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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

Pete Buttigieg's avatar

Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this.

The Secretary is unfit to lead.

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I don't know if JD Vance killed the Pope, but I think we should deport him to El Salvador just in case.

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I cannot tell you how much it meant to me to read this story tonight before I head to bed in California. I will share it with some of my family in the Midwest (where I am originally from)...who need to read some actual History, and not the vile, hate-and-lie-riddled crap that passes for "news" and "truth" on Fox and Newsmax and OAN...and my guess is they are also QAnon followers although they don't admit it. I am so heartsick, as is my one sister whom I am closest to. What to do? 💔

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Study anthropology. Focus on how the concept of “race” has been supplanted by “culture” and “subcultures”. Culture vs Race Please see: The Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropogy, edited by Alan Barnard and Jonathan Spencer. Page 463: “The word race was used by the English and other colonists justifying abuse and robbing the people in their colonies. The use of the word race became associated with cranial studies in the 1830s and 1840s when Samuel Morton “proved “ the larger brain si…

Peter Burnett's avatar

I never forgot my good friend Axel whose first childhood memory in prewar Silesia was of a man placing metal calipers on his head to measure his skull.

Years later, he became a citizen of The Netherlands and celebrated by burying his German passport in Ireland.

Having said which, I, born in England one month into the Second World War, with memories of V1s falling on London, have gone out of my way to spend time in Germany, where I formed deep friendships. Given paranoia and the depth of the horr…

“we are conditioned by our families' forgotten past.” Hear, hear, Peter.

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