You might want to ask yourself how an Air Force veteran ended up in a mob storming the Capitol, though.

What - and who - pushed her into thinking it was the right thing to do.

You might want to consider that many people like her are still out there.

Crazy thought, but what if we started focusing our efforts on fighting the sources of disinformation that pushed Ashli over the edge.

What if we taught people how to spot propaganda -- especially from their own political side?
If you're left leaning - like me - consider left wing propaganda.

(What? There's no such thing!)

Sure there is. The left scares its voters, same as the right.

(Yeah, but we scare them about REAL crises, not racist nonsense.)

Hmm.
The core idea isn't about left vs right. It's about power, and manipulating people to obtain that power.

And no, I'm not saying that #BothSides practice this to the same degree.

I'm saying we all have blind spots when we agree with what's being said and who's saying it.
When you're inclined to believe some thing A, it might be easy to get you to believe a related thing B. Then thing C, and D, and so on.

Until eventually you believe thing Q.

And as crazy as thing Q is, there are a disturbingly large number of letters that come after it.
Ashli didn't start her life planning to smash through a window at the Capitol while cops were screaming at her to stop. Something like that might have been unthinkable to her as little a five years ago. She might even have envisioned herself on the other side of that gun.
So maybe we should ask ourselves what went wrong. Why she Fucked Around and Found Out. Who or what might have pushed her, by degrees, from A to B to an early grave at Z.

It might be a bunch of things. PTSD. Lack of purpose after a military career. A complex marriage.
Some of those things might not be preventable. Sometimes dogs bite kids.

Sometimes, though, there's a manipulative fucker in the shadows holding a stick and a picture of a kid with a target on it.

Those are the ones we have to look for. Those are the ones who need to Find Out.
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Abbott is pushing a lie to protect incompetence. There is no Federal oversight of the Texas Grid, ergo fewer regulations (sound familiar) - so point one: state legislature needs reform. 2/


2. Point 2: there were clear signs the grid would get overloaded under extreme cold conditions. Why? Due to a vacuum of regulations mandating winterization of turbines and power generators. This from sources, in Texas!

3. Point 3: Of the power shortfall that hit Texas, over 80% was due to problems at coal and gas fired plants. Power generators were just not winterized. Decisions to do so have been ignored since the 1990s.

4. Point 4: these are winterized wind turbines in Denmark. The ocean is frozen. The turbines are generating.


5. #Texas| the main issue is: catastrophic governance at the State level (no Federal oversight of the Texas grid) failing to allocate funding to winterise the Natural Gas, Coal and Wind Turbine elements that contribute to the grid. (~ 80/20

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और देवर्षि नारद वहीं बैठकर तपस्या में लीन हो गए।इन्द्र नारद की तपस्या से घबरा गए।उन्हें हमेशा की तरह अपना सिंहासन व स्वर्ग खोने का डर सताने लगा।इसलिए इन्द्र ने नारद की तपस्या भंग करने के लिए कामदेव को उनके पास भेज दिया।वहां पहुंच कामदेव ने अपनी माया से वसंतऋतु को उत्पन्न कर दिया।


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जैसे ही नारद ने अपनी आंखें खोली, उसी क्षण कामदेव ने उनसे क्षमा मांगी।नारद मुनि को तनिक भी क्रोध नहीं आया और उन्होने शीघ्र ही कामदेव को क्षमा कर दिया।कामदेव प्रसन्न होकर वहां से चले गए।कामदेव के चले जाने पर देवर्षि के मन में अहंकार आ गया कि मैने कामदेव को हरा दिया।

नारद फिर कैलाश जा पहुंचे और शिवजी को अपनी विजयगाथा सुनाई।शिव समझ गए कि नारद अहंकारी हो गए हैं और अगर ये बात विष्णु जी जान गए तो नारद के लिए अच्छा नहीं होगा।ये सोचकर शिवजी ने नारद को भगवन विष्णु को ये बात बताने के लीए मना किया। परंतु नारद जी को ये बात उचित नहीं लगी।