Dark times require extreme measures…
…and extreme measures ushers in dark times…
…feel free to figure out what came first…
Category Archives: Politics and Society
Articles about society, people, and politics.
Modern Apology
Modern apology: “I’m afraid that there is such a rich thesaurus now of things that I have said that have been one way or another, through what alchemy I do not know, somehow misconstrued that it would really take me too long to engage in a fully global itinerary of apology to all concerned.”
/Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
Shortest path to idiocy
Unwillingness to understand must be one of the shortest paths to idiocy…
Retro is the new black
– Have you noticed many TV-shows are trying to revive the 80ies?
– Yeah. Have you noticed many politicians are trying to revive the 30ies?
Update: Apparently, it’s not only the politicians that are trying to reinvent the 30ies. They do it while beeing cheered on by the “voters.”
I’m sure Trump is doing his best
I’m sure Donald Trump is doing his very best… that’s why I sincerely hope he won’t become the next American president.
Update: Woahahahahaha!!!
Not Just This
It’s called Justice, not “Just this…”
That’s why you need all the info before you go to trial…
Banana control
Neither the gun nor the banana has a will of their own, and still… I bet you’d save more lives with gun control than with banana control…
In 2015 the number of deaths due to gun violence (in the USA) was 13 468 (gunviolencearchive.org) while the death toll for food poisoning is only around 3 000 deaths (CDC). So, gun control is lagging way behind the banana control…
Image: By Robert Couse-Baker, CC by 2.0, Link (cropped)
Blow the whistle
It’s one thing to want to blow the whistle. It’s a completely different thing to want to blow it up…
Facts without interpretation
Facts without interpretation is like meat without cooking; a bloody mess….
There are no facts
People that claim they are using facts to argue their side usually don’t understand that facts almost never exist alone in the head of a person – they are almost always accompanied by an interpretation. So, the argument is not about facts, but about interpretations of facts. And those come in as many flavors as there are people there to interpret.
Talkwards 