Thirteen questions with one answer
If you want these things, or most of them, you have three options at this point.
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Kipling and Kennedy
Grief speaks of loss, not explanations.
Standard strategies will not defeat Trump
They would have something to say about hopeless wars, hollowed out communities, families who have attended too many funerals. They would say something about how to recover.
No one can defeat Trump under these circumstances
If the country wants to rid itself of this man, voters must find a candidate for office who can prevail in this contest.
Defense Distributed
Even if you do not own a gun, or do not want to acquire one, applaud Cody Wilson’s resolve and vision. He needs backing from every one of us.
Advent of torture
People everywhere respect what is most remote and least liable to have its reputation put to the test. At the least reverse, many would look down on us, and would join our enemies against us.
Quarantine concentration camps; Democratic unity
Nancy Pelosi wants to keep her job, of course, but she also focuses on what the party must do to defeat President Trump. You do not seem to think a unified party leads to that outcome.
Power with malice
Government exercises legal, and moral authority only if it observes these limitations. When it operates outside the law, it exercises power with malice. That defines criminal activity.
Cover your eyes when you look at what’s happening at the southern border
In country after country where the government sets up and runs gulags, the state does not have to keep the camps secret.
Questions for this week
“If people in authority have shown they do not know how to govern others, why should we let them?”
Note to Reed College
The next issue of Reed should contain a letter that acknowledges the damage RAR did to Reed’s reputation. It would not make anyone feel better at this point, and I know it won’t appear anyway, but it might make reconciliation more likely down the line.
Concentration camps
They do share the common qualities outlined here: forcible detention of people in one place, to monitor and control them. Whether you call it a reservation, an internment camp, a prison camp, or a concentration camp does not matter. They are all the same.
