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@infantrydort @canarymission Oaths lost their meaning for many, because some decided to suspend unapologetic reality for the warmth of collectivism (of the anointed), and others are here to soak up benefits before the party is over. But for the sane remnant, there are some difficult questions for us too.

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@CynicalPublius One group is only interested in a virtue signaling power play, and the other group's hermeneutic is woefully underdeveloped or atrophied.

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@JeremiahDJohns While your critique is necessary, are you able to apply it just as well to the other side? If you cannot, then there is something suspect in your critique, so that even when it is over the target, it functions more as cover for something else than as social critique.

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@ChristianHeiens I just wish the logistics was on point. Missed much of the airshow because of it.

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@ConvoswColeman @coldxman I think this is missing a key element in the incentive to come here. While the pursuit of a better life is in view, it is a pursuit that is borne by the citizens of the receiving country, and too many who now come here care little about what it takes to keep things going.

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@ValerieHef37016 @Freedom250 If you were there, then you should know of the atrocious logistics. Did you also happen to be directed by email to the wrong line? That is what soured the mood for many.
I understand the need for security.
But this was not a good look, and it seems to foreshadow something.

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@HouseSeraph @Freedom250 Security Magnetometers Open: 5:00 PM on Saturday, July 4, 2026

● All guests must be through security before 6:00 PM

Yep

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@LoLoByke What you're really saying is that there will never be a time to move on, and that it's worth staying in the past and dwelling on past pains.
Be careful with that game, especially when it's flipped on you.

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@politicalmath 🤣

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@polplotting Stop depending on movies

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@DarrigoMelanie If you take a step outside of yourself, and look at the photo as a photo, which requires multiple decisions of composition, then maybe, just maybe, you might be able to revisit your thoughts on it. If you can't, then I fear for the day when you can't see the real thing.

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@walterkirn I have a feeling that tonight is the beginning of the end.

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@NYCMayor You only love this nation because it has reached the point of allowing someone like you to start determining the meaning of America in your New York sandbox with other people's money. What you don't see (or do you?) is that people will suffer because of you and your followers.

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I joke that this looks like a flak tower in disguise, but joking aside, it would probably be helpful to "read" it in the context of his presidency and the long-term, still developing effects of it. The speech he gave at the opening only confirms the disgust many feel.

My take is that it looks to me like an obstinate defense, and its defensive-ness doesn't strike me as the kind of defensiveness that we've lost concerning our role in safeguarding this country. No, it is more the defensive-ness regarding an ideology, of a pride that celebrates the fact of itself only, and not the messy yet greatness of a nation that has come quite far in its 250 years. It is a celebration of a status, and even of a class that towers over the weary and struggling masses, with no less a (previous) message that calls us toward greater heights while dedicated with a speech that only reminds us of our divisions.

I can only reconcile the contrast between messages with what I've come to recognize in the current state of the public square: I am not included in the "we" that is glorified in the perpetual sermon on the side of the building that forces me to change my perspective to even get the whole message, instead of inviting me to step outside my perspective in dialogue. And even then, I am not rewarded with being part of the "we."

I am not America, because his vision of America necessarily excludes me, because I am willing to call a plague on both pathetic houses in this country, because they have made worms' meat of me. Since his vision is holy and infallible, and the ideology that is foundational to him is pure and without error, I cannot be included in the now overused and meaningless phrase "Our democracy." With the way he and too many others use it, it engenders the incapability to recognize that such an ideology is always-already under critique, and even if they eventually do recognize, they will not acknowledge it, because there will be no burden on them to do so.

So yeah, flak tower it is, defending a legacy that only allows for the right kind of American. And we ain't the right kind.

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This is very much like your concerns about the condition of the US navy. How did it go from us marveling at it, to us marveling at how it hasn't imploded yet under the weight of bad decisions and hubris compounded by time.

We have lived with the assumption that government will always look out for us, but that assumption has now revealed itself to be part of the suspension of the inevitable that you're seeing.

If inevitability is a feature of life, then what if we have a tendency to try and deny it by pretending it doesn't exist by focusing purely on the now, or by lessening its meaning by deferring it onto the next generations?

Or worse, what if the suspension is the result of knowing about the truth of inevitability, but not knowing it in a way that is consequential?

Others will be better at this, but the mechanism I see at work is a blissful lack of awareness of how knowledge of the inevitable does not translate to true acceptance of the inevitable, which would lead to honest and robust actions to, at the very least, mitigate possible future inevitability because the well-being of people hangs in the balance.

Instead, the "knowledge about" stands in for "knowing," so that 250000 ruined lives is an item of knowledge that is out there, not flesh and blood human beings. I think the mechanism at work is the tragic, and I think it is the most fitting because it is a monster that shape shifts for each and every situation, but with the core trait that there is always a particular manner of destruction involved (I get this from the work of Peter Szondi).

So, while this isn't against you @willmcellen, I do have something against the idea of unnoticeable erosion. I appreciate and affirm it, but I have trouble seeing a justification for it as a total explanation. Charted on a long enough timeline, erosion is there. However, on that same timeline, and even though things weren't as exposed then as it is now, the evidence was accumulating.

I had zero political acumen ten+ years ago, and I still don't have it to this day, but even I could recognize from the available videos (easily found even now) and documented mass migration to Europe that the end result was not going to be the multicultural utopia that people seemed to worship practically as a god back then. And yet, it kept happening, and the internet continued to accumulate more videos of migrants testing people's patience (to put it kindly). And not only did it keep happening, but the institutions that people assumed were in place to protect and serve the populace eventually went mask off and revealed two-tier systems. And now we have reached the current point, and things can still take a darker turn, because "Hopefully enough people can keep the awareness" likely isn't enough to stem the tide that was objectively noticeable years ago.

All I can now see of the UK is an indication of where the US is running towards, based on the same mechanism. I am not looking forward to the result.

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@avidseries This is a flak tower in disguise.

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@pepperdine @kbub58 @JeremyTate41 @NRO This non-answer reveals a lot.

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@pawelwargan ...

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I don't discount the pendulum swinging the other way. However, I cannot shake the feeling that even with that, it is essentially contextualized within a plateau period that is actually gaining momentum for a woke resurgence.

I have a colleague who tell me with a straight face that the WiFi password shitshow (love that btw) is the same struggle that gays and lesbians have faced in the past. Interestingly, when I critique the absence of their knowledge of how bad the trans issue has become for on the ground realities like high school locker rooms, they immediately fall back to anecdotes of great gays and lesbians they've known. Not a single example involving trans, while conflating trans with gays and lesbians, which I find revealing. The fact that such narrative capture has happened and continues to happen is something that is concerning, to say the least.

To me, this is an instance that indicates that woke is not dead, and that the WiFi password shitshow can actually be one-upped later. If the institution of woke is still alive, then what should the shape of gay and lesbian resistance to it be? And will there be resistance to it, if the easier path is to grit ones teeth and let gay and lesbian rights be subordinate to trans rights? Only time will tell.