure at the labs. She later went to work there too. 5.
She is a computer whiz who rose to the top of her department at Los Alamos. Then she started digging for info on the Hispano men the labs killed, like her father. She filed a class action lawsuit, and won. 6.
The first Hispano governor of NM, Bill Richardson, appointed Loyda to run the state’s human rights commission. She then filed a second class-action against Los Alamos, on behalf of women scientists not paid fairly. 7.
But, no. We want more films about the “complex and troubled” “heroic” white men, who conducted their GENIUS in a “virtually unpopulated” place. These are ALL lies. This is mythology in service to white supremacy and the military industrial complex, masquerading as “nuanced.” 8.
Because of what the labs did to the local Hispano people in northern NM, our communities now have the highest rates of heroin overdose deaths in the nation. The generational trauma and forced poverty is outrageous. We need the real stories of Oppenheimer to be told. End.”
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