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Out there [waving arms] multitasking for decades. Older, wiser, been places, done stuff.
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OR…The United States is a rebirthing society, unifying on No Kings Day in protests affirming its citizens' commitment to Democracy & the Constitution—or as the "originalist" Pledge of Allegiance says: "One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." (BYO Higher Power, per 1st Amendment)
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It gets weirder...
www.wired.com/story/shooti...
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Wait... does this preemptive move prevent the Guard in your state from being controlled by someone other than the governor, like what happened in CA?
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[...Just dropping this here as a "drive-by" heads-up, in case you haven't already seen it and/or stuff it links to, and with the disclaimer that I'm not up to date on this, and have not fact-checked anything...]
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Nyet. 🧄✝️🗡️
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Did he just complain about "lack of diversity of thought," *and then say "just block them"* (rather than engaging with "diverse thought")? 🤔
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Surely most of these folks are chosen by asking "which unqualified 'NPC' will be the most offensive, easiest to control, ultimately disposable puppet?"
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("it" = droid)
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Right? The last thing I imagined I'd ever be doing was calling on sinning evangelicals to repent, reject golden idols, & actually follow Christ—I mean, like, duh, it's an open book test…they should be able to figure this out themselves instead of raising up a golden "father of lies"—but here we are…
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Omg…This claim is so dumb. Hands off my em dash! Also my single-char "…" 🤺
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Beliefs on the matter are diverse, even based on the same scriptural source. Which is, of course, the point of religious liberty. *The state* shouldn't be "establishing" fetal personhood before 1st-breath viability, over the religious beliefs of the pregnant, their families & their faith communities
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*Only Trump* should be the subject of *every report* right now re "presidential decline/cover-up." *The value of the history is for the Press not to repeat it*—it's MALPRACTICE to prioritize a book re not reporting mental decline of a past President *over reporting mental/moral decay OF THE ONE NOW*
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Re banning abortion, it's related to the fact that legislating "fetal personhood" earlier than Biblical "first-breath" viability is a clear violation of religious liberty.
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And/or...
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Few people saw (or took seriously) MAGA "coming together" in the beginning, either...
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Then he can effing afford to fund Medicaid.
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I never used to block, for decades. Now it's necessary, to clear trollbot/psyops weeds away, to make room for remaining humanity to regrow/flourish. It allows in the light, minus flaming anticompassion oxygen-suckers & tear-drinking parasites latching on to prevent civil discourse.
Blockety-block.
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Yep. Plan: rewind the Constitution at least as far back as pre Civil War era to Make Enslaving Legal Again. You can see the roadmap forming in "Justice" Thomas' pointers, a while back, re which legal precedents to challenge. Crazy that he of all people seems to believe he/his marriage would be safe.
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"…'They're just going in to cut and not caring what they cut'…"
🤦🏼 DUH…It's their brand.
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Bear witness of bias...
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😮 Literally upgraded my PC for the original so the grass would wave properly. Kept the land at peace by not opening portals; picked flowers for funds to decorate houses. :P I second having wished for other players.
(Any idea if the pool-table house-decorating physics is revamped in the remaster?)
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🤦🏼
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Bearing witness...
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Calling only for prayers? God created the choice to take action, for a reason. It's not necessary to call for a particular action, but "all we can do is ask for prayers" is leaving out, *at bare minimum* "…to know your own calling re how to take action in this moment." Agency isn't just for praying.
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These guys just can't help but telegraph their own sins when they accuse others, since they think everyone else must be like them—like when their loudest ranters get arrested for trafficking they accuse others of. So, learn from their projections what to watch for evidence of them doing, themselves.
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Is the point to "make them as afraid of their constituents as they are of [whatever threats they've received]," or to make them feel safe and defended enough from those threats to be free and able to represent their constituents?
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More on this....
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Yes, let's do imagine that. We all have to get creative about succeeding at exactly that. Finding the key to countering both intentional disinformation/reality insulation, and the failure/refusal of the Press to inform the People, needs to be a top priority. Press failure to inform is THE #1 problem
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True & important. It's also important that today they're saying they want to put citizens in this position. And the folks who believe rights are for citizens are being told that if they were to find themselves wronged in this way, this admin would be unwilling to have their back & would abandon them
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He can posture, but Americans aren't fooled by it when the admin says & shows "He's too weak to bring those back who shouldn't be there." It undermines his claim to power if he's so helpless he "can't" correct mistakes. Abandoning a wronged citizen tells every American this guy won't have your back.
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The people around Trump have made it clear how impotent they are. The admin has said they're powerless. This "can't get him back" business is weak, weak, weak. No patriots buy the admin's cheap BS excuses. So un-American. Trump must replace advisors undermining his power to return detained Americans
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Those advising Trump not to DEMAND return of an American citizen the admin already testified was illegitimately detained are making Trump look weak. The only "America First" path is demand & enforce return of ANY wrongly detained American. Don't imagine Real Americans will settle for anything less.
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So what does this tell us about those other lawyers who apparently either don't understand they're "duty-bound," or else do, and don't care?
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This. If they're biased against the actual teachings of Christ, then by definition they have "anti-Christian bias." Call out the posers attacking Christianity by claiming its fundamental doctrines are "woke" (redefined), & who are trying to purge Christians who remain faithful to Christ's teachings.
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That, too.
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Existing suppression involves "if you can't be bothered to do this thing, we shouldn't let you vote." I'm skeptical the demographic that can't be bothered to be informed is going to be bothered to get passports in time to realize they don't have the paperwork & then jump through the hoops to get it.
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…In which case, seems there'd be no reason to require the burdensome ID.
The interesting point remains that their voter demographics are shifting, & yet their voter suppression demographics lag behind, deeply rooted in racial & class prejudices they've been gaslighting their base with for decades.
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How many "low info voters"—who overwhelmingly voted for Trump—do we suppose will be disenfranchised by the same people who need their votes? This seems dumb.
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And this is my 2¢, re the hypocrisy of those who gripe that others want "free handouts" from "other people's hard work," when that's *exactly what they want* and *exactly what unfettered capitalism is founded on*—which is why capitalism is only saved from eating its own by responsibly fettering it.
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Presumably these guys were put there in part because, being both unqualified and flattered, they'd be easy to influence to give blank checks to others to make decisions signing off on the vast majority of things they don't understand, while they focus on their pet policies.
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More of what should have been front page news across the media... Erasure by the Press is THE problem. Fix this first, so the People can fix the rest of the BS.
If you protest and the Press doesn't inform the People, does it make a sound...?
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...More in "The Press is THE Problem." Fix this first, so the People can fix the rest...
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Enough of the BS that anyone in this admin has any interest in "protecting women," in any sense other than as property.