we should treat them as we treated nazis until they understand that it’s not a good thing to be a nazi.
But that would require doing things that people use to say “communism bad because gulags.” What is more likely to happen is they’ll be given a safe haven in somewhere like South America while giving them the top positions in rocket science and military intelligence, because that’s how the West likes to deal with Nazi’s and Nazi-lookalikes.
It’s also pretty reflective of the person who decides to become a cop.
For some people, protesting is just whiney behaviour that didn’t get them labour rights or weekends.
I picture someone walking up to the microphone right afterwards and saying “…Not including gang violence.”
We have plenty of examples of decades of government narratives being pushed hard and people being ridiculed for pointing out irregularities, only to later learn the government was either involved or completely responsible.
MLK Jr comes to mind.
No but when we’re ready, he won’t have to.
There’s an awful lot around the event that was never really addressed or officially denied or later dismissed on.
It’s also a story you tell yourself, which is only as true as much as you believe it. Why do you hold onto that story? Why not make up a different, perhaps more positive story? It’ll only be as true/false as the one you currently tell yourself.
Who is telling you that you need to meet a certain criteria, other than yourself?
So what do you propose people do then?
What does “adequate” mean? Serious question.
If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a draft.
Would be funny if it backfires and at the next SOTU just one American does the right thing and set off a bomb vest in the middle of that crowd.
The center of true political influence is at the dinner table with the people you share food with.
Because we don’t feel the heat on our backs yet.
https://newrepublic.com/post/207270/military-leaders-iran-war-donald-trump-jesus-armageddon
“By Monday evening, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, or MRFF, was “inundated” with complaints, receiving more than 110 grievances from U.S. military personnel stationed at dozens of sites across the Middle East, reported independent journalist Jonathan Larsen.”
Definitely not the idea of just a few coocky officers.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/03/us-israel-iran-war-christian-rhetoric
https://asiatimes.com/2026/03/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for-armageddon-return-of-jesus/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/iran-armageddon-military
https://metro.co.uk/2026/03/04/us-soldiers-told-iran-conflict-gods-plan-trigger-armageddon-27220172/
Honest question: Do you think, if Harris was president, her and the establishment democratic party would refuse letting Israel drag the US into a war with Iran? Because I honestly believe they’d accept the same excuses from Israel that got us into the current war with Iran. They’d probably be more sly about it and less obvious than Trump. Didn’t the establishment democrats run their campaign on their unwavering support for Israel?