Prickly City by Scott Stantis for March 09, 2021

The unexamined life isn’t worth living, sweetums. Listen to your elders and think about what brought you here. REALLY think about it.

I dunno, Dar54. Looks like both of them are living „unexamined lives.“

Actually Dr Phil’s thing is getting in someone’s face and yelling, “What were you thinking?”

Yes, Carmen,think long and hard since we seem to be in a state of chaos at the moment. But things will work out since they always have. Cheers

Don’t get mad, Carmen. Just get a new political party and you will be back to normal. Door is open. No application necessary.

Ones political affiliation is not your entire life. There are far more important things to focus on in this world.

Be happy, fall in love. Live to the best of yourabilities.

But Live

I await your story, here at the end

Take your time

Signed

DEATH

Well Carmen…

You could try being a “Conservative” that isn’t a complete and total hypocrite…

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The state that wants to deregulate everything wants to tell Facebook and Twitter how to run their platforms.

Gov. Greg Abbott, who apparently has nothing else going on, is backing a proposed law in his state that would prohibit companies like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook from banning users based on their “viewpoint,” specifically religious or political speech, or geographic location within Texas.

The move, which is being replicated in other states, is seen as a state-level broadside against a federal statute that absolves social media companies for responsibility for the content their users post.

Former President Donald Trump pushed for ending Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act before he left office—and got banned from Twitter—in January.

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Similar bills have been introduced in more than a dozen states, according to CBS News, but Texas is farther along than most—a similar bill passed the state Senate in 2019 (but later died in the state House), and it’s not only backed by Abbott but also was listed last month as one of the legislative priorities of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who formally presides over the state Senate.

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https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ad9nm/texas-wants-to-ban-twitter-and-facebook-from-banning

Whatever you do, don’t go Libertarian, the core of right-wing populism. You know what you got, when you have 18,000 Libertarians in one room?…………………….18,000 completely different versions of how government should be run.

I know how Carmen feels. Watching the Republican party succumb to it’s worst instincts, hatred and anger over the last 12-13 years has been so sad. It changed me from a moderate with no party affiliation to a liberal leaning Democrat. My ethical, moral and personal beliefs simply wouldn’t allow me to go down the dark path Republicans were choosing.

If you have to “be” something, why can’t you be a person who treats others as you would expect to get treated yourself?

For me, as I have matured I have realized that I am not defined by a party, I am defined by what I believe is right. Then in evaluating candidates I look at what their position is with respect to those beliefs.

Dr. Phil’s regular question remains a very good one that we should all be asking ourselves. But we usually don’t because we hate the answer. Much “safer” to stay in one’s own little self-deluding bubble.

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde

Shades of Sartre!

The No. 1 All-time Worst possible reason for doing ANYthing is “We’ve always done it this way.” Think, no fire, no wheel.

I’ve always thought, what a weird system that Americans register for a party to vote. Outside of dictatorships and communist nations, does any other nation on earth operate its elections that way?

To be or not to be, THAT is the question. Then start worrying about what to be, in your spare time.

Right wingers are not introspective,

I like to dog injunction: Wag more, bark less.