Ehren Werner / is on Nostr

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2024-02-01 23:28:19

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@npub16h3…ergp @npub1mmf…eknq Also the Republican Party is completely owned by Putin.

2024-01-17 14:54:27

I re-shared his post already, but here it is again because it’s worth it. From @npub1hyk…3p33.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/17/monopolies-produce-billionaires/

2023-12-23 21:33:56

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@npub1yzu…pfz7 @npub1ccn…czwu @npub13pd…qnhu Any “magical thinking” is a sad step backwards for human beings, full stop. It makes us do stupid things like refuse effective medical treatment or listen to people who have NO BUSINESS being listened to. It’s like people who think health insurance should pay for homeopathy, even though they know it’s just placebo. It’s a fucking waste, and keeps us from finding the things that ACTUALLY work. No Faith is harmless.

2023-12-23 21:33:56

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2023-12-23 21:18:12

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@npub1yzu…pfz7 @npub1ccn…czwu @npub13pd…qnhu And once you’re in magic thinking mode, you can justify anything because things are detached from reality and it’s all based on faith now.

2023-12-23 21:16:17

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@npub1yzu…pfz7 @npub1ccn…czwu @npub13pd…qnhu See that’s the thing, Siddhartha said he knows how you can get enlightened, but you have to take that shit on faith. Faith that there is such a thing as enlightenment, faith that he achieved it, faith in the shit that was written down about it, even faith that the translation you got does it justice! All that stuff puts your mind in the “magic thinking” mode where anything is possible, because you “have faith.”

2023-12-23 21:16:17

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2023-12-23 21:07:29

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@npub1ccn…czwu @npub1yzu…pfz7 @npub13pd…qnhu They are all guilty for sure. The ongoing Rohingya genocide is being committed by Buddhists, for instance.

2023-12-23 21:07:29

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@npub1ccn…czwu @npub1yzu…pfz7 @npub13pd…qnhu They are all guilty for sure. The ongoing Rohingya genocide is being committed by Buddhists, for instance.

2023-10-14 02:20:47

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@npub1xpc…3t05
Cities have been fought over and sacked since forever. Battlefields were a thing because cities had walls and defenses, and sieges were hard. Cities without walls or defenses were urban battlefields. This is not new.

2023-10-08 15:23:12

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@npub1dqx…q4d8
2. #NATO is a DEFENSIVE alliance, and the reality is that countries ASK to join so that they don’t suffer the fates of #Chechnya, #Georgia (X2!) and now #Ukraine. The reason it continues to exist is because it is still relevant. The Russian Federation is a genocidal monster run by a dictator who wants to re-create the old Russian Empire, and none of her neighbors feel safe (nor should they!)
#FreeUkraine
#FreeSouthOssetia
#FreeAbkhazia
#FreeChechnya

2023-10-08 15:16:50

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@npub1dqx…q4d8 This is the dumbest Russian propaganda ever. It entirely removes all Ukrainian (and Russian!) agency, placing everything at the feet of the US and NATO. Here’s a quick fact check for you
1. Russia has no right to Crimea or any of the rest of Ukraine no matter how many Russian speaking people live there. Pretty sure that was Hitler’s reason at first too, right? Protecting German speakers? Not to mention all of those “referendums” were rigged.
#RussiaIsATerroristState

2023-08-27 00:25:16

Aw, I think I got blocked by @npub1syh…c8uj because I made them look like a fool. That's too bad. I wonder if my homies at #NAFO, or some #NAFOFellas or just regular #fellas might want to help them understand how much #Muscovy actually embraces #fascist ideology.
But maybe it will all be for nothing, @npub1syh…c8uj actually believes that the #UA and other armed forces of #Ukraine are the fascists. Are they a #tankie, a bot or just a useful idiot?

2023-08-07 00:04:00

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@npub1nc3…9zpr @npub189n…satx
Totally, but in most of the cases it goes beyond that too. I see it in their faces sometimes, the struggle between what they believe and what they can see in front of them. Not all of them are stupid. It they’re so far in that to leave would mean separating themselves from all their friends and family that are still there, changing their media habits completely, and the hardest part, acknowledging what they’ve done to themselves.

2023-08-06 20:03:10

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@npub189n…satx
The last bit that makes this extra hard is that those intense negative emotions evoked by conservative media are rich sources of dopamine and other hormones. They get addicted to it, and so that makes ot extra hard to walk away from it.

2023-08-06 19:51:19

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@npub189n…satx
Not sure what hashtags you’d use for this, but you’re right, it is painful and frustrating. Right wing media plays on the most base of human emotions; anger, fear, hate (Yoda: “…suffering.”). They play on those intense feelings, presenting lies and half-truths from charismatic people, and because they start from some of the most basic identities people have (Christian, American, etc.) it’s easy to get swept up into it.

2023-08-06 19:07:21

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@npub189n…satx I’ve tried for years to be graceful and humble when dealing with people who believe his bullshit, but I’ve now realized that they are like that because they want to be. They have all been exposed to the truth, they just refuse to believe it because the cognitive dissonance would give them a headache. They have all had family members and loved ones BEG them to turn off FOX and OAN and to re-examine their lives, but they won’t. So I’ve washed my hands of it.

2023-08-06 19:01:46

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@npub189n…satx Unless you believe anything that Trump spews out, in which case dignity is right out.