The grand irony of our time:
Wealthy elites ran a populist campaign promising to rid the government of being run by wealthy elites only to win and install their own wealthy elites to run the government in a way that will only benefit wealthy elites.
Why are some people like this?
Way to spectacularly miss the point.
These brave women were more than qualified for more specialized tasks, but no one in power would give them the assignments or the respect they deserved.
Instead, the 6888 battalion was tasked with sorting and delivering more than 17 MILLION pieces of backlogged mail in a 6 month period. Everyone who tried before them had failed.
They worked around the clock in dimly lit rat-infested warehouses and airplane hangars with blacked out windows under the constant threat of air raids. They endured attempted attacks from a German U Boat and astounding disrespect and bigotry from those who owed them gratitude.
Three of the batallion’s members were killed in the line of duty, and the military refused to even honor their sacrifice by paying for their burial.
Many of these women were highly skilled medical technicians who could have easily been assigned to more esteemed duties if they didn’t have to fight the additional war of racial and sexual prejudice.
But they took a job no one else wanted (and one that everyone prior to them had failed), and they did it with excellence, boosting the morale of the troops and bringing peace and comfort to those back home.
If you can’t respect their efforts, the least you can do is shut up. I promise their contributions to the world are more meaningful than sitting around on X throwing stones.
Trump didn’t win in spite of his negative qualities—he won because those qualities mirror what we’ve come to value as the American ideal.
-Lying rebranded as “telling it like it is.”
-Insulting opponents seen as strength, not insecurity
-Aggression over humility.
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Until we realize that the American government has become a co-signing guarantor for corporate profits rather the citizen prosperity, it will be difficult to see much progress toward a just and caring society.
One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the lie that that single mom on welfare or the kid getting free food at school is the problem instead of the ultra rich hoarding more wealth than billions of people have combined and getting tax breaks for doing so.
2014—All NY Cops acquitted for choking Eric Garner to death
2015—No NY Cops held liable for torturing Kalief Browder & enabling his death
2024—Daniel Perry walks, no one in NY held liable for choking Jordan Neely to death
A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect.
@LWitucke @johngacinski @ClayHammerBeats @bj116 I did not call everyone racist. I said ppl can be bigots. You just keep wasting time baiting ppl, I don’t care.
@LWitucke @johngacinski @ClayHammerBeats @bj116 That’s it right there “ your community “. True believers do not believe that there are differ communities. We are supposed to be one community. Carry on.
@johngacinski @ClayHammerBeats @bj116 Timeout. Until you decide to be completely honest re: how slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, Redlining etc, has had a MAJOR impact on why certain demographics are in poverty, you should not be so quick to comment. Christians can be bigots.