@PeterJohn411

Memes on timely and timeless topics by the Web's itinerant meme sharer. Capturing moments of Internet brilliance from everyday people, as well as my own. Random finds on social media posts turned to memes, and personal reflections on politics, culture, and art. Mostly uses Typorama and Mematic.

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“If a boy has enough intelligence, he ought to go into the ministry, except that if when he enters college he is given to carousing, drinking, and wenching, then in that case he should enter the law." (Harvard Student Review, 1796)

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Perhaps the most telling comment on the shooting of Philando Castile came from his girfriend's daughter in the back of a patrol car.

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When children advance through developmental stages, we don't treat them as more or less human. The same with aging adults. As we save babies in ever earlier premature deliveries, we must stop the magical thinking that these developmental stages mean they are something less than human as well. We are all the same individuals from conception to death.

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One of Christopher Hitchens’ foundational assertions is, to use his own terms, “a polished turd of logic.” We cannot dismiss the facts of positive contributions to history through religion by resorting to alternative history, a sub-genre of science fiction. By basing so much on a glorified fantasy, Hitchens reveals his own position as fundamentally religious as any Theists he opposes.

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Steve Bannon has more power than anyone in an unelected position has any Constitutional right. His presence on the National Security Council without the legally required Senate advice and consent poses a threat to National Security. It also constitutes a high crime or misdemeanor; President Trump broke the law putting him there without Senate review. #PresidentBannon

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For those planning a very Atheist Christmas. No big statement, but I thought even Atheists deserve a Christmas card--or Holiday card if political correctness is in order.

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Liberal society has based 43 years of policy on the assertion that we can be something other than living human beings for some span of our existence. Conservative circles in the same time reduce us to different qualities of humanity before and after birth.

The “Right to Life” is not abstract but includes the rights to opportunity, sustenance, healthcare, a clean environment, and a natural death. “Pro-life” advocates have argued to defend each of these specifically for unborn persons.

We do not suddenly become less human at birth. We must defend these from conception to a natural death for each of us.

Can “Liberals” cultivate such obvious fallacy, and criticize “Conservatives” for supporting a candidate despite his lies? Can “Conservatives” erroneously reduce Human Persons to pre- and post-birth with different fundamental rights, and criticize “Liberals” for inconsistent values?

Both sides are guilty of accepting only what they want to hear. “Liberals” cultivate accepting lies as much as “Conservatives” in this false ideological dichotomy.

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Statistics suggest that three states experienced vote tampering. Recounting them is the only way to be sure. When we monitor elections in other countries, we expect this of them. I say lead by example. Think of it as if Steve Harvey had reported the vote count in those states. Sure, he'd never messed up before--but nobody else had ever messed up like that before. Wouldn't you want to double check? And if recounts should flip the vote, Donald Trump will feel what the oopsies Miss Universe felt the might of the pageant. Doesn't Trump own the Miss Universe franchise?

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About as simple as it could. Once every four years we get a chance to change the two-party system nationally. That's today. If you like the results of the last 35 years, by all means vote to keep things the same. But voting for the same families and their associates who have made things as they are for the last 35 years only supports keeping things moving the same direction.

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If you don’t vote for Jill #SteinInTheMorning, don’t gripe about the two-party system for four years. Now is your only chance to change it until then. Let’s have a First Woman President we can brag to our granddaughters about.
#SteinBaraka2016 #JillStein #JillNotHill

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All narrative is subjective. Traditional journalism requires reporters frame a narrative around the raw facts they disclose. This is the model Bob Woodward has followed his whole career. However, this model also requires journalists to decide which facts readers must know, and which they need not know. This differs little from government officials who classify secrets. The Internet and New Media have changed all that. They allow readers to have enough raw facts at their fingertips to prioritize for themselves and assemble their own narratives. Julian Assange has moved investigative journalism into this realm, allowing journalism itself to adapt to New Media. In this model, the editors crowd source narrative. This journalistic democratization allows the masses to frame their own narratives and decide which to believe based on the totality of facts available. The wonder if this is how clear a commonly recognized narrative emerges. Then the only way to counter the narrative is dismiss it and attack the source.

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WikiLeaks has proven what many once considered nutcase conspiracy theories as true. These range from the DNC taking sides in the primary to a long-range conspiracy to dumb-down America. Bill Ivey matter-of-factly asserts he and colleagues, "in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry." (ID3599) Yet now instead of getting angry over having been manipulated, WikiLeaks gets confabulated into a non-sensical and improbable Conspiracy Theory that Russians hacked all these documents at the behest of the Trump campaign to hurt Hillary Clinton. Should you believe the people who "conspire" to make you "unaware and compliant"? ------ Source: Message from Bill Ivey to John Podesta, March 13, 2016. https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3599

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Our vote for President is not for the person. We vote for electors. They vote for the President in December. Writing in a candidate for President votes for Nobody without electors attached--literally a vote for Nobody. Voters who respect Bernie should not write him in, unless they want to make him a Nobody.