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Re: Superiority cannot be taught
By: Starling Date: September 15, 2020, 9:06 am
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Soldier Defends Muslim Worker
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG6omxJJrw4
From the show "What Would You Do" an American soldier
instinctively defends a Muslim deli worker being harassed.
True Leftist in uniform?
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 16, 2020, 1:01 am
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"True Leftist in uniform?"
Only if he would not similarly defend a Jew. Otherwise False
Leftist.
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 18, 2020, 2:07 am
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Trump voters are not Americans. Uniting Americans means cutting
out Trump voters:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV7w9qyCdMA
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: Starling Date: September 20, 2020, 8:11 am
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Mattis on Trump
HTML https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cM9hGjUgTeI/maxresdefault.jpg
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 16, 2020, 4:37 am
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I support this:
HTML https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/joe-biden-urged-appoint-muslim-federal-judges-grace-meng
[quote]The vice-chair of the Democratic Party is calling on Joe
Biden to commit to appointing, for the first time, Muslim judges
to the federal bench if he were to win November's presidential
election.
House Representative Grace Meng made the request in a letter to
the Biden campaign last week, asking the former vice president
and his running mate Kamala Harris to publicly make the
commitment.
...
The letter was drafted by the Muslim Bar Association of New York
and signed by the South Asian Bar Association of New York.
In their letter, Meng and the two organisations highlighted that
the roles of Muslims in America pre-date "the founding of the
nation", pointing out it is estimated between 10 to 15 percent
of those trafficked to the continent for slavery were Muslims.
...
In 2016, Trump said he believed Muslim and Hispanic justices
should not be eligible to oversee any case involving him because
"it's possible" they would be biased against him.[/quote]
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: Starling Date: October 20, 2020, 8:06 pm
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1990s nostalgia, a great decade for America:
HTML https://www.buzzfeed.com/mikespohr/23-reasons-living-in-the-90s-was-the-absolute-freaking-best
1. "Driving to the mall on Friday night with friends and not
knowing who else might be there. It was thrilling wondering if
you would run into your crush — and not knowing because no one
had phones or social media."
2. "POGS! Nothing like [s]low-key gambling[/s] face-to-face
games on the playground during recess."
5. "Developing photos! The excitement of opening the envelope
and seeing what memory you captured was a thrill. Everyone would
flock to you when they saw you had photos."
6. "Not having to maintain an 'online image' or prove to others
that we had interesting or adventurous lives."
7. "Not having people pretending to have the perfect life,
face, body, etc. in our faces all day, every day thanks to
social media. It was really nice."
[img]
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10. "The way the Internet was so open. You weren’t dealing with
mega-corporations back then — it was all just people running
their own websites, starting small companies, trying new stuff."
11. "It feels like it was the last time the world wasn’t so
scary. Everyone was super excited about what a new millennium
would bring, 9/11 hadn’t happened yet, and we were all so full
of hope and optimism. I miss that innocence."
13. "Letters from friends studying abroad or going to college
in a different state than you. It was so nice to pick up your
mail and see familiar handwriting. Long letters — especially
those written over a week or even a month — were the best."
14. "African American representation on television. Martin;
Living Single; Fresh Prince; Girlfriends; Half and Half; Sister,
Sister; The Arsenio Hall Show; In Living Color."
[img]
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No matter who you were, you had positive representation in
media.
15. "Going out for dinner with family and friends and not
seeing a damn cell phone on the table."
21. "Space Jam. Michael Jordan (aka the G.O.A.T.), the most
famous players in the NBA, and Looney Toons in one movie?! I
still get excited when I watch it."
[img]
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 22, 2020, 11:36 pm
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This site lists donors to the Trump campaign by name and
location:
HTML https://donaldtrump.wat
ch/
These are all the people who will have to be at least prohibited
from reproducing before there can be any possibility of a united
America.
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: guest5 Date: October 30, 2020, 8:34 pm
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The Fight to Reclaim the Southwest | States of Unrest
[quote]VICE heads to the Southwest to see how one indigenous
tribe’s fight to protect their land and ancestral history is
playing out at the San Diego border. Then we hit the streets of
Phoenix with a group of progressive military veterans on a
mission to change the hearts and minds of voters in the growing
battleground state of Arizona.
The 2020 Presidential election is coinciding with one of the
most polarizing times in modern American history - VICE travels
across the country to learn about the extraordinary actions of
ordinary people that could shape our collective future.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te7UMbJHsNs
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 10, 2020, 3:17 am
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/aoc-wants-cancel-those-worked-110109677.html
[quote]Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez kicked things off on Friday with
a tweet that terrified Trumpworld.
“Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to
downplay or deny their complicity in the future?” she wrote. “I
foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings,
photos in the future.”
A group calling itself the Trump Accountability Project sprung
up to heed AOC’s call.
“Remember what they did,” the group’s sparse website declares.
“We should not allow the following groups of people to profit
from their experience: Those who elected him. Those who staffed
his government. Those who funded him.”[/quote]
HTML https://www.trumpaccountability.net/
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 12, 2020, 10:45 pm
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More people are understanding, if not yet in our preferred
terminology, that America and the Western occupation are two
things:
HTML https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/americas-two-souls/617062/
[quote]A Battle Between the Two Souls of America
There is a divide in America between the souls of injustice and
justice.
...
On the day of Floyd’s funeral, the attack lines were set.
Floyd’s soldiers were attacking racism and police violence as
the problem. Trump’s soldiers were attacking all those
demonstrating against racism and police violence as the problem.
The battle of 2020—the historic battle for America—was on.
...
Biden wrote. “If it wasn’t clear before, it’s clear now: We are
living through a battle for the soul of this nation.”
No one can now deny the battle. The Biden and Trump campaigns
made clear the battle before the nation. But what if American
history; what if Charlottesville; what if Trumpism; what if the
coronavirus pandemic, demonstrations, and natural disasters this
year; what if the election and its chaotic aftermath have shown
us something else about the battle? A second national soul on
the battlefield?
We the people of the United States do not have a single national
soul, but rather two souls, warring with each other. The battle
for the soul of America is actually the battle between the souls
of America.[/quote]
I agree in every way except that I consider only one of the two
souls to deserve to be called American.
Floyd's soldiers = American soul
Trump's soldiers = Western soul
[quote]If it wasn’t clear before, it’s clear now, after Trump
received the second-highest vote total of any presidential
candidate in history; after Trump refused to concede; after
moderates started blaming progressives for GOP gains and Trump’s
narrow loss. Because, of course, when moderates lose or barely
win, moderates are never to blame. Because, of course, when
Trump loses, Trump is never to blame.
Humans lie about themselves, like they lie about their nations.
Humans and nations hide behind the cloak of ideals and
intentions. But the outcome of what humans do and what nations
do is never a lie. The outcome—what comes out of a nation’s
policies, practices, and ideology—is what a nation breathes.
Nations—like institutions and individuals—are not inherently
anything. They are what they do. What they do is what they
breathe. And what they breathe is their soul.
After millions of Americans partied all day on public streets,
after Harris graced history in her suffragette-white pantsuit,
Biden gave a rousing victory speech Saturday night from
Wilmington, Delaware. “I’ve long talked about the battle for the
soul of America,” he said. “We must restore the soul of America.
Our nation is shaped by the constant battle between our better
angels and our darkest impulses. It is time for our better
angels to prevail.”[/quote]
But can Biden admit that those darkest impulses are collectively
called Western civilization?
[quote]“America is a mix of light and shadow,” Meacham said
during his address to the Democratic National Convention on
August 20. “Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall dwell in the
American soul, but so do the impulses that have given us
slavery, segregation, and systemic discrimination.”[/quote]
Can Meacham admit that the shadow is Western civilization?
[quote]Biden and Meacham both speak crucially about the battle,
the twoness. But what if the twoness dwells in the nation, not
in a single national soul? Opposing forces can dwell in a mind,
in a nation. But can opposing forces dwell in a soul—if soul is
elemental like breath? It is hard to imagine the enslaver and
the enslaved being together in any elemental sense. It is hard
to imagine Trump and the survivor who voted against him being
together in any elemental sense. But they have been battling in
the same nation.
There is a divide in America between the souls of injustice and
justice: souls in opposition like fire and ice, like voters and
voter subtraction, like Trump and truth.[/quote]
The soul of injustice is called Western civilization. (And "ice"
should be all caps.)
[quote]There have been many battles between the souls of America
on many issues. Both souls—the soul of justice, the soul of
injustice—were there at the founding, in the 1770s and ’80s.
They battled during the Continental Congresses. They battled in
the First Congress. The soul of injustice defeated the soul of
justice with the battle cry of “necessary evil” by the end of
the 18th century. But the defeated soul of justice battled on in
the shadows of history. In an 1844 letter to his fellow
abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass called
for a “great moral and religious movement” that involved “the
quickening and enlightening of the dead conscience of the nation
into life, and to a sense of the gross injustice, fraud, wrong
and inhumanity of enslaving their fellow-men,—the fixing in the
soul of the nation an invincible abhorrence of the whole system
of slaveholding.”
Instead, racist Americans compromised on manacled bodies again
in 1850, as they had in 1820 in Missouri, as they had at the
founding in Philadelphia. The Civil War, which started as an
effort to put the soul of injustice back in its slaveholding
place, transformed into a battle between the souls of the
nation. The soul of justice won the Civil War but lost the
battle. The soul of injustice defeated the soul of justice with
the battle cry of “separate but equal” by the end of the 19th
century. But once again, the soul of justice battled on in the
shadows of history.
Then came the Great Migration, and a New Deal for some of those
who migrated north, and the great Ella Baker and Rosa Parks.
Lawyers like Thurgood Marshall took the soul of injustice to the
Supreme Court, and preachers like Martin Luther King Jr. chose
“to save the soul of America,” the motto of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference, newly formed in 1957.
The soul of justice won the civil-rights movement but yet again
lost the battle. Once again, racist Americans imposed a
compromise, conjuring a Black criminal menace rather than
acknowledging the continued crime of racist policies leading to
racial inequity. The soul of injustice defeated the soul of
justice with the battle cry of “color-blind” by the end of the
20th century.
Then came the movement for Barack Obama, the Movement for Black
Lives, the movement for anti-racism. Then came the movement for
Trump, the movement for law and order, the movement for white
supremacy. Both movements were powerful. Both movements were
mainstream. Both movements were never turning back. All
Americans were gripped by one or the other, or both: the
movement for the soul of justice, and the movement for the soul
of injustice.[/quote]
And once you consider that the same soul of injustice was found
in all the Western colonial powers, it is trivial to identify
the soul of injustice as Western civilization.
[quote]But Democrats, independents, and Republicans who
religiously believe the myth of the pure American soul are not
about to consider that we have had two souls, that we have seen
a battle between slaveholders and abolitionists, Confederates
and Unionists, red shirts and civil-rights activists, red hats
and Black Lives Matter protesters. The two souls are not prime
material for political campaigns.[/quote]
We can change this via consistent messaging.
[quote]Many white Americans, in particular, really did believe
that the first Black president was poisoning their nation’s
soul. They answered Trump’s call to make America great again in
2016. Four years later, many Americans believed that Trump was
poisoning their nation, and answered Biden’s call to restore the
soul of the nation.
...
In the end, the souls animating both the red hats and the
honking cars want a restoration—they want things to go back to
normal. In the end, they will all be disappointed. There’s no
saving America’s soul. There's no restoring the soul. There's no
fighting for the soul of America. There’s no uniting the souls
of America. There is only fighting off the other soul of
America.[/quote]
Very well put. When we speak of uniting Americans, we do not
mean attempting to unite the two souls. Rather, we mean uniting
the American soul so that it can become strong enough to destroy
the Western soul.
[quote]Obama and Trump did not poison the American soul any more
than Biden can heal it. Trump battled for the soul of injustice,
and the voters sent him home. Soon, President Biden can battle
for the soul of justice.
Our past breaths do not bind our future breaths. I can battle
for the soul of justice. And so can you. And so can we. Like our
ancestors, for our children. We can change the world for Gianna
Floyd. We can—once and for all—win the battle between the souls
of America.[/quote]
Better yet, we can prove that only the soul of justice deserves
to call itself America.
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