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^^^ The fifth column at work.
The club isn’t limited to one ideology.Yup.
This Is What A Fifth Column Looks Like - Above the Law
Putin showed his true self. So did Carlson and Trump.abovethelaw.com
Pointing fingers at your own serves what purpose?They are willing to sacrifice their lives to fight oppression. We can't wear masks to protect our fellow citizens. We can't bear the price of gasoline going up. Putin attacks their democracy and Zelensky says "come and get me." Putin attacks our democracy and Trump says "come and get my opponent." Americans praise the oppressor.
Our patriots are aging nationalists who no longer trust democracy. Their patriots are fighting to save it.
Let Ukraine serve as an inspiration for us to reaffirm our faith in our founding principles and strive to live up to them in this changing world and reject the corrupt demagoguery that appeals to our base sense of grievance.
They are willing to sacrifice their lives to fight oppression. We can't wear masks to protect our fellow citizens. We can't bear the price of gasoline going up. Putin attacks their democracy and Zelensky says "come and get me." Putin attacks our democracy and Trump says "come and get my opponent." Americans praise the oppressor.
Our patriots are aging nationalists who no longer trust democracy. Their patriots are fighting to save it.
Let Ukraine serve as an inspiration for us to reaffirm our faith in our founding principles and strive to live up to them in this changing world and reject the corrupt demagoguery that appeals to our base sense of grievance.
Pointing fingers at your own serves what purpose?
Pointing fingers at your own serves what purpose?
I can’t seem to drawn any parallel between the war in the Ukraine and the United States.
Probably because there isn’t one to be drawn.
But, never let a good crisis go to waste.
I think one can. It is no stretch to say that the US is the leader among equals in NATO. Putin could have easily thought “The Americans will spend more time arguing about whose to blame for me grabbing the Ukraine than they will spend doing anything about it.”I can’t seem to drawn any parallel between the war in the Ukraine and the United States.
Probably because there isn’t one to be drawn.
But, never let a good crisis go to waste.
I think one can. It is no stretch to say that the US is the leader among equals in NATO. Putin could have easily thought “The Americans will spend more time arguing about whose to blame for me grabbing the Ukraine than they will spend doing anything about it.”
There you go again, making up hypotheticals when we know right wing media...Tucker, Bannon, and leadership with Trump, Pompeo etc., from the right wing, have literally praised Putin and literally agreed that Putin's side is the right side, Bannon agreeing that Ukraine isn't even a country, etc.I think one can. It is no stretch to say that the US is the leader among equals in NATO. Putin could have easily thought “The Americans will spend more time arguing about whose to blame for me grabbing the Ukraine than they will spend doing anything about it.”
Yeah, it’s hard to take much seriously from someone that thinks kids should smoke pot in classThey're in the OP.
As a supporter of book bans and criminalizing teaching, you might not get it.
Now I can believe thatI think one can. It is no stretch to say that the US is the leader among equals in NATO. Putin could have easily thought “The Americans will spend more time arguing about whose to blame for me grabbing the Ukraine than they will spend doing anything about it.”
Is Ukraine angelic? Google "Babi Yar." Better yet, I'll make it easy, Mass Shootings at Babyn Yar (Babi Yar).They are willing to sacrifice their lives to fight oppression. We can't wear masks to protect our fellow citizens. We can't bear the price of gasoline going up. Putin attacks their democracy and Zelensky says "come and get me." Putin attacks our democracy and Trump says "come and get my opponent." Americans praise the oppressor.
Our patriots are aging nationalists who no longer trust democracy. Their patriots are fighting to save it.
Let Ukraine serve as an inspiration for us to reaffirm our faith in our founding principles and strive to live up to them in this changing world and reject the corrupt demagoguery that appeals to our base sense of grievance.
They are willing to sacrifice their lives to fight oppression. We can't wear masks to protect our fellow citizens. We can't bear the price of gasoline going up. Putin attacks their democracy and Zelensky says "come and get me." Putin attacks our democracy and Trump says "come and get my opponent." Americans praise the oppressor.
Our patriots are aging nationalists who no longer trust democracy. Their patriots are fighting to save it.
Let Ukraine serve as an inspiration for us to reaffirm our faith in our founding principles and strive to live up to them in this changing world and reject the corrupt demagoguery that appeals to our base sense of grievance.
say what you will about it, it ain't in support of tyrannyYeah, it’s hard to take much seriously from someone that thinks kids should smoke pot in class
Many people in the West " no longer trust democracy" for very good reason. IE it's not a functioning denocracy but a plutocracy masquerading as a democracy and they might not see it in those terms but they understand the effect of that disenfranchisement in their lives.
Ukrainians haven't really had a democracy either and if they adopt the western model, which looks likely, which whilst better than authoriatarian rule, will lead many to the same conclusion as time passes.
40 odd years of neoliberal policies had to bring us somewhere and that somewhere is national division/meltdown.
THEY are fighting a war against a real threat using effective means.
Only morons actually still think cloth masks were effective, work to prevent the spread of virus, and advocate for their use.
You pretty much had me hook line and sinker up to this point here. Yes.
Now here is where you go astray imo, its not "neoliberal policies" bringing us down, we dont have any of those really, what is "bringing us down" is Corporate Fascism and Citizens United, which has separated the legislature from the electorate (as you say above, not exactly in those terms), just as Einstein warned us would happen.
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Sorry the truth shits on the mindless rhetoric you have so eagerly swallowed. Hey...maybe you can see if Biden will give you a 'hero' medal for swallowing the mask rhetoric...you know...seeing as how you compare yourself swallowing the mask lies to people fighting a war for their lives.A powerful, overwrought opinion on cloth masks. Thanks for sharing. Very helpful.
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