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Comment by AStonesThrow

8 months ago

“Our current administration” idk wtf you even mean, because my leadership is significantly different than yours except for whoever’s in DC.

And you’ve hit the nail on the head there, because rather than placing our family first, community and local concerns ahead of all else, or loving who we are and where we’re at,

we’re wrapped up in a self-inflicted TDS dystopia that surely consists of a 7-layer burrito of illusions and fantasy, because politics is a reality show that is often scripted.

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noboostforyou  8 months ago

> “Our current administration” idk wtf you even mean

This is a very common colloquial phrase assuming you are from the US - it refers to the President and their administration.

Can you answer the question now?

  • AStonesThrow  8 months ago

    People are really enamored of focusing white-hot rage or glowing adulation on one guy. And for USians, it's the POTUS and his executive branch. It's not difficult to just send the same focus on just 9 dudes and dudettes in black robes, or just a majority of them, or a few choice villains in Congress, and just blame them for all the ills in society and our family's poor life choices and all that's wrong in the world today that may have started about 4 years ago so that we don't need to take accountability right here in the Old Therebefore, the distant past or present. So I invite you to downvote this comment to -3 like the parent.

    I'm tired of blaming people far away and quite distant from us for stuff. At a National Security Level, none [hopefully] of us know what's really going on and none of us can actually DO anything about it, except kvetch and moan and whine into our keyboards. Surely all you spycraft fans could admit that there may be a 7-layer burrito of fake-outs and misdirection and Fog of War involved with a fuckin' Signal chat that got a scoop for a single news outlet? We're literally on social media discussing a... single report... about a thread on social media that was seen by one too many people. Since MySpace was founded, the lamestream media reporters have made entire careers out of digging stuff out of someone's profile or their friends posts and splaying it out in a Film At Eleven. But is there anything new under the Sun?

    I personally admire our President [although he's got some unattractive personal traits] and I love the administration's progress since his first election, but it's all such big-picture stuff that really affects you and me so little, in the here and now. What matters much more is what's going on next door, in my home parish, in my municipality, and then there's diocese and county and state all above that. What also matters is the Finger of God, his angels and his saints, and their participation in what's going on, when "spiritual autists" need to hold men accountable and attack and blame humans--your sisters and brothers--for events and occurrences which are surely beyond human power to control or even correctly perceive. You believe that "knowledge is power" so is your knowledge absolute? Does your knowledge confer absolute power to know and act? Is there no higher knowledge or wider justice than the knowledge wielded by your philosophy, Horatio?

    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/27761/pg27761-images.ht...

    Name-calling, finding fault, spreading rumors and exposing scandalous gossip. When you get involved the Politics Reality Show and the Lamestream Media, that is your currency in trade. The media rakes muck and the politicians wallow in it and fling it back at them in the same briefing room, but it sullies not their impeccable blonde tresses nor designer Prada soles that you picked up in the 90210.