Martin

Dad, lawyer, ex-teacher, sometime poet, walker, hiker and lover of dogs, history and great books. And of American democracy.

[Martin @Martin16766288]

@Momto5Wifeof1 @BrendanFitton @h2ofizz @JaTapps @WebbDaiman @ScottDrawsNear @Hermetiaillucen @aigkenham U really know nothing. Im overdue on that block. Bye.

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@restless_Rev @Watchman_motto Endeavor? God?

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@restless_Rev Show us how/why "your" bible is any truer than the koran?

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@restless_Rev @_MrsAtheist_ This is one of the tropes they use in the white evangelical churches. And since no one there knows -- or cares about -- science, history, literature, archeology or ANY kind learning, the sheep swallow it whole. Then they bring it out in public, and get destroyed.

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@RepAdamSchiff @TheIndigoSpirit Reminds me of how a 4th grader lies to a nun with a ruler. His "recollection improve's. "

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@MrOzAtheist Naw, he's probably a decent guy ... in Russia. Just working 9-5, to make ends meet. Not many jobs over there, after Putey destroyed the economy (soon to be duplicated here by Orange Idiot). Anyway, don't hold it against "Don't." And besides, his English is pretty good!

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@ManInTheHoody Trump's man-crush, Putey, did something like this a few years ago. Went missing for over a week. A national ruler! Tons of speculation and attention grew, just like here. Then, one day he popped back up. No explanation ever given.

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@piloting @Clickbunt @josephripken @Crankymansays @Pezlort @Anni_Bruno @Hoovnastyy @SarahKSilverman Trump is a classic fascist. Like his heroes from the 1930s. That's inconsequential. What is consequential is that the American right has been radicalized into being fascists. People like Cranky. Done by Fox, Rush, Alex Jones, their evangelical churches. And paranoia.

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@piloting @Clickbunt @Crankymansays @Pezlort @Anni_Bruno @Hoovnastyy @SarahKSilverman Nice job. This former St Louisan is proud of you.

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@Crankymansays @Pezlort @Anni_Bruno @Hoovnastyy @SarahKSilverman Once u say white privilege doesn't exist you have no credibility. You earn your moniker.

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@PblcEducator_1 @The_UnSilent_ @courierjournal Joke's on them. Trump could never come up with a quotable quote. Except for an indictment or a stupid video.

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@CharlesMBlow Fascism never goes away easily.

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@brainouty @OnYouLikeGlue Jesus rose from dead, but his death saved men from hell. Mohammed rode a horse to the moon, and cut it in half with his sword. Evangelicals say well go to we if we don't believe the bible. Muslims say we go to hell if we don't believe the koran Show ur right and they're wrong

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@brainouty @OnYouLikeGlue I agree there may be a "god" of some sort. Many atheists have believed this (Spinoza, Paine, Einstein). But no reason to think your god is true. Tell me why ur god and bible r any more true than Mohammed and the koran.

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@jgownder @anders_aslund @NanetteHB @anneapplebaum The last time fascism took over a western country, or two, it didn't pass easily.

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@questar1959_ron @apetivist A change. And a very, very bad one. But not a huge one. As Pogo used to say: "We have met the enemy, and he is us."

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@questar1959_ron @apetivist Actually, we've ways been a lot this way. Slavery. Jim Crow. The Klan. Lynchings. McCarthyism. We're just seeing more of that now: with America's first fascist president. Lots of reasons, but there it is.

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@Prophecy_YEC @MFreethinkers @Drachengeifer1 @AiG What a shame there are cult movements that urge people to believe an ancient collection of myths more than the scientific method that has improved their lives dramatically. What a shame some people fall for it.

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@Momto5Wifeof1 @AiG Carrie and people like her try NOT to understand evolution, in particular, and science, in general. All they know about science is that it scares them. This is their attitude to learning, and to new ideas. That is why they home-school.