Flash

Self-proclaimed foreign policy expert. I like sports and video games. If you can sit through the politics, I can be funny sometimes. Joe Burrow fan account.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

You say you’re not a communist.

But you begin every political argument by inventing a moral monster.

He’s greedy!!!

He’s racist!!

He’s fascist!!

He’s stealing from the poor!!!!

Once you’ve convinced people the man is evil, they’ll applaud almost anything you do to him. They’ll also cheer for his death like cackling hyenas.

That trick is older than communism.

Communism just perfected it.

You say you’re not a communist but everything you do, supports it.

Call yourself a socialist, democratic socialist, utopian socialist, diet socialist, whatever.

You’re just putting lipstick on the ugliest pig in human history, and we see you for what you are.

You, communist, are telling us who you are.

And we believe you.

[Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead]

Socialism is like a parasite. It needs a healthy capitalist host to survive.

It doesn't create much new wealth on its own. It mostly feeds off the productivity, innovation, and surplus that free markets generate. History keeps proving it.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

AOC tells her followers that Elon Musk gutted Medicare and Social Security to pay for his own tax cuts.

Imagine what an unhinged, unstable person might do if he or she actually believes these nonsensical lies.

This is the type of talk that ends up in a manifesto.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Communism has always appealed because it offers a morally simple answer to an impossibly complex human problem.

>Life is unfair.
>Therefore someone must be guilty.
>If we punish the guilty, justice will follow.

It replaces responsibility with resentment.

Most importantly, it tells ordinary people they can become virtuous without becoming better.

That is why it returns every generation. Not because it works, but because it flatters.

History’s warning is not that these ideas begin with prison camps. They begin with moral certainty and the belief that society can be perfected if only the “right” people are given enough power to identify the guilty and reorganize everyone else’s lives.

Today, that temptation is more dangerous than ever.

Never before have governments and institutions possessed so much data, so many surveillance tools, so much influence over information, and such extraordinary capacity to shape public life at scale. Every generation inherits more powerful instruments than the last. Whether those instruments preserve liberty or erode it depends on the ideas guiding the hands that wield them.

The lesson of the last century is not merely that communism failed. It is that no society is immune from believing that concentrating power in pursuit of moral perfection will finally succeed.

History has already rendered its verdict; 100 million+ dead.

Our responsibility is to remember it before we convince ourselves that this time will be different.

[Flash @FlashGladd]

@Ghastly12121212 @ellonico That all sounds good to me.

I don’t have too strong of opinions on how the prison system should organize itself or what inmates do while in prison but sure put them to work.

Anything but letting them out early and handing out insufficient sentences.

[Shaun C. @ShaunMichaels98]

“Why are you crying over a highlight tape?”

The highlight tape:

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@Ghastly12121212 @ellonico What is your proposal?

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@chuckyyes10 @ellonico English please

[Molly @FSUmollz]

Worst day for the Axis Powers since 1945

[Flash @FlashGladd]

I can’t think of a better use of tax dollars than keeping violent criminals away from law abiding citizens.

There is an extremely long list of wasteful items we spend tax dollars on and incarceration is not near the top.

It’s the job of the state, a key job of the state whereas we waste incredible amounts on topics and programs the government has no jurisdiction over in the first place

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And that delay is sometimes all you can do.

They can repeat and be incarcerated again if they so choose.

While they are incarcerated surely you can try to rehabilitate but it won’t always work.

You can however keep them away from law abiding citizens ideally for extremely long sentences for violent offenders

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@AkilahObviously Exhibit 1,000,000

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@JamesTate121

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@Polymarket

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@Ryan_Parkerrr Liberals say stuff like this which only proves they have never bought a gun in their lives

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FSD is actually insane.

Don’t think I’ll drive myself much anymore

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@EricLDaugh People like Jake Tapper will look for any excuse to extend this temporary status.

Dude said Haiti isn’t safe because there are robberies and gun crimes etc.

My guy. We have those in the US too.

This same old song and dance holds up to absolutely no scrutiny

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@JoshEakle Again

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@JoeGoodberry Congrats Joe!