sailormichael.bsky.social
U.S. Navy Veteran, military affairs, and foreign policy junkie. MS Gulf Coast. Independent left of center. If you don't like to hear or see racial injustice, I am the wrong account to follow. Go live in your bubble and be happy.
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For now- the first brigades need to be white people.
Our privilege demands it.
Rest up sir. We got this.
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There were probably enough red flags to cover the state of Minnesota in red.
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There are always red flags and they typically excuse or white wash them
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If a person is constantly saying they hate Democrats and is passionate about it that it consumes them, that is a red flag.
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If a person is constantly saying they hate Democrats and is passionate about it that it consumes them, that is a red flag.
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🎯🎯🎯 “They” absolutely refuse to acknowledge the radicalization of white men within THEIR sect of Christianity which is infested with white supremacist tenets and beliefs. Their refusal is absolutely a sign that they condone such. History shows they do
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It's infuriating. They'll push the bullshit that he's a "lone wolf" despite the fact that these lone wolf attacks since the OKC bombing have all been along very similar ideological lines.
America's refusal to hold white terrorists to account has existed as long as America has.
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This is maddening and true to America
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Humanize the victims, not the suspect or his rabid ideology. They're both the problems here.
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Why can I not hold a principle of "you know what, on the whole, Obama at least *tried* to do the right thing, and that counts for something"?
If every moral argument is reduced to consequentialism, then whew buddy you are not gonna like what leftists look like through that lens.
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Why on earth should I hate someone who passed the ACA, the thing that allowed me to continue living, at the same levels as someone who is actively murdering millions of people by ending PEPFAR?
Why can I not have a different principle than binary moralism?
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Nonsense, it's a specific argument that we can all hold principles that allow us to hate some kinds of evil yet find others in lesser categories, that painting the only viable principle as "evil or not evil" is an absurd reductionist fantasy held by moral children.
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🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
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Once you reduce "evil vs. not evil" to a binary, you are inherently creating equivalence between all evil.
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"Both Obama and Trump are evil, liking one while hating the other means you don't have principles"
This is true only if you think that Obama and Trump are equally evil. Otherwise, there can be a balance of good and bad that doesn't violate principles to like Obama that is utterly lacking in Trump.
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White nationalist evangelicals have been and are still the number one terror threat in this country
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Yep.
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A slush fund.
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Agreed…It was one day that was six months in the making but it’s one day, .. at the end of the day the fascist is still in the WH and can do a lot if damage to this country and world in 3 1/2 years. And Congress is complicit and WEAK.. they are a complete joke
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Exactly shipmate. .
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There is no reason to trust this electorate until they prove it. They don't believe in harm reduction.
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Sorry, the real “No Kings Day” was Election Day. We collectively failed that test and while I hope the protests lead to meaningful change, so much has already been broken that I’m not hopeful
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My fiancée and I were saying something similar: it was just like the Woman’s March in the first term. As I saw more images from the events I couldn’t help but think given the demographics and locales there probably a lot of protesters who either sat out the last election or voted for Trump
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The voting didn’t reflect the people’s choice.
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Easy to sit on your porch of moral standards until s*** hits the fan. Anyways, just be cautious.
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Easy to sit on your porch of moral standards until s*** hits the fan. Anyways, just be cautious.
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They were mystified by the GOP platform change on Russia in 2016, too. They no longer are. They are all in.
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We have way too many things going wrong, and some are busy calling Obama a murderer at this moment and justifying it because they have never been in charge of an entire country and wouldn't know what to do.
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We have way too many things going wrong, and some are busy calling Obama a murderer at this moment and justifying it because they have never been in charge of an entire country and wouldn't know what to do.
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This is why I have been cautious and remain cautious until people right this ship.
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This is why I have been cautious and remain cautious until people right this ship.
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A billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon we’re talking about real money.