dfatherree.bsky.social
Special projects editor at Southern Poverty Law Center. Former military officer. Known to beat bass guitars into submission, noisily. Also enjoys digging things up.
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To be fair, they didn’t have to do much work, given the raw material they started with.
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The incorrect spelling just makes it so much funnier.
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To be fair, I t’s not the talking that bothers me as much as the listening.
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My friends think I’m paranoid, but I refuse to do the “smart” house thing. All of my appliances are pre-digital. My fridge is from the 1990s and will outlive us all. My stereo sets are manually tuned.
I did acquiesce to remote control for the tv, though.
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It probably has a bit to do with a 20-year-old kid with no experience being put in charge of the production. Everything, from the marching to the volume and scale of the equipment, was underestimated. Anyone who had a clue would have known what it would take to fill that street from corn to curb.
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Actually, the felon ain't waiting. He's been targeting the Black immigrants. I guess that would include some Black Irish folk, too...
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Or a jar of peanut butter if you don’t want cheese.
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Oh well. First blocking of a troll today. It had to happen eventually.
I guess that’s the BlueSky version of crowd control. Isolate the agitator.
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No, but adding that to years of experience in a variety of fields, including crowd control, riots (from both sides) and anti-government movements, doesn’t hurt.
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Yeah, the RA guys gave us hell… but when the Rand Corporation wrote the report on the Roundout concept during Desert Storm, they pulled our unit (256th Infantry Brigade, assigned to 5th ID) out of the study because we blew their curve.
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It’s totally deliberate. The prof of premeditation is in Project 2025. The dummies were so confident they would pull it off they wrote it all down.
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Agreed. Once a year, our unit provided traffic control for a local parade and went through a day of training on crowd control. That was it.
That is definitely not enough experience. Besides, this would be peaceful if federal agents would quit escalating things and setting fire to stuff.
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I could care less about hockey (I’m from the south and don’t even roller skate), but I agree with the second part of your post wholeheartedly!
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Yes and no. Yes, he wants to use this as an excuse. But he can declare whatever he wants whenever. He just doesn’t have the balls to come out and say “I’m a dictator.” He wants his sucker-phants to think he’s still the Mango Messiah or whatever.
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He needs to go to jail. After a proper public trial, of course.
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Sadly, that is exactly what Stephen Miller and his ghoul crew want.
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www.splcenter.org/resources/ho... 5 things $45 million could pay for instead of military parade
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They’re all so SPECIAL…
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That's the problem with being educated through video games and digital culture. There's one plot line, messy though it may be, that comes to a nice, neat solution at the end.
Life ain't like that. It has a range of options, many of them not good. Nor are they resolvable without work and discipline.
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I’m surprised they’d even invite him. Having Hegseth at a NATO meeting on Ukraine would completely blow any operational security they might have.
May as well just invite Putin to Zoom in.
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It's actually less that Joe Walsh turned Democrat than the entire spectrum shifted to the right underneath him.
The so-called "left" in America is basically centrist. The right fringe has moved closer to fascism.