I want to highlight the importance of this distinction before someone elides over it - intent matters a lot. While collateral damage is an inevitable and terrible consequence of deciding to pursue policies of eliminating terrors and other enemies of state abroad, it is very different from saying, "we will kill your children". The distinction between "you aren't safe because you hide among children" and "we will kill your children as punishment" is enormous.
On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.
Such as deciding any military age male (18-65) is until proven otherwise, a combatant (and thus a valid military target) With a policy like that, who is surprised civilians die.
Also in all seriousness, defining all 'military age males in a war zone' as combatants, IS a fucking war-crime.
On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.
I don't have strong feelings about the topic. I understand this position and am inclined to empathize with it, but I've never been interested enough to get really informed.
My only point is that it's very different to have fuzzy definitions and to at least try to justify action than it is to just openly declare that you're going to engage in the killing of children as a deliberate matter of policy to punish their relatives.
On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.
Human progress isn't measured by industry. It's measured by the value you place on a life.
Just, be kind.
The President isn't supposed to be this monolithic figure in American Politics... oh sure there are times when they are made out to be, but that is not by design. The President is just the chief executive officer fulfilling a function to keep a giant complex machine working. He is just another cogwheel in the gears. Sure Washington might have been an exception of sorts, but he was the first president and had to really break new ground and people were relying on his leadership and strength in the early years to get on solid footing. And you can point out Lincoln, and FDR as presidents who had to sort of "rise above" due to extreme circumstances for sure, but in general Americans should not be beholden to a president or specific person, or even a party (although people naturally congregate to others who are like minded). No REAL Americans place loyalty to their fellow countrymen and the Constitution. There's a reason why "We the People" is such a powerful phrase here... it is the core essence of our philosophy. WE, ALL OF US, TOGETHER, not just one orange tinged man.
At that ridiculous rally last night, (and somehow now we have to campaign for re-election 1 month into the job, as well as campaign before we even have someone leading the NSA??), you have this guy who comes out and says he salutes a cardboard cut out of Trump every day. Are you kidding me? That is like the most unAmerican thing you can do.
The whole reason America has the Supreme Court (life long office post) and other independent and apolitical agencies is to protect from something exactly like this. Loyalty to country first above all else. Just because people voted you into office doesn't mean you get to wipe your ass with the Constitution. We still have no idea about Trump's health, about his financial entanglements, and a host of other yuge question marks that haven't been answered.
People wanted to swing the axe on Hillary for having private email servers or lying to the American people. Well that's all well and good but that axe swings both ways.
Quite frankly no. I'm not fine with the medias, I'm not fine with Trump, I'm not fine with the people's reaction and I'm not fine with the aura of hysteria that fester worldwide right now.
This week's press conference exposed two things: How the media's twisted what Trump said during the conference (which I watched live for most of it, and was honestly appaled by how the Medias twisted it), and how Trump belittles the medias.
Trump's not what you're painting him to be. You want that to be true, because I guess you're genuinely afraid of that. Considering how caustic you were during the elections, that's my guess, but I could be wrong.
Plus, yes, I disagree with many things Trump says and Trump does. Fundamentally, that's bound to happen when I consider myself a strong left-leaning individual. But what he pulls is acceptable. It's not good, but it's acceptable.
The day where he'll gut LGBT rights, the day where he'll imprison people sorely on the color of their skins, the day where Trump will disregard women as inferior, the day where Trump will declare WW3, the day where Trump basically becomes a monster, I will be body and soul against him.
However, stop deluding yourself as though it's happening. It's not. Illegal immigrants are illegal -- I am thoroughly against deporting those that are but in name civilians of the US, but if they're incarcerated, I'm fine with it. I am thoroughly against discriminating against women, but quotes taken out of context that happened 12 years ago don't really makes me afraid. I am thoroughly against LGBT intimidation - and likewise, against his government removing the bathroom law - but he's not putting anyone in danger, he's not removing LGBT weddings and he's certainly not homophobic. And frankly, it's time the madness stops.
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Learn to use critical thinking: https://youtu.be/J5A5o9I7rnA
Political left, right similarly motivated to avoid rival views
[...] we have an intolerance for ideas and evidence that don’t fit a certain ideology. I’m also not saying that we should restrict people to certain gender roles; I’m advocating for quite the opposite: treat people as individuals, not as just another member of their group (tribalism)..