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Despite what some believe, it isn't that difficult to treat people as people and afford them a bare minimum of dignity and respect.

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For all of the right's made up bullshit about anyone a nanometer out of lockstep with Trump's demands being godless Marxists... this is lines up exactly with what I was taught in my Southern Baptist Sunday school as a kid.

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If nuclear war is close at hand I am going to enjoy fresh summer vegetables while I can.

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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." Churchill

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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Saying "I want my lawyer, dawg" is ambiguous because supposedly you could be asking for a lawyer or a lawyer dog. And only unambiguous requests for counsel invoke your right to a lawyer. Don't believe me? slate.com/news-and-pol...

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The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

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Someone on the USS Texas 81 years ago today when the Nazis were out of range. “Captain, we intentionally flood the ship.” “You want us to sink? You don’t flood ships. That’s bad.” “Not the whole ship Captain. Just part of it, so we can keep shooting Nazis.” “You son of a bitch I’m in.”

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I grew up in a town of less than 1,000 people. More people than this show up to send off the football team for away games on Fridays.

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Authoritarians depend on fear. Democracy depends on each other.

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The head of the department of homeland security announced that she planned to use military force to take over a democratically elected government in the state of California and we are arguing about whether a California Senator properly identified himself at the door.

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Of course they do as long as it doesn't target them.

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Party of free speech and limited government. As long as you only speak what they allow you to speak and agree with them completely.

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the commons Hate him perniciously

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Unfortunately, thinking this through seems to be beyond so many people today.

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Our Founding Fathers would have had a word for calling up a battalion of Marines for regular domestic law enforcement: tyranny.

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@subnomnomnom.bsky.social

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I drive to the beach and something that has been entirely predictable for months has finally happened

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Amen

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Fuck Jefferson Davis. And Bobby Lee too.

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Fondant potatoes may be my favorite potatoes