If I were here on a green card, I could be arrested for posting this article. Or for anything at all. Or for nothing.
If I were Palestinian, I could be deported to the killing fields of Gaza for the crime of acknowledging that they exist. Or for the crime of being Palestinian.
This is insightful. As a Catholic — a cradle Catholic, but an intellectual one — I spent a long time jumping, like Qoheleth, from one pursuit to another in order to find meaning, to “prove” myself, as it were. That included a lot of intellectual pursuits and attempts to master Catholic theology.
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.
Anyone who waved a blue and yellow flag, posted it on their social media, or pasted a decal of it on their car, should now be the conscripts. Afuera! Raus! GTFO of our country! Not Americans! Weasels! Traitors! Stooges!
You do realize that this would be including ignorant little old ladies who think the Ukrainian people are being hurt by those attacking the Ukraine, etc. Most Americans have been terribly and intentionally misinformed by their own media and their hanging out flags show they know nothing, not that they are traitors.
Those excuses for ignorance went out when the internet came in. My dad died a couple of years back aged 85 and he kept up to speed on the news using an I-pad as does my 94 year old aunt so the idea that if you are old you can't be informed outside of the lies told by the lame stream media and so shouldn't be held to account for supporting evil doesn't wash with me. You have a republic ....... if you can keep it. Those people who do not inform themselves of the obvious lies they are being fed, o…