I think too much.
"You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant." - Harlan Ellison
It was a pretty big deal to watch people jump out of 90th story windows and plummet to their deaths on the sidewalk on live TV when I was in kindergarten, yeah.
New — John Fetterman breaks silence after detailed WSJ report on indifference to the job.
“Per usual — lies, half-truths, innuendos, smears and anonymous,” he told me.
He responds to three of the incidents detailed in report, including one text he called a “dumb joke.” Says the incidents lack full context.
More here on the extraordinary rift between Fetterman and his former staff:
https://t.co/fYiijR3cPt
On the one hand: It comes across weak and naïve, like he's just another Democrat proving they're not ready. Again.
On the other hand: He's could be trying to prove he's not a fool, but that the Democratic Party can be coldly pragmatic when they get the lever again.
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I started checking this given the nature of what I would be retweeting and the search engine eventually replied: 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑅𝑢𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑎 𝒉𝒂𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑐𝑐𝑢𝑝𝑦 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔.
@RioVeradonir I have a personal intolerance for those who get in the way of America's melting pot, so this topic tends to stir me a bit. Plenty of high horsing in regard to immigration control tend to just be a veneer for what could only be mockingly put as a 𝑙𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 nativism at best.
@RioVeradonir I don't think that most are, I just think just enough are just bigoted enough and in power in just the right places to cause even more (physical) trouble for a system that already has bureaucracy & red tape issues out the ass.
I love how bigots are intentionally twisting your point on this and giving away the game. Eventually it's just gonna turn into open slurring while still refusing to acknowledge that intentional bigotry making LEGAL immigration impossible increases DESPERATION.
@RioVeradonir My problem with other 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑑 centrists is this "who the immigrants are, how many there are, and the extent to which they are willing and able to integrate." because if the default is to roll out the red carpet for Whites but get indignant for any shade different?
The US was built on INDUSTRY.
This is how "America became a world economic power"!
Industry attracted more workers.
In 1790, North and South both had ≈1.9 million population.
By 1860, the North had 22 million, the South 9 million.
Slavery was evil AND a bad economic choice.
Again, if you run at a police officer with a knife, they are justified in shooting you, and they are not required to aim for your leg or try a taser of anything else.
Ultimately, if you create the risk, you bear the costs of that risk. Not the person you're attacking.
If law enforcement friendly pundits insist there's no Fourth Amendment issues at all, look for Flock cameras to get banned after a couple of scandals involving bad cops and serious privacy invasions.
If you want lots of cameras, strict restrictions are your friend.
@CathyYoung63 "Former" DSAer who is cunning enough to want to win without the stains but foolishly thought no one was going to dig deep as has already been done to many other DSA members. Feels a bit broad brushed given previous tweets keeping this in mind and no prominent endorsements AFAIK.
I have enough self-respect to not take it personally. But I still operate under the same principle that I have for religious friends/allies "Don't push this conversation in a direction that will leave with you pissed off and me having warned you what would happen from the start."
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams
Every bit of chaos, including Lindsay Clancy, we're experiencing right now was explained by John Adams in the early 1800s.
All the secular "conservatives" are going to the same hell and sending America to the same hell.