“You Can’t Unhear This” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Dismantles Religion in 25 Minutes

When you see a rainbow you are seeing light split through water. No one sees the same rainbow as you because they are seeing a different split of light split through different water. You can’t see a rainbow from the side because it only splits toward you. You can’t get to the bottom of the rainbow, because you are always seeing it straight on. That’s why it is a good place to hide the gold.

If you want to believe God explains the things science can’t, that is your right to believe what you want. But you shouldn’t be designing a school’s science curriculum, because that idea undermines what science is. That is an ideology of ignorance, while science is a process of discovery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_dBmg-e4PU

Why Trump Voters Are Torn Over Minneapolis

Some Trump supporters don’t like the lack of due process, lack of professionalism, and lack of targeting of Trump’s deportation operations.

Others are cool with it, or maybe not aware of some of the rule of law and rights violations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA7HpyIVhaQ

FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show

“No videos or photos showed Epstein victims being sexually abused, none showed any males with any of the nude females, and none contained evidence implicating anyone other than Epstein and Maxwell, then-Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey wrote in an email for FBI officials last year.

Had they existed, the government “would have pursued any leads they generated,” Comey wrote. “We did not, however, locate any such videos.”

Investigators who scoured Epstein’s bank records found payments to more than 25 women who appeared to be models — but no evidence that he was engaged in prostituting women to other men, prosecutors wrote.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fbi-concluded-jeffrey-epstein-wasn-153019688.html

Taiwan is buying HIMARS to have mobile long range artillery to strike an invading Chinese beachhead, ships, and Chinese naval facilities across the strait in China.

Taiwan is buying HIMARS to have mobile long range artillery to strike an invading Chinese beachhead, ships, and Chinese naval facilities across the strait in China.

The US is stretched between Iran and Taiwan, partly because of navy resources used to quarantine Venezuela.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GWJHp_yHo8

Yes, It’s Fascism

A year ago, Rauch said Trump is not a Fascist, he’s a patrimonialist. Patrimonialist governments don’t follow the rule of law and bend the rules to enrich and empower the leader. They are not ideological. Later, Rauch concluded that Trump was doing too many things associated with Fascism, so decided he is best labeled as a Fascist.

He doesn’t think Fascists will fully take over the US like they did in Germany, so that should limit the extremes, but nevertheless, the actions of the administration fit Fascism. The government isn’t fully Fascist yet, but it has a Fascist leader.

There’s no one true definition of Fascism.

Trump’s demolition of norms about civility is a classic Fascist action.

Trump glorifies violence in his rhetoric. When agents of the state hurt or kill US citizens, he and his supporters make fun of the injured and killed, and lie about them and what happened. His communications revel in the extrajudicial killings of suspected drug smugglers.

Rauch discusses 16 more Fascist actions in his article.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zq9Zh8DjZo