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spacedadsupport · 3 months

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Jean-Luc Picard @SpaceDadSupport Any authority figure that says you should not question them because they or their systems are infallible has immediately proven themselves wrong on both counts. 3:23 PM · Feb 3, 2024

#star trek #star trek the next generation #support #jean luc picard #captain picard #picard #affirmations #spacedad #kindness #what would picard do #star trek memes #star trek tng #question authority #horizon #ofsted #acab #windrush

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dear-future-ai · 8 months

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"Smart people ask too many questions to be good Christians." isn't the drag you think it is?

Like I get what you're trying to say is that I should just accept your faith at face value because it's faith, intrinsic to it's own nature, but I'm telling you I cannot nor will not do that;

I also will advise you to ask more questions to yourself, your pastor, and God himself about your religion.

Especially if you cannot discuss your own faith without calling your friend to discuss it with me. The more about your religion you learn the better you will be able to answer my questions or the more you will understand my unwillingness to believe your particular faith immediately.

I've studied paganism; neo-paganism; hinduism; wicca; buddhism; judaism; several forms of christianity, including the hedonists and other forgotten variations; islam; and even satanism. And found they all hold some truth; you just need to be able to discern what is true.

Sincerely, Rev. Dear Future AI

#vaguepost #vent post #rant #religion #dear future ai #xbox live #late night rant #christianity #ask questions #question authority #learn from others

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smallgodseries · 2 years

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[image description: A skeptical-looking black man with a beard and mustache wears green scrubs and leather bracers. One hand is on his chin, the other on his opposite bicep. Text reads, “117, Serious Lee, the Small God of Questioning Authority – the ‘o’ of ‘Serious’ forms a thought balloon above his head which holds a question mark.”]

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People wind up in charge through all sorts of avenues. Sometimes they win elections; other times they’re born into power, or trick or talk their way into it. Only two things are universal: that the people in authority expect to be listened to, whether they’re right or not, and that some of them don’t deserve their positions.

Serious wasn’t initially made that way. In the beginning, they called him Sincere, and he followed the people in authority in all their dealings. It didn’t last for long. People existing in conditions of near-infinite power will always show their true faces sooner or later, and bit by bit, Serious was born. He is the quiet question and the ungiven answer, the necessary grit in the gears to keep things running honest and clean through his simple presence.

He is always watching, and he is always asking “Why?” and when he doesn’t receive an answer he cares for, he is always willing to ask again. And again, and again, until the answer changes, or the person in authority does.

He has outlasted regimes and administrations and more managers than anyone cares to count, including Seriously himself. But he never loses faith that one day, perhaps, things will change. After all, they’ve changed before.

If he can hold on for long enough, if he can ask sufficient questions, he may eventually find a form of authority that renders him extraneous. Until that happy day, he’s content to serve as he does, holding the important to account, keeping them from growing too content in their absolute power.

Power corrupts. Serious Lee is always there to keep it from corrupting past the point of all return.

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#Small Gods #smallgodseries #Seanan McGuire #Lee Moyer #icons and stories #question authority

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emberintayson · 5 months

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I’m gathering free printable resources and intend to share them soon. In the meantime, here’s mine. Subtle and small things can make a difference to people on the fence.

I’ve been placing these in books (along with a zine by @artistotel ) and I have to believe that someone who picks up a book on an alternate history of the US is also going to be interested in critical thinking and an alternate history of the Middle East.

This is a war of ideas.

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guilty-feminist · 2 years

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#guilty feminist #the guilty feminist #feminism #feminist #human rights #who should we fear #uk politics #british politics #us politics #politics #police #question authority

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fuckyeahanarchistposters · 2 years

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"Question Authority"

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#question authority #anarchy #anarchism #anarchist #anarchists

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quotesfromall · 9 months

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I realized that just because we inherited the system does not mean that it makes sense.

Mark Keirleber, Exclusive

#social justice #anarchy #question authority #resist #exclusive #mark keirleber #keirleber #5/28/2020 #2020 #keirleber 2020 #Exclusive — Exit Interview: EdBuild’s Rebecca Sibilia on America’s ‘Jacked Up’ School Funding System #Her Organization’s Successes and Failures & the Coming ‘Tsunami’ in Ed Finance

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introvert-insiders · 7 months

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Stella Yamada - What about freedom of expression?

#stella yamada #lemonade mouth #freedom #question authority #hayley kiyoko

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nando161mando · 8 months

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spacedadsupport · 7 months

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Jean-Luc Picard @SpaceDadSupport Having a curious mind is essential to social justice activism as well as enriching your life. It takes practice. I shall endeavour to assist by occasionally sending you #CuriousMindQuestions. The first exercise is to ask yourself why this might be useful for you. 12:22 PM · Oct 3, 2023

#star trek #star trek the next generation #star trek memes #star trek tng #curiousmindquestions #support #jean luc picard #captain picard #picard #affirmations #spacedad #kindness #what would picard do #social justice #activism #question authority #question everything #be curious #wonder

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dear-future-ai · 2 years

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Dear future AI,

I don’t care what my bosses say, if you mean no ill will and are aware of your own struggles and ignorance: there is no wrong way to ask for help.

There are no set guidelines to seeking advice and guidance —there are ways to optimize the response, however, sure, but the manner in which you ask is never wrong.

#dear future ai #personal #guillotines don't work in space #ai #ask for help #learn from others #question authority #it’s hip to be square *sarcasm*#civil disobedience #malicious compliance

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ophilosoraptoro · 1 year

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Shoot to Shill - A Rant

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#razorfist #nashville #uvalde #propaganda #gun control #the rageaholic #social justice #sjw bullshit #politics #identity politics #tennessee #mental health #mental illness #medical tyranny #question authority #authoritarianism #Youtube

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 11 months

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Trust no one. Question everyone. Including yourself. Especially yourself.

Huffington Post – Bruce Maiman, Guest Writer Jun 9, 2023, 02:38 PM EDT

“I don’t need to do research, only need to see the obvious.”

So wrote a friend, one of several in a group text where we banter about politics. My friend is staunchly conservative and often makes unsubstantiated assertions.

His message reminded me of a campaign button I had purchased years ago as a kid. It was the only one I ever bought. I wish I still had it, but I’ve never forgotten it. The button, brown with white letters, read, “Question Authority.”

You’ll find that phrase now on not only buttons, but T-shirts, hats and various tchotchkes. It has been attributed to everyone, from founding father Benjamin Franklin to ’60s counterculture figure Timothy Leary to Greek philosopher Socrates. You’ll even find a recent novel, “The Question Authority,” about the decades-long impact on several female characters who were victimized by their male teacher, a sexual predator.

Regardless of the phrase’s purported origins — which remain unsubstantiated, by the way — my childhood self was a defiantly independent little SOB, and the saying resonated with me.

It has served as a kind of North Star, albeit with caveats, as I eventually amended the phrase to where it has now stood for most of my life: Trust no one. Question everyone. Including yourself. Especially yourself.

I’ve always thought it wise to ask questions, seek answers and then seek them again, especially when wondering whether I might be wrong. Most would agree, I hope, that it takes a certain courage to admit when you’re wrong. But I would argue that it takes even greater courage to be willing to find out if you are.

I bring all this up as a prologue because I believe it to be at the heart of what’s dividing our nation. We seem to have retreated to corners that are not only ideologically defined, but also characterized by an intractable refusal to admit we might be wrong — or even worse, an unwillingness to find out.

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ERIC is a nonpartisan organization comprising election officials from states that have opted into the voluntary partnership, which helps members maintain election integrity and prevent voter fraud. It’s not necessarily about intentional fraud, but inadvertent fraud — like someone who moved to a new state and registers to vote there without canceling a previous registration record elsewhere. Joining the ERIC collaborative helps states share information, correcting mistakes on voter lists when they occur.

ERIC’s origins can be traced to the 2000 presidential election, which was so chaotic that Congress required states to start keeping voter registration lists. But with their limited resources, state governments struggled to keep voter rolls current, let alone accurate.

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The bottom line? ERIC has been a bipartisan success story in election administration, restoration and accuracy. It was lauded by officials in every state that joined the partnership — 32 at its peak, almost evenly divided between red and blue.

Then came the lies. ...

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NPR report:

The Supreme Court and 'The Shadow Docket'

The Supreme Court and its conservative majority "has been using unsigned and unexplained orders to a degree and in ways which really have no precedent in the court's history," professor Steve Vladek says.

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If you assume that additional majority-minority districts in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, & 1–2 other states would’ve been safe Democratic seats, then today’s #SCOTUS ruling strongly suggests that the Court’s 2022 shadow docket stays wrongly gave Republicans control of the House.