andrew-varnon.bsky.social
Middle-aged adventurer of the ordinary. #GreenfieldMA #BeerBaseballAndTheBible #BigMessyAmerica #Tennis #PublicSchools Neurodiversity & Sexual Assault awareness. Poet & Essayist. ArtSpace board member. Check out my #Varticles (Varnon + Articles, get it?)
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“You’ll be an Austrian nobleman, commissioning a symphony in C…”
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"But they were throwing snowballs!"
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I like it!
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No, you're right. In this case, I separated it. I'm not immune from my analysis. Because we are all in the system and participate in it.
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The specifics are helpful!
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This is only true about a generalized "politician." This is my congressman: www.recorder.com/-Courage-not...
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"Internal 82nd Airborne Division communications reviewed by Military.com reveal a tightly orchestrated effort to curate the optics of Trump's recent visit, including handpicking soldiers for the audience based on political leanings and physical appearance."
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Freedom of assembly is also a first amendment right. Whatever you think of what the LA protesters are doing, they are operating in an American tradition that goes back to the Boston Massacre in 1770 and earlier than that.
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"Sunlight for ICE" is also good messaging.
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I've always been a fan of the "50-state strategy." One of the ways that the Electoral Congress distorts our democracy is that it allows our political class to believe they can "control the board" by appealing only to certain "valuable properties."
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Liberals gave up on South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota. That's why we call them "fly over country."
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Also, do you mean #manufacturingconsent?
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It's because we Americans have no knowledge about what happened in South America in the 1970s and 1980s.
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The irony is that people who go to see Les Miserables like a story about people standing up to an oppressive government, even if they know they're going to lose?
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Many sign up because they see it as their best option to get ahead in society. We no longer have a volunteer army. We have a mercenary army, much like Britain did in 1776.
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The question of representative democracy is: can popular politicians pass unpopular legislation? And is this a good thing?
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It's not so much regulation we need, but a recommittment to democracy. If money didn't equal speech, the outcomes would be a lot different.
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The same place it went with railroads?
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We’re talking an area of maybe 6 city blocks. That’s pretty localized for a “full-blown assault.”
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Again, in apologetics, one doesn't have to convince the non-believers. Only reassure the believers.
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No "Man of La Mancha"?
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It's only a felony if you're convicted of it in court. And it's an inconvenient truth to law enforcement that the judicial branch is an entirely separate branch of government that is co-equal to them. (Or at least on paper it is. But that paper happens to be the US Constitution.)
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So, the term "extra-judicial" would apply here.
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It's a good one! Like "icing" the other team on a field goal attempt by calling a strategic time out.
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Is it against the law to post flyers about the presence of ICE agents? And is that a law that ICE has the legal authority to enforce?
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Are you employing a pun with ICE here?
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My great-grandfather on my mother's side of the family was a major general in the National Guard. He fought in WWI, and attended FDR's first inauguration. What we mean by the "U.S. Military" has undergone an utter sea change since his time.
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In order to understand what is being communicated, I need to evaluate the relative points on the political map represented by Fox News, Jonah Goldberg, Jake Taper, Aaron Renchin-Melnick, Jamelle Bouie, and Jeff Napolitano. It's nearly impossible that I'm doing this correctly.
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This is what this post looked like to me when I saw it:
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"Most popular political figure" and "good presidents" are two different things. See Ronald Reagan. I'm not anti-Obama, but neither should we treat any political candidate as untouchable because of their polling numbers. That's asinine.
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I miss Live Oaks and Spanish Moss. (There's not a lot I miss about Florida, but I miss those things.)
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Ryan Ward is a "senior lecturer" at a university in New Zealand. e-tangata.co.nz/author/ryan/
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What's Ohio State going to do? Is that like a snow day? Do they close down the campus?
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As I writer, I get depressed when I think that, ultimately, all writing is asking for money. And political fundraising emails are definitely lead weights in the bottom of that boat.
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Paul is depicted as holding a sword, says this article in Aleteia, an independent Catholic media organization, because the sword is the spirit or word of God, and because he was killed by the sword. The sword, as an instrument, is associated with the Roman Empire and its power.