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We've made disagreement feel like betrayal

Disagree and you're disloyal.

Ask questions and you're a traitor.

Change your mind and you've "sold out."

So people nod along with ideas they don't fully believe...just to avoid exile.

We've flattened discourse into team sports. You're either with us or you're the enemy.

Know how honest, thoughtful people stay honest and thoughtful?

By engaging constructively in disagreement.

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You are DEAD longer than you are ALIVE And you aree WASTING IT by GIVING IN TO FEAR FEAR FEAR IS THE ENEMY

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the part of me that likes smoking weed vs the hypochondriac in me: FIGHT!

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It's not that people don't understand right from wrong.

It's that moral/ethical concerns aren't what guides most behavior on social media.

People recognize what's principled and kind. But they also recognize what gets rewarded.

The affirmation, the dopamine hit of the likes...is addictive and powerful, and it re-writes our reality if we're not vigilant.

The Algorithm doesn't reward honesty, humility, nuance, or reflection. It rewards certainty, outrage, and loyalty to the in-group. The Algorithm teaches us that certainty is strength, rage is virtue, and loyalty means never hesitating.

We've learned to fear being socially wrong more than we fear being false.

We perform moral clarity instead of living with moral integrity.

We don't stand for values or universal moral principles. We signal alignment.

Ask yourself:

Are you right...or just on the right side?

Are you guided by principles...or by applause/acceptance?

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

-George Orwell

The cost of commitment to principles is a social cost, and social media has made most of us unwilling to pay it.

The test of personal integrity isn't whether you're right when it's easy. It's whether you stay true to your principles when it's not.

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see, your mistake was thinking isolating me was gonna make me kill myself. instead it just made me stop giving a fuck, i mean, I got nothing to lose. iont give a fuck anymore what anyone thinks tbr. humans suck rn lol

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Thousands of Federal Emergency Management Agency calls went unanswered following the deadly Texas floods after Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem allegedly failed to renew call center contracts.

Nearly two-thirds of calls to the disaster assistance line went unanswered in the two days after the floods, which have so far claimed the lives of at least 121, a source told the New York Times. 

It came after hundreds of contractors at call centers were fired on July 5 after their contracts lapsed and weren't extended, according to documents obtained by the outlet. 

The agency received 3,027 calls from survivors as flood waters receded on July 5. Roughly 3,018 calls were answered, the NYT reported. 

But the next day, as contracts expired and hundreds of contractors were fired, FEMA received 2,363 calls and only 846 were answered, according to the documents. 

On Monday, 16,419 calls were made by survivors with only 2,613 answered by the agency. 

It was five days after the contracts expired before they were renewed by Noem, according to the NYT source who added she has also recently instituted a new requirement for her personal approval of any expenses over $100,000. 

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woah dude! you convinced yourself everyone was static so now you look like the jackass when all those people who used to suck don't as much anymore and you're just coming after them for dumb shit from the past? shocker!

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very frustrating when you know someone thinks you're doing something to Look Good and not because you actually care. sorry, I was taught to perform my whole life, sue me if everything kinda comes off that way. fucker.

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among my greatest sins is not enjoying being around vape clouds

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magic all around me !!!

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Christine Price (1929-1980), ''Orange Fairy Book'' ed. by Andrew Lang, 1950 "The screams of the Birds of Bad Faith followed him"

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Late night walk. Värmland, Sweden (June 27, 2020).

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not sure why people demonize predators when squirrels exist and are ontologically evil