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to conspiracy theorize or not
2021-Jan-16, Saturday 01:46 pmI want very much to get back to the interesting topics that I used to ponder, before politics and stress took over. Hopefully, soon.
It's good to self-review occasionally, regardless of the times. For instance, before the 2016 election, I admit that I considered Trump as a candidate on the measure of his "political outsider" claims. I am yet another person wanting a change in the status quo. I recognized that much of rural and white America has their own reasons for liking this aspect of Trump, and I tried comparing him to our own Minnesotan outsider, former Governor Jesse Ventura. I wondered if, like a bull in a china shop, the outsider might break the "right" things and cause helpful change? Like Jesse, though, I finally decided that Trump was just too much of an egocentric jerk, and he would address only those problems that affected him personally. That shortsightedness is insufficient for meaningful change. I did not give him my vote, but many people did while citing this aspect of his sales pitch.
Also here in Minnesota, a local tv news station fired their longtime weather host, Sven Sundgaard. He rightfully called out "white nationalist Nazi sympathizer gun fetishist miscreants" on social media after they went to our current Governor's residence when Trump asked them to "Liberate Minnesota". Remember that incident, the prelude to what happened in D.C. last week and that Republicans keep trying to insist nobody could predict would happen? Anyway... nobody claimed our news station was violating 1st Amendment rights. Sven merely paid the price of speaking accurately about the growing menace.
How do you know when your own unpopular idea is crazy instead of meaningful, though? Sven posted on twitter this morning a helpful image. (Click for full size.)
Thankfully, my favorite issues "Epstein didn't kill himself" and "UFOs" still fall within the line of mere speculation.
Please check your own ideas, though. Where do they fall, and how will you either locate objective evidence or give up on your idea?
It's good to self-review occasionally, regardless of the times. For instance, before the 2016 election, I admit that I considered Trump as a candidate on the measure of his "political outsider" claims. I am yet another person wanting a change in the status quo. I recognized that much of rural and white America has their own reasons for liking this aspect of Trump, and I tried comparing him to our own Minnesotan outsider, former Governor Jesse Ventura. I wondered if, like a bull in a china shop, the outsider might break the "right" things and cause helpful change? Like Jesse, though, I finally decided that Trump was just too much of an egocentric jerk, and he would address only those problems that affected him personally. That shortsightedness is insufficient for meaningful change. I did not give him my vote, but many people did while citing this aspect of his sales pitch.
Also here in Minnesota, a local tv news station fired their longtime weather host, Sven Sundgaard. He rightfully called out "white nationalist Nazi sympathizer gun fetishist miscreants" on social media after they went to our current Governor's residence when Trump asked them to "Liberate Minnesota". Remember that incident, the prelude to what happened in D.C. last week and that Republicans keep trying to insist nobody could predict would happen? Anyway... nobody claimed our news station was violating 1st Amendment rights. Sven merely paid the price of speaking accurately about the growing menace.
How do you know when your own unpopular idea is crazy instead of meaningful, though? Sven posted on twitter this morning a helpful image. (Click for full size.)
Thankfully, my favorite issues "Epstein didn't kill himself" and "UFOs" still fall within the line of mere speculation.
Please check your own ideas, though. Where do they fall, and how will you either locate objective evidence or give up on your idea?
