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Creepy Government Conspiracies You Didn't Know About
Is the era of heroes dead? These conspiracy theorists would have you believe so, as their hypotheses concerning under the radar actions involving the government and it's various subsidiaries remain somewhat believable, although unheard of. It all depends on the one viewing them, or you the reader, and the only individual who is worthy of categorizing them as true or false is also you, yourself. In my mind, I accept what is believable to me, rolling with the realities as best as I can. In other words, there's no way of proving them right or wrong, and in any case we're all just in a simulation, so what's it matter? Just use your imagination.
By Donald Gray8 years ago in The Swamp
Twiki's Secret Love-child, a Puppet, and a Scientific Experiment
Have you ever wondered what our politicians did BEFORE they took up employment in Westminster? Personally, I thought they just chose the profession where they could most easily screw over the largest amount of the British public as possible. Sometimes I wonder though, about what could have happened in the former lives of these individuals to make them treat others so badly today.
By Rosalyn Grams8 years ago in The Swamp
Surviving Your Next Family Gathering
If it’s Easter, chances are you spent yesterday sitting on a Megabus stranded in a sea of other people on their way to the house of the nearest relative who knows how to hardboil an egg. You’ve been preparing the speech you’ll casually rattle off to assure your relatives that everything is going just fine. Last night you probably slept on a four poster twin bed next to a cousin you don’t really talk to, on an identical four poster twin bed, in your grandparents' guest room.
By Sidney Morss8 years ago in The Swamp
Jeremy Corbyn and Nuclear Weapons: The Red Button Excuse
Jeremy Corbyn was made leader of the Labour Party on the 12th of September, 2015. Ever since then, he has been a talisman for social care, those opposing austerity in all areas of society, and the younger generation seeing the possibility of their vote making an actual change in society.
By Dan Maughan8 years ago in The Swamp
Donald Trump And Bernie Sanders Are Cut From the Same Cloth (an Essay)
Traditions of thought, such as liberalism and realism, have recently evolved into not quite as easily definable concepts as they relate to modern political thought movements. Aspects of the modern political movements as seen today seem to lend themselves to a more totalitarian quality than in the past. First, the protesting of the Dakota Access Pipeline and the fact that social media, a technology and thus a liberalizing tool, is not used to flatten the world is a small example of how the dominant tradition of thought today is not so easily definable. But, more crucially, modern political movements, such as the Bernie movement and the Trump movement, as they pertain to the destabilization of the traditions of thought, prove that there is a contemporary appetite for totalitarianism.
By Graeme Mills8 years ago in The Swamp
World War 3 and How to Stop It: We Are Not Superior, We Are the Same!
Let’s get this straight! There are Palestinian children being jailed in Israel, Europe is more unstable than any time in the past 70 years, Russian spies are being poisoned with nerve agent in Salisbury, and children in Yemen are being murdered, without hesitation or regret, by an evil Saudi regime.
By Johnny Vedmore8 years ago in The Swamp
The Finer Points of Merit
Merit means to be judged by your skills and accomplishments. To be judged on merit also implies you are judged by the content of your character. Merit means that you can rest assured that hard work is rewarded. Jobs hire based on merit, not looks. Merit means that you get into an educational program of your choice based on your hard work, not your affirmative action clauses. We would like to build a society based on merit exclusively and not how much money you have. As it is now, we are eroding our civilization by not relying on merit.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in The Swamp
A Talk Between a White, Big Sister and Her Younger, Half Black Brother
Never once did I think this day would come. Never once did I think that I, at age 22, a white female, would have to sit my little brother down, age 14, half black, looks mostly black, and have “the talk” with him.
By Kenzie Lane Stapleton8 years ago in The Swamp
