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Many are familiar with Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Physiological: The most basic needs, such as food, water, clothing, sleep, and shelter
Safety: The need for order and predictability once basic needs are satisfied
Love and belonging: Social needs
Esteem: The need for self-respect, strength, competence, mastery, self-confidence, independence, and freedom
Self-actualization: The highest level of the hierarchy, which is the pursuit of personal growth
These needs are universal to all humans.ย If someone is struggling to feed their family, they aren't going to give a fig about LGBTQ rights in a meaningful way.ย In the same way,ย LGBTQ people concerned about their safety aren't going to focus much on the social needs of religious people in a meaningful way. What our political system has done is exploit our needs. This intentional exploitation is committed by the left and the right.ย They create fear and manufacture scarcity to manipulate people into supporting them. This often turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Fear leads people to endanger others who aren't really a threat. Perceived and real scarcity leads to people hoarding resources. We also have a number of people who have reached the self-actualization stage. Some of them are so far removed from more basic needs that they look down on people struggling to meet the most basic needs for failing to see the world as they do. So before we criticize people for supporting whomever, focusing on whatever, fighting for this, or fighting against that, try meeting them where they are.ย Try understanding their needs. The path that leads to people caring about others leads through the meeting of these needs. This is a reminder to me as much as anyone else. Let's get back to seeing each other as humans with differing needs. Let's help each other meet those needs. Let's resist the forces that divide us.
Here's a final thought. I like to say culture has its own gravity. Once an object is captured gravitationally, it either takes an outside force or expenditure of internal resources to escape it. Most people simply don't have the internal resources or, as a friend, called it, the spoons, to escape on their own. Be the outside force that helps someone break the grip of cultures' gravity. Show them you are kind, decent, and not a threat. Help them meet their needs. Accept them even if you disagree with them. The key to convincing people to care about you is caring about them. It's really that simple.
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Jews once made up 40% of Baghdadโs population. Today, not a single Jew remains in Iraq.
This is what ethnic cleansing looks likeโand itโs a story the world refuses to tell.
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If expressions of Jewish culture like celebrating Hanukkah, trigger youโฆthatโs not because you are pro-Palestine.
It means you hold deep prejudice against Jews.
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There are 27,000 Jews in the entire Arab world but 1.7 million Muslims in Israelโ63 times more.
Now, tell me whoโs really conducting apartheid.
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Once a refuge for Portland's LGBTQ+ community, Crush Bar is closing after over 20 years of business. The owner says it's due to money issues and ongoing problems with crime and vandalism.
bit.ly/4ijyObX
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There are 57 Muslim countries in the world.
There is only 1 Jewish state in the world.
Yet, they want it wiped off the map.
Who is the problem here?
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โFree Palestineโ movements are not pro-Palestinian movements; they are anti-Western movements.
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Marine veteranโs wish was to sing the Marinesโ Hymn one last timeโand SSgt made it happen!
Happy Veterans Dayโhonor every one of them, because their grit, sacrifice, and fire are the backbone of our country.
Semper Fi! ๐ซก
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IRAN:
Iranian police kill a nurse "Zeineb Mahraji" (by throwing her from a bridge)โฆ. who was participating in demonstrations in recent days demanding payment of nurses' salaries.
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โEverybody was talking about Alabama is not how its been. We just had to go out there to prove our point to those guys.โ
Jam Miller on Alabamaโs win over LSU.
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More two-tier policing, this time from Birmingham. A man questions the presence pro-Palestinians on Remembrance Sunday & is arrested by the police under a Section 4A of the Public Order Act 1986.
Intentionally causing harassment, alarm, or distress to someone.
A man asks what are they going to do about being called Nazis & fascists.
The filmer describes the police as "scumbags" & is told to take his poppy off.
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Good Morning. Coffee time. A Coffee Toast to this day in 1775 โ
During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress passes a resolution stating that โtwo Battalions of Marines be raisedโ for service as landing forces for the recently formed Continental Navy. The resolution, drafted by future U.S. president John Adams and adopted in Philadelphia, created the Continental Marines. And is now observed as the birth date of the United States Marine Corps.
Serving on land and at sea, the original U.S. Marines distinguished themselves in a number of important operations during the Revolutionary War.
The first Marine landing on a hostile shore occurred when a force of Marines under Captain Samuel Nicholas captured New Province Island in the Bahamas from the British in March 1776. Nicholas was the first commissioned officer in the Continental Marines and is celebrated as the first Marine commandant.
After American independence was achieved in 1783, the Continental Navy was demobilized and its Marines disbanded. In the next decade, however, increasing conflict at sea with Revolutionary France led the U.S. Congress to establish formally the U.S. Navy in May 1798. Two months later, on July 11, President John Adams signed the bill establishing the U.S. Marine Corps as a permanent military force under the jurisdiction of the Department of Navy.
U.S. Marines saw action in the so-called Quasi-War with France and then fought against the Barbary pirates of North Africa during the first years of the 19th century. Since then, Marines have participated in all the wars of the United States and in most cases were the first soldiers to fight.
In all, Marines have executed more than 300 landings on foreign shores. Today, there are more than 200,000 active-duty and reserve Marines, divided into three divisions stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Camp Pendleton, California; and Okinawa, Japan.
Each division has one or more expeditionary units, ready to launch major operations anywhere in the world on two weeksโ notice. Marines expeditionary units are self-sufficient.
The motto of the service is Semper Fidelis, meaning โAlways Faithfulโ in Latin.
Happy Birthday Devil Dogs.
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The @IsrCitizenSpox put out a statement about the antisemitic pogrom against Israelis in Amsterdam.
This was the response we received from an @abcnews producer.
