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I returned to campus yesterday. It felt like standing on sacred ground.
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CougarX+47
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God. Family. Country.
United States Katılım Eylül 2015
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Oh dear. Peacemaking is good, but is there any reputable organization BYU could pair with to provide opportunities to be peacemakers? Without @DataRepublican, we wouldn't know how good people are being manipulated into supporting bad things.
I suppose NGOs started as something good, but it was too tempting a vector for the power lovers.
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Look at how many people were involved here. And of course BYU has an "Initiative for Peacemaking" featuring none other than a foreign conflict resolution partner and Braver Angels.
Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee
Not subtle
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@lorinbarber @CynicalPublius This probably is true. We live in a high-trust society -- which is pretty awesome -- but that leaves us vulnerable to low-trust individuals.
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@CynicalPublius I don't live there, but am LDS. We are a very gullible people.
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Data Republican did it again.
She really is a precious jewel on our political landscape.
Can someone with knowledge of Utah politics explain why there is this rabid leftist bent in Utah?
I would think with LDS so prominent that it would be the nation's most conservative state, yet it produces Mitt Romneys.
DataRepublican (small r)@DataRepublican
🧵🚨 THREAD: Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University. Within TWO HOURS, leaders of 7 "bridge-building" organizations assembled on a conference call. Why so fast? Because UVU was THEIR campus. 🚨 This is Maury Giles, incoming CEO of Braver Angels, admitting on camera at the National Conference on Citizenship: "Within two hours of the assassination, a group of us, all Utahns, we gathered on a call. We'd become friends over the last 5 years through our work in the community. And we also happen to be leaders in seven different national organizations that work in civic renewal." Two hours. Seven national organizations. But this wasn't a spontaneous reaction to a tragedy. This was a network protecting its home turf. Because UVU wasn't just the place where Kirk was shot. It was the institutional center of the entire bridge-building / Dignity Index apparatus... and had been for years. And the kicker? These seven national organizations don't hide their own intent: replicate color revolution tactics in the United States. And, yes, that includes MWEG - Mormon Women for Ethical Government. I have the receipts... they all admitted this on camera. As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇
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Captured major cities. City slickers seem pretty vulnerable to herd mentality and it's sadly easy to convert people to a political morality, because real morality is hard.
Captured newspapers/media. The only difference between the "thought leadership" of the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News is the former has a strong anti-Mormon bias.
Captured institutions. Teachers are trained by leftists and propagandize children to be leftists.
Captured GOP. GOP leadership allowed laws like the redistricting fiasco, candidates who didn't qualify through our convention then forcing a primary, or the law with a wide loophole that allows men to use women's restrooms.
But apparently, this is the same playbook the left has been running in other states like California, Arizona, Colorado, and Idaho. You can see each are in different stages.
When this happens, the GOP gives up. They don't try to persuade people back to them. They don't spend money or effort in so much of the country that political party becomes inherited rather than a conscious choice. Utah GOP has already ceded that race for the new district, and they are wrong to do so.
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@CoxonMark @mattvanswol @realchasegeiser @LABeachGal1 I was homeschooled for a year and that was what I needed to gain a lifetime love of learning.
The funny thing is that I was homeschooled because of socialization. With one teacher per hundreds of kids at recess, the society the kids developed was not so benevolent.
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I am still trying to convince my wife to homeschool. We’re paying $19k a year for kindergarten because our public schools are literally among the worst in the country. Anyone have advice on how to get the spouse over the hump? Her main fear is socialization and not wanting him to “fall behind”
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I pay 1,000 dollars a month to send my daughter to catholic school to protect her from woke bullshit.
I just went to her first recital where the kids are singing the theme song from the musical Rent, about how many minutes are left in a year in the context of being diagnosed with aids.
What the actual fuck.
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@stackerco @jaredadairbell I wouldn't care one way or the other. That's actually cool if LDS aren't the only ones peforming baptisms for the dead. There's something good that comes from turning our hearts to the fathers.
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@jaredadairbell Would you care if Jehovah Witnesses baptized people for your ancestors?
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I’ve never understood why those not of our faith would be upset or offended that we do work for the (their) dead in our temples.
If you don’t believe the work we do has any effect, it is the equivalence to praying for the dead, which is commonly practiced among all Christians.
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Before deportation and a lifetime ban on reentry, he should have to clean off the graffiti -- with a toothbrush.
I really don't like graffiti. It's not art or free speech to damage public or private property, and it is even worse to do it in a foreign country.
The lifetime ban could always be lifted once he makes a sincere apology and proves he can be a decent human.
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I just want to say for all our Japanese friends out there that we do not condone this at all, and completely encourage you to smash his hands with hammers.
鈴森はるか 『haruka suzumori』 🇯🇵@harukaawake
🇯🇵 A tourist from New York was captured spray painting graffiti in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo. This type of behavior should get you immediately deported from Japan.
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I would hope it is not a discovery, but there are pro-vaxers denying this possibility. For me and others, it's a reality. But I don't know the numbers because it wasn't reported -- at the same time that people dying of other things were counted as dying of covid if they tested positive. The incentives were powerful to do the accounting this way.
In spite of my experience, I can see that the mRNA techology has the potential to cure genetic diseases like cancer or even aging. Until they figure out why it was causing heart problems in young people, particularly young men, though, it might only be safe in aging populations.
I am sympathetic to anti-vaxxers, just because I have had a complicated history with vaccines. But I don't have a strong opinion on what other people should do with vaccines other than the government should not mandate them, doctors should educate patients on the risks and rewards, and patients should decide based on that information.
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@cougarXplus47 @DrNeilStone @PeterSweden7 “I think all vaccines carry a nonzero chance of serious injury or death.”
You haven’t made a discovery here.
That’s true of all medicines and medical procedures.
None have been claimed to be 100% safe.
What matters is being able to measure hazard vs. risk.
Antivaxers fail at this
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This should be headline news EVERYWHERE.
A Pfizer insider who was former head of toxicology in Europe has just come out and said something that many "conspiracy theorists" suspected.
He estimates that 20 000 to 60 000 people in Germany have died from the c*vid vaccine.
This was said at a parliamentary enquiry commission in Germany.
So why isn't this massive news being reported everywhere?
Is the mainstream media that has recieved millions in funding from Bill Gates deliberately covering this up... 🤔
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A single clinical trial? The scientific method requires that experiments are repeatable, but how many studies are not reproduceable? I've heard it's a significant number.
Who funded the trial? Scientists are humans who want to get paid for their work. Work that does not fit their employer's viewpoints does not necessarily lead to repeat or continued employment. So what are the odds that an undesired result is reported completely and without some kind of reframing to soften it?
Who peer-reviewed it? I've done peer reviews and been peer-reviewed, although in nonmedical contexts. Some things motivate harsh reviews, like writing an English paper that counters a professor's bias. Sometimes liking a person means the review is not sharp enough. And other times, it's one more thing on a list of tasks that needed to be completed yesterday.
Science is not meant to be trusted. It too easy falls into dogma. When people demand that other people shut up and stop questioning, we get to waste decades on researching the cure for prostate cancer and replacing fat with sugar in American diets.
I actually want people to be healthy, and I could care less about any Big X industry. So I'm thinking I won't shut up.
May your jello always have carrots,
CougarX+47.
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@cougarXplus47 @DrNeilStone @PeterSweden7 This has been studied in a clinical trial. The data are public. If you can’t be bothered to check it, then shut your mouth.
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I'm not antivax, but I think all vaccines carry a nonzero chance of serious injury or death. Thus, it becomes an important conversation with a doctor to understand the risks and benefits of a given vaccines.
But there's incentives for the pharmaceutical industry to push vaccines and there is not nearly as much oversight as I would like from the FDA putting these on the schedule.
Acknowledging this would go a long way towards restoring public trust in vaccines.
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@PeterSweden7 Shocking if true!
But it's not true.
Just made up to the scare you off vaccines.
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@Alexf80341509 @funnylilstories C'est pareil pour moi avec le français. X sait que je parle un peu français. Parfois, c'est un peu difficile de les lire, mais c'est une bonne practique. Je l'aime beaucoup.
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@funnylilstories Je vois le tweet en russe non traduit spontanément, heureusement je le lis un peu donc j'ai compris qui vous avez travaillé dans l'informatique, que vous êtes au portugal, que vous aimez lire, j'ai bon ?
Bisous les russes, le monde vous aime!!
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Привет вавилонскому твиттеру из сегодня солнечной Португалии ☀️
Меня зовут Вика, когда-то в прошлой жизни работала в IT, но последние 11 лет шью. Люблю компульсивные покупки тканей и читать книги, укутавшись пледом. Откуда вы это читаете?
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@Manhattva Ah, so that's why someone responded to something I wrote with a meme about MAGA snowflakes. It didn't seem particularly insightful for a self-proclaimed independent thinker.
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Extremely cowardly of him to turn off replies to this.
“I’m sorry that he was brutally murdered in front of thousands of people and his widow will have to watch her husband get shot in the throat for the rest of their lives,
But let me explain to you why he had it coming.”
⛈ 🤿 🥔 shon.🏕️🧑🏻💻⛈@inkedtater
She didn’t trash him, she pointed out. Charlie Kirk had asshole opinions. Fuckin snowflakes.
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@CharlieInUtah @sister_slay @UVU @TPUSA That's not a bad idea, wearing MAGA hats to graduation. Thanks for the suggestion, sir.
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I don’t want a Charlie Kirk hater talking at my graduation @UVU
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Seeing cops on campus is almost like spotting a rainbow -- except when I see them, I know to look for the Turning Point booth.
UVU chose to run a memorial service and it was poorly done. It would have been better to allow the community to use the arena and do its own event.
UVU chose to announce they had formed a committee to design a marker and that committee's action was to seize on any excuse to not do so.
My conclusion is that UVU decided that they had to take these actions (accountability to donors?) but they didn't want them to be effective.
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It’s not up to UVU to facilitate a memorial service or build a memorial, using tax funds and tuition money for it, for someone that wasn’t faculty or a student.
And yeah it sucks that this is the world we live in now, but now EVERYONE has more security after this shooting.
UVU doesn’t need to correct anything here. Just because the guy is dead or was killed, doesn’t mean that everyone everywhere now needs to respect or like his views. And that goes for the speaker of the commencement.
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Would have been cool of UVU to contact Charlie’s family and have someone speak to honor him in the wake of the most horrific tragedy in higher education history.
But they chose the opposite
Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee
UVU: you’re better than this Just find another speaker Don’t rub salt into the wounds of a grieving community
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@acrobatichobbit @sankak_kimono I think it used to be called being cultured.
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@sankak_kimono In America we are shamed for wearing clothes of other cultures, they call it "cultural appropriation". But it looks beautiful.
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@popcornspops4 @sister_slay @UVU @TPUSA That weird run through the cornfield thing? Yeah, I felt bad for the people who paid to watch football. 🤣
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I opted out of visiting teaching and haven't been involved in ministering. I somehow got on the bad side of several too many people in my ward, and I did it without saying a word. Every Sunday, I would experience panic attacks at church because of how I was being treated. Visiting teaching became an extension of church with the same types of interactions, and I couldn't bear inviting that into my home.
I don't think this is typical experience -- well, I hope it is not. I'm okay now, although I had to stay home for years until I could feel safe at church. I went back before I thought I was ready, but I never forced myself to stay, and it was after awhile of doing this that I recently realized the anxiety was completely gone. I think it was learning that God didn't expect me to just endure mistreatment.
It occurred to me recently that I should have talked to the bishop for counsel, and I really wish that my visiting teacher at the time had suggested that instead of taking offense when I brought up my concerns.
I don't have any suggestions on what would be useful. I actually think giving people opportunities to serve each other through this program is a good thing. But your post made me think, if I can handle attending Sunday meetings, maybe I can handle ministering.
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How do you guys appreciate being ministered to?
I need some ideas.
Tbh, I hate being ministered to lol.
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I understand about not wanting to impose on someone in their grief. But I trust that someone will say no if it's too hard and that response would be respected.
I look at Tyler Bowyer's comment as trying to encourage UVU to correct its current direction.
UVU couldn't even manage a decent memorial service. Turning Point has to have cops whenever they have a booth on campus. The expectation of civility is not being communicated to the student body, obviously.
And building a memorial for Charlie? That's been sent to committee so it never happens.
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@tylerbowyer Okay?
Thanks for your input there Tyler. If you ever get to be in charge of a university be sure to make a grieving family member of a person that got shot speak at the graduation ceremony of the school they got shot at.
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@Rey_Rey0099 @livkellehernews If you listened to Charlie as well as you read what I wrote, I understand why you would consider disagree with him.
Have a lovely day.
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@cougarXplus47 @livkellehernews So, folks shouldn’t have the right to disagree with Charlie? I’ve listened to Charlie, and she’s correct. That doesn’t mean we celebrate his murder. You people are fucked up in the head.
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Debate is growing online over UVU's graduation speaker, author and podcast host Sharon McMahon. In the day following Charlie Kirk's murder at UVU's campus, she made a post explaining why some view Kirk as controversial and criticizing his rhetoric by sharing quotes of his.
Some say she didn't do enough to condemn political violence and say the university's decision to platform her is "tone deaf."
Others say she has a right to speak regardless of her views on Charlie Kirk, and promoting diverse voices on college campuses was central to Kirk's mission.
I spent the day speaking with students— Here’s what I learned 👇🏽 @KUTV2News
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