Billionaire will = thwarted

Billionaire funding = wasted

We have a long slog ahead of us. But today was a good day.

You’re getting downvoted but I believe you’re principally correct. Except it’s Sethian.

He is former service. Can you expand on this? It seems relevant, particularly since the commenter who started this thread is very fixated on the specific words he used.

The sombrero is every bit as mesmerizing as it is mystifying.

Dryer vent

Billionaires really are just like you and me.

I genuinely think that’s optimistic at this pace. Not trying to be a downer.

I don’t think I am, not a single bit.

If anything I’m asking if we have the discernment and wherewithal to make a distinction between a nazi and a (maybe) former nazi and I’m in a little distress that the answers appears to be a firm “nope”, which means in your mind, the battle lines have already been drawn and there is no point trying to change people’s minds.

And aside from how fundamentally dangerous that is, we just don’t have the numbers. There just aren’t enough leaders or even normal people that will meet your purity test. 3 years ago, I likely wouldn’t have.

Or, you know, don’t leave room in the tent for the slower-to-evolve.

Sure, the purity tests have worked so well for us. Good, solid, and battle tested plan that has nothing to do with us being in this mess.

I am a white man and I used to have very different views than I have today. Should I even bother?

Stankface

Perfect little face.

I fucking love my city. I truly believe Chicago is among the most beautiful cities in the world. I truly consider it a privilege to ride my bike along the lakefront trail with a gorgeous skyline on one side of me and a beautiful lakefront on the other side of me. We have amazing, truly world-class music, food, architecture, sports, and art.

The night my Cubs broke their 108 year championship drought, I stood on my front steps and hugged and fived random strangers into the late hours, all of us screaming our heads off; and all of those things I love about Chicago were elevated by and multiplied by the sheer sense of Communion I was having with hundreds of like-minded people who all felt the same way about our city and our team. It was the night my love for this city burned hottest.

Yesterday, in the park and on the streets, magnified and multiplied that by a million. I was surrounded as far as I could see in any direction by people who love this city and love this country as much as I do. It truly looked like every kind of person was represented.

It made it feel like we can actually do this, and that is exactly what Trump and co are afraid of.

I didn’t say awareness is most important, I said it was first order, and I stand by that.

I’m not saying this is enough and we should prop our feet up and wait for it all to blow over. I’m saying awareness itself is critically important for anything else to happen, and whether this is the thing that will do it or not (it won’t be one thing), it’s critical that more of the populace becomes aware.

I’m not even sure what we’re arguing about at this point, but you’re +7 in my upvote history so I clearly agree with you on a lot, but I think it is important for leaders to walk away and it’s important for people to see that happening.

You would be making such a killer point if this were even remotely the only article covering it, haha.

You kid but awareness is a first order problem in the fight itself, and I hate to break it to you, but a significant portion of the population is not meaningfully aware of how dire it is.

Something like this might be the thing that gets through to them. There is also probably a large portion of the population who suspects how bad this is but doesn’t trust the media and is specifically looking to see how the military leaders react to this stuff.

If there are any perceived adults in the room at this point, it is probably the military.

And wear funny hats?

Maybe that’s Freemasons.

Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck

-still technically undiagnosed

Fuck I can’t keep seeing these while I remain “undiagnosed”

That’s practically part of our heritage. What’s new is doing it in so ham-handed a fashion.