Tractatus
5d ago
This just results in the case being dropped. Why would you think this would work?
Tractatus
5d ago
but were neglected by USAID in favor of some kind of nepotism?
Correct; USAID was a slush fund that provided cushy jobs to loyal progressive partisans as a reward for their agitation on behalf of progressive and/or Democratic Party causes, or in opposition to right-wing and/or Republican Party causes. If any of the money USAID spent managed to make life better for the poor and downtrodden in other countries, that made the US look better, then all the better, but that was not to primary driver of the program.
Tractatus
18d ago
For what it's worth, Martin's tweet concerning the "autopsy" is pretty much a complete disavowal. Depending on "why" he needed to release it as-is may have implications in the Culture War, or it may just be regular political skullduggery, I couldn't say.
Tractatus
27d ago
Nothing in the 2nd Amendment implies it's only a limitation on the Federal government. It's frankly bizarre to flip the readings of the 1st and the 2nd in this manner; the 1st specifically is written to prohibit Congress from taking an action, whereas the 2nd specifically says the rights of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged period, with no mention of who specifically is prohibited from abridging their rights.
Nah, it was decades of the tv telling them that there was no greater good than to be seen as "not racist," that changing demographics were a good thing, diversity is our greatest strength, anyone saying otherwise, or saying something that could remotely be construed as being against this narrative, was a Nazi. I know, because even as a late Gen-Xer, this was what I grew up with, and was already a sacred value of my church - part of the Southern Baptist Convention, and thus, seen as "staunchly conservative" relative to most - you could not be seen as having any qualms about racial minorities, especially Black people. As Chesterton noted, "conservatives" don't need very long at all to adopt Progressive beliefs as "tradition"
More options
Context Copy link