CitizenJer

We can do this quickly or we can do this well, pick one.

"I'd like to share a story from a local paper in Coldwater, Michigan dated to the 9th of April, 1945. It tells how the US Army, under General Patton--the US 3rd Army--came onto what you might call a detention center just outside the village of Ohrdruf, Germany. The US Army brought the leading citizens of Ohrdruf to tour the facility, which turned out to be part of the Buchenwald network of concentration camps. A US Army colonel told the German civilians who viewed the scenes, without muttering a word, that they were to blame. One of the Germans replied that what happened in the camp was (quote) 'done by a few people, and you cannot blame us all.' And the American, who could have been any one of our grandfathers, said, 'this was done by those that the German people chose to lead them, and all are responsible.' The morning after the tour, the Mayor of Ohrdruf killed himself. And maybe he did not know the full extent of the outrages that were committed in his community, but he knew enough. And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough. I ask you to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf might have thought before he died. Maybe he felt like a victim. He might have thought, 'how is this my fault? I have no jurisdiction over this.' Maybe he would have said, 'this site was not subject to local zoning, what could I do?' But I think, when he reflected on the suffering that occurred at this camp, just outside of town, that those words would have sounded hollow even to him. Because in his heart he knew--as we do--that we are all responsible for what happens in our community. I urge the council to take action to stop, or stall, or at the barest minimum to think creatively about how to exercise oversight over this proposed ICE facility. Thank you."

This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):

I also feel like A Civil Action is a slept on dad movie. And Cop Land.

JAWS

Looks like the actor who played the vet in Schitt’s Creek. If that guy had been associated with something awful and soul-crushing instead.

Love this. I heard Entroducing…for the first time in a Tower Records. I think I first heard Primus in a record store as well. The original algorithm.

Apologize for it or *justify* it. I work in a field where end users often think they (and now AI) can do it better than I do and it’s like I’m sure you can cook a steak, but you’re in a 5-Star restaurant - let the person who’s paid to do it well do it for you.

Nunca creí que los leopardos comerían MI cara

How many more awful things are just waiting to be unleashed as a direct result of MTV’s decision to stop showing music videos?

Smells…peppery

Younger generations have fallen out of love with The Hardy Boys because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents, namely palookas hittin guys with blackjacks.

Also shirts now cost 900% less than they used to.

The other thing I’m struck by is how close he is to getting it…like insurgency isn’t automatically a bad thing. French resistance was an insurgency. Underground Railroad was an insurgency.

I beg you to read every other comment in a Facebook post about Alex Pretti’s murder. These people would have bathed in his blood if they could have. I don’t want to win them over, I want them fired into the sun.

Was the music from the ice cream truck playing in your head when you posted this?

Change the 5 to a 4 and I had pretty much the exact same day.

fred shuttlesworth looking over the wreckage of his bombed house

i think about this picture of fred shuttlesworth looking at his bombed out house every day because it is in my classroom and so i see it five times a week. tired and defiant.

a face that says well, on we go

Look we had all but eliminated measles and now it’s back with a vengeance and there’s just no way we can do anything about that. What’s important right now is to think about the freedom that comes with your child’s brain swelling until they die.

The beginning of Drive. Also the middle of Drive.

My understanding over the last few days is that punishing this woman will make it easier for undecided voters to figure out who the good guys are.

The trouble with fascism is that eventually you run out of other people's children

I feel like there is a whole cottage Spectator Dad industry that I should have mined more back in the day. Thankfully I’ll be dead before my 4 year old starts athleting.

If it wasn’t for DuoLingo, I wouldn’t be speaking Italian - wait, am I doing this right?

I think it’s more validating to the right and their bad ideas than the inverse on the left. It’s a lot of ‘oh look another libtard discovered that preferred pronouns are the downfall of western civilization’.

I think this gets to the heart of it. I’d be surprised if this person faced with the question ‘are you still a raging homophobe?’ responded with anything other than ‘oh God yes’. So it’s like, you may just need to wait for a more run of the mill bigoted Republican.

They’re reporting that the pilot slightly resembled Tom Hanks and Trump wouldn’t stop telling him “Look at me. I’m the captain now”

Or Dylan Roof for that matter, if we’re going to clutch pearls about safety in churches.

I forget what color Renee Good was.

I have recently learned that the thing that will stop them is a leftist who protests incorrectly*

*as defined by a moderate or someone on the right

Get someone to show you where the block button is.