The Wide Awakes were woke.
They formed to literally escort and provide personal security to Abraham Lincoln as he crossed the city of Baltimore.
The Wide Awakes were Radical Republicans.
Make the Radical Republicans Great Again.
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Take the mask off and feel seen
Anybody talking about a
“Final Solution”
to the
Palestinian Question just take the mask off already
we see you -
Speaking of tortured poets
Has nobody introduced
Taylor Swift to Rage Against The Machine, yet?
What is taking so long -
History rhymes in prose
Sound familiar?
“The trans community has a lot of work to do…”
“The Black community has a lot of work to do…”
“Feminists have a lot of work to do…”
“The Jewish community has a lot of work to do…”
“Organized labor has a lot of work to do…”
It’s all just a refactored
Niemöller poem. -
Load ‘em up and roll out
You’re a crusader, huh? A “crusade” is a premodern overly violent Christian campaign to conquer The Others™ -
A moral adventure
the only territory whose defense is sustainable is the moral high ground to get there involves trudging through a swamp of moral sinkholes -
Don’t stop, keep going
I was an American “military age male” on 9/11.
Born and raised.
Keep accusing people who are not terrorists of having terrorist sympathies.
It will work out well for you.
The Americans whom you accuse will forget how easily they were “otherized.”
I promise.
Ask me how I know.
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Amazing in its effrontery
To quote the Rock of Chickamauga, Coney Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch are about to practice “a species of self-forgiveness amazing in its effrontery”.
Thomas is married to one of the “precipitators of the rebellion” and intends to “go down in history hand in hand with the defenders of the government, thus wiping out with their own hands their own stains”.
Roberts seeks to rule so that “the crime of treason might be covered with a counterfeit varnish of patriotism”
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Develop & Know thy Core Values
To avoid being emotionally manipulated by Beatitude-less Dominionists, Torah-less Kahanists, Sufi-less Islamists, Brahmos-less Hindutva and spirit-less atheists, you have to develop first-principles, know thyself, and own your core values. -
Raise brave children
Raise brave children.
Fearful children grow into fearful adults.
Fearful adults make bad decisions.
Bad decisions result in fragile democracies.
Inani Ludibrio 