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Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 8h

I wonder how many will google it and see the...ehm...eclectic mix of links that result.

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 8h

...manage to ride the horse of religion intolerance that the average colonist felt until they had attained enough credibility to go a different direction. They deserve a lot of credit for that.

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 8h

While I agree that the people depicted did not, unfortunately, the statement is very wrong. Cotton Mather was very much into evangelical theocracy and one of the early Massachusetts grievances was that the Quebecois would get to keep practicing Catholicism. If anything, the people depicted...

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 8h

Did...you just use phrenology to condemn someone? In 2025? Are we backsliding in scientific understanding that badly?

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 8h

The screenshot says it's from LindellTV. If you want to go do some research, that's probably a place to start.

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 8h

Agreed. States enforcing the orders is the way (at least in the states which we can rely upon). I just twitch when I see the phrase 'court enforcing its orders' because that leads to a different form of authoritarianism.

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 23h

You're not wrong, unless of course the states choose to enforce.

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should poll his constituents on how they feel about that statement. If they poll against, it might undermine the regressive movement and the Dark Enlightenment. If they poll for, then at least we know where not to expect help or sympathy from and can cut them off emotionally.

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 1d

They accidentally made a music festival!

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 1d

Oh. Sorry, when you said that it was because of something at school, I thought you meant it was a school-age kid and wondered why you weren't doing more. Late 40s is a lot more established in their ways, and there's not much room to teach anymore. :-/

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 1d

Only if you regard the expanse of federal executive power as valid. If SCOTUS can rewrite precedent, why can't we revisit Pierson v. Ray (the qualified immunity decision) or at least the mid-2000s expansion into ersatz unqualified immunity for federal law enforcement. Just gotta take a stand.

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 1d

Courts don't enforce. That's literally why we have an executive branch. Congress legislates, the courts judge, and the executive branch is supposed to execute based on those two inputs.

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 1d

Johnson's replies, while perhaps good theater, demonstrate that your suggestion approach doesn't work. The inherent flaw is the presumption that they feel an obligation to explain anything to folks who aren't their base. By this point, the Epstein lines are drawn.

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 1d

I hate with a passion that it, like so many things, ends with "Russian disinformation". Gods, imagine a world where a psychopath didn't run Russia.

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 1d

I would strongly recommend you consider not spreading legal interpretations if you are not an expert (i.e. a lawyer), then. You're getting people excited for something that isn't necessarily borne out by all law (particularly, note that US Code Title 2 Section 25 is more compelling here).

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 1d

The Sharks wouldn't even let me fursuit at games when I was a season ticket holder(and mine is a partial that wouldn't have blocked line of sight) so this makes me a little grumpy.

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 1d

I presume some of the regressives understand opsec better since your story, so the rest are the ones who didn't learn.

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 1d

I know why.

two men wearing sunglasses and a jacket that says italia on it

ALT: two men wearing sunglasses and a jacket that says italia on it

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 2d

No, you need to teach more aggressively that blaming an entire race is bad. Not liking a race or nationality is not an acceptable outcome. If you don't know how to teach this, research fundamental attribution error. Maybe toss the kid a copy of Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Kahneman.

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 2d

No. We need their kids to be exposed to the things their parents are scared of. Abandoning trans kids to the orthodoxy of their parents causes harm. Being exposed to different things, sometimes even scary things, is growth.

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 2d

It's true. When values deviate this much, what do you do? In a relationship, you can have a divorce, but in politics there's too many of each value structure embedded in the communities of the other (and that's presuming that physical community even has value in the 21st century).

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 2d

It might be interesting to explore that theme more directly (obviously too late for S2, but in the future, presuming that S2 doesn't render the entire question moot).

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 2d

They're just jealous that Jesus was closer in color to the people they're deporting than to them.

(Wait until they find out about the Samaritan leper and that Jesus didn't tell him to self-deport after being healed!)

Cassandrus @cassandrusb.bsky.social · 2d

Oh. Oh, yeah, this makes more sense. Farm to Taber just did a video on H2A, so if MTG starts promoting the idea of "normalizing" immigrantss statuses by force-enrolling them indefinitely in that program, we might have a motive.