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Nulli dii, nulli domini
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Hi, Marine vet here. The Continental Congress established the Continental Army, Navy, and a Corps of Marines in 1775 prior to declaring independence in 1776, and all of those services use those decrees as their founding dates.
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You know, that’s such an everyday thing I actually forgot!
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I ride every day. Saw two vets get on at the Amtrack station- one must have been pushin 90, he had a WWII cap on and asked which route he needed to take to get to his destination. 5 people had their phones out before I did to give him info. Good stuff happens.
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Are definitely not safe. One of the actually had to tell me what DWB meant.
And that’s what radicalized me.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk. 😏
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If it matters, I’m a skinny white dude with no hair a mind a goatee, which seems like half the male demographic in Michigan anymore. I dress pretty normcore, so when cops flat out lie to someone that looks and acts quite “normal” like me… then my friends that don’t look like me..,
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In the summer, was pulled over on the same bike, on a Saturday, going to the library, by a cop that told me someone robbed a bank and got away on a bike.
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Cops pat me down, run my ID, look me in the eyes and flat out tell me that someone with my description was breaking into houses stealing TVs. I bit my lip and didn’t bother to point that A) I had no TVs on me and B) there was only one set of tracks in the snow at 7 in the AM - mine.
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On November night, working an overnight stock shift, it snowed 3-4”. Not normally too bad but also not good for biking. Had to push said bike thru snow 4 miles. I was trudging down the sidewalk thru a neighborhood when a patrol car rolls up on me.
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Here’s what’s radicalized me. One of many things. Lost my DL due to DUIs a long time ago. Bad on me. I own that. No sob stories here. Rode a bike to and from work at a retail job for YEARS. All weather.
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Oh boy. Got time for a rant? Are you familiar with that TikTok kid that starts off his posts with “you wanna know what radical lizard me?” If not, go find him. He’s a hoot.
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Take it up with them. It's just a video share.
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What the hell ever. Even Detroit in the 90s wasn’t “Detroit in the 90s.” Source: me. I was here. I’m still here. Right now.
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Umm, Wacko, Yacko, and Dot. Duh.
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I feel this, working in the office on of my coworkers said what’s this 1000 for 401k crap out of my paycheck this year I gotta pay rent. And I just shut my old ass up because I’m drawing mine down at 61 to pay bills and how the hell do we tell these kids to trust the system anymore?
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Note:
3/2 some feds now use “DM” (yellow smoke) instead of teargas/CS which that induces vomitting and will beat some charcoal and carbon but 3M 60928 Organic Vapor/Acid Gas filters work great and are readily available.
Also, steel toe boots are great for kicking back smoke and gas cans
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As a vet, I sincerely hope someone went took the step of how to be relatively safe around ordnance like this. 🫡 to the bravery of the crowd
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Caveat - Television, I should say. Not social media 😬
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lol. Totally worth the block.
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Musk is not your friend. Just bring your popcorn and enjoy the movie.
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Fun fact: IIRC, when they had the “victory parade” for the Gulf War way back when, they had to spend a ton of cash to fix the streets in DC because those tanks weigh a lot and the tracks tear up the pavement.
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Yep, at 61 (just for background) I’m early on into exploring philosophy and ethics just to find a system that fits me (I guess) and I’ve pretty much figured out that even 2500 years ago people were rationalizing just about anything. I’m currently still at “some shit just ain’t right.”
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Caveat- I am pro-choice. There is zero contradiction there.
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Pfft. Let’s all just admit NYC is a collection of millions of bourgeois and provincials leave it at that.
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I feel like my instinctive distrust of the concept of the “vanguard party” that never quite dissolves away is vindicated by this history.
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Holding to the center has worked so well this decade…
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Undoubtedly. I’m starting to feel the Greeks from the atomists up to the Stoics had a better sense of this on a rational level.