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Cynicism is not a mark of intelligence. It's a defense mechanism to avoid being exploited.
192k adults, 30 countries: People with poor reasoning skills are more likely to see human nature as selfish and untrustworthy.
A sign of wisdom is refusing to expect the worst in others.
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The first phase of Elon Musk's DOGE to cut waste in government agencies appears driven more by an ideological assault on federal agencies than by a genuine effort to save taxpayer dollars, say two veteran Republican budget experts reut.rs/40V4Lzm
GOP budget experts say DOGE cuts reflect political ideology – Politics
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As a magachurch pastor, first of all, some of the things I say are going to be incorrect.
I think there were too many rich white people in the SkyClub for @Delta to turn the volume up while I was trying to watch the halftime show but I’m here to say HELL YES to Kendrick.
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Any inquiry into government waste that does not begin with the Pentagon is not a serious inquiry.
But war is easy enough to get people behind when you can convince them that the threat to their freedom is always external and never internal.
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The plan is transparent.
This administration is designed to tire us out and wear us down so that we are docile as we are plunged further into an abyss of dehumanization.
We will need to be strategic about responding to these aggressions and about holding fast to a love ethic.
which taxpayers?
The Trump administration sent a memo to federal employees on Tuesday, offering them full pay and benefits through Sep. 30 if they resign by Feb. 6.
Officials said they believe 5-10% of workers could quit and save taxpayers around $100 billion.
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Inspired by Pres Biden pardoning Hunter Biden, I am pardoning my wife Heidi for the $23k in Italian shoes she bought using the church credit card during the Milan Fashion Week. No more persecution at the hands of the church accounting department!!
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”Your goal is not to find love but to remove all barriers which are preventing you from receiving it."
— Rumi
Honestly can’t believe it’s this close.
Also, the primary task of leadership is to figure out what to do with the idiots. Dispose of them? Forcibly relegate them to insignificance? Appease them and their idiotic demands? No leader of any nation state can avoid this question.
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whatever happens today there will be another trump. the resistance against christian nationalism doesn’t end after today. it’s a lifelong fight to love god and to love ALL neighbors
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ISIS throwing people from roofs was long regarded as a trademark example of their depravity.
Here’s Israeli soldiers throwing a blindfolded Palestinian from a roof.
We don’t know if he was alive or already executed.
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