"If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist. --Joseph Sobran, Editor of the National Review at one time (1995)

 caitlin sums it up in relatively few words, in case you hadn't noticed what she's speaking about;

Biden may be trying to extradite a journalist for exposing US war crimes, and he may be inflicting mass murder and starvation sanctions on disobedient governments around the world to ensure perpetual global domination, but at least America voted out fascism.

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The “two” party puppet show is always fake. Always, always, always, always. When you get really into a movie you forget it’s a movie. You don’t see the screen, you don’t see the actors; you’re enthralled by the show. Getting caught up in the puppet show is the same: buy into any part of it and you lose sight of reality. As soon as you mentally reify it because you really like this or that Democrat or really hate this or that Republican, you lose your ability to see what’s happening. You lose sight of the puppeteers and the strings as you clap along with the performance like a child.

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There is no meaningful difference between a government with one status quo-enforcing party and a government with two status quo-enforcing parties.

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We inhabit two worlds: the real world and the narrative world. In the narrative world, the US drastically changed on January 20th. In the real world―the world minus its narrative soundtrack―all the money, weapons, troops and people are moving basically the same as they were on January 19th.

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If President Biden had all the exact same policies and positions but an (R) next to his name, American conservatives would be ferociously defending him from liberal attacks. If parallel universes exist this is definitely happening in one of them.............read more........

 andy always had a way with words and noticing things;

 in case you weren't aware;

 large scale resistance can work if enough of you decide to do so as this entry shows;

Here’s proof that mass resistance works.

A large number of sane people gathered socially – and sans the Holy Rag – to watch the Super Bowl and participate in normal life, by not manifesting hypochondriacal terror of sickness.

This afflicted a reporter from CNN to such a degree that she double-diapered while moaning about the mass refusal to participate in mass insanity. “Fears Grow of a Superspreader Event,” the cutline read.

Well, too bad about your fears, Freak.

We’re going to live.

This is how we restore normalcy. By making it effectively impossible for these sickness psychotics to impose their psychosis. It is very hard to forcibly Diaper thousands or even hundreds of people – or even 100 of them...........read and watch more.....

 protect and serve or watch while others attack you, might be a good question as presented here;

Buffalo, NY — Jake Reinhardt and his pregnant fiancé, Taylor Schmieder, and their 3-year-old daughter were sound asleep in their home last month when loud banging on their door and yelling men echoing in their front yard shook them out of their slumber. When Reinhardt answered the door, he was staring down the barrel of a gun and surrounded by a half dozen armed thugs.

“Open it up or we’ll kick it in!” the man a the door yelled.

Reinhardt said he was terrified as he slowly walked toward the front door, and asked “Who’s that?”

The man outside raises his gun toward the front door and again screams, “Open the door, now!”

Reinhardt explained to WIVB that he saw several Buffalo police officers standing on the sidewalk before he opened the door, which put him at ease enough to open it. He thought they simply had the wrong home.

However, when he opened the door — shirtless and shoeless — two men in tactical gear pointed guns at his chest.

Though the people on the sidewalk were Buffalo cops, the two people pointing guns at Reinhardt’s chest were bounty hunters. They were being escorted by the cops, who condoned this behavior to look for Reinhardt’s brother who missed a court date for a measly $5,000 bond.

To be clear, Reinhardt’s brother Luke, was not someone on America’s most wanted as the response would indicate. He was wanted over a few misdemeanors, one of which was a suspended driver’s license. What’s more, Luke had already made arrangements to turn himself in but wanted to make sure he made his doctor’s appointment beforehand and police were aware of this..........read and watch more.......

 i don't do much popular culture and haven't seen this individuals movies but i have seen her experience spoken about a lot in recent days. it would seem from what i've read that this writer makes a good case for the actual cause, which is and will be something all of us will face if we haven't already;

We don’t comment on pop-culture much, but as the incredibly fine line between politics and entertainment begins to fade totally out of existence the overlap becomes harder and harder to ignore.

Plus, sometimes something is just so unfair you have to take a moment to correct the record.

Actress and former MMA fighter Gina Carano has lost her role in Disney’s hit Star Wars spin-off “The Mandalorian”, lost out on her own spin-off series and been dropped by her agent.

All this is the result of a series of social media posts described as “abhorrent” in a press release from LucasFilm:

“Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future. Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”

But what did Carano actually say?

Well, the post is deleted but there are screencaps available. Here’s the “abhorrent” text:

Because history is edited, most people today don’t realise that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbours hate them simply for being Jews.

How is that any different from hating someone for their political views.”

Is this “abhorrent”? Is this “denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities”?

Obviously not. It’s an entirely historically accurate statement, making a broader point about the dangers of dehumanising large groups of people.   .........read more.....