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Bensen32 @Bensen32 (28658) • United States 28 Sep 21

Good day to you all. Just another day here although I was reading about what is happening in Australia. Now I will say this, I do not live there and can only go off what I read/hear on the news. How much of it is true or not I...

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If Donald Trump becomes a despot, do you believe foreign countries will permit American refugees?

zee @disasteroidd420 (8) • United States 17 Nov 20

I'm split 50/50: part of me doesn't believe things will get this bad, but the other half of me sees how bad it's already gotten. Trump is planning a coup and Republicans are threatening each other to make sure the narrative that...

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Age of Demagoguery

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 23 Feb 20

Was actually not surprised to see this dialogue because I have thought about it early on, four years ago, in fact, that the rise of tyranny could be inevitable. The emergence of leaders who supposedly have won the election and...

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"I thirst."

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 21 Mar 19

Fire has once again engulfed the poor's residential houses in Baranggay Damayan, Quezon City. I was listening to the radio feed as I coursed the traffic-ridden E. Rodriquez Avenue, on my way to the hospital. Reporters were airing...

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Happy Fourth Of July America - Why We Celebrate

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 4 Jul 18

FREEDOM We might think freedom was born on the battlefield. We poured out our blood, but it wasn’t our blood, it was the blood of the people who fought for the freedom we take for granted today. We don’t even remember...

declaration of independence

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A Call to Patriotism.

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 16 May 18

When I was young, I did my best to fight for freedom from the Marcos dictatorship. I did think mine was an ugly fight, for I was rising against a fellow Filipino, unlike Joe Rizal and Andy Bonifacio who fought the Spaniards, and...

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As the noose tightens

Wendy @jerzgirl (9384) • United States 6 Mar 17

Public hangings used to be entertaining and people would flock to watch someone hanged or, God forbid, lynched. But, the "tweeter in chief" is publicly hanging himself - slowly - and I admit I'm taking no small pleasure in...

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Science Fiction Book Review Lois McMaster Bujold Komarr

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 5 Nov 16

1998 – Baen Books – Spoiler alerts. A Miles Vorkosigan story set shortly after his move away from masquerading as the admiral of a mercenary space fleet to a more open duty as an official audit-investigator for his people, the...

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What is college teaching your kids?

Fed Up Jane @fedupjane (191) • United States 22 Apr 16

America has been the saving grace of many people from brutal repressive governments. Especially those who escaped from the Soviet Union to create a new life in America. Here is a youtube video of a social justice warrior...

social justice warriors

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I've been thinking about this a lot lately..

its-logos-plus-logic @flowerchilde (12529) • United States 26 Apr 12

According to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed or elective, is...

balance of power

branches of government

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the soft heart of my Tyrant Mother

sherlysinguran @sherlysinguran (82) 25 Apr 12

When i was a kid i cant really understand on how my Mother think. I always thought that maybe she just don't like me to enjoy my life as a kid. I always compare her in my mind to the mother of our neighbor. I envy them because...

soft heart

tyranny

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Does This Disturb You as Much as it Disturbs Me?

debrakcarey @debrakcarey (19887) • United States 2 Jun 11

http://rtr.org/videos/2/21418 This video shows the 'take down' of several young men at the Jefferson Memorial by the police. Notice in the video, there are no weapons, no protest signs. Granted the video begins after the...

freedom

police state

tyranny

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Obamacare Proves The Tyranny of the Senate by P

ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 1 Feb 11

I have written before about how the voice of the Several States has been silenced at the federal level. U.S. Senators were meant to represent the interests of their states, not the people in them. In 1913 the states lost their...

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Have you ever thought what it would be like if Jesus hadn't been born?

dragon54u @dragon54u (31633) • United States 22 Dec 09

I thought about that last night. I don't think we would have a democratic republic (or what used to be one) here in America if Jesus hadn't influenced the world--we would still have a rule of tyranny or our government would be...

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Obama considers REAL Americans the Enemy

debrakcarey @debrakcarey (19887) • United States 16 Aug 09

An enormous groundswell of opposition to the Obama Administration is erupting throughout the land. Real Americans are shaking off their former apathy and reasserting their role in the workings of the national government....

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0bama Science Czar: OK To Kill TODDLERS!!!

AngryKittyMSV @AngryKittyMSV (4317) • United States 24 Jul 09

[b]John Holdren, the 0bama administration's Science Czar (who is not bound by the Constitution and answers only to 0bama) advocated killing children under the age of two years old, forced abortions, forced sterilization, seizing...

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Sounds Like the Way Our Country is Headed Today

Connie @connierebel (1557) • United States 3 Jul 09

I was reading a journal from a WWII soldier who fought in France, Scott Collins, and in it he mentions a lecture that was given to the troops by a chaplain, explaining how they got to be fighting the Germans. This is what the...

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Is it ever ethical to have health police?

SteveSlaton @SteveSlaton (552) • United States 21 May 09

If a country is supposed to allow people to be free, is it ever ethical to have health police? If you think so, site what the health laws are that are on the books or that you would like to see on the books. What do you...

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What is the second amendment for?

lilnono @lilnono (228) • United States 4 Mar 09

Many people say the second amendment is all about hunting and self defense from common criminals. When I was a kid in school it seemed to me that the bill of rights was all about keeping the government from getting too powerful. I...

first amendment

gun laws

tyranny

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The Fairness Doctrine--what do you think?

dragon54u @dragon54u (31633) • United States 17 Feb 09

It was repealed as unconstitutional and not serving the public well in 1987 and now they want to bring it back. This would mean that nobody on the public airwaves could voice their opinions without having someone there to argue...

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