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Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday.
We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.
don’t worry, the writers are going thru it too 😂
I love this 😉
The science tab 🥰😍 was this a feature on Twitter?!? I'm just amazed. Haha
Will happily share this any day!
The Greeks struggled with issues that are similar to what we confront today. Aristotle, for example, spent much of Book V of his Politics examining the problem of tyranny.2 He said that the tyrant loves vice and is a friend of the bad. The tyrant wants to surround himself with weak, bad, and stupid people. He finds good and wise people to be irritants because they do not support him in his viciousness. The tyrant also needs enemies and antagonists—those he rails against in order to rally his party and the party’s base among the people. Aristotle explained: “The tyrant is a stirrer-up of war, with the deliberate purpose of keeping the people busy and also of making them constantly in need of a leader.” Aristotle also understood that the tyrant needs his sycophants. He explained: “For tyrants enjoy being flattered, but nobody would ever flatter them if he possessed a free spirit.” Aristotle continues to explain that a demagogue is what we call a tyrant in a democracy. The demagogue must, however, suck up to the people. He is, as Aristotle says, a
Aristotle on tyranny
I absolutely love these!
I'm enjoying my personal relationship with reality by staying in bed on Sunday morning instead of going to church.
She even complains when I collect cuddle taxes. 🤣
And the king is the face of the problem and usually the only one to be dethroned. #taxthewealth
May I remind everyone of the classic movie from 1987 "Dirty Dancing," if you've not seen it.... you should.
www.pbs.org/video/what-d...
We are human, fragile, and finite.
The Cat's Eye Nebula in Optical and X-ray captured by Hubble
The skull nebula
Image credit:- NASA Hubble
Deleted my Twitter when E.M. declared he was gonna buy it. How ya'll doing? Happy to see you all again!