― Xenophon, Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War

It's an old problem. Character, much maligned and disparaged these days. Limits agency and authenticity.

“In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage. For in the very nature of things, success tends to create pride and blindness in the hearts of men, while suffering teaches them to be patient and strong.”

Could give it all back to the Turks and let them settle out the region.

From Egypt to Iraq
From the Red Sea to the Black
bring the Caliphate back.

Pastel sketch of ladies assembling to attend a May Ball

Shawls, pastel (one of my old May Week theme drawings)
#Cambridge #mayball #pastel

An ideal Republican.

That's been the case ever since the GOP embraced Falwell's Moral Majority-they were neither, still aren't, hence the grifting and corruption. The embracing party over country and power over ethics and conscience.

Just so, all of them. It's not unique to any religion, it's the social dominance once achieved that religion starts kicking out rivals. Happens to every single one. The film Dogma had it right, ideas are fine but beliefs are different. People will change ideas but they will kill over beliefs.

Yup, there's no benefit to 2nd place in the system so it makes two roughly mirror images. We're experiencing a cultural division fostered by corporate and social media extremism akin to the states rights/slavery division. Same racist clowns fostering it, too.

Besides, as to Christians, Jesus warned against those who pray in public and make a show of their faith. They are performing out of vanity and far from love of God. Pray to God in silence for the Father knows your faith. Or lack thereof. 2nd grade Catholic school started my long march out churches.

Racism in Cambridge Commonwealth Day School vs. the Brattle St Community  Preface and Overview  1988-1989 The Commonwealth Day School’s purchase of the historic property at 113 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA. still h…

The left is incapable of examining the racism in its ranks. That's just those on the right, surely. The story of true blue Cambridge Massachusetts shutting down a private school for black children in the 1970s set my side-eye toward white leftists. marcostrovsky.com/2020/09/18/t...

This is why the courts need term limits, especially the SCOTUS.

B93: A Dark Interstellar Ghost apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26022...
The 93rd entry in Barnard’s Catalogue of Dark Nebulae, B93 lies within the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (Messier 24), where its darkness stands in stark contrast to bright stars and gas in the background

Indeed, I was 12 the first time I read the Lord of the Rings. That line set my belief against capital punishment ever since.

And a judiciary that isn't made up of GOP leaning judges Moscow Mitch helped pack the courts with.

Gang Of Pedophiles.

When they let Britain's ceding the Ohio Territory to the US in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, and subsequently Neutral to European Entanglements George moved in to secure US sovereign rights (because what do the natives have to do with any of this) the path was opened to where we are-imperial presidents.

Don't forget there are hundreds of millions not nearly so sociopathic, perhaps, but terribly opportunistic who are happy and eager to carry out the whims of that club to gain their own ends.

I agree with Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings. "Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment"

YouTube video by Parachute Adams Boardroom Massacre | DOGMA (1999)

This is what happens when you let people write their own pay and benefits package.

Sometimes movies get an issue absolutely right. People have no fear when there are no consequences for whatever they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKMm...

Different sets of ills. '85 is poorly cast with a story that's a sequence of poorly plotted events. '25 is a bloated Xena episode with a ChatGPT level script and anticlimactic ending where Sonja is nearly irrelevant.

Unless you've read the files, how do you know?

Fascists gonna fascist.

The desire to make filming illegal is because they plan to become worse once the concentration camps are finished.

Stop protecting pedophiles should be the top priority of both parties.

Not to mention stopping the building of those concentration camps for ICE.

No, Israel is doing that but keep doing Russia's work.

Hug your loved one tight, their your heart and it'll feel just right.. #SpaceGirl

Fuck Wilson, that racist, elitist, autocratic asshole.

The world wars, prohibition, the great depression, and the cold war created a culture of permanent emergency management in DC that needs to be rooted out.

Sedition Act of 1918 - Wikipedia

The sedition act of 1918: 'It forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces or that caused others to view the American government or its institutions with contempt.'
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All donations to come only from the candidate's state for Congress people.

All pay and benefits to come from the candidate's state. If they want more they can ask their state voters for a raise in pay and benefits.

Strike, there and everywhere, 24/7. General strike. Shut it all down is the only way to put an end to this.