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Wusstest Du, dass die Metallbuchstaben "Dem Deutschen Volke" am Reichstag aus eingeschmolzenen französischen Beutekanonen aus den Befteiungskriegen gegen Napoleon gegossen wurden?
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RT @AuronMacintyre: The problem for the GOP going forward is that we saw what the government is actually capable of when it cares about som…
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You can tell Christianity was long dead in the hearts of Europeans by the 20th century because in 1919 a nominally Christian country had control of both Constantinople and Jerusalem yet the British had zero religious fervour about these conquests.
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Andrew Elges retweeted
One of the most destructive and outrageous decisions in the long history of the Supreme Court. American citizenship is not the birthright of the world. It belongs only and solely to Americans. No provision of the Constitution can be read to require our national self-obliteration.
🚨 WOW! Justice Alito is absolutely FUMING over SCOTUS giving the green light to birthright citizenship
"In my judgment, the court has made a mistake that will seriously affect the country's future."
"Suppose that a person's only connection to this country is that he was born here to a mother who was present just long enough to give birth and then quickly return to her native country.
Suppose that country is a strategic adversary or enemy of the United States. Suppose the child NEVER visited the United States while grow and was inculcated with hatred of this country.
According to this court, now, that person is a citizen of the United States. He can enter and leave the country as he pleases. He can travel the world on a United States passport.
Even if he plots to harm this country, he cannot be deprived of his status as a citizen, at least under current precedent." — Justice Samuel Alito in his dissent
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Andrew Elges retweeted
Block the President from firing the money-printers, and rule that anyone born on American soil is a citizen regardless of allegiance.
The Court has ratified what America is: an economic zone, not a people.
The court strikes down President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship, holding that children born in the U.S. to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S. and are citizens at birth.
supremecourt.gov/opinions/25…
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I typically use bookmarks.
I'll set it face-down if I need to pause for just a moment to do something else.
Dog ears are for when I want to quickly refer back to something (usually a map).
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The best part is that the America that Japanese people adore the most… is the same one that coastal elites call “flyover trash”
They’re not autistically LARPing NY cynicism or SF polycule / LA wellness culture.
They’re drawn to the heartland of the American South and all its trappings - the jacked-up trucks, backyard BBQs, country radio, big skies and the friendly "yes ma'am" drawl.
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Boots on the ground are a critical step in the commitment to extended conflict which will be deeply unpopular
Everyone knows this but the administration has to maintain the threat because you can't fight a war while telling your enemy what you aren't willing to do
That mean Hegseth and others must regularly acknowledge the possibility, creating snap headlines which increase anxiety
So the Iranians will hold out if at all possible hoping this goes from zero to Afghanistan very quickly the minute the first American infantryman is killed
This is why you don't lie to yourself about simple in and out short term operations, you start the war willing to put everything on the line or you don't bother
American forces will most assuredly do far more damage to Iran then Iran will manage to return, but the narrative frame is already providing an increasingly narrow window of victory of the president to claim
The sooner he can do so the better
Hegseth says he and Trump ‘reserve the right’ to send US troops to Iran
thehill.com/policy/defense/5…
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Andrew Elges retweeted
Every novel should have a nice map at the start explaining the world of the book just like fantasy novels. I don’t care if it’s set in suburban Idaho or an inner city law firm, give me a nice map spread over two pages.
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Andrew Elges retweeted
You like to talk about your America but we've been doing your America for the last 60 years and are on the verge of a civil war while being 40 trillion in debt.
Your America has abjectly failed.
"Immigrants are going to replace our culture!"
What culture is that, exactly?
Is it the Iowa State Fair? Seeing the Hawkeyes play the Cyclones on Saturday night? Eating pork chops on a stick? Church choirs volunteering to help rebuild homes after a tornado?
Is it barbacoa on Sunday morning before mass and your little girl's quinceañera? Or accordion-driven Tejano music playing from a pickup truck?
Is it moms dropping their kids off for Calabasas ballet in Range Rovers and Teslas? Lululemon and Vuori? Angry meetings about fence heights at the HOA?
Is it salsa coming through open windows on hot days? Folding chairs gathered around a domino game? Puerto Rican and American flags everywhere to honor Marines coming home?
Is it Southern comfort food at Mary Mac's Tea Room? Morehouse and Spelman grads meeting to network? Southern rap blasting at Magic City?
People afraid of being "replaced" have too narrow a view of what America is about. And yes, America can include a statue of the Hindu god Hanuman in Houston. (Because, c'mon, what is more over-the-top Texan than a 90-foot golden statue of a dude wielding a huge bad-ass club?)
My American culture doesn't discriminate based on ethnic background. My American culture is one that can deal with immigrants because it embraces their myriad varieties. My American culture holds dear democracy, freedom, and independence.
My America believes in self-governance, from jury rooms, where 12 strangers gather to decide a fellow citizen's fate, to town halls, to local elections, to national campaigns. It's watching locals grill an annoyed city council about a new park or too much crime downtown.
My America believes in free speech so much that we put it at the top of the Bill of Rights. I get to call my leaders idiots and feel no fear of prison or punishment. I believe in allowing marches and protests, from the good ones (Selma and Stonewall) to the ones I dislike (Proud Boys or Antifa).
My America is proud to see rows of new citizens lined up at city hall, with many different skin tones but the same expression of hope and anticipation. Because my America is Ronald Reagan's America, "still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home."
So it's ok if some people march in a St Patrick's Day parade while others celebrate the Vietnamese (Tet) New Year, as long as they are all committed to freedom, democracy, the Constitution, and this amazing thing called "America."
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