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it's true in the Vietnam days when the suburbs started turning out in numbers for demonstrations the Movement started to get real traction.

the relationship of the Japanese military class under the Shogun to the Imperial court and the Emperor makes an interesting parallel with Trump and his retinue vis a vis Congress and the traditional Constitutional forms: formal deference but in practice ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogun#...

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Having them organized by state is yet another one of those silly anachronisms that prevent the "US" from uniting as an actual "country" with a unified government like most places.

States' Rights: Divide and Conquer!

excerpt from Wikipedia article on the NG

Not really true, the NG is the reserve component of the regular army, heavily involved in the world wars, Vietnam, etc

and conversely, why should men have to be all opaque and stoic and only women get to feel and emote

like, a mountain looks different depending on where you're standing ... the mountain is real, the view is just you

only one world, only one god

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

the point of "the Antichrist" is it is the opposite of the Christ.
the point of "the Christ" is how Jesus emptied himself.
pretty clear which side Thiel is on, although he is confused at a very high level
www.wired.com/story/the-re...

like the Woman Taken in Adultery, he neither condemned nor approved the woman or the men who wanted to stone her. "Go, and sin no more." His message was always to drop your shit and BE A BETTER PERSON than YOU have been heretofore.

like the Woman Taken in Adultery, he neither condemned nor approved the woman or the men who wanted to stone her. "Go, and sin no more." His message was always to drop your shit and BE A BETTER PERSON than YOU have been heretofore.

the Bible doesn't say slavery is "acceptable" it acknowledges that it is a thing in the world like all the other evil things in the world a disciple needs to rise above. Jesus dealt with INDIVIDUALS and he is not recorded as condemning any of them. -->

generalizations lack nuance (usually)

need more talk about taking care of kids that don't participate in your precise genome

“Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?”

that speech pattern used to be called uptalk

all the really good parts are in RED letters

"I've got the connections to make it stick!"

YouTube video by annahuntleymezzo ANNA HUNTLEY - Cole Porter - The Tale of the Oyster

not about dick
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j_m...

ak, alt text: view across the water at a city as clouds break up overhead

... that all humans are essential.

What qualifies humans to have "rights"? Are humans not built up over evolutionary time out of a giant pyramid of mechanical/chemical marvels? Or is there a "divine spark"? Or what?

Interesting! Totally agree current/foreseeable chatbots aren't "people" even in the limited sense that accepts corporations. But the claim that "machines are not the kinds of things that may be denied or granted rights" smacks of human essentialism, in an era when we're not sure -->

long hair on men has been regarded as masculine in many cultures. I have preferred to let mine grow since college days, it feels peaceful and the modern preference for buzz cuts feels like self-mutilation (personal comment not intended to be prescriptive)

Is there no way to look at quote posts? it seems all I get to see is people making quips, if they choose to say something they actually want to stand up for there's no way for me to go there??

seems like a hole in the boat to me

femininity is the new normal, what's a poor boy to do

Wikipedia: "Charles attempted to intimidate the Commons into granting him his revenue before it considered Buckingham's impeachment.[4] However, the members of the Commons were in no mood to back down. Instead, the attacks on Buckingham intensified. On 15 June, Charles I dissolved the parliament of 1626 before it had voted him any significant new money in order to prevent Buckingham being impeached. When asked by a group of Peers to delay the dissolution, Charles replied “not by a second”.

in King Charles I day he called Parliament when he was good and ready.

it is good to have work to do.

thank you for your contribution.

seems to me the Federal Police are the ones likely to be firing guns in that scenario. But you know only Ds have agency

none of those guys seem to get along with their family

why should gender binary same as sex?

why is human rights coded as "feminism"?