keithopine II

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

A peaceful man must still know violence, or his peace belongs to whoever threatens it.

Dying for your country is a patriotic fairy tale, in reality. You will bleed out in the mud like a butchered dog for absolutely nothing.

Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

A grave and common mistake one could make is to believe what a pastor/priest says about their religion over a person who has a degree in Religious Studies and has read about multiple religions.

The only time I feel glad about living in a very small house is when it's time to do some cleaning. Someone once said to me that it's a perk of owning a small house. I still wish I have a bigger house, though, not gonna lie.

I love, and have loved, quite a few people. And despite that, I still suck at showing it [through action]. Can't help but question if I even tried. 😓😥

Since ICE have ramped up their operation, particularly in blue states, brown people (and even some yellow people) are now starting to know what black people feel whenever they go out on the streets: the fear and anxiety about being stopped and questioned by authorities out of the blue simply because of their skin color as they go about minding their own business.

I've always wondered why people who are willing to die for their country (re martyrdom) are painted in a more negative light than people who are willing to kill for their [imperialist/invasive/supremacist] country.

It is kind of sad that the inspiration or primary incentive that drove man to go and explore space is ego (read: cold war, geopolitics), and not curiosity and actual desire for knowledge.

You must be naive and simple-minded if you think/believe that war is about good vs evil, especially in this century.

Them (paraphrased): There's no way he's racist. He's married to a Filipina (Asian). <gestures at their face> Me: There have been men who married women who turn out to be gay, so I can't see why you can't find it possible for a racist to marry someone outside of their own race.