1) First, thanks for all you do to protect our democratic republic & souls of Americans!
2) I think that repeating the name of t-Rump's social media company is harmful. I'd suggest that we call it instead his social media company or un-truth anti-social.
3) I'd encourage you to read, listen to, or speak with Steven Hassan re how to speak with t-Rump true believers. My working hypothesis that asking open-ended questions with genuine curiosity & respect will prove more effective than making even persuasive cases like the one you suggest that this time t-Rump really has crossed an important line & we must all call our elected representatives.
I agree with you, but it’s not difficult at all to hear and even understand the “whataboutism” with which his supporters will counter, having heard “Death to America” chanted for a very, very long time.
We’re not responsible for the character and rhetoric of a despotic Iranian regime. The Iranian people are not responsible for it either. So the question is who holds them to account, and how? For some, Trump’s actions to date are constituting an answer, no matter how poorly conceived and executed; and for that, they’ll ignore at best, justify at worst, his own inflamed rhetoric.
If the Mullahs would have provided the President with the abject surrender he so obviously covets last night, what kind of world would have that brought about? It's obvious, as much as the follow-on consequence that our world would not survive very much longer under such a "successful" policy precedent. The idea that has gained sway since Vietnam, and the Korean conflict as well, that the US has to "win wars" from now on simply does not, or perhaps cannot, comprehend that such an approach must lead to the end of our species considering the technology at hand. Talking things out, even to buy time or let cooler heads prevail, is not the coward's way out, or one that leads to national shame. The proponents of this type of policy viewpoint have turned how the world works, or is able to work, upside down. Perpetuating violence leading to Armageddon constitutes national shame. We need to work out the rest, that needs to become obvious once more. It was in the shadow of the horrific carnage of WWII, and explains the wisdom of the post-war world order that the United States led in establishing--yes, for those unaware, it was us.
No he didn't.
Just sharing.
https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/i-will-beat-the-black-off-you
1) First, thanks for all you do to protect our democratic republic & souls of Americans!
2) I think that repeating the name of t-Rump's social media company is harmful. I'd suggest that we call it instead his social media company or un-truth anti-social.
3) I'd encourage you to read, listen to, or speak with Steven Hassan re how to speak with t-Rump true believers. My working hypothesis that asking open-ended questions with genuine curiosity & respect will prove more effective than making even persuasive cases like the one you suggest that this time t-Rump really has crossed an important line & we must all call our elected representatives.
I agree with you, but it’s not difficult at all to hear and even understand the “whataboutism” with which his supporters will counter, having heard “Death to America” chanted for a very, very long time.
We’re not responsible for the character and rhetoric of a despotic Iranian regime. The Iranian people are not responsible for it either. So the question is who holds them to account, and how? For some, Trump’s actions to date are constituting an answer, no matter how poorly conceived and executed; and for that, they’ll ignore at best, justify at worst, his own inflamed rhetoric.
If the Mullahs would have provided the President with the abject surrender he so obviously covets last night, what kind of world would have that brought about? It's obvious, as much as the follow-on consequence that our world would not survive very much longer under such a "successful" policy precedent. The idea that has gained sway since Vietnam, and the Korean conflict as well, that the US has to "win wars" from now on simply does not, or perhaps cannot, comprehend that such an approach must lead to the end of our species considering the technology at hand. Talking things out, even to buy time or let cooler heads prevail, is not the coward's way out, or one that leads to national shame. The proponents of this type of policy viewpoint have turned how the world works, or is able to work, upside down. Perpetuating violence leading to Armageddon constitutes national shame. We need to work out the rest, that needs to become obvious once more. It was in the shadow of the horrific carnage of WWII, and explains the wisdom of the post-war world order that the United States led in establishing--yes, for those unaware, it was us.
Spot on