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White Privilege and America’s Talent for Letting Racists Win How appeasing racists became one of our most reliable national habits

White Privilege and America’s Talent for Letting Racists Win
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If Raymond was a preacher Despite not being down with organized religion, I had a healthy religious upbringing and education. I attended various churches in the parishes my family resided until we moved to Olympia in 1976, the...

I Raymond was a Preacher

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Security I've been blessed. I've never been in a situation where I felt forced to do something morally repugnant to make sure my family had the means to survive. That blessing is not just luck. It's built on ...

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I’ve been accused of being pompous and condescending lately I’ve been accused of being pompous and condescending lately. As is my usual move, when I mostly disagree about my behavior, and whom it may be hurting, I steer into the damn skid. EVERYBODY BUT ME I...

This is a hot take if I do say so myself. A good many of you are really going to hate my writing voice, but no one can disagree except for the last paragraph and declaration.

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White supremacists hiding the achievements of non-white people is a pretty good indication that they know white people aren’t supreme.

Assholes

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I will be the first amateur humorist to say it out loud.
The Trump Presidential Comedy bump is not nearly worth it.

School districts with denser population tend to have more success in athletics. Why? Larger student population to draw from.

When looking for the best, you start with the largest pool of candidates manageable, and narrow it down.
There is no sensible, logical or practical reason to keep otherwise physically and mentally capable humans from serving in the military.
The reasons are merely sanctimonious and prurient.

15 years ago it was very difficult to find an IT job in the state without having to pass a drug test. Eventually they realized when a sizable amount of your candidates are smoking marijuana, and succeeding at other companies, it's a dumb reason to lessen your candidate pool.

In the US Civil war, the south arguably had better overall strategies and leadership, but the North had an much larger mass of bodies.

The 300 are all heroes, but eventually they were dead heroes who succumbed to a much superior force in numbers.

Imagine lowering the candidate pool of people who can send to war? It's a well known fact one sure way to win a war is to throw more bodies at your opponent.

All these sex and vice rules about who can do what to whom in the military really is unnecessary and actually counterproductive to national security.

The reporters from TASS always get the front row in Hegseth press conferences. It makes it tougher to identify the source of vodka breath.

In the history of NATO, only one nation has invoked Article 5 and requested immediate assistance deployment from all member nations.

It was the US after 9/11.

Every single member of NATO did as was requested in aide of the US.

Life is a transaction. I have little of value.

Mo Vaughn admits to 'roiding.
Where's my shocked faced? I don't have much use for it any more.

FTR, people, I have testified, under oath, that *I* let the dogs out.
You can quit asking the damn question.

Was it good for you?

I need to clear up some confusion. I have never claimed any of my current or former colleagues were useless. I do not personally believe that anyone is useless.

Even the worst amongst can be used as decoration.

Did we know each other prior?

@bsky.app
As much as I am not in favor of many of Trump's policies, I can't agree that they aren't congruent with the policies associated with traditional democracies.
In fact, several of them are quit similar to some of the policies implemented in the German Democratic Republic of yore.

It's hard to be a martyr when you're bulletproof. Ending this shit will take sacrifice.
Once again, all personal opinion. Food for thought. I get both sides of the argument subjectively. Objectively, we can do better.

Another political move that made all this was turning the filibuster from a huge personal commitment to an administrative tool that had no limitations.
So I would be in favor of returning old penalties for breaks of decorum, even if the Democrats are the ones punished at first.

After a protest like that I would encourage all my colleagues to vote for my censure. I'd wear that like a Medal. I'd have so many script "C"s on my clothing you'd think I was team captain.

The point of the protest is, "I am purposely willing to faces the consequences of my actions because my actions and my message is more important than what happens to me personally." THAT'S A Protest.

#1 I've never been a supporter of the defense, "Everyone does it!"
#2 I am not a fan of people who break decorum or rules in protest and aren't willing to face the consequences.

@bsky.app
I don't know what my final vote would have been to censure Rep. Al Green.
To be consist with my usual values, I may just have had to vote yes on the censure.