Snip: Did you watch the RNC Convention?
Snipe: Yup. parts of it.
Snip: The DNC Convention?
Snipe: Yup. Some of it.
Snip: AND?
Snipe: Enough said.
Snip: Could you believe all the claims and distortions floating around.
Snipe: Would be funny if it weren’t so tragic.
Snip: Tragic?
Snipe: Yes, tragic that people believe what is said without bothering to verify anything.
Snip: Like – some of the stories going around that are really ridiculous. Just the Cannibalistic Pizza shops of the 2016 election. Or that $960 is the maximum limit for shoplifting in SF. Anything less and you won’t be prosecuted. How can anyone believe those things?
Snipe: I think that some people have placed their minds and beliefs in something like a concrete lock box so and it doesn’t matter if something they say or hear is untruthful or even outlandish. If it supports their current position, it’s taken as truth. Anything that doesn’t support the pre-conceived notion is discarded.
Snip: I know people like that. We used to say they were closed-minded.
Snipe: And with the technological advances in film and photo manipulation and AI, more lies and misinformation will appear. It will continue to assault our senses with conflicting messages and ideas. As these become more frequent, less clear thinking occurs.
Snip: People stick messages even on their cars. A friend of mine suggested a bumper sticker: “Evangelicals for Sex Offenders.” I don’t think he ever saw it. Guess he was making things up too. Snipe: Another example of people making things up.
Snip: What else is on your list today? I know you always seem to have topics you want to address. Snipe: I guess one of my pet peeves – and I have many – is the fallacy of MAJORITY RULES.
Snip: How can you call it a fallacy?
Snipe: Ask Hillary Clinton. Ask Al Gore. I hear the how important three or four states are going to be in deciding the upcoming election. How might that affect voters in other states. The electrical college and the Supreme(?) Court have put people into office when they did not win the popular vote, aka the majority. And, when politicians in lower-level positions at state level can decide what votes will be counted, or included, an election becomes questionable. Is it possible that there is any fraud? Maybe a little. But, enough to change a multi-million outcome? Doubtful. Evidence of fraud? Remember the 60+ lawsuits in the 2020 outcome that were thrown out. When a candidate tells you in advance that the outcome will be accepted only if it matches his own choice, there’s a problem brewing.
Snip: Wow, that’s a pretty big peeve to be called a pet.
Snipe: Yup. I have a few others. So, here are a few:
1) If a law is on the books, for instance – rules for candidates and their campaign funds – they should be honored and enforced, across the board.
2) If the separation of church and state is ignored and politics is preached from the pulpit, those churches should pay taxes like any other establishment.
3) PACs are not persons. The amount of money collected can result in an election being bought. Why is one of the major announcements about a party’s nominee about the “war chest.” The most money becomes equated with the most electability and the most power. How are these considered policy positions?
Snip: You are on a roll.
Snipe: Well, that’s only a few. I could go on to so many things that have nothing to do with politics. Maybe I’ll back off a bit next month and add a little humor. Because when you have to deal with things like: traffic, technology, passwords and verification of passwords via text or call, or the size of onions in the bag versus individual ones, or the fact that when we used to buy a half-gallon of ice cream it contained a half-gallon of ice cream, not 1.44 quarts.
Readers, send me some of your pet peeves.
Watch out – fun times are coming. Signing off, Snip and Snipe
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