I've been reading Daily Mail UK (though it is irksome) since Edward Snowden was mysteriously stuck in the airport... The headlines and "reportage" is heavily slanted against Biden and Democrats.... (Daily Mail is the second most read news publication in the world.)
I'm not swayed. I'm still a Democrat. I read with the saying "Take It With A Grain Of Salt" in mind.
I've managed to avoid buying anything from Amazon, supporting retail employees and small businesses, for years on end. Tried six different stores recently for a product that used to be on the shelves. Three of them offer me to buy it on line.... I hate to admit it but after the final visit - to a Walmart - I'm letting a friend who has Amazon Prime buy it for me - I'll pay him back.
I'm not swayed. I'm still supporting retail workers and small businesses.
My cell phone keeps prompting me to use voice, to use assistant, to use AI, and damn it but recently on the Internet I got a prompt from google to use a FINGERPRINT or facial recognition to get into the g-mail I was forced to associate with that phone in order to get updates. I will not knowingly allow my phone to record, I will not use assistant or AI.
I hope I die before we are all forced to get chipped.
I'm not swayed. I still think privacy is something that is our right as humans and something worth protecting.
Recently I experienced a barrage of Fundamentalist Christianity.
I'm not swayed.
I still think Roman Catholics are Christians, I still think the Bible cannot be taken literally, I still vote with as much intelligence and research as I can muster, and I still think LGBTG people are not condemned to eternal hell.
I attended two Juneteenth events.
I'm not swayed.
I still think the national anthem is God Bless America and that Lincoln set forth the Freeing of the Slaves (even if he was assassinated by the time Slavery was ended.) And Racism, horrible, is not always going in one direction from White to Black.
C 2024 Christine Trzyna
Note on July 17, 2024 Sorry, because the Star Spangled Banner is the National Anthem, but since so many people cannot sing it - and singing it becomes spectacle - I think of God Bless America as the one most of us retreat to. My point it, at Juneteeth celebrations (I attended TWO) it was suggested that Americans with historical slavery ancestry have a separate nation because they have their OWN NATIONAL ANTHEM.... divisive!
