Context:
ââââ- rupar, verb: To purposely mislead. To intentionally and grossly mischaracterize a statement and/or video.
Q: Did you see the press conference of that racist police officer make excuses for that criminal? A: Hey, man, that clip was ruparred-the police officer was actually quoting the criminal.
Hey Red, it seems you'll fall for just about anything that fits your TDS narrative.
Attempt to provide context failed. Because it's true. But let's say that it's true that he chose that day deliberately (my money's on coincidence with an amusing bit of snark ("he wanted a date he could remember") added later by his wife), why would that be bad? Tiananmen was a Good Thing, right?
So you have a guy that you are painting as a CCP sympathizer... China lover... gonna be bad for the US... and as one of the "proof points" you throw in that he was married on the anniversary of the most famous protest against the government in the last half-century? Besides the fact that the protests were over weeks/months... what's the date? Oh...it's the first weekend in June... one of the most popular times in the US to get married.
Did you know that his computer, cell phone, and tablet are all made in China!!! That must tell you something!
It's just pandering, and the idiots watching FOX turn that into some sort of "fact pattern".
Context:
ââââ- rupar, verb: To purposely mislead. To intentionally and grossly mischaracterize a statement and/or video.
Q: Did you see the press conference of that racist police officer make excuses for that criminal? A: Hey, man, that clip was ruparred-the police officer was actually quoting the criminal.
Maybe he figures into all this somehow. Maybe all of us do.
I don't think the gotcha whataboutism dredge through the muck of electoral political shin kicking is going to help but that's just me.
That bus runs on blood clots and flat tires.
Looking over the landscape of Animalia in general I see nothing but conflict over practically everything but generally material comforts and the associated societal conditioning. This is particularly relevant to the human species as evidenced every day in this world. (...)
Again, a matter of emphasis. Conflicts (of any scale) are often resolved/won by cooperation.
There's this amazing shortcut to gradual evolution. It's called education.
One could replace conflict with cooperation to arrive at a very different outlook. Esp. for evolved social animals.
Looking over the landscape of Animalia in general I see nothing but conflict over practically everything but generally material comforts and the associated societal conditioning. This is particularly relevant to the human species as evidenced every day in this world.
So if humans are to evolve away from this profile then we are at a crux, so to speak. How and why and what? All the relevant questions. Belief is not enough. Knowledge is what it will take and the first knowledge will be that we are not helpless; that we are arrogant and selfish and prideful as a species. We have the intellectual ability to figure that part out. We need to move beyond the limitations we put on ourselves by cultural depravity and all it's destructive trends and hypocrisy. Don't talk about peace. Be peace. In the heart. In the mind. In the soul. Project it. Let the credit be revealed in us by channeling through us.
Sorry Richard, I get carried away sometimes. I don't have all the answers but I know they're out there and are coupled with any number of resultant questions. It all leads me to believe that we're going somewhere as a body. Hopefully, and dare I say, faithfully, I would begin with acknowledgement of a very apparent spiritual evolution in juxtaposition.
Not trying to make this about belief or non-belief. Just offering my opinion on what to me is blindingly obvious.
One could replace conflict with cooperation to arrive at a very different outlook. Esp. for evolved social animals.
Off/on topic: Tim Leary wrote a fascinating book that described the eight-circuit model of consciousness. IIRC, the first four have terrestrial concerns:
1) solo awareness, like hunger
2) small connection, like having a partner
3) small society near you, like a community
4) large groups far away, like global awareness
Make fun of the guy all you want, but he was really thoughtful and inventive.
