"changing the hours that we made scones was certainly not equivalent to the death of 6 million Jews."
well, you would say that, wouldn't you?
Remember Hitler's quote about the Armenians?
Can't recall how much time the Spaniards gave the Jews to beat feet back in 149-whatever
Funny you bring up Blood and Faith, now on my Read list. I've been researching a theocracy novel for a couple of years and you should have a look at the Dominionist movement.
It was swell talking to you the other day, my brother
"In early 2017, Grassley sponsored legislation that expanded access to firearms by mentally disabled individuals": this should be carved on America's tombstone
Lastly, R. E. Lee was a fine man who resigned his commission in the US military because as a Virginian, he felt honour-bound to serve int he Southern cause, even though he disagreed with secession and slavery.
This hits close to home. There was a 15-year-old couch-surfing foster kid that I helped once in a while. Over five or six years, I noticed Nazi and racist posts on her social media.
“Into the oven with him/her,” was a frequent refrain. I would point out that her surname was Jewish.
Another comment from one of her friends read “…middle-aged women with degrees from SFU in things like liberal arts are social justice warriors and our enemies…”
I started parking my car farther away when I went to help with childcare in case someone might use my license plate to dox me.
I talked to other “adults”, even a family member. But they either didn't believe me, or couldn't get it together.
In the intervening years, I gained some insight into why I lost her to this ideology.
She posted memes of Arian maidens tending hearths, surrounded by gleaming, healthy children. She wanted a strong husband to protect her, where her family had not. She wanted a single, secure home and a place to raise her children after years of homelessness. She wanted simple answers after years of uncertainty. Cults of whatever fashion do this.
I regret that I couldn't walk beside her any further. Last I knew she met another Nazi and they expanded their family and moved away. I had broken contact by then. My tiniest hope is that contact with the community through her children might bring her back to sanity.
When it comes to mass killing, no one rivals the US since the end of WW2. Prior to the invasion of Iraq, killing a million civilians, the U.S. and Western sanctions killed 500,000 children because of lack of medicines. When asked if was “worth it”, Clinton’s Secretary of State Madelaine Albright answered, “It was.” How many Koreans, Vietnamese, Loatians, Cambodians, Central and South Americans, Serbians, Kosovans, Iraqis, Afghanis, Libyans, Syrians, Yemenis, and Palestinians have died at the hands of the U.S. and its proxies and client states? And I’m sure I’ve missed some here. Because freedom and democracy? Which of these places is better off as a result? And we know that the motives we’ve been sold as truth, we’re bullshit, from the “domino effect” to the Gulf of Tonkin, to the WMDs, to the current lies about Ukraine and Palestine/Gaza. Who are the real Nazis? Oh Keith, off some pseudo-radical rant again! Living in privilege and virtue signalling. But I’ll say this: I refuse to be the “good German” watching the genocides and ethnic cleansing, and imperialism, in the name of a “world order” and the rule of international law (that the US refuse to be a signatory of because they are “exceptional.), because what the Nazis did was done “legally” and it’s clear they saw themselves as exceptional. Ok, I’m exceptional too. And I say, we’re the Nazis, and we’re the terrorists, notwithstanding the brutal exterminations of Indigenous peoples in the Americas and elsewhere. Happy Solstice! I’m a terrible dinner guest! But love to you and yours on these holidaze. Love, peace, and friendship.
"changing the hours that we made scones was certainly not equivalent to the death of 6 million Jews."
well, you would say that, wouldn't you?
Remember Hitler's quote about the Armenians?
Can't recall how much time the Spaniards gave the Jews to beat feet back in 149-whatever
Funny you bring up Blood and Faith, now on my Read list. I've been researching a theocracy novel for a couple of years and you should have a look at the Dominionist movement.
It was swell talking to you the other day, my brother
Further to which -
"In early 2017, Grassley sponsored legislation that expanded access to firearms by mentally disabled individuals": this should be carved on America's tombstone
Lastly, R. E. Lee was a fine man who resigned his commission in the US military because as a Virginian, he felt honour-bound to serve int he Southern cause, even though he disagreed with secession and slavery.
This hits close to home. There was a 15-year-old couch-surfing foster kid that I helped once in a while. Over five or six years, I noticed Nazi and racist posts on her social media.
“Into the oven with him/her,” was a frequent refrain. I would point out that her surname was Jewish.
Another comment from one of her friends read “…middle-aged women with degrees from SFU in things like liberal arts are social justice warriors and our enemies…”
I started parking my car farther away when I went to help with childcare in case someone might use my license plate to dox me.
I talked to other “adults”, even a family member. But they either didn't believe me, or couldn't get it together.
In the intervening years, I gained some insight into why I lost her to this ideology.
She posted memes of Arian maidens tending hearths, surrounded by gleaming, healthy children. She wanted a strong husband to protect her, where her family had not. She wanted a single, secure home and a place to raise her children after years of homelessness. She wanted simple answers after years of uncertainty. Cults of whatever fashion do this.
I regret that I couldn't walk beside her any further. Last I knew she met another Nazi and they expanded their family and moved away. I had broken contact by then. My tiniest hope is that contact with the community through her children might bring her back to sanity.
When it comes to mass killing, no one rivals the US since the end of WW2. Prior to the invasion of Iraq, killing a million civilians, the U.S. and Western sanctions killed 500,000 children because of lack of medicines. When asked if was “worth it”, Clinton’s Secretary of State Madelaine Albright answered, “It was.” How many Koreans, Vietnamese, Loatians, Cambodians, Central and South Americans, Serbians, Kosovans, Iraqis, Afghanis, Libyans, Syrians, Yemenis, and Palestinians have died at the hands of the U.S. and its proxies and client states? And I’m sure I’ve missed some here. Because freedom and democracy? Which of these places is better off as a result? And we know that the motives we’ve been sold as truth, we’re bullshit, from the “domino effect” to the Gulf of Tonkin, to the WMDs, to the current lies about Ukraine and Palestine/Gaza. Who are the real Nazis? Oh Keith, off some pseudo-radical rant again! Living in privilege and virtue signalling. But I’ll say this: I refuse to be the “good German” watching the genocides and ethnic cleansing, and imperialism, in the name of a “world order” and the rule of international law (that the US refuse to be a signatory of because they are “exceptional.), because what the Nazis did was done “legally” and it’s clear they saw themselves as exceptional. Ok, I’m exceptional too. And I say, we’re the Nazis, and we’re the terrorists, notwithstanding the brutal exterminations of Indigenous peoples in the Americas and elsewhere. Happy Solstice! I’m a terrible dinner guest! But love to you and yours on these holidaze. Love, peace, and friendship.