JoeWeber
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Yes, by that interpretation. That said your typical citizen can't assemble a bike on Christmas Eve so I'd bet they'd take any chance to hide out and play it safe while others saved the world.
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Our Second Amendment is a misinterpreted joke that any 3rd grader without a dog in the fight would likely read more correctly. No sane person has ever explained to me why, in this case of Constitutional originalism ONLY, tossing out the first two parts and keeping the second two parts was obviously what the framers intended. So to satisfy your curiosity, I take exception to certain interpretations. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"
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Fine. Then why did you give this glib answer: "I was regular Army, not National Guard. My job was outside the US borders". So all of that explanation aside, tell us: did the marines deployed to Los Angeles follow lawful orders? Yes, because it was under a defensible, but patently false, pretext? Yes, even if you knew it was to police not protect and you knew that many of your fellows might well go way beyond that if ordered and that any right or wrong would be decided well after the fact in, if there ever was one, a court of law? Thanks for the homework and I'm happy you stood up but it is a lot more complicated than the deep details of an oath that most cannot recall or think matters when orders are given. My position stands: the police and the military will be the instruments of the undoing of our democracy, if it happens, and nothing in your explanation would prevent that truth.
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I wasn’t being cute and I’d enjoy, given your reluctance, reading anyone’s defense of your refusal to admit the truth: you would obey the orders because your training and oath demands it. If the oath was limited to “foreign” your first reply might have been defensible.
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To do so would be to expose the fallacy. The phrase is "enemies, foreign and domestic". He knows full well that he would have, or had, no role in deciding who is whom and would have followed the orders he was sworn to follow. The sad reality is that our police and our military will be the tools used to destroy our democracy and the confused patriots in their ranks will be, as ever, just following orders.
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Regular Marines were sent to LA. I ask again, would you refuse or salute and go?
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Which were then met with jackboots, beatings, and arrests of the few participants. As ever, the many who stayed at home or were bowling received the message loud and clear and will continue to avoid participating, instead hoping it all goes away.
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And from there it developed into today's world of unfortunate values and all of the poor choices made by men. Girls did this to us.
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Yes. And be honest, would you refuse or salute and go?
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Bingo. The why of health things is often not complicated and the down stream benefits can be huge for the individual and society.
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I don't doubt it.
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Did you bother to notice that your hero President, against prison rules for pedophiles, had Ghislane Maxwell transferred to a fenceless minimum security prison camp? And that's not all. Her status is security level OUT. That means she can leave for the day to work etc. and just come back to sleep. Let me guess, you see nothing wrong with that, nor can you see Trumps hand in it, nor can you possibly imagine that Trump got something in exchange for it.
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Nice avatar of a fool using the American flag as a bag for his dick and balls. Cute.
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Seems likely they're coming. The US is becoming a damn embarrassment. Too many think just saluting the flag shows you're a patriot who supports his country; a shallow belief at best as evidenced daily by the morons driving around shredding the huge ones mounted on their trucks. Teaching kids to pledge allegiance to a piece of fabric instead of the founding documents and guiding principles that distinguish our nation from lesser ones has been a huge error, I think. Just look at our Secretary of Defense who sports an American Flag snot rag in his jacket pocket as his proof of fidelity.
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Trump posted on Truth Social that people experiencing unsheltered homelessness (in DC) must "move out immediately." Is Bekin's Van Lines still around? Maybe me and BIGUN (I'll need someone to lift the furniture) can get us a sweet government contract.
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When you've got jack shit to do with your day why not travel the world with your family at taxpayers expense? Ever been to the Taj at mid day? Get there early when the fog from the Yamuna River is burning away and the view is stunning with very few folks around. Of course, a hour after the Shatabdi Express from Delhi arrives around 8 the place is packed. And then if you want a nice family photo of with your boys wearing Kurta's that would get you deported in America then you just ask that the place be vacated. Bada Bing!
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Interestingly the Azerbaijani school system is currently secular with religious interests working for change, like here. Now that our IRS has allowed pastors to preach politics from the pulpit we're one foot further out the door and down the rungs. That's what I oppose. I am all for secular support services as described, and with my tax money, as long as religion is no where in sight.
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Used to be. You might check the news on what some of your republican brethren think is good curriculum.
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Maybe free government run child care -no religion involved with my tax dollars though- that included some health services and was education focused is an answer. Parents would need to accept that the system needs to know about their personal lives or whatever else the system needed to know in exchange. Job workshops, or maybe jobs in the system, could help get the parents on track. And somehow, some way, we'd need to get comfortable requiring birth control and birth terminations for people that can't care for the kids they already have. Unfortunately, as ever, religion will be opposed.
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No, you don't got it. It's glib to accuse us of wanting concentration camps next. However, instead the proposed sanitary living conditions that afford opportunities to escape the endless cycle how's about the rest of us, you first, get assigned one or two homeless or psychologically damaged folks to support and help every 5 years or so? No? Of course not, you just want your conscious salved by having a certain level of concern applied from a distance and at a reasonable cost; and to stay engaged you believe the conversation then must be limited to the level of concern and the cost. I have many European friends who are super frustrated at the tax price they pay after following a political philosophy of write checks and don't ask questions for so long. Gifting sufficient free money to live comfortably and freedom, no strings attached, is not the solution.
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Maybe he'll just come to his senses and it'll all be a nothing burger.
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Around these parts if you live in a tent with your dog alongside the highway you are likely white. The browner folks tend to have jobs somewhere.
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Not at all. Jaywalking shows initiative and a desire to get ahead. Two of those and we put their tent and dog in your yard as a reward.
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Soup kitchens, cots in a dorm, bathroom facilities, a public health clinic, psych services and a way to earn money to get out seems about right. Anything more, let the churches pay for it with what they don't pay in property taxes.
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That is to say it is a basic human right to be provided for. That is a vastly different proposition than the idea that we actually help ourselves by helping those unable to help themselves. No matter, no sooner were the words typed than you took the idea to task in the three paragraphs that followed. This idea of basic rights that are the responsibilities of others is wrongheaded. We help others to benefit the collective and ourselves either economically or emotionally. But no way, no how, should we simply toss in the towel and agree that helping the selfish and the lazy is the cost of doing societal business any more than we should allow other types of thieves roam without penalty.
