@snazzyq Chattanooga, TN has something similar to this and its incredible. It’s city run and operated and offers great speeds at a pretty low price point with no data cap. And if you want to burn some money, they’ll give you 25gig residential speeds. I just wish more cities would follow suit.
The greatest lie ever told: “If people aren’t forced to work, #society will collapse.”
#Newsflash unpaid labor already holds society together. Caregivers, parents, volunteers - people do meaningful work without pay all the time. 
#UBI lets #people #choose #work that actually #matters instead of just what keeps the lights on.
*"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely!*The real safeguard of democracy!*therefore!*is education!"
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
*~*"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely!*The real safeguard of democracy!*therefore!*is education!"*~*
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
This is mostly copypasted from my other #introduction post, since I think it's the bestest one I've written thus far :)
I'm a #writer. I like to write about #grief, #QueerIdentity, #hope, #praxis, and #harm + #reciprocity. (my websites are in my links!)
I have trained as a #DeathDoula, and I engage in #GriefWork & #DeathWork with and for my best beloveds: the #LGBTQIA2S+ community.
In my spare time you can find me hyperfocusing on whatever it is that I can't stop thinking about. I love a new game, a new favorite song, a new project management solution, and thinking about my chosen family and intentional community.
I'm #pagan, I am training in an old mystery tradition of pre-Gardnerian British traditional #witchcraft. We are from a long time ago and we are doing what it takes to support, love, and keep safe the people in our communities.
I will always fight for your right to #choose. I believe this right is a fundamental human gift.
In Hebrew, we use the same verb to express
To Vote
To Choose
To Select
To Pick
Here is how you conjugate it in every way in Hebrew 
Today's print New York Times Opinion. Unlike #LATimes & #WashingtonPost who now lost long vaunted #trust #respect 4 #facts #politics #society #journalism NYT plays #truth in full #light #trump will destroy all #americans and #allies #greed of #billionaires be damned - either this is our country or we are their #serfs #choose #democracy #constitution #freedom #civilliberties #justice #elections #economy #facts #truth now or there will be no #future for any of us and future generations. #peaceout
#JDVance’s #Wife: My #Husband Only Meant to #Insult #People Who #Actively #Choose Not to Have #Kids, Not People Who Are #Trying but Are #Unsuccessful.
She did not touch on his #falseclaim that people who don’t have #kids are more #sociopathic. (That's Republicans)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/jd-vances-wife-childless-cat-ladies-spin
>> Not voting can make your life choiceless.
I like where this is going:
#CHOOSE. Or remain choiceless forever
This is mostly copypasted from my other #introduction post, since I think it's the bestest one I've written thus far :)
I'm a #writer. I like to write about #grief, #QueerIdentity, #hope, #praxis, and #harm + #reciprocity. (my websites are in my links!)
I have trained as a #DeathDoula, and I engage in #GriefWork & #DeathWork with and for my best beloveds: the #LGBTQIA2S+ community.
In my spare time you can find me hyperfocusing on whatever it is that I can't stop thinking about. I love a new game, a new favorite song, a new project management solution, and thinking about my chosen family and intentional community.
I'm #pagan, I am training in an old mystery tradition of pre-Gardnerian British traditional #witchcraft. We are from a long time ago and we are doing what it takes to support, love, and keep safe the people in our communities.
I will always fight for your right to #choose. I believe this right is a fundamental human gift.
James Comer Seems to Forget He Said Hunter Biden Could ‘Choose’ Public Hearing - While Comer rejected Hunter Biden’s offer to publicly testify, last month he declared it Biden’s choice to testify in public or private.
If you’re into emotionally diverse #conceptalbums rife with #existential themes about finding #peace within yourself no matter what life throws at you and that remind you that you do not have to be a victim of your circumstances because of your power to #choose, might I humbly suggest that you check out my new album, “A Place to Go When You Need to Hide?” I hope you love it. 
https://songwhip.com/rose-alaimo/a-place-to-go-when-you-need-to-hide
As #Extreme as It Gets: Supposed ‘#Moderates’ in #GOP #Conference #Choose as #Speaker an #ElectionDenier Who Called #LGBTQ+ #People a ‘#Deviant Group’
With Consistent Zeroes on #HRC’s #CongressionalScorecard and a #Career #Record of #Unbridled #Hate, #MikeJohnson Will Be Most Openly #AntiLGBTQ+ #Speaker in Modern #History
I'm here to do an #introduction post since my nicest one went down in flames when firefish.lgbt disappeared, god rest her soul
I'm a #writer. I like to write about #grief, #QueerIdentity, #hope, #praxis, and #harm + #reciprocity. (my websites are in my links!)
I have trained as a #DeathDoula, and I engage in #GriefWork & #DeathWork with and for my best beloveds: the #LGBTQIA2S+ community.
In my spare time you can find me hyperfocusing on whatever it is that I can't stop thinking about. I love a new game, a new favorite song, a new project management solution, and thinking about my chosen family and intentional community.
I'm #pagan, I am training in an old mystery tradition of pre-Gardnerian British traditional #witchcraft. We are from a long time ago and we are doing what it takes to support, love, and keep safe the people in our communities.
I will always fight for your right to #choose. I believe this right is a fundamental human gift.
"Figured out how to make a #homophobe lose their shit in 5 seconds flat
Just tell them "if you feel you can choose what #genders you're attracted to and want to be with, you're probably bi (or something else similar)" and watch em explode at the mere implication that... feeling you can #choose to be attracted to a different #gender is not a straight feeling"
https://www.tumblr.com/theconcealedweapon/720217557408301056?source=share
not #sure if you #realize this but when you #post a #paragraph #littered with #pointless #hashtags it gives #me and my #friends a #throbbing #headache if we #choose to #read it
"There's #nothing funny #about #transgender #people not knowing which #restroom to use.
You would also if you were in #danger regardless of which one you chose.
#Imagine that you have a choice between a restroom that's on fire and a restroom that's filled with venomous snakes. You probably wouldn't #know which one to use. You'd probably be weighing the #pros and #cons of each. Now imagine that #someone made fun of you for not #knowing which one to #choose." 
#ethics #politics, and #religion *cannot be separated.* Ideas (beliefs) always have consequences. Political and religious tribes provide tailor-made communities for the sorting and self-selection of people's different attitudes about right and wrong.
When you observe the collective actions of political parties and religions, you can form some basic rules about the behavior of members. The opposite is also true. If you observe someone's behavior, you can usually predict their affiliations. This isn't being judgmental or stereotyping, it's a heuristic that has a high likelihood of being true, with a margin of error.
Yet there seem to be endless attempts to sidestep acknowledging the influence of these powerful groups on individual behavior. People will claim to want to avoid "labels" or say just be a good *human,* just be *kind,* and stop being *divisive.*
Sometimes this even takes the form of claiming that identifying behaviors of religious or political adherents represents *bigotry.*
This is all conflict-aversion 101. And it's incredibly destructive. Because if we can't even clearly identify the specific groups that are causing moral harm, we'll never have a chance of correcting moral harm.
Let's take the example of the common meme that was circulating a few years back:
"A Muslim, a Christian, a Jew, a Pagan and an Atheist walk into a coffee shop...they talk, laugh, drink coffee and become good friends. It's not a joke, it's what happens when you're not an asshole!"
This isn't just false, it's barking-mad, batshit crazy!
Let's change one thing about this meme--from coffee shop to bar. Now it doesn't work, because Muslims can't drink alcohol.
Let's change another thing about this meme, replace Pagan with Mormon, and now it doesn't work with a coffee shop, either.
Religious and political systems are 100% about regulating human behavior. As such, they generate guaranteed frictions between belief systems, that cannot be papered over with pleasantries.
And there are severe moral differences between religions and especially between political parties.
Democrats are pro-social and anti-hierarchy, republicans are anti-social and pro-hierarchy. No matter how much pretzel logic you may use, you can't deny these basic differences.
Which means *even if you don't belong to a political party or religion, your moral compass aligns with one of them more than others.* Please read that again: *even if you don't belong to a political party or religion, your moral compass aligns with one of them more than others.*
So there's no such thing as staying apolitical.
Whether you know it or not, whether you are politically active or religiously observant or not, your inner self has already chosen its affiliations.
The best thing you can do is figure out how you identify, and take a moral inventory.
If you want to be kind, compassionate and pro-social, if you favor equality, that probably means you're some form of social democrat, and not that fond of organized religion. You put reducing human suffering at the top of your priority list first before status, wealth or creed. You believe in accountable leaders, and global democratic solutions to the world's problems.
If you believe in an afterlife, care more about tradition, scripture and hierarchy, support wealth inequality, believe in the concept of chosen people, and believe that suffering can't/shouldn't be prevented, you are probably some kind of conservative, religious republican. You're likely to support nationalism and strong, authoritarian leaders.
Obviously there are many nuances in the culture wars, which speak to moral subtleties within these positions, but in broad brushstrokes, there are two basic tribes.
It's time to stop deflecting and take a stand. You're on one side or the other. We can't solve our national or global problems without a showdown between these two basic camps.
MikeMathia.com 
Sean Prophet 