To the fascist, hypocrisy is a feature. It’s a tool that removes restrictions for themselves while it restricts others. It’s a flex; their strength is so great it can’t be bound by internal consistency or mental consonance.
To the fascist, if hypocrisy grants them more power then it’s a good thing
The difficulty is that the only way to achieve equal status is through equitable treatment. But some people don’t want equitable treatment, oftentimes because they don’t want equal status.
People love looking at the first civil war in conversations like this, but the next civil war is going to be nothing like it. For a likely comparison, you’d have to look at the Spanish Civil War and The Troubles in Ireland.
Americans have no fucking clue what they’re asking for.
My kid and a bunch their friends deal with it, and I and many others are there to help them. And it sucks for them BIG TIME. It’s hard, even with supportive family and friend groups. My kid had two classmates just this year lose their lives to suicide due to LGBTQ hate.
The 90s were worse.
I really think you have no idea what you’re saying.
But his emails: Trump’s increasingly unhinged calls for violence (www.salon.com)
'Without a vote': GOP lawmaker airs bizarre 'civil prosecution' plan for Merrick Garland (www.rawstory.com)
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Appeals court blocks Fearless Fund from awarding grants to Black women (www.washingtonpost.com)
‘No way out without bloodshed’: the right believe the US is under threat and are mobilizing (www.theguardian.com)
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California sheriff quips he’s ‘changing teams,’ urges support for ‘convicted felon’ Trump (nypost.com)
Riverside County Sheriff Bianco has always been a conservative POS. The irony of a cop urging to “put a felon in the White House”.
President Joe Biden calls on LGBTQ+ community ‘to wave their flags of pride high’ this June (www.advocate.com)