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  • While in Turkey, Gloss began expressing a desire to go on to Russia. “He was usually watching videos about Palestine and was so angry at America,” one acquaintance told iStories. “He started thinking about going to Russia. He wanted to war with the USA. But I think he was very influenced by the conspiracy theory videos.”

    A number of acquaintances told the outlet that he had not been interested in fighting, but hoped the army would allow him to receive a Russian passport and stay in the country.

    I cannot comprehend how anyone could possibly believe they would be able to join the Russian army during a war and some how not have to fight??

    And why join the Russian army at that point and not Ukraine if he hated fascists?? None of this makes any sense.






  • Exactly, I don’t know what a “tankie” is but I’m seeing this argument all over the internet about any radical group.

    What should all Americans agree on if we don’t want this to happen? It’s a very, very basic argument: Civil Liberties and Due Process.

    If you believe those two things, then right now, stop focusing on the details of what other people around you believe. You can be there, representing whatever your personal beliefs may be, because this is still America for the time being, but that window is closing.

    You don’t have to stand united to stand peacefully next to each other and stay focused on the very basic shit we all agree on, unless we are trying to destroy the United States in order to hand the country over to the people in power.



  • I have the envelope right here. The winner is:

    Orange man talking about how important the rule of law is, while demanding a constitutional interpretation which favors the will of a leader above liberty of the people, in order to preserve law and order!!!

    Wow what a shock! I’m sure they would thank the academy if it wasn’t such an elitist institution. You know none of this would have been possible without the hard work of Yale Law grad JD Vance also calling everyone else an elitist, while leaning on Harvard Constitutional Law professor Adrian Vermeule’s longstanding argument supporting executive power over judicial, which was openly inspired by Vermeule’s own love of the legal architect of the Nazi agenda Carl Schmitt!!!

    Schmitt’s own dedication to mental gymnastics granted executive authority and the will of the leader to reign supreme in Germany, which allowed Hitler to legally carry out genocide while the German constitution remained in name only.

    Wow, what a fantastic ensemble of evil and destruction of a democracy, sponsored by the Heritage Foundation.





  • 100% this is definitely what he’s going to do. Use Christianity as a weapon, and cite things like this and the prosperity gospel, then ignore any of the messages of Christ. None of that Jesusy stuff you know?

    I grew up in the Bible belt, and had some truly awful experiences with people like this that made me distance myself from identifying as a Christian for a long time. I didn’t want to go to church and be around these kinds of people, but I realized I never stopped believing in the importance of the beautiful messages I learned literally from as early as I can remember.

    The book of Matthew talks about Jesus passing through a city and someone asking him, of all of the information in the old testament, what is the most important to remember? Jesus answers the question by summarizing the 10 commandments into 2:

    The first is love thy God with all thy heart, all thy soul, and all thy mind. The second is like unto it, love thy neighbor as thyself.

    Literally a message straight from Jesus telling you, if you take away nothing else from this book, then remember these two things. JD Vance has tried to publicly argue that the second part isn’t really something you necessarily have to agree with as a Christian. This is so very important to remember when they try to use Christianity as a weapon, and something I’ve thought about a lot.

    The first message is love thy God with everything you are. The second, is like unto it (it goes without saying), love thy neighbor as thyself.

    If you believe God created man in his image, and you truly love him with your entire heart, your entire mind, and your entire soul, then you must also strive to have that same love for yourself because you recognize you are part of God’s creation.

    In order to truly love God with everything you are, it goes without saying you must also love your neighbor and recognize your neighbor is also part of God’s creation.