isotope-rill-8c.bsky.social
Husband, Father, Veteran, recovering conservative.
This is not the America I served. This is not the world I want to leave for our children.
Religion: I don't believe in Karma but I'm a big fan of his idiot cousin, What Goes Around Comes Around.
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50? Nope. Try 94. There are 94 district courts so some decisions won't even affect an entire state.
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yet again, a red hat is grasping for biblical vindication and completely missing the point. The verse cautions against the pursuit of material wealth at the expense of ethics. Of course employing the true intention of this passage doesn't exactly work in their favor.
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That's where trump and his support network have excelled. They recognized years ago that too many people don't want to think. They don't want to understand. They are happy begging from the alms-basket and content to live lazily on the scraps of begged opinion - props to John Locke for calling it
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Hegseth got ONE thing right during that rant, "an historic".
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wait, wait, wait. Doubting the success of munitions against a highly fortified facility somehow means we think less of the pilots? You want to talk about spin!
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The Right Wing Nut Job media spent years warning about the horror of another Democrat president enacting unilateral changes to government and destroying the American way of life. They created the idea of an all powerful executive so that it was acceptable when their guy made it to the White House.
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this very point had a coworker come at me with a beer bottle. Well, it's a bit more complicated than that. When he admitted to benefitting from all those services, I called him a socialist.
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that's a mighty ballsy claim from a counter-constitutionalist.
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The best response Iran could possibly make? “Hey! Nice light show and thanks for digging out a little room for us to expand. How much did that cost you?”
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I have usually explained my views on religion as , “I don’t believe in Karma but I’m a big fan of his idiot cousin, what goes around comes around.”
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Because just like their Christianity, they amble up to the 2nd amendment buffet and pick only what they want.
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I can confirm as a white man that I do indeed walk on egg shells when at work. Of course I am one of the few employed there who see Trump for the shit stain that he is, so my options for intelligent conversation are quite limited.
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and I’m not here to argue about the framers wanting an ethnically pure state. Nope. Not at all. That part of the guy’s argument is pure evil and for that reason he should have been thrown to the wolves.
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Totally agree with calling him a Nazi but if the framer’s had intended “We The People” to apply to non-whites we would not have needed an Emancipation Proclamation, a Civil War, the 14th amendment, the 15th amendment, the civil rights act of ‘64, etc, etc
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Sponsor a contest to decide who is Trump’s Rocinante.
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The guy isn’t wrong about the drafter’s intent but that doesn’t exclude him from being justly identified as a shit stain on the soul of humanity.
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Their entire MO declares their illegitimacy in a society that lives by the rule of law. The fact they operate with relative impunity declares that the rule of law is dying.
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He isn’t wrong. “We The People” when conceived, did not include people of color. If it had we would not have needed an Emancipation Proclamation, a civil war much less the 14th amendment. Trying to claim that only whites are entitled to constitutional protections now is some originalist bullshit.
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Can we in good conscience refer to these people as agents? That infers a level of legitimacy that I am not sure they deserve.
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I am reminded of….
i.imgur.com/dedUb9m.gif
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you need a moral compass before authority can be earned.
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Oh, the irony.
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To paraphrase John Stewart Mills - If one desires to shackle themselves with the tenets of an Iron Age mythology, that’s their business until they try to force those bonds upon others.
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Of course if it does rain, it will be blamed on Jewish Space Lasers and chemtrail weather control. Cue MTG .........
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Betty. Roll the tape, please. At what point was the term deadly force uttered? Are you confusing her with the FL sheriff?
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the confidence of the American people is of no consequence to these malicious people. They need only serve their masters.
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Those aren't mutually exclusive. A large part of his world view is based on conflict. That requires two sides. He only needs to be liked by enough people to get into office......oh wait.
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to channel the SubStack contributor, Bo McGuffee: they claim belief in Jesus without the belief of Jesus.
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as soon as you do that the knuckle-draggers will suddenly discover philosophy and the three core theories of truth. They will reject, Correspondence out of hand and run full tilt with Coherence and Pragmatism.
-I hope you don't mind the research assignment.
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you're
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substack.com/@evolvingchr...
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There's a theologian on SubStack who describes these people as having belief IN Jesus while rejecting the belief OF Jesus. This is a perfect summation and much more dignified than my preferred pejorative, PACs (performance art christians).
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At the moment these two terms are disastrously interchangeable and have contributed to our society's self-immolation. So let’s take a paraphrased page from Carl Sagan’s book and not think with our gut when trying to make sense of the world.
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"Are you so insecure in yourself that you have to destroy the mechanism of scientific discovery that prove your beliefs to be false? Can you just admit that this isn't about right and wrong but about getting your way no matter the damage it will inflict on others?"
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Let's apply a little Obi Wan logic to this....."Who's the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?"
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his take is far more charitable than mine...... a shit stain on the soul of humanity.
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That’s because democrats never broke the social contract. And I’m still open to hearing what can be done within the law.
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Perhaps they aren’t law enforcement. Hiding identities would make it harder to identify these shyte-stains as proud boys or <enter bigot group du jour>, etc