If you get right down to it, all laws are enforced at something resembling gunpoint, but usually somebody who reduces everything to that is just a chronically dishonest person, because the details matter. Or theyre 19 and stoned
January 23, 2026 at 9:47 PM
If you get right down to it, all laws are enforced at something resembling gunpoint, but usually somebody who reduces everything to that is just a chronically dishonest person, because the details matter. Or theyre 19 and stoned
Sorry but anyone who tries to tell you (leftistly) that Calhoun is a more authentic exemplar of the American political tradition than Frederick Douglass is a wrecker.
January 23, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Sorry but anyone who tries to tell you (leftistly) that Calhoun is a more authentic exemplar of the American political tradition than Frederick Douglass is a wrecker.
/7 Prosecuting a cop for misconduct, let alone murder, is the hardest prosecution you can do in America. Thanks to America’s culture it’s like trying to convict a fucking kitten for high treason. It’s like trying to convict Jesus. You just cannot rush over confidently into that.
January 23, 2026 at 5:30 PM
All of this is descriptively true. It describes an actual reality in the US that is bad and must be toppled. We must break the baronial police class
This isn't just near Independence Hall. It's where Washington stayed while president, kept slaves, posted bounty ads for runaways, and rotated them back and forth to VA to evade PA's manumission law. This is what it's known for, this specific location's primary historical significance is slavery.
The exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park have been removed amid pressure from the Trump admin www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
January 23, 2026 at 2:24 PM
This isn't just near Independence Hall. It's where Washington stayed while president, kept slaves, posted bounty ads for runaways, and rotated them back and forth to VA to evade PA's manumission law. This is what it's known for, this specific location's primary historical significance is slavery.
The way so much of bluesky, including and maybe especially Jewish social democrats, has adopted the religious aesthetics of Civil War abolitionist Christianity is absolutely fascinating
January 22, 2026 at 3:52 AM
The way so much of bluesky, including and maybe especially Jewish social democrats, has adopted the religious aesthetics of Civil War abolitionist Christianity is absolutely fascinating
im not a christian but i am a type of christian (american lawyer). i think moral philosophy needs to play a part. i think cultural expectations and standards are probably good to have. stated ideals. this sort of thing. the longstanding moral rot of our elites is a problem! i think that matters
January 22, 2026 at 3:20 PM
im not a christian but i am a type of christian (american lawyer). i think moral philosophy needs to play a part. i think cultural expectations and standards are probably good to have. stated ideals. this sort of thing. the longstanding moral rot of our elites is a problem! i think that matters