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The only question is if Adams has to go because he's an insane criminal, the answer to that is obviously yes, and who becomes mayor then is one way or another up to the voters in who they elect and/or have already elected.
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These firings just hit NIH's Roy Blunt Center for Alzheimer's and Related Dementias. Yes, you read that right. It's named after a GOP Senator.
Yesterday afternoon employees were informed of layoffs, including its highly-regarded incoming director. Details:
newrepublic.com/article/1917...
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My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country.
We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one.
I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.
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The aggregate issue is that Trump does not believe in constitutional government. He acts and behaves like a King. That is why when he says it out loud you shouldn't dismiss it--he's telling you what the project is in his own words. All the individual scandals relate back to it.
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It’s always wild when people come on the internet and so freely and loudly admit that they can’t handle any text beyond a Dora the Explorer level
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They show even though Luke screwed up “no one’s ever really gone” and he comes back and saves the day, saves the resistance and puts his nephew on the path to redemption all with complete nonviolence, it’s like the most Jedi thing we’ve seen since he threw his saber down in ROTJ
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Benicio’s character wasn’t to show that yes both sides are corrupt “don’t join” is the correct way. Jfc, he shows NOT to give in to political apathy bc the ones that are apathetic are the tool of the oppressor—as they literally show him end up being. They show “both sides-ing” helps the oppressor
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One last thing: the opening image of the film's hero is her handing Luke the lightsaber, which is complete and preserved in its mostly original form. "This is yours; take it." He throws it over the cliff.
By the end of the movie, it's broken in two, but it's hers. To fix and mend and carry forward.
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We can and often do feel a kind of love for institutions that are less than perfect: movie studios, rock bands, political parties, our workplace. To criticize and try to better those institutions is not an attack or an -ism; it's an act of love and our duty as good citizens. But, anyway, you get it.
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The point is not people vs. institutions, black-and-white, but that systems which privilege institutions and power structures above individuals quickly grow corrupt and evil. And it's the duty of the good, righteous, caring individual to critique and better those institutions. It's not complicated.