taylorgrayson.bsky.social
Heathen, political pragmatist, aviation instructor, software developer. Please do not follow me.
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No one claimed they were celebrating violence.
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Yes, I'm confused. I don't know what's really going on there.
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We can build a popular front or we can demand purity, but we can't do both.
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They would have trended towards Trump, according to analyst David Shor, so just as well they didn't vote.
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If you don't realize that right-wingers do the same thing, including those praising Jesus in their profile, then you are very naive. As Jesus said: "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword." He lives up to his promise.
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Yes, it would have been a more dramatic statement. A good artist knows when to stop.
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If these people actually believed in press freedom, they would have celebrated Moran's right to say what he said. I can easily see a Democrat doing that.
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Yeah, I've seen very little in my feed on what protestors are actually doing.
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It's well-documented that violence generates a more violent repression. And peaceful protests are more effective, anyway. David Shor, a well-known left-leaning data analyst, pointed this out during George Floyd protests and lost his job for his trouble.
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They were probably right. It's amazing how courageous people are with the lives of *other* people.
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Yes, because otherwise they'll get shot with much worse.
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No, it's not, but that's irrelevant to the original claim, which wasn't about the nature of the protest.
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If it's like the civil rights protests, videos of terrible cruelty inflicted on protestors is what it takes. But the bar might be a lot higher these days. People are inured to cruel videos.
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It was the National Guard that killed the Kent State students, though.
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That always seemed like a dumb product to me. You can buy dumbbell bars to which you can just add regular plates.
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"military parade could offer an opportunity to counter misperceptions about the armed forces. It could bring Americans closer to service members"
That's pure fantasy.
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I don't think the post is quite serious; he should know that Musk isn't interested in that sort of Republican party any more than Trump is.
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Coming back to face charges still seems like an improvement in his condition.
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The fact we're a big, powerful country and they're a little, weak country also suggests we can control who goes there and who comes back.
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If he's acquitted, there's a good chance they'll keep trying until they find something that sticks. I've read that the average American commits three felonies per day, so they can always get you if they want you.
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huh, I was assured this was impossible. Was that a......lie?
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What little "work" I've seen is just the conclusion that too many Americans are irredeemably racist and sexist.
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I dunno, doing so would be a good lesson for right-wingers about why due process is a thing.
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eh, he really can't do that. The US needs the launch capability.
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Karma has let us down SO many times in the past 10 years, so you're right to reserve judgement.
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The fact that a expression isn't a medical one does not mean it's not real, so claiming it's an imaginary thing make you look dishonest. If you hope to persuade someone, you need to 'steel man' their argument, which means helping define what *they* mean by the expression and then address that.
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Well, that's still a meaning one can infer from the word; people often say someone is nice when they can't think of anything better to say about them. We should all avoid that label.
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Hey, at least they didn't outright lie about it. Not yet.
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And yet it's you single-issue people that got Trump elected, so I hope you're happy basking in your self-righteousness.
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A really weird interpretation that says more about you than it does about me.
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A nonsensical reply. You're sounding a bit loony--the caps don't help.
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I bet the demographic is primarily white *evangelical* women.
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Homophobic attitudes are probably pretty common in the manly men sports, which place a lot of value on virility. I'm skeptical this will ever change.
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Andrew Fischer
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Maybe there needs to be a certification service where videos are verified by a third-party, the way websites are verified by SSL certificates
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That assumes that economic need is what drives property crime, though. The correlation is weak.
www.heritage.org/crime-and-ju...
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I've read that crime often falls during economic downturns, so it's not something you should automatically expect to happen when the economy hiccups.
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"I also don't wanna take responsibility..."
Heaven forbid that Musk damage his reputation.