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Trump administration 2024-2028

GR66 said:
If there was an Academy Award for "Understatement of the Year" we'd definitely have a winner here.

Seriously, WT actual F!
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I'm kind of wondering myself if this may be a possible back door attempt at making this DHS policy and thus, ICE policy.
 
Nazis appropriated the swastika. I can guess that if I see a swastika here, or in the US, or Europe, that it's meant to be a Nazi swastika. Otherwise, "potentially" not.

The new guideline strikes me as the kind of thing an intensely "woke" person would favour: "we must not blackguard swastikas without unambiguous Nazi associations" (colour scheme, etc).

If anyone's outrage meter peaks, please refer again to second sentence of first paragraph. It's possible to explore an idea without condoning particular flavours of it.
 
Brad Sallows said:
Nazis appropriated the swastika. I can guess that if I see a swastika here, or in the US, or Europe, that it's meant to be a Nazi swastika. Otherwise, "potentially" not.

The new guideline strikes me as the kind of thing an intensely "woke" person would favour: "we must not blackguard swastikas without unambiguous Nazi associations" (colour scheme, etc).

If anyone's outrage meter peaks, please refer again to second sentence of first paragraph. It's possible to explore an idea without condoning particular flavours of it.
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OJ Simpson's defense team would have welcomed you with open arms back in the day.

Your ability to put a spin, left - right - up - down - forwards - backwards - on anything is mind numbing. I would have enjoyed being present in your political philosophy classes I assume you took in Uni.
 
Czech_pivo said:
OJ Simpson's defense team would have welcomed you with open arms back in the day.

Your ability to put a spin, left - right - up - down - forwards - backwards - on anything is mind numbing. I would have enjoyed being present in your political philosophy classes I assume you took in Uni.
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From time-to-time I come across something in which someone laments that swastikas were appropriated from his culture.

Much more frequently I come across arguments that cultural appropriation is wrong and cultures should be able to claim/reclaim that which was original theirs.

Also much more frequently I come across arguments that laws which are over-broad are unjust.

At the junction of those, and probably a bunch of other things, my conclusion: if some pro-Nazi anti-Jewish anti-Israel extremist in the administration slipped that in, his intent is wrongful. If some pro-cultural-ownership advocate in the administration slipped that in, his intent is righteous. Maybe there are some flavours in between. Regardless (irrespective of the motivation), the end-point is righteous.

It's a righteous policy, and absent further investigation and explanation of how it came to be, suspicions and attempts to draw attention to it to throw up more political FUD are just guesses.

[My degree is Physics/Comp Sci. Never seen the inside of a poli sci room.]
 
Czech_pivo said:
OJ Simpson's defense team would have welcomed you with open arms back in the day.

Your ability to put a spin, left - right - up - down - forwards - backwards - on anything is mind numbing. I would have enjoyed being present in your political philosophy classes I assume you took in Uni.
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Don’t be surprised. He has already argued that any wrong a Republican might do is already justified by something a Democrat has done. He will justify anything if it is done by the right side of the political compass and be outraged by nothing if it happens on the left of the political compass.
 
McG said:
Don’t be surprised. He has already argued that any wrong a Republican might do is already justified by something a Democrat has done. He will justify anything if it is done by the right side of the political compass and be outraged by nothing if it happens on the left of the political compass.
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Not quite. There are some things that happen on the left of the political compass that do outrage me.
 
Can they 'cross the floor' to the other party down there? Honest question.
 
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