doomerhermit.bsky.social
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BADASSERY
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More than that, if there are cars/trucks in your parking lot with trump stickers or Confederate flags, I will shop elsewhere because you obviously cater to them.
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it also makes "radar love" rather prophetic "She sends a cable coming in from above, we don't need no phone at all"
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when someone like Mills stands toe-to-toe with him and refuses to budge—he doesn’t know what to do. So he sputters, he threatens, and he lashes out in every direction, hoping something will stick. It never does."
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I do, what I find disturbing is that there are so few. I want it; America needs it to be so many names we cannot keep them all straight in our heads.
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"How to make your military hate you in three easy steps" by the Trump Administration
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Now comes the biger question, will they care?
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Recently read an analysis of presidential speeches on this topic. Washingtons was highest at 29th grade level, from there it drops preciptiously, right into the range your on about. I think it is less the language and more the information silos people liove in, never hearing the other side.
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I do not roll my eyes, I am an old cold war vet, I see it as outyright cowardice, lacking all honor. America had their back all their lives, enough so that they can afford to "emigrate", and now when America needs them they flee to protect their monies and themselves? Greedy cowads, like Trump
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Better question, why don't they strike? All stay home and refuse to provide a quorum for any vote at all?
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As Tennesse Ernie Ford sang "I owe my soul to the company store".
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A great idea as far as it goes, for middle class folks a wonderful idea, but the majority of Americans are working class, at will employees, locked in by raw finances to shopping where they can afford, sadly that is the oligarchs stores. It is the new fascade on the old company store of the 20's
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I have been calling MAGA Trumpets for a while now, years, because aside from the name simlarity they remind me of trumpets, loud and brassy with clogged spit valves.
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The Soviets had a slogan similar to our own "Once a grunt, always a grunt", it went "Once KGB, always KGB". Putin was KGB when I was in uniform in Germany. This grunt has not forgotten. Niether has Ukraine or Zelenskyy. I stand with Ukraine.
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One word answer, because its unknown. We know what happened, but if it changed it would cause a cascade of unknowns, and people fear the unknown threat more than a known one. We cannot envision what a small act today will cascade into and so does it not carry the same weight as what we do know.
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Are we talking about Musk or prosperity megachurch pastors?
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The hit to vets has not actually hit yet, the VA is huge, biggest dept in America, takes time for Vets to realize they lost a Dr, nurse or some support. Like most people are not politico's, like you and I, same is true of Vets, more will be watching the draft picks, NBA, final four ect.
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That depends a lot on location. I see maybe 3 humans a month, and I see those for minutes, not hours. Reminds me of a scene from Jerimiah Johnson where a guide shows up seeking assitance and says the wars over and Johnson replies "eh, what war?'
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Never saw that as some sort of kudo for flying, but rather a harsh indictment of driving. Pilots are professionals, we are amaturs as drivers, kind of like comparing the avg drivers skill to a professional F1 drivers skill and then saying that F1's are safer than Volvo's.
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YES, but also include 150 million or so Americans with them, parents, teachers, vets, anyone who wants to keep America America and not turn it into Muskatrump.
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Veterans are a minority, a tiny percentage of America's population. ALL vets are about 6% of the population, and that includes ww2, Korea, and Vietnam vets, who are all older or elderly. Why are you placing blame, asking where the Vets are, when you are the majority at 94%? Insulted here.
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Only if you are looking at the civilk rights protests, if you look at the labor marches, protests and riots then live rounds were used on poor, working class white folks, oft rural white folks by corporate "troops" and police bought and paid for by corps. Gv either turned a blind eye or joined in
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They seem more like spoiloed brats to me.
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If you say so. it does not strike me that way. Hey, at least Ap and MSNBC covered the protests today.
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I do not see my stance as pessimistic, but yours as overly optomistic. I am a cold war vet and I see this as follows. You are tasked to take a machine gun position, you can prepared to be under heavy fire or you can hope the enemy simply wont shoot. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
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Rather big difference between those examples an the Trump cult. Jim Jones had 900 odd members, not 30-80 million.
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I keep seeing Dems say that GOP voters are having remorse, but I do not see actual GOP voters saying it. Makes me wonder how much of such claims are wishful thinking.
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but that is the issue is it not? Religions all began as cults, if the majority smartened up religion would not exist. Instead we see religion has not gone out of fashion, it too evolves alongside society. Philosopher Zizejk would say it is not religion per se, but ideology itself.
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Real heroes do not think they are any such thing, male or female. They routinely say "I was just doing my job" or "it is what anyone would do".
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I would not demean Napoleon in such a way; at least he understood artillery.
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I wish I had your optimism, but life has taught me differently.
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Do they? The MAJORITY of humans are religious, and believe similar things about the humans at the head of their church or faith, despite the evidence, in spite of it in fact. The only real difference between a cult and a religion is how many people believe it and how long it has been around.
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Funny. Did you forget he drove famers bankrupt last time? They voted him in again anyway. People voted for him when he said he would deport them, they simply rely on that magical thinking that it wont affect them. I hope you are right, I hope they wake up, but past is oft prolouge.