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The Vast Network of US Firearm Manufacturers

Underlying the gun and school shooting issue, is a mass network of licensed, firearm manufacturers, distributors, and importers. Even if the top, most well-known, gun manufacturers and the NRA were somehow disbanded, we’d still be left with a plethora of other manufacturers, prevalent around the country. The issue seems deeper…

Guns

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The Vast Network of US Firearm Manufacturers

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Your Home was Built by Illegal Immigrants

Touch your walls, doors, sinks, light switches, and door handles; they were likely installed by illegal immigrants. Likely from a Latin American country if you’re in the USA (and if your home or apartment was built in the last few decades). While some Americans are concerned about ‘illegal’ labor conditions…

Immigration

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Your Home was Built by Illegal Immigrants

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Escaping Your Internal Prison

Prison Bars of the Mind This prison is in your mind. The feeling of FOMO that chains you to a hypothetical ideal future situation. The “what if.” FOMO is something you haven’t acquired yet, yet you’re already afraid of losing it. The roots of tradition and culture equally hold you down like wet mud. Expectation…

Mindset

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Your life will always have shoulds

No more regrets, no more woulds, coulds and shoulds, we tell ourselves. Is that possible? Probable? Maybe, for short periods, but the answer isn’t to eliminate and complete our aspirational to-do list, but to accept and come to terms with it never being done. …

Life

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Jul 14

Some People Like Getting Angry

It feels productive. It’s energy, like revving your engine, but it’s stagnant, heating up the engine but moving the car nowhere. You can even get angry just sitting on the couch or while scrolling your phone. Anger feels productive but it’s usually the opposite. Have you ever seen an angry…

Anger

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Jul 1

Many women would rather settle for a ‘decent catch’ than do the internal work needed to pair with a…

Many women would rather settle for a ‘decent catch’ than do the internal work needed to pair with a mature man. Where did these women find these men, a bar? Tinder?

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Many women would rather settle for a ‘decent catch’ than do the internal work needed to pair with a mature man. Where did these women find these men, a bar? Tinder?

Mar 31

Why is No One Blaming The Oscars as an Institution Though?

**I recently commented the following and wanted to make this into a post instead.** Here we are blaming Will and Chris, when we should be looking at the situation systemically. er2win.medium.com Here we are blaming Will and Chris, when we should be looking at the situation systemically. It’s simple to cast individual blame while overlooking the environment and institution that led to the situation.

Oscars

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Mar 30

Defending Honor with Violence is Inexcusable

In regards to the most recent celebrity event at the Oscars, I had the following thoughts. Many men have unfortunately been stuck in similar situations of having to decide how to handle slights of honor. Here’s my rule: Defending a person, self or woman, from violence, with violence, is one…

Life

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Defending Honor with Violence is Inexcusable

Mar 21

Why is Big Alcohol so Prevalent?

**Some questions about the alcohol industry.** Why is the term ‘Big Alcohol’ not more common, like Big Tobacco was? The phrase makes it sound big, evil, and ominous. Why is wine tasting ‘fancy’ and premium liquor ‘distinguished’ but cigarette smoking is ‘gross?’ Is alcohol being promoted as recklessly nowadays, as…

Alcohol

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Mar 8

GOD — the App for Prayers

GOD GOD is the latest app for routing and matching people’s prayers and requests. People transmit their prayers, the GOD platform receives them and then routes them to the appropriate people. Billions of volunteers listen for and then actively reply to these prayers. GOD is an open-source platform and it’s free…

God

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