Politics

[Wheels]

 

[CoElkHunter]

I have concluded that there is a movement afoot among the western elites to basically return to a feudal system where the masses are poor, hungry, and powerless while they collaborate to enrich themselves. Keep the peons in conflict and turmoil amongst each other so they are easier to fleece. There are some who actually believe they are bringing utopia but most like Pelosi, who’s really president, are just playing everyone and getting rich. Two things people like these can never have enough of are money and power.

I think you hit the nail on the head. The Demonrats want a centralized Federal government with limited/no states' rights. They want the citizens of the US to rely on the Federal government for EVERYTHING. When you look at some of the things they are trying to push, i.e. packing/abolishing the Supreme Court, defund the police, the assault on the 2nd Amendment, pushing Critical Race Theory in schools, open borders, etc, etc., it is much more of a Marxist movement than just a push to economic Socialism. I hope the majority of the younger generation in this country WAKE UP and realize what's happening. If not, we are doomed as the Great Experiment in Democracy!

 

[wesheltonj]

. . . Just one example to consider. In 1942 the President of these United States decided that anyone of Japanese ancestry was a threat to the nation, and ordered 120, 000 of them locked up. Nearly two-thirds were American citizens, No such treatment of the many millions of German or Italian Americans. . .

Unfortunately, that is incorrect.

https://www.thc.texas.gov/crystalcity

The Untold Story of Texas Internment Camps During WWII

Explore the lesser-known internment camps in Texas during World War II, including Seagoville, Kenedy, and Crystal City, and the experiences of Japanese and Axis nationals.

www.tshaonline.org

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/internment-of-germans.html?safari=1

 

[Boyd Brooks]

 

[Rob404]

 

[Doug3006]

Unfortunately, that is incorrect.

https://www.thc.texas.gov/crystalcity

The Untold Story of Texas Internment Camps During WWII

Explore the lesser-known internment camps in Texas during World War II, including Seagoville, Kenedy, and Crystal City, and the experiences of Japanese and Axis nationals.

www.tshaonline.org

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/internment-of-germans.html?safari=1

I stand corrected.

My first read of these article informs me that most of the internees were Japanese Americans (which I knew about), or foreign nationals. Per the first article:

“Texas had three of them, located at Seagoville, Kenedy, and Crystal City. Prisoners included Japanese Americans arrested by the FBI, members of Axis nationalities residing in Latin-American countries, and Axis sailors arrested in American ports after the attack on Pearl Harbor.”

A dark part of our history. Suspending civil liberties in defense of civil liberty is never a good plan.

 

[RTG]

What utterly surprises me is that this nonsense is getting past some supposedly responsible Democrats. Not a peep from claw rubbing Nancy, or Schumer. Where is the Secretary of State and the Chief of Staff? The USA has potentially two international conflicts brewing on the horizon, how unwise not to unite the population at this time. Is anyone at home in that doll's house?

You’re talking about people who have made hundreds of millions of dollars while in elected office. There’s no such thing as a “responsible Democrat“ anymore. These people are bought and paid for, and so are many of their Republican colleagues.

 

[RTG]

The bell has been rung, unfortunately, not enough people taking it seriously.

The biggest problem within the Republican party, is the spineless GOP.
Trump was a fool for stumping for Swamp Rat Mitch McConnell.

I don’t think Trump had a choice on that one. He couldn’t get rid of McConnell and he pulls to much support.

The majority of McConnell’s family wealth comes out of Communist China. Let’s put that guy in charge of gathering votes for American first, or anti-China legislation? How he can be elected is beyond me.

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

Primary Cause Of Global Warming Found To Be Massive Dumpster Fire Burning At 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington DC
WORLD·Sep 1, 2022 · BabylonBee.com

Primary Cause Of Global Warming Found To Be Massive Dumpster Fire Burning At 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington DC

WASHINGTON, DC — The world's top climate change scientists were shocked by the recent discovery that the leading cause of global warming is actually an enormous, ongoing dumpster fire located at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

babylonbee.com

 

[JOHN GRENZ]

 

[fourfive8]

Hindsight is 20-20, but I wouldn’t get too teary eyed over US internment camp guilt. Not sure how the “Axis” populations were treated compared to the Japanese. I imagine conditions varied some camp to camp no matter the nationality. Have been friends, since junior high school, with a family who’s parents were interred during WW2 - and worked with them after college. They were Japanese farmers and horticulturists. I never sensed any animus toward the US and they all have been successful American citizens since. A sobering comparison, historically for perspective should include how captives, both combatant and non combatant have been treated by other countries. German death and concentration camps WW2 come to mind along with Bataan and Hanoi more recently … to name some. I’m tired of “selective”, out of context, cherry picked history without perspective.

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

The relocations in Alaska were not a happy story.

The U.S. Forcibly Detained Native Alaskans During World War II

In the name of safety, Aleuts were held against their will under intolerable conditions in internment camps

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[Doug3006]

Here’s the only context that matters to me. The Constitution recognizes and protects the liberty of all American citizens. Depriving citizens of their rights is illegal, not to mention immoral, no matter how inconvenient it might be at the moment. Mistreatment of Americans by foreign powers is outrageous and should be made right…
on the battlefield if necessary. But suspending liberty at home in response to atrocities abroad is wrong and self-defeating. There are too many examples of this at home. Which is one of the reasons I say that we need to keep an eye on the hired help.

 

[Boyd Brooks]

 

[Wheels]

 

[observe]

 

[Wheels]

 

[steve white]

Hindsight is 20-20, but I wouldn’t get too teary eyed over US internment camp guilt. Not sure how the “Axis” populations were treated compared to the Japanese. I imagine conditions varied some camp to camp no matter the nationality. Have been friends, since junior high school, with a family who’s parents were interred during WW2 - and worked with them after college. They were Japanese farmers and horticulturists. I never sensed any animus toward the US and they all have been successful American citizens since. A sobering comparison, historically for perspective should include how captives, both combatant and non combatant have been treated by other countries. German death and concentration camps WW2 come to mind along with Bataan and Hanoi more recently … to name some. I’m tired of “selective”, out of context, cherry picked history without perspective.

The British corralled Germans and their sympathizers in Kenya...just sayin'
Comparison could also be made between 5% death rates in German POW camps VS 40% DEATH RATE IN JAPANESE POW CAMPS, AND MASSIVE DEATH BY SLAVE LABOR IN BURMA AND ELSEWHERE. Japan deserved war crimes tribunals, but folks were ready to bury the hatchet. War has never been sanitary. War can be just but often is not even that.

 

[Brent in Az]

 

[Wheels]

Why you don’t argue with people on twitter

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why the Musk/Twitter deal fell apart