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Considering the homoerotic extravaganza that is professional wrestling, you would think the wrestling folks wiuld feel a little more solidarity.
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Scarcity is what makes money valuable. If everybody’s rich, then nobody’s rich.
We haven’t yet figured out how to make sure everybody has enough, or even a consensus of what “enough” looks like.
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Yes. I reject the traditional left-right paradigm in favor of more freedom and investment for the common good.
But now I am forced to set aside arguments over preferred policies in order to preserve democracy.
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I have always been in the middle—gun rights AND abortion rights, fiscal responsibility AND safety nets.
But for now, my vote is blue, top to bottom. We can get back to fighting about the details when we have our democracy back.
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And the bodycam footage? “I guess we forgot to activate the bodycams.”
Kill a cop > forgot body cam.
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And the remaining ICE guys will testify that they identified themselves properly.
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I don’t want Democrats to break the law, I want them to break the rules.
Naughty words, mean tweets, undignified behavior . . . Maybe even some civil disobedience. Something more than “if they cross THIS red line they’ll find out what happens.”
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We should not have any part of aending anyone to that kind of prison. It is immoral and not who the American people aspire to be.
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I think you picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.
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America has consciously opted to be a second-rate power. It breaks my heart.
We are about to learn that we need the rest of the world more than they need us.
We are about to learn what a place of privilege we have held, and how it hurts to lose that privilege.
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I like Jeffries. He is a calm and steady leader, and absolutely the wrong man for this moment.
I pray that the time for calm and steady leadership returns soon.
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Shoulda done it in ‘21-‘24. The only way to limit government power is when you are the party in power. But you have to be willing to limit power for your side.
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Do those other armed citizens cosplaying as “the good guy with a gun” have the judgment, training, and experience to know whether and how to respond without endangering every person in or near the restaurant?
Our server’s lack of discipline and awareness suggests they do not.
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Grabbing that gun to rob the place would likely foment a situation where a half dozen other armed servers and staff face the real question of what it means to carry a firearm: “do I have the courage and skill to use my gun to stop a crime?”
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So are they suggesting that if they HAD been texting war plans they would have checked the participant list for journalists?
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It also had to be published far and wide to make sure that it, and he, did not just disappear.
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Blatantly lying on camera is part of their gang initiation. Pete has proved he has what it takes, and is now a full member.
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Yes!
All respect to Hakeem, but he is, by his very nature, not wired for this kind of fight.
It isn’t a character defect, it’s just not who he is.
He should recognize that about himself and throw his support behind a brawler spoiling for a fight.
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Cooler heads prevailed.
I’m not convinced this is the time for that.
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Da, comrade!
(Instant block)
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The scary AR15 is popular for a reason: reliable, versatile, and relatively easy to shoot well.
Handguns are less effective and much harder to shoot well.
The left should not cede the force of arms to MAGA.
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If Russia stops fighting, the war ends.
If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends.
Oppose the aggressor without equivocation.
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Two things came out in the meeting.
1) JD said unequivocally that Putin invaded Ukraine.
2) Trump acknowledged that this conflict puts us at the brink of WWIII.
If there is a WWIII, it's not going to be started by Zelenskyy, but but the aggressor, Putin.
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2) “The tree of liberty must be watered from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots.” Those who would overthrow a tyrant must be willing to pay the price in their own blood, and to pay the consequences if failure.
If successful, you are a patriot. Fail, and you are just a traitor.
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Two points:
1) The founders were treasonous bastards. The became “patriots” only after the successful overthrow if a tyrannical government. Had they failed, they would have been regarded by history as villains.
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I should say, Ive identified several like-minded individuals in my neighborhood
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I have identified a small group in my neighborhood and am wondering if it is better to pull them together as a small group, knowing that none of us knows anything about forming a resistance, or draw them more quickly toward a better-organized and established resistance.
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Does joining witj a large group create greater risk of being “rounded up” as domestic enemies? Or are we at a place where tech makes large and small equally vulnerable?
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I want to understand: If Trump's tariffs on Canada and Mexico harm Americans and not Canada and Mexico, how do retaliatory tariffs hurt America but not Canada and Mexico?
If a tariff on Canada is really a tax on Americans, how is a tariff on America not really a tax on Canadians?
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I'm with you. I want to see my lawmakers outraged, and visible in their outrage.
But the outrage also needs to be targeted--we can't waste energy on shiny objects, like Trump's stupid blaming of DEI for the plane crash, or renaming the Gulf of Mexico.
Pick your battles and fight them fiercely.
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With respect, no.
Why create a litmus test with no purpose beyond casting judgment without context? I am content with judging individuals based on their views NOW, not on whether they reached the same conclusions I did within the timeframes I prefer.
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“Not surprised. Disgusted.”
-Sully
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I disagree. I think a courageous person at the Air Force acted in accordance with the most extreme reading of the order with the intention of pushing the administration into backtracking and explaining. This was a loss for the administration.
When you're explaining, you aren't winning.
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When in doubt, or when doubt can be plausibly claimed, act in accordance with the most extreme possible interpretation of directives, trigger competing and conflicting excuses from the administration, and maybe trigger Trump's followers to question what they really signed up for.
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This is what Senator Katie Boyd Britt condemns as "malicious compliance."
This is what the CIA had in mind in the "Simple Sabotage Field Manual."
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Thank you for pointing this out! Kudos to the resisters in the Air Force communications department who had the courage to pull information about the Tuskegee Airmen. This is the response that sends the administration scrambling to explain. And when you're explaining, you're not winning.
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The people voting for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces party never think THEIR face will be eaten.
There will be many Trump followers eliminated from civil service jobs, and many more denied government services due to understaffing.