He will condone the bad in order to prevent the worse and in so doing no longer discern that the very thing that he seems to avoid as worse might well be better. This is where the basic material of tragedy is to be found.
They ask more of people’s ignorance than they do of their virtue.
If the means of political power is cynicism then the ends will be fascism.
If the fediverse was a threat then it would also be a target.
Complains that Americans are too lazy to milk cows and doesn’t realize they are part of that group. Doubt they will learn anything.
Spez is too much of a useful tool for them to throw away.
There are many people who don’t know his rhetoric and are posting their support because they are going off what their media is saying
That makes more sense because he already confessed to his youth pastor. A confession sounds very cooperative to me!
The exception that proves the point. Have an upvote
Ahh yes, the American Revolution where poor indentured servants took up arms on behalf of rich landlords so they could continue to massacre the natives. But good point on the other revolutions I guess.
Because that strategy worked so well in the middle east.
It’s like the lesson they learned was to run a white guy to win over the misogynistic racist voting block.
Talk about turning their backs on what Kirk would have wanted. If the guy murdered from a school shooting says school shootings are the price we pay for freedumb, then we should celebrate his brave sacrifice like he would have wanted.
It’s understandable, his face looks bigger than it is.
So they can discriminate based on protected traits as long as they do so using most of the traits. And they wonder why people’s trust in their institution is eroding.
If anything we get more imperialism at home
Ezra Klein is hosting a conference promoting his book “Abundance” and it’s literally filled with fascists, including one speaker who wrote an article advocating “deportation abundance.”
https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/115148453618577031
He just doesn’t like the aesthetics of the current admin but he is onboard to build more detention centers and less regulation for corporations.
Surprised it’s not called Department of Lawfare and this point.
You actually think those people watch the news and get accurate information? Misinformed people are always going to learn the wrong lesson.
What I like about her campaign is the fundraising spends the money on things that matter to people: mutual aide. Many of us saw recording breaking fundraising followed by a loss and asked, what if we spent that money on things we wouldn’t regret? And Kat answered.