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A patriot loves their country. and just does something about it. A Nationalist loves themselves and the cult of themselves and uses their country to advertise it.. It's just narcissism wrapped in a flag. Noodle and crew
by phcarb
on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 01:12 PM PDT
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If you’re in charge of a war and you’re intentionally targeting civilians, you’re a bad guy. Note that I said “a bad guy”, not “the bad guy”. In some wars, the leaders of both sides are bad guys; although the civilians who happen to live in a war-torn...
by Perlinator
on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 02:33 PM PDT
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Tomorrow there will be a demonstration in downtown Prague. We got a little flyer in our mailbox. If you're thinking that this looks like some hyped-up, jingoistic crap— you’re right! Flip the flyer over and it's from PRO. The back of the flyer sets out...
by Marko the Werelynx
on Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 08:16 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. It’s one of the stranger phenomena on this planet. By 2023, the U.S. was estimated to spend more money on its “defense budget”...
by TomDispatch
on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 07:35 AM PDT
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Cross-posted to my Substack, The Janovsky Report It was July 1977. Generalissimo Francisco Franco was still dead, but I was alive and well and 29 years old, studying Spanish in Madrid for the summer. Franco died less than two years before, and people...
by Bethesda 1971
on Wed Feb 21, 2024 at 02:32 PM PST
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Joy Reid wisely and correctly (in my opinion) stated, "I think what we have to actually confront and you know this is what the Democrats are going to face is this is now what white evangelicalism is. It is Christian nationalism. That's the name of it,...
by Dem
on Mon Jan 15, 2024 at 09:56 PM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. At an earlier moment in history when anti-immigrant and racist feelings were soaring, a silent film, The Birth of a Nation, helped...
by TomDispatch
on Mon Sep 18, 2023 at 07:03 AM PDT
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Georgia governor Brian Kemp, responding to calls from fellow party members to use a new state law to call a session of impeachment to remove DA Fani Willis, firmly stated that he thought such a move would be unconstitutional, putting the kibosh on...
by novapsyche
on Sat Sep 02, 2023 at 08:50 AM PDT
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I first posted an abbreviated version of this essay on Independence Day in 2007. As the years go by, it seems to me that we should be paying more attention to the writings of brilliant authors like George Orwell and Howard Zinn. They force us to...
by JekyllnHyde
on Tue Jul 04, 2023 at 03:13 PM PDT
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit ...
by angryea
on Tue Jul 04, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
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You may not believe it, but Sen. Tommy Tuberville told us something this week that we did not know. At first, it’s easy to overlook, because along the way Tuberville said something completely boneheaded and wrong, and it’s tempting to get caught up in...
by novapsyche
on Sun May 14, 2023 at 09:17 AM PDT
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For many years, a portion of the world public has sought to wall itself off from people abroad by hiding behind national borders. In the United States, this tendency became an important element in American politics. During the 1920s and 1930s, the...
by Lawrence S Wittner
on Sun Apr 09, 2023 at 10:57 AM PDT
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Hundreds of conservative Christian activists and a handful of local far-right extremists, led by the right-wing Christian group United Revival, marched through Santa Monica on Saturday. At its peak, the crowd size was estimated to be around 650 people....
by VPSReports
on Sun Feb 19, 2023 at 09:02 AM PST
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Take a grassroots movement for peace, justice, and a sustainable way of life. Use force, threats, misdirection, and a whole lot of money to split it into pieces. Now you have people who are fighting for peace, or justice, or the environment, but not...
by AliceT4
on Thu Feb 02, 2023 at 09:10 AM PST
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Some twenty years ago, I supervised a Doctor of Ministry thesis on the subject of the presence of the American flag in the church sanctuary where the student served as pastor. When he presented this ...
by DRSat4880
on Wed Nov 02, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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If Cancer cells grow unchecked, they take over the vital organs of a body, and the host dies. Some people can live with cancers that may never kill them, like slow-growing prostate cancer. However, other types of cancer can explode and kill someone...
by Nickjlicata
on Tue Oct 18, 2022 at 06:28 PM PDT
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The irony of the obvious Some secrets in this world seem destined to remain hidden. Others exist out in the open, relying on the irony of the obvious to obscure their existence. Unfortunately, neither of these is an honest approach to the pursuit of...
by Cudman62
on Wed Sep 21, 2022 at 02:25 PM PDT
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— — Well, when l listened to this last night — it sounded WAY too eerily familiar. America may be further down the path toward Fascism, than I had ever realized. Assuming this Yale Professor has a good grasp of Fascist movements throughout History,...
by jamess
on Mon Aug 29, 2022 at 07:11 PM PDT
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Major media outlets in Russia, Tass and Kommersant, are reporting that a car explosion in the outskirts of Moscow claimed the life of Darya Dugina, daughter of the influential right wing nationalist writer, Aleksandr Dugin, sometimes referred to, in...
by Mark Lippman
on Sat Aug 20, 2022 at 05:40 PM PDT
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We Americans are expected to just say the Pledge of Allegiance. We’re not supposed to question what any portion of it means, and it doesn’t seem to matter that most first-graders don’t even understand the words they’re saying. (Ask any normal...
by Perlinator
on Fri Aug 05, 2022 at 03:01 AM PDT
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