Saturday, August 27, 2022

She did (a short story)

The sound of a passing motorboat
woke him up from his slumber.















The shadows had moved
to where he had found
a spot in the park

and he felt calm and energetic.

Soon she would come to his place for dinner
and he felt confident
that this time

he could tell her how he felt,
hopefully discovering
how she did.

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Thursday, August 25, 2022

Is there really a correlation or are you just told there is?

"With the banning of guns, historically a dictatorship follows". I wrote about it earlier (click). This is a classic example of 'gaslighting': making a statement that 'must be true, because, you know, it just is'.  The way it is stated makes people who know it's nonsense doubt themselves. But it isn't true. It's false logic. and an example of finding correlation when there is not. 


A government that bans guns is not a dictatorship but is simply using common sense.

A different, and classic, example is: 'Immigrants are criminals because the crime rate went up when more immigrants entered.' Of course there are criminals amongst immigrants. But a main part of the rise in crime rate could be the outburst of violence against immigrants. Combine those figures with the petty theft from immigrants who don't get money but also not a work permit and crime is up.

Speaking of immigrants: a famous trademark of dictators is that they often blame immigrants for everything bad in a country.

Want to know what an actual dictator sounds like? Every would be dictator loves the use of words like 'Freedom!', 'The People!' and 'Democracy!' They usually put one of these words that trigger gullible people in the name of their political party. So be wary of a political party that calles itself something like 'Party for Freedom and Democracy for The People'.

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Saturday, August 20, 2022

Join me (a short story)

The sounds of the party
got muffled as he left the club.
Inhaling the cool night air
as if he just got freed
after having been locked up
for half a lifetime,



he looked up at the moon
and seemed surprised it was there.

He turned around to the woman by his side and said:
'It's been nice meeting you. 
I'm going home. 
Welcome to join me.'

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