We love ourselves too often and need reach out much more often. It is a social responsibility and it effects the environment also.
Lincoln Memorial Pool Turns Green Weeks After $15 Million Renovation Last updated 1 hour ago The 2,030-foot-long pool was drained and coated in 'American flag blue' sealant as part of semiquincentennial preparations, with costs ballooning to $13-15 million through no-bid contracts. Filled in early June, it quickly turned green from natural algae growth in sunlit, nutrient-rich water, experts say, despite Trump's insistence that vandals slashed a 250-to-350-foot gash in the liner and dumped chemicals. Five arrests and citations followed, including a 67-year-old ex-Olympian for touching loose liner, while no public photos of the damage have emerged amid heavy surveillance. The rushed project has fueled partisan clashes, with repairs possibly requiring another drain.
JD™ @LostMyHats Huckabee's claim is that by the American Founders often citing the Old Testament, the United States' had a "Jewish founding." This presumes the Old Testament is a Jewish book. It isn't. It's a Christian book, entrusted to the people who actually believed it, and who worship the Savior it's written about. The Founders learned their Bible in Presbyterian and Anglican churches, not from Rabbis down at the Synagogue. The LDS also uses our Scriptures. Maybe next week, Huckabee will claim that America had a Mormon founding and we should pay 3.8 billion per year to cover our "eternal moral debt" to Joseph Smith, while he's at it. Now, two thousand years after the Covenant had been ultimately fulfilled by Jesus Christ, some lazy-eyed yokel preacher-turned-politician from Arkanasas is somehow the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, declaring that somehow, the United States exists on account of European Hebrew cosplayers in modern day Palestine and is perfectly willing to set the Middle East on literal fire to declare the people who crucified Jesus have passed on an irrevocable land trust contrary to the stated foreign policy of the American president.
David Morrill @coconservative7 · 1h A few things. First, a bunch of people who hate Tucker will Google JD Hall, dig up old defunct headlines, and screenshot them. They will be comically out of date. Simply search "JD Hall" on Protestia for the truth (I'll link it in the next comment). Second, the idea that God has a special exception for a specific group of people apart from Christ, or that Christians have some sort of spiritual debtorship to Rabbinic Judaism (which is not the religion of the Old Covenant at all), is a lie from the pit of hell, no matter how long a yarmulka-clad Mike Huckabee prays at the Wailing Wall. Third, while Joel Webbon needs hard correction on several theological errors stemming from postmil influencer pragmatism (I've criticized this multiple times in writing), many of the reflexive Webbon haters, far more upset that JD Hall is being exposed to a wider audience than they will be with anything he actually said, will act like mocking little schoolgirls in their envy. I say this as a "leaky" dispy ala MacArthur, who nevertheless knows that an eschatological re-grafting of Jews onto the vine through Jesus Christ is not the same as the ideological Zionist claim that Christ-rejecting Jews are descendants of Abraham rather than those of us who are in Christ.
The US has pivoted from this successfuly showing that at least Americans are generally good peopleThe United States has addressed the balance between regulating disinformation and protecting free speech through a distinct approach that heavily favors open public debate over state control. This dynamic highlights a foundational belief in the resilience of a free populace to evaluate information for themselves.The American approach emphasizes several key pillars to prevent the formation of centralized state authority over information:1. The Protection of the First AmendmentHigh Legal Standards: Unlike many European nations or the UK, the U.S. Constitution provides broad protections for speech, including speech that may be inaccurate, offensive, or controversial.Limiting State Authority: Courts have consistently blocked federal attempts to establish formal boards or units designed to police domestic speech or define "truth," viewing such entities as a fundamental violation of civil liberties.2. Reliance on Decentralized Counter-SpeechThe Marketplace of Ideas: The core American legal philosophy is that the remedy for false or harmful speech is more speech, not enforced silence.Independent Fact-Checking: Rather than relying on government mandates, the U.S. model relies on a decentralized network of independent journalists, academic institutions, and civic organizations to investigate and debunk falsehoods.3. Focus on Foreign Malign InfluenceTargeting Operations, Not Content: When federal agencies do intervene, their mandate is restricted to tracking covert foreign intelligence operations, cyber warfare, and hidden adversarial funding, rather than policing the political opinions or expressions of American citizens.4. Civic Resilience and EngagementPublic Discernment: This framework places trust directly in the public, assuming that a well-informed and engaged citizenry can think critically, debate openly, and reject extremism without requiring state censorship.This model is not without its challenges, as deep political polarization and viral rumors continue to test the public landscape. However, by intentionally avoiding the creation of a centralized "arbiter of truth," the system prioritizes individual liberty and protects the democratic process from state-enforced narratives.
People focused so much on communism that they seemed to forget to examine NazismThat historical blind spot is a well-documented phenomenon, particularly in Western political history. For decades, the intense global focus on the Cold War and the threat of communism heavily overshadowed the systematic study of how right-wing extremism and fascism rebuild themselves.Historians and political scientists point to several reasons why the preoccupation with communism allowed fascist tactics to escape closer scrutiny:1. The Geopolitical Shield of the Cold WarThe Immediate Enemy: Following World War II, the United States and its allies entered a multi-generation Cold War against the Soviet Union. Communism was viewed as the immediate, existential, and state-backed threat.Shifting Alliances: To build a global coalition against communism, Western intelligence agencies and governments frequently rehabilitated former Nazi officials, scientists, and fascist sympathizers who were deemed "useful anti-communists." This institutional amnesia halted deeper purges and investigations into fascist networks.2. Misunderstanding Fascism as a "Closed Chapter"The Defeat Illusion: Because Nazi Germany was militarily crushed and its top leaders were tried at Nuremberg, the Western public largely treated Nazism as a defeated, static historical event rather than an evolving ideology.The Definition Problem: While communism was understood as an active, global economic blueprint with clear state sponsors, fascism was falsely viewed as a temporary madness unique to 1930s Europe. This led to a failure to monitor how its playbook could be adapted by domestic actors elsewhere.3. The Cold War Classroom FocusCurriculum Imbalance: For decades, Western educational systems and political discourse focused heavily on teaching the dangers of totalitarian collectivism, state-controlled economies, and Marxist ideology.Superficial Nazi Education: While the horrors of the Holocaust were taught, schools rarely dissected the step-by-step political mechanics, local government infiltration, and psychological propaganda tactics the Nazi party used to legally dismantle a democracy from within.4. Ideological Blind SpotsThe "Anti-Left" Camouflage: Because fascist movements position themselves as hyper-patriotic, anti-communist, and protectors of traditional order, they often evaded surveillance. Law enforcement and political entities focused their intelligence assets almost exclusively on tracking left-wing radicals, labor unions, and civil rights groups, leaving right-wing extremist groups to grow in the shadows.This historic imbalance is exactly why many modern researchers feel society was caught off guard by the resurgence of old authoritarian playbooks. Because the guardrails were built primarily to detect a communist-style threat, the subtle, legalistic, and decentralized methods of modern fascism were able to spread unnoticed.
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