I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.
Thanks for the shout out to those who chopped through the tangle of contradictions and avoided the terrible experiment. After all the gaslighting, lost jobs, relatives dying uncomforted, crushed livelihoods, vituperation, and donut and cheeseburger bribes, a little validation does the control group good.
Beth, a little off topic, but as I understand it, the Ukies have taken a page out of their playbook. I read that they are offering McDonalds cheeseburgers to entice conscripts.
So, you can eat a McDonalds cheeseburger and die from the vax, eat a McDonalds cheeseburger and die from fighting the Russians, or eat a McDonalds cheeseburger and die from just eating the cheeseburger.
I recall several years ago (possibly New York magazine?) a first-person article from a young writer who purchased a Big Mac and let it sit out on the coffee table for a year. Nothing happened. No rot or decomposition, no mold, nothing. A wonder of modernity.