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Does Anyone Miss the Old Days?
Has the world gone absolutely mad? I don't ever remember a time that politics had such a massive impact on every United States citizen.
By Jordan Rush5 years ago in The Swamp
The Greatest Country in the world… For Who?
The by line by every politician, “we live in the greatest country in the history of the world!” but the real question: is it really the greatest for everyone? Can everyone truly look inside themselves and say yes, this country Is great for me an I’m living my best life here.
By Andrew Legnani5 years ago in The Swamp
Maturity In The Workplace
Let’s talk about maturity in the work place, specifically, not forcing your political beliefs on others (which naturally seems like a given—but maybe that’s just me).
By HAIQEEM5 years ago in The Swamp
The Fruit of Neoliberalism
Politics is a tangled web of lies. Purposefully Spun; insidiously premier, [from descending memos] of a high-powered neoliberal "Deep State." This coup of manufactured consent is orchestrated with overwhelming force; thusly, hammered via its indestructible-propaganda-apparatus - the Mainstream Media, as the right wing tends to reference. Additionally, this apparatus incorporates Hollywood influence and the assistance of social media technocrats in Silicon Valley, to produce what is admittedly a well oiled Cabal; persistent in action by way of business interests, war profiteers, and other deeply pocketed tycoons of corporate industry. There is a two-faced reality that transpires: behind the scenes of decorum, conventional wisdom and social norms; the monstrous prime evil evidence of organized and discrete shadow government influence.
By Thomas Saulsberry5 years ago in The Swamp
How They Divide US
For ages the Democrat and Republican parties have been dividing the middle class against each other. one says it’s for law and order, the other says it’s for co-operative understanding and less harsher penalties. They use the divisive rhetoric of Gun control or abortion rights issues to get us grouped into camps either for or against specific key issues. What if I was to tell you they didn’t care about those issues? What if I said those were only catalysts for you to see your fellow worker as the "other" and not as a brother or sister?
By Andrew Legnani5 years ago in The Swamp
Saving Soldiers as well as Jihadis
We see in the news today the ultimatum given by China to Pakistan regarding China's need for land. Many people are unaware that China's dams are capable of depriving Pakistan of precious drinking water from the Indus River.
By Samir M Goradia5 years ago in The Swamp
As Florida Goes, So Goes the Country
BRYCE ON POLITICS – Bryce’s prediction for the 2020 presidential election. It’s time for me to announce my prediction for the 2020 presidential election. I was right on the money in 2016 and in 2018 for the mid-term elections, and I did it without the aid of the polls which, as I discovered, are totally useless. Instead, I rely on the voting data received from the Florida Board of Elections which routinely updates their numbers, thereby providing me with the means to study trends. Let me show you how I did it.
By Tim Bryce5 years ago in The Swamp
ELECTION DAY
The day for change is in 9 days. Election Day, the day for all of us to vote out an ignorant, racist, lying, corrupt and sexual predator as the scum that has occupied the White House for the last 4 years, and along with him rid the nation of his cohorts, who excuse his behavior as not being the indications of a want to be dictator. It is the day, us, those who believe in respect, decency, acceptance, justice, ethics, accountability, and compassion, have been waiting for since that corrupt, lying traitor was elected in 2016. The day when we tell white supremacists, and the rest of that scum that supports the current resident in the White House, that we believe in fairness.
By Pedro A. Idarraga5 years ago in The Swamp
Alejandro
“It” does not have a name. “It” is intangible and invisible, yet universal and something everyone knows, regardless of language or cultural
By Alex Estrada5 years ago in The Swamp
My Opinion On Why Some People Like Guns
Let me reiterate that this is my opinion about this phenomenon, an idea based on my observations of philosophies held by players in the criminal underworld about violence and the need for it. I can neither claim to have a complete explanation of why some people like guns, nor to have verified my beliefs about it.
By Peyton J. Dracco5 years ago in The Swamp
Voting with Reason: The Profound Work of the Ayn Rand Institute’s Push for Principles and Rights
How do you view the world? Do you see it as a glass half empty? Half full? Isn’t it true that for a glass to have water in the first place it must be filled half way and you can’t, by logic, empty a glass halfway with water? This is an example of a common misconception about philosophy. While it is demonstrably true about the glass always being half-full, there is so much more to ideas than thought experiments, and mind games, and seemingly impossible scenarios.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in The Swamp
Is "Latinx" A Colonizer Word?
Latino has been a word used to describe people from Latin America including the islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Dominican Republic (can you believe some people forget about those islands in the Caribbean, Haiti too). Basic level Spanish lessons indicate that the language is gendered. In North American high schools it is taught that some words are female and other words are male. Cool, so what's the problem? Well, as a native Spanish speaker I never knew this until a friend asked me what gender tables were years ago. I thought she took something in the girls bathroom before coming to lunch; I even laughed at her question. She sincerely thought it was strange that I, a Puerto Rican born and raised, didn't know tables had a gender at all. In fact when I ask my father about tables and their gender he was confused as well; he didn't understand why that was the way Americans learned Spanish.
By M. Garcia5 years ago in The Swamp