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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 4h

This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth

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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 5h

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11429293-in-a-democracy-the-government-is-the-people-milo-explained

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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 7h

"Why then your hypocritical phrases, your attempt to find an impossible pretext?

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror."

Neue Rheinsiche Zeitung No. 301 February 1849

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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 7h

Peter Kropotkin Quote

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none. He is a madman, an immolator, wishful of burning, and slaughter, and sacrificing.

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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 7h

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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 8h

"If the present situation continues, the very word 'socialism' will turn into a curse. This is what happened to the conception of 'equality' in France for forty years after the rule of the Jacobins."

Peter Kropotkin. Two letters to Lenin

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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 8h

Pirates and Emperors - Schoolhouse Rock

YouTube video by Jasmine Archer

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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 8h

Fentanyl Overdose Death Rates More Than Tripled in Five Years

Drug overdose death rates involving fentanyl more than tripled in the US from 2016 to 2021, a grim marker in the escalation of the deadly opioid epidemic that worsened during the rise of Covid-19.

www.bloomberg.com

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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 14h

"And why should ye not fight in the cause of Allah and of those who, being weak, are ill-treated (and oppressed)? -- women and children, whose cry is: 'Our Lord, rescue us from this town, whose people are oppressors; and raise for us from thee one who will help!'"
irp.fas.org/world/para/d...

Surah Al-Baqarah Ayat 193 (2:193 Quran) With Tafsir

Read Surah Baqarah Ayat 193 (2:193) with translation. Included verse by verse commentary with tafsir for those looking to learn about this ayah in detail.

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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 15h

“Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.”
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Benito Mussolini Quote

Religion is a species of mental disease. It has always had a pathological reaction on mankind.

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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 15h

𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀. And what of doing evil in return for evil, which the morality of the many-is that just or not?

𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗼. Not just.

𝗦𝗼𝗰. For doing evil to another is the same as injuring him?

𝗖𝗿. Very true.
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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 17h

Lewis Carroll quote about language from Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll quote about language from Through the Looking-Glass: “When I use a word . . . it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 18h

"IT IS my firm belief that Europe today represents not the spirit of God or Christianity but the spirit of Satan. And Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips. Europe is today only nominally Christian. In reality, it is worshipping Mammon."

This Satanic Civilization | Mind of Mahatma Gandhi | Philosophy

Gandhi philosophy, Gandhis thoughts, Gandhi quotes, practicle techniques, speeches, writings

www.mkgandhi.org

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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 19h

"I think a democratic monarchy and an aristocratic republic are the finest forms of a State, because in them the form of State and the principle of government are opposed to each other, and thus preserve a true balance of power."

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Jewish State, by Theodor Herzl.

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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 1d

"Our caravan leader is the pride of the world, Mustafa [Muhammad]"
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Surah Al-Ma'idah Ayat 48 (5:48 Quran) With Tafsir

Read Surah Maidah Ayat 48 (5:48) with translation. Included verse by verse commentary with tafsir for those looking to learn about this ayah in detail.

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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today in History: October 6, Anwar Sadat assassinated

1927: "The Jazz Singer" premieres 1973: Yom Kippur War begins 2018: Kavanaugh wins narrow confirmation

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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 1d

§ “Christians have changed their swords and their lances into instruments of peace, and they know not now how to fight.”
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Surah Al-Anfal Ayat 12 (8:12 Quran) With Tafsir

Read Surah Anfal Ayat 12 (8:12) with translation. Included verse by verse commentary with tafsir for those looking to learn about this ayah in detail.

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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 1d

Mitski - Bug Like an Angel (Official Video)

YouTube video by MitskiVEVO

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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 1d

Ambrose Bierce Quote

HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 1d

George Orwell Quote

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'

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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 1d

"…Satan is the scapegoating mechanism itself (or, perhaps more precisely, the accusing process); that is, the psychological processes in which human beings are caught up by the lynching mob…"
iep.utm.edu/girard/#SH5c

Interview With the Devil: A Holocaust Survivor Interviews a Death Camp Supervisor

Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-Semitism to Zionism.

www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org

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